Drums and Other Equipment
Collins uses Gretsch drums and Sabian cymbals. Drums (all single headed concert toms except for the snare): 20" Bass Drum, 18" Floor Tom, 16" Floor Tom, 15" Mounted Tom, 12" Tom, 10" Tom, 8" Tom, 14"x4" Snare, 14" Phil Collins Special.
Cymbals: HH Medium Crash 20" – HH Extra Thin Crash 17" – Hi-Hats 15" – HH China 20" – HH Medium-Thin Crash 16" -HH China 22" – HH Raw Bell Dry Ride 21".
Until 1986, Collins played Paiste and Zildjian cymbals. Other drums he's used over the years are Premier, Noble & Cooley, Pearl, Fibes and Simmons electronic drums. He uses a Ludwig Speed King pedal and Pro Mark sticks.
Other instruments which have become synonymous with Collins's sound (particularly in his post-1978 Genesis and subsequent solo career) include the Roland CR-78 and Roland TR-808 drum machines, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesiser, the Yamaha CP-70 electric grand piano, the Yamaha DX7 synthesiser, Oberheim DMX drummachine (as heard on Sussudio), Korg Wavestation, Korg Karma, Korg 01/W, Korg M1R and Korg Triton synthesisers, Roland JD800, Roland JV1080 and Roland D50 synthesisers, Emu Emulator 2 and Emu Emulator 3 sample workstations, Sequential Circuits Prophet VS synthesiser and the Roland VP330 vocoder (as heard on In the air tonight).
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