Stitched Up Heart's Merritt Goodwin - GEAR MASTERS (Revisited) Ep. 40

Hey guys, this is Merritt from Stitched Up Heart, and I'm going to show you my rig. First guitar. So this is my main 7-string, it's from ESP, it's the LTD, it has a Telecaster body, Ernie Ball strings, of course. The gauges, this is just like a normal 10, and then I'm not sure of the 7-string, it's like the Ernie Ball green package, that's pretty much just what I go off of. And then I have the two EMGs, and yeah, you know, it's just a really awesome guitar, it feels really good. I just really love the matte black and the Telecaster body. I'm a huge John 5 fan, so you know, he always uses the Telecaster, so I figure if he does it, you know, it's gotta work. So pretty much, you know, you have like a volume and a tone. The tone is always up, you know, I never really touch that. When I switch, I use pretty much this pickup the entire set, except for one part during our second song, just to turn you on, there's like a little fleety kind of thing, and I'll like jump up to like the next pickup, you know. That's pretty much it, you know, I keep it pretty simple, try not to do too much or else, you know, you get lost in the process. So this one, so the 7-string, it's in drop A, and that's pretty much what we use for the majority of the songs, except for one song called Catch Me, which is just like standard 7-string tuning, you know. This one is my 6-string, and this is in drop B, and this is played for our new single Monster. So whenever I'm playing this guitar, we're playing Monster. It's from, you know, it's ESP from the E2 FRX series. You know, it's great, it's, you know, same thing, you know, the tone, the volume, the tone is always up, and with this one I don't switch, you know, I keep it on the bridge pickup pretty much, yeah, yeah, the entire time. The body is just freaking crazy, like, I don't know, I've never owned a guitar that I thought is more of like a piece of art, you know. Yeah, it just feels really good. This of course, Ernie Ball as well. With this one, I use the, again, I go by the color, so the yellow package of Ernie Ball. Yeah, yeah, and that's pretty much this one, it's just a great guitar, it feels really cool, and, you know, it works really well for our song Monster, you know, it's kind of a sinister shape to it, so, yeah, that's pretty much it. Alright, so over here is my very simple pedal board, you know, noise suppressor from Boss, that just cuts out like any additional unwanted noise that might come from the amp. That's always on constantly, and then of course my MXR Carbon Copy Delay, which I always have the mod on to get that cool little chorus-y effect, and I use this on mainly like a lot of the lead kind of stuff, you know, and it's not like a hard delay or anything, it's just like a slight, just to kind of bring more atmosphere, I guess, to what I'm playing. So that I use pretty much, you know, for every song, I think at least once. The volume, I don't really use this pedal, I use it, you know, for like swells and things like that, if I need it, but really it's just there as a backup if I don't want to cut my volume on my guitar, then I'll just cut it on the pedal. And then of course the most important pedal of all time, my tuner. This I use all the time, have to stay in tune, you know, and I like it because, you know, it cuts my signal so I can switch guitars and all that and you don't get like that pop and all that kind of stuff. So I mean, yeah, that's basically it, you know, it's all connected, I just plug it in and that's it. I don't use a lot of effects, I just, you know, just jam out like that, you know, that's pretty much it. So the head is a triple rectifier, I absolutely love this head from Mesa, I've always wanted one and I was finally able to get one and it worked out because on our album we use both Kemper and Mesa, so it just sort of emulates what the album kind of sounds like. And you know, it has the three channels, there's the clean channel, which I do use, there's channel two, which I don't really use, it's just there in case like, I don't know, in case I just feel like playing channel two, but it's pretty much the exact same setting as channel three, which is just like a heavy lead, you know, rhythm, sort of chunky sound. I don't do a whole lot of leads, so it's mainly just a lot of heavy rhythm kind of stuff. But then when I do do leads, it works just as well. So yeah, and then it goes into my Marshall, which, you know, I just think it sounds really cool going through a Marshall. I'm not a huge tone dude, like I don't sit there and I'm not bothered by certain things, so it just sounds good for me. I had this with actually a Marshall head and then the head blues, so I got a Mesa and it just worked real well, and I've used Mesa cabs and stuff, there's nothing wrong with them, they sound awesome too, but it just so happens this is what I have, and I like it, and it sounds good for me. Yeah, that's pretty much it, and then of course, you know, I use Dunlop picks, which are awesome, the Jazz 3's. And yeah, and for like wireless and all that, primarily sure, but yeah, I mean that's pretty much it for me, I just like to keep it really simple, nothing too technical and crazy, you know, I just want to plug it in and play, and I just feel if there's too much stuff, then you just kind of get drowned in it all, but yeah, that's it for me.