Peter Gabriel Birdy equipment

Birdy was Peter Gabriel's first soundtrack album, released in March 1985 and recorded over a two month period in late 1984. This also marked the first album with producer Daniel Lanois, who went on to produce two more albums with Peter. On this album, they recycled material from previous Peter Gabriel solo efforts while also developing new tracks in the relatively short space of time taken to make the record. The album is entirely instrumental

In terms of technical/production details for the album, very little concrete documentation seems to exist to clarify such so a rough reconstruction is presented here of what.

Peter's instruments on the album are assumed to be the following:
 * Fairlight CMI Series IIx sampler
 * Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer
 * Yamaha CP-70
 * Linn LM-1 drum machine (heard on "Flying Pigs")
 * Linn LinnDrum - possibly kick drum on "Quiet And Alone"

Production
This album was recorded and mixed entirely at Peter Gabriel's Ashcombe House studio. Around then, his home studio would have been equipped with a second-hand Decca console, alongside modified Studer A80 and Lyrec TR532 tape machines. As for outboard, this album saw Peter rely more heavily on effects processing: his go-to units were the AMS DMX 15-80S digital delay/harmonizer, Deltalab DL-2 delays, the Quantec Room Simulator digital reverb and of course the rare Decca valve compressors.