Laufey – From The Start album cover

Laufey – From The Start

Single 2023

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2023 single From The Start.

Music from From The Start

Gear Used On From The Start

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Laufey – From The Start (2023). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Guitars used by Laufey on From The Start

Steel-string Acoustic Guitars

Gibson J-200 Studio Acoustic Guitar

Avg price: $3,478.66

Laufey uses a Gibson SJ-200 Studio in Rosewood Burst in this video.

Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitars

Gibson ES-355 Electric Guitar

In this video of Laufey playing in Manila, you can see her playing a Cherry Gibson ES-355. You can tell it's an ES-355, based on the gold hardware, waffle tuners, block fretboard inlays, and diamond headstock inlay.

From the photos of the live performance i can find, it seems to be a vintage model, based on the fact that the binding and inlays are yellowing, and the finish is sinking into the wood. The bridge on this guitar is a TP-6, Gibson's fine-tune bridge. This bridge was apparently first released in 1978, so it seems to be a 1978 at the latest. The tune-o-matic bridge, however, does seem to not match the rest of the gold hardware, so it may have been replaced at some point. The pickguard also seems to be replaced, as it's a 3-ply, rather than the standard pickguard with 5-ply binding. The unusual feature on this guitar is that it seems to have been ordered without a Varitone, which was standard on the model. It does seem that non-Varitone models exist, but weren't common.

Microphones used by Laufey on From The Start

Condenser Microphones

Neumann U87

Avg price: $3,629.95

Laufey uses two of these mics in this video.