| He used really light Rotosound stainless rounds, like a 40 for the G string, or maybe smaller. When Paul Young played the local university (I couldn't go that night) a buddy of mine who worked the stage crew got his discarded strings- we were both surprised at how light they were. Don't forget that his 'Ray is a pre-EB with the 2-band EQ, and he had the fingerboard replaced at least once. But the light stainless rounds will get you into the ballpark pretty well.
I had a Boss OC-2 (becasue Pino used one!) and replaced it with the EBS Octa-Bass years ago- I find it a much better octave pedal for me. I've never used an OC-3. I don't know about amps, but his studio stuff was pretty much all direct. He just put is Boss octave pedal and some cables into a bag along with the bass for session work. He was an endorser for Trace-Elliot at one time and then later Eden (WT-800 and a pair of D410XLT cabinets), but that's got very little to do with his recorded sound. In the very first interview I ever read with him (in the only really good music magazine that ever existed, "Musician") he said the secret to a good stage sound was to tip the sound guy to put the bass into the cross-fill monitors.
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Pino's work with techno band pop band, "GO WEST" 
