Tobin Sprout

Tobin Sprout famously uses a yellow Fender Telecaster a seen in the "My Valuable Hunting Knife" music video at around 40 seconds

Here we see his home basement studio with the 8 track.

According to this Musician Magazine profile, "Sprout records drums and vocals in the laundry room and tracks piano and guitars in the adjacent garage, which usually holds a customized Hiwatt 100 head, as well as a Sovtek MIG 100 head, a Gibson Hawk, a Fender Dual Showman, a Musicman 212-HD amp, and an Ampeg SS-140C amp. In the garage, Sprout also keeps a Yamaha PSS-270 stereo keyboard and a George Steck upright piano, which belonged to his great-grandmother and is at least 80 years old."

Sprout records drums and vocals in the laundry room and tracks piano and guitars in the adjacent garage, which usually holds a customized Hiwatt 100 head, as well as a Sovtek MIG 100 head, a Gibson Hawk, a Fender Dual Showman, a Musicman 212-HD amp, and an Ampeg SS-140C amp. In the garage, Sprout also keeps a Yamaha PSS-270 stereo keyboard and a George Steck upright piano, which belonged to his great-grandmother and is at least 80 years old.

Sprout records drums and vocals in the laundry room and tracks piano and guitars in the adjacent garage, which usually holds a customized Hiwatt 100 head, as well as a Sovtek MIG 100 head, a Gibson Hawk, a Fender Dual Showman, a Musicman 212-HD amp, and an Ampeg SS-140C amp. In the garage, Sprout also keeps a Yamaha PSS-270 stereo keyboard and a George Steck upright piano, which belonged to his great-grandmother and is at least 80 years old.

"Besides the all-important Memory Man, Sprout's other processing gear includes an Alesis MicroVerb 4 and an ART SC2 compressor/limiter/gate. For monitoring and dubbing, his setup is decidely retro: a late-Seventies Yamaha CR-240 stereo receiver he's had since high school, a JVC TD-W218 dual-cassette deck, a small early-model Advent speaker, and an old Pioneer HPM-900 speaker."

"Besides the all-important Memory Man, Sprout's other processing gear includes an Alesis MicroVerb 4 and an ART SC2 compressor/limiter/gate."

"A good chunk of GBV's 10 albums and sundry EP's, 7-inch singles, and discographical miscellany was recorded on Sprout's four-track TASCAM Porta One Ministudio, with vocals and other detail work cut in his basement and full-band tracks taped in drummer Kevin Fennell's garage." Around the recording of Mah Earwig, he retired the unit in favor of a Yamaha MTX8.

According to this Musician Magazine profile, "Sprout records drums and vocals in the laundry room and tracks piano and guitars in the adjacent garage, which usually holds a customized Hiwatt 100 head, as well as a Sovtek MIG 100 head, a Gibson Hawk, a Fender Dual Showman, a Musicman 212-HD amp, and an Ampeg SS-140C amp. In the garage, Sprout also keeps a Yamaha PSS-270 stereo keyboard and a George Steck upright piano, which belonged to his great-grandmother and is at least 80 years old."

According to this Musician Magazine profile, "Sprout records drums and vocals in the laundry room and tracks piano and guitars in the adjacent garage, which usually holds a customized Hiwatt 100 head, as well as a Sovtek MIG 100 head, a Gibson Hawk, a Fender Dual Showman, a Musicman 212-HD amp, and an Ampeg SS-140C amp. In the garage, Sprout also keeps a Yamaha PSS-270 stereo keyboard and a George Steck upright piano, which belonged to his great-grandmother and is at least 80 years old."

According to this Musician Magazine profile, "Sprout records drums and vocals in the laundry room and tracks piano and guitars in the adjacent garage, which usually holds a customized Hiwatt 100 head, as well as a Sovtek MIG 100 head, a Gibson Hawk, a Fender Dual Showman, a Musicman 212-HD amp, and an Ampeg SS-140C amp. In the garage, Sprout also keeps a Yamaha PSS-270 stereo keyboard and a George Steck upright piano, which belonged to his great-grandmother and is at least 80 years old."

Sprout frequently took advantage of his vast collection of musical and recording equipment when working with Guided by Voices, and frontman Bob Pollard was particularly fond of his bandmate/producer's EHX Memory Man. "It's got this real warm, Sixties radio tone," Pollard enthuses, "like on James Brown or John Lennon's vocals. That's a pretty fucking inspiring sound." The effect was introduced on Bee Thousand's "Hot Freaks," one off GBV's recording breakthroughs - which, typically, came at the expense of commercial considerations. "I was having a garage sale that day," Sprout remembers, "and Bob was yelling 'Hot Freaks' down there at the top of his lungs and chasing all the customers away." The Memory Man has borne a marking on the appropriate setting for "the Hot Freaks' sound" ever since.

"For recording vocals, Sprout has come to adore a Conneaut Audio Devices Equitek E-100 tube microphone for its warmth and prescence, in league with an ART Tube MP mic preamp; he also employs a Shure SM57, a Shure Prologue, and a Electro-Voice RE18, which works well with the Memory Man on vocals"

According to a Musician Magazine profile,"Sprout has come to adore a Conneaut Audio Devices Equitek E-100 tube microphone for its warmth and prescence" for recording vocals

According to a Musician Magazine profile,"Sprout has come to adore a Conneaut Audio Devices Equitek E-100 tube microphone for its warmth and prescence" for recording vocals. "He also employs a Shure SM57, a Shure Prologue, and a Electro-Voice RE18, which works well with the Memory Man on vocals."

According to a Musician Magazine profile,"Sprout has come to adore a Conneaut Audio Devices Equitek E-100 tube microphone for its warmth and prescence" for recording vocals. "He also employs a Shure SM57, a Shure Prologue, and a Electro-Voice RE18, which works well with the Memory Man on vocals."

According to a Musician Magazine profile,"Sprout has come to adore a Conneaut Audio Devices Equitek E-100 tube microphone for its warmth and prescence" for recording vocals. "He also employs a Shure SM57, a Shure Prologue, and a Electro-Voice RE18, which works well with the Memory Man on vocals."