Stuart Price

“The mics were a combination of Sony C800G and Rode NT2,” he adds. “About 60 percent of the vox were on the Rode.

“The mics were a combination of Sony C800G and Rode NT2,” he adds. “About 60 percent of the vox were on the Rode.

Centred around a G5 Dual 2.8GHz currently running Logic 7.2 (he’s in the process of updating to version 8) with a MOTU HD192 interface, Price uses a 12:2 Neve Melbourne mixer for much of his tracking and some of his mixing.

At his home studio (dubbed “50” for the street address where he lives), Price would often access his bank of vintage synths — including a Moog Polymoog, Korg MS-20, Roland SH-09 and a rare Rhodes Chroma — to add textures to a demo track or to supplement the Clavia Nord Lead 3 that Flowers uses as his main synth.

At his home studio (dubbed “50” for the street address where he lives), Price would often access his bank of vintage synths — including a Moog Polymoog, Korg MS-20, Roland SH-09 and a rare Rhodes Chroma — to add textures to a demo track or to supplement the Clavia Nord Lead 3 that Flowers uses as his main synth.

At his home studio (dubbed “50” for the street address where he lives), Price would often access his bank of vintage synths — including a Moog Polymoog, Korg MS-20, Roland SH-09 and a rare Rhodes Chroma — to add textures to a demo track or to supplement the Clavia Nord Lead 3 that Flowers uses as his main synth.

Working on a new API 1608 console with Logic 8, an Apogee Symphony interface and a UAD-2 card (an early version sent to the band by Universal Audio), Price found that the relatively stripped-down setup was a blessing in disguise.

"Alan Smart C2 compressor" is included in the list of equipment at Stuart Price's studio.

"Avalon U5 instrument DI, Vt-737sp mic preamp/compressor/EQ" is included in the list of equipment at Stuart Price's studio.

"Eventide Eclipse effects processor" is included in the list of equipment at Stuart Price's studio.

"GML 8200 parametric EQ" is included in the list of equipment at Stuart Price's studio.

"Shure SM55, 57 and 58 mics" is included in the list of equipment at Stuart Price's studio.

"Shure SM55, 57 and 58 mics" is included in the list of equipment at Stuart Price's studio.

"Korg MS-20 synth, SQ-10 sequencer, EX-8000 module" is included in the list of equipment at Stuart Price's studio.

"Korg MS-20 synth, SQ-10 sequencer, EX-8000 module" is included in the list of equipment at Stuart Price's studio.

"I love the Yamaha TX7, the Casio CZ-101, the ARP 2600, Ensoniq Mirage, Roland MKS-50, and the EMS VCS3. I like to have them around mainly for inspiration. In my experience, turning away and just focusing on a different object in front of you can yield good results."

"Also, the Fairchild Tube Limiter Plug-In Collection is great because it is unique; none of the other compressors sound like it. On the Killers Day and Age, that was often a drum compressor, for either individual sounds or the entire kit. It suits Ronnie’s [the Killers’ drummer Ronnie Vannucci, Jr.] sound well. His kit is really more like one single sound source than a collection of multi-micing drums."

"The Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery plug-in is also excellent on a bus because you can really start altering your perception of what the group was before. It makes suggestions that, if you were thinking too logically, you wouldn’t have thought of. "

Could you describe your current setup?

"Yes, it’s the new Mac Pro with an Apollo QUAD connected via Thunderbolt. I was using a UAD OCTO PCIe card in a Sonnet chassis as well which worked great too. I used that in tandem with a Neve Melbourn 12 channel board."

Could you describe your current setup?

"Yes, it’s the new Mac Pro with an Apollo QUAD connected via Thunderbolt. I was using a UAD OCTO PCIe card in a Sonnet chassis as well which worked great too. I used that in tandem with a Neve Melbourn 12 channel board."

Could you describe your current setup?

"Yes, it’s the new Mac Pro with an Apollo QUAD connected via Thunderbolt. I was using a UAD OCTO PCIe card in a Sonnet chassis as well which worked great too. I used that in tandem with a Neve Melbourn 12 channel board."

"I don’t like having things setup too nicely and I mostly patch stuff in when I feel like using it — that’s why the Apollo is really helpful. I have one cable that wherever it gets plugged in has some combination of UAD front end on it — the UA 610 Tube Preamp & EQ Plug-In Collection or the Neve 1073 Preamp & EQ Plug-In Collection, an 1176, an amp simulator, or the Boss® CE-1 Chorus Ensemble plug-in."

Stuart Price says: "Still the most original and best sounding filter".

Stuart Price is confirmed to use the Access Virus TI2 Polar synthesizer, as demonstrated by a photograph in which he is seen in the studio with Madonna, with the synthesizer clearly visible in the background.

Stuart Price is confirmed to use the Roland RE-201 Space Echo, as evidenced by a photograph depicting him in the studio with Madonna, where the gear is visible in the background.