Mick Jagger's Microphones

In the YouTube video "The Rolling Stones in the Studio" by gusmac pi, Mick Jagger is shown using the Shure SM7B microphone for vocals and harmonica recordings.

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it is actually the mic that Mick Jagger used on the Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge album

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Used on the vocals for "You Gotta Move", "Wild Horses" and "Brown Sugar", as stated by mix engineer Jimmy Johnson in this September 21, 2018 ProSoundWeb interview.

On the piano I was using only one mic, not two, so I had to move it around to find the hot spot. I’m going to have to think on that one. I think it was a U47, that was the other one, because three was all we had. And we used them all on every session. Jagger sang on a U47.

So the U47 on Jagger, that was a live vocal track? Or was it overdubbed?

I don’t think so, not unless he had to fix something in London. The only overdub I remember was the percussion that he did. He had mono earphones of course, and they were hearing what the board was hearing, they couldn’t get a separate mix.

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In this performance of "Wild Horses" at Toshiba/EMI Studios in Tokyo, Mick Jagger uses an Electro-Voice RE20 for vocals.

At 1:19 there is a closeup shot where the mic can be seen in detail.

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Post from the iorr.org (International Rolling Stones fan Club) where we can see a 1974 picture of Mick Jagger using a AKG C-12 and performing Not Fade Away at the Station Hotel in Richmond - Photo by Dezo Hoffman

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Mick using the Shure 565 during their classic performance at London's Marquee Club in 1971

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Picture of Mick Jagger in 1964 by Harry Goodwin (official photographer of Top Of The Pops).

Quote: "This shot taken in the BBC's famous disused church studios on Dickenson Road, Manchester, where from new year's day 1964 up until 1967 all the early Top Of The Pops programmes were recorded"

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Mick Jagger used the Neumann U67 microphone during the recording sessions for "Sympathy for the Devil," as documented in Jean-Luc Godard's film "Sympathy for the Devil (One Plus One)." Additionally, he utilized the same microphone during the recording sessions for the album "Exile on Main Street" in the basement of Keith Richards' villa in southern France, as confirmed by the film "THE ROLLING STONES - SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (ONE PLUS ONE)" by Rock'n'Roll Religion.

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