Birgir Þórarinsson
Birgir Þórarinsson's Gear
In the picture left. Birgir uses the MPC 2500 as center of the Gus Gus liveacts. All tracks are played from the MPC, filtered over the Eurorack modular filterbank with mainly wasp filters and is mixed with a Mackie 1604. He uses Alesis Nanoverb, Boss RE-20 and Lexicon MX200 Effects.
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"Oh, and I also got an 808, a Yamaha CS-30, an E-MU sampler and, eventually, a Juno-106."
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Described on facebook as "Mackie 1604 VLZ, Alesis Nanoverb, Lexicon MX200 and Doepfer filterbank"
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Described on facebook as "Mackie 1604 VLZ, Alesis Nanoverb, Lexicon MX200 and Doepfer filterbank"
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Described on facebook as "Mackie 1604 VLZ, Alesis Nanoverb, Lexicon MX200 and Doepfer filterbank"
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In a photo posted by GusGus on Facebook, Birgir Þórarinsson is shown using the Doepfer A-100 Analog Modular System. The caption highlights the use of its components, such as the wasp filter, to process samples from the MPC 2500.
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"My main reverb is a Lexicon PCM70, and my main delay is a TC Electronic TC 2290. Sure, they're both incredible-sounding machines"
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"At first, I was sequencing from the 505 - I could mute some of the percussion sounds and send out simple MIDI patterns - then we got the Alesis MMT-8."
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"...feeding it to two Doepfer Wasp filters, adding an LFO to one side and the same LFO inverted to the other side..."
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"All I need to do is add a touch of UAD Precision De-Esser."
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In a photo posted by GusGus on Facebook, Birgir Þórarinsson can be seen with a Boss RE-20 Space Echo delay effects pedal in the upper right corner.
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"The computer was part of the setup, but it was simply a sequencing tool. The idea of recording something on the computer was just… that was sci-fi dreaming. Looking back today, it seems crazy, but we actually used that setup until 2003, when we moved to Logic."
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"I have impOSCar in the studio, but that mostly gets used for demos; I usually replace it in the final track. Hang on… it did make it onto the last album."
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"I've also got the Arturia analogue pack and mainly use the CS-80V and Jupiter-8V."
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"I've also got the Arturia analogue pack and mainly use the CS-80V and Jupiter-8V."
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I've got a hardware and a UAD LA-2A, which just seems to work so well as a carpet for the vocals.
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"I've got a hardware and a UAD LA-2A, which just seems to work so well as a carpet for the vocals."
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"My main reverb is a Lexicon PCM70, and my main delay is a TC Electronic TC 2290. Sure, they're both incredible-sounding machines"
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"Oh, and I also got an 808, a Yamaha CS-30, an E-MU sampler and, eventually, a Juno-106."
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"When I got there, I said, 'Do you use this?' 'No!' 'Can I try it? If I like it, I'll buy it.' 'Sure.' It was an ARP 2600!"
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Album Credits
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Björk · 1998
Producer
