Live Performance Currently, I am not doing any shows.

When I did live shows, I used a combination of any of the following gear:
• 3 - Dave Smith Instruments Mono Evolver Keyboards
• Dave Smith Prophet '08 PE
• Yamaha SK-20 Synthesizer, optional for local performances only
• T.C. Electronics ND1 Nova Delay Pedal
• SanDisk Sansa MP3 Player for playing environmental sounds and synthesizer loops
• Zoom H2 Portable Digital Recorder for live recording
• Kawai MX-8R Mixer

My Studio Gear

Synthesizer Keyboards
• Yamaha SK-20 Synthesizer, circa 1982, analog synth/organ/strings - a gift from my wife, Cindy in 1982 - Sweet!
• 3 - Mono Evolver Keyboards, Dave Smith Instruments, as close as I could get to a Sequential Circuits Pro-One keyboard which was also designed by Dave Smith. Very cool mix of analog and digital sound technology with a sequencer and the best arpeggiator I have ever used.
• Back in the mix for 2020, is a Dave Smith Prophet '08 PE. As you will read below, I used one on early work. Had a chance to get one at a good price that I could not pass up. Nice to have one again.

Guitar
• 1998 Martin DBXR - I got this one in a pawn shop for $300. I could not figure out why it was so cheap and sounded almost as good as my D-35! When I researched it out, I discovered that it was a laminated guitar with wood bracing. This is a wonderful axe that sounds great and plays easy!! Though I can't play guitar anymore due to a mild stroke that I had in November, 2008, which affected my right hand, I still love having a guitar around.

Studio Hardware
• Zoom H2n digital recorder
• Tascam 302mkII, dual well, 3-head cassette deck
• Midiman USB Midiport
• Behringer Denoiser
• Pioneer SX-255R Receiver
• 2 - JBL 4311B Studio Monitors, modified
• 2 - JBL 4311 Studio Monitors
• Sony MDS-JB930 MiniDisk deck for basic mixdowns and the source for tape dubbing
• 2 Dual Recording Cassettes Decks for Dubbing Tapes for Resale
• Tascam 302 mkII, also used as mastering cassette deck
• Denon DN-770R

Studio Software
• Sony Acid Pro 7
• Sony Soundforge Pro 11
• Sony CD Architech 5.2
• Vegas Pro 12 Video Editor with DVD Architech Pro 6
• MixPad from NCH Software for Multi-track Digital Mixing

Past Instruments and Equipment
• Dave Smith Instruments Prophet '08, 2010-13, awesome synthesizer. Started using the 3 Mono Evolver Keyboards for everything, studio and live, so I sold it in April, 2013, hoping it would get some good use. It was last used for my 2011 European tour, Time Traveller album, and my last studio album, Inter-Dimensional Time Traveling.
• 3 - Sequential Circuits Pro-One's, 1981-91, I did some of my most creative work with these synthesizers. I would like to own a Pro-One again, but the prices are just too high.
• Crumar Traveler T1-C Organ, my first keyboard, 1979-82.
• Casio CZ Series synthesizers including CZ-101, CZ-5000 and CZ-1, 1985-1992, started using these when I got into MIDI. Some of the most awesome sounds ever, wonderful synths.
• 2 - Ensoniq ESQ-M, 1986-2002, I did some of my 2nd most creative work with these synthesizers.
• Sequential Circuits Prophet 600, 2004-07, the first analog MIDI synth to hit the market in 1982. This was restored by Wine Country Productions, a group of ex-SC techs. Never really used it for any of my music work.
• 1982 Martin D-35, sweet! 1991-2012. the sound was just starting to mature, now it is beautiful with a balanced bass and treble, my all time favorite guitar.
• 1974 Martin D-28-12, best 12-string guitar I have ever had the privilege of owning, 1992-2006.
• Casio MG-510 Electric/Midi guitar, one of the best tracking MIDI guitars ever plus a great blues/jazz sound, 1986-2008.
• Octave Cat Synthesizer, 1980-81
• Yamaha CS-15 Synthesizer, 1981-82.
• Roland Juno-D Limited Edition, 2005-09, awesome range of sounds and functions, a step above a regular Juno-D with some extra features and sounds.
• Around 1985, I started using Midi for composing. My first computer was a Commodore C-64 with Dr T's Keyboard Controlled Sequencer, which I consider the best program I have ever used and have always wished it was updated for Windows. I moved into an Amiga 500, also using the Dr T's program. In the early 1990's, I switched to PC based computers using Cakewalk. I continued to use Midi til August, 1999, when I stopped creating any music music until 2010.
• Delta-Lab DL-4, used for the echo track on Wizards and many other early compositions from 1982-84. Then I upgraded to the Deltalab ADM-1020 Effectron, with longer delays, using it until 1988 or so. They were early, high quality audio, studio digital delays.
• Alesis SR-16 Drum Machine, used on Trance-Formations II: Into Separate Realities and other work from 1988-2001.
• Korg X5DR Synthesizer Module, used on Trance-Formations II: Into Separate Realities
• Teac A-3440 4-Track Reel-to-Reel, my favorite 4-track I have ever owned. I would compare it to any other 4-track by any other company in quality and sound. Used it from 1982-1986, then had another one from, 2007-09
• Teac A7300, an excellent Direct-Drive 2-Track, with Pitch Control, that I used from 1981-1984, then again from 2008-2010. Many times I would use it for creating the echo delays when mastering tracks.
• Tascam 40-4, used in the Fall of 1979 to start my studio recording work, it was on loan from Bill Alrich.
• Teac A-3340, used from 1980-82.
• Otari MX5050B2 2-track Rec/PB, 4-track PB, used it for the remastering of the Wizards reissue LP published by Important Records. Used it from 2009-12.
• Echoplex EP-4, used from 1979-1981.
• Ross Phaser Pedal, used from 1979-1984.
• DOD Compressor/Limiter pedal, used from 1979-1981.
• Fender Stereo Pack Guitar Processor which includes chorus, overdrive, distortion and speaker simulation. Got it back in 1992 while traveling in the San Francisco area.
• Alesis Microverb III 16 bit Digital Reverb and Delay plus many other effects, used for mastering many of my final mixes up until 2008.

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