Thomas Troelsen

"I've sold a lot of the keys that were very prestigious but I just didn't like that much,” he says. "The Minimoogs and the [Yamaha] CS80s, the Memorymoog, the [Roland] Jupiter 8… I think they are so overrated because they're really not that great."

"I built my studio not to look like a studio, because I don't like studios!” Troelsen says. "I guess the most unique thing about it is the interior, but my studio is also different in terms of what's inside it. All the gear is very non-standard. I think the only standard things I have there are Neumann mics, the Universal Audio Teletronix LA2A compressor and Pro Tools. But the rest is just really odd gear — prototypes and all sorts of things.”

"My two favourite things in the world are an old Sennheiser 421 and a channel strip from my console. It just beats everything that I've ever heard. Basically, if I had just one of those channels I would be happy.”

"My favourite keyboards of all time are the Jupiter 4 and the ARP Quadra, which is like a weird combination of four other ARP synths that makes weird, weird sounds!"

"My favourite keyboards of all time are the Jupiter 4 and the ARP Quadra, which is like a weird combination of four other ARP synths that makes weird, weird sounds!"

"Then there's the Oberheim OBXa, which is just a phenomenal all-round keyboard, I think. And then, of course, like everything else, I like all the cheesy keyboards!"

"I've sold a lot of the keys that were very prestigious but I just didn't like that much,” he says. "The Minimoogs and the [Yamaha] CS80s, the Memorymoog, the [Roland] Jupiter 8… I think they are so overrated because they're really not that great."

"I've sold a lot of the keys that were very prestigious but I just didn't like that much,” he says. "The Minimoogs and the [Yamaha] CS80s, the Memorymoog, the [Roland] Jupiter 8… I think they are so overrated because they're really not that great."

""I use Sylenth [a virtual analogue soft synth] from Lennar Digital. That's the only thing I'm using,” he says. "I've tried out some more but, for my purposes, I couldn't really find a use for them because I have so much other great stuff that sounds, in my opinion, a lot better, and more crazy.""

"I use a mastering plug-in from Waves called L3, which is a four-band compressor, and that's about it. I use [Synchro Arts] Vocalign, which is not a [real-time] plug-in but an Audio Suite, and… oh yeah, the most important thing: Auto-Tune!”

"I use a mastering plug-in from Waves called L3, which is a four-band compressor, and that's about it. I use [Synchro Arts] Vocalign, which is not a [real-time] plug-in but an Audio Suite, and… oh yeah, the most important thing: Auto-Tune!”