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Here's a fun one to start your day: looks like Thomas used a Roland DJ-70 mkii for a few solo DJ gigs in the late '90s. I know these are grainy, but find me any other keyboard in the course of human history with a backlit LCD in that spot AND a big "scratch" platter on the right side of the keyboard.

• Image 1 is from this Facebook video
• Image 2 is from this video

Question: should this be logged under Daft Punk, or under Thomas Bangalter?

Image 2 shows that the "DJ-70" text on the body is orange, not white, making it a MK II

https://imgur.com/FzxoZkZ

https://imgur.com/qPaqHhX

I’d say under Thomas Bangalter.

people are mis-tagging their own gear?

Here are some examples I can remember:

• Boss SD-1 tagged as an OD-1
• ToadWorks Barracuda MKII tagged as a MKI prior to the creation of a MKII item
• Roger Mayer Octavia Classic tagged as a Rocket Series Octavia prior to the creation of a Classic item + Colorsound Overdriver by Stu Castledine tagged as an original Overdriver prior to the creation of the reissue’s item
• Even you, Jim! - Colorsound Overdriver clone with EQ mod tagged as an original

You may have noticed, we now have similarly tagged photos at the bottom of gear photo pages. https://equipboard.com/gear_photos

We also surface photos that get at least two upvotes on the relevant tagged item pages.

Gear photos have been growing in popularity a little, but what can we do to make them even better?

How can we make gear photos more useful?

A way to re-sort photos with incorrectly tagged items would be useful. Speaking of which, is there a way to convert the "JMV Racks" and "Big Rigs" submitted by jmvaughan into Gear Photos or something?

Alright, here's a giant list of old Daft Punk interviews (with links) for your perusal. I just peeked at every one leading up to 2000 and I say, they went through a lot of different ideas for hiding their faces!

Great find! Does the article mention the SE-1 specifically? That could just be something the graphics department whipped up from closest images they could find... this was a time before the internet was full of hundreds of images of each synth ever made.

Unfortunately, no.

Studio Electronics SE-1 sighted! Here's the lead from this article. The same graphic appears in this page from this article.

I can't get over how many awesome discoveries you guys have made on this thread! I wish I could help you out by Identifying some more gear, but I'm terrible at it!

The only way I can help is by giving you guys this! - https://ibb.co/album/syJwSz

Its some pictures I have in my photo collection where you can kinda get a decent view of their gear, so hopefully this can help clear up any theories you guys have.

If you have seen them all, then hopefully there are some more HQ scans in here that can help!

Wow! Thank you so much, Finley!

• Another "miniMoog" mention here from this February 1997 article, but it might just be a mention of a sample.
• Great views of the live setup in another magazine from the same month

3/29/21 Update

Good news, with Jim's spot of the Valley People Dyna-mite 440 and nailing down the MIDIMoog, we've solved all mysteries in Exhibit A!

It seems that way! I just found the full article and everything matches. Even the MidiMoog is specified!

Yeah, but they’d have to port all those Logic sessions. It’s more likely that they finalized everything on an iMac before it was sent off for mixing, which suggests the 1999 model.

Ok, you've sold me. Rated and good to go!

Thank you, sir!

I went ahead and submitted it under the pre-Summer 2000 one. I figure that they weren't stopping to buy a new computer mid-recording during the 1999-2000 time span.

Well they started on songs for the Discovery album as early as 1998, if Wikipedia and other questionable sources are to be believed... so Bangalter switched Macs at least once during the recording of that album's tracks either way.

They had real money coming in by then, dropping $1500 here and there to upgrade their Macs when they felt like it probably wasn't that big a deal.

Yeah, but they’d have to port all those Logic sessions. It’s more likely that they finalized everything on an iMac before it was sent off for mixing, which suggests the 1999 model.

I went ahead and submitted it under the pre-Summer 2000 one. I figure that they weren't stopping to buy a new computer mid-recording during the 1999-2000 time span.

I'm going to switch to the Macintosh for now.

It seems that Emagic MicroLogic had a copyright from 1992-1996 and that it was discontinued after 1998, so that should serve as a timeframe reference. Daft Punk switched to an iMac DV for Discovery after the Japanese article, by which point the common name was "Mac" instead of "Macintosh". But which DV? There's a historical breakdown of that line here for cross-referencing.

