My main guitars are a 2004 Custom Shop Martin Cutaway OM (basically a vintage-style OM-21 in Indian rosewood and Adirondack spruce), a 1994 Taylor 712c, a 1999 Lowden O10, a Taylor 355 12-string, and a Kenny Hill Ruck model classical guitar. Other guitars that get frequent use include a Larrivée Rosewood Deluxe Parlor (sometimes used as a "high-strung" guitar), and a Juan Huipe flamenco cutaway.
I also own a Gibson ES-335 electric, a '70's Hoyer dreadnought, a Mexican Requinto, a Yamaha Silent Nylon-String, a Squire Jazz Bass, and a few other odds and ends.
Almost all the acoustic guitars are equipped with pickups. The Martin and the Lowden have L.R. Baggs Dual Source systems (under-saddle pickup and internal mic), the Taylor 712c has a D-TAR Timberline and Seymour Duncan MagMic combination (custom installed by Rick Turner), the Taylor 355 has a D-TAR Timberline, the Larrivée has a Fishman Rare Earth Humbucker, and the Huipe features L.R. Baggs Hexaphonic pickups (one for each string) and a side-mounted preamp.
For amplification, I prefer to use whatever PA a venue provides, but for coffehouse gigs, etc. I've been using an AER Compact 60 (the photo above shows the Ultrasound 50 I used before). I run my guitars through either L.R. Baggs Para Acoustic DI or Fishman Pro EQ Platinum preamps, and use a Boss TU-2 tuner pedal. I sometimes use a Boss GE-7 pedal to match gain levels and EQ shapes if I'm using guitars that are very different from each other (like a six-string and a 12-string or nylon-string) at the same gig. If I'm playing through a PA, I like to use an external condenser microphone in addition to the guitars' pickups, with the AKG C1000S being high on my list of performance mics that seem to work for me. Sometimes I bring along an Alesis Nanoverb if I'm not sure what kind of reverb I'll otherwise be faced with. I occasionally use a Boss Loopstation, and if I'm playing electric guitar, then you'll hear me through a Mesa/Boogie DC-5.
I like Planet Waves NS, Shubb, and Dunlop Victor capos, and generally use light-gauge strings, sometimes substituting a .013 and .017 for the first and second strings. I'm a big fan of Calton cases (for air travel) and Reunion Blues and Levy's Leather gig bags (for around town).
The Postcards CD was recorded on a 12-inch Mac G4 PowerBook (with an external 120 GB Other World Computing FireWire hard drive) using a MOTU 828 FireWire audio interface and MOTU Audio Desk 2.0 software. The guitars were miked with a stereo pair of Røde NT-5 microphones, which ran through an Aphex 207 tube preamp. I used M-Audio BX-5 monitors and Sony MDR V-6 headphones for playback during recording and editing. Mixing and mastering was done by Derek Bianchi at MuscleTone studios in Berkeley, California, using a Mac G4, Digital Performer and Steinberg Wave Lab software, various plug-ins for reverb and compression, Apogee Rosetta 200 D/A converters, a Yamaha DM1000 mixing board, and TC Electronics M2000 processor. CD duplication was handled by Mississippi Studios in Portland, Oregon.