Tony Visconti
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Tony Visconti's Microphones
Visconti says that the basic vocal chain on the album consisted of Bowie's own Manley Gold Reference Mic into an Avalon mic pre, into an LA-3A compressor and a Focusrite Red EQ, then into an Apogee 8000 A/D converter and a G4 Mac running Logic Audio. “I started recording vocals on analog, as I did with all of the drums [16-track at 15 ips with Dolby SR, or 30 ips with no noise reduction — I consider it to be the ultimate tape format,” Visconti says, but the lock-up became tedious, so we stayed in the digital realm — 24-bit, 44.1k]. On one song, ‘I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spacecraft,’ I used a Shure SM57 to get a rockier sound, but I later regretted that because the Manley spoiled me rotten. It's such a sweet mic, very musical in the midrange. The Manley mic vocals just leapt out of the mixes, whilst the 57 needed lots of EQ, compression and, ultimately, de-essing to get it above the mix.”
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Discography
Album Credits
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Perry Farrell · 2019
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Perry Farrell · 2019
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Welcome To The Blackout (Live London '78)
David Bowie · 2018
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The Damned · 2018
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David Bowie · 2015
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David Bowie · 2015
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Annie Haslam · 2014
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Classic Album Selection: Six Albums 1977-1984
The Boomtown Rats · 2013
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David Bowie · 2013
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David Bowie · 2013
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Alejandro Escovedo · 2012
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Alejandro Escovedo · 2010
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