James Ford

"An intensive six?week period followed, with Ford joining the band in the later stages to add his thoughts on the song structures and arrangements and to record live demos on his Zoom H4N digital recorder." - Sound on Sound.

http://KEXP.ORG presents Simian Mobile Disco performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded September 26, 2014.

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In this interview, James Ford talks about his set up and mentions his Dark Energy: "Our set up is based around, instrument wise, three analogue synths - the big Analogue Systems modular synth, that Jas spends most of his time in front of, and two smaller ones - a Dave Smith Prophet and a Doepfer Dark Energy, and then the [Roland] 909 for drums"

In this article, James ford says, "Our set up is based around, instrument wise, three analogue synths - the big Analogue Systems modular synth, that Jas spends most of his time in front of, and two smaller ones - a Dave Smith Prophet and a Doepfer Dark Energy, and then the [Roland] 909 for drums."

At 2:03, James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco talks about his Korg MS-20, saying "It's an old synthesizer, it's pretty basic but good work-horse synth. We just like it because we know our way around it really quick, so we can easily get things out of it."

"We also used a Hohner guitaret—a bit like an electric kalimba and quite tricky to play—to back up some of the guitar lines." - James Ford.

"The drum machines were also from this studio: Thomas Bandmaster and Selmer through a Fairchild spring reverb.” - James Ford

"We don't need a laptop. The laptop has actually become not very helpful. So we were like, "Alright, get rid of the laptop." What will replace it? We looked at MPCs. We looked at all of the other options. I considered building a [Sequentix] P3. The sequencers that we've got are effectively the step up from the P3. And just like, when we looked into what Cirklon could do, it was everything that we knew, really. "

There is one particular module actually called Braids that we just started using

There is one particular module actually called Braids that we just started using, and another one called Yarns by this thing called Mutable Instruments. They've been really, really useful. We've been using them a lot. But yeah, one particular one, the Yarns, I only got last week.

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In this video, at 2:50, James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco is seen using a Novation Launchpad for sequencing drums in their live rig.

http://KEXP.ORG presents Simian Mobile Disco performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded September 26, 2014.

http://KEXP.ORG presents Simian Mobile Disco performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded September 26, 2014.

James Ford is seen using Sennheiser HD 25 headphones in the recording studio, as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Factmag.

Ford can be seen playing a Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar in this photo from the sessions for the Arctic Monkeys' album "Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino."

Ford played a Gibson ES-150, per the linked photo, for the recording of his debut studio album.

Ford recorded part of his debut studio album using a Hohner Pianet Clavinet Duo, per the linked photo of his studio setup.

A Therevox can be seen as part of James Ford's home studio equipment in this May 12, 2023 Instagram post.