Fatboy Slim & The BPA & Norman Cook – Everybody Needs A 303
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1997 single Everybody Needs A 303.
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Gear Used On Everybody Needs A 303
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Studio Equipment used by Fatboy Slim on Everybody Needs A 303
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A retrofitted D-Sync is visible in this photo of Fatboy Slim's studio, from this Sound on Sound interview about "Praise You". It can be found on Slim's rightmost desk. Slim has been using it since Better Living Through Chemistry.
Cook’s home studio setup when he made the first Fatboy Slim album, 1996’s Better Living Through Chemistry, centred around the Akai S950 and the Atari ST computer running C-Lab Creator software. “I also had a [Studio Electronics] SE1 which was basically a Minimoog that had memories and MIDI, a Roland Sound Canvas just for traditional instruments — cymbals and things like that — and obviously a 303.”
So great was Cook’s love of Roland’s originally-maligned bass partner to the Drumatix, which had been co-opted and reimagined by acid house producers, that he named the first Fatboy Slim single ‘Everybody Needs A 303’. “It only had four knobs to twiddle,” he says of the 303’s appeal for him. “You could learn the permutations of what happened between the four of them. And the great fun was that you did it all live. I had a Kenton Electronics sync box, ‘cause the 303 didn’t have MIDI. Hilariously, the retrofit Kenton box was actually three times the size of the 303.
Another photo from the article, which offers another, closer angle of the unit, has a caption that specifies it is the Kenton MIDI box.
Everybody needs a 303 — and a Kenton MIDI box that dwarfs it.
