The Orphan The Poet's Jake Floyd - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 206

[Applause] hey I'm Jake I play bass in a band called the orphan poet and this is my rig this bass is my actual baby right now it is a 1973 fender telecaster bass and they stopped making these a while ago now you'll see them in a different form and it's more like a 51 reissue bass but this one is specific because it as a humbucker in it and it is gnarly I got it in Nashville on Craigslist and it has been my favorite thing there's some stuff that's been redone in it I've got a new bridge in it and I've actually got a new neck on it but the body and the pickup and all the wiring is original so yeah four strings I used ironi ball power slinkys that for everyone looking at the purple pack I play really hard so having a thicker string is like pretty crucial to us playing live volume is all the way up and interesting about this bass because it's got this gnarly humbucker I actually have my tone knob almost all the way down to kind of give it a nice warm tone to fill out the the subs underneath when we're playing for picks I got the trusty the orange Dunlop I think it's 80 there's 60 melamine 60 millimeter I've used these for ever since I first started playing bass and I've never tried anything different but they work great I've got a pretty simple board right now I used to have a lot more petals on here but I kind of simplified my setup right before this tour first things first I've got a picture of my dog that has been around the country so many times and it stayed on there thankfully and then first thing in my chain is my wireless I got an audio technica Wireless and it's been super trusty I was recommended this brand and this model by the guys in this may I and they loved it so yeah I went with that and then the handy chromatic boss tuner back into my Burnley Bogner a Bugner Burnley overdrive pedal which I don't use too often but it's the best overdrive pedal I've used for bass it's just the nastiest and gnarliest bass time you could ever want wrapped up in a pretty little purple pedal and then running everything I've got the Voodoo Labs pedal power too so yeah this is my this is my pedal board and then actually for my bass cab on this tour you can see we have nice Janice counts and I actually have a matching one of these but for this to work I'm using this little offender Rumble 112 we kind of wanted a more symmetrical look so the guys have their two Janice calves and I just had sneaked mine in and it's almost use that's a stepstool mostly for David just to get on top of our cats and stuff like that but it gets the job done and I can hear myself on stage so I'm not doing okay so this is our amp station over here I am in these rack spaces right here I've got my firm power conditioner into my sansamp just the RBI rack sansamp it's the same one everyone uses and I love it I don't touch any knobs it just stays where it is and then my Ashdown mag 600 head which they stopped making a while ago but I have actually had this head for I think 10 years since I was the first purchase I made when I first started playing bass when I was a kid and I saved up money and it's traveled around the country with me and I loved every second of it if I this one ever happened to break I probably hunt down another one on Craigslist because it's just my favorite thing so with this Mac 600 head by Ashdown hash downs a British company and you see like players like I think the the bass player of Pink Floyd plays it and a bunch of other people hash time is just an incredible company but it works really good for me because with our band I have kind of like I was expending earlier really low just like warm sound that you can almost feel more than you hear a lot of bass players have these like really gnarly like clanky kind of sound of their bass but for me and what we play I just want it like you can kind of feel it in your stomach when we're playing and so the Mac 600 has this five band EQ right here that kind of allows me to shape that tone in a way that you could feel it and still hear it and it's also got these nice little boosts on the deep end and the fried end which actually just had those but yeah this mac 600 head it's like it is a workhorse and it is the best thanks for watching my name's Jake I play in your from the poet you can hear our new single still buzzin on alternative radio in your town and you see the video on YouTube