Jackson SL2 Pro Soloist guitar - Duncan Distortion pickups. D'Addario strings, 11-52 with wound G20. Tuned C# standard. Guitar feels great in the hand with the unfinished thin neck. Sound is deep yet woody, with some sproinginess on the mid strings, and it can be a bit bassy despite the maple neck-thru construction. But sounds good enough overall. I got this guitar solely to do whammy bar stuff in solos, but it's become my main rhythm guitar. Color is metallic midnight blue. It looks perfect.

Schecter Damien 6 guitar - Dimarzio Evo 2 in bridge, EJ Custom in neck. D'Addario strings, 11-54 with wound G22. Tuned B standard. Very balanced and open tone even distorted. After trying many pickups, I can say the Evo 2 will be my go-to from now on.

ESP LTD B-304FM bass - EMG 35P4X in neck, EMG 35JX in bridge. DR Lo-Rider strings in 45-105 (E flat standard), 50-110 (C sharp and D), and D'Addario ProSteels in 60-125 (B and C). Got this for $200 used and upgraded the pickups, strings, and tuners. Set it up for low action to get some string rattle. Versatile sounds. I want a Fender P-Bass at some point though. Can't get that sound with this one.

Yamaha FG730s acoustic - D'Addario Extra Light Phosphor Bronze strings. Nice all-around acoustic guitar.

Hardwire CM-2 - Overdrive pedal. My desert island pedal as it can correct the bass/mid/treble response of any guitar into any preamp to get tighter distortion chugs or tone down too chimey highs.

Microtubes B7k Ultra bass pedal. If I weren't doing metal I'd use a Sansamp Bassdriver (and have before). But this has a good distorted tone and is very customizable. May try combining both.

Dunlop Tortex Jazz .60 mm picks (black). I keep coming back to this one. Sharp, articulate, light weight, grippy, just enough flex. I also use the same in 1.0 for one of the stereo sides when double or quad tracking, to vary the tone.

Shure KSM42 for clean vocals and acoustic guitar. Condenser mic with a detailed open sounds. Captures more of the room, though, which is good or bad depending on your room sound.

Shure SM7B for clean and harsh vocals, and spoken word. Rugged, easy to use, and convenient. Great off-axis (room sound) rejection. But can have a "stuffy nose" sound due to not picking up upper face and chest resonance with its focused sound pickup pattern. Not my ideal mic, but convenience makes it my go-to for dense mixes where the little subtleties don't matter. Great podcast mic though. Every other podcaster and influencer seems to be using it now, but I bought mine back in 2010.

Audio Technica AT4021 for acoustic guitar. Flat, responsive, detailed mic. Good for getting those dynamic string plucks, which sound flat and rounded using the other mics.

Apogee Duet 2 audio interface. Had this thing forever, still going, still sounds great. Use it every day for listening to vids/music.

Equator D5 studio monitor speakers. Discontinued. But I like the sound, matches my HD650 headphones. I do most of my mix on headphones, then correct with monitors while walking around the room. Have gotten better translation that way than the reverse.

Sennheiser HD650 headphones. Best headphones I've ever had. I can put them on and everything sounds as I expect, with no ear burn-in adjustment time.

Focal Spirit Pro headphones. Tin-canny sound (meaning they're flat with a slight upper mid bump) but extremely accurate in the details. Good for micro-editing waveforms and listening for noise and mistakes. I can't mix with these, as mixes always come out way too scooped sounding. So they're like a magnifying glass for editing, and prevent mic bleed when recording vocals/acoustic since they're closed-back.

Korg Microkey MIDI keyboard. Use this for certain things, like performances that require slides and pitch bends.

Line2Amp reamp box. Haven't used this much, but it's around just in case.

GAP PreQ-73 mic preamp. Based on the Neve preamps. Very versatile piece of kit. Can adjust EQ to correct for mics, hit the low-z button to get a more condenser-like sound from the SM7B dynamic mic, add preamp or output distortion as needed, and adjust volume on the fly quickly when doing video interviews.

Logic Pro digital audio workstation. No complaints, it's slick and convenient and relatively easy to use.

Superior Drummer 3 drum sampler. Had a tough time finding kits that I liked & needed but figured it out (Metal Foundry cymbals + Metal Machines drums) and am sticking with that.

XILS 201 vocoder. Used on The Wanderer and others to come. Emulation of the vocoder used on Neil Young's "Trans" album, my favorite (and only) Neil Young album. Vocoders are cool because they're so inhuman sounding and it's a fun challenge writing the synth track with pitch bends to mimic real singing. I use vocoders for the irony, symbolism, and strange feel.

FabFilter mixing and mastering bundle. I mainly use these now for EQ, Compression, and Limiting. Plus some IK Multimedia plugins (EQ73 and Black76). I'm past the point of obsessing about the latest boutique plugins/gear and the subtlest audiophile nuances that don't make a difference in the end, especially in metal where you low cut most of the non-bass non-kick tracks anyway. I'd rather just use a small set of quality tools that I know well that can produce the results I intend. For reverb I tend to use Valhalla or Logic's own Space Designer.