Given we're talking about 3 extremely similar iMac variants that all use the same architecture, and are only really separated by a 100mhz delta in CPU top-end, I think a single entry in the Equipboard database for "iMac DV" or "iMac DV 1999/2000" would be sufficiently specific. Others may feel differently.

The DVD-ROM drive was switched out for a CD-ROM drive in the 2000 one, but I suppose they're still basically the same computer.

EDIT: I have submitted them to Equipboard as separate items. They can be told apart by their color schemes.

I'm going to switch to the Macintosh for now.

It seems that Emagic MicroLogic had a copyright from 1992-1996 and that it was discontinued after 1998, so that should serve as a timeframe reference. Daft Punk switched to an iMac DV for Discovery after the Japanese article, by which point the common name was "Mac" instead of "Macintosh". But which DV? There's a historical breakdown of that line here for cross-referencing.

Re: the third video, I didn't know there were at least 6 different cameras on that Mayan Theater performance, that's great!

Make that eight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyMcfiUHtvk

Angles 5 and 6 are the only ones that give good views of the equipment. Angle 5 focuses on a rack at 1:35: https://youtu.be/S-Imr18jQd0?t=95

Here's Finley's extended edit of the Champerry show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPeTbn13m4Y

Let’s start with this. There’s a quick view of the 1998 rack at 4:25: https://youtu.be/13IwuRt2DbY

With English subtitles: https://youtu.be/61nlWiHa7ug

1997 goodies thanks to Finley: https://youtu.be/xN3Q7wbnFAI

Given that Daft Punk went for the MDX2000 over the MDX2100, the PEQ305 was probably chosen over the PEQ2000. Then again, it only appears in the Japanese article, four years after the late 1995 CODA magazine. Perhaps a live visual is needed.

I don't even have the energy to call people out anymore, whatever. If they knew how they looked they would stop.... I don't think we're the only people side-eyeing this behavior, its goofy.

At this point I’m just compiling. The new artist submission system prevents this from happening anymore.

also, at the time there weren't any other 3u analog rack synths I can think of.... that's a really limited niche at that point

I can't think of anything else pre-1995 that was 3 (4?) units high and analog, either.

https://equipboard.com/pros/daft-punk/studio-electronics-midi-moog

I’m coming to the same conclusion. The differences in the picture are likely due to printing limitations.

its only a diagram

Haha, no, I mean in the Analogue MIDI Synthesizer box. There's a black square. Plus the knob layout doesn't match.

What about that square in the bottom right corner, though?

also I'll add that the fx55 has this rusty chainsaw quality usually associated with shin-ei effects but its tamed down a lot.... its a very sanitized rusty sawblade distortion if you know what I mean. Its dying to become someone's signature sound....

Now I get it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOjSJ3Rr5lI

i don't ant to reveal all my personal secrets, its for you to build a style not to borrow mine

I had no such intention! I was just curious.

https://equipboard.com/pros/liam-caldwell

it sounds good into a vox ac30 for a certain tone, yamaha or roland solid state amps or even a marshall for certain things... I also like this thing in aprallel on a bus for parallel distortion mixing as it has a very specific sound that flatters pad type sounds when you want a cheap sort of skronk on like backing vocals for example but you need to reverse a passive DI to do that

So guitar-wise, this either works with an amp that already has some Vox/Marshall "British" distortion or that is a clean solid state. Cool beans.

Could I trouble you for examples of the pads and vocals? My interest is piqued.

EDIT: the loop preserves the touchy switch by letting you stomp a good switch while only engaging it at the beginning of your set or take.

So, it's fragile?

the fx55 is an excellent dirtbox in a certain way, not as weak as the 250 but not as goofy as the supra distortion... assume you will be replacing the tac switch though and use it in a loop or leave it on all the time once you do

The FX55 would be a fun project, but the demos I've found online aren't flattering. Yet, you own both the FX55 and the FX55B, so it can't be that bad. What's the secret to its awesome power? Why in a loop?

• Morley PWO Power Wah - Bidding ends tomorrow at 1 PM EST
• Fender Fuzz Wah - Bidding ends Wednesday at 8:58 PM EST
• Thomas Organ Co. Cry Baby 9-3701 Stereo Fuzz-Wah - Bidding ends Sunday at 11:21 PM EST
• DOD FX55 Distortion - Fixer upper. Bidding ends Sunday at 9:46 PM.

I'm seeing it right now with this! Odd.

And for everyone keeping score, we're down to the 4 hardest pieces on the list:

https://imgur.com/rJZJQ9t

XD The Equipboard watermark!

it ahd the butt and face controls, what did they even do?

