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Gone Fishing Effects
Sergery“Now wherever I am in the world I can plug in the Sergery pedal and like surgery itself, it fixes all the problems!”
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Serge Pizzorno has a signature Gone Fishing Effects Sergery fuzz pedal and has named Soundtoys Decapitator and XLN Audio RC-20 Retro Color in his studio, and MusicRadar has seen him with Epiphone Casinos. Ian Matthews has played a DW Collector's Series kit with Zildjian cymbals, and has named his Ludwig Black Beauty snare and a Roland SPD-SX.
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RC-20 Retro Color“I think it’s called an RC-20 and it just emulates an old tape machine.”
Said in Tape Notes TN:139 Kasabian, July 2024
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Serge Pizzorno's rig
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Gone Fishing Effects
Sergery“Now wherever I am in the world I can plug in the Sergery pedal and like surgery itself, it fixes all the problems!”
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Epiphone
CasinoSeen in MusicRadar: Interview: Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno on songwriting, guitars and Velociraptor!, March 2012
Serge Pizzorno's studio, The Sergery
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XLN Audio
RC-20 Retro Color“I think it’s called an RC-20 and it just emulates an old tape machine.”
Said in Tape Notes TN:139 Kasabian, July 2024
Ian Matthews' drum kit
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Zildjian
14" New Beat Hi-HatsSeen in MusicRadar: Kasabian's drum setup in pictures, July 2011
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Seen in MusicRadar: Kasabian's drum setup in pictures, July 2011
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Ludwig
Black Beauty snare drum“I used my Black Beauty snare that I have used for years and years as we haven’t come up with a brass snare that encapsulates that sound just yet.”
Said in MusicRadar: Kasabian's Ian Matthews: packed stadiums and building a drum empire, September 2016
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Roland
SPD-SX“I have a Roland SPD-SX which we can put electronic drum sounds in or any samples from the record.”
Said in MusicRadar: Kasabian's Ian Matthews: We always go about every gig like it's the biggest, October 2018
Serge Pizzorno's nine songs
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“This track has that dirgy sound that I love, for me that will go to a lot of different areas but at the core, groove, flavour and flow is so, so important.”
Said in The Line of Best Fit: Nine Songs, Serge Pizzorno, August 2019
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Add N to (X)
Avant Hard“I love their album Avant Hard, it’s way, way ahead of the game.”
Said in The Line of Best Fit: Nine Songs, Serge Pizzorno, August 2019
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Blackalicious
Nia“He played that out to me one time, it was that wordplay and the artistry in connecting words and meaning that grabbed me, and the flow on ‘A to G’ blew my mind.”
Said in The Line of Best Fit: Nine Songs, Serge Pizzorno, August 2019
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DJ Shadow
Endtroducing.....Said in The Line of Best Fit: Nine Songs, Serge Pizzorno, August 2019
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Silver Apples
Silver Apples“During West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum I was bang into Silver Apples.”
Said in The Line of Best Fit: Nine Songs, Serge Pizzorno, August 2019
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Young Fathers
White Men Are Black Men Too“I get that same sense from Young Fathers, I love this band, they’re piecing together things in song writing in a really interesting way.”
Said in The Line of Best Fit: Nine Songs, Serge Pizzorno, August 2019
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Beak>
Mono / Kenn“These guys are probably my new favourite band at the moment.”
Said in The Line of Best Fit: Nine Songs, Serge Pizzorno, August 2019
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What guitar does Serge Pizzorno play?
MusicRadar's 2012 interview lists Rickenbacker 480s and 481s, Fender Coronados and Epiphone Casinos, all older models. He named a 1975 Rickenbacker 481 through a Watkins amp as his ultimate combination, and told Tape Notes in 2024 he played a Coronado on Happenings.
What is the Sergery pedal?
It is Serge Pizzorno's signature fuzz pedal with Gone Fishing Effects, launched in 2024. It has a single footswitch, no top controls and a built-in reverb, and he described it as the perfect late 60s, early 70s amp sound in a small box.
What plugins does Serge Pizzorno use?
On Tape Notes in 2024 he named Soundtoys Decapitator and XLN Audio RC-20 Retro Color, which he said emulates an old tape machine. He also said he does not use loads of plugins and sticks to the same ones.
What drums does Ian Matthews play?
In 2011 MusicRadar listed a DW Collector's Series kit with Zildjian cymbals, a DW 9000 pedal and Vic Firth 5A sticks. He later named his Ludwig Black Beauty snare and a Roland SPD-SX for samples to MusicRadar, and plays British Drum Co kits.
What music inspires Serge Pizzorno?
In a 2019 Line of Best Fit feature he picked songs by Sleep, Add N to (X), Blackalicious, Meat Puppets, DJ Shadow, Silver Apples, Young Fathers, Death Grips and Beak>, and said DJ Shadow's Endtroducing is the reason he makes music.
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Kasabian are the Leicester band behind Kasabian, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Velociraptor!, The Alchemist's Euphoria and Happenings, led by songwriter, producer and now lead singer Serge Pizzorno with Chris Edwards on bass and Ian Matthews on drums. This guide covers Serge's guitars, signature fuzz pedal and studio plugins, Ian's drums and cymbals, and the songs Serge has said shaped him.
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