Sleep Theory’s Daniel Pruitt - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 584 - video Dailymotion

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Become a member (it's FREE) at https://digtb.us/signup Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch  On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Daniel Pruitt, guitarist of the rock band, Sleep Theory, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on "The Afterglow Tour" with Nevertel, Oxymorrons, and Stray View. Sleep Theory is currently supporting their newest album, Afterglow.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: PRS Custom 22 Electric Guitar with Dragon II Pickups - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/gO7aQ2 D’Addario Baritone Light Gauge Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Bn9RYW PRS 277 Baritone Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Wyz2PZ PRS Custom 22 Electric Guitar with Seymour Duncan Pickups - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/gO7aQ2 PRS CE McCarty “Tin Top” Electric Guitar with Dragon II Pickups - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/GKkRBV D’Addario EXL110 (10–46) Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/2aeVLa Neural DSP Quad Cortex - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4GAgxr Dunlop Jazz III (1.0mm) Guitar Picks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/N9J2vb Shure SE425 Universal IEMs - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/7aV19d  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - June 14, 2025 Location - House of Blues in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH SLEEP THEORY: Facebook - https://facebook.com/sleeptheoryband Instagram - https://instagram.com/sleeptheoryofficial Twitter - https://twitter.com/SleepTheoryBand  FOLLOW US: Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:32 Guitars 07:16 Amp 10:20 Picks & In-Ears  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, Machine Gun Kelly, Papa Roach, and thousands of others, over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of artists on tour, and "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage.  Affiliate Disclosure: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you if you make a purchase. Your support helps me continue to create content like this. Thank you!

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00:00this is Daniel from sleep theory and you're watching gear masters we're

00:14currently on the afterglow headline tour which is convenient because I put this

00:20jacket on because it's cold today in Chicago but yeah let's do a little gear

00:26rundown here so guitars here I'll start out with this guy here this is the main

00:33guitar I use on the run this is a custom 22 that I bought I freakin absolutely love

00:42this thing it's got dragon 2 pickups in it which these are the pickups we use

00:49throughout the album we we mainly have guitars in the studio that have these so

00:54this had to happen and of course I've got my locking pick tuners and then someone

01:00back home shout out to Matt he 3d printed me some trust rod covers with the ST logo

01:08so these are one of a kind right now but this is this is my main guitar this is my

01:14baby right here African I love this thing so much it's in drop a sharp if you can

01:21believe that the strings on here are freaking huge we actually had to bore

01:28out the locking tuner peg to fit this gauge string when I first got it because we

01:36play really low yeah so the main way I play is all the way to 11 it goes all the

01:45way to 11 what's what's more louder than 10 11 so I always have stuff cranked I

01:52think there there might be only one song in the set that I might dial it back like a

01:58hair and even then that's on 10 so gauge strings I use for this one I believe are in

02:06this box I just changed the gauge of this one I went a little bit lighter here they

02:11are I'm using D'Addario D'Addario baritone light gauge for this one I was

02:19using a heavier one that's on my 277 I used to use these these things are are fat they

02:28they uh they were just a little bit too much so I I kind of went a little bit

02:33lighter on the store to to get a better feel of it but yeah that is the that's

02:41the main next up in the vault we've got this beauty this is my 277 baritone it's a 277 it's

02:5227 inch scale so it's the long one it's this one does have these bad boys on it

02:59because it can handle it really well this one is in drop G sharp so it's funny I

03:08posted a video of stuck in my head because I use this guitar for stuck in my

03:12head and I did like a little playthrough everybody's like what drop pedal are you

03:17using to get that low I'm like it's the guitar it's this it's in drop G sharp it's

03:25low it does the thing but uh just standard like humbucker pickups that came with it

03:34what's cool about this one I never use this feature but it does have a push pull

03:39knob which is crazy it actually sounds really cool so it'll split these coils up

03:45so you have like multiple different tone options that you can cycle through on

03:50this thing even though most of the set I'm right here cranked and with this

03:55pickup but also got the truss rod cover on this guy this is my G sharp main I

04:03actually don't have a backup for this one next on here is this beauty this is the

04:10backup to the custom 22 that I have it is a beautiful beautiful finish on it I

04:22play it I don't really play it a whole lot in the set I basically played this

04:28one to give the 22 a break during the set because there's like multiple songs

04:33I'll play in a row I'll be like switch me out to this one and I love it the

04:38pickups are a little bit different Seymour Seymour Duncan pickups in it but uh

04:42this one actually our producer gifted to me so that's that's a cool fun fact he

