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Grimes made Visions with a Roland Juno-G and GarageBand, then told Future Music she built Art Angels at home on an Apogee Duet in Ableton, with Logic and Pro Tools, reFX Nexus, Native Instruments Massive and iZotope Ozone. She has said she preps DJ sets in rekordbox and named Manic Panic Electric Amethyst hair dye in Vogue.
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Ableton
Live 12Seen in Pitchfork: Democracy of Sound, Is GarageBand Good for Music?, September 2015
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Apogee
Duet 2“The core of my studio is my computer and an Apogee Duet USB interface”
Said in Stereogum: Grimes Details Gear Behind Art Angels (from her Future Music interview), October 2015
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Apple
Logic Pro X“I usually prefer Logic”
Said in Stereogum: Grimes Details Gear Behind Art Angels (from her Future Music interview), October 2015
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Avid
Pro Tools“I work in Pro Tools because it's really nice to be able to hand Pro Tools files to a mixer”
Said in Stereogum: Grimes Details Gear Behind Art Angels (from her Future Music interview), October 2015
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Making Visions
Roland
Juno-G
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Studio
Seen using
Ableton
Live 12Seen in Pitchfork: Democracy of Sound, Is GarageBand Good for Music?, September 2015
Art Angels studio
Has said they use
Apogee
Duet 2“The core of my studio is my computer and an Apogee Duet USB interface”
Said in Stereogum: Grimes Details Gear Behind Art Angels (from her Future Music interview), October 2015
Has said they use
Apple
Logic Pro X“I usually prefer Logic”
Said in Stereogum: Grimes Details Gear Behind Art Angels (from her Future Music interview), October 2015
Has said they use
Avid
Pro Tools“I work in Pro Tools because it's really nice to be able to hand Pro Tools files to a mixer”
Said in Stereogum: Grimes Details Gear Behind Art Angels (from her Future Music interview), October 2015
Has said they use
“I actually use that for spatial stuff that's way behind you.”
Said in Stereogum: Grimes Details Gear Behind Art Angels (from her Future Music interview), October 2015
Plugins
Has said they use
reFX
Nexus“I love the Nexus VST and Native Instruments' Massive”
Said in Stereogum: Grimes Details Gear Behind Art Angels (from her Future Music interview), October 2015
Has said they use
Native Instruments
MassiveSaid in Stereogum: Grimes Details Gear Behind Art Angels (from her Future Music interview), October 2015
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iZotope
Ozone“I 'mastered' the album with Ozone, although obviously I get it professionally mastered in the end.”
Said in Stereogum: Grimes Details Gear Behind Art Angels (from her Future Music interview), October 2015
Has said they use
iZotope
Nectar“I used iZotope Nectar on a couple of vocal tracks too, but it crashes a lot.”
Said in Stereogum: Grimes Details Gear Behind Art Angels (from her Future Music interview), October 2015
DJ booth
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AlphaTheta
rekordbox“I've outsourced essential things like rekordbox bpm's”
Said in MusicTech: Grimes apologises for technical issues at her Coachella DJ set, April 2024
Beauty
Has said they use
“This is my album color”
Said in Vogue: Grimes on Her Manic Panic Hair Color, the Best Eyeliner, and Her New Album, November 2015
Has said they love
KVD Beauty
Tattoo Liner“I'm really into this one Kat Von D pen that's super-easy to draw on”
Said in Vogue: Grimes on Her Manic Panic Hair Color, the Best Eyeliner, and Her New Album, November 2015
On my nightstand
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Questions
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What DAW does Grimes use?
She recorded Visions in Apple's GarageBand. For Art Angels she told Future Music in 2015 that she was using Ableton because it makes tempo and pitch changes easy, that she usually prefers Logic for vocals, and that she works in Pro Tools to hand files to a mixer.
What plugins does Grimes use?
She told Future Music in 2015 that she loves the Nexus VST and Native Instruments' Massive, that she 'mastered' Art Angels demos with iZotope Ozone, that she used iZotope Nectar on a couple of vocal tracks, and that she loves the Waves Manny Marroquin reverbs for vocals.
What synth did Grimes use on Visions?
Pitchfork's 2012 interview says she made Visions with a couple of vocal pedals, a sampler, a Roland Juno-G keyboard and GarageBand.
What does Grimes DJ with?
After her 2024 Coachella set she wrote that she usually handles every part of her show herself, and that she had outsourced her rekordbox BPMs that time.
What hair dye does Grimes use?
She told Vogue in 2015 that her Art Angels purple was a mix of Manic Panic's Electric Amethyst and Mystic Heather shades.
What eyeliner does Grimes use?
She told Vogue she reaches for a kohl liner for a smoky eye and is really into a Kat Von D liquid liner pen that is easy to draw with.
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Grimes is Claire Boucher, the Canadian producer and singer behind Visions, Art Angels and Miss Anthropocene, who produces and engineers her own records. This guide covers the synth, DAWs, plugins, interface and mics she made her records with, her DJ software, and the beauty products and book she has named.
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