Le Tigre – Le Tigre
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1999 album Le Tigre.
Music from Le Tigre
Gear Used On Le Tigre
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Le Tigre – Le Tigre (1999). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Studio Equipment used by Johanna Fateman on Le Tigre
Avg price: $152.10
This is the first drum machine I ever owned. The dude who sold it to me told me it was “a hip hop machine” so i would need to “put it through an effects unit.” His presumptions about the kind of music I wanted to make aside, this was in, like, 1998, and let me tell you, hip hop in ‘98 was not made on any HR-16 B and Le Tigre in ‘98 was not gonna complicate matters further with any crappy FX unit this dude wanted to sell us! Nearly all the beats on our debut album were recorded directly from the stereo outs of this machine. Sounds we got considerable mileage out of were the fake 808 “rap kick,” the garish “techno snare” and the “lip pop” (i.e. the popcorn chaos on our song “The The Empty”). Although we ultimately wanted to go beyond pre-set drum sounds and we donated our HR 16-B to a high school music program, all of my subsequent knowledge re: sequencing and beat-making was based on my familiarity with this drum machine and so i think of it fondly. Also it has this cool flip up instruction panel on it’s face for super convenient reference.
