Night Lights' Dag Hanken - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 210

[Applause] hey guys I'm Doug playing drums with nightlights and I'm gonna show you some here today I'm playing I was the acoustic drum kit but I'd like to mix in some electronic elements as you do the space I guess I'm just in order to play our music - this is pretty central it's the spd-sx kind of everyone's using it these days I playing kind of going between playing some let's say a verse that's like a distinct group like on this itself and then I might add it in for like but crushing the elements and stuff like that - I'm actually running tracks with their Ableton so I'm triggering those and they're how I do that this with this bus pedal it's called a foot switch six and I run that into this because that has a foot switch in and I'm setting up sending out the send MIDI to Ableton have a USB cable going to the laptop which triggering tracks in Ableton so this one is kind of just going to next sound pretty easy and then we you know we have a Compton and our ears sing what song it is and so I'm starts that way if I for some reason need to stop anything at any point let's say in soundcheck or whatever press that guy stops everything also use triggers on my drums so I got just got one here the other one is on the kit right now it's a trigger by roland and it's called a katie or what is it Artie 30 HR sofa this stands for head and rim so yeah that's like it's a dual trigger triggers both of the rim and the head which is cool so I'm using those to layer up my snare sounds you have real fat sounds also one on the kick doing the same thing on the cake for some songs what else what else we got I got the old around in years we have a inner egg on stage we can all control those with our iPhones iPads whatever which is great especially when you're on tour and yeah just easy you have the same sound every night it sounds great I use Ultimate Ears those are you elevenths great for drummers and bass players got that extra low-end punch what else my snare drum it's a good old Ludwig drum I believe it's like a from 69 and it's a super super funny Marx you strong in low you know since 1969 I love it it sounds fat sounds foreign to you so when it comes to drum heads I like to you know my experiment and kind of try new things on this drum particular actually I found that just a regular ambassador works great it's a thinner head but then I like to kill some of the overtones with you know either feet of tape moon gels or even on this tour I've been trying uh like a few different things as well we kind of we've been sharing a lot of gear me and the drummer of Mako since we're on this tour together we were support from eiko and we good friends so it's kind of we can kind of try out new things and stuff like that so that's really cool my kid I've been playing for years now it's a Ludwig kit that's a vintage kid says from 68-69 Sam it's a snare drum it's like a blue öyster finished so pretty classic like a really Ringo Beatles had like a similar similar kind of finish sounds great I was like a third is like a rock sizes of 13 inch rack Tom 16 for 22 kick I think 22 by 16 and then snare drum is 14 by 5 and 1/2 I believe I also like these the deeper scenario just depends on where we're playing himself in studio off the new stay old Rogers John it's old marching drum I I changed to put on new hardware so now I can't come tune it out like actual snare well that's like the deepest snare down my her and it's a 10 10 inches deep to 10 by fourteen cymbals I'm playing right now coming for this tour would keep an example so like a just a ride and a crash I'm a k22 like ride a 19 inch crash but my know it's like an extra dry and then the had started to crash at 16 16 inch crashes it's a a-z custom a medium thin button crash for the like the bottom simple and then the top is a a reso I believe I'm not sure if it's even made anymore but that's fine as well so yeah night lights we are kind of producing all the stuff we do ourselves we sometimes work without a produces too but we we like to recreate the same sounds life so our bass player now he's running the the base rate the keyboard controller Ableton as well we have one of our favorite plugins we use a lot of this the you know Alexa boots go by it's kind of recreating a Juneau 60 you said a lot of that we like to just like blush reverts and that kind of thing as well Valhalla is great to put on something some of the sounds we have and this already I've been able to face thanks for checking my old my gear up we yeah I'm playing Night Lights as I said earlier and we can check us out on Instagram Facebook all that stuff it's all the same we are Night Lights you