Robin Guthrie

"This rack over here, at the end, is what we call the guitar rack. You've got a valve preamp and a Roland FC100, which I can use in conjunction with this GP8. All of these get put through the Yamaha DMP7, a digital mixer, where all my patches are stored. One recent thing is this Quadraverb unit that just came out. It does reverbs, delays, choruses and EQs all at the same time, instead of having to have four separate units. A lot of the sounds on our records are made up not by just, say, getting a piano, but by taking a piano and sort of messing about with it through all this type of stuff."

"This rack over here, at the end, is what we call the guitar rack. You've got a valve preamp and a Roland FC100, which I can use in conjunction with this GP8. All of these get put through the Yamaha DMP7, a digital mixer, where all my patches are stored. One recent thing is this Quadraverb unit that just came out. It does reverbs, delays, choruses and EQs all at the same time, instead of having to have four separate units. A lot of the sounds on our records are made up not by just, say, getting a piano, but by taking a piano and sort of messing about with it through all this type of stuff."

On the equipment notes page of Robin Guthrie's official website, he mentions that he uses "an Electrix Repeater. It works..."

In this 1996 Guitar Player magazine interview, Robin Guthrie says: "on the last tour I was also using a Zoom 9050 multi-effector, but purely for delay."

In this 1996 Guitar Player magazine interview, Robin Guthrie says: "my favorite digital delay is the Yamaha D-1500."

This website has transcriptions of various posts by Guthrie submitted to Cocteau Twins forums in the early 00's. In the "Drum Machines" section, he specifies, "Roland CR1000; Milk & Kisses."

In the first paragraph, 13 lines down, on his official website, Robin Guthrie discusses his use of the Boss DR-55 drum machine.

In the "Equipment Notes" section on Robin Guthrie's official website, the E-mu SP-1200 sampler is listed in the first paragraph, 24 lines down, as part of his gear collection.

"I use Cubase running on a 3GHz Pentium 4 and a gig of RAM. It's on a network and I've got about a terabyte of hard disk space. I've got a MOTU 2408, but it's not my ideal choice because I run two Yamaha O2Rs slaved together. So the 2408 has 24 channels of ADAT and the whole thing is linked up digitally. There's not analog in there at all, except for my sends and returns, so if I want to use some nice compressors and some nice EQs I can do that. Effects-wise, I still have far too many of them to warrant having them. There are still a couple of choice pieces that I come back to time and again: The Urei 1178 and Tube-Tech EQs."

"Out of the harmoniser it goes to a delay, either a Boss or a Delta Lab one, about 250mS. I prefer the Delta Lab one, but Elizabeth likes singing through that so I often end up with the Boss. Then that goes into a Roland Dimension D, which splits up the signal into a lovely spatial stereo. I've been using that in studios for years, it's like a subtle phasing, nice and sparkly. Out of that it goes into two Bolt combos, a 30 and a 60."

Used in the Cocteau Twins album Garlands.

In the first paragraph, line 13 of the Equipment Notes on Robin Guthrie's official website, he mentions using the Soundmaster SR-88 drum machine.

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In the equipment notes on his official website, Robin Guthrie lists the E-mu Drumulator in the third paragraph, second line, indicating his use of this drum machine.

9th paragraph and 3rd line this processor is listed as being used.

10th paragraph down and 13th line this processor is listed

In the Equipment Notes on his official website, Robin Guthrie mentions the Lexicon 480L in the twelfth paragraph, third line, highlighting its role in his studio setup.

"I use Cubase running on a 3GHz Pentium 4 and a gig of RAM. It's on a network and I've got about a terabyte of hard disk space. I've got a MOTU 2408, but it's not my ideal choice because I run two Yamaha O2Rs slaved together. So the 2408 has 24 channels of ADAT and the whole thing is linked up digitally. There's not analog in there at all, except for my sends and returns, so if I want to use some nice compressors and some nice EQs I can do that. Effects-wise, I still have far too many of them to warrant having them. There are still a couple of choice pieces that I come back to time and again: The Urei 1178 and Tube-Tech EQs."

"Out of there I go into an Ibanez 1000 harmonizer, usually an octave up. They're nasty if you've used an AMS, but for £300 they do the job. If you wind up the feedback you get a lovely sort of organ tone out of the guitar."

Used in the Cocteau Twins EPs Aikea Guinea, Tiny Dynamine and Echoes In A Shallow Bay.

Used in the Cocteau Twins EPs Tiny Dynamine and Echoes In A Shallow Bay.

In the Equipment Notes on Robin Guthrie's official website, the Yamaha RX-5 drum machine is mentioned in the third paragraph, sixth line, confirming its use by the artist.

8th paragraph down and 7th line down this item is listed by robin.

In the Equipment Notes on his official website, Robin Guthrie mentions using the WEM Watkins Copicat in the 10th paragraph, 10th line.

In the equipment notes on his official website, Robin Guthrie mentions using the UREI 1178 Dual Peak Limiter.

In the "Equipment Notes" section on Robin Guthrie's official website, the DBX 160X is mentioned as part of his gear setup.

12th paragraph and 6th line this is mentioned as being used by robin

"This rack over here, at the end, is what we call the guitar rack. You've got a valve preamp and a Roland FC100, which I can use in conjunction with this GP8. All of these get put through the Yamaha DMP7, a digital mixer, where all my patches are stored. One recent thing is this Quadraverb unit that just came out. It does reverbs, delays, choruses and EQs all at the same time, instead of having to have four separate units. A lot of the sounds on our records are made up not by just, say, getting a piano, but by taking a piano and sort of messing about with it through all this type of stuff."

This website has transcriptions of various posts by Guthrie submitted to Cocteau Twins forums in the early 00's. In the "Drum Machines" section, he explains, "Victorialand: Just a Roland CR78 on one song;"

"On the first LP we used a Roland TR808, then went on to a Linndrum for a bit. We did the 'Lullabies' 12in with that, horrible. Nasty piece of work. It just sounds like a Linn. Then we got the Drumulator, an early one, I think it's serial number 70."