Deep Purple – =1
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2024 album =1.
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Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Deep Purple – =1 (2024). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Nick Simper
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Bass Guitars used by Nick Simper on =1
Avg price: $1,236.49
This is a 1961 Fender Precision Bass in the Fiesta Red color named "Rupert". This was the bass that Nick used during the recording of the first 3 Deep Purple albums in 1968 and 1969.
Avg price: $4,550.00
When asked what type of gear he uses, Nick Simper gave this response, but it seems to be translated so it is slightly confusing:
NS: "I Have three bass guitars Fender Precision, one of them is the 1961 edition. This is the instrument on which I played the Studio recordings of DEEP PURPLE. Another bass guitar was released in the mid-1990s, and the third copy of a Fender Precision 1951, the first bass guitar of this model. This last bass released ten years ago. My amplifiers — transistor pair of Trace Elliott, just because on stage I love it loud. For many years I played on a Marshall tube amplifiers, and I have nothing against their sound, but with age I wanted a more powerful sound, and provide Trace Elliott." This implies that the bass guitar in question is a copy, replica, or reissue of a 1951 Fender Precision Bass.
Effects Pedals used by Glenn Hughes on =1
DigiTech X-Series Bass Synth Wah
Avg price: $175.00
"I also love my effects. I have this DigiTech bass synth wah bass envelope filter. I used two of them - one for that left-handed Mini Moog sound, that low-end bass Moog - and then I use one that's more of a neutral wah, very sort of groovy. I used to use that kind of thing in 'Purple, like the California Jam [live album]. I like just a few effects like that."
