Arc Iris' Jocie Adams - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 187

[Applause] hi I'm Josie from mark iris and we're gonna talk about my gear handmade guitar by luthier in Idaho how rough tonight and the trailer last night you can see the lacquer that's sad but it was made for a man who loves Turtles justify its turtle colored okay this strings are 11 gauge which makes them a little bit flexible but not too wobbly for guitar players such as myself and I keep it on this pickup which is a little bit thinner than I've blend between the two or that one alone which I like because our band has a lot of sound in it and so it helps the guitar sit on top of the mix I love these picks they are actually this brand in particular doesn't really mean anything to me but the having a grip on here is really important because traveling around your skin gets really dry because you go from different climates and if you don't have a little grip on it then your guitar pick will just go flying out of your hand this also is like a it's a medium gauges like one outside this one's extra light that's this is wrong it should be medium not too heavy not too light it's usually good this guitar same deal I keep it on the only this pickup down here I like keeping the guitar it's on the thinner side again because our band is full of sound so when I play it I like it to sit in a smaller amount of space than maybe somebody that plays you know like a guitar that's filling up the whole sound of the band it's more of a color or a texture than it is like a the main thing that you're hearing this guitar is actually tuned super funky more open ass like a much more open tuning it's not anything that is a normal thing that people do but I always keep this guitar in this tuning and it informs a lot of my songwriting I recommend that you play as tunings it's very fun makes for creativity this amp is magical it is created by Brian Webb of Providence Rhode Island you may have known him from the 90s he was a singer-songwriter and the 90s now he plays more rock music and he makes amps and he does a lot of fixing of different things like tape machines and you know Providence and his trademark is that he finds car emblem thingies I don't know from like junkyards and he uses those as the tags for his amps and this amp is meant to sound like a fifties amp so in conjunction with me putting it on the the small sound of the pickup through this amp it fills it out a little bit get darkens it a little bit but yeah that's the twos combined to make a very heavenly beautifully beautiful sound the Sam stands on everything so this right here is a super shifter I started out as a clarinet player not a singer when I play clarinet I would put a contact pick up on my clarinet which actually right is easing now in his drums and I would stick it through the super shifter and and through a delay pedal not this one in particular a better one that had a hold on it and I would make these really big lush textures with them when I switch to singing it occurred to me that I could use the same kind of ideas what singing and I I basically just did so that's where these two started I didn't I don't have a hold on this because I don't need it because I have a looping pedal right here this is the DL for this deal 4 also has hooked up to this expression pedal right here so I can switch to any of these settings and use the set the expression pedal to work with these knobs here which make like the delay change and and be able to affect that with my foot while I'm singing I really love having my pedals down here rather than something that I used my hands because even if I'm not playing an instrument it allows me to be much more interactive with the audience and you kind of learn where your pedals are you almost don't even have to look at them it's awesome and then yeah Holy Grail I use reverb on my vocals sometimes you can see tonight I'm not using it having the house guy do reverb but I often do do that myself as well and this is a tremolo pedal that acts a lot like a leslie it's really neat and you can set it to two speeds and have it be like blah blah blah what kind of thing drew and this is just a chorus pedal that son and then over here are my guitar pedals and the POG is an octave doubler it makes the guitar sound huge the rat many of you are probably already familiar with it is a distortion pedal sounds like a distortion pedal this also is a deal for which sometimes is used for looping right now I just have it set as a delay that I me if arm the guitar gives it kind of a warble e misty sound that again helps with guitar sitting as like a more of a texture that then being a lead kind of thing the MIDI Mouse here actually connects the proper the I found that I was this knob on the Prophet the Prophet is a beautiful instruments and the sixteen voice prophet Rev to the this knob right here is extremely sensitive so if you're trying to switch really quickly between sounds it's really easy to up like so so you get a fart out so I'm sorry I shouldn't say that but I did um this guy right here allows you to just switch really easily to the next and that makes life a lot less stressful well here I'm stage trying not to go from the quietest sound of a lot of sound by mistake and yeah profit is a newer instrument to us but we have already used it for some composing and stuff like that it's it's a has so much depth I like I feel like I don't even know what to say about it because it's it's so huge and everything that it can do it's so dynamic it's it's almost like a classical instrument and a lot of ways just in the expressiveness that it has the dynamics the manipulation the human manipulation things that you can have on sound and it's totally amazing but you should watch like a two hour video on this is a Telefunken the m80 we love Telefunken mics because we seem to find that they don't feed back as much as other microphones we'd play a lot of smaller kinds of shows and we found that these mics we can really blast in the monitors and we have very very little problems of feedback so highly recommend them as well thanks so much for checking out my gear once again I'm Josie for mark iris our website is our Kairos music comm we're going to coming out with a bunch of music this year we have a Joni Mitchell reimagining of her her blue record coming out at some point this year as well as our third record and maybe some other stuff I don't know it's gonna be a big year for us so find us on Facebook and follow us and then you'll you'll be able to listen to these things as they come out into the world you