[Fletcher]

When I was around [about 1/2 way through 'Mama Said'... through 'Are You Gonna Go My Way' to about 1/2 way into 'Circus' which is where I believe Terry Manning took over]... it seemed to be 67's and 47's with one of my 251's on occasion. If you look at the picture on the back of the booklet for "Are You Gonna Go My Way"... those are all my microphones around Leonard... they were in the process of picking what mics for what songs when that photo was snapped.

The pre's were vintage Langevins [with a 25db pad on the front as there were no volume controls] the limiter a freshly restored Fairchild 660 and if any EQ was used [which was rare] it was from a freshly restored Pultec EQP-1A... being recorded to [and here's the important part!!!] either a [all freshly rebuilt!!] Studer J-37 1" 4-track or a 3M M-23 1" 8-track or a 3M M-56 2" 16 track... in other words, a bunch of stuff to which pretty much nobody here has access.

There were some other chains... but that one seemed the most prevalent the times I was around when it was near vocals.

The fact of the matter is that the only way to get a "Lenny" vocal sound is to get "Lenny" in the room... as for the 'textures'... you have to get all the other 'textures' from the drums being recorded in a big assed, concrete block, boxy but sorta verby room mostly on a riser with some of BMG's old 1/2 round barrels flown from the ceiling over where the kit was thought to be going [except it got moved into a boxier sounding corner]... oh, and having an A-Range desk wouldn't suck... and bunch more Fairchilds, Pultecs, ribbon mics... vintage amps, vintage guitars and fair amount of talent probably wouldn't suck either.

Best of luck with it.