Ukes & Equipment

I personally own two ukuleles although most of my work is done on another, borrowed ukulele. I own a Doane Birchwood triangular tenor, the ukulele I used throughout high school in Island Ukuleles as well as a generic concert ukulele that I started with in elementary school. The uke (well one of two identical ones) that I play most frequently is a hand crafted koa wood tenor kamaka with electric pickup from Honolulu, Hawaii. This ukulele is used for solos in Island Ukuleles concerts and currently is the uke that I do most of my recording with. Most of my recording is done with a sony stereo/zoom ECM-ZS90 microphone intended for recording onto minidisk. The quality of the minidisk recording is good however the brilliant people at Sony have a copy write protection so that you can't upload songs to the computer that did not come from the computer. And so, due to their brilliance we have a 500 dollar recording minidisk player that I can't use to record songs onto and then upload onto the computer and as such I am stuck recording onto the generic Compaq laptop soundcard. I used to use a freeware recording program called Audacity to eliminate static and record on multiple tracks and the quality is decent. I am currently using Cakewalk SONAR 3 which, unfortunately, is quite expensive however it delivers absolutely amazing sound comparatively and its features are innumerable. My current favorite is that it virtually eliminates the latency issue I had with my soundcard using Audacity.
For a while I was using the ukulele groups sound equipment for recording and the quality for that is much better. Featuring a 10 channel dual 500 watt power mate performance mixer and several c1000 s condenser microphones the quality is good. However I am still having problems with static and weird artifacts in the sound as I am having to still record through the generic Compaq soundcard!

Images:
This is my personal recording studio/bed room. Everything in here is actually my own-well, except for Kamaka:

All the sound equipment you see below and the two round ukes are Island Ukulele's that we are borrowing.

The next two pictures (as is the picture at the top of the page) from my ukulele graduation.