Knife Party

"ATS-1 is such a ninja box" says Rob Swire (of Knife Party), in reference to the Anamod Audio ATS-1 Analog Tape Simulator.

In Knife Party's studio.

The Korg Kontrol49, Knife Party's MIDI controller of choice, can be seen in their studio setup.

Knife Party's Rob Swire is very impressed by the Tascam DR-40 Portable Digital Recorder for its live recording capabilities, saying that it captures better quality audio than most festival audio streams.

In an interview w/ Sound On Sound, Rob Swire of Knife Party [formerly Pendulum] states this about the Roll Music Super Stereo Compressor:

One of the most important pieces of outboard gear in Rob Swire's studio is the Roll Music stereo compressor, which is a major component of the Pendulum sound. "It feels like pushing a mix into a pillow!" Rob explains. "Which I like. You just get some sort of resistance there, which you can work off. We'll start without it, and then when it starts sounding good we'll whack that on and keep A/B–ing between that and bypass."

"I love that, but I'm sure there's something that could do the job a tiny bit better. I've heard an SSL, and for our mixes I liked the Roll Music better."

Rob Swire of Knife Party [formerly Pendulum] posted on his Twitter acount the provided image of his studio holding a Tube-Tech SMC 2B Stereo Multi-Band Compresspor in the middle bottom rack.

In an interview w/ Sound on Sound, Rob Swire of Knife Party (formerly of Pendulum) discusses how he uses his Neve 8816 Rackmount Mixer:

There's also a Neve 8816 rackmounting mixer, which is used purely for mixing line–level sources when required, as Rob is not a convert to the idea of analogue summing mixers. "I just don't buy it. I've heard examples, people have posted up examples around the 'net, and every time they do it, they go 'Listen to how much better that sounds when it's summed,' and I've always preferred the digital mix. So I think I'm just going to stick with that."

In the provided photo from an interview w/ Sound on Sound, it shows Rob Swire's studio is equipped with a Lynx Aurora 16 16-channel 24-bit/192kHz A/D D/A Converter. A simple rundown of the photo makes it clear this is used in conjunction with the 16 channels of his Neve 8816 rackmount line mixer.

Yamaha Nuage Daw controller in Knifeparty's studio.

DAD AX32 AD/DA Converter in Knife Party's new studio. Tweeted via Rob Swire of Knife Party.

Knife Party's Rob Swire recommends the Samsung 830 Solid State Hard Drive. He says "Samsung 830 is badass. Need a special 2.5" backplane to fit if you're putting it in a Mac Pro though "

Rob Swire of Knife Party [formerly Pendulum] posted on his Twitter acount the provided image of his studio holding two of the mentioned Universal Audio Blue Strip Fet Limiters.

Rob Swire of Knife Party [formerly Pendulum] posted on his Twitter account the provided image of his studio holding two of the mentioned Empirical Labs EL8X Distessors in the top of the far right stack.

In an Interview w/ Future Music magazine, Rob Swire is shown talikng about how he uses is Chandler Limiter TG1 Abbey Road SE Limiter [@11:11]

"...for acoustic guitar we run two KM84 mics through a TG1..."

Rob Swire tweets "@SteinbergMedia Cubasis on iPad is fucking awesome. Been playing with it all week <3"