The Prodigy
UK electronic group, main member Liam Howlett
The Prodigy's Gear
In this interview, Liam Howlett explaind his adventure with the Minimoog: "I did something really silly about a year ago -- I had loads of analogue gear (including) a Minimoog... and I got rid of (it)! I played a JD800 in a shop, and thought it was pretty cool; it seemed to have the analogue feel. (...) When I got the JD800 home, I knew within a week I wasn't happy with it. I'm definitely getting the Minimoog back!"
"I'm not that impressed with this, really. I went through a stage of going into my local music shop, and every time they had a new bit of equipment, I convinced myself I needed it. I had to get out of that. I've used this a couple of times -- on Jilted Generation I used it on about three tracks -- but I'd sell it any day."
"I've got this upstairs -- I borrowed it from a friend to record some stuff for the new album [The Fat of the Land]. I think it's one of those things you can use a couple of times, and then throw in a cupboard. It's got some nice strings on it, but you can't get many sounds from the vocoder. The typical '80s electro voice, but not much else."
"...The item can be seen 4:07 into this video..."
Last shot of studio before i move out . End of an era,, new studio monday yeeha!!
Liam Howlett's keyboard tech: "There is a laptop ready to go if one of the other three fail, but we use solid?state drives and they are also very reliable. Liam can do all the mixing from stage, but Jon Burton also has access to the raw outputs from the MOTU 828s in case there is a problem with Liam's desk.”
In this picture on The Prodigy's Facebook you can see they use the SH-101 live.
In this interview with Liam Howlett, he says he used to own a SPX 1000, but ended up ditching it in favor of the Boss SE-70: "The SPX1000 is just a crap industry-standard thing, with no special effects whatsoever, so I got rid of that. A grand for just a reverb unit and delay is a bit of a waste of money really..."
"I've had that years. That's one of my all-time favourites for strings; the strings on there are a Prodigy trademark! If anyone puts a bit of chorus on those strings, you get the sound from 'Out Of Space' straight away."
In this article, it its said Liam Howlett owns this synth, and kept it safe from his big gear cleanup.
According to this article, the Phoenix compressor is one of the few pieces of gear Liam Howlett didn't get rid of after starting to use Reason.
Tools of the trade ,,,, circuit bent instrument style #theprodigy #thedayismyenemy #circuitbent @theprodigyofficial
The Prodigy has used the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer in their studio, as documented by Jussi Lahtinen on Theprodigy.info.
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."
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: "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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
The Prodigy is seen with the Casiotone MT-41 in a Facebook photo from their official page, highlighting its presence in their studio setup.
According to the Moth Mic site the Prodigy uses these microphones.
17:48 into the video. see liam adjusting cutoff and resonance while playing it like a keyboard?! wild.
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Discography
Experience
1992
Music for the Jilted Generation
1994
The Fat of the Land
1997
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
2004
More Music for the Jilted Generation
2008
Experience: Expanded (Remixes & B-sides)
2008
Invaders Must Die
2009
World's on Fire (Live at Milton Keynes Bowl- 2020 Remaster)
2011
The Fat of the Land - Expanded Edition
2012
No Tourists
2018