Stewart Copeland Worried Rabbit equipment

This page covers the equipment history of The Worried Rabbit. Which basically refers to Stewart's home studio.

Pre-Worried Rabbit years (1977-1983)
In 1977/78, during The Police's early career, Stewart had a small basic recording setup at his Goldhawk Road home to demo guitar riffs. This consisted of a Revox A77 Mk. III stereo reel-to-reel tape recorder. Plus Fender Champ and Vox amplifiers.

By the time of Reggatta De Blanc, his recording setup expanded to include: an TEAC A-3340S 4-track, a Marantz 1040 Stereo Amplifier and probably some JBL monitors.

As more money came in, Stewart Copeland used it to fund the upgrade of his home studio to 24-track, purchasing an Allen & Heath Syncon A mixing desk and an Otari MTR-90 tape machine in June 1980.

Worried Rabbit gear (1983-84)
Mixing desk
 * Allen & Heath Syncon A

Tape machines & assorted recording gear
 * Otari MTR-90 24-track
 * Sony PCM-F1 digital

Monitors
 * Auratone 5C sound cubes
 * JBL

Outboard gear
 * AMS DMX 15-80 digital delay/harmonizer
 * ITAM Stereo 10-band Graphic Equalizer
 * Marantz 1040 Stereo Amplifier
 * Roland SPA-240 power amplifier
 * Roland SDE-2000 digital delay?
 * Roland SRE-555 Chorus Echo
 * Valley People Kepex II noise gates

Worried Rabbit gear (1985-86)
Mixing desk:
 * Harrison MR-4 40-channel desk

Outboard:
 * Lexicon reverb
 * misc. delays

Instruments
 * Fairlight CMI Series II
 * Oberheim DMX
 * Simmons SDS-V
 * Syco Systems SRC SMPTE Reading Clock
 * TAMA DS-200 drum synthesizer

Worried Rabbit gear (1986-1987)
Mixing desk
 * Harrison MR-4 40-input

Instruments
 * Fairlight CMI Series III (x2)
 * Linn 9000
 * Yamaha DX7

Worried Rabbit gear (2000's-present)
Section still under construction

Main studio & recording equipment
Computers
 * Mac Pro
 * PC's for sound libraries

Software
 * AVID Sibelius
 * AVID Pro Tools
 * MOTU Digital Performer

Controllers
 * M-Audio ProKeys 88 - replaced the Kurzweil

DAW Control surface
 * Digidesign ProControl

Audio interfaces
 * MOTU 2408 Mk. 3 (x3)

Video editing
 * Apple Final Cut Pro - later Adobe Premier soon. Also, Adobe After Effects.

Keyboards
 * Akai LPK25
 * 1949 Hammond Model M organ /w Leslie cabinet
 * 1935 Blüthner grand piano

Microphones
 * AKG
 * Sennheiser
 * Neumann
 * Shure:
 * SM7B

Outboard gear
 * Brent Averill mic preamps
 * Neve mic preamps
 * True Systems Precision-8 mic preamp
 * Avalon AD-2022 converter

Monitors
 * Near: Alesis Monitor One.
 * Far: PMC.

Instruments
Guitars
 * 1978 Fender Stratocaster natural
 * Gibson SG
 * Ibanez 5-string

Amplifiers
 * 1957 (or 1960) Fender Champ Tweed
 * Marshall JCM-800 stack
 * Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus
 * Vox AC-15

Drums & Percussion
 * TAMA Starclassic maple
 * TAMA Octobans
 * Paiste exotic cymbals