The Cranberries – Linger

Used for the bass drum on "Linger", as mentioned in this March 2019 Sound on Sound interview.

In regard to drum miking, Stephen Street's approach was fairly standard for early '90s recording. "Yeah, pretty traditional in a sense," he says. "I might have used a [Neumann] U47 FET inside the bass drum. The usual kinds of Shure dynamic mics on top of the snare and under. Sennheiser [MD] 421s on the toms, KM84 on the hi?hat, and the overheads would have been two U87s. That tended to be my go-to set-up back in those days."

Used as a tom mic on "Linger", as mentioned in this March 2019 Sound on Sound interview.

In regard to drum miking, Stephen Street's approach was fairly standard for early '90s recording. "Yeah, pretty traditional in a sense," he says. "I might have used a [Neumann] U47 FET inside the bass drum. The usual kinds of Shure dynamic mics on top of the snare and under. Sennheiser [MD] 421s on the toms, KM84 on the hi?hat, and the overheads would have been two U87s. That tended to be my go-to set-up back in those days."

Used as a hi-hat mic on "Linger", as mentioned in this March 2019 Sound on Sound interview.

In regard to drum miking, Stephen Street's approach was fairly standard for early '90s recording. "Yeah, pretty traditional in a sense," he says. "I might have used a [Neumann] U47 FET inside the bass drum. The usual kinds of Shure dynamic mics on top of the snare and under. Sennheiser [MD] 421s on the toms, KM84 on the hi?hat, and the overheads would have been two U87s. That tended to be my go-to set-up back in those days."

Used as an overhead mic on "Linger", as mentioned in this March 2019 Sound on Sound interview.

In regard to drum miking, Stephen Street's approach was fairly standard for early '90s recording. "Yeah, pretty traditional in a sense," he says. "I might have used a [Neumann] U47 FET inside the bass drum. The usual kinds of Shure dynamic mics on top of the snare and under. Sennheiser [MD] 421s on the toms, KM84 on the hi?hat, and the overheads would have been two U87s. That tended to be my go-to set-up back in those days."

Feargal Lawler used a Shure SM57 as part of the drum miking setup for The Cranberries' track "Linger," as detailed in a March 2019 Sound on Sound article. The article describes Stephen Street's typical early '90s recording setup, which included Shure dynamic mics for the snare.

Used on "Linger", as mentioned by producer Stephen Street in this March 2019 Sound on Sound interview.

"I might have used a [Neumann] U47 FET inside the bass drum." (...) Similarly, Mike Hogan's bass rig was very much of its era. "He was using a Wal bass at the time," Noel remembers. "He had bought it from a guy here in Ireland who'd got all the parts from Wal and built it himself. He had an Ampeg [SVT] cab at the time. That was pretty standard for the '90s. If you got a bit of money, it was a no?brainer."

"We definitely would've taken a DI," says Street. "But then it would've also been an [Electro-Voice] RE-20 and U47 on the cab and then play around until it felt right in terms of the phase and so on. But relatively close to the cab."

Used on "Linger", as mentioned by producer Stephen Street in this March 2019 Sound on Sound interview.

"I might have used a [Neumann] U47 FET inside the bass drum." (...) Similarly, Mike Hogan's bass rig was very much of its era. "He was using a Wal bass at the time," Noel remembers. "He had bought it from a guy here in Ireland who'd got all the parts from Wal and built it himself. He had an Ampeg [SVT] cab at the time. That was pretty standard for the '90s. If you got a bit of money, it was a no?brainer."

"We definitely would've taken a DI," says Street. "But then it would've also been an [Electro-Voice] RE-20 and U47 on the cab and then play around until it felt right in terms of the phase and so on. But relatively close to the cab."

Used on "Linger", as mentioned by producer Stephen Street in this March 2019 Sound on Sound interview.

"I might have used a [Neumann] U47 FET inside the bass drum." (...) Similarly, Mike Hogan's bass rig was very much of its era. "He was using a Wal bass at the time," Noel remembers. "He had bought it from a guy here in Ireland who'd got all the parts from Wal and built it himself. He had an Ampeg [SVT] cab at the time. That was pretty standard for the '90s. If you got a bit of money, it was a no?brainer."

"We definitely would've taken a DI," says Street. "But then it would've also been an [Electro-Voice] RE-20 and U47 on the cab and then play around until it felt right in terms of the phase and so on. But relatively close to the cab."

Mentioned in this June 28, 2019 Music Radar interview about the recording of In the End.

DOD FX68 Chorus

“I don’t use a lot of pedals, but I have this old DOD chorus. It’s cheap as anything, but it became very much a part of The Cranberries sound and it’s on every album we’ve ever done.”

It is also mentioned on page 32 of the June 1999 issue of Guitar Player and this March 2018 Sound on Sound interview about the recording of "Linger".

"I had a DOD Chorus pedal that I still use to this day. It was the very first pedal I bought and it's still in my rig because it has a setting on it that is very much the Cranberries' sound."

Used on "Linger", as mentioned by producer Stephen Street in this March 2018 Sound on Sound interview.

Guitar-wise, Noel Hogan used Telecasters all the way — either his own or Street's 1967 Tele — in combination with Vox AC30 and Fender Twin Reverb amps. "We used the Vox tremolo most of the time," he says. "I had a DOD Chorus pedal that I still use to this day. It was the very first pedal I bought and it's still in my rig because it has a setting on it that is very much the Cranberries' sound."

Used for O'Riordan's guitar on "Linger", as mentioned by producer Stephen Street in this March 2018 Sound on Sound interview.

Even though signed to Island, the Cranberries were still working with a limited budget on the album sessions, meaning that the acoustic guitar part on 'Linger' was recorded with the nearest instrument to hand: namely a cheap Yamaha acoustic owned by O'Riordan. "Sometimes when I was working with alternative or indie bands," says Street, "you just had to work with what you had. If there was a budget to hire more guitars, great. But I don't think we had that at that point. Especially being over in Dublin at the time, we did just work with the guitars they owned.

"I would put a Neumann U87 in front of the guitar, between the 12th fret and the hole. And sometimes I might have something like a KM84 further up towards the neck, just to see if it put a little bit of extra 'air' into it. Sometimes I would split those separate tracks a little bit in the mix, so although it was just one guitar, it gave it a little bit of spread across the stereo image."