Steve Winwood

In the documentray English Soul Steve Winwood can be seen with a Electro-Voice RE20 Dynamic Cardioid Microphone in his homw studio. On youtube search: Steve Winwood - English Soul (BBC 4 Documentary) (48:19)

"Winwood relies on a Neumann KMS 105 vocal microphone for both his live engagements and his studio work" As stated by Electronic Musician, October 25 2008. The article is called "Steve Winwood Endorses Neumann Sennheiser"

This Premier Guitar article states, " To celebrate, Gibson Guitar Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz presented Winwood with an exclusively designed Gibson Firebird guitar. The guitar is a replica of Winwood''s favorite Firebird from the 1960s, which was stolen while on tour at that time." And the picture shows Winwood with a non-reverse Firebird.

In this Vintage Guitar article, it talks about some of the guitars Winwood has used, which includes a Jaguar.

In this article, by Vintage Guitar, Steve Winwood says, "I remember at one point I played a Jaguar; then I had various Gibsons, including a Melody Maker."

It says, "Early pictures of the Spencer Davis Group show Winwood playing a three-pickup Harmony H59 Rocket," in this article, by Vintage Guitar.

This article states that Steve Winwood used a Harmony Stratotone, saying "Steve is also quoted as playing a Stratotone variation."

Steve Winwood has used a "white Telecaster", according to this article by Vintage Guitar.

In this article, by Vintage Guitar, Winwood talks about Stratocasters:

"'When I finally got to make some money, in about 1966, I ordered a couple of Fenders – a Strat and a Tele,' explains Winwood. 'They were CBS, and they just started remaking the maple necks. Of course, I’d seen pictures of these old guys playing maple necks, and that was a big thing. I loved the kind of stuff that Curtis Mayfield was doing – that style – and Little Milton. It wasn’t so much a driven style of guitar; it was like a clean sound. I didn’t realize that I had convinced Eric to play the Strat until reading his book. In fact, I learned a lot of things about Eric’s and my relationship after I read his book.'”

Steve Winwood used a Höfner Club 40, according to this article.

Winwood uses a sunburst American Standard Stratocaster, as stated in this article.

"...and I used a Danelectro at one point.” Stated by a Steve Winwood Interview in Vintage Guitar Magazine June 2008 issue "Voice of a Guitar Great" by Dan Forte

Steve Winwood plays a Les Paul Gibson in the whole music video of Night Train that can be seen on Youtube. (1:25)

Steve Winwood says he uses a Fender Cyber-Twin amp in this article by Vintage Guitar.

"Kemper has revolutionized my thinking on guitar amplification. The sounds are completely true to life, matching faultlessly the models they are profiling, and unlike other amplifiers it is not subject to mic placement or level. A phenomenal achievement!" mentioned by Steve Winwood on Kemper Amps website

"Steve Winwood-PNC Bank Arts Center- July 6, 2016-Guitar Solo Amazing!" on youtube shows him using a Kemper Profiler Remote Foot Controller (1:43) connected to the Kemper Profiler Head

"I think at that time I was using Marshall amps that had 10? speakers, because they had a bit more drive to them." statement by Steve Winwood from Vintage Guitar Magazine, June 2008 Issue by Dan Forte.

Interview from Guitar.Com "Always A Guitar Player" by Scott Tribble

Guitar.com: Some people cite the Spencer Davis Group's "Keep on Running" as the first song recorded with a separate distortion pedal, as opposed to just overdriving the amp. Is that indeed how you did it? If so, to your knowledge, were you the first to do that on record

Winwood: That is indeed how we did it. I think [the fuzz box] was called a Big Muff. I'm not sure that we were the first to do that on record. We just went to the music shop and picked up these gadgets and tried them out— it sounded good for that song.

"For the last 2 albums I've used a Multimoog for bass and some lead lines, and a Prophet 5, a polysynthesizer made by Sequential Circuits, for most leads on Arc of a Diver. I also used a Steinway piano"

Steve Winwood

"No, I played Kurzweil this time. As you say I often played Minimoog in the past. Or DX7."

and

"No, I think it was one of the preset sounds on a copy of the ROM which was Kurzweil's accessory. Or maybe I used other sound module in the end. I can't remember how the patches were. But I don't dislike programming itself though I sometimes leave it to other people. Recently I use MARK OF THE UNICORN's Performer [a programming software for Macintosh] and a Macintosh as my main tools when I do it. However, as to the sounds of such vintage instruments as Wurlitzer's electric piano and Hammond organ or of such effects as wah wah, I use real ones more often than programmed ones. But this does not mean that I defy sound modules and sampled sounds." - Charles Shimiz, Keyboard Magazine May 1997, interview talking to Steve Winwood's upcoming Junction Seven album - http://www.stevewinwood.com/news/6052

He also told Musician magazine in October 1982, “the Multimoog is where I get the effect that everybody thinks is a saxophone.” That should put to rest any Internet chatter that it was a Minimoog, or even a Yamaha DX7, which he did use later in concert.

Keyboard Mag January 15, 2015 Jerry Kovarsky

...But reading interviews from that time (like the June ’81 Keyboard), Winwood stated that he used a Multimoog for the solo in “While You See A Chance.” He also told Musician magazine in October 1982, “the Multimoog is where I get the effect that everybody thinks is a saxophone.”

January 15, 2015 Jerry Kovarsky

"On this last album, I used the Prophet 5 exclusively, which is very limiting; I would never have dreamed that I would have found myself doing that. I just never found the need for any sound I couldn't get out of the Prophet 5."

"For the last 2 albums I've used a Multimoog for bass and some lead lines, and a Prophet 5, a polysynthesizer made by Sequential Circuits, for most leads on Arc of a Diver. I also used a Steinway piano and a Yamaha CS-80, too" Steve Winwood

Steve Winwood has used the Yamaha DX7-IIFD live for two tours in the late 80's. It can be seen on "STEVE WINWOOD At The Royal Albert Hall" DVD

"As the band exploded into the opening notes, Steve Winwood, seated behind his famous Hammond B3 organ"

Steven Dandick The Space at Westbury / Westbury, NY Live Show Reviews | May 29th, 2015

• "The Nord C2D is the most adaptable keyboard I’ve ever come across." he says. "It can be a tone-wheel organ, a vintage euro organ, a pipe organ or two attached, programable midi keyboards, all of which I make use of at various times, and its internal sounds are infinitely useable". Steve Winwood in an interview in preparation for tour with Steely Dan