Robert Smith

Smith can be seen playing a Korg 800DV in a photo on this site.

During the Cure's 2016 live tour, to date, Smith has relied almost exclusively on his Schecter signature instruments, including his Ultracure VI 6-string bass.

From this article:

Footage of the group’s show at the iconic Sydney Opera House, which celebrated the 30th anniversary of landmark album Disintegration, shows Smith flanked by a cluster of four Spiders - a quartet of cobweb-coated Spider V 120s, to be precise.

Included in list of Robert Smith's pedals

Included in list of Robert Smith's pedals

Included in list of Robert Smith's pedals

The April 2000 issue of Guitar World, lists the PCM-80 as one of Robert's effects. An archived version of this article can be seen here. This article from the venerable Sound on Sound website also lists the PCM-80 among Robert's outboard equipment.

Robert Smith custom guitar, played on stage during his performance with The Cure headline set at 2016 Bestival.

"Designed by Robert and printed with Bestival 2016 artwork, the Schecter “RS Ultracure Bestival” is so rare that only two of them exist in the world… and Robert has given us one to give away, signed especially for Make Some Noise and Radio X by the Cure frontman."

In this transcription of an article from the June 1996 issue of Sound on Sound magazine, Smith says of his demo recording process, "When I do [them] at home, I play a lot and build up the song. I use a little Casio home keyboard, a Musicman bass and an electronic Casio guitar with plastic strings, as well as an Ovation 6 string acoustic. Then there's a Tascam 8 track Portastudio."

In this image from a studio session, Smith sits surrounded by effects pedals. Behind him (on the left side of the picture) we can see his DM4 pedal.

Seen here in video for "lovecats"

This is a video of The Glove, Robert's side project with bassist Steve Severin of the Banshees. They can clearly be seen using a Roland SH-101 in this video. I don't know if it belongs to Smith, but he clearly must have used one at some point.

"I remember the guitar parts being very easy," Hedges says. "Robert had most of them worked out and the overdubs were simple — they were double-tracks, guitars with more effects or embellishments here and there. However, there were very few over-overdubs. They were mainly just single overdubs, and there was very, very little comping on that album. In terms of the vocals, which Robert performed into a Neumann FET 47, we'd do just one track and if it wasn't right we'd redo it, and if it still wasn't right we'd maybe drop in one or two bits, but generally there was very little comping. We didn't really have the time. There might have been two guitar tracks comped into one and there might have been two vocal tracks comped into one, but generally everything was as played or as sung.

A pair of Mac G5 towers can be seen behind him.

This article from Sound On Sound's June 1996 issue lists the Emulator II as being among Robert's synths during the recording of their album Wild Mood Swings.

In this transcription of an article from the June 1996 issue of Sound on Sound magazine, Smith says, "I've used an AKG C12 mic since the Wish album, because for me it's much more forgiving."

In this image from a studio session, Smith is adjusting the parameters on a pedal. In the bottom-middle, we can see his BCB-60 full of Boss pedals, including an LS-2.

Robert's Boss BCB-6 pedal board can be seen in this photo.

During the Cure's 2016 live tour, Smith has relied almost exclusively on his Schecter signature instruments. This includes his RS-1000 acoustic guitar.

Guitar World magazine's April 2000 issue shows the FireworX unit as listed as being one of Robert's effects. An archived version of this article can be found here.

Robert used an Eventide H3000 during The Cure's live set up. The source here is a screenshot of an archived version of an April 2000 edition of Guitar World magazine. More verification of Robert's and The Cure's use of this can be found in this Sound on Sound article.

Smith used this guitar from the mid eighties through the late nineties. He can be seen playing it in their movie "The Cure In Orange".

In this image from a studio session, Smith is adjusting the parameters on a pedal. His Whammy pedal is sitting on the far left side of the picture.

In this image from a studio session, Smith is adjusting the parameters on a pedal. His Bootzilla fuzz-wah can be seen on the far-left side of the picture, and is easily identifiable due to the color and shape of the tread.

The 2290 is among many effects used by Robert per this archived version of an April 2000 edition of Guitar World magazine. Sound on Sound also lists this as part of The Cure's gear set up here.

In this article from the June 1996 issue of Sound On Sound magazine, Robert explains that "the only piece of outboard I know of, which I've used for the last three albums, is a Massenburg 8200 EQ -- just because, again, it's notching out rather than adding."

This transcription of an article from the June 1996 issue of Sound on Sound magazine lists the Jen Cry Baby among Smith's gear circa the recording of the Cure's Wild Mood Swings album.

In this image from a studio session, Smith is adjusting the parameters of a pedal. On his Boss effects board, in the center-bottom of the photo, we can see his TU-12 tuner.

In this image from a studio session, Smith is adjusting the parameters on a pedal. We can see his PW-10 on the far-left side of the picture, just below his Whammy and his Snarling Dog fuzz wah.

Robert Smith uses the Schecter Robert Smith Ultracure VI Silver Burst Pearl as his primary instrument in concerts with The Cure, as evidenced by this image