Andy McCluskey

“I just took my G5 out of my programming room, stuck it underneath a cheap office table in a corner of my bedroom overlooking the garden, took a Neumann [U87] from the studio, and stuck it through an Avalon [VT-737SP channel strip], then wondered why I had never done this before.”

“I just took my G5 out of my programming room, stuck it underneath a cheap office table in a corner of my bedroom overlooking the garden, took a Neumann [U87] from the studio, and stuck it through an Avalon [VT-737SP channel strip], then wondered why I had never done this before.”

Andy has played a Fender Jazz bass guitar, according to this article.

Andy McCluskey can be seen playing the CS-80 at 0:25 in the video.

Andy is credited with "Roland JP8" in the liner notes for the album Junk Culture.

Andy is credited with "Emulator" in the liner notes for the album Junk Culture.

Andy is credited with "Fairlight CMI" in the liner notes for the album Junk Culture.

English Electric’ uses the following instrumentation… Paul Humphreys: Synth-Werk, ARP 2600, M Tron Pro, Trillion, Omnisphere, Oberheim SEM V, Morphoder, Jupiter 8V2, Minimoog V, Prophet Pro 53, Massive, Vacuum, Boom Andy McCluskey: Vacuum, Indigo Virus, M Tron Pro, Jupiter 8, Vox Machina

"The rest of the system is quite limited really. There's an S1000, M1 - the Sugar Tax album is the M1. Every single pad, I think is M1. Not just M1, but program 07, 'Symphonic' and program 27 which is one of the choral patches. Those two dominate the album."

"The rest of the stuff I've used is bits and pieces. There's a little Casio CZ230S - it's a lovely little machine but you can't edit on it unless you hook up a computer to it. I wish you could edit on it, actually, because it's got some lovely sounds. The cheesy organ solo in the middle of 'Sailing on the Seven Seas' was done on that. It's also got one of those features where, if you don't send a MIDI signal through it for five minutes or something, it switches itself off. If you've got it in a chain you can find yourself thinking 'something's missing...' And you find the Casio's gone off and taken everything that was in the chain out with it."

"I also used a Matrix 1000, Super JX, TX81Z and a Proteus which I love."

"I also used a Matrix 1000, Super JX, TX81Z and a Proteus which I love."

EQUIPMENT LIST

RECORDING Akai S1000 Sampler + Hard Drive Alesis HR16 Drum Machine Atari 1040ST Computer Casio CZ230S Synth E-mu Systems Proteus Sample Reader Korg M1 Workstation Oberheim Matrix 1000 Synth Module Roland D110 Synth Module Roland Super JX Synth Module Steinberg Pro24 v3 Sequencing Software Yamaha RX5 Drum Machine Yamaha TX81Z Synth Module

English Electric’ uses the following instrumentation… Paul Humphreys: Synth-Werk, ARP 2600, M Tron Pro, Trillion, Omnisphere, Oberheim SEM V, Morphoder, Jupiter 8V2, Minimoog V, Prophet Pro 53, Massive, Vacuum, Boom Andy McCluskey: Vacuum, Indigo Virus, M Tron Pro, Jupiter 8, Vox Machina

EQUIPMENT LIST

RECORDING Akai S1000 Sampler + Hard Drive Alesis HR16 Drum Machine Atari 1040ST Computer Casio CZ230S Synth E-mu Systems Proteus Sample Reader Korg M1 Workstation Oberheim Matrix 1000 Synth Module Roland D110 Synth Module Roland Super JX Synth Module Steinberg Pro24 v3 Sequencing Software Yamaha RX5 Drum Machine Yamaha TX81Z Synth Module

"The S1000 and the Korg M1 were the two main instruments. I used two drum machines. For a lot of the percussion and hi-hats and things I used an RX5 - if you solo any of the cymbals you can hear the loops on them."

"I used two drum machines. For a lot of the percussion and hi-hats and things I used an RX5 - if you solo any of the cymbals you can hear the loops on them. The other thing I used was the little Alesis HR16 - again because it's a piece of cake to use. I love things which are easy to program. It's also a very real-sounding machine. The only trouble with it is that you really have to work at the hi-hats and the tambourine with the EQ to get any sort of top out of them. It's funny but I was talking to somebody who uses an Alesis and he asked me what it was I'd used for the hi-hats and tambourine. I told him and he said 'Bloody hell, I thought it was, you can hear it a mile off.'"

EQUIPMENT LIST

RECORDING Akai S1000 Sampler + Hard Drive Alesis HR16 Drum Machine Atari 1040ST Computer Casio CZ230S Synth E-mu Systems Proteus Sample Reader Korg M1 Workstation Oberheim Matrix 1000 Synth Module Roland D110 Synth Module Roland Super JX Synth Module Steinberg Pro24 v3 Sequencing Software Yamaha RX5 Drum Machine Yamaha TX81Z Synth Module

"I've got a Roland D110 which I never use because it's such a pain to operate. It's a multi-function button nightmare, that machine, so it just sits there dormant in the rack."

“I just took my G5 out of my programming room, stuck it underneath a cheap office table in a corner of my bedroom overlooking the garden, took a Neumann [U87] from the studio, and stuck it through an Avalon [VT-737SP channel strip], then wondered why I had never done this before.”

"The Mitsubishi 32-track recorder was a Godsend too - we actually managed to get everything on one machine. We didn't want to have to slave up two 24-track tapes because it's such a tedious process, and when you come to mixing you're always having to wait for them to lock up. It takes twice the time to mix when you're running two machines in sync."

"The SP12 is like a pile of AMSs, but with a built-in sequencer as well. We got fed up with the sounds in the LinnDrum years ago - even the new chips we got for it. In the end we never had access to the AMS in the demo studio because we were running bloody drum samples triggered off the LinnDrum. We don't have that problem now."

Pro Tools can be seen on Andy's computer monitors.