Andrew VanWyngarden's Microphones
In this article by Sound on Sound it says MGMT used this mic when recording their album Congratulations - "The whole signal chain was nice — an old Neumann U47 microphone going into nice preamps — so everything we did there, we could take with us somewhere else,”
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In this article by Sound on Sound it says MGMT used an SM57 saying : "We had to mic the drums with this Radio Shack mic on the kick and an SM57 on the snare. Then, in the end, on parts of 'Weekend Wars' and 'The Youth' on the record, some of the drum tracks were actually just that, run through preamps.”
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In an episode of Tape Op Magazine, specifically at the timestamp of 35:57, Andrew VanWyngarden explicitly states that he used the Neumann M 49 microphone on MGMT's latest album, "Loss of Life," released in 2024. This information was shared during an interview where VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser discussed the recording process of the album, their collaboration with producer/mixer Dave Fridmann, and their discovery of their new favorite microphone.
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