Ambrose Kenny Smith's Gear

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Ambrose Kenny Smith is listed as using the Hohner Special 20 Harmonica in the credits of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's "Murder of the Universe" album. Additional evidence can be found in a photo from AudioTechnology.

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You can see that Ambrose uses it at around 2:49

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In the provided image, Ambrose Kenny Smith is shown using a Hohner Blues Harp MS harmonica.

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At about 21:30 you can see Ambrose's Yamaha Organ sitting on the table.

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You can see his setup and on his left side, there is this sampler. In the minute 1:09:35 from the documetary "CHUNKY SHRAPNEL" of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, during the presntation of the song "Inner Cell". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83jFJGsg_Zo

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In the live performance video of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard at AB - Ancienne Belgique, Ambrose Kenny Smith can be seen playing a Yamaha Reface CS synthesizer.

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You can see it in the full video that he uses it.

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At 10:53 you can see it behind Stu.

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the sk-5 is shown in ambrose’s space at 0:08

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In the video "Peeling the Flying Microtonal Banana" by Flightless Records, Ambrose Kenny Smith is seen playing an M-Audio Axiom 25 25-Key USB MIDI Keyboard Controller. This occurs right after he mentions "these are the keys to our hearts," as the camera zooms in on the keyboard.

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During The Murlocs' performance on KEXP, Ambrose Kenny Smith plays a Rickenbacker 360 electric guitar, as seen in a user-uploaded photo.

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Ambrose Kenny Smith is seen using a Moog Grandmother in an Instagram story from a recent show, positioned above his Nord keyboard. The synthesizer played a significant role in the creation of "Butterfly 3000," as confirmed by interviews and a personal conversation with Lucas in Geelong, where he mentioned that most tracks originated from Grandmother loops.

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on the murloc’s preformance on KEXP, we see ambrose playing through a fender hot rod

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Amby has a Nord Wave 2 in the jam room

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Seen being played by Ambrose in this live video of Head On/Pill, best visible at 0:52 and 1:30.

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Used by Ambrose during the recording of Omnium Gatherum, best visible at 10:08

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Used by Ambrose on some live versions of Billabong Valley, seen at 15:34

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Used by Ambrose on most performances of Billabong Valley, including the performance on KEXP.

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Pretty sure Amby/Joey bought this 2013 Baritone Steinberger Synapse ST-2FPA at Found Sound in Melbourne, Australia. Although Amby plays it in the dragon video I've also added a photo of Joey using the same one in the studio (presumably recording PDA) so there must be some nuts baritone guitar hidden in the album :)

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This photo taken by @danyshaharriot (instagram) at Nightjar Festival 2024 shows Ambrose's pedalboard. This photo was posted Danysha's instagram story on 26th Janurary 2024.

The Strymon Deco V1 is visible with orange tape to show Ambrose's settings

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This photo taken by @danyshaharriot (instagram) at Nightjar Festival 2024 shows Ambrose's pedalboard. This photo was posted Danysha's instagram story on 26th Janurary 2024.

The Boss DD-3 is at the bottom left of Ambrose's board.

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This photo taken by @danyshaharriot (instagram) at Nightjar Festival 2024 shows Ambrose's pedalboard. This photo was posted Danysha's instagram story on 26th Janurary 2024.

The A+ Astronaut Multiverb Space Unit is at the top left of Ambrose's board above the power supply and Radial switcher. It has black tape over the "Program" knob and tape over the A+ logo with the word "HARP" written on it.

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This photo taken by @danyshaharriot (instagram) at Nightjar Festival 2024 shows Ambrose's pedalboard. This photo was posted Danysha's instagram story on 26th Janurary 2024.

The DBA Echo Master is at the top right of the board. The Mic is being sent through a cable splitter adapter into the Radial switcher to the DBA, then in the DBA’s fx loop a white patch cable goes to the Electro Harmonix Switch Blade + which is splitting the signal. One output (black patch cable) going to the Strymon Deco and the DD-3 back into the DBA. And the other (red patch cable) going to the JHS Superbolt and the Shift Line A+ Astronaut then to a D.I. box that the A+ is on top of.

There is three outputs on the board: the initial splitting adapter, the DBA output and the DI box output.

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This photo taken by @danyshaharriot (instagram) at Nightjar Festival 2024 shows Ambrose's pedalboard. This photo was posted Danysha's instagram story on 26th Janurary 2024.

The EHX Switch Blade + is at the bottom right of the board and has black tape covering one foot switch, red tape with the word “VOX” written on it, and green tape with the word “HARP” written on it.

The Mic is being sent through a cable splitter adapter into the Radial switcher to the DBA, then in the DBA’s fx loop a white patch cable goes to the Electro Harmonix Switch Blade + which is splitting the signal. One output (black patch cable) going to the Strymon Deco and the DD-3 back into the DBA. And the other (red patch cable) going to the JHS Superbolt and the Shift Line A+ Astronaut then to a D.I. box that the A+ is on top of.

There is three outputs on the board: the initial splitting adapter, the DBA output and the DI box output.

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This photo taken by @danyshaharriot (instagram) at Nightjar Festival 2024 shows Ambrose's pedalboard. This photo was posted Danysha's instagram story on 26th Janurary 2024.

The JHS Superbolt sits at the top middle of the board and has a plastic cover to stop the accidental adjustment of knobs. There is also a piece of red tape on the pedal and pieces of yellow tape with drawn on marks to show Ambrose’s settings.

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This photo taken by @danyshaharriot (instagram) at Nightjar Festival 2024 shows Ambrose's pedalboard. This photo was posted Danysha's instagram story on 26th Janurary 2024.

The Radial Hotshot 48v A/B mic toggle sits in the middle of the board on top of the power supply. There is orange tape in a square around the foot switch cover the the “A” and “B” letters and under the lights. There is also labels near the input and outputs, the white label on the right says “MIC IN”, the black label to its left says “TB 1” with an arrow pointing to the output. this is likely a talk back output so Ambrose can talk to the band/sound crew with the audience hearing. And then on the left of the pedal is another black label saying “TO FX”.

The Mic is being sent through a cable splitter adapter into the Radial switcher to the DBA, then in the DBA’s fx loop a white patch cable goes to the Electro Harmonix Switch Blade + which is splitting the signal. One output (black patch cable) going to the Strymon Deco and the DD-3 back into the DBA. And the other (red patch cable) going to the JHS Superbolt and the Shift Line A+ Astronaut then to a D.I. box that the A+ is on top of.

There is three outputs on the board: the initial splitting adapter, the DBA output and the DI box output.

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In the official video for "Rattlesnake" by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, at the timestamp 0:45, Ambrose Kenny Smith can be seen playing the Vibra-Slap

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At 4:18 in the video "King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - I’m In Your Mind (medley) (Live on KEXP)," Ambrose Kenny Smith can be seen playing LP Pro Maracas alongside a tambourine, confirming his use of this specific gear.

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Ambrose Kenny Smith is confirmed to use the LP Latin Percussion CP390 - Tambourine, as he is seen playing it at the 4:18 mark during the live performance of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's medley on KEXP, recorded on September 2, 2015.

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