Andy Summers' Keyboards and Synthesizers

In this video, Andy Summers can be seen with a Prophet-5 synthesizer onstage, dabbling with it a little on "Walking On The Moon" (at the 8:31 mark). He used it throughout the Summer 1982 leg of the Ghost In The Machine tour.

In Guitar Player September 1982 issue, Andy discusses the mini solo in "Spirits In The Material World":

"Actually , that is just a guitar played up very high and plucked dry - you know, the palm on the string. I blended this with the setting on the Prophet-5 keyboard synthesizer to get that kind of sound."

(note: the music video shows Sting fiddling with a Minimoog instead, so whatever's seen in videos doesn't always represent what's on the song exactly)

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"I've got two new synths, the Roland JX3P which interfaces best with the GR700, and the Jupiter 6. I'm also trying to get a Yamaha DX7, but you've got to be careful not to collect too much at once, or your life becomes dominated by buttons. The JX3P is coming out in a little rack mounted unit in August without the keyboard and I'm waiting for that as well."

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"I've got two new synths, the Roland JX3P which interfaces best with the GR700, and the Jupiter 6. I'm also trying to get a Yamaha DX7, but you've got to be careful not to collect too much at once, or your life becomes dominated by buttons. The JX3P is coming out in a little rack mounted unit in August without the keyboard and I'm waiting for that as well." The JX-3P was also credited as one of the synthesizers used by both Andy Summers and Robert Fripp on the Bewitched LP, released 1984.

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In this undated advertisement, Andy's rig is shown with an SH-2 on top of the left-most rack. It's identifiable by the four knobs in the middle, and the one above the VCO and VCF sliders.

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"I bought a Sequential Circuits Six-Trak, and that's fantastic, so much fun."

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In this post from Andy's Instagram, captioned "Message from Andy : The pedals of life," the following pedals are visible (Left to Right, Top to Bottom):

-Radial Bassbone OD

-Caroline Guitar Company Kilobyte

-Electro Faustus EF110 Blackfly

-MWFX Judder

-Digitech Freqout

-Hologram Effects Infinite Jets

-Boss CE-2W

-EHX Attack Decay XO

-Catalinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe

-MWFX Glitch

-Paul Trombetta Rotobone

-ZVEX Instant Lo-Fi Junky (Vexter Series)

-Catalinbread Antichthon

-Catalinbread Belle Epoch

-Vaux Flores Number 23

-Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water

-TC Electronic Dark Matter

-Caroline Guitar Company Météore

-Mad Professor Golden Cello

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This is a community-built gear list for Andy Summers.

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