Mike Kerr

On this article about Mike Kerr, we can see Mike uses a Shure SM-57 and an Audio Technica 4060 in front of his Amps

On this article about Mike Kerr, we can see Mike uses a Shure SM-57 and an Audio Technica 4060 in front of his Amps

Because of the special design with the silver ring you can clearly see that Mike uses this microphone all the time at live shows like the deezer session, reading festival etc.

Mentioned in this November 12, 2014 article from the official DPA website.

"We use DPA's d:facto™ Vocal Microphone on vocals and d:vote™ 4099 Instrument Microphones on snare bottoms and toms," says Front of House engineer Phil Jones from Output Audio.

In this live performance image, Mike is seen playing a black Fender Starcaster Bass, he also owns a white Starcaster Bass, which he uses in the music video for Ten Tonne Skeleton. He started using Starcaster basses around 2013, during Royal Blood's time in the studio, according to 2020 Guitar World interview.

"I've recently started using a Fender Starcaster, a new bass that's come out. It's a hollow-body, short-scale bass with humbuckers that sound huge. I'm a big fan of that one, so I'm going to start using it a lot more. I'm sure the collection is going to increase and increase as time goes on." - via MusicRadar

In this photo, Mike Kerr is playing a Gretsch G2220 Electromatic Junior Jet II bass, which he confirms in this interview.

He also uses an all black version for live performances as well as seen here. In an 2020 Guitar World interview, Kerr mentions that this was also his first bass that he bought.

"Royal Blood bassist and vocalist Mike Kerr owns a Manson Custom bass made to his specific requirements. Look out for it on the 2015 tour!" - Manson Guitars.

You can see in this video of 'Hook Line and Sinker' at Reading 2015, Mike Kerr is using a Fender Jaguar Bass.

During Royal Blood's 2017 Tour, Mike changed from his gretsch electromatic basses and fender starcaster basses to new customised jaguar basses, witch include a starcaster wide range humbucker. This jaguar has four versions so far: one with a black sparkle finish and a pearloid pickguard, one with a red finish and black pickguard, one with a white finish and a gold pickguard and one with a fiesta red finish, a black pickguard and a mini humbucker (Similar to the ones in his gretsch basses) near to the bridge. One of the versions of this bass can be seen in the music video for "I Only Lie When I Love You".

The bass was created by Kyle Hodder (https://twitter.com/Fender_RND and https://www.instagram.com/fender_rnd/) along side Mike.

Mike showed it off in a video about his equpment and said that "they do have short scale Jaguars, but only Squier ones. So they made me a real posh one because I only play short scale basses"

This is one of the Mike's Fender Custom Bass

Mike uses this guitar to Hook, Line & Sinker.

The bass was created by Kyle Hodder (https://twitter.com/Fender_RND and https://www.instagram.com/fender_rnd/) along side Mike. https://www.instagram.com/p/7Oj53lOdC2/

Built custom for Mike Kerr a little before Royal Blood's performance at the Reading Festival in 2014.

It was announced through the Fender UK Twitter account, "Olympic White Starcaster Bass built for Mike Carr from @royalblooduk to debut at @OfficialRandL Festival this weekend"

The bass can be seen here being used during "Ten Tonne Skeleton" at Royal Blood's Reading Festival performance on August 29th, 2015.

The bass was created by Kyle Hodder (https://twitter.com/Fender_RND and https://www.instagram.com/fender_rnd/) along side Mike.

A yellow custom Fender Jaguar bass used by Mike during the How Did We Get So Dark? tour.

It's been only seen live during performanes of "She's Creeping" as seen here at a performace at the Wiltern on August 16th, 2017.

Here's another video of a performance at a closer angle on July 10th, 2017 at Théâtre Antique de Fourvière, Lyon, France.

The black G2220 was the main bass in Royal Blood's early days. Mike is using it again for Figure It Out and Out of the Black in 2019.

The Sansamp is being used to shape one of the fake guitars signals as seen being adjusted just before the band play 'Better Strangers'.

Dawsons, a music store from the UK, posts an article on the Equipment of Royal Blood. They write "Speaking of amps, Mike feeds his bass into a number of guitar amps, namely a Fender Supersonic and a Bassman. The Supersonic is an interesting amp, with enough gain available on tap to serve up the thick, goopy levels of grit and dirtiness, yet can also deliver Fender’s traditional sparkling cleans if required."

The Fender Supersonic 22 Combo is shown on Fender's official artist page for Royal Blood, Mike Kerr's band.

You can check out Mike Kerr's official artist page on the Fender website, with this photo containing his Fender Super Bassman Pro.

On this page of Fender's website, it lists the Bassman 810 Pro among the gear that Mike Kerr of Royal Blood uses.

"Sorry, man. The amps I use are all Ampegs. I use an SVT bass amp and two GVT guitar amps. I just found that they aren't making the GVTs anymore, so if you know anyone who's got some, let me know – I need some spares."

This was taken from an interview with Mike Kerr by Music Radar. Also, in the image below, two GVT amplifiers are seen connected to Mike's bass.

At 0:43, the video pans to a shot of the Fender amps Mike now uses. But you'll also notice there are two Sansamp RBI's in the rack system. Even with the quality of the video, you can tell its a RBI rather than a RPM (the third control knob is a blend control whereas its a mid shift on the RPM, which would be a lot more writing on that part of the amp!). I'd imagine this is used to help shape the bass tone for DI purposes.

At 36:55 in this video of Royal Blood at the Life Is Beautiful Festival, you can clearly see that Mike has added a Fender Bassbreaker to his rig.

In this photo we can see Mike Kerr using a version of his rig more "compact" with 2 Fender DeVille HotRod in this pic we can also see this amp http://www.audiotechnology.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Laneway-2015-15-of-56-EDIT.jpg

On this article about Mike Kerr, we can see an Ampeg SVT-CL

We can see at 2:58 a 4x10 ashdown bass cab

This photo from a Royal Blood live performance shows Mike Kerr using an Electro-Harmonix POG2 Polyphonic Octave Generator guitar effects pedal.

Guitar World, 2020

“Well, I know you use an Electro-Harmonix POG2 and a Z.Vex Mastotron Fuzz,” I venture, to which Kerr counters, “There you go then. So you know all you need to know.” I bring up the matter of Kerr’s “mystery pedal,” the identity of which he swears he’ll never disclose.