A Lot Like Birds' Matt Coate - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 136

[Applause] hey what's up I'm Matt I play bass and singing in a band called Walt like birds and we're going to talk about my pebble ring so uh basically being a bass player I'll have to get too crazy fancy but we do get a little bit interesting on this guy we are we like a lot of low-end in our music so all of us actually have a different kind of whammy on our board after of course the volume pedal just a standard at Ernie Ball volume pedal I'm into my polycon we run into the the digitech bass whammy a lot of times I they could just use the v down in the octave up setting for different parts of different songs and then for all of our older stuff we'll use the octave down setting for some of that can we do a lot of like really beefy huge parts and I kind of helped to wind up the sound and we're kind of sprinting a little bit we end up actually talking GHS and we got a split going on so what we do is after we run through the volume pedal tuner and Randy we're off to our split and actually just run straight into this radial di I'm the Madi is he goes to our front house so that just gives the Queen pure tone so we can get a really pure round low end going from the board itself after that we're running out from the splits into our overdrive section we have this is use a basic ps90 experiment which a lot of people were really conceited back so Andy that's like such a tone suck as far as based up is concerned but actually these are just I really like the grind that you can get out of it and the presence on top of it is really really cool now after that this is actually a really cool really unique pedal very to you in existence my friend Matt specs from my hometown of Boise Idaho he actually made these problem the PBR overdrive and it's essentially two transparent overdrive very similar to a teenager you're familiar with those and I use that as I pretty much just kind of mica tone even now so it will use it to roll off base if it's a little bit too gloomy or you know trouble if it's a little bit too bright I almost keep it free pretty pretty dry out this guy don't get too over the top and it stays on all the time so I'm not too that running out into the tech21 sansamp I got the button model which we initially were running out just a DM dish with that spliff now we're just running straight through to that normal pedal to come equalize total they're oftentimes switch between the two for my J and P base because those are different pickup configurations and a little bit different there so yeah after that though I run out to straight into my amp and we run just the GI signal and then a mic on the cab itself so our entire band is endorsed by this awesome company called West toad in years and they're really really cool they do everything from hearing aids to you know - of course I am that we use these are all custom molded in years so they have all of our own personal customisation to them however we want and then you actually get molds for your ears like a lot of companies like 1964 ears or anything like that but Western is a company we use they're based out of Colorado super cool really really happy with them in amazing you're worthless so if you're looking for any good in here so just want to check out well this is my baby I guess you can say so okay so this is my main baby my road warrior it has seen a lot of wear and tear this actually is all for me this is natural natural scarring and everything I've had it for five years and this is actually a really unique bass most people don't know this is one of the SSR series it's a 1964 hot rod deluxe version and it's actually one of the vintage reissue styles but the one thing that's really unique about this has got a matching why ahead stop with the body as well as it's got a s one switch in it which you don't see a lot of the time on faces it's more kind of something you'll see on the guitar models I'm actually not 100% sure what it does but it what it allows one is pushed in you just go to a single volume in a single tone and then that allows it to get a little bit more of a mid this is kind of what I hear and again I don't know for sure but when you have it off it's actually just a standard J setting so you're gonna have your roll offs for your different pickups in your tone switch here yeah it's just about out to bridge on it and then I haven't really done anything to this one I just fell in love with it when I got it and that had the had little had this thing going there since oh so these are stock pickups on these just fcns they came in the base like said and they sound awesome as I've never had a reason to switch them out so I kept them infinitely I've used for a lot of years to earn involved with the examiner t-ball Cobalts but I just recently started working with a company called gear Supply Co and that's actually what I have on here right now I generally play lights which is a 45 to 100 which are always great for I do a lot of finger style so I like the lighter strings really easier and more forgiving on the fingers so so on this guide we actually play all in the standard chains so this is just a standard in a DG it works super super well for everything with a without using the octave pedals you don't have to do any alternator to crazy low tunings even though we do get a lot of questions about that because we are we are like I said a variable that heavy bands so yes and again without tuning this brings me to my body string this is just the standard it's got a low B and then obviously a DG just like regular tuning this guy is kind of been one of my project basis this is actually more of a Frankenstein than anything so now if you want to be a squire of five and I found it and got it almost covers a joke so thinking about getting into five string love the neck on it but it is hard being a squire five anymore it spends it completely like Harlow it out might have all American custom pickups potentiometers and all the goods in there I've been i rewired and everything from now it's essentially it's an American custom P bass with a squire neck and body and as I kind of ducktales couple stickers our friend Buju tattoo in San Diego and then actually put my world definitely always up here to super nerd I've got down my J base as well but yeah were you simple pretty straightforward and a lot of it is through the board and they're not just how what we use naturally so so yeah really straightforward come around ago a target you can be a cheeky classic setup guys living like a 2013 standardises Ostrava she esteems of us income travel here breaking knobs off left and right but that was matching classic cap which is a great reason why so many people have a thousand I mean I the one is like they're really reliable like really really heavy for quite a few years now I used to have a nice and CP and basically essentially a Z for 2022 model and that was just it was a great am gonna tell me super cool but it which is like with the amount of touring we do and as I clear up there on the bandage is kind of is the work incentive for it's going it up again as week a classic to kind of do more of the road vision I still use a back at home kind of get more into Levi's pretty the atmosphere has been a tank it works really well I am hitting then also my quarters maybe so we just released a new record called too busy how are equal vision records and that is available essentially everywhere I Tunes Spotify anything like that and we will be out on the road quite a bit this year so make sure to come see us we are out now until the first week in June so [Music] you