This is my AKG c414 B xls seated in my AKG H-100 mic basket, I use this mic holder for my 414 and c3000, this microphone has an amazing sound, the flat eq curve gives it a natural sound giving me room to colour the sound using processing.

It has 5 different polar patterns (omnidirectional, cardioid, wide cardioid, hyper cardioid and figure of 8) which you can select by using the switch on the front. There is two switches on the back, one is a dB cut (0, -6, -12 -18dBs) and a high pass filter (0, 40, 80 160Hz) this makes this versatile mic good for most things , This is my favourite microphone.

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 from a solid rosted spruce top and mahogany back and sides gives it a beautiful tone. 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 it was somewhere in the 11k which is pretty hot, so we bought so 7k ohm epiphone pickups of ebay and now it sounds as good as it looks.

this is my Westone thunder I-A bass, this bass was also given to me by my great uncle ray and it sounds amazing, it features 1 split-coil pickup (designed to work both passive and active), volume knob, a passive tone knob to use when the bass is in passive mode and a active EQ knob this is for when the bass is in active mode and you want to boost either the high frequencies by turning it clockwise or boost the low frequencies by turning it the other way or you can keep it in the centre for no boost, it also has two mini switches, the one is a active/passive bypass switch, turning this one engages the 18v active preamp, and the other switch is a duel tone switch that changes how the pickups a wired, in the ON position the pickups are in series and the off position the pickups are in parallel. With all these controls you can get a nice rounded bass tone all the way to a gritty slap like tone. This bass has been compared to a p-bass but on steroids, I agree.

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 guitar front end processor, this is one of if not the most used bit of equipment I own, it has four input selections, mic48v, mic, line and instrument making in very versatile and perfect for most occasions, it has three different segments on the front compressor, noise gate and a four band valve EQ, the compressor sounds amazing and so does the EQ. Underneath is my DOD graphic EQ, i don't  use it as an EQ, i have it plugged into the back of my TL audio in the sidechain insert point, this is used to compress certain frequencies this can come in handy if you need to "de ess" a track if there's any harsh sibilancies or to reduce any unwanted resonance. Last but not least is my patch bay these are good for keeping things more organised and accessible.  

This is my BOSS SD-1w overdrive pedal, I love the sound of this pedal its pretty versatile too you can get some nice bluesy, slightly crunchy sound all the way to a gritty Black Sabbath sound. if I'm using my session master pre amp and I want some overdrive I always use this pedal

This is my BOSS DM-2w delay pedal, its a very nice sounding delay pedal, good to pair with my chorus pedal 

This is my BOSS FDR-1 modelled after a 1965 fender deluxe reverb guitar amp,you can get some pretty nice sounds out of it 

This is my loop pedal. It's pretty fun to play with good for practicing guitar and bass 

This is my tokai chorus pedal, this is a really nice chorus pedal it sounds amazing running my acoustic through it 

This is my electroharmonics wah pedal, a nice sounding pedal good for getting some Jimi Hendrix tones.

These are my main headphones, originally they were Dre's but we swapped the drivers out of another set of headphones I had at the time, sennheiser HD 215, and put them in the Dre's and they sound amazing, perfect for studio work.

These are my sennheiser HD 25, these are used solely for singing down a mic, a very widely used headphones.