Sony C800G Toronto
Every genre welcome. Every style covered.
The mic on the records you've been playing for years — Lush Recording Studio owns it and runs it as a default vocal mic. Built for artists cutting records and for brands needing broadcast-quality vocals for video and social. One booth, one elite chain, one artist at a time.
The Sony C800G is a large-diaphragm tube condenser microphone released in 1992 that quietly became the most important hip-hop vocal mic of the last three decades. Kanye tracks on it. Travis Scott tracks on it. JAY-Z, Drake, Doja Cat, The Weeknd — if a hip-hop or R&B record has a signature-sounding vocal, odds are it ran through a C800G. The mic itself is rare in Canada, rarer still in Toronto, and fewer rooms still run it through the preamp chain that actually unlocks it. Lush does.
The C800G's frequency response climbs in the 5–10kHz range, giving hip-hop vocals the air and clarity that cuts through a dense trap or drill production without needing aggressive EQ.
The tube adds harmonic richness — a musical saturation — but the diaphragm response is fast enough that punchy consonants and ad-lib transients stay crisp, not smeared.
Shouts, trap hooks, drill ad-libs — the C800G takes hot takes without harshening. A less-forgiving mic makes aggressive vocals tiring. The C800G keeps them listenable for the full record.
Major-label hip-hop records track on this mic because it delivers a-list capture the moment you hit record. No chasing the sound in the mix — it's already there.
A mic is only as good as the chain behind it. Our C800G runs through the Neve 1073SPX preamp — the same preamp character on a generation of rock, soul, and hip-hop records — into the Tube-Tech CL1B opto compressor for musical dynamics control, and finally into the UAD Apollo x8 for studio-grade A/D conversion. Elite studios have this chain. We have this chain.
Tube condenser. The capture.
Preamp color. The character.
Opto compression. The glue.
Conversion. The session file.
Every session on the C800G is run by our senior engineer team — hip-hop, R&B, pop, Afrobeat, and Latin vocal all lived in. The C800G → Neve 1073SPX → Tube-Tech CL1B response pattern is in muscle memory here, and we route your session to the engineer best fit for the subgenre and block length.
The Sony C800G is included in every recording session at Lush — there's no separate mic fee. Same elite chain on every session. Pick the engineer level that fits the record:
10+ years of experience. The full A-list chain, run by our senior engineer — for the records you want at their absolute best.
In-house engineer tracking your vocals on the same Sony C800G + Neve 1073SPX + Tube-Tech CL1B chain. The standard vocal session at Lush.
The 6-hour daytime block at $400 is the best rate if you're tracking a mixtape or EP. Optional multi-cam captures the full session in-booth — yours to keep, fuel for the content flood you cut and post on your own terms. A-List Quality, Streamer Level Production.
Want us to edit? Edit packages (short-form clips, BTS reel, grid stills) are available as add-ons at checkout.
We own it. It lives in the booth. This is not a rent-on-request mic — it's the default for all sessions at Lush Recording Studio.
Neve 1073SPX preamp → Tube-Tech CL1B opto compressor → UAD Apollo x8 interface. The chain elite studios run. Three stages of character between the mic and the session file, each one tuned for the musical-not-clinical finish modern hip-hop and R&B records need.
Yes — the C800G is our default vocal mic for every session, every genre. Hip-hop, R&B, pop, melodic vocals, female leads — the C800G handles all of them. The Neumann U87 is also available on request if you have a personal preference for that mic on a specific session, but the default is always the C800G chain.
Tell us what you're tracking and we'll confirm availability and route it to the right engineer.
