Calvin Harris

The audio interface of choice for Calvin Harris, the MOTU 896HD can be seen rack-mounted in his studio. The Miloco Builds website details, "Calvin Harris needed to float the floor of his control room and then supply and fit a dark oak floor. He also commissioned a bespoke workstation to house his new API console." Original source can be found here.

The API 1608 console is the centerpiece of Calvin Harris' studio setup.

A pair of EL8 Distressors can be seen mounted in a rack in Calvin Harris' studio.

Calvin Harris shares a photo of the Neve 8801 in his studio, saying "Letting this bad boy warm up again !!!"

The Line 6 Echo Pro is spotted in a rack in Calvin Harris' music studio.

The iconic Roland TR-808 can be spotted in Calvin Harris' studio.

Starting around 4:00 in the video, Calvin Harris picks up the AXiS 49 in his studio and talks a bit about it: "This thing is quite interesting, this is like the new type of keyboard. You play chords on it like this [demonstrates], but it teaches you the relationship of the notes between all the chords so you come up with different chord sequences based on weirdness, not actual music [laughs]"

"I remember going totally over the top with the Akai S950 – I managed to get it off this bloke in Carlisle for 200 quid."

"I needed some sort of compression too, so I put in loads of overtime at work and bought eight Alesis 3630 compressors!"

"All I had was the Amiga 1200, the Korg M5 provided loads of sounds for the first album, a huge, 32-channel Soundcraft mixer, my 950 – at some point, that was upgraded to an S3000 – the Alesis compressors, the Zoom, a Line 6 echo-thingy, a Focusrite VoiceMaster Pro and a couple of AKG C1000 mics. That was it!"

"All I had was the Amiga 1200, the Korg M5 provided loads of sounds for the first album, a huge, 32-channel Soundcraft mixer, my 950 – at some point, that was upgraded to an S3000 – the Alesis compressors, the Zoom, a Line 6 echo-thingy, a Focusrite VoiceMaster Pro and a couple of AKG C1000 mics. That was it!"

"Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. "

Well, backthen I had just a 486 PC system. :)

It's so nice to see , how big DJ/Producer names , began to produce music.

"Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED."

Right, so for my production since I was a little boy, i used MODplug Tracker. I looks the same! :)

At this video when fading out in 6:17 the uad apollo appears on the top rack of Calvin's studio in Los Angeles.

appears at 8:45 among his other external equipment.

Credit of the track "slide"

Calvin Harris tweets a photo of KOMPLETE 9 Ultimate.

You can see box with Universal Audio UAD-2 Satellite Thunderbolt - OCTO Ultimate on the middle rack

In this video you can see at 02:54 min. that Calvin Harris uses the "L3 Multimaximizer", which is a multiband peak limiter / level maximizer plugin by Waves. As you can see in the video, the plugin is loaded as an insert efftect on an audio channel.

In this video you can see at 02:54 min. that Calvin Harris uses the "L3 Multimaximizer", which is a multiband peak limiter / level maximizer plugin by Waves. As you can see in the video, the plugin is loaded as an insert efftect on an audio channel.

In a longer version of this video ( this video is a short version), you can see at 02:54 min. that Calvin Harris uses Ozone 5 by Izotope. You can also see the initial letters of the plugin start with "Ozone 5..", which stands for Ozone 5 by Izotope.

In the video you can see at 02:54, that Calvin Harris uses a plugin named "Lex concert", which stands for a "Concert Hall" of a reverb plugin, that is part of the "Lexicon PCM Native Reverb Plugin Bundle".

In Calvin Harris' private Youtube Channel, we can see that in his "Liked Videos" playlist an official tutorial of how to use Xfer LFO Tool Plugin appears there, so it can be assumed he used (at least once) this Plugin from Xfer Records.

Calvin Harris appears to be listed in Spectrasonics' list of "the world's foremost recording artists, producers, session players, remixers, multi-media developers and film composers"

Quote :

We are very proud that Spectrasonics customers include the world's foremost recording artists, producers, session players, remixers, multi-media developers and film composers including:

• Adele
• Kendrick Lamar
• Daft Punk
• Peter Gabriel
• Snarky Puppy
• Childish Gambino
• Calvin Harris

...

This item can be seen at 2:54 min. of the video of Calvin Harris showing how he created the song "Slide" feat. Frank Ocean and Migos.

A set of Pioneer HDJ-2000 headphones can be seen on top of the API console in a video of Calvin Harris' studio setup. He likely uses these when producing music.

Photos of Calvin Harris DJing show he uses these Sennheiser HD 25-1 II headphones.