00:00What's up? I'm Drew from Friday Pilots Club. I play bass. We're at the wonderful House of Blues
00:16Chicago on tour with Circa Waves, playing a bunch of songs off of our new album, Nowhere.
00:20You should check it out. And yeah, I'm going to show you guys what I do. First off, I play this
00:26pretty dope Fender Player Plus green P-Bass, which is dope. It's got a lot of cool extra
00:35features like 3-band EQ, active-passive switch, and like a pickup blend. Two batteries, but
00:43I honestly rock it. Super simple, in-passive. 90% of the set is just the P-Pickup. A few
00:50songs that are a little more gnarly, I do a 50-50 blend between the two. But yeah, this
00:55thing is honestly fucking incredible. I even bought, I have a second one that's
01:01like white and red, that's back there in that inky case. But for some reason this
01:05one is just like so magical. And I don't know what it is, like literally when we
01:11were doing Europe last year I was like, oh I should get the exact same bass for the
01:15most part, so I can just like have all my tones transfer if for any reason this
01:19thing goes down. So bought another one, and for some reason it just doesn't sound
01:24like this one. Like there's just special mojo in this specific green P-Bass. And on
01:31top of it it's like the most beautiful like green sparkle. You can probably see my
01:36like seven shows of grime starting to really cake on here, but it's awesome. And I
01:42I fucking love it. And I rock Ernie Ball strings. It's like the hybrid slinky set so
01:48it's almost like the base version of a skinny top heavy bottom, which I love. Ooh, I
01:53want to say it's like a 45 to 105, almost positive. But yeah, I love it. I fucking
02:01love it. And Ernie Ball and Fender have both been so fucking kind to us. Shout out
02:05Billy, shout out Tim, Tim at Ernie Ball. And yeah, it's just been incredible. And honestly,
02:12kind of foolproof. Tuning, yeah. So it's probably confusing from a fan perspective
02:18for people who try to learn our songs, but I actually play the entire set in standard
02:23tuning and use the pitch transpose function on the quad to basically do the
02:30rest of the heavy lifting, which is really convenient and nice when we play in
02:35like E, D, B, B-flat, and E-flat. So it's nice to not have to rip new tuning for all of
02:46those and they kind of just, the quad does what the quad does best, you know? So that's
02:51very cool. Most of the set, I play pick, but we have a few slower songs that are more like
02:57finger style, just tone wise. So like we have a song called Would You Mind. That one's finger
03:03style. And then a few others that we're not playing this run, like coffin. Um, maybe
03:09favorite part that I also play finger, but for the most part it's pick. Uh, 73's Ernie
03:16Ball, honestly sick. It's like, I wish I have some somewhere, but they're like the, the
03:22orange Ernie Ball ones. You would think they're the same as the Dunlop ones, but the Ernie Ball
03:27ones are seven threes and orange, but the Ernie, the Dunlop ones are sixes and orange, but love
03:32their Ernie Ball picks. They're so awesome. And, uh, yeah, I tend to go through a lot
03:37of them because I pick really aggressively and really hard. So every show I might go
03:42through like two or three, um, just to like keep the sharp edge and whatnot. But yeah,
03:47so, uh, last year we, uh, James and I made the jump to quad cortexes, which also, yeah,
03:54shout out, uh, Max at neural DSP, the absolute goat who, uh, really helped us out here. And it
04:01has been an absolute game changer. Cause I've done pedals and a real amp. I've done pedals
04:07with an amp sim and like a sans amp and I've done Kemper and I've done helix and getting
04:13to the quad was just like, Oh, that's it. Like that is for ease of use, how simple it is to
04:20like make tones and the flexibility you have inside it. There's really nothing that beats
04:25it. And I feel like I can say that confidently. Um, but yeah, like in terms of the actual tones,
04:30I've kind of got a crazy situation here. I pretty much rock a very similar setup across
04:39all the tones I use throughout the show. And I pretty much have it grouped by tuning. So
04:45for example, here's FPC bass. That's just my standard tuning. Oh, big boy. That is not one I use,
