David Bowie's Studio Equipment

Used on the album Low, song: Art Decade. "the drum machine used at the time was Bowie’s own Roland TR-77"

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In this 1991 Brian Aris photograph, Bowie's DSP256XL can be seen in the small rack resting between his Mesa Boogie amplifier head and cab. It is identifiable by the logo between the power switch and LCD screen on the left, as well as the dual cross-button setup and sets of 3 buttons and 3 knobs on the right.

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"Bowie introducing the new MV-30 studio M."

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David Bowie is shown with a Roland RE-201 Space Echo in a 1977 photo from the The Idiot tour, as shared in an Instagram post by Drew Schlesinger.

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