quote from article on recording "People are People" ""I recorded the vocals with an AKG tube mic in the live room — it was only later that we started doing hand-held in the control room — and I was also using an ADR Compex Vocal Stressor at the time. Sadly, I sold that many years ago and I'd like to have it back now. At that stage, I was rather foolishly printing many effects to tape as well, and on 'People Are People' I think there was a bit of slap from the chorus echo. No plate reverb or anything — that would be added maybe later at the mix stage. As always, it was about making Dave comfortable, and we'd think nothing of saying, 'Okay, these effects sound great on Dave,' and because that's what went with the performance we'd put them on tape with the vocal. That's not something I would do now."

Quote from Sound on Sound on recording of "People are People" by Depeche Mode. ""I recorded the vocals with an AKG tube mic in the live room — it was only later that we started doing hand-held in the control room — and I was also using an ADR Compex Vocal Stressor at the time. Sadly, I sold that many years ago and I'd like to have it back now. At that stage, I was rather foolishly printing many effects to tape as well, and on 'People Are People' I think there was a bit of slap from the chorus echo. No plate reverb or anything — that would be added maybe later at the mix stage. As always, it was about making Dave comfortable, and we'd think nothing of saying, 'Okay, these effects sound great on Dave,' and because that's what went with the performance we'd put them on tape with the vocal. That's not something I would do now."

Incubus producer Tom Syrowski used the Stressor on a kick drum mic during recording of album "Adolescents".

""We had several things patched into the Neve desk while recording, like a graphic EQ, usually the API 560, on individual kick mics, while I had some console Neve EQ on the snare and then overall Neve 550a EQ on the snare bus. I had [Teletronix] LA2As on the overhead mics, but they didn't really compress; they were just there to make sure that if José suddenly blasted the snare, it wouldn't overload in Pro Tools. I also had the ADR Vocal Stressor F769XR on the kicksnare mic, which is a cheaply made compressor that has some kind of grounding issue, but it sounds great on that mic. There were times when the kick, snare and kicksnare mics were all I needed. Those three, as well as the room mics, are the only mics that we compressed to tape [Pro Tools]. We also used the hardware SPL Transient Designer to alter the attack and sustain of the snare and other parts of the drums.”

Tom is quoted saying he used the Stressor on a Kick drum mic.

""We had several things patched into the Neve desk while recording, like a graphic EQ, usually the API 560, on individual kick mics, while I had some console Neve EQ on the snare and then overall Neve 550a EQ on the snare bus. I had [Teletronix] LA2As on the overhead mics, but they didn't really compress; they were just there to make sure that if José suddenly blasted the snare, it wouldn't overload in Pro Tools. I also had the ADR Vocal Stressor F769XR on the kicksnare mic, which is a cheaply made compressor that has some kind of grounding issue, but it sounds great on that mic. There were times when the kick, snare and kicksnare mics were all I needed. Those three, as well as the room mics, are the only mics that we compressed to tape [Pro Tools]. We also used the hardware SPL Transient Designer to alter the attack and sustain of the snare and other parts of the drums.”