I use the following equipment to perform and record my songs. I have been recording songs since I don't know when. In the 70's, I used a Sony TC-377 3-head reel-to-reel recorder, multi-tracking using sound-on-sound. Oof. In the early eighties, I recorded on stereo cassette machines, sometimes using two at once to multitrack. In the late 80's I got a Tascam Porta One 4-track cassette recorder. I could pretend I was George Martin and the Beatles. In the 90's I eased into computer-aided recording, first saving keyboard data to disk using a Commodore 64, then using early Cakewalk versions to record midi data on a PC. Then I went to digital audio, recording all audio on hard disk. Now, in the 00's I use the computer as a sampler also, streaming sampled instruments like the piano and viola from big hard drives. What next? 2011 update. I got a new computer and the latest version of Sonar, X1. It comes with digital signal processing, a sampler, drum software and a very nice acoustic piano module called True Pianos. I have updated the list below accordingly. I also built a soprano ukulele using a $22 kit from Grizzly.
1. Keyboards
2. Guitars, etc.a. Fatar Studiologic SL-880 88-key midi controller.
b. Kawai 64-note acoustic upright piano.
a. Guitar, a homemade mahogany electric guitar, first from left to right on the wall.
b. Gibson acoustic guitar, second from left to right on the wall. See the refret here.
c. Ex Tex Mex Fender Stratocaster (not shown in photo).
d. Bass, a homemade mahogany electric bass, third from left to right on the wall.
e. Grizzly ukulele.
3. Computer and etc.
a. HP Desktop PC - Intel Core i5-650 3.2GHz, 4GB DDR3 RAM, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit computer.
b. Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 Midi/Audio interface
4. Korg MS2000R Analog Modeling Synthesizer
5. Mackie 1402-VLZ 14 channel mixer
6. Homemade monitor speakers using Radio Shack 8 inch woofer, 2 inch dome tweeter
7. Microphones
a. One Royer mod tube mic
b. One Royer mod instrument tube mic
c. One MXL-603s instrument mic
8. AKG K240 headphones
9. Software
a. Cakewalk Sonar digital recording software
b. Alfa Technologies CDex Audio CD extraction tool
10. Various old stuff not shown or used much anymore.