Rig Rundown - Pelican's Trevor de Brauw and Dallas Thomas
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Article & photos: bit.ly/PelicanRR
Pelican guitarists Dallas Thomas and Trevor de Brauw spoke with PG’s Chris Kies before their show at Louisville’s Zanzabar. The instrumental duo broke down their tonal philosophy and introduced the tools they depend on to make beautiful chaos onstage and in the studio.
After helping his friend Dave Johnson get a foot in the door at Nashville’s guitar scene at Gruhn’s, and wanting to stay busy while gathering clients, Dallas proposed a crazy concept of combining three of his favorite Gibsons into one mean machine. The custom two-off (you’ll see in the next photo) was built by Scale Model Guitars and is a SG body, Les Paul Custom neck, and a Flying V headstock. The lone pickup is a Lace Finger Burner and it is equipped with D’Aaddario XL EPS600 Pro Steel .013-.056 strings that are tuned to B. He used to play steel picks but was shredding through too many strings so he now goes with the Dunlop Jazz IIIs.
Trevor de Brauw frequently scours pawnshops and his longtime No. 1 was one of his proudest scores in Chicago. He was told that it was a ’71 Gibson SG, but after checking several serial-number databases, he wasn’t able to concretely identify its birth year. And just like Dallas, he uses D’Aaddario XL EPS600 Pro Steel .013-.056 strings.
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Chris is the best interviewer you guys have, nothing against the other interviewers, but you can notice he is really into the bands he interviews, he knows a lot about most bands history and past gear, and he always asks everything, from string gauges to pedal settings, he truly is good at his job and you can tell he loves it.
Matías De Luca Totally
i'm so grateful for these shows and all of the guys are awesome but i agree chris is number one
TOTALLY AGREE. John Bolinger is probably a really nice guy, and he's an incredible player... but he's not a good interviewer.
seconded. Chris is the best by a HUGE margin
Bohlinger is the best
Dallas calling the Rectifier sound “Guitar Center tone” is hysterical
I like that you can really tell this was filmed AFTER the show - everyone has had a drink and is hyped on adrenaline. Totally different vibe to the usual Rig Rundowns.
I agree… it’s obviously late at night, I’m sure it was a long day and he’s still excited to talk gear!
The whole rented amp philosophy is brilliant.
This just makes me love Pelican even more.
I love Dallas, he's so excited and into his rig. Seems like the kind of guy who'd be a total blast to have beers and jam with.
thought the same
How it should be...definatly bet he'd be cool
Ive seen Pelican live 8 times and played live with them 2 out of thoes. They have the best tone out of any band ive seen live in medium sized clubs. I seen them not miced straight from their amps and through a killer house pa. They blew my mind every time. I really look up to these guys. They all are class act nice people too.
I missed many shows battling addiction, but have shared bills with BTBAM here in NC more than a handful of times in the early 2000's.
Love how enthusiastic Dallas is!
Just watched this for about the 20th time.
I love this band. Their music is so special to me.
Love seeing players playing through that old V4 head. That’s what I played through in my first band in the late 80’s with a Marshall Guv’nor in the front. It was F’n massive!
Listening to Dallas has been one of my favourite interviews in these videos. Great interview.
His body language explaining things is hilarious. Great enthusiasm. Good to see someone that uses a Carl Martin Octaswitch, that zip tie trick is brilliant
Really cool. Thanks Premier Guitar. It was me on Russian Circles comnents section!!
The guitar is called a centaur and there's a centaur in the background, woah
THE FBI IS ON ITS WAY
I was thinking SINtar...?
Man. Dallas is so stoked!! What a great dude.
A muso interview with a musician who is stoked to be there and truly into what he's into. Total joy to watch. This guy is a king.
WOW!!!!DALLAS IS AN AWESOME GUY!!!!!...HIS PASSION AND ENERGY IS EPIC.
Any chance to make Sunn o))) episode?
This and stars of the lid for most unlikely, but my most wanted guitar rig rundowns
Five Model T’s, ProCo RATs, Gibson Les Paul, EGC Custom. That’s pretty much it lol
@@seanno9744 actually it's a bit more complicated these days, especially on Stephen O'Malley's side. He's got a pretty sizeable pedalboard
Please do Neurosis!
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I found out about Pelican through the Limitless tv show. That show introduced me to so much good music that it used in it's soundtrack. Baroness and Subrosa were some other discoveries I made!
