My premier choice of pickups...

I am an endorsee of Bare Knuckle Pickups as they make the worlds finest hand wound pickups. The tone characteristics and harmonic complexity of BKPs is auditory ecstacy!

When I approched BKP last year I said to Tim Mills that I was looking for a pickup which had the same kind of tone as a Seymour Duncan Screaming Demon, but with a touch more drive, slightly more mid range and more growl...he suggested the Nailbomb and he delivered exactly what I had been searching for for 2 year. The ascemetric winding gives the pickup a lot of character and really make it sing. The specs are as follows:

DC: 15.7k :output

Alnico V magnet

4 conductor wires 

To hear the hellacious sound of the pickup check out the track below...

Freefall

BKP Nailbomb Demo
I've used a lot of different cables over the years and at MusikMesse 2008 Elixir hooked me up with their incredible new guitar cable. It sets a new standard in tone transfer from guitar to amp. The purity of tone is sublime. I was using a great cable before this one, and this one is by far BETTER. Elixir have built a cable which has a very, very low capacitance. That means that the tone which is being transferred is not altered on it's way from the guitar to the amp. The results that I'm acheiving in the studio now are noticably more organic sounding. Check them out at www.elixircables.com

Elixir's are my string of choice and I'm very privilaged to be an endorsee of the company. The strings are coated for longevity and they last for a long, long, long time whilst still retaining clarity, playability, smoothness and sustain.

I've played a lot of other strings over the years and nothing comes close to the Elixir Strings. They are an integral part of my guitar tone and feel so good to play.

Cubase has been my choise of audio editor for a number of years . I am currently running SX3 on a Windows XP based HP PC. The functionality of the current version of Cubase is far superior to the previous versions of software. The functionality, couple with ease of use and navigation keeps me going back to the Steinberg software r. I'm running a number of plug ins with the production system as well including the Nomad Factory Studio Pack, Izotope Ozone and Spectron, Native Instrument Instruments, Waves effects, Antares vocal processors, Luminox processors, BBE Sonic Maximiser, Lexicon effects, and many more...