Phil Oakey

Phil Oakey uses the Roland AX-1 synthesizer, as listed in The Human League's gear details in the Sounds article from August 12, 1978, featured on The-black-hit-of-space.

Phil Oakey of The Human League is listed as using the Roland Jupiter-8 synthesizer in the Sounds article from August 12, 1978, featured on The-black-hit-of-space.

Phil Oakey is listed as using the Roland JX-3P synthesizer, as noted in the article from The-black-hit-of-space.

Phil Oakey of The Human League includes the Roland JX-8P synthesizer in his equipment list, as noted in an article from The-black-hit-of-space.

Phil Oakey is noted to have used the Roland SH-3A Synthesizer, as mentioned in the August 12, 1978 issue of "Sounds" magazine, featured on The-black-hit-of-space website.

Phil Oakey of The Human League is documented using the Roland SH-7 synthesizer, as listed in the band's equipment kit in the 12th August 1978 issue of Sounds, featured on The-black-hit-of-space.

Included in kit list

Phil Oakey's use of the Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp is confirmed in a kit list featured in the August 12, 1978 issue of Sounds, as reported by The-black-hit-of-space.

Phil Oakey includes the Roland GR-700 Guitar Synthesizer in his gear list, as documented in the article from The-black-hit-of-space.

Guitar gear for the album Octopus: Peavey Heritage amp Roland Bolt 60 amp Vox AC30 amp Roland: GR-707 (x2); GR-303; GM-70; GR-33B; GR-300; GR-700 (x3)

"We're almost at the stage of doing the vocals now. We've been here for two weeks with another six to go, and we did four weeks in Sheffield first on my bedroom 24-track Otari. We used to demo on the 24-track, but now we're thinking of going back to 8-track demos because of the Linn 9000 — all the drums and keyboard parts can be done on the Linn, so you don't need all those tracks, just one or two for vocals and guitar."

"We all work a bit differently though — Jim and Adrian tend to go through presets, but I always go to manual and make up my own sounds. On the DX7 we always use presets; we started to do programming but it's difficult because there are six of everything and eight-stage envelopes. We have the Syco Logic MX1 board which holds 128 memories fitted in the DX7, and that's 90% full — and we have the sounds from the TX7 Expander which we transfer into the TX816 one or two at a time."

"We all work a bit differently though — Jim and Adrian tend to go through presets, but I always go to manual and make up my own sounds. On the DX7 we always use presets; we started to do programming but it's difficult because there are six of everything and eight-stage envelopes. We have the Syco Logic MX1 board which holds 128 memories fitted in the DX7, and that's 90% full — and we have the sounds from the TX7 Expander which we transfer into the TX816 one or two at a time."

Fleximix is noted as one of the consoles in the Human League's studio.