Equipment

Current

• Electric upright bass by Jensen Musical Instruments
• Early 20th century flatback acoustic bass, possibly Czech or German, that looks bad and sounds great
• Czech Juzek cello, circa 1930
• I wrote a review of my excellent combo amp, an Acoustic Image Coda. I have the first version, which is still a great amp, but I'm lusting after the Series III.
• Edirol R-1 (now superseded by the R-09) portable solid state recorder. Not much bigger than a pack of cards and with no moving parts, this box does a wonderful job of recording audio to a CompactFlash card in .wav or .mp3 formats. You can listen directly with headphones or upload recordings to a computer via USB cable, at which point you can edit, burn to CD, etc. If you intend to record .wav files, expect to buy a memory card of at least 1 G. Sweetwater Sound has a great selection of solid state recorders.
• Tiny binaural mics from Core Sound, which sound great and work well with the Edirol R-1 and minidisc recorders
• Audacity, an excellent, free, open source software package for audio editing and recording

Past

• Polytone Mini-Brute III amp (sold)
• Ampeg B-15-N Portaflex bass amp (sold)
• My 1971 Fender Precision fretless bass is now one of Bob Gollihur's "eclectic basses"