What gear does The Police use?

“By the time I got it, somebody had really fooled around with it and put in a Gibson humbucker in the front [neck] position and added this overdrive circuit.”

“But the main thing was really the Echoplex. I always had it onstage.”

“In the beginning I did have an MXR Phase 90 taped to the floor.”

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“I started off with a Fender Twin and graduated up to Marshalls once we had money.”

“It’s a wonderful example of the Stratocaster, and it plays like silk!”

“I got this little pedal from TC Electronic [Brainwaves Pitch Shifter] and it’s amazing.”

“It’s very, very battered looking, but it has a growl that a modern bass guitar simply does not possess.”

“I started with a Fender Jazz, which I still have,”

“It's a Van Zalinge electric standup I got in Holland a decade ago”

“I combined it with a Precision fretless on Wrapped Around Your Finger and with a Steinberger on King of Pain”

“The strings are DR Low Rider nickel 40, 60, 80, 100.”

“They’re all Tama, The Imperial Star Tama, which is a thicker drum with nine-ply shells as opposed to six.”

“We’re now using all Paiste, a new kind called the Rude.”

“I have the Octobans through it all the time and I have a Synare that goes through it as well.”

“The Roland Space Echo, Andy got one, so I wanted one too and I got me one.”

“so tight it gives a shot that will bring a bird out of the sky.”

“With sticks, I have my own design of stick, which is [Vater] The Standard.”

“I was playing my first record company-purchased kit, a giant Ludwig Perspex monster.”

“At the time, I was using my Jacobacci Sacha Distel [a guitar inspired by Gibson’s ES-175], and I played that through a Fender Twin Reverb.”