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Steven shows his guitar specifically used for songs tuned to drop-D.

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It was played by Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree during his Europe tour in 2008. You can see him using this guitar at the Half Light music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRjZ_3ZLL_I

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In this rig rundown, Wilson shows his Bad Cat Lynx 50 head. Around 20:40 he says of it, "What I like about the Bad Cat and what I use the most is the fact that the two channels, the clean channel and the dirty channel are simultaneously active."

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Steven used Bad Cat Hot Cat combo amp with Porcupine Tree

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Steven Wilson uses a PRS Mike Mushok Baritone when performing The Incident live. Most likely tuned to drop A.

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This article, states that Wilson uses a Singlecut PRS guitar, his main guitar.

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Steven Wilson owns a Fender Custom Shop 1963 Relic Telecaster, as mentioned on his official Instagram account. He expressed his admiration for the guitar, stating he wrote and recorded "To the Bone" primarily using Telecasters, and plans to feature this guitar on tour.

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"For vocals, rather than using a booth, Steven simply sets up his Neumann U87 in the middle of the room, plugged into the Apogee Trak 2 preamp/A?D converter. "

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Steven Wilson played an unidentified HSS Stratocaster during the 1996 to 2002 period, including the recording of Stupid Dream, Lightbulb Sun, and In Absentia albums. It appears he got this guitar soon after the Signify album was released and it can be seen on live footage up until the 2001 NEARfest show.

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As you can see in the video, Steven introduced the Tubemeister Edition Blue as a part of his new 2017/2018 gear

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In the video, you can clearly see Steven using Genelec monitors. I believe the front facing smaller monitors are 8040B's.

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Can be seen in Steven's "gig rig" at 21:12 into his and Guthrie Govan's rig rundown video.

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At 19:49 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Steven shows us his Ovation which is in "Nashville" tuning.

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Around 3:42 you can see a Dunlop Tortex Standard 1mm pick in Stevens hand

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Steven uses this audio interface in his home studio. You can watch it in a lot of pictures and videos. You can see the item at the minute 1:38. Algo, you can watch it here and here

Top row in this image you can see the AnalogMan Prince of Tone overdrive.

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in this video he plays a Fender artist Joe strummer Telecaster

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On the official Spector website, it states that Wilson uses a Coda 5.

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"For Porcupine Tree I have OM7s on Steven Wilson's vocals" - Ian Bond (Live Sound Engineer)

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Wilson can be seen in this photo playing a Rickenbacker 4001CS.

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In this picture we can see Steven Wilson with the Audio-Technica ATH-M50x in studio during the recording of "Hand. Cannot. Erase.".

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Quoted from this interview:

The guys in Apple in Hamburg that take care of Logic have become good friends, to the point that they actually changed some of the 5.1 implementation based on my suggestions. I can't imagine being able to do that with most companies of that size. You'd think Apple of all companies would be the most impenetrable of all, but they've been fantastic. So I've been a Logic guy probably for more than 20 years now.

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In this interview, Steven Wilson says, "For processing, I like the Focusrite D2 EQ [Pro Tools plug-in]. I do a lot of megaphone-type vocals, and that's literally just the D2 with an incredibly high low-pass and incredibly low high-pass filter, around 2KHz."

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In this article, about Steven Wilson's gear, it says, "On the acoustic side of things he uses a Babicz tuned to standard and an Ovation in "Nashville" tuning."

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On this website, it quotes Steve Wilson saying, "Today I was at Robert [Fripp]‘s place recording the mellotron parts for my new album on his original sixties MK2 mellotron, famously the one used on the debut King Crimson album. Playing a real mellotron is quite an exhausting physical experience, but it sounds amazing…."

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In this article, this photo of Steven's pedalboard shows that he uses a Micro POG.

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"Steven was one of the very first guitarists to use our Mutiwave Distortion," reads the caption to this photo, in this article.

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"I’m also using the Option 5 Destination Rotation Single Vibe, a Soundblox Multiwave Guitar Distortion, a Jim Dunlop Cry Baby wah, and Boss SD-2 Dual Overdrive and FV-500L Stereo Volume pedals," says Steven Wilson, in this article.

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This was filmed during the 2016 Hand. Cannot. Erase. Tour

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