On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Jonathan Crandall, keyboardist of the indie rock band, Glom, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on the “as above, so below” us tour 2026. Glom is currently supporting their newest single, Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely.
VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:34 Skip Intro 00:44 Keyboard & Synthesizer 02:46 Sampler Pad 03:06 Pedalboard
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John from the band Glom provides a detailed walkthrough of his keyboard and sampler rig. He emphasizes a blend of analog synthesis for core tones, digital emulation for classic keyboard sounds, and a sampling setup for album-accurate intros, all processed through a specific effects chain to achieve a \"wonky\" and polished live sound.
Very important part of the set. Arguably the most important part of the whole rig.
People like to hear the familiarity of the actual sounds that are on the albums.
Hey, what's up? This is John from the band Glom.
I play keyboards and sampler and tambourine.
And this is my rig rundown.
Start with my favorite part of the rig.
This is the Prophet 6. It's modeled after the Prophet 5,
which I believe was the first polyphonic memory synth.
So you can play multiple notes at once.
And you can save your sounds.
Because a lot of synthesizers, wherever you put the knobs,
is what the sound is and you can't save it.
So it really comes in handy.
Got about 9, 10 patches for Glom.
So we have a few main sounds that I use for Glom.
One is a classic synth.
The speakers aren't on right now,
but it's probably the most common type of synth sound you've heard.
And I have a, we can talk about this later,
but I have a foot switch for the filter.
So I'm working the filter sometimes during the set.
The other main tone is a lead tone.
It sounds like a sine wave.
And there is always a filter on that one at about 12 o'clock.
And I also have distortion running on the lead tone.
It makes it louder, more prominent.
The volume always stays the same.
So on some of the patches I use things like distortion to boost it
when it's a lead tone.
And then all the other ones, there's no distortion
when it's blending with the guitar and the rest of the band.
Okay, the next keyboard here is the Nord.
This is for all of the other sounds,
mainly piano and Mellotron.
And one synth sound I use just when I have to have this one
on a certain patch and play them at the same time.
But other than that, all of the synths are on the actual synth here.
Analog synth.
I would say this is about 75% of the sounds on the actual synth.
I love this thing.
It's got the analog sound, very true to hearing an actual synth.
So you're hearing the actual electricity going through
versus a sample of a synth.
And then this one, it does a really, really good job
of emulating pretty much every classic keyboard.
And like I was saying, mainly Mellotron and piano for this one.
This is the sampler.
We use this to run a lot of the intros of the songs.
That way, you know, people like to hear the familiarity
of the actual sounds that are on the album
to kind of get into the song.
And then the drums bust in pretty shortly after.
This is called a SP-404.
It's the best sampler there is.
So basically, I have both keyboards running into this Key Largo
by Radial here.
I love this thing.
All of the sound goes out of this stereo effects loop here.
It goes into this chroma console.
I have a compressor, a doubler, and a cassette emulator on this thing.
Every set, I tend to, maybe not every set,
but as I go along, I try to kick this thing up a little bit more
because I really like making it wonky, if that makes sense.
So all the keyboards go out of this, into here,
and then back into the mixer on channel 3.
So basically, what you're hearing is the dry signal
and the affected signal at the same time.
It sounds really good, in my opinion.
And then we have the low-pass filter pedal here and the sustain pedal.
And that's pretty much it.
Pretty simple pedal board.
We're missing one thing.
The tambo.
A couple shakes, maybe some of this, and then some of this.
That's the tambo, very important part of the set.
Arguably the most important part of the whole rig, so there you go.
Definitely check out New York Glom on all social media platforms.
We have a lot of shows coming up, releasing a lot of music.
Definitely check it out.
