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In this interview Roden talks about how when he performs live he uses two DOD DFX94s. He primarily uses these as a looper rather then as a delay. Steve Roden prefers these over more advanced sampler delays, saying that he perfers the simpler and more straightforward aspects of the DOD DFX94s.

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In this image from an interview with A Closer Listen, you can see the Mackie Micro-Series 1202 front and center. In the interview Steve Roden talks about how he is not a fan of more fancy mixers, and that he finds them some what confusing. The reason he has stuck with this one is because its simple and he has had it for 20 years, meaning he knows it very well.

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In this Youtube video you can see Steve Roden playing the PAiA Oz through out. At 14:44 you can clearly see it, with the distinctive touch plate to the side, the oval speaker on top and all 4 knobs, You can also see it more clearly in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeoURa2vvtM) however he does not play it. Given Steve Roden's history of preferring simple gear, its likely he prefers the PAiA Oz because of its extremely simple interface.

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At 1:16 in this youtube video you can see the Sony TCM-200DV in the upper right hand corner.

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Steve Roden uses the Pocket Piano through out this performance, you can see it at 14:10

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In a user-uploaded photo from a garage recording session, Steve Roden's Hohner Trumpet Call harmonica is visible to the left of the zither.

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In this image from Steve Roden's interview with A Closer Listen, you can see the Boss Dr.Sample 202, it is also shown less clearly earlier in the interview when talking about recording samples. Roden does not talk explicitly about the DR-202 in the interview but its safe to assume from how its set up that he is just using it to play back samples and possibly apply effects to them (seeing as how the ring-mod is currently active in the image).

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In this image from Steve Rodens interview with A Closer Listen, you can see the Sony Mic n Micro directly to the right of the zither with bells on the strings. You can tell it's the Mic n Micro from the shape and color, the microphone head is pointing down. In the interview Steve Roden says that this was from a recording session from 2011 where he recorded acoustic instruments onto small tape recorders.

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