04:52but it's a great tone. I'll tell you what, here's FPC bass and D, B, B flat and E flat for the most
05:02part. They're pretty much all the same. Some of the lower tuning stuff. I crank the drive a little
05:08bit more cause all the lower tuning songs that tend to play just needs to be a little heavier and
05:13stuff. But, uh, let me go back to my main one and you can kind of see what we're rocking. So I've
05:21mainly for my bass, like the core of the bass sound, it's just like classic Ampeg SVT into a, uh,
05:29Ampeg 8x10. Um, and I'm pretty sure, yeah, I like slightly tweaked some of the mics than what
05:37they normally have. Um, but that's like kind of the core of it. And honestly, for those that are
05:44familiar with the, uh, quad platform, I'm just rocking so many EQs for so many different types
05:50of shaping along the way. But then it starts to get a little more complicated where I also include
05:59this split to a Vox AC30, which kind of gives me a little bit more of the grit and mid-range I'm
06:08looking for. Um, very inspired by like Royal Blood, um, and the way that they rock their bass tones,
06:14which I think are just so incredible. So you can see, I have all these different scenes, right?
06:22Fuzz, octave, normal fuzz, something that is completely unknown. And I don't know what that is.
06:27Um, and then yeah, just like really four stages of just gain. Um, and within that, I'm automating
06:36some of these parameters on some of these pedals, which some are from my collection at home. Um,
06:42and some are things I've downloaded. So like one of these is like a Noble Overdrive. This is a,
06:50um, who is it? It's a, uh, they're like the other sister company. Oh, it's like a dark glass,
06:57basically. Microtubes. Uh, this is what I downloaded. Also another dark glass vintage.
07:03And then I use a fat rat, uh, that is like my favorite bass distortion. So basically throughout
07:10the set, depending on what scene I'm on, you'll see some of these things click on, click off,
07:17some things mute, what have you. But, uh, but yeah, it's kind of just that it looks a little
07:24more complicated. And then, you know, on, for example, this is my fuzz octave patch. That's when
07:30this octave blend kicks on for only my guitar amp chain. And, uh, you know, what have I got here?
07:39Yeah. Tube screamer just absolutely fucking dimed. And, uh, yeah, that's kind of the gist of it.
07:45There's not nothing too crazy every now and then for like, you know, my songs that I play in D,
07:52like there's a chorus, but I don't need it on the standard tuning or the drop B stuff. So
07:58it's kind of it. And it's all MIDI switched, which is awesome. And love to not tap dance and not
08:06fiddle with anything. Cause sometimes the parts and singing simultaneously are hard enough.
08:11Yes, this is, uh, this is just an oak tone, uh, basically controller. So I do all the
08:19MDing and playback control for Friday Pilots Club. And yeah, throughout the set,
08:25I use this to just navigate through the songs and everything, um, which is great. And this has been
08:31the biggest game changer for us because we used to rock it where you just have a foot switch with no
08:38screen. So you're hoping you didn't double click a button and go to the next song. And then you
08:43announce it's one song and hit play the tracks are playing something else. So having this with, uh,
08:49an actual digital readout where you can see the song names is so huge and like absolute game changer
08:55for us. So this is the backup literally same exact model, just a different color, different fingerboard.
09:02But, uh, yeah, also a fucking incredible base, but somehow lacking the magic of the green one,
09:10the green monster, Lizzy, as I call her short for lizard, you know? So yeah, that's it.
09:16Thank you guys so much for watching. Once again, I am drew from Friday Pilots Club.
09:20Go stream our record nowhere. You can find all of our tour dates online at fridaypilots.com.
09:25You can follow us on all platforms at Friday Pilots Club, except Twitter. We are just Friday
09:30Pilots. But yeah, come check it out. Come see a show and, uh, look forward to meeting you.
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