Chris Cron

Featured in the July 26, 2023 video “God Only Knows on Suzuki Omnichord”.

Used for the vocals on “As Long As I’ve Got Music”, as stated by audio engineer Shawn Dealey in this May 24, 2024 Sweetwater interview.

“All the vocals we recorded with the Telefunken U47 through the VLC tube preamp into the Pultec EQ and finished off with the Universal Audio Teletronix LA-2A. Too many tubes? Take a listen to the results and you tell me.”

Used for the vocals on “As Long As I’ve Got Music”, as stated by audio engineer Shawn Dealey in this May 24, 2024 Sweetwater interview.

“All the vocals we recorded with the Telefunken U47 through the VLC tube preamp into the Pultec EQ and finished off with the Universal Audio Teletronix LA-2A. Too many tubes? Take a listen to the results and you tell me.”

Used for the vocals on “As Long As I’ve Got Music”, as stated by audio engineer Shawn Dealey in this May 24, 2024 Sweetwater interview.

“All the vocals we recorded with the Telefunken U47 through the VLC tube preamp into the Pultec EQ and finished off with the Universal Audio Teletronix LA-2A. Too many tubes? Take a listen to the results and you tell me.”

Used for the vocals on “As Long As I’ve Got Music”, as stated by audio engineer Shawn Dealey in this May 24, 2024 Sweetwater interview.

“All the vocals we recorded with the Telefunken U47 through the VLC tube preamp into the Pultec EQ and finished off with the Universal Audio Teletronix LA-2A. Too many tubes? Take a listen to the results and you tell me.”

Used for the Wurlitzer on "As Long As I've Got Music", as can be seen in this mini documentary of the making of "As Long As I've Got Music" (released May 14, 2024) at 8:07 and as specified by audio engineer Jason Peets at 7:58.

I think it's interesting to add, too, I mean, these are all guitar pedals, or guitar-based pedals, but our minds were always going to "What else can we use these on?", so you have throwing the rotary on the Wurlitzer and, you know, plugging in the pedals as inserts on some of the things we were recording is sort of how we creatively use guitar pedals in our day-to-day, so...

The in-studio Wurlitzer 200 at Sweetwater Studios' Studio A (specified on the "Equipment & Gear" list for Sweetwater Studios) was used for "As Long As I Got Music", as mentioned by audio engineer Jason Peets in this mini documentary of the making of "As Long As I've Got Music" (released May 14, 2024) at 8:08 and by audio engineer Shawn Dealey in this May 24, 2024 Sweetwater interview.

JHS Pedals, "Writing a Beach Boys Song In One Day (New Products from JHS Pedals, Keeley Electronics, Benson Amps)" (May 14, 2024) (excerpt starts at @ 7:58)

I think it's interesting to add, too, I mean, these are all guitar pedals, or guitar-based pedals, but our minds were always going to "What else can we use these on?", so you have throwing the rotary on the Wurlitzer and, you know, plugging in the pedals as inserts on some of the things we were recording is sort of how we creatively use guitar pedals in our day-to-day, so...

Sweetwater, "Creating the Beach Boys Sound on “As Long as I’ve Got Music”" by Lynn Fuston (May 24, 2024)

“We used the Oberheim OB-X8 for the brass sounds. We also ran the OB-X8 through an Electro-Harmonix Mel9 for strings sounds. We recorded the melodica through a Telefunken U47. And the Wurlitzer ran through a Magnatone Twilighter Stereo with two Beyerdynamic M 160 mics on it.”

The C7 at Sweetwater Studios was used for “As Long As I’ve Got Music”, as stated by audio engineer Shawn Dealey in this May 24, 2024 Sweetwater interview.

“For the acoustic piano, on our Yamaha C7, we paired a single Neumann U 67 with the Warm Audio WA-2MPX tube preamp and the Chandler Limited RS660 for tube compression.”

Used for the outro of "As Long As I've Got Music", as shown by Cron in this mini documentary of the making of the song at 10:56.

We were walking through the Sweetwater store and I found the perfect and really important piece of gear, fits the time and the mood of the song... (shows packaged FN150) Slide whistle. (camera cuts to Cron playing the now-unpackaged whistle) I mean?