for those who are still interested in sardy‘s way of working (like myself!!!), i found an interview for german magazine „sound and recording“ where he talked about working with oasis for the „dig out your soul“.
for the recording sessions at abbey road (they did guitar and vocal overdubs at „The Village Recorder“ L.A.) they used the EMI TG1 console as well as sardy‘s own neve console and noel‘s neve console, which they both brought to the sessions. the ran all the nice abbey road mics through preamps (they rented „every“ mic preamp available in london at the time) and then to pro tools. they used the abbey roads neve VR only for monitoring.
sardy worked hard on getting the sound which he wanted in the room by putting the right mics at the right places. liams vocals were mainly recorded with a shure sm7 („liam has one of the loudest voice ever heard!“) and a neve preamp. sometimes, for softer songs a neumann u47 or a shure bullet 520 dx. after the preamp a old LA2A and into pro tools.
sardy used apoggee big ben clock with 24bit/88,2kHz.
for the mixing sessions they moved to L.A. at „The Village Recorder“ (freaking nice ...
The Village Recorder). they used the 76-channel neve 8048 console and lotsa outboard. for comps: LA3-A, 1176, TG Limiters, Urei 175, RCA BA6A, Collins comp&limiters. but he said he did not do much with comp/EQ/effects during mixing as he always want to capture the sound when recording. therefore mixing is more getting the balance right.
for vocal effects he used a watkins tape-delay and the roland space echo or the shadow digital copycat. the record was mixed to 1/2“ tape Ampex ATR 30 ips.
if you own the oasis „dig out your soul“ bonus dvd you can see some very yummy-yummy gear!
... and i would be still interested in getting that "Tape OP" article about sardy ...