Black Fast's Greg Meisenberg - GEAR MASTERS (Revisited) Ep. 147

[Applause] hey I'm Greg uh Bas player for black fast we're going to take a look at some of black fast's gear today and uh this is a padulla from like 94 or something I got it used seriously awesome deal I love this base I've never played anything sweeter in my life I'm not a bass player should know that I'm mostly a drummer so this thing just rules uh as far as I know as far as I'm concerned I mean it's just a really responsive base uh like I mean it's a boutique you know company for du like so it just sounds good I'll just leave it at that it sounds great it's really responsive it feels great um it's smooth uh so the uh the sweeps on the uh you know like the the tone knobs are really responsive so uh just you know with a dry signal you can really get a lot of uh different you know tunnel characteristics out of the Bas Al it's a barini active pickup dead simple which I love cuz I hate options um there's a a mid uh I think it's a mid cut switch which kind of like helps boost or cut stuff as needed um I leave these uh you know just uh just above Center uh you know that way I have uh and I I cut my volume a little bit that way if I need to boost myself just from the guitar I can do that yeah I mean for this band I you know things are pretty flat and uh I rely on like you know my preamp uh for most of the tone I use sit strings from akan Ohio uh 45 to 125 Rock Bright's nickel I use the nickel cuz they're a little less abrasive on the Frets you know don't want to wear these bad boys out too much um but yeah these guys are sweet check them out use an agular tone Hammer recently got this thing really happy with it um I have everything set you know pretty pretty flat uh it just sounds good um you can get a lot of a lot of tones out of this thing um but I have it you know pretty basic um into this EG 8x10 just your basic beat to cabinet that has seen a lot of Road wear and is going to see a lot of Road wear on the board uh which was graci the pedal board was graciously given to me by Conway east of the wall I've got uh so I'm going into a corg uh pitch black tuner um then into an agular aggro distortion pedal um and into a microt tubes uh sorry dark glass microt tubes v7k preamp um I use the preamp to uh just kind of like dial in my tone you know it's really responsive AQ uh definitely get like a you know a hotter output uh hotter sound uh than just straight out of the amp um and then I use the aggro to add like a hint of growl so um like as you can see the saturation knob is like like way down here so um you know I could get the same growl out of just the b7k but I kind of like being able to you know turn it on and off and adjust it as necessary so uh these are always on through the whole set um so as I said my tone in Black fast is like pretty simple there's no variations uh I don't change anything uh it's just all about you know the playing so um yeah these things are always on uh next on my board these are very auxiliary um I've got um electr harmonics uh boost um in case you know I rarely use it but sometimes you just need to be loud and if I want to make some weird pretty sounds while someone's tuning I got the electr harmonics freeze which just latches onto a split second of whatever's coming out and holds it so anyway that's my board