The Shelters' Josh Jové - GEAR MASTERS (Revisited) Ep. 93

Hi, I'm Josh with The Shelters. I'm going to show you some of my guitars here. This is the main guitar I've been playing lately. It's a Gretsch Duo Jet. Wonderful guitar. It's one of my favorite kinds of guitars. Cliff Gallop from the Bluecaps and lots of cool rockabilly guitar players use those. It's just got a great twangy sound to it. I love that guitar. So with this guitar, these have a Dynasonic single coil pickups, which are a little bit different for normal Gretsches. A lot of times they've got the Filtertrons, which are a little fatter. These have a twangier sound. I use D'Addario 11 gauge strings. I like the 11s because, I don't know, they feel tough to play. They feel good. They feel like guitar strings. And I use the Bigsby a lot on this guitar, so I need to have strings that stay in tune. With this guitar particularly, the thing I like about it is that kind of twangy sound, that bright sound. So a lot of times I'll use it on the bridge pickup, you know, the downward one. This one here. And, you know, I ride the volume knob a lot. It changes the sound of the guitar so much to use the volume knob. So that's kind of my main thing, is the volume knob. You know, I use the amp cranked, and then I just get the volume knob to get different sounds. This guitar is very special. It's a, I actually don't know the exact year, but it's a mid-60s, I would say probably a 64, 65, Rickenbacker 36012. It's seen better days because I've been using it. I use it on Rebel Hearts. It's the only song I use it on. The song, the single from our record has a 12-string guitar part, and that's why I use this. I love it. I wish I had more excuses to play it in the set. I just use it on that one song, but it's a beauty. This would be a D'Addario 10-gauge, whatever that is for 12 strings, yeah. So this guitar is one that I've been using since the beginning of The Shelters. I used it primarily, it was the only guitar I brought with the 12-string for the first year or two that we were playing, and that's why it's so beat to hell. But it's kind of a bastard of a Jazzmaster body, and it's got a Telecaster neck, and the Bigsby, and it's just Tele kind of control system, and this is an old Harmony pickup from an old Archtop Harmony, it's like a 50s kind of pickup. And this is a wicked guitar. It's just kind of now, it's, I don't know, it's been relegated to the backseat just because I got this Gretsch, and I'm liking the sound of that. So I'll keep playing this eventually though. I've kind of been missing it lately, so. It's my beater guitar, you know what I mean? This amp is a mid-60s Showman Piggyback, blackface, it's a wicked sounding amp, a lot of surf guitar players will use them. Dick Dill is famously known for using the Showman, that's actually what the amp is named after, a surf guitar player, Dick Dill. And it's just a loud beast of an amp, I mean it's really loud, it's a 100-watt amp, and I always use it about on 8, so it definitely is loud, you know, we have a loud show, and thanks to this guy. And it's going through a 15-inch speaker, which really projects the sound, that's kind of unique for a guitar speaker to be a big speaker like that, a lot of times the sound guys think this is a bass rig because the speaker's so big, but it's great for guitar, it just gets a huge sound, it just goes to the whole place, so. This is my pedal board, it's the hub of everything, it makes lots of different sounds. The main pedal I use I would say would be this pedal here, this is called a treble booster, and that, with the amp, it's cranked, it's just a great sound. This is an old Maestro fuzz tone, the sound of like, Rolling Stones satisfaction, like a really nice fuzz, I got some echo on here, a little tremolo, vibrato, and this is a Leslie pedal, so I can make a whole bunch of different sounds with this, and we're going to try it out tonight and see what these folks think about it. I'd say the most important pedal for my sound would be this treble booster pedal, like I said, I mean they're really commonly used by like, Mick Ronson from, you know, Bowie's band, and Brian May from Queen, it's just a great sound, I don't know, it gives everything a glassy texture to it, I love that about it, it's a great pedal. And as far as which pedal I like to play with the most, it kind of just makes the most sounds, I'd say somewhere in the echo realm, because this pedal, I like to, I love the sound of echo, and this can make long echoes, it can make short echoes, it can make all kinds of weird, seasick, kind of wobbly sounds, and delay is one of my favorite sounds to mess with, you know, because you can get a lot of different things happening with delays. Thanks for watching this, my name's Josh again from The Shelters, make sure to check us out at thesheltersmusic.com and on the Instagram, at theshelters, I hope that you guys can check out the record, we got lots of cool sounds on there, and all the gear you saw today is used on that record, so we're proud of our sounds and we want you all to hear it, so thank you.