Arc Iris' Zach Tenorio Miller - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 208

[Applause] hi my name is Zach tonight Miller and I play keyboards with our kairos I'm gonna show you my gear we could start with the synth-pop here's the Moke sub 37 use it for fat bases and that kind of thing what drew me to it well I guess mug has always been kind of the go-to analog synthesizer to bass I mean ever since the weather first when the minimo first came out Bernie Worrell Yann hammer all these kind of great Moe bass players it's where it all started so vogue makes it super affordable since that is great for touring with there's actually another one onstage like they're just super common right now and I also have it I have my mug is there an expression pedal which is I can't find a filter this here is just a nord stage I guess it's not just an orange it is the nord stage and I use it mostly for like distorted electric piano I run it through this Fender Deluxe just to give the extra grit kind of that classic toilets are you know nasty power-chord kind of stuff yeah here's a line sex deal for which we have four of onstage for me I just use it for a delay on my vocals but in the past I've done crazy looping with it sometimes we'll just send everything through it and just create insane sounds and then like I'll sample them on this guy here which is how I made a lot of these samples I mostly use this roland fantom first sampling all those different samples that I made from Jesse our lead singers she just played a clarinet and I looped her with this thing and then I sent into this and then I also use this for just like regular base out I actually use all three for base as I'm sort of the bass player in the band and I'm able to use this to either send it to the house as a bass instrument or send it to this Fender Deluxe as like a gritty sound so I mean it all kind of depends on what I want to serve as the bass instrument per song so so for instance like the first song I'll have this year's ignored and I want to have this serve as the base so then my B or my right is the bass and then the next song I wanted to serve as a gritty like kind of thing which really just doesn't sound as good if it's just direct I found that that just sounds better so I'm able to kind of mix a match per song super pump to figure that out I've been trying to figure out a way to a/b stuff and I had a switch for awhile I just wasn't doing it and then this is the just a boss doctor sample SP 303 I'm a classic sampler and I barely use it I know that there's so much potential for it but I just use it for whether you're gonna see the concert tonight maybe some anime that's about it I have a Telefunken m80 vocal mic we both Johnston I have it and I just love their stuff and this keytar which apparently Kills Fascists is mitad to the rolling so I'm able to do all the lovely nerdy things that I like to do a lot of the arrangements of the songs were written because oh you know what kind of gear we had so I mean yeah like will either start with a super basic song the joste will write just maybe three chords and then we'll kind of bring it to the capabilities of all this different gear she has a whole bunch of awesome stuff - and then we'll craft what becomes the record so it's not really it's like when we make the record we just use what we use when we book with what we tour with that's that's that's it there's no other like we don't get in the studio and we're like I'm gonna use all these different keyboards cuz that's just not practical I'm not gonna be able to bring all those keyboards on the road I'm gonna just use what I know and love just check out our Kairos our Kairos music comm we have a new record coming out big thanks to Moe for helping us out on the road yeah thanks [Music]