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25 mentions in 20 episodes.

100 gecs

1:03:25 · SM7B · named · high confidence
“On this album, I bought an SM7B. Nice microphone. That was my one for this album”
Laura Les names the SM7B as her key piece of gear for the vocals on 10,000 gecs.

A. G. Cook

10:43 · SM58 · named · high confidence
“It's remained pretty unchanged from what would probably be my one-take handheld SM58 kind of style demo.”
Describes capturing the original Heartache vocal idea as a quick handheld demo on an SM58.

Arlo Parks

42:29 · SM7B · named · high confidence
“SM7 on. I'm ready. Worth mentioning too, this is the microphone we used for the entire project.”
Arlo Parks tracked every vocal on the album through a Shure SM7, the same mic Baird uses for the podcast call.

Bleachers

16:11 · SM58 · named · high confidence
“at this point I was really into just singing on 58... I want to feel like it is live. I want the transients of when my lips hit the mic”
Jack tracked lead vocals for 'I'm Not Joking' (and later 'We Should Talk') on an SM58 for immediacy and proximity.
1:19:47 · SM7B · named · medium confidence
“I probably just grabbed whatever SM7 was around, just ding around because I just needed that high frequency.”
A casually grabbed SM7 captured one of the incidental high-frequency parts that made the record.

Bob Vylan

19:55 · SM58 · named · medium confidence
“No, it's not a 58. I had a 58, but I lost it”
Bobby ruled out an SM58 when trying to recall the handheld mic he uses for bedroom demo vocals.
1:23:57 · KSM353 · named · high confidence
“We put a Shure ribbon mic, which can handle quite high SPL... the Shure one was great, it was a KSM353”
The Shure KSM353 ribbon was the sole mic on the cranked Bluesbreaker, chosen for its high SPL handling.

Bring Me The Horizon

56:01 · SM57 · named · high confidence
“He did all that on like an SM57 or whatever, and the sound of it works so well because it suits the CD.”
Lee cites Bon Iver's debut recorded on an SM57 as proof that lo-fi capture serves the song more than gear quality.

Declan Mckenna

17:37 · SM7B · named · high confidence
“we just used a microphone, probably just used an SM7B. I think we just did it in Luca's living room again.”
The acoustic guitars on Mulholland's Dinner and Wine were tracked with an SM7B in the producer's living room.
1:20:42 · SM7B · named · high confidence
“some of the vocals on this album were just done SM7B... I use it a lot because it's convenient for recording on the go and doesn't pick up too much background noise.”
Declan's go-to vocal mic for on-the-go and bedroom tracking across the album.

Foo Fighters

1:08:29 · SM58 · named · medium confidence
“It's another song where we used, I think it was a 58, which we sort of blew out with some distortion”
The lead vocal on 'If You Only Knew' was cut on a Shure SM58 and deliberately distorted.

Hayley Williams

1:57:30 · SM7B · named · high confidence
“Speaking of my laziness, I use like an SM7 on the acoustic sometimes because I didn't want to set up a separate chain.”
An SM7B left up in the writing room was used on acoustic guitar takes that made the record.

IDLES

1:40:06 · SM57 · named · high confidence
“I'd happily make an album with a 57 and an audio interface. It's about the ideas and capturing a vibe.”
Miko's advice: gear doesn't matter, he'd make a record with an SM57 and an interface.

Kae Tempest

1:41:51 · SM7B · named · high confidence
“I wouldn't want to have had that on an SM7, because for me then it's way more work to get that up to the level I had in my head.”
Fraser contrasts the SM7 with the high-end vocal chain he insisted on for Kae's takes.

Laufey

46:38 · SM7B · named · medium confidence
“I think we could have done the whole thing on an SM7 and it would have been fine.”
Spencer uses the Shure SM7 as his example that notes and performance matter more than the microphone.

Lizzy McAlpine

20:08 · SM57 · named · high confidence
“We just put a mic right up in front. We just had a 57 usually on that little speaker.”
An SM57 was the standard close mic on the miniature speaker used for all the Mellotron parts.

Lorde

12:00 · SM7B · named · high confidence
“and Ella's vocal on an SM7 just doing some melody”
Ella's melody scratch vocals for the Favourite Daughter demo were cut on an SM7.
1:44:43 · SM7B · named · high confidence
“I've only on this album gained an appreciation for the SM7... I found a lot of freedom in cutting with an SM7”
Lorde names the SM7 as the piece of gear that unlocked her performances, replacing the U47 for demos.

Maribou State

19:41 · SM57 · named · medium confidence
“that's how we got it in the end with like a — was it 57 even as well?”
An SM57 was likely the mic on the guitar amp used to capture the bass tone for Black Oak.

Myles Smith

39:32 · SM7B · named · high confidence
“a lot of the Myles sauces or BVs that we'll do, we'll do on the SM7. Just because it sounds raw.”
The SM7B is chosen over cleaner mics for raw shouted backing vocals.
1:13:08 · SM7B · named · high confidence
“This was on SM7B 'cause there was two rooms... all the vocals are from the SM7”
All Dying Day vocals were cut on an SM7B, partly because Myles could lie back and relax with it.

Pixies

1:39:19 · SM7B · named · high confidence
“Something I've used on every Pixies record is a Shure SM7 microphone. That's what Charles's lead vocal is every time.”
Tom Dalgety's go-to lead vocal mic for Black Francis on every Pixies album, chosen for its direct, unpretentious and rugged practicality.

Rudimental

39:31 · SM57 · named · high confidence
“if you put a 57 on the right vocalist, sometimes we still use that. The SM57 should be in every studio”
Strong endorsement: the SM57 still captures usable lead vocals in writing sessions and travels to writing camps.

Sam Gellaitry

22:06 · SM58 · named · high confidence
“For my vocal chain I have an SM58, that's the standard one”
All album vocals tracked on a Shure SM58, favoured for being handheld, direct and rejecting bedroom room sound.

d4vd

28:40 · Beta 58A · named · medium confidence
“I also use a Beta 58 sometimes, that's within a Focusrite interface, for background vocals and different leads.”
A Beta 58 dynamic mic is his choice for alt/rock-leaning vocals and background stacks.