I love Pelican, I’m so glad I’ve been going back in the video vault on this channel and found this
i never heard of Pelican till today...but i love this dude...now i am a fan
I love Chris. The man is a stone cold pro. He knows his stuff, and if he doesn’t; he learns it before he gets there. Imagine a world where all Journalists were like Chris.
Damn that venue for not letting the guys demonstrate their setup.
I cried
No doubt man....lame!
this is a great rig rundown. i've seen em all but i love that this one is loose and fun. you guys should try to do some others after the gig. definitely made a difference... for me anyway. thanks again PG!
edit: love dallas's double or nothing pedal commitment!
Yeah with the adrenaline and dopamine going, not to mention "other things " makes for a great interview 👍
Mike Burn's tone from Electric Hawk band is crushing, Wizards and old Plexi's - hard to beat.
Thanks for bringing this band to my attention. Legit brutality. And that drummer tho...
I don't know anything about this band but I love this dude! Ha! Dallas has the best personality of anyone I've ever seen in a Rig Rundown.
One of your best rig rundown!
Fun and informative! 🤓👍
Seeing these guys back when they started at the old Empty Bottle (I said the same thing about Russian Circles) was unreal. Changed my music. Also, Dallas is a gem.
And the Ampeg V4 is so good. Incredible clean, unending headroom, and so much bass.
funny memory of seeing pelican play with MONO IN 2007 or 08: watching them during soundcheck, laurent kept fiddling with his sovtek, looking increasingly frustrated. after messing with it for nearly the entire soundcheck, he ripped it off the cab and chucked it to the back of the stage. that was a mesa/boogie set.
This guy loves his craft, i'm all about it
Nice one. Been listening to them all week cuz of this. My requested rundown: Opeth!
Compelling viewing - must go listen to Pelican now!
You should do Full of Hell or The Body or Thou.
The first any of We have had the pleasure of hearing these fine gents' voice. Unless you know them. PS "AUSTRALASIA" is one of the greatest guitar albums of all time.
Their new album has some Australasia vibes. Love the riffs on Cold Hope and Nighttime Stories
This has been my favorite band since I seen this video
This episode made me want to check out this band. Nice work. Also, dig the Thee Oh Sees shirt.
They amazing, you should!!
This dude is lit...good lord
AWESOME DUDE, AWESOME EXPLANATION. Don't need a lot of gear to sound great!
that guitar is sick! Love the SG/Les Paul/Flying V
9:54 -Never underestimate the importance of your knob.
Dallas is awesome. Super charismatic. 7:16 10:02 17:59 27:17 28:54
loved Dallas' segment lots of useful information thanks
So glad pelican I coming to Michigan before going to Europe.
Pelican is so awesome.
Badass I love Pelican
Cloakroom is loading out in the background... do a rig rundown with them!
I was trying to book Pelican in Louisville and they told me they were already booked for this show. Cool dudes! Guess I'll work on trying to get Rwake to come here now.
do converge pls
great band. dudes seem to love what they do. 🤙
I have a friend who buys busted DL4s, fixes them (by replacing the bad plunger switches with better-functioning ones) and sells them
Correct me if I'm wrong, a single 500k volume pot will sound like a 1 Meg volume and tone circuit,like a Jazz Master, since the pots are on parallel. So LP circuits have 250k of resistance and Teles have 125k. Higher resistance. The brighter it is on full.
Love this one
Circa survive! They tour in November and December this year. Please do that one!
The reason that the JCM series marshalls mess with your pedal amp interaction is the clipping diodes clamping the signal in the preamp.
Trevor de Brauw - looks like the offspring of actor Chris Elliott (Larry from Groundhog Day) and Josh Homme. I really enjoyed this and like the their open honest approach... very cool.
This was awesome. loved it
Great rig run down !!:) Seems like really nice dudes.
@55:51 I don't understand why solid state amps has such of a bad rep. They serve their purpose and are great for recording and gigs, and so does valve amps.
Henric Oscarsson yep. Love my Fender Ultimate Chorus.
The post show R.R. Sign Me Up...I love the energy...chris rulez .......STELLAR
damn got told to turn down even in his own interview. the life of the modern guitar player. seems like people forgot how amazing volume literally feels. oh well :-/
It's called sound
Darrien Day
doggone darrien, you need to practice your instrument sir. them fingers are soft
wut
I think Pelican are one of the loudest bands I've ever seen (back in 2005).
