Timbaland

Used for Timbaland's vocals on Justin Timberland's "SexyBack", as stated by mix engineer Jimmy Douglass in this July 2007 Sound on Sound interview.

Lead vocals: Universal Audio 1176, MXR flanger, Izotope *Trash*

"The signal chain for Justin's vocals was an Audio-Technica 4060 mic, into a Presonus ADL600 mic pre, and then a Universal Audio 1176 limiter. I normally use the U87 for recording vocals, but I was curious about the AT and I had both mics in front of Justin. The effects I used on his vocals seemed to work better with the AT. I used the U87 on Timbaland's vocals and went straight into the desk. I like using the Neve VR mic pre. It's a little crunchy, it's not quite the 1072 or 1073, but it works."

In this photograph on instagram, Timbaland uses Audio Technica ATH-M50xWH.

You can see him wearing M50RD's in this studio session.

Walter-Storyk Design group built this facility for Timbaland with direction from his main engineer, Jimmy Douglas. In the slideshow, the Neve mixer is listed first.

A special edition full workstation from Open Lab created for Timbaland !!

The beat professional, Timabaland is explaining some things as the beautiful SSL Matrix is in the back corner of the picture. it is located about halfway down the page of this link.

This instrument is seen on the right hand side of a video Timbaland posted on Instagram. He was playing a trapp beat on top of what sounded like a disco sample using the MPC Renaissance Controller.

"And where it end !!!!!!!"

Here you can see he's using a c24 Control Surface.

Scott storch & Timbaland & Dr.dre

At the 1:05 mark in this video, Timbaland begins to play a track with the Abelton Push 2 in front his setup.

Apollo Twin MkII is a ground-up redesign of the world's most popular professional desktop recording interface for Mac and Windows

Used for Timbaland's vocals on Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack", as stated by mix engineer Jimmy Douglass in this July 2007 Sound on Sound interview.

Lead vocals: Universal Audio 1176, MXR flanger, Izotope *Trash*

"The signal chain for Justin's vocals was an Audio-Technica 4060 mic, into a Presonus ADL600 mic pre, and then a Universal Audio 1176 limiter. I normally use the U87 for recording vocals, but I was curious about the AT and I had both mics in front of Justin. The effects I used on his vocals seemed to work better with the AT. I used the U87 on Timbaland's vocals and went straight into the desk. I like using the Neve VR mic pre. It's a little crunchy, it's not quite the 1072 or 1073, but it works.

"Justin then said 'Man, can you put some effect on the vocal? Something crazy, like a distorted kind of thing?' So I put the Trash plug-in on [Izotope's distortion, filter, delay and amplifier modelling plug-in]. I just happened to have it. To give you my exact settings would be silly. But I'll give you one clue: it wasn't something that I worked really hard to get. Just by using the plug-in the setting almost came up.

"The Trash plug-in wasn't the only thing I used on the lead vocals. I also had an outboard MXR flanger on it. Plus there was an outboard compressor, the Urei 1176. I used the same three effects on Timbaland's vocals, just less than on Justin's. But you can hear the flanger and compressor acting in the spaces, like just before Justin sings 'dirty baby'. There's no hiding it, and it creates a whole other dimension of sound."

Used for Timbaland's vocals on Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack", as stated by mix engineer Jimmy Douglass in this July 2007 Sound on Sound interview.

Lead vocals: Universal Audio 1176, MXR flanger, Izotope *Trash*

"The signal chain for Justin's vocals was an Audio-Technica 4060 mic, into a Presonus ADL600 mic pre, and then a Universal Audio 1176 limiter. I normally use the U87 for recording vocals, but I was curious about the AT and I had both mics in front of Justin. The effects I used on his vocals seemed to work better with the AT. I used the U87 on Timbaland's vocals and went straight into the desk. I like using the Neve VR mic pre. It's a little crunchy, it's not quite the 1072 or 1073, but it works.

"Justin then said 'Man, can you put some effect on the vocal? Something crazy, like a distorted kind of thing?' So I put the Trash plug-in on [Izotope's distortion, filter, delay and amplifier modelling plug-in]. I just happened to have it. To give you my exact settings would be silly. But I'll give you one clue: it wasn't something that I worked really hard to get. Just by using the plug-in the setting almost came up.

"The Trash plug-in wasn't the only thing I used on the lead vocals. I also had an outboard MXR flanger on it. Plus there was an outboard compressor, the Urei 1176. I used the same three effects on Timbaland's vocals, just less than on Justin's. But you can hear the flanger and compressor acting in the spaces, like just before Justin sings 'dirty baby'. There's no hiding it, and it creates a whole other dimension of sound."

Visible in this video from Timbaland's Instagram story feed. It is archived on the official Output website.

Used on Timbaland's vocals for Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack", as stated by mix engineer Jimmy Douglass in this July 2007 Sound on Sound interview.

Lead vocals: Universal Audio 1176, MXR flanger, Izotope *Trash*

"The signal chain for Justin's vocals was an Audio-Technica 4060 mic, into a Presonus ADL600 mic pre, and then a Universal Audio 1176 limiter. I normally use the U87 for recording vocals, but I was curious about the AT and I had both mics in front of Justin. The effects I used on his vocals seemed to work better with the AT. I used the U87 on Timbaland's vocals and went straight into the desk. I like using the Neve VR mic pre. It's a little crunchy, it's not quite the 1072 or 1073, but it works.

"Justin then said 'Man, can you put some effect on the vocal? Something crazy, like a distorted kind of thing?' So I put the Trash plug-in on [Izotope's distortion, filter, delay and amplifier modelling plug-in]. I just happened to have it. To give you my exact settings would be silly. But I'll give you one clue: it wasn't something that I worked really hard to get. Just by using the plug-in the setting almost came up.

"The Trash plug-in wasn't the only thing I used on the lead vocals. I also had an outboard MXR flanger on it. Plus there was an outboard compressor, the Urei 1176. I used the same three effects on Timbaland's vocals, just less than on Justin's. But you can hear the flanger and compressor acting in the spaces, like just before Justin sings 'dirty baby'. There's no hiding it, and it creates a whole other dimension of sound."

On another video on instagram he shares a beat, he's using RP6 G2's.

On this video and many other, you can see he's using KRK ROKIT 8 G2's.

In this and more other videos he's sharing on instagram, it's clear that he uses Yamaha NS-10's.

Here you can see him working on Reason.

Book out now!!!!!

Instagram video, using Push and Ableton Live.

Timbaland is seen in the studio with Jay Z, using the Korg Triton Workstation.

At 2:05 Timbaland is seen in studio with Kanye West playing on his Motif keyboard.

Timbaland is seen at 5:40 in the studio with Kanye West working on the ASR keyboard.

In this interview with Sound On Sound, Timbaland's engineer Chris Godbey talks about the process and gear used to make Timberland's tracks, saying, "Tim has some keyboards with him with loads of sounds in them, mainly the [Open Labs] Miko, which is in essence a PC with a keyboard attached to it, and for 20 percent of the time he'll use some other keyboards, mostly the Microkorg samplers, on which he also has a bunch of sounds."

A picture displaying Timbaland with a Roland GAIA next to his Open Labs MIKO.