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What gear does Bombay Bicycle Club use?

Jack Steadman demos on a Teenage Engineering OP-1 and Native Instruments Maschine with Guitar Rig, and played a 1970s Fender Stratocaster on Everything Else Has Gone Wrong. Jamie MacColl plays through a Divided by 13 amp and a Fender Princeton, Ed Nash a Fender Precision into an Ampeg B-15 Portaflex, and Suren de Saram a late-1960s Ludwig kit.

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What guitar does Jack Steadman play?

Sound On Sound reported in 2020 that he tended to stick with his 1970s Fender Stratocaster and various effects pedals while recording Everything Else Has Gone Wrong, often recorded direct.

How does Jack Steadman make demos?

Drummer Suren de Saram told Mixdown in 2023 that Jack often demos on a Teenage Engineering OP-1 or on his laptop in Maschine, chopping up samples, mostly with drum break samples and Guitar Rig rather than amps to work quickly.

What amp does Jamie MacColl use?

Producer John Congleton told Sound On Sound that Jamie MacColl plays a Divided by 13 amp and was pretty loyal to it, though they also used a Fender Princeton a lot with him.

What bass does Ed Nash play?

Sound On Sound says his setup of a Fender Precision through an Ampeg B-15 Portaflex has stayed pretty much constant throughout the band's recording career.

What studio gear did Jack Steadman use on So Long, See You Tomorrow?

He told Sound On Sound he tracked everything through a Midas Venice mixer, with a Universal Audio 610 preamp, an LA-2A compressor, an API 2500 bus compressor and a Peluso 22 251 mic.

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Bombay Bicycle Club are the London band behind I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose, A Different Kind Of Fix, So Long, See You Tomorrow and My Big Day: Jack Steadman, Jamie MacColl, Ed Nash and Suren de Saram. This guide covers the guitars, amps, studio gear, plugins and pedals from their Sound On Sound and Mixdown interviews.

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