#Recording-info-on-Beck Hi Skyblue - thank you for the praise, that's very generous of you. The whole conception of Sea Change in terms of production values was quite organic (even insular) and lacked any concrete reference points during the process. We didn't even ever record any demos unlike for Mutations, which we demoed for about a week prior to going in. So no, that Elton record, as superlative as it is, didn't have any bearing on the process.

Outboard wise, Nigel used the O-way plates & chambers and some tape echoes, and this particular oddball Digital Reverb that I don't remember the name of. (Sonically, it was very reminiscent of a Publison Infernal Machine). Otherwise, he was fairly constantly using the big case of API 550A's to the right of the console monitor section, and standard black face 1176's and LA2A's, which are all still in the room right where they always were. We used the console pre's.

I may have described this earlier, but when mixing, Nigel would use the monitor section for the most part. Sometimes he would require multiple hands and we'd all chip in, probably because we wanted to avoid that GML automation.

Best,
Justin