Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer‐songwriter and poet
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Leonard Cohen's Gear
In this image, Cohen can be seen playing an Ovation Classical 1613.
This is a rare old 90s Pre-Multiac Godin Tele Classic, clean headstock with no logo, L.R. Baggs electronic. pots hidden behind black plastic cover.
On Godin's artist page, it is stated that Cohen uses a Godin Multiac ACS-SA.
Cohen can be seen playing a black Gibson Chet Atkins CE in this photo.
Cohen can be seen in this image playing a Technics K350 keyboard.
In a photo featured on Cohencentric, Leonard Cohen is shown playing a Technics KN-6500 synthesizer.
He used this to record most of the vocals for Popular Problems.
According to his engineer, "At Leonard’s place I used my Neumann U47, a Vintech Audio preamp, which is a Neve 1073 clone, an Apogee Duet, a Mac with Logic 9, a set of AKG headphones, Genelec speakers, a Nord Stage and an 88-key Akai controller. "
The linked article states: "Adam turned Cohen’s house into a makeshift recording studio, placing an old Neumann U 87 microphone on the dining room table..."
In a photo on this page, Cohen can be seen recording with a Neumann U47.
In addition, Leonard said he owned a conde guitar in the 2011 Prince of Asturias awards speech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIR5ps8usuo). Some additional corroboration is in the Leonard Cohen forum: https://www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=3420#p36270
In this user-uploaded photo, Leonard Cohen is seen with a Casio PT-30 synthesizer.
Used in his "Live in London" record as well as Dublin, this seemed to be Leonard's go to live mic.
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