Stephin Merritt

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs.

Stephin is credited using this equipment in the liner notes for 69 Love Songs and Distortion.

Merritt has been using Digital Performer in his music since the mid 80s.

Merritt uses this microphone in the recording of his music.

"I have a Kilpatrick Audio Pattern Generator, which is based on a little square of graphics where you have 64 dots that can be cycled through in a predetermined number of ways to represent 128 graphical images and different ways that the cursor can run through those. Each one represents a note value or control voltage, and I don’t know of any sequencer that was like that before. It’s not necessarily even a note sequencer - you could apply that voltage to anything."

"I also have a Rhythm Ace drum machine, which I believe is actually what turned into Roland’s famous CompuRhythm series".

“It’s not what everyone would call a melodica; it’s really a keyboard recorder. It’s actually wooden on the inside rather than metal, so it sounds like a recorder playing, but when you hit a second note it sounds like two… except it suddenly goes flat, so playing it in tune is extremely difficult. Basically, it’s really great at sounding like a group of children playing a recorder.”