Kevin Parker's Gear

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At 1.03 of this video from the Lonerism Episodes, a Sony SRA-3 can be seen on Kevin's rack.

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At 24 seconds into the video you can see Kevin recording drums, wearing the Beyer 770's.

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Kevin Parker used the Shure SM7B as the main kick drum microphone during the recording of "Currents," as evidenced by a user-uploaded photo on Reddit.

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At 2:11, it is possible to see Kevin Parker playing an Akai MPK Mini.

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Kevin Parker with Korg MS-20 Mini in background in home studio.

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In this photo of Kevin's studio, around 2009-2011, a Paiste 302 20" Crash Ride can be seen with his drum kit in the bottom-left corner.

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In this video from 2012 south american tour the band performed in the stage with roland jc-120 amplifiers

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In this video from a recent 2018 show, Kevin can be seen playing a Fender Stratocaster. This is a newer model with a sunburst finish, which means it is no way related to his previous roadhouse strat. You can see the strat from approx. 1:30 onwards.

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the d50 can be seen when it cuts the shot of his recording console, at about 0:06 in front of the mini moog model D

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Can be seen on his pedalboard at 15:30 in the Deezer Session video. It has 3 knobs so you can tell it's the C1 not the D1.

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It says on the Sound on Sound article published July 2020 "Another important element in the punchy drum sound that Parker achieves is the fact that he'll often feed a stereo mix of them onto one of his three reel-to-reel tape machines — a Revox B77, Ampex ATR-700 and TEAC A2340R — for added saturation.

"I'd say probably half of the drums on the album were run onto either the Revox or the ATR. I bounced some drums, put them on the tape, took them off and then never went back to the stems. Even if it didn't sound right, or something could've been better, I didn't go revisit from before the tape. It was like, 'These are the drums now... deal with it.'"

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Kevin used this guitar when he was in a band called The Dee Dee Dums (which featured later Tame Impala guitarist, Dom Simper). This footage is from late 2005 or early 2006 at the Swan Basement. Kevin is seen playing it throughout the whole video. The guitar has not been seen since this footage was taken.

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On Parker's right-hand pedalboard, in this photo, an Empress Compressor can be seen. This same pedalboard can be seen in this photo as well.

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This image taken from the Tame Impala fansite shows the KTG-1 Preamp made by Seymour Duncan. Any photo or video of Kevin's studio from 2011 onwards show this item in his rack and in-use. These are extremely rare and hard to find.

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On Kevin Parker's right-hand pedalboard, an MXR Carbon Copy can be seen. This pedalboard can be seen in this photo as well.

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kevin can be seen with a daphne blue p bass with a tortoise pickguard and a foam mute

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On Parker's left-hand board a GT-100 can be seen. This same pedalboard can be seen in this picture of Parker.

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In this photo, Kevin can be seen with a Boss VE-20 on his pedalboard.

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Kevin Parker can be seen with the Sennheiser MD 441-U at the 1:00 mark of the attached video of Tame Impala performing on Conan.

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In their 2016 performance at lollapalooza Brazil, Kevin's keyboardist Jay is seen using a Moog Sub 37 at 45:30 and elsewhere in the performance. This is an upgrade from the Moog Sub Phatty they previously used.

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In this post the KRK Rokit 8s are shown in Kevin Parker's studio

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"since then i got a Motu Ultralite, which is my new love. we got three of them on stage at the moment. "

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The mic can be seen at 0:26. It has actually been kevins main snare top mic since lonerism. Its a vintage dynamic mic that stopped production in like the 1980's instead of the newer md421's that are only made in black finishes

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Jay Watson can be seen controlling the Roland TB-303 at 4:58

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Here at :42s you can see Kevin playing the Little Martin in a live version of "Alter Ego."

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An Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail pedal can be seen in this photo of Parker's pedalboards. He can be seen in front of these pedalboards in this photo.

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On Kevin's left-hand board, a Hotone Skyline Octa Octave pedal can be seen. Parker can be seen in front of this pedalboard in this photo.

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In the middle of this photo of Kevin's effects board, a Boss NS-2 can be seen. Kevin used this pedal configuration just after the release Tame Impala's Lonerism.

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In this article it states : "The main adjustment to his mixing routine has been an analogue summing setup that takes that task out of Ableton Live’s hands and adds a bit of colour to the stereo bus. He bought two 16-channel Lynx Aurora converters that feed a pair of passive 16-channel RMS216 Folcrom passive summing mixers. The sum of the 16 stereo channels hits a pair of Neve 1073DPA preamps first to “crunch the mix up” and make up gain, then an SPL Vitalizer, the one piece he’s had for a while and is “just like a glorified EQ that adds a bit of artificial valve quality.” The last thing strapped across the master bus is a Manley Vari- Mu compressor before it gets fed back into the DAW to print. The gear doesn’t see any use other than for mixing, so it allows Parker to leave it set up and return to any mix at will. “I’ve always loved mixing with Ableton,” said Parker. “But I love the sound of a mix being crunched together in analogue. I love the sound of a desk, but I hate not being able to recall any time I want. I flit between songs, sometimes every few minutes. It goes completely against my workflow to have to set up for one song by going around the room and setting EQ knobs on a desk and adjusting faders to how the mix was last time. It’s against how I’ve grown up working.” For the recording of Tame Impala's album Currents

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In a 2010 interview, Kevin Parker discusses using the Selmer Treble and Bass Amp Head when miking guitars.

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