Lindsey Buckingham

According to Rumours producer Ken Caillat, an ECM-50 was used to record guitar on "Dreams" and "Silver Spring". This is stated in his book Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album and this August 2007 Sound on Sound interview, respectively.

Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album (April 10, 2012)

I opened up the mics, a Neuman 414, an AKG C-451, panned hard left and right, and my little Sony ECM-50, taped to the front of Lindsey’s fine guitar.

Sound on Sound, August 2007

"Take 'Silver Springs' [the B-side of 'Go Your Own Way']. I taped this Sony ECM50 lavalier mic onto Lindsey's Fender Strat, which was kind of a crazy idea because no sound would be coming out of there. However, I noticed, when he would sit around and play in the studio, that I liked the sound of the high frequency that comes off the strings — it's hardly a note, but more of a second-octave, third-octave harmonic thing. So I taped the ECM50 on there and he was actually playing the part through his volume pedal, meaning that when he plucked the string and opened up the pedal you'd hear this 'wah' sound', while preceding that there would be the little glassy clink of the ECM50. Then we ran the pedal sound through the Leslie and had a delay on that, slowing his part down — he was actually going to double that part, but then when he heard the delay he started playing along to it and that changed the whole tempo of the song... You wouldn't have had that in the Pro Tools world, where there's no credibility given to putting some space into the songs. Back then, you'd put echo on there and create space, and you were painting a portrait while you were going."

Lindsey Buckingham used the Beyerdynamic M500 ribbon microphone from 1977 to 1980, as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Tumblr.

Used for the guitar on Rumours, as stated by producer Ken Caillat in this August 2007 Sound on Sound interview.

"For Lindsey I always used an SM57 and a 451. I found that those two mics complemented each other, and if I put the 57 about an inch from the cloth and the 451 about two inches from the speaker, a little off to the side, and then moved the two faders up and down both together and independently, I could change the sound radically. And you'd get a really interesting sound if you also put phase on one of them. Added to that there was always a direct, although I didn't use that so much with Lindsey unless we were feeding a Leslie with it. We had everything mic'd up for whatever effects we wanted.

Lindsey Buckingham used a Shure 58 Live on the White Album tour 75/76 and Part of the Rumours Tour in 1977, All three singers used 58s in 1975 and most of 1976

Used for the guitar on Rumours, as stated by producer Ken Caillat in this August 2007 Sound on Sound interview.

"For Lindsey I always used an SM57 and a 451. I found that those two mics complemented each other, and if I put the 57 about an inch from the cloth and the 451 about two inches from the speaker, a little off to the side, and then moved the two faders up and down both together and independently, I could change the sound radically. And you'd get a really interesting sound if you also put phase on one of them. Added to that there was always a direct, although I didn't use that so much with Lindsey unless we were feeding a Leslie with it. We had everything mic'd up for whatever effects we wanted.