The performances on Spirit In The Room were captured entirely live, involving a small team of Jones, Johns and keyboard player Richard Causon, the singer performing into a gold RCA 77DX ribbon microphone.

Used for Higgins' hi-hat and snare on Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come and Change of the Century, as recounted by sound engineer "Bones" Howe in this February 2004 Sound on Sound interview (the DX is specified later in the article when Tom Waits is discussed).

"I set them up in a square, one in each corner of an imaginary room in the studio, close together, all facing the centre of the square. I had set up the microphones before they got there: I had an RCA 77 on Ornette's alto sax — the white plastic one he was notorious for playing — and a 77 on Don Cherry's pocket trumpet, a Telefunken U47 on Charlie's bass, and the drums were miked with a U47 as an overhead and a 77 over the hat and snare. We were recording live to mono and two-track at the same time. I liked this setup so much that I made sure I wrote it down, and I still have that setup sheet to this day. I would use it to record a lot of albums."

Used to record the horns on Antibalas, as mentioned in this May 15, 2012 Dubspot blog post.

For recording horns, particularly baritone sax and lower brass, I use a Beyerdynamic TG88 or Sennheiser 421. I don’t own these and usually borrow them from friends, or rent them from a local gear rental place. Renting can be a great way to have access to mics that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. Usually, gear rental places will give you daily, weekend, weekly, and monthly rates. This is a great way to try out and experiment with high end microphones before you invest in something that may not be right for you. Scour garage sales, thrift shops, and junk shops for old mics and experiment with them as well. If they don’t work out, you can resell them or trade them or save them for a rainy day. The last record I made was with Antibalas at Daptone, a tape only studio. We had all four horns recording onto what I remember was a RCA DX77, an old ribbon mic. They have an assortment of incredible vintage gear and microphones, as well as a surprising variety of Radio Shack and other lo-fi microphones used for specific applications.

Visible in this photo of Carmichael.

Raven is seen using the RCA 77-DX in this studio recording snippet