Peter Gabriel So album equipment

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Musical equipment (date last updated: 30/6/2021)

Peter Gabriel:

  • Drum machines:
    • Linn LM-1 - can be heard on "Don't Give Up"
    • LinnDrum ("Excellent Birds") - also used early in the album recording
    • Linn 9000
  • Keyboards & synthesizers:
    • Fairlight CMI Series IIx
    • Prophet-5 rev 5
    • Prophet-5 rev 3.3
    • Yamaha CS-80
    • Yamaha CP-70 Electric grand piano
    • Yamaha CP-80 Electric grand piano
    • E-mu Emulator II 
  • Miscellaneous:
    • Aiwa CA-W20 boom box (for demos)

Simon Clark:

  • Fairlight CMI Series IIx
  • Hammond B3 organ /w Leslie 122 speakers (“Big Time”)
  • Yamaha CS-80 (“Don’t Give Up” choruses)

David Rhodes:

  •  Guitars:
    • Steinberger G2 6-string (“Big Time” & “We Do What We’re Told”)
    • ‘62 Fender Stratocaster
    • Fender Jazz Master
  • Amps:
    • Roland JC-120 amps
    • Marshall
    • Mesa/Boogie
  • Effects:
    • Boss CE-2 Chorus
    • Boss DS-1 Distortion
    • Boss SD-1 Overdrive (“Big Time”)

Daniel Lanois:

  • Green Fender Jazz Master
  • Fender Deluxe
  • Ovation 12-string

Tony Levin:

  • Basses:
    • Music Man Black Sabre 4-string (“Sledgehammer” bass)
    • Steinberger
    • Chapman stick
  • Effects:
    • Boss OC-2 Octaver (“Sledgehammer”)
    • Boss DSD-2
    • Ibanez UE-303B

Manu Katché:

  • Yamaha kit

Jerry Marotta:

  • Yamaha kit

Stewart Copeland:

  • Jeff Seitz on Stewart’s drum setup used on So: "It was a PG studio drum set that everybody used [Yamaha kit]. I just brought a snare [Pearl 5" x 14" snare /w Chrome overbrass], hi-hats [Paiste Formula 602 13" heavy hi-hats], pedal and his special backrest throne along with a cymbal bag that may not have been used.”

Larry Klein:

  • Yamaha BB5000 fretless
  • Volume pedal

Chris Hughes:

  • LinnDrum (programming on "Red Rain")

Studio equipment

Microphones:

  • Drums:
    • Kick:
      • ElectroVoice RE20 or Sennheiser D112
    • Snare:
      • Shure SM-57
    • Hi-hat:
      • AKG 451
    • Toms:
      • Sennheiser MD421s
    • Overheads:
      • Neumann U87s
  • Keyboard PA stacks:
    • Neumann U87s
  • Guitars:
    • Shure SM57
    • Sony C500
  • Vocals:
    • Shure SM-57 (demo vocals)
    • Neumann U47 (lead and background vox)
    • Neumann U67 (background vox)

Outboard gear:

  • AMS DMX 15-80S stereo 14-second digital delay (from July 1986)
  • AMS DMX 15-80S stereo 1.6-second digital delay
  • AMS DMX 15-80 mono harmonizer
  • 6 x AMS RMX-16 reverb
  • Audio & Design vocal stresser
  • Brooke Siren DPR402 compressor/limiter
  • 2 x Deltalabs DL2 acoustic couplers
  • 4 Decca compressors
  • Dbx 160S compressor/limiter
  • EMT 140 plate
  • Eventide Harmonizer H910
  • Friendchip SRC SMPTE reading clock
  • Korg SDD3000 digital delay
  • Lexicon 224 reverb
  • Quantec Room simulator
  • Robis parametric equalizer
  • Roland SDE-3000 digital delay
  • 3 x Roland SDD-320 Dimension D
  • Sony DRE1000
  • 2 x Universal Audio LA2A compressors
  • Window recorder digital sampler

Tape machines & digital:

  • 2 x Studer A80 – one normal, one modified
  • Mitsubishi X850 digital 32-track
  • Ampex ATR 100 1/2-inch
  • Revox B77 1/4 inch
  • Sony PCM-F1 

Miscellaneous studio equipment:

  • Adams-Smith 2600 synchronizer
  • SSL SL4000E 48-input console (also referred to as the SL4048E)
  • Yamaha NS-10 monitors

References:

https://www.soundonsound.com/people/classic-tracks-peter-gabriel-sledgehammer

https://web.archive.org/web/20140814064000/http://www.mixonline.com/mag/audio_kevin_killen_recording/

http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/the-magic-of-daniel-lanois/2489

http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/the-magic-of-daniel-lanois/2506

http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/creating-chaos/2100

http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/peter-gabriel-behind-the-mask/1494

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IDdRDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT368&dq=peter+gabriel+emulator&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiuuJrVutLrAhWRzKQKHV0zBgMQ6AEwAXoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=peter%20gabriel%20emulator&f=false

https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/david-rhodes-atmospheric-guitar-for-peter-gabriel

http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/technologys-champion/1905

 https://www.fretlessbass.com/levin-tony/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QprbW7V2K3Q

Tony Levin Reverb.com shop

http://steveadelson.com/interview_levin.php?phpMyAdmin=3AVm%2CLrZ0pWL%2C5yxYsZmF18TzR8

Larry Klein bass info: https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2732

https://www.fretlessbass.com/levin-tony/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QprbW7V2K3Q

Tony Levin Reverb.com shop

http://steveadelson.com/interview_levin.php?phpMyAdmin=3AVm%2CLrZ0pWL%2C5yxYsZmF18TzR8

Larry Klein bass info: https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2732

Album credits

Jeff Seitz (Stewart Copeland drum info)

Photos

Studio Sound March 1985 (SSL providing SL4000E console to Peter Gabriel for Ashcombe Studio)

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