There are four mp3s listed here, guitar and vocal. The guitar is exactly the same on each one, but there are four different vocal takes.

One take runs through an Otari 2-track tape deck as a warming device, another through Empirical Labs' FATSO as the warming device. A third has no warming device at all, and the fourth is the FATSO using the tracking compression.

The chain for the vocal is: Neumann U87 mic to Great River MNV preamp to Universal Audio's 1176 compressor to the unknown warming device (or none at all) to Apogee PSX100 converters to Pro Tools. One exception. The take using the FATSO tracking compression does not go through the 1176.

Can you guess which is which? For the correct answers, please click here.

 

MP3-a

MP3-b

MP3-c

MP3-d