Sam Ryder - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 586 - 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”, the singer-songwriter, Sam Ryder, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on his White Lies American Road Trip. Sam Ryder is currently supporting his newest single, The Feeling Never Went Away, as well as his upcoming album, Heartland, out October 17th.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Yamaha Acoustic Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/5504D2 Fender Custom Shop ’63 Stratocaster - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/e1Zm5O Neural DSP Quad Cortex - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/VxD1KO Sennheiser e965 Condenser Vocal Mic - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Bnd49y  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - May 14, 2025 Location - Schubas in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH SAM RYDER: Facebook - https://facebook.com/samrydermusic Instagram - https://instagram.com/samhairwolfryder Twitter - https://twitter.com/SamRyderMusic  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 00:56 Acoustic Guitar 04:29 Electric Guitar 09:03 Amp/Pedal 15:59 Microphone  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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00:00what's up how's it going um I'm Sam Ryder and I'm gonna show you my tiny

00:15little rig for our show today at Schubert's tavern it's the tavern right

00:19tavern sick yeah I'm buzzing welcome let's dig in I think that I met you

00:26about 12 years ago and I'm not chatting to the people watching this I'm chatting

00:31to you holding the cameraman so I was with a band close your eyes and you

00:36interviewed me and Jordan and I watched it back this morning because I knew we

00:40were doing this today and Jordan has got infinitely more game and power than I do

00:44I literally don't know what I'm talking about like it's cringe man I don't know

00:48why I'm telling you this because now people are gonna go and watch it and see

00:50how cringe I am and but it's so funny Jordan is like a natural born comedian

00:55I on the other hand am an absolute div but um yeah I'm stoked to see you again

00:59man it's cool so let's start with this acoustic guitar this is a Yamaha acoustic

01:02guitar I got this for free um when like when I started posting videos on tiktok

01:08I remember Yamaha just hoying guitars at me so I've got like a lovely nylon strung

01:12one I've got this um I've got another one at home and I'm gonna be honest with you

01:16Yamaha make decent acoustic guitars I like this guitar this section is a piece of

01:22can I swear on this shit like this it just it's pointless um basically you just

01:27need the volume and and you're good to go they're gonna hate me saying that but

01:31I'm very thankful and I had a lovely uh rep at Yamaha at the time who's no longer

01:35there um but if he's watching this he's definitely not watching this but if he is

01:38big love because the nylon strong acoustic I use all the time in the studio and this

01:43is super handy for tours I've got um a nice Martin from like 1956 but never gonna

01:49bring that out on tour this is kind of like a road dog guitar but um it does the

01:53job and uh we've got it in a weird tuning actually this is in I don't even know if

01:57it's natural tuning this is E A C G G C so it's just like it's quite like iris

02:05so yeah that's a song called armor in the set tonight and literally that's the only song I use

02:24this guitar for I think these are tens and usually I'd use NYXLs um but I've just moved to Elixir and

02:32they just they sound infinitely better like um I've come to realize after playing guitar since

02:37I was 14 years old strings really do matter and I did love the Dario and I still do I still use

02:43them a bunch but um my friend came over who's like a nerd I love in the bits but he's called Nick

02:49probably shouldn't say that he's a nerd on the camera but he is like he'll agree he is a total

02:54nerd when it comes to especially Fender and Gibson like he knows all the years all the specs

02:58like even when it comes to like uh the different machine heads different ply on scratch plays he

03:04knows everything so he naturally deep dives strings as well and um yeah when it comes to like flat

03:09welds on bases which I've gotten really into at the moment as well but like yeah just on electric

03:14guitar and acoustic Elixirs are something I really didn't like at the beginning like the coated feel

03:19but um now I do they really like sparkle and they kind of make your guitar feel like it's just been set

03:24up all the time and I'm not actually sponsored or anything by Elixir um but I am using them now

03:29I think they're sick so the band I was in uh when we last chatted close your eyes this strap used to

03:34belong to uh Alex the bass player but I actually stole this like it's what was kind of like a not

03:39proper theft because I was a friend and I just sort of like acquired it but um he always like when he

03:45he doesn't work in music anymore but whenever he sees videos of me like I literally use this strap

03:50on all my guitars just so I know that he's watching it somewhere and it'll annoy him it's brilliant

03:56uh so this this guitar is I bought I got this guitar the day that I met you and uh I got this in

04:07Chicago Chicago Music Exchange which is just down the road right but yeah this was uh Chicago Music

04:11Exchange and it was the most money I've ever spent in my life at the time I think I paid so this is this

04:18is a 63 custom shop um strat and I paid I think two thousand dollars for it so the equivalent of

04:28like I think at the time sixteen hundred seventeen hundred pounds but like I'd never spent that much

04:33money in my life so I was like touring in a punk band at the time eating dollar menu and it was just

04:38every penny I'd ever saved in my life buying this guitar because I knew that that was going to be like

04:43the last tour playing that's like style of music because um I like I grew up playing metal punk

04:51and rock like rock music basically and joining bands like that playing warp tour we like toured around

04:57South America Russia Europe UK US um but I I got so into like different artists and very like

05:05strat heavy artists whether it was like Zac Brown Band or John Mayer um like singer-songwriters Ben Howard like

05:12a bunch of artists like that and I knew I wanted to make music more in that lane because I'd kind

05:18of uh I'd done years of touring in the alternative scene I loved it so much but just wanted to try

05:23something else so a strat caster with like single coils is the ultimate in terms of that world like a

05:31real departure from the kind of Seymour Duncan invaders uh that I was kind of using before in different

05:39guitars like that so this was really like uh going down a different fork in the road for me

