Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston used the AMS Neve 33609C Stereo Limiter/Compressor for her vocals on "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)." This is confirmed by her mixing engineer, who explained, "Houston’s vocals were cut with the AKG C24—one side only, we didn’t do it in stereo—into a Focusrite 110 module from a Focusrite desk... And we went from there into a Neve original metal knob—the 33609—compressor," as reported by Robyn Flans on Mixonline.

Whitney Houston used the AMS RMX16 Digital Reverberation System for her vocals on "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)." This is confirmed by her mixing engineer, who stated, "Other outboard gear Frazer says he leaned heavily on for the song included the AMS devices—the RMX 16 (reverb) and DMX 15 (delay)," as reported by Robyn Flans on Mixonline.

Whitney Houston utilized the AMS DMX 15-80S Digital Delay for her vocals on "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)." This is confirmed by her mixing engineer, who stated, "Other outboard gear Frazer says he leaned heavily on for the song included the AMS devices—the RMX 16 (reverb) and DMX 15 (delay)," as reported by Robyn Flans on Mixonline.

Whitney Houston used the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer on her song "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)." This is confirmed by her producer, Narada Michael Walden, who stated in an interview with Robyn Flans on Mixonline that the track featured "Randy Jackson’s Moog synthesizer combined with his own 808 Roland drum machine, which he and Preston Glass programmed."