Alex Turner

Rock guitarist Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys uses the Sennheiser e906 Dynamic Guitar Amp Microphone, which is hooked up to his Fender Vintage Reissue '65 Twin Reverb Guitar Amp.

"Mic-wise, when it came to recording Alex Turner’s vocals (and the backing vocals sung by Matt Helders), Abbiss moved between a Shure SM7 and a Neumann U67 and U87. “If Alex was doing a vocal live, we used the SM7, ‘cause it’s really good at rejecting spill from anything else. The U67 they’ve got there is good and middly sounding. Matt never did his BVs as part of the live takes, he concentrated on his drumming. The 87 was there for the BVs.”- Jim Abbiss, producer of "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor".

The Shure SM57 Instrument/Vocal microphone is used to mic the Selmer Zodiac Twin 30 Amplifier that lead guitarist Alex Turner uses for his performances with the Arctic Monkeys.

"Mic-wise, when it came to recording Alex Turner’s vocals (and the backing vocals sung by Matt Helders), Abbiss moved between a Shure SM7 and a Neumann U67 and U87. “If Alex was doing a vocal live, we used the SM7, ‘cause it’s really good at rejecting spill from anything else. The U67 they’ve got there is good and middly sounding. Matt never did his BVs as part of the live takes, he concentrated on his drumming. The 87 was there for the BVs.”- Jim Abbiss, producer of "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor".

At 0:45 you can actually see the Beta 57, a mic that Alex used to use before the Humbug era.

In this article by Sound on Sound producer James Ford stated : ""Quite a lot of the tracks that we did were literally Alex playing guitar and singing and then me playing piano or Bill Ryder?Jones [ex?the Coral] playing guitar. But all around the one mic, a C12, straight into the Pultec and then straight onto the mono half?inch machine.." when recording the Arctic Monkey's 2011 album Suck It and See

"Mic-wise, when it came to recording Alex Turner’s vocals (and the backing vocals sung by Matt Helders), Abbiss moved between a Shure SM7 and a Neumann U67 and U87. “If Alex was doing a vocal live, we used the SM7, ‘cause it’s really good at rejecting spill from anything else. The U67 they’ve got there is good and middly sounding. Matt never did his BVs as part of the live takes, he concentrated on his drumming. The 87 was there for the BVs.”- Jim Abbiss, producer of "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor".

"There’s also a Sennheiser 421 in the back of each cabinet to give more energy for FOH," mentions Will Doyle, a sound engineer that knows about Alex Turner's equipment setup, in reference to the Sennheiser MD 421 Microphone.

In this article featuring an interview with the Arctic Monkeys front of house engineer, Matthew Kettle, Matthew says that Alex uses an e 935 in the third paragraph (also shown in this image).

"Mic-wise, we had a shoot-out between the Neumann U67 and the Bock 251, which was another of James Brown's interventions. I'd normally use a 67 on Al, and there was the odd time we used an SM7 for a bit more of a crunchy sort of thing. But I'd say "90 percent of the vocals were through this green Bock”.

-James Ford

In this image from the recent Arctic Monkeys show in Prague (Aug 2022), Alex Turner can be seen using the Earthworks Audio SR314 microphone

In the music video for "There’d Better Be a Mirrorball" by Arctic Monkeys, Alex Turner can be seen using a vintage Melodium RM6 ribbon microphone, as well as an Altec Lansing 650. Additionally, in an episode of the "Hanging Out With Audiophiles" podcast, Arctic Monkeys' producer James Ford states: "I always do like a center kinda crotch mic, sort of above the kick pedal pointed at the snare. And often you can get a great sort of one mic sound with that, or that and a kick drum sometimes. And at the minute I’ve got these. I always get worried about saying too much about these, because then the price will go up, but these Melodium mics are f-ing brilliant. These are old French ribbons modelled on a 44 or something like that, but it’s much smaller and more compact. And really, I’ve been using them a lot. We did all the lead vocals for the Arctic Monkeys through one of those. It was actually Al Turner, who came up to me with that mic, and then kinda bought a bunch of them, they’re awesome, they’re really cool.”

In a Sound on Sound article titled "James Ford: Producing Arctic Monkeys," there is a photograph from the recording sessions of the Arctic Monkeys' album "Suck It and See," which shows Alex Turner's guitar amplifiers. Both amplifiers are mic'ed with two of the same ribbon microphones. Although the annotation mentions the microphones as SM7s, upon closer examination, it is evident that they are actually RCA BK-5B ribbon microphones.

The Shure SM57 Instrument/Vocal microphone is attached to the Selmer Zodiac Twin 30 Amplifier that lead guitarist Alex Turner uses for his performances with the Arctic Monkeys.

In this performance at BBC's Maida Vale Studios in 2018, Alex Turner can be seen using a vintage Beyerdynamic M 160 Dynamic Double Ribbon Microphone at 0:05 and throughout the rest of the performance. The microphone could also be seen for the duration of the set that Arctic Monkeys played at Maida Vale, however, the performance has since been removed from BBC iPlayer. A vintage Beyerdynamic M 160 Dynamic Double Ribbon Microphone can also be seen in the photo from the performance situated at the piano that Alex Turner is using.

During The Car tour, Alex Turner used the Audio-Technica AT4047/SV microphones to mic his guitar amps, as shown in the BrooklynVegan photo.

In the acoustic session of "Suck It and See," Alex Turner is seen using a Shure SM58 dynamic microphone for his vocals. This performance was recorded live at the Edge's studio in Toronto on May 21, 2011, and is documented by Arctic Monkeys France on YouTube.