In the studio with Fred Everything

“For this album I was using some Event 20/20 and Yamaha NS10 monitor speakers. Then an Emu ESi32 synth, which you can hear on tracks like Elevate. It had amazing filters. And then the mixing console was a Soundcraft Ghost 32. I had a AKG Solidtube mic and an old Focusrite Platinum Penta unit. A budget preamp with compressor presets!

“There was also some Fender Rhodes piano in there, some Roland Juno-106, some SH-101, a Roland RS-5, and Korg MS2000.

“Software-wise I would have been using Native Instruments’ Spektral Delay, TC’s Mercury plugin for bass bits, GRM Tools, and Steinberg’s Cubase SX.I used ACID for one track. Oh, and the Lounge Lizard EP-4 plugin for synth piano stuff.

“Some drums came from the Akai MPC-2000, and a little Space Echo for the dub styles on Close To You. Then a bit of the Waldorf D-Pole plugin and the classic Orange Vocoder to round it out.”