what is that 75 million selling record with the sm-7?

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I have an interview with Bruce Swedien where he clearly states it was an SM7 that was used for Billie Jean, and he also mentions the serial number.

The shure website is wrong, but it's understandable, since they weren't in the studio that day so how the hell would they know?
 
bleyrad said:
Does anyone actually dig the vox sound on Thriller though? That's great that it sold well, but I don't think the vocals sound particularily amazing on that album at all... small, dry and somewhat thin. Just sounds like any old dynamic to me.

My favourite recently-recorded vocal sounds are on Death Cab For Cutie's latest two albums. They're huge, warm, and airy. I've been trying to find out what their signal chain is... even emailed them and like 10 different representatives/managers/etc but no response. Not that I thought one was likely.
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to be honest with you i think its just ben gibbards voice. I've seen them live a number of times and in different settings..very different, and his voice has always been huge, warm, and clear as a bell.
 
Same with the Postal Service album, again with Gibbard's great sounding vocals. Still, if they were recorded crappily they would sound crappy, it sounds like they happen to have good sound live as well.
 
Stefan Elmblad said:
I have an interview with Bruce Swedien where he clearly states it was an SM7 that was used for Billie Jean, and he also mentions the serial number.

The shure website is wrong, but it's understandable, since they weren't in the studio that day so how the hell would they know?
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I found the interview. The vocals for the songs "Thriller", "Pretty Young Thing" and "Billie Jean" were recorded through a Shure SM7 with serial number 5210.

According to notes from the session by Bruce Swedien.
 
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