Steve Winwood's Gear

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In this article, by Vintage Guitar, while talking about Winwood's gear, it says, "An identical green Strat is tuned to dropped D for “Dirty City,” and he has a sunburst American Standard model as a spare. Strings are Dean Markley Custom Lights – .009, .011, .016, .026, .036, .046 – and picks are Fender Medium."

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It says, "An identical green Strat is tuned to dropped D for “Dirty City,” and he has a sunburst American Standard model as a spare. Strings are Dean Markley Custom Lights – .009, .011, .016, .026, .036, .046 – and picks are Fender Medium," in this article, on Steve Winwood.

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

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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.

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"...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

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Steve Winwood mentions the Korg DSS-1 in a Korg advertisement, highlighting its flexibility and responsiveness, which he values for quickly accessing sounds and creating new patches while on tour.

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A picture of Winwood in the early 80's playing a Moog Liberator in concert

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Clavia Nord Lead 2 Rack can be seen in his home studio (48:20) on youtube English Soul (BBC 4 Documentary)

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Steve Winwood can be seen using Beyerdynamic DT 250-80 headphones in the documentry called English Soul. On youtube search: Steve Winwood - English Soul (BBC 4 Documentary) (48:23)

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"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

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In a vintage 1987 advertisement, Steve Winwood is featured with a Crate GT-250 amplifier.

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"For their 2016 tour with Steely Dan, Towler recommended mixing monitors with the PreSonus® StudioLive® RM32AI rack-mount digital mixer" Stated by James Fowler in the article "Steve Winwood Tours with PreSonus July 11, 2016" on the PreSonus website.

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EMGpickups.com Steve Winwood can be found on the Artist page. He is spondered by EMG

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Winwood can be seen in this photo playing a Fender Mustang Bass.

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In addition to an RMI 300A Electra-piano, Steve Winwood also played a Hammond C3 at Blind Faith’s famous concert at Hyde Park.

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Steve Winwood played a Hammond M-102 with the Spencer Davis Group.

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Steve Winwood played a RMI Electra-piano 300A with both Blind Faith and Traffic. It was Winwood's primary on-stage keyboard with Blind Faith, and he can be seen playing it at the band's famous 1969 concert in Hyde Park. The photo above comes from a recording session at Olympic Studios in London. Interestingly, I do not think the Electra-piano was played on any songs from the band’s first and only studio album. Additional photos of Winwood with Blind Faith here, here, here, here, here, and here.

With Traffic, Winwood’s Electra-piano was featured on "Empty Pages" from the 1970 album John Barleycorn Must Die.

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Steve Winwood can be seen playing an Ovation Balladeer with Traffic's live performance set under the German music television program "Musikladen" in 1973.

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