FABIAN HOLLAND

in the early eighties, George Lowden partnered with the S Yairi workshop in Nagoya, Japan to build his original guitar designs under license. This is one such guitar, dating to around 1984-5.

Regal made a series of resonator guitars back in the day. I can't find much info on this one but it seems to have mahogany back and sides and spruce top with a single cone inside.

I did a video on this one on youtube a little while back. This guitar is just a bit bonkers! And the sound is bonkers too!

This is my homemade lap steel that I built a few years back. I wanted it to look a bit like a pedal steel guitar, It's made from a single piece of 40 year old mahogany and I wanted to keep that rough wood look as well. The pickup is a hand wired copy of a vintage Fender Champion pickup.

I recently got myself one of there mics and if you do any sort of recording on vocals or any instrument then This is the mic to get if you want the pillowy, round, smooth sound of a vintage ribbon mic. I was so surprised how good this sounded considering it only costs 170€ brand new!

Made by Arthur Octavius Windsor made between the late 1890s and early 1900s at his works in Newhall St. Birmingham. (Arther Windsor had a factory that made coffin furniture but he played the banjo as a hobby and decided to manufacture his own).

This has been my go to mic for the acoustic guitar. I use it for both live and recording. Because I tend to play quietly a lot of the time I find the KM184 is amazing at picking up these tiny little details of the guitar and at the same time giving a very rich and full sound.

This is a great all rounder, I mostly have use it for vocals on stage but I also use it as an extra mic I can stick infront of just about anything. Because it's a condenser it's different to an sm58, although not as durable it's able to pick up more of the high end detail on things.

This is a must if you're using Ribbon mics, It's gives 27dB of gain and also stops Phantom Power getting to the mic. I have this plugged in all the time with my Ribbons and it sounds great.

I use the EBow mainly with my Lap Steel and my Diddley Bow. It's the perfect tool if you're trying to create something ambient and atmospheric. I use this in combination with pedals and analog tape to get some of my very ambstract sounds.

These capos are a thing of beauty, hand made in the US to a very high standard. They also last a while because I've had mine for well over ten years and it's still going strong. It allows you to tighten the capo just right so there's very little loosening of the strings to do once it's on.

The classic Shubb capo has saved my bacon more times than I can remember, I always have spare ones lying around in guitar cases so it's always there when I need it.

I use these for my Lap Steel and Dobro style guitars.

This is another classic by Shubb. A little more bulky than the Dunlop but still very easy to play with. It has these nice curved edges which make it very easy to play melody lines. It's not quite as durable as the Dunlop but for the price it's an absolutely great tone bar.

I've used these headphones almost every day since 2005. I've had to replace the cables and one of the speakers but apart from that they're still going strong which is very impressive.

I use this for just about every recording that I make. Having something that can record high quality audio, with mic and line inputs, mulitrack recording, phantom power and it's own fantastic sounding in built stereo mics has been an amazing tool to have.

I dont use a computer when I'm recording, intead I use this. I don't want to be looking at a screen all the time when I'm recording so I record onto this and then edit the audio later on a computer.

I didn't use this for the last album, for that I used a Zoom F8N multitrack field recorder.

The Stymon BlueSky can give amazing sounding reverbs, from very natural sounding to never ending space loops. I use this both on my acoustic guitar pickups and my electric lap steel. It's also great to have control over the high damp and low damp to EQ the reverb, this really helps mold the sound to how you want it. Can't reccoment this pedal enough.

I mainly use this on my Lap Steel. What I like about this delay is the blend feature. All the way to the left is no delay and all the way to the right is delay full volume. This is really handy being able to control just the delay volume.

I got this as an extra reverb if I needed it but it's really amazing what you can do with the software for this, tc electronic have created these great mini pedals that have way more functionality than what meets the eye.

Possibly the greatest EQ pedal on the market. Using acoustic instruments we need as much control over the frequencies as we can and this gives great control in a small size. I also use this if I need a volume boost.

The MXR DC brick is very light and small which is one of the reasons I got it. Sometimes I travel with a small pedal board so it's nice not to have a huge power supply to drag along.

I find this to be a very accurate and quick tuner, I maily use it for my Lap Steel these days because I have the snark clip on tuners for my acoustics. I don't really use the polyphonic option but it's nice to have it if I need to check the tuning at a glance.

Everything Radial make is amazing quality, really tough and just does what it says it does. This is no ecception. They've packed it it full of features in this small tough box. Spacifically designed for piezo style pickups but it would work with any pickup and any instrument. I've even used it on electric guitars and it works great!