John Mayer
US singer‐songwriter
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John Mayer's Software Plugins and VSTs
Used for vocals on Continuum, as stated by recording engineer Chad Franscoviak in this October 1, 2006 Mix Online interview.
For Mayer's vocal chain, Franscoviak says that most of the songs were recorded with a Neumann U47. For a couple of songs, he sang into a Neumann M269c, and on “I'm Gonna Find Another You,” which was recorded at Royal Studios in Memphis, he sang into Al Green's RCA 77 ribbon mic. From there, the chain included a Neve sidecar stocked with 1073 mic pre's and then a UREI silver-face 1176. “On a couple of songs, we did experiment with splitting his vocals into two channels — one of them would be kind of a clean and one of them would be kind of a gritty — and we would take the second channel and put it through a Fairchild 670 and really crush it,” Franscoviak explains. “Then we would either blend it together or choose one or the other for the mix.
“[Mayer] loves hearing his vocals really compressed, so he can be as dynamic as he wants to and it always sounds present to him,” he continues. “He likes way too much reverb when he's tracking, and then when we proceed into the mix, it will be reeled in a little bit. Generally, I will compress lightly going to tape or Pro Tools, and then in Pro Tools cream it with usually the Renaissance Vox.”
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In a video released by Neural DSP, John Mayer demonstrates his signature plugin, the Neural DSP Archetype: John Mayer X.
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Discography
Room For Squares
2001
Any Given Thursday
2003
Heavier Things
2003
As/Is: Mountain View, CA - 7/16/04
2004
As/Is: Houston, TX - 7/24/04
2004
As/Is: Philadelphia, PA/Hartford, CT - 8/14-8/15/04
2004
As/Is: Live In Cleveland/Cincinnati, OH - 8/03-8/04/04
2004
As/Is - Live
2004
TRY! - Live In Concert
2005
Continuum
2006
Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live In Los Angeles
2008
Battle Studies
2009
Album Credits
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John Mayer · 2021
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Daniel Caesar · 2019
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Khalid · 2019
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Shawn Mendes · 2018
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Travis Scott · 2018
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John Mayer · 2017
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The Search for Everything - Wave Two
John Mayer · 2017
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The Search for Everything - Wave One
John Mayer · 2017
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John Mayer · 2016
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John Mayer · 2013
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John Mayer · 2012
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John Mayer · 2006
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