October 1984

Prince's Sceptres
Prince's home recording studio consists of a control room and a all overdub room. It contains an Ampex 1200 24-track recorder, Sound craft board and Lexicon 224X outboard. David Leonard is etty sure" it’s a Westlake installation. Prince mixes down onto Ampex ATR-100 (half-inch and quarter-inch) mastering deck. uses Scotch 250 recording tape, Sunset Sound also has an Ampex 1200 and ATR-100s, The Los geles studio's board is a custom-built console with API componts. Monitors use JBL parts; in addition, there are smaller maha NS-10s and Auratones. Peggy McCreary rents Prince ums and a Fender Precision bass. He brings his own Telecaste le Hohner guitar. The studio has refurbished Steinway 7B pias. For vocals McCreary likes old Neumann tube 47 icrophones. Guitars are amplified through a Boogie amp, with a usic Man for a spare. Lisa Coleman considers herself "more of a pianist than anything e," but with Prince she plays an Oberheim OBX-a and and X/S, Arp Omni and Yamaha DX7. Wendy Melvoin favors Rick backer guitars, but modified with EMG pickups. Solo she plays a stom Telecaster "for jazz," and an Ovation acoustic. She plugs a Mesa Boogie amp, and uses a Boss board for effects. Prince "uses a lot of Oberheim synthesizers" at his home studio, cording to McCreary. Besides his trusty Hohner guitar, in Purple Rain he plays a white Stratocaster with gold-plated frets and tuning knobs. His drum machine of choice is a Linn LN-1.