[Feature Request] Era / Year that Artist Had Gear

Ok so:

• Alesis 3630 - Dec 1996 (Seen on Homework & Discovery) [Source: Daft Punk Unchained 1996 Live Footage]
• Juno-106 - Feb 1996 (Seen on Homework & Discovery) [Source: Photo from Daft Punk Live @ L'Espace (Leave Earth)]
• Mutronics Mutator - 2002 [Source: Official Mutronics site from 2002]
• Moog Minimoog Voyager - Apr 2006 (Seen on Alive 2007) [Source: Photos from Coachella 2006 live setup]
• E-mu SP-1200 - 1996 (Seen on Homework & Discovery) [Source: Can be heard on Homework. First seen Jan 1997 - Photos from End Club live set]
• TR-909 - Nov 1993 (Seen on Homework & Discovery) [Source: Can be clearly heard on The New Wave and Alive, which was recorded in 1993]
• Roland S-760 - Sep 1996 [Source: Photo from Daft Punk Live @ Le Zenith]
• Ableton Live - Apr 2006 (Seen on Alive 2007) [Source: Mixmag article from 2007]
• TR-808 - Sep 1995 (Seen on Homework, Discovery & Human After All) [Source: Photos from Daft Punk live @ Back 2 Basics]
• Boss MT-2 - Evidence is not solid enough to give an exact date + proof link is now dead

Thanks for doing that, Finley. Your knowledge of all things Daft Punk is unrivaled.

Now that we can all see the data we'd be working with a bit better: what's your gut say re: how to make these dates useful for sorting/filtering/visualizing?

Would you want to filter by a specific year or multi-selection of years?

Or sort by year/chronological (and put the items with no year metadata at the bottom)?

Personally, I'd love to see everything laid out in a legit timeline UI. If it was sexy enough, it seems like the kind of thing users would want to share/link to.

Happy 2026!

We're very excited to build this feature, happy to say it's underway. Might take a bit of time and a few iterations to get the flow just right, but we're starting with the backbone, which is populating as comprehensive of an album database as we can.

You should start to see the discography populate for bands (U2, Aerosmith, Kings of Leon, Oasis).

We'll start with band albums, then singles, then individual artist albums (e.g. John Frusciante has a ton of solo work in addition to RHCP and all the other bands he's in). Then with all that populated, we can allow for gear submissions to be attached to albums.

We'll keep you posted here along the way.

Oh hell yes!

Quick update on this - album tagging is now live!

You can now attach albums to gear submissions. When viewing or editing a submission, you'll see an option to specify which album(s) the gear was used on.

Here's a quick example I just tagged up: Leo Wyndham's T-Rex Engineering Mudhoney II

The proof mentions:

"I have this, it's a new thing, it's called a Mud Honey 2 for a heavy chunky distortion sound. I use that on a song Gravity and Fade which are the sort of rockier numbers"

Those tracks are on the Palace album Shoals, so I tagged it accordingly.

What you can do now:

• Tag submissions with albums (supports multiple albums per submission)
• Filter an artist's gear page by album - useful for seeing "what gear was used on X album"
• Filter by usage context (live/studio/promo) in the same filter modal (we moved that into the filter modal/popup and out of the sidebar)

What's not built yet:

• Year the gear was used (still on the roadmap, just tackling one piece at a time)
• Timeline visualization (pk's idea - still love it)

Would be great to see some of finleygomez's Daft Punk knowledge get tagged up with albums! The discographies should be populated for most major artists/bands at this point.

I followed the link and that is cool. Really cool. Gonna play with it soon, maybe I'll start with like the Beatles.

Looking great so far, nice work!

I just tested it out on Aphex Twin -- worked great -- but someone else needs to go in and re-approve that entry now... (please?) ;)

I'm also surprised & happy to hear the timeline idea might happen one day :)

I got that PKK.

I got that PKK.

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Ohhhh yeeeeeah!

First off - Happy new year gents! Second - Thank you so much for getting this implemented! This is absolutely incredible news to see that its finally up and running.

Ive gone ahead and added a bunch to the Daft Punk page, but I can't lie, now that Im actually filling it out, this is alot harder than I initally thought!! Noticed a few speculation additions on the Daft Punk page that had been marked as true (See entry for MS-20 for example)

Regardless, super fun to finally have this in place, and REALLY looking forward to the timeline feature.

One quick question - Regarding duplicate album pulls (I.E. Homework, and Homework 25th Anniversary Edition, and all the countless versions of RAM) is there any way to filter this down so that we dont see gear tagged with the same album twice (Or even three times!)?

Ive gone ahead and added a bunch to the Daft Punk page, but I can't lie, now that Im actually filling it out, this is alot harder than I initally thought!! Noticed a few speculation additions on the Daft Punk page that had been marked as true (See entry for MS-20 for example)

Finley, damn... you tagged so many DP items with albums today. Absolute legend.

