Jack White

In the film "It Might Get Loud," Jack White explains that while he and a luthier from Seattle named Randy Parsons were designing a guitar for the Raconteurs tour, he had the idea to have Parsons put a Green Bullet Harmonica Mic in the guitar. This would allow White to just pull the mic out of the guitar and use it onstage. At about 1:35 in this video you actually see him using the microphone.

In this video, Jack White can be seen recording the vocals for "I'm Slowly Turning into You" at Blackbird Studio in Nashville using a Shure SM7B.

Producer Vance Powell - “On Blunderbuss I also used the Neve 33609 and RCA BA6A and an Ampex MX35 four–channel tube mixer to record the drums, but these sessions happened so quickly that I did not have a lot of time to set things up. There was not a lot of upright bass this time, but when there was one, I’d use an RCA 44 and something higher up like the RCA BK5A [cardioid ribbon mic]. There was an African drum on ‘Would You Fight For My Love?’, which had an AEA R92, electric bass would have been DI and a Neumann U67 on the amp, with maybe some compression from the [Fairchild] 670. I recorded Jack’s acoustic guitar with an RCA 77DX, and his electric almost always goes through his 1963 Fender Vibroverb in front of which I placed a U67, which went into the Neve 1073 desk and then straight to tape. I did not record any of Jack’s vocals, other than on the song ‘Just One Drink’ because that was done entirely live. I used a Shure SM57 or 58 on his vocals for that, and Josh recorded the backing vocals.”

Used for vocals on Icky Thump, as stated by recording and mixing engineer Joe Chiccarelli in this October 1, 2007 Mix Online interview.

Most of the vocals were recorded on a RCA 77DX ribbon microphone, but a U47 and an old Altec 633 salt shaker mic were also pressed into service. Processing, depending on the track, included a Telefunken V76 tube preamp, an 1176, an LA-3A, a Fairchild and a Chandler Limited EMI TG2 compressor. “Sometimes the vocal went through a guitar amp, sometimes through a Neve module with a preamp turned all the way up,” he says. “He's great about working the distortion, knowing how to sing to a certain microphone. He knows how to back way off and come way in when he needs to. The vocal is different on every single song."

The mic is Chicarelli's, being used on Chris Botti's A Thousand Kisses Deep and for this Tape Op review of Groove Tubes' VIPRE. In all three sources, Chicarelli does not specifcy whether the 633 is the A version or the C version. However, given the fame of the A version over the C version, one can suppose that Chiccarelli is referring to the A version.

In this live performance of the Dead Weather's 'Will There Be Enough Water', you can clearly see the mic at the 7:09 mark, used on Jack's Fender Twin Reverb guitar amp. It's a warm-sounding dynamic mic, similar to a ribbon mic, but much sturdier and thus better for taking on tour.

Used on the album 'Lazarettto'. "I recorded Jack’s vocals mainly with a Shure SM57. Sometimes we used a Neumann U47, as well as an RCA 77D and a Shure SM7, and I often pushed his vocals hard through an 1176(...)"

There are lots of videos online and photos from the 2022 supply chains issues tour indicating he is using a Shure SM58 microphone. He also used it in 2021 at the Third Man Records London performance along with the Warstic Headquarters Opening gig.

In 2012 this was also his main mic setup.

Jack said in an interview that microphone was the only one used for the White Stripes' second album De Stijl.