 Mike Strange recorded and mixed Eminem 's vocals at Effigy Studios in Ferndale , Michigan . The sessions took two days . Strange edited the vocals with D @-@ Verb — a reverberation software — and an Extra Long Delay plug @-@ in . He preferred to make few changes ; for " Love the Way You Lie " he almost exclusively used board compression and console equalization . Strange used the <unk> and Eventide Reverb 2016 mixing tools for " brighter " reverberation . Detroit musician Luis Resto has contributed to the arrangement on many of Eminem 's songs , but did not do so for " Love the Way You Lie " . According to Strange , " Everything we needed was already in the track , apart from the vocals . " Two to three weeks after the sessions , Alex da Kid arrived to help mix and master the track . He wanted to replace the acoustic guitar on the demo , but Eminem chose to keep it . Strange said , " It was simply a matter of trying to match and then to improve on the demo [ Alex da Kid ] ' d sent us . " Strange 's brother Joe engineered the track . 
