Peter Banks (keyboardist)

"My first ever home studio had the Revox B77, which I now use as my mixdown machine. Then I had a Teac 80-8 eight track, with an Allen & Heath desk. Then I had a Soundcraft 8 track with a Soundcraft desk, and then I got a Fostex B16 with a Soundtracs 16-8-16."

"My first ever home studio had the Revox B77, which I now use as my mixdown machine. Then I had a Teac 80-8 eight track, with an Allen & Heath desk. Then I had a Soundcraft 8 track with a Soundcraft desk, and then I got a Fostex B16 with a Soundtracs 16-8-16."

"In the rack there's a Roland stereo flanger/chorus (SBF325), which is excellent for keyboards; and the new Boss D200 DDL, which is totally brilliant - it has got a Hold facility and you can freeze a sound in there and trigger it from a rhythm box or a sequencer, so you can sample sounds. You can vary the pitch a bit but... I've done tracks just sampling noises - voices and things. That's fun. For the money, it is definitely good value - 300 quid or something."

"I've got a Turnkey patchbay. The speakers are Auratones, and Yamaha NS10s which everybody's raving about in the business."

Instruments around the room include a Fender Strat with a telecaster neck; a Yamaha CS80 ("still my favourite synth") and a MultiMoog, both of which he tries to steer clear of since they are distinctive of After The Fire days; latest acquisition: a Yamaha DX7 with the KX5 ("it's a dummy MIDI keyboard that works with the DX7 for slinging round your neck and posing with. It's great actually. It's got all the things the DX7 does; all touch response, breath control, modulation, pitch bend, sustain.").

Instruments around the room include a Fender Strat with a telecaster neck; a Yamaha CS80 ("still my favourite synth") and a MultiMoog, both of which he tries to steer clear of since they are distinctive of After The Fire days; latest acquisition: a Yamaha DX7 with the KX5 ("it's a dummy MIDI keyboard that works with the DX7 for slinging round your neck and posing with. It's great actually. It's got all the things the DX7 does; all touch response, breath control, modulation, pitch bend, sustain.").

"My first ever home studio had the Revox B77, which I now use as my mixdown machine. Then I had a Teac 80-8 eight track, with an Allen & Heath desk. Then I had a Soundcraft 8 track with a Soundcraft desk, and then I got a Fostex B16 with a Soundtracs 16-8-16."

"My first ever home studio had the Revox B77, which I now use as my mixdown machine. Then I had a Teac 80-8 eight track, with an Allen & Heath desk. Then I had a Soundcraft 8 track with a Soundcraft desk, and then I got a Fostex B16 with a Soundtracs 16-8-16."

"I've got a (balanced version) Great British Spring reverb: it's pretty good stuff."

"In the rack there's a Roland stereo flanger/chorus (SBF325), which is excellent for keyboards; and the new Boss D200 DDL, which is totally brilliant - it has got a Hold facility and you can freeze a sound in there and trigger it from a rhythm box or a sequencer, so you can sample sounds. You can vary the pitch a bit but... I've done tracks just sampling noises - voices and things. That's fun. For the money, it is definitely good value - 300 quid or something."

"I've got a Teac CX-310 cassette deck which was very cheap. And then I've got a truly fabulous system of track sheets which is on the computer (Sinclair Spectrum), so I don't have any paper track sheets."

There is an AKG D202, two AKG C451s with CK1 and CK5 capsules and, Peter's pride and joy, an old AKG C28 valve microphone with power pack et al.

In an article from Muzines, Peter Banks mentions using various AKG microphones in his setup, including the AKG C5 Condenser Mic, highlighting his extensive collection of recording gear.

Instruments around the room include a Fender Strat with a telecaster neck; a Yamaha CS80 ("still my favourite synth") and a MultiMoog, both of which he tries to steer clear of since they are distinctive of After The Fire days; latest acquisition: a Yamaha DX7 with the KX5 ("it's a dummy MIDI keyboard that works with the DX7 for slinging round your neck and posing with. It's great actually. It's got all the things the DX7 does; all touch response, breath control, modulation, pitch bend, sustain.").

Instruments around the room include a Fender Strat with a telecaster neck; a Yamaha CS80 ("still my favourite synth") and a MultiMoog, both of which he tries to steer clear of since they are distinctive of After The Fire days; latest acquisition: a Yamaha DX7 with the KX5 ("it's a dummy MIDI keyboard that works with the DX7 for slinging round your neck and posing with. It's great actually. It's got all the things the DX7 does; all touch response, breath control, modulation, pitch bend, sustain.").

Instruments around the room include a Fender Strat with a telecaster neck; a Yamaha CS80 ("still my favourite synth") and a MultiMoog, both of which he tries to steer clear of since they are distinctive of After The Fire days; latest acquisition: a Yamaha DX7 with the KX5 ("it's a dummy MIDI keyboard that works with the DX7 for slinging round your neck and posing with. It's great actually. It's got all the things the DX7 does; all touch response, breath control, modulation, pitch bend, sustain.").

Although the other half of Zipcodes (Pete's new band) is a drummer ("yes we use real live drums") Pete uses an old Roland CR78 CompuRhythm for writing: "I much prefer working with those kind of rhythms than with a Linn or something."

"Oh yes, I've also got this Casio MT40 keyboard for writing on tour - stick the old Walkman headphones into the headphone socket — write songs on the road."