Brian Eno/Harold Budd The Pearl (1984) equipment

(last updated: 01/05/24 )

Brian Eno/Harold Budd The Pearl (1984) equipment

Instruments:

• Casio Casiotone 202 – e.g. “Silver Blue Ball”
• Fender Rhodes electric piano
• unknown acoustic grand piano (Yamaha?)
• Sequential Circuits Pro One synthesizer
• Yamaha CP-70/CP-80 electric grand piano
• Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer
• Yamaha DX7?

Outboard & processing (partial list):

• Processing & treatments:
• AMS DMX 15-80S digital delay/harmonizer
• Eventide H910 Harmonizer
• EMT 250 digital reverb
• Lexicon Prime Time Model 93 digital delay
• Compressors & miscellaneous: 
• Drawmer 1960
• Valley People 610
• Neve 1066 mic preamps

Sundry studio equipment:

• MCI JH-500C series desk
• MCI JH-24 24-track
• MCI 2-track

Sources

Musicclob blog Daniel Lanois interview (archived)

Points Of Sonic Identity: Daniel Lanois Interviewed (Quietus)

Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music, October 1984

Sound On Sound, December 1986

Photo of Daniel Lanois at Grant Avenue (early 1980s)

Grant Avenue website – same MCI gear

Sound On Sound, September 1992 (Roger Eno interview – mentions a Yamaha Piano used on record made at Grant Avenue)