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What synths does Jon Batiste use?

Jon Batiste has been seen playing a Steinway grand piano on tour and Hohner melodicas, including a Melodica Supreme. At the Super Bowl LIX anthem he had a Native Instruments Maschine and a Novation Launch Control. He has said he travels with a Marshall speaker and Apple wired earbuds.

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What piano does Jon Batiste play?

A Steinway grand. FOH Magazine's 2024 feature on his Uneasy Tour shows the Steinway grand onstage, miked with three DPA 4099 mics.

What melodica does Jon Batiste play?

Hohner. Garden & Gun showed his hand-painted 32-key Hohner from his Juilliard and subway days and the Hohner Melodica Supreme he played at his NPR Tiny Desk, along with a Suzuki soprano melodica.

What microphone does Jon Batiste sing into?

On his 2024 tour, his crew told FOH Magazine he sang into Shure Axient wireless mics with KSM9 capsules, with sE Electronics V7 MC1X capsules also in rotation.

What headphones does Jon Batiste use?

He told Variety in 2023 that he travels with Apple's wired EarPods rather than AirPods. Onstage in 2024 his crew told FOH Magazine he was on Alclair Electro 6 in-ear monitors with a Shure PSM1000 system.

What did Jon Batiste wear to the Met Gala?

In 2024 he was seen in a custom dunhill midnight blue evening suit with a Spitalfields silk jacquard waistcoat, plus Cartier jewelry including a Tank Normale watch, a Trinity ring and a Love ring.

What albums does Jon Batiste love?

He told SPIN in 2026 that his first teenage CD run brought home Bjork's Vespertine, Michael Jackson's Dangerous, D'Angelo's Voodoo, Common's Like Water for Chocolate, Led Zeppelin IV and Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun, and that he still loves those records.

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Jon Batiste is the New Orleans born pianist, singer and bandleader behind We Are and Beethoven Blues. This guide covers his pianos, melodicas and stage mics, what he packs on the road, the records he grew up on and his red carpet looks.

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