Toro Y Moi

When Toro Y Moi did the entire recording of his album "Underneath The Pine" at his home studio, the sound card he used was the Focusrite Saffire PRO interface.

The songs on Toro Y Moi's album "Anything in Return" were "...written with live performance in mind, augmented by a few tricks, such as sampling chords in the SP- 404SX and using its playback to stagger delivery on tracks including 'Rose Quartz.'"

Speaking about the recording process for Toro Y Moi's album "Anything in Return," Different Fur Studios owner Patrick Brown says the drums often went through an Empirical Labs EL8-X Distressor, Empirical Labs EL-7 FATSO Jr., and GML 8200 EQ, "...to fatten them up, make them hit harder, make the kick really snap, and to add a little bit of softness and harmonic on the top end so they didn't sound too brittle out of Reason."

Toro Y Moi's drums are processed through a EL8-X Distressor, followed by the Empirical Labs EL-7 FATSO Jr., and finally a GML 8200 EQ.

The last step in the chain to process Toro Y Moi's drum tracks is the GML 8200 Equalizer, used "for clean up, for subtraction, because it’s more detailed and sweeter than the [mixing] board."

Different Fur Studios owner Patrick Brown says "We used [The Culture Vulture] to tuck distortions under certain things, making a heavier, darker low end to help piano float on top or vocals sit in the mid; it’s those harmonics that people are missing when they talk about analog tape or big consoles..."

Toro Y Moi's vocals for his "Anything in Return" album were recorded using a Shure SM7B mic, into an Avalon AD2022 preamp.

To recreate the hardware chain used in recording Toro Y Moi's vocals, you would need an Avalon AD2022 preamp, a GML 8200 Equalizer, and the Retro Instruments Sta-Level compressor.

One of the primary reverb units used on the recording of Toro Y Moi's "Anything in Return" album was the Lexicon PCM 42 Digital Delay Processor.

The Waves Renaissance EQ Plugin is used later in the vocal chain to clean up Chaz's vocal tracks.

The Eventide H3000 was used on several of Toro Y Moi's vocals, pianos, and "...a lot of the weird pitch-shifting you hear in 'So Many Details' came from that box."

The Universal Audio SPL Transient Designer was one of the plugins used in Pro Tools to fine tune Toro Y Moi's album "Anything in Return."

The Waves Renaissance Vox was one of the plugins used in Pro Tools to fine tune the tracks in Toro Y Moi's album "Anything in Return."

The Waves Renaissance Bass Plugin was used to tighten the bass for Toro Y Moi's album "Anything in Return."

"[Chaz Bundick and Patrick Brown] applied mild Waves MondoMod Modulation Chorus rotation to the effects channels rather than the dry signal to further the goal of creating shimmer without distraction."

In this photo, Chaz can be seen with a Fender Stratocaster.

Seen around 11mins recordings 'The Flight'.

At 1:22 and throughout this video of Toro y Moi performing 'Lilly' from the 2015 album 'What For?', Chaz can be seen playing a Arctic White Fender Stratocaster SSH Model.

Photos of Toro Y Moi's home studio reveal he uses a pair of Yamaha HS50M monitors.

Toro y Moi's Chaz uses Reason to record his ideas and tracks. He's a fan of Reason's NN-XT sampler and Thor synth. He recorded his album "Causers of This" almost entirely in Reason, but for later albums uses it as more of a quick way to record ideas, before taking them into a proper studio. Chaz says "I still work within Reason for most tracks, but I'm not interested in maintaining any specific workflow..."

Post processing for Toro Y Moi's album "Anything in Return" was done in Pro Tools.

"Fruity Loops. Then it went to me trying other stuff, and I moved on to Reason and tried that out and Ableton."

When talking about recording live instruments for his 2011 album "Underneath The Pine," Toro Y Moi says "[I also used a] bass, just a Squire Bronco."

You can see Chaz playing at 9:19

He's seen playing the Hofner at 2:42 in the linked video, and during JBS in his Live from Trona video on Vimeo.

"I use a Shure SM57 for demos, and if I'd like a really crisp vocal sound I like to use an AKG C-1000. But my favorite is the SM57 - beautiful design inside and out. It allows close mic placing and picks up vocals better."

Chaz had recorded vocals in Reason for his album "Anything in Return," but when he went into the studio they were re-recorded for the most part using the Shure SM7B Vocal Mic.