Mike Barson's Gear
Mike Barson is playing a Yamaha YC45D; it can be seen quite clearly at 0:25.
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Korg caught up with Mike putting the SV-1 through its paces while on tour in the UK. "It sounds fantastic. Very nice piano sounds. It's really excellent. I expect to be getting a lot of pleasure form this in the coming years! "
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I asked Daren who looks after Mikes stuff and he told me:
“We use 2 x Doepfer PK88’s, one of the most solid keyboards you can get. One of them literally fell off the back of a lorry and all that broke was one key! The two tier set up I designed with Mike and had the whole thing made, also the stand is bespoke, hand made and re-enforced. We use 4 Macbook pro’s to control the keyboards and extra sounds and all the midi is a bespoke design that I’m currently re-configuring. The whole thing is constantly being updated as technology changes”.
This is his most commonly used set up, being used since around 2007 (post Dangermen Sessions). Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7LDXKdVzKLE It’s used on the majority of studio recordings and live appearances from The Liberty of Norton Folgate onward.
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I asked Daren who looks after Mikes stuff and he told me:
“We use 2 x Doepfer PK88’s, one of the most solid keyboards you can get. One of them literally fell off the back of a lorry and all that broke was one key! The two tier set up I designed with Mike and had the whole thing made, also the stand is bespoke, hand made and re-enforced. We use 4 Macbook pro’s to control the keyboards and extra sounds and all the midi is a bespoke design that I’m currently re-configuring. The whole thing is constantly being updated as technology changes”.
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In this video at 0:35 you can see Mike Barson is using two KX88’s. This same equipment is used throughout the whole of the Madstock ‘99 concert, often with the lower keyboard as a piano sound and the upper used as an organ sound.
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In the video at 4:12 you can see Mike Barson using two Roland RD-700’s stacked.
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In the photo you can see the back of a Hammond Xk5. Mike Barson is using both lower and higher manuals as you can tell by the change in wood colour halfway down.
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In this video you can clearly see Mike Barson using the Yamaha CP300 at 1:04. It’s taken from the Christmas Sessions in 2011.
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