Panchiko's Rob Harris - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 504 - video Dailymotion

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00:00Hello, I'm Rob from Pancheco and this is my USA 24 Tauric.

00:18Start with the guitar here.

00:20So these are a great little company, American brand, called Pure Salem out of Florida and

00:27they make wicked cool guitars.

00:29They kindly sent me this one and it's flipping wicked, called the Jimmy and they make kind

00:35of like cool, kind of like psychedelic sort of guitars, but yeah, they're wicked, kind

00:40of like a sort of weird Fender hybrid and a lovely sparkly finish, which is nice.

00:45So on this guitar it's got a couple of custom pickups, I think they're specially wound for

00:50this company.

00:51This is like a throaty kind of spiky humbucker and this is a little lipstick.

00:55I most of the time use the humbucker, occasionally flip it to the middle for kind of more of

01:00a sort of spacey sound.

01:03What's nice about this guitar, simple, single tone, single volume.

01:06I do a lot of volume sort of ride off when you're holding like a super distorted note,

01:10I'll roll that back with my fingers and then I'm going to change my pedals in silence,

01:14pop it back up and go again.

01:17And it's great, it's just a wicked little sort of shred machine with an extra fret,

01:23short scale and oh yeah, another thing I use, I use heavy strings, so 52 to 10s, so instead

01:28of the standard sort of like 46s, all nice and chunky, so you get a bit more of a chunky

01:33tone and you can hit them a bit harder.

01:35D'Addario's 52 10s, they're good on any short scale guitar, top tip, never use anything

01:40below 52s, otherwise they'll just go out of tune loads and they sort of, you know, get

01:45more chunk, which is nice.

01:48And then yeah, and that goes into, I suppose we should look over at this little bad boy

01:52now.

01:53I've always liked, I've always liked orange amps and this is just their kind of little

02:00Rocker 15, all valves, eight valves in this little beauty, only tiny, but sounds great.

02:06It's got a super good sort of clean channel and then you can dirty it up pretty well.

02:11And surprisingly, considering how small it is, it's quite, you can get a chunky sound

02:16out of it.

02:17It's great.

02:18We've all got sort of small amps and it's quite good because you can get, you don't

02:23have to have too much stage sound, but through the PA they can make them fricking loud out

02:27front and it works great and it fits in the van.

02:31Super, super important is what we found is, again, all guitar amps in my opinion are super

02:37sharp and too treble-y, so you roll off all the treble, add a bit of bass, scoop a bit

02:42of mids out and you get a nice sort of spiky lead sound that sits over the kind of sort

02:47of Owen's rhythm and then sort of Andy's sort of mid lead, you can get like a nice

02:51spiky tone that sits sort of in the mix nicely.

02:54So the guitars sort of actually mix themselves almost in the way that they're voiced and

02:58the parts are voiced, which is quite nice.

03:00So front of house don't have to do as much, we sort of let that happen with the parts

03:04kind of thing.

03:05And that's basically, yeah, and then that's fed from this through these two little bad

03:10boys.

03:11So these are just great for tour.

03:15These are Line 6 Helix FX, like everyone uses them now, but this tour I've gone for two

03:22separate ones, which is sometimes a bit of a dance on the old footswitches, but means

03:27you get an insanely good variety of tones and they turn back on and come back on almost

03:33every time and don't break.

03:36So what I've got is I've got two of these Line 6 Helix FX pedals and I've separated

03:43them into two things.

03:45So essentially this is your drives and your distortions and then this is all your kind

03:50of modulation.

03:51So I've got, like on this side, I've got very specific drives for certain songs.

03:59Like for instance, this Bit Crusher is the sound on stabilizers, almost to the T.

04:04So if you engage this, it's a really lo-fi Bit Crush distortion sound and that's that

04:10kind of broken sort of thing on stabilizers.

04:14Then I've got a minor tour, which is your kind of mid drive, which is your kind of general

04:18distortion sound and kind of soft lead.

04:20And then I've got this lead, which is basically all the lead on like death metal, kicking

04:27cars, any kind of thing where you want it to just go slightly insane and mental.

04:32This is a good one for just pushing it into extreme feedback.

