Blink-182 – Enema Of The State

Played various Ernie Ball Music Man Stingrays from the early days of Blink through the recording of Enema Of The State.

"Tracking with Petey today. This was most of the bass on Enema of the State."

Mark used several of these basses during the Enema of the State era, most notably at Daytona Beach and Big Day Out. They are different from his signature bass because they have a chrome control plate and different style inlays. Mark can also be seen holding the red bass, which was tuned down a step, he played at Daytona Beach in 2000 on his page on Seymour Duncan's website (https://www.seymourduncan.com/artist/mark-hoppus?__uuid_ref=5b0ed3f464f9b).

This microphone was used to record all of the vocals from Enema Of The State throughout Neighborhoods. Mark's go to microphone of choice. This is the one. Latvian made in a special edition color. Just serviced by Blue.

In 2020, Mark Hoppus did a reaction video on the (Blink 182) MTV Untitled Album. In the MTV video, Mark Hoppus states, “Hey, look! There is my microphone. That is my Blue Bottle microphone. That was the one. That was the one that I bought and then the kind people at Blue actually took the blue sleeve of that and powder coated it hot pink for me. That’s the mic.” Mark says this at 26min 12sec in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llpV2uw-6rY

In a picture from the recording session of Enema of The State, the distinctive purple silk at the headstock of Mark Hoppus's bass guitar identifies the use of GHS Precision Flats Bass Guitar strings. This detail is discussed in a video by 182 News on YouTube, which examines Mark’s use of Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay bass guitars.

Jerry Finn is confirmed to use the MartinSound Martech MSS-10, as he stated, "The first thing that I really noticed as on vocals, sold me on it immediately. It made the vocals sound really present, which required less EQ and less compression to really get them to stand out on the track." This information is supported by a listing on Reverb.com titled "Really rare Martinsound Martech MSS-10 Natural Sound Mic Preamp."

In this article, Jerry Finn used 2 Royer R-121’s for the piano and for electric guitars on Blink-182’s Enema Of The State

In this YouTube video discussing Jerry Finn’s guitar chain at 0:51, it is stated a Mesa Boogie High Gain Amplifier Switch was used to

safely and properly split his [Jerry Finn] guitar signal into the two amps.

Travis added a 12" Spiral Stacker on his 18" Oriental China at the beginning of the Enema Of The State 20th Anniversary Tour, to replicate the china sound on the 1999 pop punk classic

This website states that Travis used the Zildjian 18" z custom crash during the 2000 Enema of the State Tour.

Travis used Coated Vintage Emperor on his first kit toms (the kit he uses from the start of the show until the drum solo) during the Enema of the State 20th Anniversary Tour

Thomas DeLonge used the Ernie Ball Pride Rainbow Guitar Strap during the Dude Ranch and early Enema of the State eras, as noted in the Blink-182 Online forum discussion about his Les Paul guitars from 1997-1998.

This guitar was made for Tom during the Enema tour for Adam’s Song. It is the prototype of the Fender Sub-Sonic. Its scale is 27”. It has Sperzel locking tuners and a black Seymour Duncan bridge Invader. The color of this guitar is Fender plain orange. Tom also used this guitar to record Obvious. He later sold as part of the Reissue sale

Recording of Enema of the State. Used on the guitar cabs alongside a Royer R-121. Can be seen in various photos here: http://royerlabs.com/library/category/engineer/jerry-finn/ Since the photos only show the back side of the mic, it could also be the Microtech Gefell MT 71 S which is basically the same microphone minus the polar pattern options. The distinction would only be visible on the front of the mic. However, the UMT 70 S is more likely to appear in a studio environment as it proves to be more variable in application.