Electro-Voice RE20 Dynamic Cardioid Microphone

Engineer Derek Ali on recording To Pimp a Buterfly : "On ‘For Free?’ [we used] two Electro-Voice mics, the RE20 and the 666. We stacked the two EV mics on top of each other, and this gave a warm, almost distorted sound."

[This article on the making of Marr's 2018 *Call the Comet* album by MixOnline.com](https://www.mixonline.com/recording/johnny-marr-finds-his-voice-on-call-the-comet) touches on some of the gear used during the recording process. "The bass, played by Iwan Gronow, goes through a Fender Bassman 100 or 300 through an 8x10 speaker. When not going DI, either an Electro-Voice RE20 or Neumann TLM 103 or beyerdynamic m380 microphone is used." (While the engineer is providing this feedback, the gear is housed in Marr's own Crazy Face studios, which contains gear he's collected over his decades in the music industry.)

In the documentray English Soul Steve Winwood can be seen with a Electro-Voice RE20 Dynamic Cardioid Microphone in his homw studio. On youtube search: Steve Winwood - English Soul (BBC 4 Documentary) (48:19)

This is where Kurt sang In Utero [Pachyderm Recording Studio, Cannon Falls, Minnesota], from left to right: EV RE-20 (dynamic mic), Lomo 19a-9 (tube condenser mic), Sennheiser MD421 (U4 most likely, dynamic mic).

Owl City's studio has one ElectroVoice RE20.

Male vocals and kick drum are normally recorded using this.

Thom can be seen using a ElectroVoice RE20 in this photo.

This was used on his markbass cab

Used for the bass drum on "Get On Your Boots", as stated by producer Declan Gaffney. > "Most of 'Get On Your Boots' was recorded in Dublin by Richard Rainey, and the basic backing tracks were done live, by the whole band together. There was an [Electro-Voice] RE20 inside the bass drum, with an SE Electronics Titan on the outside, a [Shure] 57 underneath the snare, and Richard had his own Heil mic on top, which he alternated with a Beyer M201; the toms were [Sennheiser] 421, overheads Coles 4038; ride cymbal was sometimes a 57, sometimes a [AKG] 451. Everything went through the Neve 1091 or 1093 mic pres."

Used to mic the Ampeg B15 bass amp

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."

You can see Amy Winehouse using the EV RE20 RE-Series throught the entire video.

Gadhia can be seen using the Electrovoice RE20 during Young the Giant's live performance at Hangout 2017.

Fifth update from Trama Estúdio in São Paulo. Recording vocals with Derrick Green. Video shows a preview of Sep's version for Ministry's "Just one fix". Derrick talks about the collaboration with Les Tambours du Bronx. Derrick can be seen using an Electro Voice RE20 0:21 into the video.

According to this interview Rouge used this to mice his Fender Champ during the recording of "Permalight".

Phil Wickham performed five songs for his 2016 album, "Children of God." During these acoustic sessions Phil was seen with two microphones. One for his voice and the other for his guitar. The one he sang through was an Electro-Voice RE20 Dynamic Cardioid Microphone, or a broadcast microphone.

some singers like Stevie Wonder or Thom Yorke prefer it, even in the studio, over condenser mics.

"For vocals in the studio I like the Electro-Voice RE20 though - they have a slightly warmer sound than the Neumanns."

In this gear photo posted by Feerick on his Instagram account, the Electrovoice RE20 is visible.

Mic vocal usado en estudio.

Rob shows of a series of microphones in his repertoire, including the ElectroVoice RE20 Broadcast Announcer Microphone.

Mr. Bill lists the ElectroVoice RE20 Broadcast Announcer Microphone among his gear, in [this interview](http://blog.liveschool.net/mr-bill-qa/).

In this live version of "The Octopus", King Krule uses an Electro-Voice RE20 dynamic microphone.

“For a pretty long time I’ve used an Electro-voice RE-20,” he said. “It’s the best microphone I own by a pretty long way. The diaphragm is pretty far in it so you don’t really have to use a pop filter. You can get a really in-your-ear, straight-up, true sound. I use one for kick drums too so it’s a good combo mic. It’s got similarities with a Shure SM7, but the SM7s are more bass-heavy, they sound more like modern radio whereas the RE-20 sounds like ’70s radio.”

On mic'ing Ian's bass: "It's a 50/50 blend of RE20 and an old Shure 546. The RE20 does smooth low end and the 546 does nasty mids."

As seen in this instagram post.

The re20 was used to mic Alex kick drum in the recording of flying microtonal banana. Check out the vid Peeling the Flying Microtonal Banana at 5:35

a microphone, well suited for voice recording.

The RE20 can be seen micing up the amplifier in the background throughout the video.

"I don't ever use dynamic mics on a drum kit if I can help it: it'll either be ribbons or condensers. The exception would be an [Electro?voice] RE20 inside the kick, but I tend to try to use a [Neumann] U87 or 47 outside, and a Yamaha NS10 driver on the bottom. I try to line them up equidistant, so that theoretically it would always phase?align. I'll use [Neumann] KM84s on snare, top and bottom."

In this interview with Rookie magazine, Emily states: "I used to use an Electro Voice RE20, that’s a dynamic microphone [that] was used primarily for radio broadcasting, and it just sounds really good, it’s definitely one of my favorites."

Gus can be seen using this at 1:20

Used for Podcasts and livestreams, unsure if used for recording

Positive Mental Trip has used the Electro-Voice RE 20 dynamic mic on vocals and bass drum tracks.

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