Chromeo
electronic/disco duo, Dave 1 and P-Thugg
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Chromeo's Gear
At their "In the Studio with Future Music" session, you can see they use Adam A7X monitors.
At 22:30, you can see P-Thugg using an SM58 with the Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus.
In the music video of "Bonafied Lovin" you can see Dave 1 playing a black Gibson Firebird Studio Guitar. The position markers are points instead of bars, this shows that it is a Studio Firebird.
In the Chromeo NPR Tiny Desk Concert, during their set, Dave 1 can be seen playing the Ibanez PS Series PS120 Paul Stanley Signature Electric Guitar Gloss Black
Chromeo made use of Boss DS-1 Distortion on the track 'Night by Night'.
Throughout this video, Chromeo can be seen using Cubase as their DAW. At various points (e.g 22:01), only 8 insert slots can be seen in the channel settings, meaning the latest possible version they could be using is Cubase Pro 9.
At 13:27 in this video, Dave 1 of Chromeo opens ValhallaVintageVerb and explains how he uses to process his Prophet-5 recording.
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In the thumbnail of the YouTube video titled "Chromeo (THE FUNKSHOP EP. 1: 'Princess Pouty' & 'Stay In Bed') Twitch Stream" by Musical Streams, Chromeo is shown using Spectrasonics Keyscape.
"This one was one of my first also, probably the third synth I bought. It's been with us since 'She's in Control.' It did us good. 'Woman Friend' is that, and stuff on second album too. Lots of leads, lots of basses. You can instantly go from a great bass to great Minimoog sounding leads. It's simpler and it doesn't take as much room also. It's got a lot of hidden subby low-end that if you want to have that power at the bottom of your track then you have it in there. The Moog Prodigy actually cuts through more than the Minimoog."
"Ah yes, another thing we haven't used much. The snare in 'Night by Night' is a sample of this. But somewhat like the Minimoog, it's almost too ubiquitous. When you start using it you recognize that. What's really amazing about the LinnDrum is that we haven't really ever used it. P has it just to have it for the archives. What's amazing about the LinnDrum is, well obviously the sounds because you hear them like you do in a Prince record, but also it's the internal sequencer because you have that groove that's just like the Prince - that kind of internal swing. You can't really recreate that with anything else. But we don't sequence on those machines, we use an old-school 90s computer sequencer. So we have our own - just have our own groove, as cheesy as that sounds."
"One of my newest acquisitions…which we still haven’t put on a record. It shouldn't be too long."
"Onstage, my Rocktron Banshee talkbox is probably my most important piece of gear."
"This is 'the Prince synth' with such a massive sound," says Patrick. "This particular one was one of a few OB-Xs that used to belong to D-Train, too."
Korg's PolySix synth can be spotted in Chromeo's studio arsenal.
Chromeo's Dave 1 records some guitar on his Rickenbacker 360.
P-Thugg (of Chromeo) is seen DJing wearing some AIAIAI x Fool's Gold TMA-1 Headphones.
Spotted amongst Dave's (of Chromeo) essentials.
Seen in Chromeo's post "50 dollar Boss pedals, best kept secret."
At 13:24 in this video, Dave 1 of Chromeo opens TAL-Chorus-LX and explains how he uses to process his Prophet-5 recording.
Posted on Dave 1s Instagram story circa may 2022
Posted on Dave 1s Instagram story circa may 2022. He uses 3, each for different songs
Posted on Dave 1s Instagram story circa may 2022
In a May 2022 Instagram story, Chromeo's Dave 1 featured the Boss PH-3 Phase Shifter.
In this YouTube video for FACTmagazine, Chromeo give a tour of their Los Angeles studio. The Prophet 6 can be seen at multiple times in the background, for the first time at 0:12.
Chromeo Instagram post on 5/20 showing the rig rundown of their red rocks gig. In this screen shot you'll see the full live pedalboard setup Dave 1 will be using including the Boss AW-3 which is indicative of the additional output jacks on the side that we can see as well as black knobs.
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Discography
DJ-KiCKS Remix
1983
She's In Control (Explicit Content U.S. Version)
2004
Fancy Footwork
2007
Fancy Footwork: Deluxe Edition
2008
Business Casual
2010
White Women
2014
Head Over Heels
2018
Quarantine Casanova
2020
Quarantine Casanova (The Seoul Remixes)
2020
Date Night: Chromeo Live!
2021
CLUSTERFUNK
2023
Adult Contemporary
2024
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