It’s an older large diaphragm tube mic, sometimes called the Lollipop Mic or the Hitler Mic. The CMV563 with M7S, M8S and M9S capsules, that’s the thing I can’t live without it. I record just about every vocal with it. I even had Maynard from Tool actually hanging on to it with foam, so it wouldn’t shake the valve inside. It’s my No.1 piece of gear, for sure. It’s got a warmth to it. It’s like a U47, but an older version, when Gefell was part of the Neumann company and made them prior to the U47s. It just has that large diaphragm valve sound — warm and full — the way older vocalists like Elvis used to sound. I’ve used other microphones, like Telefunken ELA-M 251s and even the UAD Townsend version of it, but nothing beats the M7S. On any session, we always start with that mic and if it doesn’t work, then I can try something else, but it works 99% of the time.
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