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."

"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."

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."