This page outlines a bit about what software, hardware and instruments I used to record my album. Most of the equipment mentioned is now out of production or in its second, third or "morth" generation, so the product links will go to either the piece of equipment I used, that which has superseded it, or an alternative manufacturers equivalent product . The company links will go to the manufacturer of the product, eg Apple.

To record the album "Halfway Back From Anywhere" I decided to build a Home Studio, taking into consideration the fact that I wanted to use some of the gear for gigs.
The first step was to decide whether to use Windows or Mac, but really for me there was only one way to go. I bought the brand new Apple PowerMac G4 Dual Processor, which at the time was Apple's mother of all computers.
I ordered it from Apple Store Spain, which was a nightmare, but that's another story. When it finally arrived and when I finally got it working, because it didn't work properly on arrival, again, another long story, I set it up and started to build a studio.
I decided to use EMagic (now Apple) Logic Platinum sequencing software with the MOTU 828 Audio Interface and EMagic AMT8 Midi Interface, and although you might guess from its name, it had 8 MIDI IN's and OUT's but I didn't expect to use more than one MIDI input.
For acoustic guitar (Takamine EAN16C), bass (Yamaha BBN5) and microphone (Rode NTK) pre-amplification I used the Drawmer MX60.
Most of the added effects such as compression, delay and reverb were provided by a TC Electronic PowerCore card within the computer, but although the card had its own DSP, it did struggle on some songs so I ended up using the TC Electronic M300 Reverb/Multi Effects unit for vocal track reverb.
For electric guitar (Godin LGXT) input I used the Line 6 Pod Pro, which provided a good signal and sound, on both clean and dirty settings.
All the piano, orchestral and synth sounds were internal samples triggered via MIDI using a Roland W30 Workstation as the input keyboard. I mainly used Logic's library sounds and Spectrasonics Atmosphere.
I recorded the drums by playing a Roland TD6K electronic drum kit to trigger drum samples within the computer.
I then had to go through the drum track MIDI info to seperate the drum instruments from one track into individual tracks which would enable me to have better control over the whole kit within the mix. A lot of work but worth it.
To monitor the sound I used Alesis Monitor 1 MK11 active speakers which I found to give good overall results considering they were not working in a perfect acoustic environment.
During the recording of vocals and acoustic instruments I used Beyer Dynamic DT100 closed headphones and during playback, the DT990 open headphones.