Def Leppard – Animal (Remastered 2017)
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2018 single Animal (Remastered 2017).
Music from Animal (Remastered 2017)
Gear Used On Animal (Remastered 2017)
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Def Leppard – Animal (Remastered 2017) (2018). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Phil Collen
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Guitars used by Phil Collen on Animal (Remastered 2017)
This guitar is a bit of a celebrity, getting in way more places than I can.
In 1985 Grover Jackson said to me “you know we can paint anything on a guitar and make it glow in the dark”. Really was my response. What about Dracula? Sure he said get me a photo of what you want and we’ll do a version. So I found a cool shot of Bela Lugosi and it was painted on this guitar. It originally had a Kahler trem on it and in the nineties it got a facelift, new pickup and Floyd trem. Incredibly, it still sounds great even with that crazy amount of paint on it. It also has a weird history. When the specs and design, along with the photo were left on a desk. A vampire bat apparently decided to sleep on the wall above the desk. Freaking everyone out the next morning.
I still play this guitar on tour, occasionally. It stayed at the rock and hall of fame for three years, in a case, and has been on the front of many magazines and appeared in tons of videos: Sugar, Animal, Armageddon It and Rock On among others. It also has the amazing Adam Revier titanium block put in by Scott Appleton, my tech. and changed the sound dramatically. Yeah, it rocks.
Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar
Avg price: $622.79
This was the main guitar on the Hysteria album. A Japanese made strat that I got for my 21st birthday from my mum (I know my parents were great to me.) This guitar has been around the block and it always delivered. Perfect intonation, even after being lost in China for a week or so. It was still in tune. It had a quite a bit done to it. It had a Kahler trem and an Ibanez humbucker from my original destroyer in it. That went in after meeting Eddie Van Halen and him saying “you know, you’re not going to be happy 'til you put a humbucker in that guitar”, or something like that. And he was right. This was my main guitar through the Girl days right up until I started using Jacksons. Unfortunately it all went pear shaped when I had a Floyd put in it, weakening the wood and making the bridge a little fragile. So at the moment I’m scared to mess with it.
This is on more records I’ve done than any other guitar I own. It's all over Hysteria, most of the solos, on Animal, the Girl albums etc. Right now I’ve retired it and it’s taking a well-earned rest.
Amplifiers used by Phil Collen on Animal (Remastered 2017)
In this interview previously published about the Rockman x100 being used on Hysteria, Phil Collen mentions a small Gallien-Krueger amp that was also used in “Animal” and “Hysteria.” The amp is none other than the Gallien-Krueger 250ML that was manufactured throughout the 80s. It produces sounds that very closely mimic the Rockman, but with much more power at 100 watts!