Engineers used vintage microphones (Neumann U47s) and outboard compression (1176s) to capture Mayer’s vocal fry and his signature Dumble amplifier tone. When you listen to the version, you are hearing the original analog-to-digital conversion without the lossy compression artifacts that plague streaming services. The stereo image expands. On Waiting on the World to Change , the organ pads widen, and Mayer’s voice sits in front of the mix rather than inside it.
He pressed play on "Gravity."
He needed a test subject. A recording so clean, so dynamically rich, that it would either justify his spending or bankrupt him trying. John Mayer - Continuum -2006 Pop- -Flac 24-96-