04:35It's based on like a treble booster, which everyone used like in the seventies, but I

04:40take all the treble out of it and just use the kind of sort of guts of it.

04:45And that works really well.

04:46This is just a general mid drive.

04:48And then this, this is a shout out to Line 6.

04:51This is entirely off the new Firmware upgrade and it's a feedback button.

04:55The problem with these amps is you can't go very loud with them because they're only small.

05:01So this enables you to generate feedback at a random pitch in the chord at the front of

05:07the stage by holding a momentary button down.

05:09So you can literally smash a chord, hold that button and it will gradually ramp up

05:14some sort of feedback sounds.

05:16It can be like sounds like insanely rocky or it can sound really ethereal, almost like

05:21an Ebo.

05:22And that works amazingly.

05:24It's really good.

05:25It takes the DSP up of almost a whole pedal.

05:27It's so complicated, but it works really well.

05:30And then moving on to here, this is all your kind of reverbs, delays and choruses.

05:37This is super important in the kind of like, you know, like space rocky kind of shoegaziness

05:42of Panchico is having a lot of this.

05:44So I've got a generic spring verb, which is like a sort of model of like a Fender, old

05:51school Fender amp reverb.

05:54I've got a delay, which is like a bucket bridge, old school tape delay makes a bit out of tune,

05:59but very like subtle, but it adds a kind of doubling effect.

06:03I've got a standard chorus from like a 70s pedal and then I've got these mental ones.

06:07This bubble is a cool bubble vibrato and it basically detunes as you go.

06:11So it makes this kind of like sort of squishy, sort of modulated detuned sound.

06:17Then you've got the space echo, which is exact replica of the, you know, the classic tape

06:22echo from the 70s.

06:24And that is amazing.

06:25It just goes, it's endless delay essentially.

06:28So it's really good for like improvised bits in between songs.

06:32And then you've got the shimmer verb and this is actually specifically for, you've

06:35heard it at first, a brand new song.

06:37And it's kind of a weird kind of modulated delay that we use on a new song called Salts.

06:43And we've been playing it for the first time on this tour and it's, yeah, it works well

06:48in comparison to like the studio version of it.

06:52That's kind of sort of that, but what's sort of interesting that makes this set up a bit

06:59unique is that this synthesizer, my faithful old micro cork, which I've had since I was

07:04about 18 years old, it's about 24 years old that is, this comes out, goes through a little

07:11digital amplifier if you see here, which boosts the level of it.

07:15And then that goes all the way down into here, into an effects return on these effects pedals.

07:20So all these patches get fed through all these effects pedals and then back into the amp.

07:26So the synthesizer sounds don't sound so digital and sort of out of the mix.

07:31They come exactly from where the guitar would in a mix.

07:34And yeah, and you can do lots of cool stuff with it.

07:38What's a good example of, if you look here, on here, these are all my patches.

07:43These are all like programmed by hand and they have presets on them and you can see

07:46the songs.

07:47So all they want here to stabilise is death metal, fail at maths.

07:50And then you've got this section, which is just for cut, which is quite a synth heavy

07:54song.

07:56I can demonstrate it if you want.

07:57This took a while to program, but it's kind of, you'll get to hear the sort of classic

08:03cut intro kind of thing.

08:04So let's give it a go.

08:26And there's your intro for cut and that all feeds through back into the little orange

08:32and you get this kind of cool sort of almost guitar like distortion out of it.

08:36And then there's like this noise you might recognise, which with this kind of crazy breakdown

08:43sort of sub bassy filter sweep, you can engage the drive down there.

08:48And then I've programmed this to drop it down two octaves as soon as you push that button.

08:53And then you can hear this kind of crazy sound.

08:57And then.

09:08And that's the like cut breakdown and how we do it all live.

09:13And I think that's kind of the sort of little selection of all my bits and bobs and how

09:20it sort of works.

09:21If you want to find us, Instagram is a good one.

09:25The internet.

09:26Got a website, you know, all the good stuff.

09:29You can write us a letter, maybe strap something to a carrier pigeon, send it out to England

09:35and I'm sure we'll receive it.

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