Kanye West – Late Registration album cover

Kanye West – Late Registration

Album 2005

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2005 album Late Registration.

Music from Late Registration

Gear Used On Late Registration

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Kanye West – Late Registration (2005). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Microphones used by Kanye West on Late Registration

Condenser Microphones

Neumann U47

Avg price: $16,111.00

Gearslutz user "Lifted" claims that he worked in a studio that Kanye worked in during Late Registration, and says that he used a Neumann U-47, and a Neumann U-87.

I know Kanye recorded into U47 and U87 in a studio I worked at, God knows what records were those, cause it has been so long ago, I know it was Late Registration album

Condenser Microphones

Neumann U87

Avg price: $3,629.95

Gearslutz user "Lifted" claims that he worked in a studio that Kanye worked in during Late Registration, and says that he used a Neumann U-47, and a Neumann U-87.

I know Kanye recorded into U47 and U87 in a studio I worked at, God knows what records were those, cause it has been so long ago, I know it was Late Registration album

Blake Eiseman corroborates this, by stating that they used the vintage U-87's.

The one session I worked with Kanye, we used a U87 (vintage). It would have probably been going through a Vintech X73 then into a Manley VariMu.

DJ Setup used by Kanye West on Late Registration

Turntables

Technics SL-1200

Avg price: $2,646.77

The image provided clearly shows Kanye West using a Technics SL-1200 turntable.