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Andy Summers

Summers recalls the recording around three defining tools: the red two-knob compressor, the sweeping silver flanger and a tape Echoplex.

Board
Walking on the Moon studio core path
Context
Regatta de Blanc sessions
Board date
Evidence
Documented equipment · 2 cited sources
Order
Reconstructed
Scope
Core signal path
Routing
Serial path
Audited
Signal
3 units · Guitar to amplifier

Signal path / A

Walking on the Moon studio core path

Artist-confirmed effects · order reconstructed

InputGuitar
OutputAmplifier

Documented equipment · Reconstructed order · Serial path

Summers explicitly names the Dyna Comp, Electric Mistress and Echoplex as the effects he had for Walking on the Moon, and separately describes the Phase 90 and later Cornish board as different stages of his rig's evolution. The interviews do not give a jack-to-jack studio trace, so compressor, flanger and tape delay are shown in a conventional reconstructed order. This is a song-session core path, not an inventory of the larger 1979 Cornish touring board.

Cited sources

  1. Guitar PlayerAndy Summers Reveals the Evolving Strategies That Keep His Creative Life Busy
  2. Guitar WorldAndy Summers on His Love of Jazz and The Police's Chemistry