Gear

• Guitars—The instruments.
• Amps—In search of 1 louder.
• Pedals—Because they make good guitars sound bad.
• Picks—All you want to know about tiny pieces of plastic.
• Strings—Guitars don’t work without them.

• Collings MT2 Mandolin—Wow.
• Ode “Tut Taylor” Mandolin—Where I started. Has a Fort Robinson “I’m an early bird” sticker on the case from when I was six.
• Mid-Missouri Mandolin Company Mandola—Pretends it’s an Irish Bouzouki most of the time.
• Godin Multioud Steel Prototype—I pestered Louis at Guitars, Etc. about these for so long that he convinced Godin to sell me one of the prototypes.
• Squire Vintage Modified Fretless Jazz Bass—I own a bass. I record with it. I am not a bass player.
• Alesis Fusion 8hd—Every kind of synthesis you need and good action. I love them, but most players ignored this ugly duckling.

• Curious Automata—In Fort Collins.
• The Cloister—It was the studio, my bedroom, and a tiny kitchen crammed into what may be the smallest house in Longmont. Believed by some to be haunted.
• CMIC—Lessons, tracking, mixing, sound design… We did it all.

Posts About Software

• Abelton Live—For looping.
• Avid Protools—Sometimes it’s the only acceptable tool.
• Avid Sibelius—Until something better comes along.
• Csound—If it can’t be done in Csound it can’t be done.
• Cuckos Reaper—The best DAW for capturing hours-long jams.
• Harrison MixBus—As close as you can get to out of the box in the box.
• Tabledit—The long-lived French tab editor. I’ve used it constantly since last millennium.