Stephen Street

A black Novation Impulse 49 can be seen in Stephen Street's studio.

An M-Audio Axiom 25 can be seen in Stephen Street's studio.

An Akai MPC500 can be seen in Stephen Street's studio.

"Over the last few years a lot of new nearfield monitors have come onto the market and some of them are good, but although I used to hate them at first I've grown so accustomed to Yamaha NS10s that they are the ones I've stuck with. Let's face it, if you can make something sound good on NS10s it will sound good on anything!"

A Mac Pro tower can be seen in Stephen Street's studio (near the bottom left).

A Roland MC303 can be seen in Stephen Street's studio.

An Emu Vintage Keys unit can be seen in Stephen Street's studio, in the first and fifth photo. The fifth photo is captioned: A selection of Street's gear: from top, TL Audio Classic dual valve EQ and Indigo VP2051 voice processor, Empirical Labs Distressor compressor, Emu Vintage Keys and Proteus FX synth modules, Yamaha SPX900 multi‑effects, Antares ATR1 Auto‑Tune intonation processor, Novation BassStation Rack, Zoom Studio 1201 effects, Mutronics Mutator filter bank, Ensoniq DP2 effects, SPL Transient Designer dynamics processor, and two more Distressors.

An Emu Vintage Keys unit can be seen in Stephen Street's studio, in the first and fifth photo. The fifth photo is captioned: A selection of Street's gear: from top, TL Audio Classic dual valve EQ and Indigo VP2051 voice processor, Empirical Labs Distressor compressor, Emu Vintage Keys and Proteus FX synth modules, Yamaha SPX900 multi‑effects, Antares ATR1 Auto‑Tune intonation processor, Novation BassStation Rack, Zoom Studio 1201 effects, Mutronics Mutator filter bank, Ensoniq DP2 effects, SPL Transient Designer dynamics processor, and two more Distressors.

A Yamaha SPX 900 unit can be seen in Stephen Street's studio, in the fifth photo. The fifth photo is captioned: A selection of Street's gear: from top, TL Audio Classic dual valve EQ and Indigo VP2051 voice processor, Empirical Labs Distressor compressor, Emu Vintage Keys and Proteus FX synth modules, Yamaha SPX900 multi‑effects, Antares ATR1 Auto‑Tune intonation processor, Novation BassStation Rack, Zoom Studio 1201 effects, Mutronics Mutator filter bank, Ensoniq DP2 effects, SPL Transient Designer dynamics processor, and two more Distressors.

A Novation Bass Station rack unit can be seen in Stephen Street's studio, in the fifth photo. The fifth photo is captioned: A selection of Street's gear: from top, TL Audio Classic dual valve EQ and Indigo VP2051 voice processor, Empirical Labs Distressor compressor, Emu Vintage Keys and Proteus FX synth modules, Yamaha SPX900 multi‑effects, Antares ATR1 Auto‑Tune intonation processor, Novation BassStation Rack, Zoom Studio 1201 effects, Mutronics Mutator filter bank, Ensoniq DP2 effects, SPL Transient Designer dynamics processor, and two more Distressors.

A Zoom Studio 1201 unit can be seen in Stephen Street's studio, in the fifth photo. The fifth photo is captioned: A selection of Street's gear: from top, TL Audio Classic dual valve EQ and Indigo VP2051 voice processor, Empirical Labs Distressor compressor, Emu Vintage Keys and Proteus FX synth modules, Yamaha SPX900 multi‑effects, Antares ATR1 Auto‑Tune intonation processor, Novation BassStation Rack, Zoom Studio 1201 effects, Mutronics Mutator filter bank, Ensoniq DP2 effects, SPL Transient Designer dynamics processor, and two more Distressors.

A Yamaha SPX 900 unit can be seen in Stephen Street's studio, in the fifth photo. The fifth photo is captioned: A selection of Street's gear: from top, TL Audio Classic dual valve EQ and Indigo VP2051 voice processor, Empirical Labs Distressor compressor, Emu Vintage Keys and Proteus FX synth modules, Yamaha SPX900 multi‑effects, Antares ATR1 Auto‑Tune intonation processor, Novation BassStation Rack, Zoom Studio 1201 effects, Mutronics Mutator filter bank, Ensoniq DP2 effects, SPL Transient Designer dynamics processor, and two more Distressors.

An Ensoniq DP/2 unit can be seen in Stephen Street's studio, in the fifth photo. The fifth photo is captioned: A selection of Street's gear: from top, TL Audio Classic dual valve EQ and Indigo VP2051 voice processor, Empirical Labs Distressor compressor, Emu Vintage Keys and Proteus FX synth modules, Yamaha SPX900 multi‑effects, Antares ATR1 Auto‑Tune intonation processor, Novation BassStation Rack, Zoom Studio 1201 effects, Mutronics Mutator filter bank, Ensoniq DP2 effects, SPL Transient Designer dynamics processor, and two more Distressors.

"I have a small studio in a summerhouse at home which is equipped with a Mackie desk, some samplers and keyboards and a few trusty guitars including a Gibson 330 and a 1964 Fender Telecaster. I add new items quite slowly — the most recent being a [Mutronics] Mutator, which is a fun piece of kit — you can use it to add an analogue‑type filter to a synth sound.

"I have a small studio in a summerhouse at home which is equipped with a Mackie desk, some samplers and keyboards and a few trusty guitars including a Gibson 330 and a 1964 Fender Telecaster. I add new items quite slowly — the most recent being a [Mutronics] Mutator, which is a fun piece of kit — you can use it to add an analogue‑type filter to a synth sound."

"I also have a Mac with Logic, which is useful if I want click‑tracks, or to speed up or slow down a track, but I don't go in for heavy sequencing. For a bit of fun, I also recently bought an Akai MPC2000 because I liked the idea of having something that would enable me to get ideas together quickly. With the MPC2000, you have something that's a sampler and a sequencer, so it's pretty cool."

"My other recent purchase was a Zoom 1901 which has some good, lo‑fi settings and only cost £99 — last of the big spenders, that's me! And, of course, I have an Akai S3000 sampler that I bought a long time ago and still swear by. I just buy bits and pieces that I want to try out. For example, when I did the Tiger album I bought myself a Roland JV1080 because the band had used one on some of their demos and it sounded good. I thought I'd get one in for the sessions and then decided I might as well buy it."

"My other recent purchase was a Zoom 1901 which has some good, lo‑fi settings and only cost £99 — last of the big spenders, that's me! And, of course, I have an Akai S3000 sampler that I bought a long time ago and still swear by. I just buy bits and pieces that I want to try out. For example, when I did the Tiger album I bought myself a Roland JV1080 because the band had used one on some of their demos and it sounded good. I thought I'd get one in for the sessions and then decided I might as well buy it."