One quick question - Regarding duplicate album pulls (I.E. Homework, and Homework 25th Anniversary Edition, and all the countless versions of RAM) is there any way to filter this down so that we dont see gear tagged with the same album twice (Or even three times!)?

I've been noticing the same thing. The more geezer the band, the greater the glut of remasters and deluxe editions to choose from. How do we keep people from using anything other than the vanilla/original version of an album for tagging? I don't want people to have to check 4 or 5 different boxes to filter an artist by a single album.

One quick question - Regarding duplicate album pulls (I.E. Homework, and Homework 25th Anniversary Edition, and all the countless versions of RAM) is there any way to filter this down so that we dont see gear tagged with the same album twice (Or even three times!)?

Yeah I agree w this, one version of each album should suffice. I suppose we could just bulk search and delete. What types of variants exist in the album name that duplicate an album?

• Deluxe Edition
• nth Anniversary Edition
• Super Deluxe
• Super Deluxe Edition
• Remastered
• Remastered [year]
• Deluxe Edition Remastered
• [year] Re-Mastered

Is this list missing any obvious ones?

I was thinking you could just write some code that deletes albums with certain keywords in the title ie: Anniversary Remaster Deluxe Etc

I was thinking you could just write some code that deletes albums with certain keywords in the title ie: Anniversary Remaster Deluxe Etc

Essentially yes, but it's slightly more sophisticated. Can't just blanket delete an album with the word "anniversary" in it bc that could be part of a legit album title. So we'll need to look at an album title and then programmatically check for variants/duplicates w the types of keywords we're talking about, hence me asking if my list is good or did I miss any.

I just ran a quick test in python using the album names copied from the item edit interface for Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Daft Punk, Prince, Mac Demarco, Taylor Swift, Metallica and a few others.

To compare and group the matches, I normalized each title with the following:

1. I removed the date parens at the end of each title.

2. I normalized capitalization, punctuation and whitespace.

3. IF the album title contained any of the following keywords enclosed in parens or brackets, I removed everything within the offending parens/brackets:

• deluxe
• expanded
• anniversary
• remaster
• remastered
• edition
• version

Then I compared by normalized titles and grouped the exact matches, with each match-grouping representing multiple versions of the same album that should (ultimately) be displayed as 1 title to the user.

The results were clean.

There were no false positives (that I could find)* and the only thing annoying that slipped through was TRON: Legacy - The Complete Edition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), because the "Edition" wasn't bound by parens/brackets, but situations like this are exceedingly rare in your current album database, if my tiny sample set is any indication.

Anyway, you're a wizard -- I know you'll find a smarter upstream-focused solution, it was just an interesting problem and I needed to warm up this AM with some vibe-coding. Godspeed!

UPDATE: Apologies to the Swifties who know that the "Taylor's Version"s should count as separate releases in this context, due to each being a ground-up rebuild of the original album.

You. Fucking. Rock. 🤘🔥

This is great, we can definitely run this process more or less, and see where that gets us. With the size of Equipboard, not only is perfection difficult to achieve, it's also usually the reason initiatives slow down or don't get going.

I believe with this we'll observe at least an 80% improvement in getting rid of the multitudes of what are essentially duplicate album entries. If only duplicate gear was this easy to resolve 😂

Nice! It was a fun way to start the day.

Thanks again for building all this stuff. :D

I'm having second thoughts re: including "version", if for no other reason than the problems it would cause with Taylor Swift's discography... someone may want to take a broader look at the album/release database and see if "version" is really a worthy keyword to filter for.

Ok, took a pass at the album de-duplication/cleanup. Results:

• 3,924 variant albums deleted (editions like Deluxe, Remastered, Anniversary, etc.)
• ~5,500 variants skipped (no matching original album with same artist)

Nice.

Ship it?

UPDATE: my robots tell me only 17% of detected variants were skipped (no other matches) in the tiny corpus I experimented with, but it thinks the 58-ish% skipped rate in your full-scale run is to be expected, given I cherry-picked well known artists with more or less complete discographies on Spotify. Is this your thinking too?

We just added the ability to associate gear to an artist and band's albums, but also singles. In the rock world, it's much more common for gear to be talked about as it relates to what was used on an album, but in the electronic world gear used on a track/single is important.

We're gonna take this feature even further, and make landing pages for albums and singles. That way there's a page dedicated to the gear used on Nirvana - Nevermind, along with the people involved, an embedded Spotify player to listen to the tracks, and the gear listing. And same with singles, so like the gear used in Zedd's Clarity.

We're SUPER excited about adding this as an angle of gear exploration & inspiration. Curious to hear your thoughts & ideas!