MRT:CSW

My Equipment Preferences:

(what I’ve used and seen used well)

AKG:

D112: Kick Drum

451: High Hat

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Audix:

214: Guitar

D2,D4: Toms, Congas, Horns

D6: Bass Drum

F10: Toms, Percussion, okay on Snare

• fun to use in addition to an SM57 on a guitar cabinet

F12: Floor Tom, Crack/Punch in a Kick Drum

F15: Overhead Drum Miking (great in producing clean cymbal noise)

• Audix F series are my preferred low cost drum mics
  

OM-5: Vocals

• my favorite hypercardioid dynamic for a good low end/mid range for live applications

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Countryman:

E6: Speakers

• amazing wireless omni condenser head mic

Type 85 Direct Box

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Fishman:

Pro-EQ Platinum DI: amazing acoustic guitar DI

• they also make a great one for bass DI
  

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Neumann:

U87: most popular studio mic

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Royer:

SF1: Overhead Drum Mics

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SansAmp:

Bass Driver DI: amazing DI for bass guitar

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Sennheiser:

421: Toms

E604, E904, E905: Drum Miking, Percussion

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Shure:

Beta 52A: Kick Drum, Bass Guitar (upright and cabinets)

• fun to use for recording low end boomy vocals as well
  

Beta 58: Live Vocals

Beta 87A: Supercardioid condenser version of 58

• my personal favorite for live vocals, with a vocalist who knows how to project

Beta 87C: Cardioid condenser version

Beta 91: Inside Kick Drum Mic

SM 58: Live/Recording Vocals

SM 57: Just about anything with use for a dynamic microphone

• i primarily like it for snare and guitar cabinets

KSM44: Overall, really nice condenser

• seen used well as room mics

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Sony:

MDR7506 Profession Stereo Studio Headphones

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Yamaha:

NS-10: wired backward to pick up real low bass drum frequencies

Subkick: bass drum attachement (commercial version of NS-10 idea)

Software:

Personally, I’m a MacOSX enthusiast but run Linux on my personal computer partitioned with windows to run certain software

Ableton: Live

Apple: Logic Studio

DigiDesign: ProTools

Propellerheads: Reason

Sony: Sound Foundry

Virtual DJ

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Open Source:

Audacity

Linux

Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, etc.

VideoLAN VLC