This is my AKG c3000, its a nice mic, it gives a nice soft sound with a bit of presence on high end people say its excels in female vocals or instruments, it has three switches on the back, a switchable polar pattern between cardioid and hyper cardioid, high pass filter (-6dB) and a pad (-10dB).

this is my Shure SM58 dynamic microphone, this is a good mic for live situations because of its narrow polar pattern but also has its uses in a studio if you have a particularly loud vocals in a song 

This is my AKG c451 B, this microphone is perfect for close micing acoustic guitars, it has a raise of about +4 dB at about 5k Hz giving it a natural sound but slightly shimmery on the tops, it has two three way switches on the front; one is a dB cut (0, -10, -20) and the other one is a high pass (flat, 75Hz, 150Hz). I like to pare this mic with my other mics for a stereo recording.

Instruments

This is my tanglewood TW-15 NS acoustic guitar. This is a lovely sounding acoustic, its dreadnought body made of solid rosted spruce top and mahogany back and sides gives it a good loud ring. Perfect for close micing 

This is my epiphone casino, this is the import model from china but everything was great about this guitar the build, the look, the feel but the pickups sounded pretty dark, when we tested the ohms rating was some where in the 11k, so we bought so 7k epiphone pickups of ebay and now it sounds as good as it looks 

Accessories

This is my sE RF PRO and sE Duel Pop filter, the RF pro is a good mic booth that stops reflections and gives an evenly balanced tone across the whole frequency spectrum, this pared with the sE duel pop filter which has two separate pop filters one a fabric membrane and the other a metal mesh on a hinge giving you the option to change between the two.

The sssnake m-Studio is a handy bit of equipment it has 8 inputs 4 XLR and the rest 1/4 jack with a long wire that has four male XLR and 4 male 1/4  jack leads all bound up into one cable just to keep everything organised I use it by plugging out of my patch bay into the snake then have the cable leading to my audio interface so I don’t have loads of cables going across my room.

Hardware

This is my Focusrite scarlet 4i4 3rd gen USB audio inerface, it has 4 ins and 4 outs with 2 xlr / 1/4jack ins on the front and 1 MIDI in and 1 MIDI out, I run it at 96khz 24bit for a good lossless sound without using a lot of CPU power.

This is my rackmount of outboard gear that was given to me by my great uncle Ray when he was getting rid of some of his studio stuff, it consists of a BOSS digital multi echo RE-1000 this is a lovely sounding stereo/mono reverb/echo it has a output balance so you can change how dry or wet the effect is, a pre EQ, all the 16 modes, decay and warmth which gives it almost a tape flutter effect to the signal. Next is my Rocktron HUSH IICX noise reduction system, this stereo/mono noise suppressor, it has one threshold knob, one cut-off knob, one release button switching between slow and fast, line/instrument button and a in/out button the lay out is the same on the left side with a stereo switch in the middle giving you the capability to control both sides using one side for an accurate stereo signal. Next, my AWARD sessionmaster guitar pre-amp, this beautiful sounding pre-amp is a nice bit of equipment it has three boost buttons on the front gain, bass and mids it has two outs on the back a normal out and a speaker simulator out or recording output as its called on the machine, this out is designed to emulate the frequency response of a guitar amplifier speaker cabinet. It also sounds great running bass through it. Next is my TL audio Fatman Fat Funker mono valve gutar front end processor,