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Originally Posted by Steve G  Here's what I know after working at Capitol Studios for 15 years. Frank usually sang into a U47, although I have seen some pictures with a U67 and an M49. We still own and use these very same mics on a daily basis. The pre would have been whatever was in the custom Capitol desks with no compression or EQ, just fader rides by talented staff engineers (names escape me at the moment, but I can look it up later). The tape machines were all 1/2" 3 track. Every now and then we pull out the old tapes for reissues, and they sound like they were recorded yesterday, stunning. |
I remember someone mentioning 3 M49s for the Only the Lonely record - can't tell you who told me, but the guy was very much into remastering of the old capital records. They recorded quite some classical stuff as well with three M49s.