For the production of Surrender, here's a walkabout the tools we used:
Production DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)
- Steinberg Cubase SX3
- Motu 828mkII interface
- Steinberg Midex8 MIDI interface
- TC Electronics PowerCore FW
- Mackie Control & Big Knob
Studio HW
- Neumann TLM-103 large condenser mic
- Shure SM-57 dynamic mic (only used for electric guitars)
- 2 x Focusrite Trakmaster preamps
- Aphex Model 207 preamp
- Genelec 1032AP (only for the mix, by Etienne Bron)
- Rode NT5 stereo microphones NEW!
Keyboards
- Roland D-50 synth
- Roland JV-80 synth
- Clavia Nord Lead 3
- Clavia Nord Electro 2 SeventyThree
- Roland Fantom-XR sound module
- Roland JV-1010 sound module
- Native Instruments B4 (VST plugin)
- Pianoteq (VST plugin) NEW!
Guitars
- Valley Art Custom Pro electric guitar
- G&L Legacy DeLuxe Custom Shop electric guitar
- Fender Stratocaster 60th anniversary NEW!
- Line6 Variax Acoustic 700
- Ibanez George Benson jazz guitar
- Cort jazz guitar
- ENGL E580 MIDI programmable tube preamp
- TC-Electronic G-System multi FX processor NEW!
- Line6 MOD PRO
- Behringer FCB-1010 MIDI foot controller
- Dunlop Cry Baby wha
- Ibanez WD7 "Weeping Demon" wha
- Mesa Boogie Simul Class 2:90 power amp
- Advance Tube Tech TA '70 power amp
- ENGL E850/100 power amp
- Hughs & Kettner 2*12" cabinet
- Trace Elliot 4*12" cabinet
- Dragoon 2*12" cabinet
Bass guitars
- MusicMan Stingray (1978) bass
- Fender JazzBass MIM fretless (1999, EMG PUs)
Drums
- Native Instruments Battery (VST plugin)
- Native Instruments Studio Drums (samples)
- Paiste Alpha Series cymbals
The album "Pravritti" has been recorded at Polyel Studios in Lugano,
Switzerland on a Protools system. All MIDI sequences were programmed on a Magix
sequencer and bounced to Protools. As far as we can remember, Frank Di Sessa
used a MusicMan Luke guitar with a Mesa Boogie Triaxis preamp, a 50:50 poweramp
and an Intellifex SFX processor on 2 Marshall 1922 cabinets.
Ivo Bernasconi still had that old Roland W-30 for the Mellotron samples and some
of Gigio Pedruzzi's drum sounds came from a Roland TD-7 module.