Marc Perlman

Used with Pro Tools HDX to track XOXO, as stated by engineer Nick Tveitbakk in this October 28, 2020 Mix Online interview.

Tveitbakk tracked to his Studer A827 2-inch tape machine and Pro Tools HDX. “Because we have a very large and very nice [48-channel] API console, we can track to tape and run it into Pro Tools simultaneously,” he says.

The equipment list of Pachyderm Studios specifies three 16x16 converters.

Used to track XOXO, as stated by engineer Nick Tveitbakk in this October 28, 2020 Mix Online interview.

Tveitbakk tracked to his Studer A827 2-inch tape machine and Pro Tools HDX. “Because we have a very large and very nice [48-channel] API console, we can track to tape and run it into Pro Tools simultaneously,” he says.

Used for the bass on XOXO, as stated by engineer Nick Tveitbakk in this October 28, 2020 Mix Online interview.

Perlman’s bass went through an Ampeg B15 for harder-edged Americana songs and through an Ampeg SVT amp for softer tunes. “That was compressed with an LA2A. All the drums and bass went through Neve mic pres,” he explains. “We have 1064, 1081 1073, 1084—a large variety of those.”

The equipment list for Pachyderm Studios specifies two Teletronix LA-2As in its inventory.

Used for lead vocals on XOXO, as stated by engineer Nick Tveitbakk in this October 28, 2020 Mix Online interview.

“We cut 90 percent of the lead vocals through a Wunder CM7 mic, which I really love,” KJ says. “That went through a Neve 1066 preamp, and then a Revision H 1176. Also, in the big room we had a Neumann M149 tube mic, which we used for group vocals. Sometimes all three of them would be singing around one mic.”

Used for the electric bass on XOXO, as stated by engineer Nick Tveitbakk in this October 28, 2020 Mix Online interview.

Bass—often the studio’s mid-’60s rosewood P-Bass—was direct into a Neve 3104 channel then through a dbx 165 into Pro Tools.