I’ve been doing live recording for about 15 years now, and cut my teeth learning how to multitrack on a Tascam 01 4-track and moved up to a Portastudio 488. I began recording band practices and multitracking original songs, but moved into remixing about 10 years ago. Now, all recording is done digitally, using an MBox into ProTools. I’ve supplemented my beat tracking in the past with Reason but now I primarily use Garageband for loop based recording and ProTools for live recording. All recording is Mac-based, primarily with either an old iMac (ProTools) or a Mac Mini (Garageband). I recently purchased a MacBook Pro with the plan to upgrade my DAW to Logic Pro, which I hope to have in place by the end of the year

Instruments I Sometimes Use:

• Fender American Stratocaster guitar
• Guild F4-CE acoustic/electric guitar
• Sigma DM-2 acoustic guitar
• Fender Mexican P-bass
• Weber “sweet pea” mandolin
• Mesa Nomad 55 guitar amp
• Fender Champ amp
• Jim Dunlop Cry Baby Wah pedal
• Guyatone ST-2 compression/sustain pedal
• Boss DS-1 Distortion pedal
• Boss RV-3 Digital reverb/Delay pedal
• Danelectro fabtone pedal
• E-bow
• Kawai K1 keyboard/synthesizer
• Latin Percussion Congas
• Gretch Blackhawk mini-snare
• Sonor mini-glockenspiel
• LP eggshaker
• a cheap kazoo