Prince

"The only bass effects on the record are a Zoom 9030 (usually on its "slap wah" setting) and a Danelectro Fab Tone pedal for fuzz."

Prince liked to used the Yamaha RX-5 digital drum machine for his 1987 album Sign O' the Times. For example, he used both the Linn LM-1's cabasa, kick and tambourine combined with the Yamaha RX-5's snare to create the drum beat for the album's title song.

In an interview, Susan Rogers mentioned that Prince was hesitant to adopt new gear, preferring equipment he was familiar with. He favored the Teletronix LA-2A Leveling Amplifier, and multiple photos from his Paisley Park studios show several LA-2As in use.

"The Artist plays bass on nearly all of the Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic tracks. (Rhonda S. appears on two songs.) For most of his parts The Artist used Graham’s Moon bass with Bartolini pickups; when the Moon was unavailable he used the Warwick Eye Bass. Engineer Hans-Martin Buff ran the signal into an Avalon U5 active DI, either a Demidio or Neve mike preamp, a Summit Audio compressor, and sometimes an API 550 EQ. The Artist rarely mikes a bass amp in the studio. The only bass effects on the record are a Zoom 9030 (usually on its "slap wah" setting) and a Danelectro Fab Tone pedal for fuzz."

According to this interview with Rogers from Tape Op magazine, when she first started working with Prince, "the first thing I was asked to do was pull the old console out of his home studio, install his new API, and fix his tape machine, which, at that time, was the Ampex MM-1200."

Plus, as per Duane Tudahl's Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio sessions 1983 and 1984 book, "Little Red Corvette" was the first song Prince recorded on the Ampex MM1200 24-track on May 20, 1982.

Prince's Ampex MM1200 was used for the Warehouse sessions in August 1983, which produced "Let's Go Crazy" and "Computer Blue".

The LM-1 was elite gear. Only 525 machines were ever made, and inventor Roger Linn managed to flog them by dragging around a little cardboard-box prototype to showbiz parties. Notching up pre-orders with Peter Gabriel, Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Wonder, the Drum Computer became a bourgeois must-have object, and was quickly put to use in hit records from the Human League, Gary Numan, and, most notably, Prince.

SL8000G, *not E! * If you can please fix that! Sorry!

Quote from SSL: "Nestling amongst VAT recepits and deserted spiders webs in our filing cabinets we found a folder titled “Paisley Park”, and we just couldn’t resist a peek. In the folder were all of the details, specs, and designs for the 2 consoles that we have sold Prince – one a SL6000E with 48 mono channels and 8 stereo channels (in 1985), and the other an 80 input SL8000G(in 1993)."

Shit!! It should be the SL8000G, *not E! * If you can please fix that! Sorry!

Prince used an Ensoniq Mirage on Sign O The Times.

An article released talks about what different gear Prince used during the recording of the Purple Rain album it is mentioned that he used a few 1176s and Susan Rogers during an interview said that she used a 1176 compressor on the Linn snare for the song If I Was Your Girlfriend.

Susan Rogers saids in a interview that Prince was reluctant of using new gear once he had what he liked; then she gives a list of what gear he used adding the he loved a Lexicon Prime-Time digital delay

In the interview Susan Rogers said that she added a Publison Inferno Machine 90 to Prince’s Studio and in the photo had one in the studio. Prince used IM90 to sample and also used it to make the Camille voice instead of speeding up tape to make the Camille voice.

In the article "Prince: The Unsung Guitar Hero" on Pro Guitar Shop, it is noted that Prince used the Roland GP-16 Digital Guitar Effects Processor, among other effects such as the Dunlop Rotovibe and Zoom 9030, in his pedalboard setup.

The Artist plays bass on nearly all of the Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic tracks. (Rhonda S. appears on two songs.) For most of his parts The Artist used Graham’s Moon bass with Bartolini pickups; when the Moon was unavailable he used the Warwick Eye Bass. Engineer Hans-Martin Buff ran the signal into an Avalon U5 active DI, either a Demidio or Neve mike preamp, a Summit Audio compressor, and sometimes an API 550 EQ.

In a personal studio photo, Prince is seen with an Akai S1000, highlighting its role in his music production setup.

Prince used a Dynacord ADD One on the Lovesexy album. It was triggered by the outputs of a Linn LM-1.

Prince used a Roland TR-808 on the song Da Da Da from the album Emancipation.

Prince used a Roland TR-606 on the song Velvet Kitty Kat from the Purple Rain Deluxe edition.

Prince used the Linn LinnDrum on one song - Elephants and Flowers from Graffiti Bridge. According to Susan Rogers, he preferred his Linn LM-1 as it allowed more options for tuning and signal processing. He used a rented LinnDrum when his LM-1s were unavailable.

According to this site Prince used this piece of equipment.

time stamped video @ 4:22min mark you can see the rack at Princes Paisley Park. You can see the AMS stuffs closest to the camera.

Again, you can see the rack at Prince's Paisly Park at the 4:22min mark. The video is a time stamped link. You can see the AMS gear as they pan and is closest to the camera.

Video shows Prince's 2 Studer A-800 at Paisly Park at the 4min 27sec mark.

Picture of Prince's Studer A-800 MKIII 8 Track emblazoned with Prince's "name/symbol" right below the meters as well as "Paisly Park Studios T-8". An additional photo can be seen here with an even larger version of Prince's "name/symbol"

http://www.historyofrecording.com/images/Studer_A800_8-Track_Paisley_Park_Studios_with_Prince.jpg

Quote from SSL: "Nestling amongst VAT recepits and deserted spiders webs in our filing cabinets we found a folder titled “Paisley Park”, and we just couldn’t resist a peek. In the folder were all of the details, specs, and designs for the 2 consoles that we have sold Prince – one a SL6000E with 48 mono channels and 8 stereo channels (in 1985), and the other an 80 input SL8000G(in 1993)."

You can just spot a pair of the EQP-1A's in the rack in the video at 4:22 at Prince's Paisly Park.

In a personal studio photo featured in W Magazine, Prince is seen with the Akai S3200XL, highlighting his use of this audio sampler.

In a photo taken at Paisley Park, Prince is seen with the E-mu Vintage Keys sound module in his personal studio, as featured in Wmagazine.

Prince played a Roland A 90 in the late 1990s. Prince had one housed in a dummy piano shell, which was used on the Jam Of The Year tour. He also used an A-90 on Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, combined with a Boss RV-3 Reverb/Delay pedal.

In the picture you can see that there’s a pair of Distressors in Prince’s studio

According to Uberproaudio, Prince utilized the Furman PL-8 Power Conditioner and Light Module as part of his guitar gear rig.