violins
I own two violins. The original is an old German copy of an Amati. It plays beautifully and saw me through 7 Trinity College exams and countless concerts/festivals. The second is a Gremlin 2000 electric which has done none of these, but is keen to impress.

amplification
The two main workhorses that I use are a Carlsboro Lead 90 combo amp, used for playing publically, and a Cambridge Labs Arcam HiFi amp driving a pair of BOSE301 reflectors, which are used for monitoring when I'm recording.

recording
I use a 256Mb 3Ghz PC with Soundblaster soundcard running Cubase VST for recording. This works like a virual multitrack machine. It can easily play back 8 tracks of recorded audio together with 16 midi tracks. For a nice example of multitrack recording listen to Mourning (on the sounds page). Has Midi for drums and piano part, and recorded audio for violins, cellos and thunder. Cubase also alows me to add effects after recording using VST effects.

effects hardware
I use a Zoom GFX3 multi effects pedal. It has some nice effects - the cello on Mourning is actually the violin dropped an octave using this. Sadly it wont do all it's effects together - no phase and wah together, for example, but otherwise a superb bit of kit. I also have single pedals for Graphic Equaliser, Wah, Phaser, Distortion.

mixer
is a Boss BX80 - 8 channel mixer