Marianas Trench's Matt Webb - GEAR MASTERS (Revisited) Ep. 38

Hey, my name is Matt Webb and I play guitar. Let me show you some of my stuff. This is a Gibson Firebird. It was a custom shop, limited run, I think there's about 400 of these made, and it's cool because it's got maple wings on it, which is kind of unusual for a Firebird. Sounds really cool. Classic mini humbuckers in here. I tuned this guy up, the whole tone, the whole guitar, and I use it for the opening and closing track, which would be Astoria and Anna Manera in our set. I like it a lot. Next on the list we have, I like to call this guitar the Tavocaster. This guitar was built by my friend Tavish Crow, and he is the guitar player for Carly Ray Jepsen, and he also helped to co-write Call Me Maybe as well. I wanted this guitar to be a combination of a non-reverse Gibson Firebird body with a Fender Telecaster neck, and it's got a mini humbucker in the neck and a, what is this, it's just a Lawler Tele pickup in the bridge there, and of course the little Gibson Firebird logo because I love that so much. This thing sounds great. It's really nice and bitey, and I use it for, I don't know, I play it on Burnin' Up and All To Myself and songs where I need the guitar sound to be really tight and spanky. It's one of my prized possessions. This is a 1972 Fender Telecaster Thinline. It's all original. It's the same guitar that the guy from Coldplay uses. I know Josh was talking a little bit earlier about the wide range pickups, but that's what these things are right here. Very great, special sound to them. This guitar is actually serial dated the end of 1971, so it would have been part of the very first run of these guitars, which is awesome, and it's black, original finish. Not a scratch on it except for all the belt rash that I put on it, but they're born to be rocked. Love it. This guy here, this is called a, sorry, it's a Duesenberg Starplayer, and it's got this wicked black sparkle finish on it, which I really, really love. The late Glenn Frey called these Duesenbergs the Cadillac of new guitars, and they truly are. They're the most, just so well manufactured, they can take an absolute beating. This guitar's been smashed around more than you can believe, and it survives like no other. It sounds great, plays in tune, it intonates beautifully, and it's just a really treat to play. I'm a huge, huge fan of Duesenberg stuff. I've got four or five of them at home, and I'll continue to own them forever. In fact, I'm so confident in these guitars that I would say that in 50 or 60 years, these will all be worth just a ton of cash, like the old Gibsons and Fenders are of the 60s, just because they're so well built, and there's really nothing like them out there. I use D'Addario strings. My gauges are usually 10 to 50s, I think. I do have one guitar with an Evertune bridge on it, this guy, and that requires a slightly lighter gauge of string, but yeah, usually just 10s, 11s. I'm not too picky with my string size, but D'Addario makes good stuff. So this is my rig. It's brand spankin' new, I love it. Royce and Randall built it for me. I use a combination of two different guitar heads. Here we have a 65 amp Soho, it's a, I believe an 18 water, and it is rad. I use this for my clean sound. And below we have what's called a divided by 13 RSA 23, it's a 23 watt, 2 channel head. This thing is so god damn ballsy and loud, it's my favorite amp in the world, I just love it. Made by a little boutique manufacturer out of California. And then this is all just wireless stuff up here, a Radial JX44, it's just a switcher that I use to switch between guitars. This is Rack Gizmo, this is all my pedalboard stuff here, basically I don't do any switching on stage, Royce, that guy over there, handles all my guitar tone changes, and it's all just from here, which is very convenient for me and very inconvenient for him. Pedals, I'm a huge fan of the Empress brand, they're manufactured in Ottawa in Canada. I've got a compressor, I've got a tremolo, and I've got a tap delay that are rad. Actually, sorry, tape delay, but it's a tap tempo. Boss Chorus pedal, classic 80s pedal, Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive, and then there's just a Boss Equalizer in there, which I use in Burning Up in the bridge to make that sort of fine young cannibals tone. And then below that we've just got a couple of Radial head loads, these are just cabinet simulators and attenuators for an amp, so we don't use any cabs on stage, there's zero stage volume, all the guitar stuff runs into these beauties and then it feeds out to the board and into our ears and into the front house, and they're a great, great tool because it keeps everybody's hearing in check and emulates, or simulates the sound of a live cabinet and does a really, really good job of it, so highly recommend Radial head loads, they're beautiful, used by Sting and all kinds of big performers all over the world. And lastly, and most importantly, we have Roadcase Panda, he just sits up and just watches me play every night.