Twin Shadow - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 601

I miss playing a Gibson Les Paul, but they're really annoying to bring on tour. I wasn't much for digital pedals, but I really like this company and I think these are really convenient. This is the first time in my entire life where I've actually taken the tone knob and rolled it back. What's up? I'm George, Twin Shadow, and we're here on tour with Neon Trees. We're so grateful to be here. We're opening up for them for seven dates, and we have a special setup, me and my boy Adrian over here. Hey. This is Blackpaw. Hey, what's up? And we've got a very interesting setup. It's kind of a two-man show. There's a lot more work behind the scenes than is seen by the audience, but yeah, it's kind of interesting. Ernie Balls, always. I use 9.5s, custom gauge strings, super slinky. This is my beloved Fender Jaguar. This is the Johnny Marr US edition. I don't know what they call this color, actually. Candy Apple Red. No, it's not. Some kind of copper. I don't know. Oh, yeah. But it does look like a Candy Apple Red. Tuning, standard tuning. This guy tunes his bass in funny ways for this show, but this is standard tuning and always, always need a Coilie, always. This is stock. I haven't had a chance to mod it. I just put a lot of scrapes in it, but that's it, yeah. I always like a blend of pick up one bridge and neck out of phase, because I like it to sort of sound like a straddy. And then this is the first time in my entire life where I've actually taken the tone knob and rolled it back halfway. I feel like it... I miss playing a Gibson Les Paul, but they're really annoying to bring on tour, so it's nice to have a Les Paul-y tone when you roll it back. Running a Quad Cortex pedal. I wasn't much for digital pedals, but I really like this company, and I think these are really convenient and sound really good, and you can be very creative with them. Always a 2203 Marshall stack. That's like my favorite amp in the world. It doesn't sound anything close to as good, but it's pretty close. I have two delays always, three reverbs. That's just like how I set up my regular board. Three distortion pedals. That's exactly like 3-3-3, 6-6-6 is my code. Blackball's going to talk about his bass amp. Yeah. I have this multi-effect... We'll start there, I guess. ...multi-effects to add some chorus and a little movement, like a phasing. And this is kind of like an amp simulator thing, so I don't have to bring an amp, which is very beneficial for my back. I like my bass a lot. It's an American Professional II from Fender. It's very 70s style, kind of, and it's very thick and chunky and very round and very beautiful. Standard tuning, except for on one song, I dropped G, yeah, I'd make this a G instead of a D, and I drop D a lot as well. Power Slinky Ernie Balls. The purple pack, all the time, yeah, yeah. Right here, I've got the Grandmother Analog. Doesn't really have any presets, we just have to memorize it and move as we go. And this is triggering some controlling features inside of the computer, so we can do very sweepy sounds and stuff like that. So what we're running here is, we're running a UAD Apollo, because we have a bunch of live effects on our vocals that we like to run through console, which is super convenient. It's kind of one of the only units that really has that feature, so we run it literally like a mixing desk. We've got our Shure PSM900 transmitters that are really old, but they're really faithful and fingers crossed they last this tour, because I think they're close to 10 years old now. And then we've got an iConnectivity Play Audio running, that's just our outputs. We get 12 extra outputs, so we get to output all of our individual tracks to front of house. A power conditioner, and then we're always running our faithful Ableton setup. Ableton, Apollo, and then we've got a bunch of weird rigging that we did with audio MIDI setup inside the Mac, that is our little secret actually. I think we're the first people to ever do it. Classic Shure SM58s, you can beat the hell out of them, they're fine. Tourtech Dunlop Tourtex, what's our gauge? We both use the same gauge. Ooh, the orangey, I think it's 60 mil. In-ears, oh yeah, let's shout out Ultimate Ears, the very expensive ones that have a lot of bass. Yeah, please give us more. Molded to the ears. Thank you for watching Gear Masters, we just had a chaotic sound check, it's our first sound check of the Neon Trees tour, but we're really happy to be here, thanks for being here, I'm Twin Shadow, this is my homie Blackpaw, and we're playing this show together, thank you all.