00:00Howdy! I'm Sean Burke. I play guitar in Friday Pilots Club. We're on tour for our second leg
00:16of the Nowhere tour. We released an album I think it was last May. So yeah, we're coming up on a year
00:24now. We're playing House of Blues in Chicago tonight with Circa Waves. Yeah, stoked to be home and to be
00:31doing this. This is my rig. This is my guitar. It's a Fender Strat American-made. I believe it's a
00:39Highway 1. Bought this thing when I was like 13 on eBay for about a thousand
00:48dollars less than I should have so I feel like it's a steal and I think it's the
00:52only guitar that I've ever owned. So this is all this is all I got here. The color
00:58the color is this nitro blue finish you can kind of see the wood through it. I
01:02actually believe it or not didn't do all of this wear and tear on it. I bought it
01:06like this and I as a 13 year old and you know lover of John Frusciante I was I was
01:12pretty drawn to that style of guitar. All his guitars are like from the 60s and
01:16pretty worn down so I loved it. It had the Rosewood fretboard and honestly I think I
01:24played a few guitars beforehand but none of them felt very good in my hands and I
01:29think I just got lucky with this one. I played it immediately and like even all
01:33of my guitar player friends think this is one of the better guitars they've picked
01:37up so I feel like I got lucky with it. So yeah definitely inspired by John Frusciante
01:44and the chili peppers stuff like that. So yeah yeah everything is stock. I briefly
01:49for a couple years used a maple neck instead of the one here but this is the
01:54original I put it back on. I just feel like it glides a little easier and and the
01:59tone is great. Yeah I just I use everything pretty much all the way dialed up I
02:04use my bridge pickup every once in a while if I'm playing certain songs kind
02:10of call for a little less of like a gnarly kind of intense tone so I go to
02:14this middle pickup but for the most part it's just bridge. A lot of the things
02:19tone wise I try to control on my pedal board and keep this as straightforward as
02:23possible so I don't have to mess around too much on stage. So I actually I tune to
02:28E flat standard which really for no other reason then that's how I learned the
02:32songs in this band. Usually I go E standard but yeah we use we use Ernie balls I
02:38do a heavy bottom thin top so I think it's I use 11s to 52s. They're great you can
02:48get chunky with them. I can also play leads up top and feel pretty smooth. I can
02:52bend pretty easily. It's comfortable so it's it gets a little bit of both worlds in it.
02:56Usually I like to use the the point sevens the tortoise ones. We're using Ernie balls
03:03right now as well which are kind of inherently like a little bit thinner I
03:07feel like or a little bit more flexible so it's a little easier to play some of the
03:11funkier stuff which is definitely a constant in this group. I think there's a
03:16lot of bouncing off guitar parts and stuff like that rhythmically so it's nice to
03:21kind of do that thwacky thing that I feel like the strat lens itself to which is a
03:26very funky kind of percussive thing. So yeah I use the kind of a thinner Ernie ball
03:32ones. I guess let's go through maybe one of the more complicated ones I suppose.
03:40Let me see here. So like for our song Bury Me it goes from these like very funky kind of
03:50like soft like riff based stuff in the verse where I play a lot of ethereal stuff
03:57so I have just a couple delays going. I basically through it through all of my
04:03patches that I have on this I do a initial noise gate because my single coils on the
04:07strat are very noisy and then I do my like a little bit of compression kind of
04:13standard. This one I have a low cut on just ever so slightly I feel like the
04:18base ends up building up a little bit but it's not much it's probably like a
04:23hundred yeah it's the 110 and then yeah these so this is kind of the effects that
04:30I feel like I gravitate towards the most. This vibrato it's definitely like a
04:37digital vibrato but I think I gravitate towards the vibratos that have a lot
04:44more movement to them and that you can really feel the kind of like authentic
04:49warble sound and this one is great I feel like I use it pretty much on every
04:53one of my patches so I use that and then this delay pedal I have going again more
05:02analog sounding is usually what I gravitate towards on the helix some of
05:08them can get pretty digital which is cool because you can do a lot of you know
05:11unique sounds and stuff like that but just because of the style of the music that
05:17we play I kind of lean towards the things that sound most authentic yeah so I have
05:21basically how I set up all of my patches just for ease is like each row is a song
05:27and then I usually have like a verse patch and a chorus patch so this verse
05:32patch for instance is mainly delays reverbs and then like dry tones this one
05:37is is pretty intense we've got like a some pitch shift going on the song is like in I
05:45think it's in C standard so you go pretty deep with it therefore I don't have to
05:50tune super far down which is pretty nice and it's that there's big riff in the in
05:54the chorus and it translates pretty well so I'm actually happy with the the pitch
06:00modulation on here and then yeah my chorus tone is just a bunch of fuzzes this one
06:06this fuzz is super buzzy which is cool but I kind of mask it a little bit with
06:12this distortion I feel like the distortion cuts off a little bit of the high end
06:15there so they work together to kind of fill out this tone yeah so this is a
06:19UAD AC 30 amp emulator it's got like a surprising amount of control over it and
06:29I use an AC 15 at home the actual amp the beauty of it is that it kind of always
06:37sounds good but there's not a lot of controls on the amp itself it's kind of
06:40just bass treble volume you got your top boost this one you can add like
06:45different room sounds on it and stuff and you can also see presets so I have a
06:51personal preset saved that I stick with for every song and then I run this through
06:58it just to kind of get some natural saturation in it stuff like that yeah this
07:03is just a yeah this is a stereo box we send both of our guitars in stereo yeah
07:10and then I just use this one spot it's pretty pretty straightforward here it's
07:15kind of a jerry-rigged situation because the the helix thing ended up breaking on
07:20this but yeah it's pretty much that yeah thanks for watching yeah you guys can
07:27find us anywhere on Instagram Facebook all that stuff FridayPilotsClub.com is our
07:31website we're selling tickets for the rest of the tour with Circle Waves here
07:35yeah come check us out
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