Grimes

"I love Waves plugins too, especially the Manny Marroquin Reverbs, which I really like for doing vocals"

Grimes is pictured with a Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar in a photo on her Instagram account, captioned "weirding wayz."

Mentioned in this October 27, 2015 Stereogum interview covering the gear used for Art Angels.

I love the Nexus VST and Native Instruments’ Massive, and I really like using iZotope Ozone for sending people demos. I ‘mastered’ the album with Ozone, although obviously I get it professionally mastered in the end. I love the Waves plug-ins too, especially the Manny Marroquin reverbs, which I really like for doing vocals. I used iZotope Nectar on a couple of vocal tracks too, but it crashes a lot.

In a Future Music (issue 298) interview, when asked whether she is seeking “inspiring new sounds and effects plug-ins”, she responds: “There’s this synth that’s like a plant you can grow, called Synplant … it has all these weird parameters where you can take a sound and throw a plant arm around it. It’s really visual, so you’re not really working with numbers … It’s very intuitive and you can mess with the sounds without having to know that much about how it works.” It’s not clear from the interview whether Grimes has actually used this synth in any of her recordings.

Grimes discusses her studio in an interview given to Future Music magazine (issue 298). Although the current source URL links to a copy of the original article, most of the same interview, with more pictures included, can be found in musicradar.com's version of the same interview (http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/in-pictures-grimes-hollywood-studio-630125). Many pieces of equipment and software are either discussed or photographed, including the EVH 5150 III 50-watt white amplifier, which is clearly shown in at least three pictures.

actuallygrimes Talkin bout gear, being a producer, and mixing w legendary spike stent (!) in future music mag ????

"bear w me but gonna nerd out 4 a sec & also typing w fake nails so forgive typos. also tried to simplify my language but apologize if it doesnt make sense 2 non musicians or if its overkill if u do happen to know what im talking about;

So a couple months ago Roli hit me up about making sound packs for their new hardware/ software intrument/thingy called Blocks, which I'm v excited abt cuz i make a lot of sound packs @ home and Am v keen to give it a try for somebody else, plus have just generally enjoyed making music on this thing. Essentially, It's sort of a synth-you can load different sounds into it from the software and create beats and instrumentals. The software element is where u access the sounds (u can access the software without the hardware on an ipad or smthn if u want to get an idea of the style of sounds and some of the features). It's great for beginners becuz you can do things like choose a scale and then it visually lays it out for you so that if you don't have formal training you can see/ understand how to compose a piece of music in a specific key. Anyhoo, the thing i really love about this is that allows you to start producing music without necessarily having a lot of experience. (although if ur deep in it its still really fun -- u can synch up the apps w DAWS like ableton if you want). it's also 'multi timbral' like the seabord rise-- so u can intuitively alter parameters like vibrato or whatever with ur fingers, you can make synths sound almost like natural vocals or violins etc. plus its cheap /portable. lastly, It's modular, meaning you can buy the small individual pieces and slowly build the machine that suits you best and kind of design it yourself, rather than making a giant initial investment and theres no wires, they just kinda connect like lego.

so yeah, I obviously get 2 stoked on gear sometimes, but I feel really passionate about this in particular because i believe it will bring the art of music production to more ppl & stoked that they asked me to be involved in creating sounds for it (alongside some v cool producers) haha."

Grimes is seen performing on her 2012 Visions tour using the microphone.

This gear belongs to her new station: "My station has a cool new look"

almost finished building like 20 or so "5D multi timbral" synths in roli equator, they'll be released for roli blocks later this year. never made synths from scratch before, its pretty fun

Throughout the accompanying video clip, Grimes can be both seen and heard freely improvising on a Seaboard Rise controller set up next to her.

In the "Behind the Mac" ad campaign on YouTube, Grimes is shown using an Apple MacBook Pro.

At 1:48, Grimes names the pedal when being asked about gear that is essential to her.

Grimes is pictured with a Fender Mustang GT 100 amplifier in a photo from the Equip Board album on Imgur. As an owner of this amp, I can confirm it matches the model's distinctive controls.

In a Future Music (issue 298) interview, Grimes discusses several VSTs and plugins she used in Ableton while making Art Angels, including the Waves Manny Marroquin Reverb plugin: “I love the Waves plug-ins too, especially the Manny Marroquin reverbs, which I really like for doing vocals.”

Grimes on Twitter (March 2019): "New song - Pretty Dark (demo)..." Some asked: "c did u sound design the songs itself or did u use some presets?? i love so much this main sound!!!" Grimes responded: "A bit of both, some serum fiddling for the bass. Also v poorly played guitar, then nexus/ omnisphere presets I think"

In this video posted by Grimes on February 12, 2019, Grimes can be seen singing into an AKG C214 condenser microphone. The design confirms the model.