Four Tet's Studio Equipment

Four Tet discusses his use of the Red Sound SoundBITE Auto-Loop Module XL at 2:10 of this video from the Red Bull Music Academy New York 2013 series. He says, "You can see the phasing a little bit. Which is actually a beautiful thing about it. It's not perfect. It gives the whole thing a sense of movement. All these things make feel a little more alive."

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A Boss SP-303 Dr. Sample can be seen to the left of Four Tet's hand at 3:42 of this YouTube video from the Red Bull Music Academy New York 2013 series.

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In this youtube video starting at 2:49, you can see the Arturia Drumbrute Analog Drum Machine.

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Four Tet explains his use of the Monome Sixty-Four Midi Controller in his live sets from 1:00 in this YouTube video from the Red Bull Music Academy New York 2013 series.

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This is where I recorded and mixed the album and all the gear I used.

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at 2:06 he discusses how he uses the SoundBITE Pro

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At 6:53 in this YouTube video (Episode 19 of the "Beat This" series), you can see an RME Fireface UCX positioned to the left of Four Tet's laptop.

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Mentioned in this March 20, 2020 Twitter reply.

Giorgia Mastropasqua @ConfusioneTDI Which audio interface do you use?

Four Tet @ConfusioneTDI @FourTet

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A Launchpad Mini is visible in the video at 0:57. The red & white logo at the bottom identifies it as the original Mini, not a Mini mk2 (which has an all white logo) or mk3 (which has no logo there).

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At 0:33 in this YouTube video (How I PLAY: Four Tet's MODEL 1 LIVE DJ Set-Up), Four Tet is going over the channels of his setup.

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Visible in this October 25, 2017 Instagram post.

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At 1:00 (and throughout), you can see the UC-33 to the right of Four Tet's signature SP-303.

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Mentioned in this July 2003 Sound on Sound interview.

When it comes to computer hardware, Hebden's requirements are fairly conventional. "I put the computers together myself, and buy in exactly the bits that I want. I need really fast hard drives to do as much audio as possible, and I don't put loads of other crap in them. PCs are much cheaper than Macs and you can build them yourself. You can exploit a PC in so many more exciting ways — you can get a lot more interesting free software, and you get a lot more control over what you're doing. I've got a Soundblaster Live soundcard in the PC, and I'm getting better sound these days because I don't have to use the sound outputs from the computer any more, I just run the optical cable from the computer into the DAT machine, and then always listen through the converters on the DAT machine, which sounds better. I don't bother having any compressors or EQ here, because when I get to the mastering stage, they're always going to have better shit at the mastering place than I can afford. Having said that, on my last album we didn't change anything much, we probably added a very little bit of treble here or there, but otherwise the sound on the record is pretty much identical to the sound of the finished product in here."

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Four Tet uses the Soma Laboratory PULSAR-23, a four-voice, semi-modular analogue percussion synthesizer. This is supported by an article on MusicRadar by Matt Mullen, where Four Tet is seen jamming on this drum machine, which was given to him by Floating Points and Caribou.

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