System of a Down – Steal This Album!
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2002 album Steal This Album!.
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Gear Used On Steal This Album!
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of System of a Down – Steal This Album! (2002). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Amplifiers used by Daron Malakian on Steal This Album!
Avg price: $2,966.00
In this video recorded by Sylvia Massy, the audio engineer for System Of A Down's first album, a Marshall Plexi 1959SLP can be seen behind him. A drawing made by Sylvia also supports that the Plexi was used on the album.
Additionally, this amplifier was used on Toxicity and Steal This Album (the latter being recorded primarily in the same sessions as Toxicity) according to https://www.mixonline.com/recording/system-down-372602 and this image, where it can be seen: https://images.equipboard.com/uploads/source/image/123293/small_daron_malakian_uses_jeckson_rr1t_with_gibson_pickup_in_bridge_position_1_e83a86a059.jpg
Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier 2-Channel 150W Solo Head
Avg price: $3,149.00
In this snippet from a January 2002 issue of Guitar Player, Daron Malakian describes how he uses a Triple Rectifier both in live performances and in the studio sessions for Toxicity (which also produced Steal This Album). Other sources show that it only has the same amount of knobs present on a 2-channel, confirming that it is a Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier 2-Channel 150W Solo Head.
Studio Equipment used by Daron Malakian on Steal This Album!
Urei Universal Audio 1176LN 'Blackface' Peak Limiter
Avg price: $2,999.00
In this article detailing the production process for Toxicity (and by proxy Steal This Album, as the songs were tracked alongside Toxicity's tracks), Daron's guitar tone was ran through the Urei Universal Audio 1176LN "Blackface" Peak Limiter:
"Recording Malakian’s guitar tracks was relatively straight-ahead, because he doesn’t like to play through effects pedals. His signal went through a combination of Marshall and Mesa Boogie cabinets and heads. 'The Mesa gave us the teeth, and the Marshall gave us the body,' Schiffman explains. 'The two together made a big, full, nice sound.' He put a 57 and an 87 on each cabinet, taking care that they were phased correctly, and then ran them through a pair of black-faced 1176s."
Guitars used by Daron Malakian on Steal This Album!
Avg price: $2,582.33
In this photo you can see Daron with a Black Gibson Les Paul during the Toxicity recording sessions.
Avg price: $4,479.79
"Along with the 1962 SG, Malakian also used a Jackson Randy Rhoads Flying V retrofitted with humbuckers and two early Eighties Gibson Korina Flying Vs for distorted tones." - Guitar World.
Amplifiers used by Shavo Odadjian on Steal This Album!
Avg price: $2,372.07
On the right side of this photo, the Ampeg SVT-AV can be seen being used by Shavo Odadjian. This photo comes from the studio sessions which resulted in the albums Toxicity and Steal This Album.
He also used the Ampeg SVT-AV live, as seen in the music video for Chop Suey at 1:28: https://youtu.be/CSvFpBOe8eY
