The Orphan The Poet + Antlerhead's Ty Bush - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 190

[Applause] hey I'm Thai I play guitar and the orphan the poet and yeah this is my gear so I play a Fender Jazzmaster it's a Mexican one for this tour anyway for this kind of stuff again I'm just using my jazz master it's got just the stock pickups in it so just those p90s or whatever the stock version of those p90s are and the kind of they're definitely thicker as far as strings that I use for this particular tour that's the first time I'm using these strings they are I love the I always used to Dario then nickel wound like the NY series or whatever I love those we've been using this for years and then this time I'm trying out a thicker gauge just to get a little bit of a thicker low-end a little bit so I've got like I think 11s but they're the kind that are designed for like drop D tuning or something like that so the low ends a little fatter as far as my pickups and stuff like in the settings I'm using I've got I mean I've got my my tone all the way up all the time and then usually for a good middle ground I'm always kind of as a rule of thumb actually when I test my tone up and no matter what guitar I'm playing I usually put it in the middle section so a combination of both pickups just so I can kind of hear a bit of a mix of like it gives me a good sense of where each pickup will stand I'll know if I can trust the middle section I know exactly how how the bridge is or how the neck is gonna sound how it's gonna be thick and how the how bright the bridge will be so a lot of times I'm actually just kind of staying on especially for our set now I'm usually the only guitarist playing now I so I'm filling up a lot of ourselves I'm calling that thicker middle middle pickup there so in my chain I've got here borge pitch black that's where all the film comes from then into the screening ball of VP jr. and then into this DoD overdrive preamp which I actually used to run a distortion plus and I was looking I sold it and I was looking for another one and a guy basically told me you know this is the exact same circuit exactly metal only it's a cheaper it's made by digitech I think so if you're just paying less money because it's a different name so and I love this thing it's got a really fat like when I want something thicker sounding that's what I go to and then this is my other overdrive that I'm using a lot more it's the JH s morning glory I love that thing from there into I believe next into the super chorus I freaking love that thing been messing around with getting super weird stuff the last few years and that is one I love yeah and then this guy this is my exotic effects EP booster that I've got on actually all the time and I love working this thing works just in what's the it works together with my aunt very well the surprise keeping it like I can play lighter and it'll be pretty dynamic and then if I just strum harder it gets this natural crunch I love this thing straight from there it goes into believe it goes into this box d500 I swear by this thing this thing is on par with with strum and I don't care what anybody says I'm all about getting like bang for your buck as far as like trying to prove that you don't have to spend a ton of money to get some kickass tones this thing this boss really stepped up with this and this guy is awesome no offense to strike i strengthened is obviously awesome of what they do but you don't have to necessarily buy the biggest best pedals out there to try and get that tone like a lot of companies are stepping it up nowadays with just modern technology no excuse to have a crappy pedal at this point from there into the DD 20 which I also love had that guy for years and then into this hall of fame reverb that I love pretty much exclusively got it on this mod reverb setting it sounds really pretty and then from there the last thing in my chain specific before this tour is this OCD this whole tone overdrive and literally just using that for this like crappy radio kind of effect that we have so it's like at the very end of my chain and it's the settings are like intentionally crappy to get this like nasty sound we use now this is my vox AC 100 had a friend of mine sold this to me years ago and i love it it is everything I've ever wanted and it said in a head it's got very super clean pretty pristine clean tone and that for this - I think I'm only using the clean Channel and just kind of riding my pedals for any gain and stuff like that and then it's also got a super ballsy low-end overdrive channel I went through so many different cabs trying to get the right sound out of it because there's such a huge difference between the low-end on the overdrive channel and then the clean one is so like it's so bright that it almost loses that like the thickness it's a very pretty tone but then you don't get that like just the fullness and so I when we teamed up with Janis for our cabs that we have I actually asked him to build like I kind of told him what I wanted my sound to be and all the frustrations I've had with between different cabs and different speakers just trying to get the right kind of low and the right kind of balance between this head and the right cab you got got these Jana's cabs and this one has I've got another one at home that's got my favorite speakers in it David and I both have the same one that have vintage 30s selections and that one I just plugged right into when I tested at his shop plugged my head right in and it was the best sound it's the best cop I've ever used I'll swear by it and especially that that speaker combination with my head this one this one has a Celestion greenbacks in it so it's a little bit a little bit darker than the vintage 30s but still like awesome yeah and so and we've been using Jana's cabs for since 2014 I think so and it's a great company he's obviously doing a lot bigger stuff now so lots of these and those it's really cool to see Jana's caps taking off again thanks for checking out my gear yeah thanks to fender and Janis cabs for hooking us up and stuff and to check out a door from the poet and handler head you