I went thru the '80s... Pussy's era.
26:04 yaaassss
F this venue for not letting them demo there stuff !!
I totally feel the same about the La Grange! Super versatile! Has actually replaced a few others for me.
Great Tones.
chris... that shirt... is amazing
Scars on Broadway! That’d be dope. But great vid love you guys!
this is to the pelican guitarist at the start. dude guitars look amazing.
if you wanted to experiment with the 250k/500k hybrid you could attach a small spst switch attached to a 500k resistor with a 500k volume pot. it would turn the 500k pot into a 250k and vica versa
. now one leg on the switch goes to lug 1 on the volume pot, 500k resistor to the other lug of the switch and then the resistor goes to lug 3. so what you basically do by having the 500k pot and resistor in parallel is halve the overall resistance. so you could experiment on the fly and see what you like more with the flick of a switch.
teddeeh - facebook/demiurge instruments (i make custom pedals btw)
dude, did not know this existed. holy shit.
11:40 ok i really love that Devil Guitar
what a strange beauty
Really nice guitars
You should do Neurosis and Converge.
Good stuff!
That Soldano Supercharger is a fkn beast
Could you do a rig rundown with Jesus Lizard. Duane Denison knows his shit and has a good sound.
I would love to know of Dallas is running all his Pedals into the front of the amp or if the Dispatch Master goes to the Fx loop (sorry if I missed it in the video)!
Yo Florian! In Front The Amp cuz I’m lazy… 😘
Is there a link to the show that preceded this interview? Please and thank you ...
Dallas seems like a sharp dude
More bass rigs please
Thank you to Dead Space 3 for introducing me to Pelican
never knew michael cera plays in Pelican
lol
zapruderpedro thats it! Thank you! That was bothering me
that's not michael cera, his name is trevor de brauw
dispatcher is great im getting one
at some moment i was thinking in text this guys because i was so desperate to know about the tone and distortion in songs like the cliff and ephemeral well i think that distortion sounds pretty much in lot of songs but if i had to chose one maybe will be the cliff and if somebody its out there and can answer me wath t about the distortion in that song its a amplifier distortion its some pedal, of fuzz mother of god, sounds so awesome, so maybe someone answer me one day, night!!
Weird as fuck how he has a 250 k pot on a humbucker guitar like I thought 500k was the norm so you get maximum output . . .
How many beers have each of you had? :-)
not sure bout them.. but i've had 3 west coast IPA's post studio here in Hollywood tonight......:)
Try a Goodrich volume pedal.
He talks about someone calling his guitar a centaur... and there's an image of a centaur on the wall behind him. Weeeeeeeeeeeiiird
"Before" their show?
hahahaha i havent drank any beer yet i promise
Come on man give me the name of the pawn shop I found some real Treasures throughout the years in pawn shops
No bass?
We didn't skip him, we asked Bryan Herweg (like many bassists), however he politely declined because he felt his EBMM StingRay - Tech21 Sansamp - Aguilar bass amp setup was too streamlined for the attention. We tried... we promise!
Ahh. Great rig rundown!
"(like many bassists), however he politely declined because.." thats good info, these bassists should know that they keep the nutty guitarists in line, these crazy players with 15 bazillion pedals needed to play three chords. tech21 sansamp/flyrig all the way and no "omg the airport lost my pedalboard because i had to check my huge crate of gear" problems because it fits in a pocket. the bassists are desperately needed in the rig rundowns!
@@superblondeDotOrg You've never heard a single pelican song, huh?
@@ileutur6863 who are you ?
If ya wanna FLEX go with the PLEX-i. LOL!! Serious every ten years their is a trendy amp like 2000-2010 was Mesa. 2011-2020 was Orange and still is actually, but it seems like your true amp guys use them in the beginning but always after a short time it back to the Marshalls or Fenders. When running a stack nothing beats a pre 80’s Marshall head. Wether it be plexi, super PA, super bass, and even onto a JCM800 (which yes I know is post 1980 but they kickass too). Exception to everything I just said though is a Boogie Mark1 or Mark4. All in all Marshall Plexi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's called LLooouuuuiiaahhvuullll
Tuned up in b standard😆
Tortex yellers aye ?
At your age and experience you think that the wood make the other one sound better ? Not the electronics pickups setup and strings ?
