Thom Yorke
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In a photo towards the bottom of this page, Yorke can be seen playing a Korg Poly-Ensemble PE-1000
Microphone can be seen from the beginning of this video above the piano Thom plays.
In this photo, Yorke can be seen playing a Fender Coronado II Bass.
"Here's a short experimental video by Radiohead's Thom Yorke -- look carefully, and you'll spot his Frequency Analyzer, Stereo Polychorus, and Big Muff Pi."
"Here's a short experimental video by Radiohead's Thom Yorke -- look carefully, and you'll spot his Frequency Analyzer, Stereo Polychorus, and Big Muff Pi."
This article mentions Thom's use of a PSM-5 around the Kid A/Amnesiac era
In a photo taken by wonker on Flickr, Thom Yorke is seen playing a Korg Poly-Ensemble PE-2000 at Glastonbury.
What was your intro to the gear?
Nigel had bought the Monomachine, the keyboard version, and I started messing with it and thought: oooh! Then I bought one of my own. It’s still kind of a mystery to me now, I must say!
The first thing I did with it was just some polyphonic thing because I thought that’s what it did best, the way that it spread polyphony out.
It was wildly unpredictable, and it just fascinated me, the architecture of it and everything. I was kind of hooked after that. I bought the Machinedrum a month later. That was it. I was off. Then I got the Sidstation.
You’ve got the Sidstation as well?
Yes. That’s great (laughs), so fun! I’m fascinated by the fact that it’s got all that background noise in it.
Yeah, it never shuts up, does it?
Never shuts the f*** up (laughs)!
I actually sort of rediscovered it, playing around with it yesterday. I used just the noise on all three voices. It’s surprisingly easy to get that noise sounding really organic and natural.
It’s like a wild animal. You plug it in and it just sounds bigger than anything else, well (except) maybe the Prophet, in different ways. It sounds enormous, that’s the mystery to me.
To the point where it’s impossible to join in with any other instrument (laughs)!
Yeah, it’s its own thing, absolutely! You can filter it down, but you don’t want to do that.
Source is this Elektronauts article
In the first debut appearance of the band The Smile featuring Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner, Yorke can be seen playing Waldorf STVC vocoder synthesizer during the performance, around 01:22:00 in the livestream link from the Glastonbury Festival.
Thom Yorke uses a Guild M85 Electric Bass Guitar live with Radiohead on their song "The Amazing Sounds of Orgy".
In this image, from this article, Thom's Akai Headrush E2 can be seen.
Used by Thom for a live solo performance is the Alvarez Yairi DY87 12-string guitar.
Thom is shown here sitting next to a Selmer TV12A.
Thom sings into one of Nigel’s Soyuz SU-017’s, a tube large-diaphragm condenser microphone which has become a favorite since Nigel obtained one in 2015. He used one each to mic Shye Ben Tzur’s singing and the brass section for Junun, and also used a pair as part of his strings mic’ing setup for AMSP.
"A staple on all of Thom’s boards since the mid-2000’s."
In this image, Thom Yorke is seen using a Yamaha DYUS1E3 Upright Piano.
used to mic his AC30 live on the "moon shaped pool" tours
Thom Yorke's TMA-2 DJ Preset headphones have a skull on them in this Facebook photo from AIAIAI's album.
Yorke can be seen playing a Voyager in this photo.
Photos on Thekingofgear show Thom Yorke playing a Hammond XB-2 Organ.
This article mentions the use of an XXL, with proof
According to this Redditor's account of his meeting Yorke, Yorke bought an Intellijel Metropolis.
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Visible in this photo of Yorke's pedalboard, featured in this article by Austin City Limits' Gear Blog.
Thom uses a Alesis QX25 for during the A Moon Shaped Pool tour. He mainly uses it for the live perfromances of Ful Stop and Daydreaming. This photo is a close up of the QX25 from the Radiohead concert in Atlanta, GA, 01/04/17
Thom Yorke is noted for using the Crumar Multiman S synthesizer, as detailed on The King of Gear website.
This article includes this photo of Thom's pedalboard, which is powered by a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus.
Thom Yorke uses a Yamaha U1 upright piano, as detailed on the King of Gear website.
Thom Yorke is noted to use the Fender Rhodes Mark I Stage 73, as detailed on the King of Gear Tumblr page.
Thom Yorke is known to use the ARP 2600 synthesizer, as detailed on the King of Gear Tumblr page.
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