{"id":393,"date":"2011-11-19T16:34:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T16:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oasis-recordinginfo.co.uk\/?page_id=393"},"modified":"2014-07-12T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T11:37:24","slug":"equipment-used-in-the-morning-glory-sessions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.oasis-recordinginfo.co.uk\/?page_id=393","title":{"rendered":"Equipment used in the Morning Glory sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI don\u2019t know how many people would have the knowledge to bounce down tracks on two tape machines and stuff like that\u2026 I still don\u2019t understand it. It\u2019s all a bit like maths to me. I was fortunate enough to record our first three albums in this manner, on tape. All those songs were played live\u2026some bands these days would freak out if they saw a tape machine\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Noel Gallagher, on recording Oasis on analogue tape during the making of their cover of The Beatles\u2019 song Within You Without You for the BBC Radio 2 documentary Sergeant Pepper\u2019s 40th Anniversary<\/em> (first broadcast 26th December 2007)<\/p>\n

On this page you will find information about some of the equipment used in the recording sessions for Morning Glory<\/em> provided by Lisa Ward, who is manager of Rockfield Studios. Thanks also to Nick Brine, who engineered the Morning Glory<\/em> sessions, for providing information on tape machines and formats.<\/p>\n

Instruments and amplification<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
Gretsch drum kit (Alan White)<\/div>\n
Noel’s guitars:\u00a0Epiphone semi; Firebird; Gibson\u00a0Les Paul;\u00a0Vintage Stratocaster;\u00a0Epiphone acoustics<\/div>\n
Noel’s amplifiers:\u00a0Marshall stack; Marshall Bluesbreaker combo; Orange amp; WEM combo; early sixties Vox AC30<\/div>\n
Guigsy’s guitar: Fender Telecaster bass (amplified and DI’d)<\/div>\n

Bonehead’s guitar: Epiphone Casino<\/p>\n

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Microphones<\/strong><\/em>
\nElectro-Voice RE20 (on the bass drum)
\nShure SM57s (on the snare)
\nNeumann U47s (on the rack and floor toms)
\nAKG C12s (overhead; the hi-hat was likely not miked; several unspecified ambient mics)
\nElectro-Voice RE20 (on Guigsy’s bass amp, plus a DI)<\/div>\n
Shure SM57 and Neumann U87s (on Bonehead’s Marshall amp and Noel’s amps)<\/div>\n

FET 47 (for lead vocals)
\nNeumann U47
\nAKG 414<\/p>\n

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Recording console<\/strong><\/em>
\n60 channel Neve VR with flying faders (The Coach House studio at Rockfield had the very first VR ever made, serial number 1; the album was mixed on a Neve desk at the mix room at Orinoco Studios in South London)<\/p>\n

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Rockfield studio monitors<\/strong><\/em>
\nJBL 4350s (main)
\nYamaha NS10s (nearfield)<\/p>\n

Tape machines<\/strong><\/em>
\nStuder A820
\nStuder A827 (the sessions were recorded onto 499 at +6 over 200)
\nVarious DAT machines<\/p>\n

Equipment used at mastering stage<\/strong><\/em>
\nNeve 1081 equalisers
\nApogee AD-500 A\/D converter, with Soft Limit feature<\/p>\n

The Recording Studios<\/strong><\/em>
\nLoco Studios, Wales (for Some Might Say)
\nRockfield Studios, Wales (for the main Morning Glory sessions)
\nThe Engine Room at Miloco Studios (formerly Orinoco Studios) where\u00a0Morning Glory<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Be Here Now<\/em>\u00a0were mixed<\/p>\n

The information presented in this article is cited from correspondence with the engineer Nick Brine and Rockfield’s studio manager Lisa Ward, as well as from an article by Owen Morris entitled Recording Morning Glory from\u00a0The Official Oasis Magazine<\/em>\u00a0(published Winter 1996) and an article called\u00a0Classic Tracks: Oasis – Wonderwall from the November 2012 issue of\u00a0Sound on Sound<\/em>\u00a0magazine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Further reading<\/strong><\/em>
\nJeff Collins. 2007. Rock Legends at Rockfield<\/em>. University of Wales Press. An excellent and frequently very funny history of the famous recording studio. Includes photographer Michael Spencer Jones\u2019s recollections of the Morning Glory\u00a0<\/em>sessions.<\/p>\n

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A brief video on The History of Studer Tape Machines can be found on YouTube.<\/p>\n

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Technical information on the Studer A827 tape machine is available at The Audio Archive.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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