Preferred Software

FLStudio by Image-line. It really does most of what I want. I’ll do most of my programming, looping, arranging and recording in FLStudio and export the stems for final editing and mixing in Pro Tools.

Exporting to Pro Tools for mixing has a number of benefits, one of which is being able to more easily correct timing issues due to latency on tracks.

• FLStudio
• Pro Tools M-Powered
• Sound Forge
• Guitar Rig 2
• Amplitube
• Ableton Live

Microphones

• Rode NT1a
• SE 2200a
• AKG Perception 120
• Oktava MK 012-01 MSP2 matched pair
• Shure SM58
• A number of T-Bone mics

Instruments

• PRS Santana SE (Electric Guitar)
• Fender Stratocaster (Customised Mexican Strat) Electric Guitar
• Fender Jazz Bass
• Epiphone VJ200 Jumbo Acoustic Guitar
• Hohner Stratocaster (A Hohner Strat-copy with genuine Fender Strat electrics)
• Richwood Acoustic Guitar (first acoustic guitar, mellowed nicely with age)
• Ibanez Nylon String Acoustic
• microKorg
• Yamaha YDP-142 Digital Piano
• Korg Electribe ERII Drum Synth
• Yamaha PSR200 Keyboard (used as a controller)
• AKAI MPD16 Drumpad Controller
• Novation Bass Station Synth
• Dave Smith Instruments Mopho Mono Synth
• Korg Kaoss Pad Mini
• A few guitar pedals: Proco RAT, Ibanez TubeScreamer, Vox Wahwah, Marshall Echohead, Boss Tremolo, etc…

Other Gear Of Note

• Carillon DAW PC
• Second Custom Desktop PC (mainly used for Guitar Rig 2 and softsynths)
• Presonus Blutubes Pre-Amps
• E-mu 1820m
• E-mu 0404
• M-Audio Delta 1010
• AKAI MPK Mini
• Alesis Monitor 1 MKII Active Nearfield Monitors
• Sennheiser HD25-II Headphones
• SMPro Audio M-Patch II monitor section