Prince & Prince – 1999

Album 1982

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1982 album 1999.

Music from 1999

Artists on 1999

Prince

Roles:

Singer Guitarist Bassist Keyboardist

Groups:

The New Power Generation Prince The Revolution Prince & The New Power Generation 3RDEYEGIRL 94 East Madhouse The Flesh The One Nite Alone Band Paisley Park Power Trio The Lovesexy Band The Rebels Flash
Peggy McCreary

Roles:

Singer Audio Engineer

Engineer Mixing Engineer Recording Engineer

Gear Used On 1999

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Prince & Prince – 1999 (1982). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Prince

Roles:

Singer Guitarist Bassist Keyboardist

Studio Equipment used by Prince on 1999

Tape Decks

Ampex Corporation MM-1200

According to this interview with Rogers from Tape Op magazine, when she first started working with Prince, "the first thing I was asked to do was pull the old console out of his home studio, install his new API, and fix his tape machine, which, at that time, was the Ampex MM-1200."

Plus, as per Duane Tudahl's Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio sessions 1983 and 1984 book, "Little Red Corvette" was the first song Prince recorded on the Ampex MM1200 24-track on May 20, 1982.

Prince's Ampex MM1200 was used for the Warehouse sessions in August 1983, which produced "Let's Go Crazy" and "Computer Blue".

Drum Machines

Linn Electronics LM-1 Drum Computer

The LM-1 was elite gear. Only 525 machines were ever made, and inventor Roger Linn managed to flog them by dragging around a little cardboard-box prototype to showbiz parties. Notching up pre-orders with Peter Gabriel, Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Wonder, the Drum Computer became a bourgeois must-have object, and was quickly put to use in hit records from the Human League, Gary Numan, and, most notably, Prince.