Mr. Scruff

Mr. Scruff demonstrates the "magic feet" at 1:06 in this video.

Mentioned in this April 23, 2014 Music Radar interview.

You are known for being creative in your performances. What tools help with that?

"I use a Formula Sound PM100 mixer, which is quite an old mixer with Vestax decks that have Rega tone arms and some nice Grado hi-fi cartridges because I still play vinyl. I used to play some stuff off CD but nowadays I tend to just play 24bit .wavs off a memory stick and one of the Pioneer's because it sounds a lot better than a CD.

"Well, I only have one keyboard. It’s a Korg MS 2000, not the original ‘70s one but a repro. With my keyboard sounds especially, I will resample stuff and then quite heavily process it in the sampler, or just resample lines that I played live, just to give it a similar feel to the sampled record. Or just to grime it, [I’ll] put it through old compressors or EQs, just to give it that warmth, that feel of the music from the ‘60s and ‘70s, that grainy sound quality. It gives it a coat, a slight ambiguity that’s difficult to explain but easy to hear." - Mr. Scruff in the Studio

"A tea kettle, an [Akai] MPC 60, and the E-mu 6400 sampler. I have a very small studio, and along with that I use the [E-mu] SP-1200. They’re both very old pieces of equipment from about 1987. They’re both mono. The quality of the sampling on the SP and the MPC is quite low, so any sample you put in there comes out the other end with the sound of that machine. The MPC has a bit more memory, it’s a bit more versatile, and the SP is very brutal, very gritty, and it has a great rock solid feel, even though when you analyze it the groove is actually quite wobbly. [The limited sampling rates] help me create a style rather than wallowing around in a laptop that’s got unlimited everything and 2,000 plug-ins and every keyboard ever made. I prefer to acquaint myself with two or three bits of equipment that are quite limiting, and just push those and that limit." - Mr. Scruff in the Studio

In this video,for Computer Music magazine in 2008, Mr. Scruff shows his song creating process, including his use of Logic Pro, which can be seen at 4:27.

A box for an AudioFire 4 can be spotted atop Mr. Scruff’s record shelf in this May 21, 2014 Fuse “Crate Diggers” interview at 3:25.

"A tea kettle, an [Akai] MPC 60, and the E-mu 6400 sampler. I have a very small studio, and along with that I use the [E-mu] SP-1200. They’re both very old pieces of equipment from about 1987. They’re both mono. The quality of the sampling on the SP and the MPC is quite low, so any sample you put in there comes out the other end with the sound of that machine. The MPC has a bit more memory, it’s a bit more versatile, and the SP is very brutal, very gritty, and it has a great rock solid feel, even though when you analyze it the groove is actually quite wobbly. [The limited sampling rates] help me create a style rather than wallowing around in a laptop that’s got unlimited everything and 2,000 plug-ins and every keyboard ever made. I prefer to acquaint myself with two or three bits of equipment that are quite limiting, and just push those and that limit." - Mr. Scruff in the Studio

At 2:29 in the source video, Mr. Scruff is describing a mixing technique and a Pioneer CDJ-2000 can be seen.

At 1:14 in this video from O2AcademyTV we can see the PDX3000.

From his XLR8R "In The Studio" interview:

A tea kettle, an [Akai] MPC 60, and the E-mu 6400 sampler. I have a very small studio, and along with that I use the [E-mu] SP-1200. They’re both very old pieces of equipment from about 1987. They’re both mono. The quality of the sampling on the SP and the MPC is quite low, so any sample you put in there comes out the other end with the sound of that machine. The MPC has a bit more memory, it’s a bit more versatile, and the SP is very brutal, very gritty, and it has a great rock solid feel, even though when you analyze it the groove is actually quite wobbly.

Mentioned on http://www.isonoe.com/clients/ as using their products

Can be seen using it in this YouTube Video for Producer Masterclass - Computer Music magazine 2008. Time - 27:35

Can be seen using it in this YouTube Video for Producer Masterclass - Computer Music magazine 2008.

Time - 29:15