The Prodigy

"A guy from our record company went to New York and got this for me for my birthday; it was a really good present. It's so nice, just for single drum hits."

"A year after selling my JD800, I did buy the JD990, which I think is really good. I've got all the expansion boards for it, but I don't use many of the analogue sounds off the vintage board -- it's mainly used for textures and strings. It's got a good distorted guitar, too."

According to this article, the Korg Micro Keyboard is one of the few pieces of gear Liam Howlett didn't get rid of after starting to use Reason.

"Reason allowed me to work my ideas through using just one machine. (...) I'd know exactly what I wanted to do. Reason really helped because it's so quick to get ideas down and that was when I really started writing. I wrote 'Spitfire', 'Wake Up' and 'Girls' (...) in bed."

In this picture on The Prodigy's Facebook you can see they use the Microbrute live.

In this interview, Liam Howlett mentions he used to own at least one Jupiter 6.

According to this article, the MS-20 is one of the few pieces of gear Liam Howlett didn't get rid of after starting to use Reason.

In this Facebook picture, The Prodigy can be seen bouncing a track, the title of the box says "Logic Pro X"

"I love my Boss SE70s. (...) You can get awesome distortion sounds from the SE70. (...) I've got four SE70s, and I programme the hell out of them. I've really gone mad with them." - Liam Howlett interviewed by Sound To Sound

Liam Howlett once acquired a JD800, though he says he quickly regretted his decision: "I played a JD800 in a shop, and thought it was pretty cool; it seemed to have the analogue feel. So I thought I could get all the analogue sounds on other equipment (...) When I got the JD800 home, I knew within a week I wasn't happy with it. I'm definitely getting the Minimoog back!"

The Prodigy derived their name from the Moog Prodigy synthesizer, which was owned by Liam Howlett. This connection is noted on TV Tropes.

Liam Howlett used to own an ART Multiverb, but sold it because he could get better sounds from his Boss SE-70.

Liam Howlett used to own an Alesis Quadraverb, but he ended up selling it in favor of his Boss SE-70.

"The Prophecy is one of the few things that produces big distortion as far as a ready-to-run synth goes. It's at its best on stage, though I've used it on just about every track on the new album [The Fat of the Land] so far. The programming is so open, it's great for resonant sweeps, and the ribbon is quite handy. You can also record filter changes over MIDI onto the Mac. There are so many different things you can do with it. It's not the type of keyboard I'd go to to start a song with -- it's better for distortion and feedback sounds. It's a shame it's only monophonic -- it's got some good string sounds."

Liam's comment:

"I really like it. The analogue gear sometimes gets broken on the road; this new stuff is so much more robust. I do like the 8000, especially with the effects; you can just make it really big".

Korg: "You've recently been using a KM2 mixer, an Electribe ER-1, ES-1 and EM-1. What are your impressions of this kit?"

Liam: "I haven't checked the mixer yet, but the ER-1 resembles 70s and 80s analogue drum sounds, which is what i like."

According to this interview, Liam Howlett has used Cubase, presumably version 1.0 for Macintosh since he speaks equally of the Atari ST version. "Cubase was the obvious choice -- just because it's the most widely-used program. It wasn't out of any need to try and be clever -- I don't think it's the program you use that counts, it's what you've got in your head."

According to this article, the Culture Vulture is one of the few pieces of gear Liam Howlett didn't get rid of after starting to use Reason.

The Prodigy used Poison-202 for the track, Give me a Signal https://youtu.be/pOG8cCYDt1k?t=15

Liam Howlett explains in this interview that he used to own a Jupiter 8, but eventually got rid of it: "The Jupiter 8 had been superb, but it started to break down."

According to this interview, Liam Howlett uses the W-30 for live performances with The Prodigy.

"I've only had this about three days... I must admit the drums are good -- with most sound modules you never get good drums, do you? I haven't really got into programming it yet though." (1996)

Prodigy posted photo with KORG: Arp Odyssey

On the screen you can see opened Arturia Mini V

"...The item can be seen 3:32 into this video..."

Korg: You've recently been using a KM2 mixer, an Electribe ER-1, ES-1 and EM-1. What are your impressions of this kit?

Liam: I haven't checked the mixer yet, but the ER-1 resembles 70s and 80s analogue drum sounds, which is what i like.

From an interview with the Prodigy's chief live sound engineer: "Everything is recorded to an Alesis HD24 hard?disk multitracker, to be mixed in Logic in the two or three days of down time that Burton and the band enjoy between weekend festival slots. "I'll spend a lot of time cleaning up the track and getting rid of spill. I'll go through and clean up all the vocals, not changing anything, but I'll hand?draw automation to take all the background noise out and get them as clean as possible. Same with some of the snare hits and stuff like that.”

Liam Howlett uploaded a photo to Twitter where he uses Dreadbox Nyx v2.

From an interview with the Prodigy's chief live sound engineer: "The [Roland] Dimension D is used to make the guitar big, because we've only got one guitarist and we try to make everything bigger than everything else. I've also got a [Yamaha] Rev 7 and a Rev 5. I've got them Y?split together because they've got a habit of stopping working, so one of them is usually working at any one time. They're both drum reverbs, I just run them both off the snare. Then I've got a guitar reverb, an SPX990, and a [TC Electronic] M2000 on vocals, which does harmoniser on some songs and reverbs on others. Then I've got a TC D•Two for all my more traditional delays.”

In a reddit AMA on March 31st, 2015, Liam Howlett was asked, "Hi Master, is there any synth/gear you are addicted in?", to which he replied, "i rock analogue keyboards ,, oberheim 2 voice , arp 2600"