Mark’s Guitars

I have 40 guitars (this includes Basses and Acoustics), but my main guitars are 2 Parker Fly Deluxe guitars (customized with GK2A midi pickups for my GR-33 guitar synth to go along with the magnetic and piezo pickups already on there), a Parker P-36 Tele Style guitar with Chris Kinman 60s Tele pickups in them (I also had nitro cellulose sprayed on the back of the neck by Rick LeGault for a vintage feel), a Parker PM20 Les Paul style guitar with a mahogany body and a figured Bubinga top with Virtual PAF pickups,  a Parker P-30 Strat style guitar - antique crème with a pearlized pickguard  and Chris Kinman Woodstock plus pickups installed.

My other favorite guitars that I use most for recording, rehearsing and performing are:  a 1972 Gibson Les Paul Custom, an Epiphone honeyburst Les Paul Standard with Virtual PAFs, a Fender 60s Tele with Kinman 48 Broadcaster pickups, an eighties Japanese reissue 1957 Fender Stratocaster (Candy Apple Red) with Dimarzio HS-2s and a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails in the bridge position, a wine colored Epiphone Casino, an Epiphone cherry red Dot (ES335), an Epiphone G-400 Custom (Three pickup Les Paul/SG Custom), an Epiphone ‘66 G-400 SG with Seymour Duncan Phat Cat Humbucker size retrofit P-90 pickups, an Epiphone Limited Edition G-400 “Goldtop“ SG and an Epiphone ‘56 Goldtop Les Paul with P-90s, an ebony Epiphone Classic Les Paul, a Gibson SG Junior and a Gibson Violet Burst SG Goddess, Three different early 90s Yamaha Pacifica guitars (Royal Blue 921 with lace sensors and an Evo II bridge humbucker , Yellow 1221M with a Virtual PAF neck-a class of 55 middle- and a hot Virtual PAF bridge pickup, and a Red Glitter 1230S with two Q100 P-90 style pickups and a Seymour Duncan parallel axis bridge humbucker), A White Brian May Signature Guitar and a Dillion Brian May Guitar with three Burns Tri-Sonic Pickups, two Ibanez Artcore AFS75T guitars (an electric blue with stock pickups and a turquoise one that has TV Jones version of the Gretsch HiLo’tron pickups in it to make it sound and play like a Gretsch Tennessean and a Gretsch reissue of the 6122 called The Country Classic (the guitar that George Harrison used on The Ed Sullivan Show in Feb. of 1964).

New guitars that didn't make the last photo shoot
Gibson SG Jr., Gibson SG Goddess, Brian May Signature Guitar, Epiphone Les Paul Classic and an Ibanez Artcore that has been modified to sound (and look) like a Grestch Tennessean (TV Jones Grestch HiLo'Tron pickups and master volume pot on the bout)

Acoustic Guitars
Fender 12 string, 70s Epiphone Texan and a 70s Epiphone 12 string

Basses
Peavey RSB Bass, Custom Bass (Epiphone Precision Bass body, Fender hardware, Fender Vintage '62 Precision Bass Pickup and an Allparts 70's Fender Jazz Bass neck - Geddy Lee Style), Jay Turser Hofner Style Violin Bass and an early 60s Hofner Club Bass

 Mark’s Rig

My signal goes into a Electrolead RSB Treble Booster (like the Pete Cornish treble booster that Brian May uses to  drive his AC-30 amps) with a true bypass switch by PedalRacks, into a Geoffrey Teese Wheels of Fire Wah-Wah pedal (or a Roland V-Wah, depending on the gig), into a Pro Analog MkIII Fuzztone (a recreation of the Sola Sound Tonebender that Page used on the first two Zeppelin albums), Into a Fulltone 69 Pedal (a recreation of the Roger Mayer modified Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face the Jimi Hendrix used) into an ELECTRO-HARMONIX LITTLE BIG MUFF,  into a Line 6 distortion modeler, , and then into a Line 6 Vetta 2x12 combo (upgraded to Vetta II 2.5), loaded with two Line 6 Celestion G12H-90 speakers ,  sitting on top of two Lopoline 4x12 Cabinets (Burgundy with oxblood grill cloth to match the Vetta combo) loaded with 4 Eminence Patriot Red White and Blues speakers (left Cabinet) and 4 Eminence Red Coat Governors (Right Cabinet)  so that one amp model (lets say a Fender 1953 tweed deluxe) comes out of the left Celestion in the combo and the left 4x12 cab with the Red white and Blues in it; and the other amp model (Let’s say a 1969 Marshall Plexi with a Variax on it) comes out of the right Celestion in the combo and the right 4x12 cab with the Governors in it. My Parker Fly piezo pickup (into a Zoom A2.1u), Roland GR 33 guitar synth, effects from the Vetta, effects from my rack (t.c. electronic M*One XL Dual Effects Processor) go into a Mackie 808S PA mixer/amp and that runs two Peavey SP5 PA speakers (which are on stands about five and a half feet in the air on the extreme left and right of the 4x12 guitar speaker cabinets).

This gives me two dry amp models at a time (one to each set of two 4x12 cabinets) and all the pedal effects are coming out of the guitar speakers, and all the delays and reverbs are coming out of the Left and right PA speakers in stereo So, the effects are very clean and pristine, simulating actual reverbs and echoes bouncing off the walls on either side of the room, while the amps can be down and dirty. For very large venues, the setup with the Vetta 300 watt head and four 4x12 cabs will be used. I will add two more Lopoline cabs (just like the previous large rig I had with the four Peavey ValveKing 4x12 cabs).

Drums

Pintech pads going into a Roland TD-8 V-Drum module running BFD-2 Software in Cubase 4. Sabian cymbals and a Zildjian sizzle cymbal

Vox AC30 Custom Classic

Great pedals that have been on and off my pedal board and are now used strictly for recording