Sony C800G Toronto
The Sony C800G in Toronto —
vocals for hip-hop, pop, R&B, Spanish,
captured for records and the feed.
Every genre welcome. Every style covered.
The mic on the records you've been playing for years — Lush Records 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 rap 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 rap 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 Records does.
Why this mic became the rap standard.
The C800G's frequency response climbs in the 5–10kHz range, giving rap 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 rap 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.
C800G → 1073SPX → CL1B → Apollo x8.
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 rap 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.
Engineers who know this chain cold.
Every session on the C800G is run by our senior engineer team — hip-hop, R&B, pop, Afrobeat, and Spanish-language 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.
Session access.
The Sony C800G is included in every recording session at Lush Records — there's no separate mic fee. Vocal recording is flat at $75/hr with a 2-hour minimum — engineer included, same elite chain on every session. 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.
The mic in the room.
We own it. It lives in the booth. You'll see it on the stand when you walk in for the tour. This is not a rent-on-request mic — it's the default vocal mic for hip-hop sessions at Lush Records.
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 rap and R&B records need.
It can handle both, but we usually pair the Neumann U87 with softer R&B and female leads because the U87's midrange warmth suits melodic vocals. We'll pick the right chain at the start of your session — it's a conversation, not a default.
15 minutes.
C800G session inquiry
Tell us what you're tracking and we'll confirm availability and route it to the right engineer.