Mac DeMarco

DeMarco wrote some demos for This Old Dog on an acoustic guitar, an unusual yet eye-opening method for him. He also attributes some of the delay to his exploration of new gear he’d purchased, specifically a CR-78 drum machine, which he used while writing and can be heard on his album tracks for the first time ever. “That thing helped a ton, especially for demoing,” he says. “It’s on the album a lot, maybe four or five songs. I usually demo on a drum machine and then record real drums, but I liked that machine so much I kept it on the album. The majority of this album is acoustic guitar, synthesizer, some drum machine, and one song is electric guitar." In this interview, Mac describes using the CR-78 on several tracks off of his new album.

Seen at 4:00, probably used for the Prince cover and demoing we can imagine

Mac explains that he recently bought this drum machine

We can see the drum machine at 8:58

At 2:57, a TR-08 can be seen at the mid right corner of the screen.

At 1:06 Seen above a dbx 180 Mac has a LinnDrum

We can see Rhythm Box TS-2000 at 0:40 in this video.

At 1:03 in this video, we can see an Ace Tone FR-8L Rhythm Ace on the shelf on the left. Based on the "Rhythm Ace" logo written in white and the number and color of the buttons, we can be certain that this is an FR-8L.

We can see Ace Tone Rhythm Ace FR-2L at 1:03 in this video.