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Guitars

PRS Custom 22

Paul's main instrument is a PRS Custom 22. Blue Matteo 10 Top Quilt maple with abalone bird inlays, pictured left.. Very droolworthy and an expensive gift. He says it's the easiest guitar to play that he's ever touched and let's face it, he needs all the help he can get with his increasing age. His "backup" guitar is a rather sweet PRS CE24 Mahogany - pictured right.

He also often also uses the Alden Dorchester 12-string featured below right.

Paul's occasional live guitar is a through neck Flying Vee replica which plays beautifully. It now has Gibson pickups.

 


 

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On the shelf, as it were, an Aria Pro II LC440 and a custom-built Explorer Bass, made to his specification by Rob Crocker at Andy's Guitar Workshop of Denmark St. London. These are undergoing renovation at present. When he gets the time and the sun comes out for a few days. Oh, and when his shoulder isn't too bad to sand things down. and.. and..

In the past he's played Ibanez, Guild, Burns, Yamaha, Tanglewood, Rickenbacker, Warwick, Gibson, Fender, Aria.. plus several he's forgotten because of his increasing age and senility.

Alden Dorchester 12-string

Paul plays his guitars through a Vox Tonelab SE valve-based digital guitar processor, and sings through Shure SM 58 cordless and corded microphones all running through a Behringer Mixer with TC Electronics Multifx and Carlsboro Slammer powered speakers. Monitoring is catered for by a  Lex Audio VHF radio wireless headphone system for in-ear monitoring via Shure ear-pieces. Live

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Past amp gear includes Fender, Trace Elliot, Marshall (spit!) and Peavey (yuk), Carlsboro, plus some custom pre-amps running through  power amplification and custom cabinets.

 
Recording   Paul records using an AMD Athlon equipped PC running Microsoft Windows XP®, Cubase SX® and M-Audio Quattro digital sound processing, Behringer  mixer and a variety of ancillary gear - including the Vox Tonelab SE,  Behringer stereo compressor/limiter & TC Electronics Multifx/delay, Shure, Peavey, Sennheiser, Takstar and RØDE Mics..

All material is digitally produced, and then recorded to MiniDisc and Apple iPod for live performance

 

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