Tears for Fears – Shout
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2025 album Shout.
Music from Shout
Artists on Shout
Gear Used On Shout
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Tears for Fears – Shout (2025). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Roland Orzabal
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Studio Equipment used by Roland Orzabal on Shout
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"We've got a Movement drum machine, too but I won't go into that, I don't want to say nasty things about it. It's very, very hard to use, I think — you have to punch things in about five times before anything gets picked up, whereas a Linn is once. It's not even a punk drum machine, like the Drumulator. That's great. I don't think the basic sounds are much good, but there's the Rock Kit for it which is really mad — it's on 'Mothers Talk', very sort of vicious — and we've used it on the demo of 'Shout', too.
"But I think the Drumulator's badly thought out. It keeps going wrong, blowing out chips. Bad design, yes — we haven't had trouble with the Emulator in that way at all."
Guitars used by Roland Orzabal on Shout
In an interview with Tony Bacon, Orzabal States, "On the track we're working on just now, 'Shout', I've been using someone's Gordon Smith. It's got far more guts than any of my other guitars. I may try to acquire that one". This guitar was also used by Neil Taylor to record the outro solo on their hit "Everybody Wants To Rule The World".
Curt Smith
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Bass Guitars used by Curt Smith on Shout
Smith owned two Status S2 basses, one being red and the other being brown.
He was seen using the red one in the first version of the music video for "Mothers Talk" and in the video for "Shout". He was also seen with it in a promo photo for Rockers Play Guitars in 1984. He used the brown one for live performances and TV appearances, such as the Montreux Festival in 1985 (Pictured above)
It is unknown if he used them for recording.