Kevin Parker

Kevin used a 1967 Rickenbacker 335 Jetglo as his main guitar after recording Innerspeaker. Originally purchased around 2009/2010 in Japan. He then after applied white graffer tape with the sea foam blue paint we see today. Link for full context: https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/guitarists/tame-impala-psych-wunderkind-kevin-parker

In a documentary celebrating the 2012 release of "Lonerism", this YouTube video shows two-seconds of the massive array of pedals on the floor of Kevin Parker's studio. Among one of the pedals is a Dunlop Fuzz Face. His Fuzz Face in particular has no white smile.

In 2013, severe weather prompted a cancellation of Austin City Limits, leaving the scheduled Tame Impala to dabble indoors. Parker can be seen again with the Fuzz Face pedal here.

More photos from a fan Tumbler site shows Parker amid an arsenal of pedals including the ubiquitous Fuzz Face.

At 22:29, Kevin can be seen using a Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster.

The Boss Giga Delay Pedal is critically used by Kevin in almost all the songs of Tame Impala and is shown in this source image from Facebook.

In this picture, Kevin Parker is playing a Hagstrom Impala at the 2011 Glastonbury festival.

In the bottom left hand corner of this photo of Kevin and his studio, a vintage 1966 Ludwig Blue Sparkle 3 piece (Kick Drum, Tom, Floor Tom) drum kit can be seen. Kevin used this kit on the recording of 'Lonerism' but since the recording of Tame Impala's 3rd album 'Currents', Kevin has a new kick drum.

In this AMA, Kevin Parker was asked if Ableton is his favorite recording program, to which he responds:

yep.

In this photograph, Kevin Parker can be seen playing his Roland Juno-106 Synthesizer.

In this photo, Kevin can be seen with a Sennheiser MD 421.

In a December 2013 article for Australia's Audio Technology magazine, Kevein Parker mentioned using the Røde K2 as a mono overhead drum mic. On the thoughts behind the choice, he said “I’m not even sure if you’re meant to use that as an overhead. I think it might be a vocal mic or something. But it works, and at the end of the day, even if you’re doing it wrong, the fact that you’re doing it wrong is going to make it sound different to how everyone else used it, which is ultimately a good thing. If you make it sound different in some way, then it’s going to give it a flavour different to everyone else that’s using the gear as it should be used.”

Kevin is seen sitting in front of his pedal board, and the MXR M-102 Dyna Comp Compressor Pedal is toward the middle in front of his right leg.

"The main drum mic that I used was an AKG D190," says Parker in this interview.

Tame Impala's Kevin Parker spotlights some of the gear used on their album, "Lonerism" in this Redbull.com interview and had this to say about the Diamond Vibrato Pedal:

"This is used with pretty much all of the guitars on 'Lonerism.' It wobbles the pitch and makes the guitar sound like a rickety little boat on the ocean. It’s a woozy sound that you’ll hear throughout the album, a kind of seasick vibe which gives the impression that the whole thing is about to fall over. It also made the bass sound like a hungry stomach, which was weird but cool."

In this photo, a Boss Blues Driver can be seen on Kevin Parker's pedalboard.

Kevin mentions using SM57s for recording kicks, snares, and his guitar amps, in this interview. The Shure SM57 was usually used as the kick mic on the Tame Impala EP, InnerSpeaker, & Lonerism.

In this image, one can see a MicroKORG on Kevin's right.

The drummer plays electronic drums with the Teenage Engineering OP-1, which you can see at 00:41.

Kevin used this compressor to get the drum sound on lonerism. “Compressors are what make awesome drum sounds. So I have a couple of vintage compressors. One of them is a dbx 165 that’s pretty much responsible for making the drums sound like John Bonham. I got it purely by chance. I bought it just before working on Innerspeaker because I felt like I should get some boxes with knobs on them with the album budget. I thought, ‘alright, I’ll just go on eBay and get a vintage compressor.’ I didn’t even know what I was doing the first time I used it, but I put the drums through it and it sounded pumping, like hip hop — it sounded awesome.”

"Tim Holmes (of Death In Vegas) was with us, encouraging me to use more professional methods, like running the mic through Neve preamps and running the bass and vocals through an (Empirical Labs) Distressor." - Kevin Parker from this Tape Op article.

Kevin can be seen in this image playing his Roadhouse Strat onstage in Lorne, Australia, 2010. The neck on this guitar from an American Stratocaster as stated in this interview: http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/23033-tame-impala-psych-wunderkind-kevin-parker

Making-of video for the new Tame Impala album shows a Sub Phatty on Kevin's keyboard stand 41s in.

At 0:45 of this video, Kevin can be seen using a 1966 Ludwig 14 x 7 Supraphonic snare drum with his kit.

In this video it shows Kevin using the Pioneer cs-703 monitors when recording Tame Impala's third Record 'Currents' in 2015

In this photo, Kevin is seen playing through a normal Vox AC30, not his normal Hand-Wired one. He has been seen using this amp many other times, possibly as a back-up amp.

At 1:01 Kevin Parker of Tame Impala , can be seen using the Sequential Circuits Pro One.

The Official Vox Amps Facebook page cites Kevin Parker using a Vox AC30H2 amp in this Facebook post.

In this photo, Kevin can be seen playing through a Roland KC-150.

Kevin's pedalboard, as also seen here, includes an Electro-Harmonix Small Stone, in the top half of this photo.

On Parker's right-hand pedlaboard, in this photo, a Holy Grail pedal can be seen. These same pedalboards can be seen in this photo as well.

The synth can be seen at 1:07 and is below the mini moog