Butch Vig

"Steve owned this when I met him, and when we started jamming in his basement late at night, we ran EVERYTHING through it: vocals, drums, guitars, bass and percussion. It gave those early jam sessions a super lo–fi vibe that sounded awesome, sort of a fuzzed out Cramps style rockabilly. We continued to use in on almost every session we did at Smart for 30 years!"

"We bought this for $50 at a pawn shop and since it was the only compressor we had when we started, we used it on a lot of the sessions. I would track drums and use it on the snare. It has this cool, aggressive “thwack” that really helps the snare pop. We also used it for overdubbing bass and vocals. It is not subtle. It’s still one of my fave compressors."

"My favorite digital reverb. I had a bunch of custom presets I made that I used all the time. 'Pelvisman' (named after a song by Knerble Knerble) was a huge, bright hall sound with a lot of pre delay, and 'Anti-Pelvis' was a super fast gated snare sound, used on a ton of sessions."

"This was a multi–tasking piece of outboard gear: stereo limiter, gate, ducker, de–esser. We would compress the drum overheads with it when we tracked. It has a very aggressive sound. Bob Mould was the producer on one of the first Tar Baby sessions we did. He REALLY liked to compress the overheads. Then we would gate the plate reverb through it for a gunshot snare sound when we mixed. Used on a LOT of sessions."

In the video titled "Recording Nirvana: Drain You (Butch Vig Breaks It Down In The Studio)" by MixMyMusicRob on YouTube, Butch Vig can be seen using a Lexicon M93 Prime Time Digital Delay Processor. The device is visible in the rack while Vig deconstructs the song "Drain You" in the studio.

In a video titled "GML 8200 EQ from Butch Vig" by ANALOGr on YouTube, Butch Vig explains how he uses the GML 8200 Series III 2-Channel Parametric Equalizer with Power Supply.