Allen & Heath Modular II

The Allen & Heath Modular II (a.k.a. Allen & Heath MOD 2) is an analogue modular mixing desk with 16 channels, 8 mixing buses and a patchbay facility.

All three bandmembers of Genesis (Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford) were supplied with a MOD 2 desk as part of the Allen & Heath Brenell studio package system during the early months of 1979. They all used the MOD 2 for recording & mixing home demos for various projects. Mike Rutherford was seen with his Allen & Heath desk leaned vertically against the wall in the studio in footage from the Invisible Touch and We Can't Dance album sessions, presumably for processing his guitar signals which are then sent to the SSL desk in the main studio.

Peter Gabriel also owned one A&H mod II desk, which he is seen with onstage during the first WOMAD (World of Music, Arts & Dance) performance on 16 July 1982.