Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns album cover

Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns

Album 2010

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2010 album A Thousand Suns.

Music from A Thousand Suns

Gear Used On A Thousand Suns

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns (2010). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Guitars used by Brad Delson on A Thousand Suns

Solid Body Electric Guitars

Gibson Les Paul Junior Double-Cutaway

Avg price: $3,899.20

heres a photo of him with one. used alongside a sg for the recording of 1000 suns.

Amplifiers used by Brad Delson on A Thousand Suns

Guitar Amplifier Cabinets

Mesa/Boogie Mesa Boogie Rectifier 4x12

Avg price: $1,534.20

Brad Delson uses the Mesa/Boogie Rectifier 4x12 cabinet in his signal chain, as shown in a photo on Guitar Chalk, detailing his amp settings for the "Hybrid Theory" and "Meteora" albums.

Microphones used by Mike Shinoda on A Thousand Suns

Dynamic Microphones

Shure SM7B

Avg price: $405.20

(via Twitter)

Mike Shinoda @mikeshinoda

I record on a U47 primarily. For a cheap mic that works great, an SM7B

Also

Rick Rubin used it on Mike Shinoda’s vocals on Linkin Park’s A Thousand Suns, plugging it into a Neve 1073 via a Empirical Labs Distressor.

http://www.dogbox.biz/recording-hip-hop-and-metal-vocals-the-sm7b-321