Bob Dylan's "Knockin on Heaven's Door" is in the soundtrack of a movie I just saw (Rock the Kasbah).  I had not heard that track in a while and the vocal sound really jumped out at me.
 
Has anyone ever read what the vocal chain was used on this?  It sounds like a ton of 1176 but I don't think it's that simple. The reverb sound is also interesting but not mysterious.  The other aspects of the sound are really different for Dylan.
 
Surely someone has written an article on this session, but I can't find it.
 
Thanks.
 
PS If you listen to "Like a Rolling Stone" you will immediately hear the difference (and I don't just mean the mic pops on Rolling Stone).

Who wrote Konckin on Heavens Door? Lol

Haha!  Typo fixed.  Question stands.

To be honest it sounds to me like the reverb is most of the character in that vocal. Maybe a bit of sidechain compression on the verb with a slow release? It sounds like there's a nice swell to it. 

Maybe because it is the only song he ever really sang.
 
I imagine the arrangement has a lot to do w/ the way the vocals fill up the space.  Slower song and less instrumentation from memory.

mudgel
Who wrote Konckin on Heavens Door? Lol

edit: in case anyone doesn't know wth this is it's a scene from Trailer Park Boys. The puppet is "Bubbles'" evil alter ego "Conky" whom is terrorizing the rather dim witted Ricky in this scene. Comedy gold.

So, I think that Dylan recorded this song in a movie studio (NBC or Burbank). Hopefully, this tidbit can lead you to more of what equipment NBC had available for recording music back in 1973.
 
Jim

Betcha it's a Neumann into an LA2A + Plate reverb. Just because that would have been the standard setup in any good studio in 1973, and it's clearly a plate.

Good comments, thanks.  And the LA2A definitely makes sense.  Dylan's voice normally has way more dynamics (and that's an understatement).
 
And I do remember that for a while it was popular to use a lot of reverb but with a fast decay.  This might have been a little ahead of that trend.
 
I guess this is one of those magic combinations of mic, compressor, reverb, room, and singer.

Aw man, why'd you fix the typo?