Steve Albini's Studio Equipment

"When I first got the 606 I carried it around and listened to it like a walkman, and over the course of a day I would gradually build and re-build a rhythm until it was satisfying to listen to on its own."

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video recorded at Electrical Audio, Steve Albini's studio, item shown at 8:56

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We also have the Quantec XRS XL, which for my money is the best digital reverb ever.

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video recorded at Electrical Audio, Steve Albini's studio, item shown around 9:21

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At 3:13 in the video, the camera focuses on Steve’s main console (the Neotek Elite designed by Craig Conley) at the Electrical Audio studio.

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video recorded at Electrical Audio, Steve Albini's studio, item shown around 10:16

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video recorded at Electrical Audio, Steve Albini's studio, item shown at 8:56

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Steve Albini utilized a Study A820 Master Record while recording The Breeders' "Title TK" album.

"Recorded to GP9 on a Studer A820."

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We have a spring reverb tower, the AKG BX20, which in its day was the bee's knees for long reverbs. It was a $5000-10,000 device when it was made, in the late '60s and early '70s. It's about six feet tall and has two spiral reverb springs and it sounds lovely.

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video recorded at Electrical Audio, Steve Albini's studio, item shown at 7:53

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Specified on the official Millennia artist page.

Steve Albini (Origin)

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6:33 in the video, Steve is in the process of running through his rack mounts.

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Used as Big Black's drum machine from the Racer-X album onwards, replacing the previous TR-606. Also referred to in the Big Black tour diaries as Roland MK II. Obvious when comparing Bulldozer to Racer-X onwards with the proper 707 samples.

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At the very start of the video you can hear Steve test the Drumulator pressing the button for the Bass Drum. Also at this point and year Atomizer was released.

Also Noted Atomizer and all post-Atomizer releases by the band do not feature the TR-606, instead opting for the E-mu Drumulator as mentioned on the Big Black Wikipedia page.

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