Frankie and The Witch Fingers – Sidewalk album cover

Frankie and The Witch Fingers – Sidewalk

Album 2017

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2017 album Sidewalk.

Music from Sidewalk

Gear Used On Sidewalk

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Frankie and The Witch Fingers – Sidewalk (2017). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Studio Equipment used by Josh Menashe on Sidewalk

Analog

Tascam Portastudio 488

Avg price: $600.00

Visible Instagram posts dated January 14, 2014 and October 17, 2014. According to Frankie and the Witch Fingers bandmate a Dylan Sizemore and Glenn Brigman, it was used to record Sidewalk and the eponymous Frankie and the Witch Fingers.

It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine, “Frankie And The Witch Fingers interview with Dylan Sizemore, Alex Bulli and Glenn Brigman” by Roman Rathert (September 16, 2014)

Dylan: So far there are only 40 Sidewalk cassettes floating around, but we’re supposed to have a new batch soon. The tape came along in a very organic way. I saw Glenn at a show and he said, “You should come over and record some tracks”. The next day we had the title track “Sidewalk” fully recorded. A couple of weeks later we had the whole tape. They were just supposed to be demos we dumped off of the Tascam 488. It was super fun, and I haven’t stopped hanging and recording with them since.

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Glenn: “Revival” is part of a new record that will be coming out on Permanent Records later this year. I recorded it with help from Josh Menashe in my bedroom onto a Tascam 488 last fall. It features a 12-string electric that’s actually a knock-off Rickenbacker and a Farfisa Compact Duo.

Musician’s Friend, The Hub, “Vibing with Frankie and The Witch Fingers” (November 14, 2017)

Glenn: On the first couple of records we used Tascam 488 cassette machines. We switched to a Tascam 388 quarter-inch machine for the third record, Brain Telephone. We are currently starting to record with a Tascam 38, which is a half-inch tape machine.