A-ha Hunting High And Low recording gear

 (last updated: )

Instruments & equipment:

• LinnDrum drum machine
• Sequential Circuits Prophet-5
• Yamaha DX7
• Roland Juno-60 – RG Jones
• PPG Wave 2.2/2.3
• Fairlight CMI – Eel Pie Tony Mansfield
• UMI 2B computer – RG Jones
• NED Synclavier – Eel Pie Neill King sessions
• Gibson ES-335 (Pal Waaktaar)
• Fender Stratocaster - possibly used on the album
• unknown acoustic

Microphones:

• Eel Pie:
• Beyer 201 (vocals)
• Neumann U47 (vocals)
• RG Jones:
•  Neumann U47 (“Take On Me” vocals)

Outboard gear:

• Eel Pie Tony Mansfield/Neill King sessions:
• AMS RMX-16 reverb
• 2 x AMS DMX 15-80S delay
• Lexicon 224X reverb
• Lexicon Prime Time delay
• RG Jones sessions:
• AMS DMX 15-80S delay
• Lexicon 224

Tape Machines:

• Eel Pie:
• 2 x Studer A800 24-track
• Ampex ATR-100 2-track
• RG Jones:
• Studer A80 24-track
• Studer A80 2-track

Mixing consoles:

• SSL 4000E /w Total Recall (Eel Pie)
• SSL 4048E (RG Jones)

References

Sound On Sound article: https://www.soundonsound.com/people/ha-take-me

http://forum.vintagesynth.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=47884&sid=0361e5444edb697862311b5eff7464aa

https://www.matrixsynth.com/2017/06/as-used-by-vince-clarke-super-rare.html?m=1

Eel Pie info: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Archive-Studio-Sound/80s/Studio-Sound-1986-11.pdf

Photos from Eel Pie sessions with Tony Mansfield

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