The Police Outlandos D'Amour (1978) gear

(last updated: 18/8/24)

Stewart Copeland:

• TAMA blue drum kit:
• 22” x 14” bass drum
• 14” x 5” snare
• 12” x 7” rack tom
• 13” x 8” rack tom
• 16” x 15” floor tom
• Cymbals (Zildjian hollow logo A's):
• 14" hi-hat
• 22” heavy ride
• 2 x 16” crash
• 18” crash

Andy Summers:

• 1963 Fender Telecaster guitar Custom model /w Gibson humbucker, built-in preamp and phase switch
• Fender Twin Reverb amp
• Ampeg amp
• MXR Phase 90

Sting:

• 1962 Fender Jazz bass /w natural finish

Recording & studio equipment

Microphones:

• Drums:
• AKG D-12 (bass drum)
• AKG C-451E (overheads, hi-hat)
• Beyerdynamic M201 (toms)
• Beyerdynamic M260 (snare)
• Guitars:
• Beyerdynamic Soundstar X1N or Shure SM58 (close)
• Neumann U87 - placed 3 feet away for ambience
• Vocals:
• Neumann U67

Tape machines:

• Ampex MM1000 16-track
• Ampex AG-440 2-track

Outboard gear:

• ADT compressors
• Audio and Design compressors/limiters/exp/gates
• DBX compressors
• EMT 140 stereo plate
• Master Room reverb
• Tannoy red monitors

Miscellaneous:

• Alice 20-16 mixing desk
• Broadwood Grand Piano

References

1978 Surrey Sound ad (Surrey Sound gear info)

Behind The Boards II by Jake Brown

Stewart Copeland original TAMA kit: https://www.julienslive.com/m/lot-details/index/catalog/216/lot/89702/ 

Jeff Seitz & PoliceWiki (cymbals)

https://www.musicradar.com/news/andy-summers-career-in-gear-its-all-mythology-sometimes-old-guitars-are-great-but-not-always

https://www.guitarworld.com/features/police-ghosts-machine

Guitar Player June 2007