Dave Gahan

You can spot Apogee's famous interface in his desk.

This photo from Dave Gahan's New York City studio shows his Native Instruments Maschine. Kurt Uenala, Dave Gahan's technician, uses Maschine for drum programming. He says: "Maschine is very intuitive. If you want to tune it down there’s no submenu, you just turn down the pitch knob. It’s very rewarding in that way, like a Jupiter synth. I love that."

Original article here.

You can spot the FatSo in a pic here.

At 3:51, one can see Dave hit the stop button of the TR 808.

It's in the center of Dave&Kurt's little studio, sitting in a black desk.

You can see an old Korg Kaoss Pad on Dave's desk.

You can spot two Distressors in Dave's desk.

In a YouTube video by TC Electronic, starting at the 1:00 mark, Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode discusses the use of the Manley VOXBOX Combo Standard in their setup.

"I have a little Pro Tools rig — a little Digi 002 — and we just started playing around."

quote from article on recording "People are People" ""I recorded the vocals with an AKG tube mic in the live room — it was only later that we started doing hand-held in the control room — and I was also using an ADR Compex Vocal Stressor at the time. Sadly, I sold that many years ago and I'd like to have it back now. At that stage, I was rather foolishly printing many effects to tape as well, and on 'People Are People' I think there was a bit of slap from the chorus echo. No plate reverb or anything — that would be added maybe later at the mix stage. As always, it was about making Dave comfortable, and we'd think nothing of saying, 'Okay, these effects sound great on Dave,' and because that's what went with the performance we'd put them on tape with the vocal. That's not something I would do now."

In this Sonic Scoop article, the images of David Gahan's personal studio show an image of an Retro Instruments Sta-Level Tube Compressor in the rack, wedged between BAE mic pre's and an Avalon 737sp.