04:52was just like hey man here you go I was like are you sure but uh yeah it's a this

05:01is also just a great guitar I love the matte there's like a matte finish on the

05:06neck you can kind of see right there where it like tapers down into it so it's

05:11got like a really nice feel on the neck so this next guitar is absolutely

05:17gorgeous this is uh this is actually not mine yet I'm just kidding he will not

05:25let me buy it but this is actually our producers as well right before we went out

05:29we have a song parasite that's in drop D it's the only song we have right now

05:36that's in that tuning so I needed a guitar in that tuning and he was like dude I

05:41just bought this purple CE or a mccarty tin top so it is a tin top that you can see

05:51right there missing is gorgeous purple you know sleep theory we love purple it's got the dragon to

05:59pickups in it just like my custom 22 this thing plays incredibly I'm sad I only get

06:08to play it on one song might write some more stuff in this tuning and see if he'll

06:13let me take it on the road again because this guitar is just gorgeous bird inlays I mean look at that inlay

06:22look at those they're gorgeous I mean Paul Reed Smith just outdoes themselves every single time

06:31yeah so this actually is different these are deodario they're these I'm using the EX EXL 110

06:42which is the 10 gauge actually let me just grab this real quick it's these guys right here so

06:52vastly different from what he's on the other guitars so much lighter touch on this one but it's always

07:00it's fun to play so be looking out for this because you'll only see it once during the set only one one

07:07song and it's done it's gone for the rest of the set so yeah so right now we have no amps because

07:14they're heavy but I do use this we use the quad cortex right now so this is like my main tone me and

07:23our producer Dave went through and actually a good good friend Noah Henson came through too and helped kind

07:32shape this tone out that we have right now so this is I don't know if you can see that but a lot of I

07:39won't give away my my secrets too much but basically these are the two amps we use in the studio and

07:45cabinets so we basically like modeled everything so that it's as close to the album as we could get it

07:52and I have this running MIDI off of our Ableton sessions so like throughout the set it's cycling

08:02through tones like I have a clean tone it'll go to I've got a that one's kind of cool it's like an octave

08:10thing that shut that turns on during the set do I use any other the there's parasite I don't really use

08:20that anymore though so yeah this thing's like switching through stuff so I'm not up at my trying

08:28to scream in the mic and playing you know tiptoe around which is fun sometimes but this is this has

08:36become it's just it's nice you can just get out there be wherever on the stage and it's switching

08:42for me I will say this a cool effect that that I do is I'm running to two amps technically on this in four

08:54cabs so it's like true stereo and on this bottom one I do run a delay that's ran where is it of 15

09:06milliseconds behind the other one so it gives the the sound of it being like a more widespread stereo

09:15sound which is really awesome the only other thing that's on this patch it's literally the amps and

09:21then these overdrive pedals which I'm using the green 808 I think for both and these turn on and off

09:29throughout the set depending if I need like that extra push in a chorus or something but uh this

09:38patch I made the clean that thing's crazy it sounds phenomenal it's there's so much going on in it

09:46there's reverb delay shimmer stuff going on it's all over the place but I don't know how I got to that so I

09:55can't really even tell you I was just like yeah this sounds good so I'm gonna stop uh but yeah

10:01that's basically it it's it's not too much going on um but it is fun it's a lot of fun as far as picks

10:09go uh I'm running out of picks actually we have more picks on order I don't even know if I do I have any

10:19left I might be uh might be out of luck I think I'm out of luck like these are some older older style

10:29picks I do have afterglow picks that I think I just threw them all at this point um but there I do use

10:37uh I've been trying out the Jazz 3 they're like the smaller style picks so uh I've really been loving

10:43those it's a one millimeter Jazz 3 pick it's I've been loving it and then I go I ran out so I'm going

10:52I'm using uh just like some generic I think these are 0.88 but they're the they're bigger feels like

11:00I'm playing with a surfboard right now I'm just like oh in ears uh so for this run um I'm looking

11:07to get some custom molds if anybody's out there uh but uh these are just the Shure 425s they do the

11:17job they do the job um but uh yeah we're going to get some custom molded I think Paolo just got some

11:26in recently but uh yep all right guys well that's pretty much it um thank you for watching uh go

11:33stream by afterglow album uh just came out it's uh I might be a little biased but it's a no skip

11:42it's incredible um hope you guys love it uh follow us on social media you can follow me uh danielpruitt

11:50underscore 88 I should be verified um yeah go check us out sleep theory

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