Fritz McIntyre

Fritz's rack (from top): Furman PL8E amp Roland M240 24-channel keyboard mixer - TX816 x 8 channels; D550 L/R; Korg Wavestation A/D L/R; guitar L/R; Kurzweil L/R; Quadraverb returns L/R Marshall 9001 guitar pre-amp - "Fritz plays guitar for the first two numbers on the main stage" Samson UR4 UHF wireless receiver - "for the guitar" Alesis Quadraverb - "just for the keyboard monitor mixes, mainly to recreate things from the albums, like delays and choruses" Audio Architecture Function Junction Korg Wavestation A/D - "for a few string things and pianos" Yamaha MIDI rack Kurzweil 1200 Pro One expansion module - "the main piano box. I call it the Kurzweil Crapscreen. I'm not a great lover of manuals, and I was trying to find the contrast control for this screen, and I couldn't find it anywhere. You've got to lie down and look upwards at the screen. So I do most of the editing on a Mac (Powerbook 180), through SysEx" UPS power backup Yamaha TX816 - "for some of the older sounds from the first two albums"

Fritz's rack (from top): Furman PL8E amp Roland M240 24-channel keyboard mixer - TX816 x 8 channels; D550 L/R; Korg Wavestation A/D L/R; guitar L/R; Kurzweil L/R; Quadraverb returns L/R Marshall 9001 guitar pre-amp - "Fritz plays guitar for the first two numbers on the main stage" Samson UR4 UHF wireless receiver - "for the guitar" Alesis Quadraverb - "just for the keyboard monitor mixes, mainly to recreate things from the albums, like delays and choruses" Audio Architecture Function Junction Korg Wavestation A/D - "for a few string things and pianos" Yamaha MIDI rack Kurzweil 1200 Pro One expansion module - "the main piano box. I call it the Kurzweil Crapscreen. I'm not a great lover of manuals, and I was trying to find the contrast control for this screen, and I couldn't find it anywhere. You've got to lie down and look upwards at the screen. So I do most of the editing on a Mac (Powerbook 180), through SysEx" UPS power backup Yamaha TX816 - "for some of the older sounds from the first two albums"

"To be honest, I haven't found the right keyboard. I'm still looking for the right keyboard, but the Roland A80 is a good, sturdy keyboard. Particularly for someone who doesn't bang it as much as I do! I've had to replace it."

"I also have a regular old Atari running C-Lab Notator version 3.1, which is very common, very useful. When I'm sequencing I basically just go into record, put down a complete idea, and then go through and clean it up, and build it from there. I'm not supposed to be intelligent enough to use a computer, but I look at it this way: if they can work for me, they can work for anybody. It's not that I can't understand how to access all the programs, it's whether I want to. If I go too far, then I lose the playing side of it, which is the feeling that comes naturally to me. If I became an engineer in my free time, and spent so much time doing it that I stopped playing, then obviously I will have changed my abilities, and eventually it would make it harder for me to play - something you've got to keep doing."

Fritz's rack (from top): Furman PL8E amp Roland M240 24-channel keyboard mixer - TX816 x 8 channels; D550 L/R; Korg Wavestation A/D L/R; guitar L/R; Kurzweil L/R; Quadraverb returns L/R Marshall 9001 guitar pre-amp - "Fritz plays guitar for the first two numbers on the main stage" Samson UR4 UHF wireless receiver - "for the guitar" Alesis Quadraverb - "just for the keyboard monitor mixes, mainly to recreate things from the albums, like delays and choruses" Audio Architecture Function Junction Korg Wavestation A/D - "for a few string things and pianos" Yamaha MIDI rack Kurzweil 1200 Pro One expansion module - "the main piano box. I call it the Kurzweil Crapscreen. I'm not a great lover of manuals, and I was trying to find the contrast control for this screen, and I couldn't find it anywhere. You've got to lie down and look upwards at the screen. So I do most of the editing on a Mac (Powerbook 180), through SysEx" UPS power backup Yamaha TX816 - "for some of the older sounds from the first two albums"