Drum machine

Many Ween songs, especially before they became a full band, were recorded with a drum machine instead of real drums. While drum machines had been used in their music as far back as Axis: Bold as Boognish, this was most common during their time living in the Pod due to being unable to fit a drum kit in the apartment and to avoid noise complaints - as a result, nearly every song from The Pod and Pure Guava, as well as their respective demo tapes, have the Alesis HR-16 providing percussion. During the demoing sessions for Chocolate and Cheese, they switched from the HR-16 to the more advanced SR-16, with Gene and Dean Ween each having one of their own to facilitate solo recording and make it easier to finish recordings done where the other lived.

Although the addition of drummer Claude Coleman to the lineup in 1994 mostly curtailed their usage, Ween continued to utilize drum machines in their later years, either on demos or when appropriate for the genre of a song. Notably, Quebec (recorded with Coleman absent due to a car accident that had happened before recording) features live drums more commonly than programmed drums.