Yes ! Two pieces of the same wood make a difference !
@@marsattacks7071 How can you ever know that the wood is the difference maker ? In an electric guitar that works with magnets that don't attract wood.
1st, the answer has nothing to do with age and experience. It has to do with science. 2nd, I will give you the essential explanation but won't go to far since many people refuse to believe that and will engage in some regrettable discussions. I'm not interested to teach school. I'm a mechanical engineer and the explanation has to do with some "vibration" science. It's complex and to be honest, far behind me since I have not used that for 25 years. Here's the principal lines.
I guess you have an electric guitar. When you play on it (unplug), I'm sure you can feel the vibrations thru the body and the neck. If it's a strat for instance, you can feel it on the lower and upper horns, on the butt of the body and of course, on the head stock and everything in between. That's for the wood vibrations. The strings are of course vibrating at different frequencies more or less depending on what you're playing (a chord or some lead part). Then you have your pickups. Depending on the brand, model, mods, you could have between 1 and 3 pickups, single coils and or humbuckers. Each pickup can have ceramic or alnico 2,4 or 5 magnets (the type of). Their magnetism is there full time but vary in strength so the damping of the strings vary too.
You might think that the vibration of the strings over the pickups is all there is to develop an electric voltage, current for the amp to amplify. There is more than that. Let's say you play a strat. The pickups are installed on the pick guard that itself is screwed on the wood of the body. What follows is the important concept of the wood implication in tone. As said previously, the wood vibrates then, the pick guard vibrates then, the pickup on it vibrate too. The resulting vibration of the wood or if you prefer, the resulting movements of the wood will interact with the resulting tone of your guitar since that now, you don't have just the string movements but also the pickup movement, These two movements must be added together and the resulting relative movements will define the resulting tone of the guitar.
If you have a very thin pick guard (a '57 one ply white one), it will be different than a 3 ply one... If you have alder wood or ash wood, or korina, etc, you will have different type of transmitted vibrations. And between two pieces of let's say alder wood, again you could notice a difference since one could have been sawed from the bottom of a tree and the other from the top. Densities vary...
Finally, the resulting vibrations between strings and pickup is the sum of all these details and sometimes, it makes a huge difference and some other time not so much. I hope I helped you understanding the general idea. Don't listen to the people here on YT or else where on the internet who say that it has nothing to do 'cause that's an electric guitar and bla bla bla... Some of them don't understand shit about anything... Cheers.
PS. When I try a guitar at the guitar shop, I always try to feel the vibrations thru it. I check each string and their influences on the body vibrations. The guitar is unplugged ! Then, I can plug it and hear it... Always do that. If you're decided on a model you want to buy, test a few ones of that model to find the right one. Oh, by the way, I didn't even talk about the effect of the hands on a guitar... You know when they say : well, you can't play like Van Halen and sound like him since you don't have his hands...
Hey angry dude ! How do you know that is that that makes those two guitars different and not all the variables in the pickups strings action intonation saddles machine heads. Why we never think about anything made from metal on the guitar and we only say that wood must be it. Science say that no two guitars sound the same ever. Even if they are the same model. No two pickups sound the same no two setups are ever the same. So science dude. I hope that when you buy a guitar you are not take in consideration the place were you are on the planet. Becoes of the different magnetic field values or how many kg you you have then. Becoes you play with the guitar on your body and that influence the resonance of your electric guitar. Do you know how a Strat sounds in your hand or in the hands of a giant ? It will sound like a strat ! That's the genius of the magnetic pickup. That it is not that high fidelity. Does your electric guitar sound different on your body or on the table ? No. Of your skinny ass does change nothing how 2 pounds of wood can. Remember that the other is still 2 pounds of wood. It makes a difference in an acoustic guitar for sure.
@@marsattacks7071 We are approaching this wrong of course. Here is something to think about if you want. Can you make a let's say Stratocaster body wise to not sound like a strat ? You can use all the matter in the universe. You know how a metal, acrylic, cardboard strat sounds like ? Sounds like a Strat. Check it out. You can attach a strat to Titanic. It will sound like a strat. Why if the wood makes such a noticeable differance.
lol doesnt want a neck pickup so he can keep the signal chain short but then follows that by saying he adds pedals to get the change in tone... makes sense dude.
sorry, not Trevor, the first guy
2 Thumbs Up!!!!
Cant go wrong with walnut or maple