Culture Club Kissing To Be Clever

(last updated: 22/08/24)

Drums & percussion:

• Gretsch drums
• Linn LM-1 drum computer
• Simmons SDS-V electronic drum system

Basses:

• Music Man Cutlass /w Superwound 606 strings

Keyboards:

• Fender Rhodes electric piano
• Korg Delta string synth (“Do You Really Want To Hurt Me”)
• New England Digital Synclavier II: programmed by Keith Miller

Guitar rig:

• Ibanez Stinger 2096NT natural – Roy Hay’s, likely used
• Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus combo

Recording & studio equipment

Microphones:

• Drums:
• Electro-Voice RE20 (bass drum)
• Sony C36Pd (snare, hi-hat)
• Sony C35P (tom-toms)
• Neumann KM84 (overheads)
• Vocals:
• Neumann U87

Tape recorders:

• MCI JH-24 24-track
• MCI JH-110 2-track

Outboard gear (partial list):

• AMS DMX 15-80S digital delay/harmonizer
• Dbx 160 compressors
• Dbx 165 compressors
• Dbx 900 rack
• Eventide H910 Harmonizer
• EM&M Noise Gate (“Do You Really Want To Hurt Me”)
• Quantec QRS/L Room simulator reverb
• Roland RE-201 Chorus Echo

Mixing consoles:

• MCI JH-542LM console: Red Bus Studios
• MCI (specs unknown): CBS Studios, mixing “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me”

Sources

Recording Engineer/Producer, August 1984 (page 45)

One Two Testing, April 1984

Studio Sound, May 1979 (Red Bus studios information)

New Sound Mag (Steve Levine Interview)

Steve Levine technical interview (Youtube)

Steve Levine on Roland JC-120 (around 1:50-2:40)

Mixonline

Live photo showing Ibanez: https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000qo6w27X3oCk/fit=1000x750/Culture-Club-280682-JT07.jpg

Various

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