Peter Gabriel Plays Live equipment

Plays Live is Peter Gabriel debut live album (and fifth solo release), released in June 1983 on the Charisma label.

It consists of songs performed on the Security tour (officially titled "Playtime '88" tour), with recordings selected from a few of the November-December 1982 North American concerts and compiled into a double album. See the Security tour equipment page for more details on the musicians' gear.

As revealed in the liner notes, some additional recording work ("cheating") had taken place while polishing the live material, although the effort had been made to preserve the essence of the live gigs (including human imperfections). This took place at Peter's Ashcombe House studio in Bath, England - affectionately attributed as "Shabbey Road" in the credits, as Peter was in the process of rewiring the studio's control room. The need for these additional touches were down to technical reasons and developing consistency between the songs (as if were all played in one gig).

Overall, the music was fundamentally the same with a few keyboard overdubs and vocal touch-ups where necessary. The sequence of songs in concert was changed for the album, so spoken introductions were re-recorded to sound as authentic to the live shows as possible.

Post-production equipment
Studio gear:
 * Decca console
 * Studer A80 (modified) 24-track
 * Lyrec TR532 24-track
 * Shure SM57 (vocals, assumed)

Outboard: (more units to be identified)
 * AMS DMX 15-80S digital delay
 * AMS RMX-16 digital reverb
 * ADR vocal stresser
 * Decca valve compressors