What gear does Tears For Fears use?

“Nowadays, my go-to guitar is a Gibson 330. That has just got an amazing, amazing bark”

“For the album we whacked that through a JC 120 and we had it in a small, bright room with a close mike and an ambient compressed mike.”

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“I've got a Fender which is called The Strat. It's cleaner than a normal Strat and it's got a better bottom end so it's better for chords.”

“I've just bought one of these new Elite Telecasters, a walnut and gold one.”

“I've had a red Telecaster for a while”

“one of my favourite instruments is a Gibson Firebird, a beautiful sound.”

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“For the solo stuff like the solo on Shout I used a Gordon Smith which is shaped like a Yamaha guitar and sounds like a Les Paul.”

“I've got a little Tokai Strat copy which has got this really good thin sound and it's also a very light guitar to play”

“I use Logic, with all the plugins, and a keyboard controller.”

“But most of the guitars on No Small Thing, they are going straight into Native Instruments.”

“The moment we had the original Linn LM-1, and you think, 'Well this is pretty hard to work with in terms of the sounds for specifics.'”

“I wrote Songs From The Big Chair using the LinnDrum.”

“I'm glad that the chips on the Linn 9000 are 8K instead of 4K.”

“The Drumulator, the E-MU Drumulator, had rearrangeable chips.”

“But it's a good machine and it'll be better when we learn how to use it properly.”

“it was on that Fairlight III that I programmed Woman In Chains and Sowing The Seeds Of Love. That was my next-level instrument.”

“I had this fantastic bass drone from the Prophet-5, which was a spitting, almost brass-like sound at the top-end.”

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“The Prophet T8's even better than the Five, I think it's my favourite analogue synth.”

“On 'The Hurting' we used just one JP8 and one Prophet for keyboards, that was it.”

“we used the Fairlight and various synthesizers like the Prophet T8, the Emulator and the Wave 2.2.”

“DX7s work well as an addition, as a sort of mixer.”

“But we used a Synclavier on Mother's Talk though.”

“It's a Status. They're just about the best basses you can get.”

“I've got a Steinberger too but the Steinberger only has one 'Steinberger' sound whereas the Status has thousands in comparison.”

“I've read nearly all of Janov's books and it's not all about lying on the floor screaming.”