David A. Stewart

"To anyone with Dave's attitude towards synthesis, MIDI must be a great source of satisfaction, and in fact on Here Comes That Sinking Feeling, there is a recognizable MIDI solo, comprised of the American Voyetra 8 synth, DX7 and an Emulator using a sitar-type sound."

Mentioned by Stewart in this Sound on Sound "Classic Tracks" interview about "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)".

On the same trip, in a hotel room in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Stewart began playing around with EDP’s Wasp synthesizer, accidentally stumbling upon the future, more electronic direction that he and Lennox were to pursue as Eurythmics. “I could actually get some interesting things happening,” he says. “Y’know, like, sequenced little sort of random hold patterns that sounded very exciting to us, even though it was just coming out of the plastic speaker in a crappy hotel room in Wagga Wagga. We weren’t even writing songs, I was just messing about on it.”

(...) Soon after, Lennox travelled to her native Scotland to visit her parents, leaving Stewart with time alone to further his experiments with the Wasp, pairing it with EDP’s matching proto-sequencer the Spider, and a TEAC 144 Portastudio. “I kind of voraciously learned how to use that really quickly,” he says of the latter, “and I realised it was little miracle. I had done things before, even before I met Annie actually, where I’d managed to get my hands on a Revox tape recorder, and I’d bounce things in a really crappy way, back and forth, and make a kind of montage of stuff.

“But with this Portastudio and the Wasp and the Spider sequencer, and then the [Roland TR-606] Drumatix, in one way or another I managed to manipulate the drums and the sequenced keyboard together. Then I was able to choose which sections I’d sequenced and sort of fly them over and bounce them. So I’m recording on track one with the sequencer, but then I’d sort of send it to track three or four and then I could switch it in and out when I didn’t want it. I could drop in if I wanted to change to a different chord or note or sequence. So I kinda built a track, kept bouncing back and forth. Some of them became the actual tracks on the Sweet Dreams album.”

"We just set up our gear like we did Sweet Dreams. I took it right back to the way we started and we wrote one song a day for ten days with the simplest things like the Roland SH09, Movement Audio Visual drum computer etc." It was these same tracks which made up the basis for the actual masters, since they subsequently brought over their Soundcraft 24 track, bouncing up from the eight track and adding horn parts. It was only after all this had been done that the jet set recording began.

David A. Stewart used the Roland Juno-6 in the recording of Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)." In a 1983 interview on Countdown, available on YouTube, a Juno-60 is shown, which Dave acquired after the album's release.

"To anyone with Dave's attitude towards synthesis, MIDI must be a great source of satisfaction, and in fact on Here Comes That Sinking Feeling, there is a recognizable MIDI solo, comprised of the American Voyetra 8 synth, DX7 and an Emulator using a sitar-type sound."

You can see the Juno-60 at 0:48 clearly.

A Farfisa Compact Duo is among the items auctioned from David Stewart's studio.

A Yamaha CP-80 is among the items auctioned from David Stewart's studio.

Taken from his book, Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This: A Life In Music, Dave Stewart discusses buying the Suzuki Omnichord and using it on the song, Love Is A Stranger.

In the Muzines article "Eurythmics, Eurhonor" (August 1985), it is mentioned that David A. Stewart used the Korg PSS-50, also known as the Korg Super Section sequencer.

As per this article, David A. Stewart had a Roland SH-101 for writing material on the road, alongside a Sequential Circuits Six-Trak.

As per this article, David A. Stewart had a Sequential Ciruits Six-Trak for writing material on the road, alongside a Roland SH-101.