Tycho & Tycho – Dive

This Vocoder is seen in a feature by Wired where Tyco shows his synth collection. The article says:

Hansen's Korg VC-10 Vocoder is rare in that it's paired with a microphone created specifically to be used with the synthesizer. Most people just bought a cheaper third-party microphone to use with the VC-10 rather than the one made by Korg. "That mic might be the rarest thing in the studio," Hansen said.

A photo of the Korg VC-10 Vocoder is also shown in the XLR8R article, "In the Studio: Tycho," in which his studio in San Francisco is displayed. http://www.xlr8r.com/gear/2012/01/studio-tycho

The Korg Trident is pictured at the bottom of this picture on Tyco's instagram page, and he states: "Pictured is every synth used to record Dive and Awake" (his first two albums).

A Korg Triton is the second white keyboard at the bottom left of this IG pic

"tychomusic After 10 years and 2 albums in my San Francisco studio I've decided it's time to change things up. Rebuilding the space and in the meantime moving everything to a new location in Berkeley for the next year to record a new album. Will be nice to spend some time and get inspired in a new locale. Pictured is every synth used to record Dive and Awake."

https://www.xlr8r.com/gear/2012/01/in-the-studio-tycho/ "I think my first real synth was the Korg Triton. It's a workstation. I got it because it could also do sampling and sequencing, so I knew that I could use that instead of a computer. Then I learned about analog. I really didn't understand the difference between analog and digital and virtual analog and all that. I got a Korg Mono/Poly, and that's when I realized what everyone was talking about. That was right when people were figuring out that the old synths were kind of better, anyways."

"Yeah sometimes software instruments are right for the application. I've never created a track with 100% software, but I choose my spots. It's funny because sometimes I'll be using a software emulation of a synth I actually own. Like the lead sound on the song Dive, that's the MS-20 plugin. I was sitting there writing it and looking at the real MS-20 and wondering what the hell I was thinking. But it just has a different sound and for that particular song, it made sense"

"Yes. I use Reaper for everything. I love Reaper. During the process for Dive, Cakewalk just wasn’t working anymore for my flow. As far as preamps went, pretty much everything was the UA 6176 vintage channel strip, plus UA 610 preamps and a UA 2-1126 compressor on the end. And then I used a Chameleon Labs 7602 MKII (microphone preamp) for the grindier parts of stuff that I had to push harder, which is like a solid state. And I also used things like Ursa Major (Space Station) reverb, and some analog space-echo delays."