Acoustic
When playing with Albireo, my main instrument is a Thornbory Lynton 110/C acoustic with a Fishman pickup. It's also had a Fishman power-jack pre-amp fitted and that really improves amplified sound. The signal goes straight into the PA desk via a Behringer Ultra DI 100 DI Box. I've used D'Addadrio J16's for years.
Electric
When playing electric, I use an Ibanez Blazer strat copy (I think it's a BB550) through a Marshall JTM310 (30 watt all valve 2x10 combo).
The Prögford project guitar parts have all been played on the Ibanez, using Ableton Live and some great amp and cab simulators from http://nickcrowlab.blogspot.co.uk and lepouplugins.blogspot.co.uk.
I've also recently been exploring the world of guitar looping and ambient soundscapes using a Boss RC-30 and an Akai Headrush E1 in tandem with a bunch of delay/reverb pedals and an E-Bow.
Miscellaneous
Also cluttering the house up is a bog-standard Washburn acoustic and an old, old Hofner jazz guitar that looks lovely but is a real bugger to play! Sadly the piano I was borrowing went back to its real owner, but I've replaced it with a Fatar Studio SL880. It's not quite the same, but it's fairly close to a piano action. To accompany that there's a smattering of midi gear I've been picking up recently..... One day I might put some photos up here so you can see if it's worth coming round my house to nick them.
Latest edition to the stable is a baritone ukulele. It's cheap and cheerful, but it's fun to play, and easy for a fat-fingered guitarist as it's in guitar tuning and is a little bigger than your standard tenor uke.
Home Brew!
My first foray into instrument building has resulted in the magnificent beast pictured here, which can be heard on soundcloud.
So What?
So what do I do with all this stuff? The Albireo sound is pretty much a straight-ahead ceilidh band although we like to rock it up a little. I never really thought of myself as a lead guitarist in the traditional sense (partly because I can't play blinding solos), but as an accompanist. So I was more interested in feel than wailing away like a madman. It's what you don't play that counts. I was described as "sublimely subtle" by a local journalist and a bass player said he thought I sounded a bit like Vini Reilly at times, which will do for me!
The Prögford material is a different kettle of fish, and is marrying my love of metal and traditional folk. I make no claims to my shredding talents though, and some of those recordings are what one might call "digitally enhanced". Still, by any means necessary, and if it's good enough for Thin Lizzy, then it's good enough for me.
If you want to hear more of my work with Holly and fiction, some old recordings are up on my bandcamp site.