00:00What's up, I'm Griffin Landa, I play bass in the Acacia Strain, we're out here on tour
00:14with Between the Buried and Me, it's a sick package because we're doing two nights in
00:18every city, we're playing different records, so night one we play a lot of fast stuff,
00:24night two we play a lot of doom stuff, which kind of correlates to these two basses that
00:29I have, these are both Ibanez LACS SR5s that they made for me, and so I kind of based these
00:38off of their Prestige SRs, so it's a lot of similar woods and stuff, but I have an Ebony
00:43fretboard on this one, it's got a flame, or quilted maple top, and I always have them
00:51put North Strain Big Singles in my basses, and then these are both wired up just to both
00:58be on at all times, and then just one volume, so it's super simple, but this one is a 34
01:04inch scale, and then this is my G sharp bass, so I play it mainly on our fast, faster stuff,
01:12and I'm using D'Addario strings, I have a 105 four string set that I get, and then I
01:19have them give me a 135, but I have the 135 tapered, so then I can have the strings sit
01:27flush, it helps me keep it a little lower for lower tunings, which is ideal for a lot
01:33of faster stuff, and these basses play like butter, like they just fly, which is awesome,
01:40and then this bass is pretty similar, but it's a 35 inch scale, and so I had to make
01:49this 35 so I could have a dedicated drop F bass, in the past I would do drop F on a
01:5734 inch scale, and I would have to have up to a 170 low F string, and this is a 160,
02:06but it just seems to feel better, and I can still keep the tighter tension, better for
02:14tuning stability, and just how it sounds, sometimes when it gets too flubby it just
02:19loses all definition, and so with this 35 inch scale it kind of sucks that back in,
02:25which is awesome, so yeah the only difference between these two, other than the scale length,
02:31is a Wenge fretboard, a Flame maple top, different color obviously, but then this is D'Addario
02:41strings again, and I use a 110 4 string set, and then a tapered 160, got a little Wenge
02:53purple heart neck, and this one has the same neck woods, just different fretboard, pretty
03:07straight forward rig, but when we're in two nights, two nights in every city on this tour,
03:16so it's a little easier, but every night when we're going in and out, having just a simple
03:21rig like this, and simple pedal board, everything plugged in always, it just keeps us kind of
03:27going, we rarely have issues, which is awesome, and I think it comes down to how clean we
03:34try to keep everything, so I only use this drop pedal on one song on this tour, but in
03:41the past I've used it to drop down from G sharp to drop F quite a bit, so it's on here
03:47just for one song right now, but then it just goes into my tuner, into my gray channel,
03:53which is from Earthquaker Devices, and I use this for two different distortion channels,
03:57or three I guess, because I can kick it off, and then I have a little bit of gain on my
04:01amp, but green is channel one, red channel two, and then for the crazier fuzzy distortion stuff,
04:09I have this way huge Morgan pickle, it's kind of similar to the swollen pickle for guitar,
04:16but bass version, and then to clean everything up, I've got the Fortin Zool, and I have it
04:23keyed off of my tuner, so it's getting the clean input to gate, and it's a pretty simple rig,
04:29this tour we're doing a lot of doomier stuff, so that's why I have the three different channels
04:35of distortion, typically on a normal tour where we're just playing random songs off
04:41of various records, I might not even have these, but it's fun to play around with them
04:45on this doom stuff, and some of our faster stuff, some of the faster newer stuff, we've
04:51been experimenting with more different styles of distortion, so it's kind of cool to expand
04:56on that on this tour, yeah it's pretty simple, most of us are just using Intune picks, and
05:01so these are just their 1.14, and pretty much every tour I use the same pick, but I just
05:08have different colors made, pink and orange, they glow in the lights and go flying, which
05:14is sick, so these are both guitar guys, I'm down here with my dark glass rig, and so I'm
05:20still using two, I've been using these heads for maybe about six years now, I've got two
05:26microtubes 900 heads, they're both live, so my red channel, which is the B3K distortion
05:34circuit is going to Mike and I's side, and then the blue channel is going over to Devin's
05:39side, it's just not as bitey, it's a little more of like a round vintage distortion, and
05:45then both go to front of house, and both go to our ears, so we can mix whatever we want
05:50in our ears.
05:51Like I said on this tour, I'm using these a little more clean than I typically would,
05:56so the gain is at about half, and my blend is about half here, and blend a little more
06:02on this, so blend I mean, these have a clean blend, so your clean bass goes in, and you
06:09can select how much you want to affect your tone or not.
06:15On the EQ I'm just pulling out, what is that, I believe, a lot of lows and low mids, specifically
06:25200 and 500, everything else is pretty much flat, and then I just use Shure wireless systems,
06:33and then there is a orange splitter that splits my signal from one into two, and that's how
06:42I'm split into the two heads, but that orange splitter has a buffered output, so I haven't
06:48had any noise issues or anything, which is sick, sometimes when you're running two heads
06:52you can come into some grounding issues and stuff, but yeah, and then I'm just using Dark
06:58Glass, I believe this is the DG410N cab, and typically I'll have four of them on stage,
07:09one stereo, so two on each side of the stage, but on this tour we're side-washing the cabs
07:14just because of the light show and everything, and so both of these are live, but on a normal
07:20tour I'll have four of them, but they're rad, I've had these since day one when they came
07:26out, my old Dark Glass rep Lauren just wanted me to try them out, and I loved them, before
07:33this I was using Mesa cabs, and these just smoke it, although I still use my Mesa in
07:38the studio.
07:39Yeah, check us out on Instagram, all of our social medias are The Acacia Strain, so Instagram,
07:44Twitter, Facebook, everything, we even have a fan Facebook page that people made called
07:50The Strainiacs, and they're always chatting in there, there's like 6,000 people in it
07:53now which is awesome, and our merch guy Stu always posts special merch items in there
07:59which is rad, so The Strainiacs on Facebook is sick, my name's Griffin Landa again, and
08:06all my social media is just at Griffin Landa, so G-R-I-F-F-I-N-L-A-N-D-A.
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