From left to right:Aria Pro II bass guitar: This belongs to a mate of mine but I've had it for about four years now (he has a much nicer bass to play). It's actually really good and can give a wide range of sounds thanks to the rotary pickup selector switch - it has about 700,000 positions. I've replaced the original strings with the bottom four from a 5 string bass so I can get some serious low end.
Washburn Nuno Bettencourt Signature Model: My baby! She's been with me for 10 whole years now and plays wonderfully. I've replaced the bridge with a better quality Floyd Rose system, but other than that it's all original stuff. Washburn pickup with plenty of bite in the bridge, Bill Lawrence in the neck position for a more mellow sound (or accuracy when speed picking). I love this guitar!
TLAudio Fatman stereo valve compressor: Everything runs through this before it hits the PC. Gives a nice valve warmth as well as mases of punch and a volume boost.
Korg AX1500G Multi FX: (the silver thing on the floor) Brilliant effects on a budget with a stack of parameters controllable via the foot pedal. Great distortions and amp simulator and some nice delays too - sounds really fat when run through the compressor, particularly combined with some software like Guitar Rig.
Digitech XP100 Whammy Wah: Picked this up years ago and I don't really use it for its wild pitch bending capabilities any more. I tend to use it now for the impossible double lines (when you should have run out of frets), low octave doubles and for adding textures and layers.
Jackson DX7 7 string guitar: Heaviness on a budget! This beauty set me back less than £300 back when 7 strings were a rare commodity and aside from a high-ish action and some annoying reverberations on the low B, it generally delivers the goods, just don't try 2 handed tapping on it unless you want to fail. Once you know how to manage it live and in post production though it's a cracker.
The Computer: It's old, it's beginning to slow down (I shan't embarrass myself by revealing the spec), but it never crashes and never complains. It's running Cubase SX 1.1 (although I have SX3 on my laptop) and a load of VST instruments and effects, although I mostly just use Guitar Rig and some high quality compression, reverb and delay plugins these days.
Random SG shape guitars: They aren't Gibsons, and they didn't cost me a penny. One usually stays in 'open c' tuning (for those Devin Townsend moments), and the other gets used when I need that 'SG sound', but mostly my wife likes to play Soundgarden on it (rather well too I might add)
Misc: Random dvd drives and external HDD, but I also have a mandolin, two recorders, a jaws harp and some kazoos - some of which may get used on future recordings. Oh, and there's another guitar which I'm in the process of 'customising', and there used to be an audio amp and speakers but my AV system need a re-jig, so stuff had to be moved. I also have a 100 watt Laney Linebacker transistor amp (from the 80's) but that has to live somewhere else at present.
