Kevin Shields

Kevin Shields, of My Bloody Valentine, is associated with the Audix CX212B condenser microphone. While he doesn't frequently discuss microphones, Audix USA lists him as an artist, highlighting his innovative approach to sound, notably his use of reverse reverb effects with the Yamaha SPX90.

Used on Loveless, as mentioned in this May 2018 Sound on Sound interview.

In September ‘89, the Loveless sessions recommenced, moving to Elephant Studios in Wapping, London. “A pretty big live room, pretty low ceiling,” Shields remembers. “It used to a be a car park or something. But there was a sense of space because of the large size of the rooms and there was a good drum room there. They had some good valve mics, Neumann 67s.”

In Elephant, Shields made another sonic breakthrough when he realised that he could distort not only his amps, but the U67 itself: “When you drive the 67 mic, as well as the amp, but basically not put the pad on the mic, it has a certain sound. I do remember the engineer being quite concerned about it, but I really liked it.”

Kevin Shields, of My Bloody Valentine, utilized the Audix i5 microphone during the recording of "Loveless." Notably, the engineers positioned two amplifiers facing each other with the microphones placed between them, creating the album's distinctive sound. This information is highlighted in a feature by Audixusa.

" 'Cause we'd usually have like three or four mics on the cabinet or amp and there'd be, like, usually a 57, the [Sennheiser] 421."

In this article, Kevin talks about how he used MD421's to record guitar tracks.

Yeah, only condensers and a lot of them were valve. And then the second half of it was all, just anything again. 'Cause we'd usually have like three or four mics on the cabinet or amp and there'd be, like, usually a 57, the [Sennheiser] 421. I decided that I didn't like 57s but I liked them [421s] because there was less of a frequency spike in them.

Kevin Shields, of My Bloody Valentine, uses the Audix OM7 dynamic microphone, as noted by Audixusa.

Kevin talked about this in an interview in Tape Op issue 26. "We used all the standard ones. Up until the beginning of Loveless when we just used nearly only valve mics — C12s or an old [Neumann U] 67."

In the section of this article titled "Pulsing Bass", it denotes how Kevin Shields used a Neumann U87 on the bass guitar during the studio recordings.

In this article, Huw Price, a recording engineer at The Garden studios during My Bloody Valentines recording of the Glider EP and some of the album Loveless in 1990, recalls Kevin using a Neumann U47 to record bass in the studio.

They arrived at The Garden Studio, in a pre-gentrified Shoreditch, in early January 1990. Drums had already been recorded, so I aligned the studio’s Otari MTR90 MkII 24-track tape machine with the band’s two-inch test tones and grabbed a Neumann U47 microphone to begin recording bass.

Seen in the picture of his studio rack in the May 2018 Sound on Sound interview. Housed in a large black enclosure at the top of the left portion of the rack.