Mark Ronson

In this photo, Mark Ronson is playing live with his Gretsch G6122-1962 Chet Atkins Country Gentleman electric guitar. This photo was taken from his performance at Lovebox Festival in 2010 held in Victoria Park, London, England.

Mark Ronson can be seen using a Stratocaster at 2:34 in this video.

Mark Ronson can be seen using a Gibson EDS-1275 Double Neck Electric Guitar in this photo.

in this video you can see him play this guitar

In this video, Mark Ronson and a group of excellent talent cover Queens of the Stoneage's "Sat By The Ocean". At the end of the video, Mark freezes and you can clearly see the ES-347 engraving on the truss rod cover. The ES-347 is rarely seen. In 1980s, Gibson introduced this model with an addedcoil-tap switch – creating the option of a Beatles-esque Casino-like tone. During this performance, Mark Ronson is playing the rare factory black finish version of this guitar.

In this video, Mark Ronson plays a guitar with a picture of the Uptown Funk album cover under the strings. this can also be seen on the inner sleeve of the Uptown Special album. It can be best seen at 0:20 in the video

n this photo, Mark Ronson is playing live with his Gibson ES-355 Walnut VOS Varitone w/ Maestro Tremolo electric guitar at the 2008 Lollapalooza music festival at Grant Park on August 3, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.

At 0:58 into his studio tour, the TC Electronic Dynamic Digital Delay can be seen as Mark Ronson talks about the vintage analog gear he is able to use in the studio.

Mark improves a track on a customized MPC 3000 at 0:24.

At the 0:58 minute mark of this video the Empirical Labs Distressor is shown in Mark Ronson's studio

In this article by Waves, Mark Ronson says he owns two dbx 160 comressors :

"Obviously the L2 Ultramaximizer is something I use all the time. And then there’s hardware that I actually have in my studio, like the dbx 160 compressors, but I only have two of those, so once I run out of analog channels I use the Waves dbx 160 in the box. I also use H-Delay a lot, especially for vocals."

"In my main room I'm using a Mac Pro running Mac OS 10.6.7 with Pro Tools HD and a Pro Control desk."

This article states that Mark Ronson uses a Neve VR-72 console.

This article states that Mark Ronson uses a Mac G5.

“The API plugins are great for getting an analog sensibility. I just go to the presets and tweak it from there very quickly.”

“As an engineer, Manny always brings a more eccentric, slightly psychedelic, outsider-thing to hip-hop and R&B, especially on those Kanye records. And that really comes through on his plugins. It’s nice when you use the plugin and recognize the character of the dude in it. ”

“The Renaissance plugins have been my bread and butter since I ran my first sessions in Pro Tools in 2000. They are engraved in me like muscle memory. They’re great, they don’t take up a load of my CPU, and I can use them quickly and move along with what I’m doing.”

“I actually have original dbx 160 hardware compressors in my studio – but I only have two of those, so once I run out of analog channels I use the Waves dbx 160 in the box to get that sound.”

In this Sound on Sound article Mark Ronson states : "In terms of plugins, Waves have been part of my workflow since I ran my first session in Pro Tools back in 2000 with Nikka Costa. The Waves stuff was our bread and butter on those, especially the Renaissance series. The Renaissance EQ and Renaissance Vox plugins are things I learned on; I know them so well, they’re engraved in me like muscle memory. They’re great, they don’t take up a load of my CPU and I can use them quickly and move along with what I’m doing.

The one plugin I use the most is probably the CLA-3A compressor. That was something I picked up from [producer] Jeff Bhasker when we were working on “Uptown Funk.” You throw it on a vocal or a bass track, and it makes everything a little tougher and also makes the mix just a little more centered."

In this article by Waves, Mark Ronson states

"In terms of plugins, Waves have been part of my workflow since I ran my first session in Pro Tools back in 2000 with Nikka Costa. The Waves stuff was our bread and butter on those, especially the Renaissance series. The Renaissance EQ and Renaissance Vox plugins are things I learned on; I know them so well, they’re engraved in me like muscle memory. They’re great, they don’t take up a load of my CPU and I can use them quickly and move along with what I’m doing.

The one plugin I use the most is probably the CLA-3A compressor. That was something I picked up from [producer] Jeff Bhasker when we were working on “Uptown Funk.” You throw it on a vocal or a bass track, and it makes everything a little tougher and also makes the mix just a little more centered."

In this article by Waves, Mark Ronson states :

"In terms of plugins, Waves have been part of my workflow since I ran my first session in Pro Tools back in 2000 with Nikka Costa. The Waves stuff was our bread and butter on those, especially the Renaissance series. The Renaissance EQ and Renaissance Vox plugins are things I learned on; I know them so well, they’re engraved in me like muscle memory. They’re great, they don’t take up a load of my CPU and I can use them quickly and move along with what I’m doing.

The one plugin I use the most is probably the CLA-3A compressor. That was something I picked up from [producer] Jeff Bhasker when we were working on “Uptown Funk.” You throw it on a vocal or a bass track, and it makes everything a little tougher and also makes the mix just a little more centered."

In this article by Waves, Mark Ronson states : "Obviously the L2 Ultramaximizer is something I use all the time. And then there’s hardware that I actually have in my studio, like the dbx 160 compressors, but I only have two of those, so once I run out of analog channels I use the Waves dbx 160 in the box. I also use H-Delay a lot, especially for vocals."

In this article by Waves, Mark Ronson states : "Obviously the L2 Ultramaximizer is something I use all the time. And then there’s hardware that I actually have in my studio, like the dbx 160 compressors, but I only have two of those, so once I run out of analog channels I use the Waves dbx 160 in the box. I also use H-Delay a lot, especially for vocals."

In the "Making Of" video for the song "Baby Blue", produced by Ronson, he is using the headphones while playing the song on a piano at a studio.

(Item can be seen on 0:15 of the video)

This article states that Mark Ronson uses Avalon Vt-737sp preamp.

At 3:23 of his Studio Tour, Mark Ronson can be seen using Pro Tools."This is Pro Tools which I've been using for about 10 years. Alot of people do all their programming and sequencing in here but I prefer to use it as a tool once you've done recording all the drums and the bass and the things that you use on tape ;You transfer into Pro Tools and it gives you a bit more flexibility for editing things and fixing some mistakes".

This article states that Mark Ronson uses a Fender Jazz bass.