Blessthefall's Eric Lambert - GEAR MASTERS (Revisited) Ep. 18

What's up guys, my name's Eric and I play guitar in Bless the Ball. And I'm going to show you guys all the gear I use on tour and stuff I even mess with at home. So, cool. So this is my pedalboard. This is a necessity that every guitar and bassist may need on stage is a chromatic tuner so we don't play out of tune because that would not be good. I'll move up to noise suppressor, keep any kind of ground noise kind of out of our ears, out of the front of the house, kind of quiet, suppresses everything, keeps everything nice and quiet. I use a Maxon OD808 overdrive, give it a little more bite to our distortion. I also throw in an equalizer, it kind of gets a little bit more girth out of the head, sometimes I can't dial in the head exactly where I need to so actually being able to break apart the EQ really gets the tone that I'm looking for. Start moving over to our effects, I use a Carbon Copy Analog Delay, usually use that for a lot of little studio leads, octaves, kind of boost it up because it makes it a little more forgiving sliding around the fretboard. And here is my Strymon Timeline, that's actually the newest one I have, this thing's awesome, you can basically build and create any kind of delay you want. There's so many rad effects, you can make like a vinyl effect, any of the coolest reverses I've ever had. I went from, I used to have a Nova Delay and I traded that out for the Timeline and it's just, I discover something new every day with this thing, it's probably my favorite pedal right now. You know what, we use it on tour too, actually at home when I'm using Logic, we usually try to build delays in Logic but I've been finding myself using these pedals instead because I can really get what I'm looking for, like it's hard to match the type of delay that I can get out of this Timeline on Logic, at least to my abilities, so, cool. That also brings me down to the Big Sky which is also Strymon, which is another super reverb pedal, basically you can create any kind of reverb out there. One of my favorite bands is Coldplay and he's a big supporter of that pedal so I wanted to try it out and it's insane, like there's no better pedal. Strymon makes the best pedals out there. So yeah, so there's that guy I also use in the studio at home. Up here is a very interesting one, this is Digitech Drop Tune. We do a lot of different key signatures and guitar changes in our set usually and that guy kind of eliminates changing guitars the entire set. So you can drop tune basically a half step with every turn of the knob. So we usually play in D, then go to C sharp, to C, to B, to A, it's pretty crazy. We use that overseas a lot too so we don't have to bring so many guitars and we use it live too when we do quick changes and it's seamless and it sounds amazing, like you can't even tell. So that's a little bit of a godsend, saves us a little bit on our travel fees. And then right here is a guy that holds everything together. This is my brand, it's Musicon Lab MK3 and that basically ties everything, I have all my pedals running through there so I basically don't have to tap dance all over my pedal board. Yeah, it's an awesome MIDI controller. So yeah, that's my pedal board. This is my EVH 5153, I've been using this for about the last 4 or 5 years. Definitely haven't had a need to have a new amp because this thing does it all, the cleanings are just really nice and soft, they cut through really well, you can adjust all the present on all 3 channels. On this tour we're actually using all 3 channels which is awesome because we've got a lot of ambient softer songs we're playing but this is a favorite I've ever played out of. I've played out of a lot of cool ones before this but this is definitely my favorite. This is my main axe, I play the Deluxe LTD, I really like this one a lot because it has an Evertune in it and it's pretty, it's witchcraft man. The combination between having the Evertune and the drop tune, it's always a perfect tune, I never have to touch it, every now and then I'll make some small tweaks and this bad boy's ready to go. I put the Seymour Duncans in it, give it that nice passive bite and yeah, this is my main go-to. I'm using D'Addario's, I use 11's to 52's and they're the heavy lights, heavy lights I believe. On this guitar it's crazy, it's like you literally strap on the strings, you don't even have to stretch them so you get a lot of that bounce out of them for a long time so actually on these I think I play like four shows, it used to be every other show and these strings just last a long time on this guitar which is great. On my other one, on my other actual E2, on my E2 I actually change the strings maybe every three shows, gotta stretch these out a little bit more and make sure the intonation stays all nice and tight but yeah, this is my D guitar so we switch off guitars only twice during a set which is great and we play four different keys so it's pretty awesome.