00:00Hey, my name is Eric Paulsen, I'm in Remo Drive, I play guitar and I sing, and yeah,
00:15thanks for having us today.
00:18So this is my Aria Pro, it's a guitar that I just recently got that I love.
00:23We made our album with a Gibson Les Paul, and I wanted something that was like that,
00:28with a couple of key differences, and this guitar is kind of that, it's got fewer knobs,
00:34and it's built by hand in Japan, and yeah, it's just a very solid, sturdy, kind of made
00:42more like a vintage guitar than most modern American guitars are, so I was stoked to find
00:48it and then I reached out to them and they were happy to help me out with getting one,
00:52because they're not really super accessible in the States yet.
00:56So yeah, I'm really excited about it, it's a lovely guitar.
00:59So the pickups in here are DiMarzio Super Distortions, they're just high output rock
01:04pickups that are great for what we do, it makes it so I don't have to use a bunch of
01:09pedals, which I kind of resent using, and I just kind of have everything running wide
01:13open all the time, and on this bridge pickup on this tour, although every tour is different
01:18depending on what amp I'm using and what kind of all the other variables at play are, and
01:25yeah, I just really like it because it's a well-made, solid guitar, and it feels like
01:29it's musical to play, not everything does feel that way at this point in mass-produced
01:36stuff, and this one certainly feels like it's got some heart to it, or some care was put
01:41into making it, so I really like that about it.
01:43So for most of our set, I'm playing standard tuning, but there are a few songs from our
01:48older records that are in tune, and it's D-G-D-G-B-E.
01:51D'Addario NYXL's V11 gauge, that's what we like to use.
01:57A friend of mine turned into them a few years ago, and they last for a long time on the
02:01road, and they sound great when they last for a long time, which isn't always the case,
02:05so yeah, we really like those.
02:07I think that we use those pretty much all around, so yeah, we love that stuff.
02:13This one is my guitar that more people might be familiar with if they know our music.
02:19It was used all over our first record, and it's a Pure Salem Jimmy.
02:24They're great guitars.
02:26This one is pretty cool, because I don't think that they make it anymore in this finish and
02:30with this neck and all that.
02:32It's just kind of like a souped-up Tele kind of setup down here with kind of more of a
02:39Mustang body.
02:40And this one's got the same treatment, D'Addario NYXL 11s, and the pickups are just Pure Salem
02:47brand.
02:48I've tried swapping them out, but they sound better with these in, so that's, yeah.
02:52This is a guitar that I've had for probably, geez, getting close to 10 years maybe, so
02:57it's a great guitar.
02:59So right up next to my guitar, I've got the Polytune here.
03:03That's our favorite tuner within the band.
03:05We've all got them on our board.
03:08They're just really accurate and easy to see in a dark venue, and yeah.
03:13They also handle our other tuning really well.
03:16It reads quickly and easily, which makes our life a lot easier.
03:21This is a prototype of our signature pedal that we do with Poison Noises.
03:25It's called the Mercy Fuzz, and basically it's just a bass fuzz circuit with a bias
03:31knob and a 3-band EQ.
03:35We kind of had a hand in designing that with Poison Noises, which was a blast.
03:39It kind of works for just about every period of our music, which is great for us because
03:44it means I have to lug fewer pedals around.
03:48This is actually Steven's pedal.
03:50This is a delay pedal by JHS called the Milkman, I think.
03:54And it's just, I'm using it as a slap.
03:59And yeah, it sounds great.
04:03It does what it's supposed to do, and it just adds a little bit of space to the signal for me.
04:08It gives it a little bit more vintage kind of sound.
04:12And then this is another delay.
04:13It's called the Mr. Echo by Sib.
04:17I got into the Sib stuff because they have a bunch of sought-after old pedals.
04:21Now they're made by a different company, but they've kind of reissued some stuff that's
04:24similar to what they used to make.
04:26And this one I just use as a feedback machine.
04:30It's got this slam button that basically doubles the values of the delay and the repeat, I think.
04:35So it kind of does this, that sound.
04:39But yeah, I really like that a lot because it can, at the right part in our set, add
04:43a little bit of excitement, you know.
04:45So this is my Shure Beta 87.
04:48And we recorded our album with one of these.
04:51And we've been using them a lot in the studio for various applications, like guitar recording,
04:58acoustic guitar recording, some drums.
05:00Just love these things.
05:01And they're really affordable.
05:02And they sound fantastic.
05:05So yeah, it's just a good workhorse.
05:09This amp is one that I just got right before we started the tour.
05:13It's Laney.
05:14I've got a larger Laney head at home that I like to use that's like the Black Sabbath type of amp.
05:19This one is a little bit different sound-wise, but it's probably even more suited for our music.
05:25It's got kind of like a Rolling Stones-y crunch to it.
05:29And they're really affordable.
05:31And it's just very cute and small.
05:33It all fits in one road case, which is nice.
05:36And yeah, it just punches way above its weight.
05:39It's an awesome amp.
05:43It's my old drive sound.
05:45I'm not really doing anything else to get any sort of overdrive.
05:48It's just guitar and amp, like classic rock style.
05:52I love that.
05:54There's a lot less CPU usage going on when I'm singing and playing and all that.
05:59So I like that a lot.
06:01That's pretty much...
06:03I'm cranking up this master volume here to get kind of as much power tube section gauged.
06:11And really gently pushing the gain up.
06:14Because I find that I just like how the breakup sounds more when I do that.
06:20And then I've got the EQ just flat.
06:21I already like how it sounds.
06:23That's kind of what I look for in an amp.
06:24If I can let everything run at noon, then I just like the amp.
06:29And I can tweak it if I have a guitar that's a little different.
06:32But this just sounds right to me.
06:34And it's got this digital reverb in it that's really solid.
06:39And I've got that just kind of peppered in for a little bit of space as well.
06:45And it helps with our new songs, I think.
06:49It's got this boost section that I don't really use a whole lot.
06:51But it does sound great.
06:53It's just not practical for me on the road to be using it.
06:57But I like how it sounds.
06:59So the cab is just a Laney speaker.
07:02I'm not really sure too much about it.
07:05But it does sound great.
07:06And it's over the course of this tour even.
07:08It's kind of worn in a little bit more.
07:10It opened up and got to where the low end has really started coming out more.
07:16Which has been really cool.
07:18My other Laney cab that I have back home is filled with Celestion G12Hs, I think.
07:24This sort of seems like maybe it's doing something not too distant from that.
07:29But it's just a more affordable product.
07:32So it's got the Laney version in there.
07:34And it really works well for us on the road.
07:38Definitely an upgrade from what I was using before.
07:41We've got a new record out called Mercy that we're super stoked on.
07:45We recorded it in Seattle with a guy, Phil Eck, who's made a bunch of records that we love.
07:49And yeah, we're just touring it.
07:51And we've got this really cool sign also that says Mercy.
07:54And it lights up that our dad helped us make.
07:59We're called Remo Drive again.
08:01We're on social media and all that stuff.
08:03And we're usually pretty accessible if you come to the show and have any questions about it.
08:07We're always stoked to talk about that.
08:14you
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