If I’m not mistaken, “Butt” was a bass control and “Face” was a treble control.

You make a good point, so may have to up the budget. Just don't let my wife know......

On the other hand, I thought I wanted a wah once. I nearly went for Electro-Harmonix’s Next Step Crying Tone. I ultimately decided against it because I didn’t see myself using the wah a lot. Would you be? Same the chorus. If you’re not going to use it, don’t buy it.

can you even buy a practice amp for that these days? sheesh.... I guess you could get a used pod HD500? So 90s, you probably WANT like an 800 or 900 or a twin.... but you have an amp... you might want a DS1 or a rat or a muff or something truly fuzzy like a tonebender, you'll want a chorus, the small stone's fine...and maybe, just maybe a delay, carbon copy or a TC flashbak maybe.... you have a guitar right? just kidding.... mxr phase 90 and ehxmistress are ine add ons, not the ebst but the standard.... mooer makes clones for cheap, I think they make a good rat too for distortion and faux fuzz.... for your style a compressor's not a must but the dynacomp is fine, it takes flack, its fine.... you don't need anything fancy like the keely or that sldie rig thing that's a fake 1176 studio compressor in a stomp, that's silly, its a guitar

I don't remember the 90s as being entirely effects driven unless you were in my bloody valentine or the smashing pumpkins.... it was mainly ripping amps and dirt boxes....

everyone had a wah wah back then, even me, and I hate wah wah.... we all ahd morely wahs with dirt on them as I recall because they were cheap, hard to break and you got a crappy mxr distortion+ type circuit built in,,,, then alter I got a vox wah, still 90s but later.... grunge era I definitely had a morely wah with a distortion built in and no other effects for a bit until I got like a tubescreamer, Ibanez chorus and DOD distortion. Boss BF2 flanger came right around then, that or an FL9 by ibanez is a good ebet that'll do chorus as well as flange and can go between the police and nirvana easily.... everyone had a chorus pedal back then though, everyone.... only the crustiest punks did not use chorus but they probably HAD a chorus pedal at home

everyone had lots of used DOD pedals then too (because they were under $40 used unlike boss pedals), all sorts, just pick one with a weird name and buy that one on ebay and you're good.... the dumber the name the better. Dumb doesn't have to mean gonkulator, it could also be like 'american metal' that's a dumb name where its dumb because you know the effect will be dumb... or ibanez made an 'industrial distortion' LOL. You want to find something like that for a full flashback!

In other words, you’re fine with some form of distortion and a delay. If you’re already content with your amp’s overdrive and you’re not looking for a distortion box or fuzz box, you’re pretty much set. Some kind of modulatory effect is optional (chorus/flange if headed in the Nirvana direction), as is wah (which was not very prominent in the late 90s/early 2000s). However, your following includes RHCP and Pearl Jam, so perhaps wah is a good idea, as is some form of chorus.

Indie / grunge / rock. Stuck in the 90s / early 2000s!

As you should be! ;)

Check out the comments in this posting from an hour ago:

https://equipboard.com/pros/robbie-chater/akai-s900-midi-digital-sampler

Maybe coincidence... but how amazing is that if it's not?

Wow, cool!

"When it comes to recording and mixing their music, Daft Punk utilizes a modest setup. “We never have gone to a big studio to do anything,” says de Homem-Christo. “We have a small Mackie 12-channel mixer, and everything is done there by bricolage.”

Maybe that's because they already had Daft House?

that's the only behringer parametric I've ever seen, kenneth

Well apparently the PEQ 305 was a "New Improved Version", so that means there is another for potential research.

You've certainly earned a little celebrating, Mr. Holtz. Thanks again!

No problem!

My unironic celebratory listening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_GQQlehGxE

now in this picture we were referencing https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwJ8f7jVoAIZaI5.jpg does anyone else see the valley people dynamite at the bottom? Has that been spotted? If not that's mine.

EDIT: Tom, check my eyes on this, that's my black and silver valley dynamite 440 at the bottom, right?

Good eye! It is.

So, now that we've figured out what it is(!!), how will submitting this work? We each ought to get GearIQ credit, but only one person needs to post. I figure pkennethk gets posting honors for starting the whole thing.

• The "Auto" button on the MDX2100 has an "In Out" graphic that the MDX2000 lacks.

I've cracked it. There's no "In Out" under "Compressor / Limiter". It's an MDX2000.