Sony
7 mentions in 7 episodes.
A. G. Cook
“I got a secondhand Sony C800G... known back in the days as the Mariah Carey mic, quite a bright, intense, detailed mic.”
His long-serving Sony C800G is the mic he records Charli XCX and others on, praised for making whispered takes sit upfront and for stacking cleanly.
CMAT
“We had a game called SingStar, which is on the PlayStation… every time I sang Crazy by Patsy Cline I'd get a perfect score.”
Kira credits the PlayStation game SingStar with first showing her she could sing and introducing her to classic country.
Fall Out Boy
“There have been a couple times where we tried like a C800 if we were going for a specific thing.”
A Sony C800G has occasionally been used for specific vocal sounds, though not on this album.
Jacob Collier
“the Sony, I think it's called WX4000 or MX4000... I mixed a lot of Volume 4 on them when I was on the move”
Jacob mixed much of Djesse Vol. 4 on Sony wireless headphones while travelling, finishing the record in Mumbai on them.
Olly Alexander
“It's, uh, what's that famous mic called? The one that isn't the C800, the famous one”
While trying to recall the large-diaphragm vocal mic used by vocal producer Cameron Gower-Poole, Harle uses the Sony C800 as the reference point for 'that big classy vocal microphone that everybody uses'.
Rex
“For me it's probably a C800, the microphone, because I just used it on every song for vocals”
Alex names the Sony C800G as his indispensable piece of gear, used for every lead vocal on the album.
Sam Gellaitry
“The first I started making music on, my family laptop, was Sony Vaio when I was 12”
Sam's first music-making computer was a family Sony VAIO laptop.