Andrew Eldritch

In this wonderful article of the making of "First and last and always", engineer, Tony Harris lists the AKG C414 as being used for Andrews vocals, and the model that would have been available in 1986-1987 was the C414 B-ULS.

"The transmitter has a Shure SM58-type capsule, but we've had problems getting the particular high frequencies and transparency required, so this isn't the regular capsule. Even now, we have to choose between being loud (and my vocal sounding horrible) or being quiet (and my vocal sounding like it should). The problem is not feedback onstage - it's feedback between the microphone and the main PA speakers when the high end is boosted sufficiently to convey the nuance and intended perceived pitch of the vocal. At the moment we're pursuing the quieter-but-better policy. I was getting too tired of having a boomy and muddy vocal which I couldn't hear above the guitars anyway. The overall live experience might have been more powerful, but the me part of it it wasn't quite me. No offence to Big Pete the mixing engineer: it's my fault for not being able to sing as loudly as anybody else."

Andrew lists some of his recent gear on the Sisters of Mercy website; AT 4033a for home vocal recording.

On the Sisters of Mercy website, Andrew states the following: "In a studio I would probably use the local Neumann."