05:44and um I remember everything about like when I went into the shop to play this guitar I fell in

05:50love with it and got it uh I didn't buy it then and there I had to go to sleep and think about it

05:56wake up in the morning couldn't stop thinking about it and then I got it delivered to the house I was

06:00staying just before my flight so it literally turned up took it out the cardboard box got on the

06:04fly and um yeah it's still it's still one of my favorite guitars I've got another strat at home

06:09which is a dale wilson like master built which is still really nice but this is a bit darker because

06:14of uh because of the fingerboard here it just adds a little more weight to the sound so a lot better for

06:19touring and also you don't want to bring a 10 grand guitar like dale wilson out with you on the road

06:23um this is expensive enough to be honest but um it's so nice I've had such a connection with this

06:30guitar I wouldn't change a thing on this it's like it's it's actually a team built custom shop

06:35strat so there's been a lot of love and care gone into every bit of the setup the pickup choices um

06:42everything so yeah like this for me it's perfect uh the tape isn't perfect but the way I play every

06:49now and then I'll just like nudge this and because of the setup I'm using which I'll talk to you in a

06:54bit like it's super sensitive with any volume adjustment on the guitar like it takes it takes

07:00the guts out of it if you move it and like a tiny bit so that's why I have this ugly tape

07:05but on it I should come up with something else I was going to take the volume pot off um but I

07:10don't want to lose it so basically this lives on the neck pickup it sounds great in the other

07:15configurations but to be honest man when I'm playing just by myself and singing this is where I want

07:20this guitar to live and the neck pickup on this is just particularly gorgeous anyway I don't know

07:26if this is on uh we'll get it turned on in a bit but um yeah tone controls all the way up volume all

07:31the way up uh always have a whammy bar on usually if if I'm at home again I don't I didn't bring it

07:38because I don't want to lose it on tour but usually have an ashtray cover over this mainly because I

07:42think it looks sick but um I quite like playing with those uh because where where I palm mute it doesn't

07:49get in the way but um they do ping off quite easily and I want to keep all the original parts

07:54with this guitar because yeah naturally you don't want to lose them tuning is just absolute standard

07:59um elixirs which has actually just been restrung and reset up uh this is actually a surf green guitar

08:07it had the on the tag at chicago music exchange it said it was seafoam green but it actually isn't

08:13um we looked into it a bit further and it's tough but I love the relic job on it so cool where you can

08:20see just this highlighting here and there's a really nice bit right here see that it's like these

08:25three scratch marks basically like but it's just the paint and it's a nitro finish so you get all this

08:32cracking on the finish and stuff like that so it's not like a relic job in the sort of aggressive nature

08:39of a dale wilson guitar but I love this I love having like best of both worlds right cool so

08:45this is what I'm using on the road at the moment super simple this is actually my first time touring

08:51solo with a quad cortex um so I'm kind of getting used to them but the idea was to well put it this

08:59way the rehearsal and prep time before this tour for me was so short because we had so many like things

09:06to do for the next single uh album we like just announced a wembley show so it was hectic

09:12before I left so I basically had four hours to program this and I tried to model my um my twin

09:20reverb at home which is a silver face drip edge twin which is for me it's the ultimate twin reverb

09:26from the 60s all original and it just sounds insane but I couldn't figure out how to do it properly

09:33and the the modeling like when I tried to model it what I got back it didn't have the same like

09:39impulse response or anything like that so what I did is found a preset on the on the cloud uh for

09:46this which is actually modeling a deluxe reverb and it sounded pretty nice it sounded quite close to me

09:50and then I just found um people modeling pedals that I use in my chain so my chain if I had a proper

09:58pedal board here and an amp it would start with um like an 1176 style compressor think like a cali

10:05like uh compressor uh into an ep booster but all the way down so I don't actually use really anything

10:12in terms of gain it's just going through the circuit which is enough um and then that goes into

10:18a seat yeah so I've put an ep booster here like a fake one essentially say fake I guess it's modeled

10:26from somewhere so I've tried to recreate my board then it goes into a color box so I found someone

10:32it doesn't sound exactly like a color box if I'm honest because there's so many uh kind of um

10:39minute details into how I'd set a color box pedal at home but this is kind of close um then it go

10:47into a one for euphoria and again I'm doing the best I can to make it sound like mine at home

10:52and then I go into uh a blues driver I couldn't find a blues driver um uh replication on here so

11:02I've got a blues breaker but to be honest I don't think I ever use it because it just pushes too much

11:07and when I find when I push these pedals like gain wires and this is definitely like because I don't

11:14know how to use these probably yet people are so good at these and I'm not but um I find the way I'm

11:19doing at the moment it just introduces this a very digital top end which I don't like um so then

11:25I'm going into a poly octava uh I'd use a pog2 at home but I get something kind of similar on this

11:32and that's not always on but I use it a lot and then into a vibrato I'd use one of the wazercrafts

11:40uh wazercraft I know how you say it um custom uh boss vibratos at home proper mac de marco style

11:47like very slow rate and medium to high depth uh I don't use it all the time but on the right songs

11:54it's just gorgeous uh tremolo's on pretty much for the whole set I use a uh what do I use at home

12:03I've seen this pedal every day of my life I can't remember who makes it um but anyway a trem's a trem

12:09to be honest most of the time I use the trem circuit on the actual twin because it's lovely

12:13um and then yeah this is a 65 deluxe amp um model I'm using uh then a delay I'm using a mono tape delay

12:25which is basically like eighth notes sync to temp so I've got all my tempos set for every song

12:31um quite a lot of sort of modulation in the repeats I use a space echo at home so I've got like that unit

12:39set up on top of my amp and again you can't really get that exact feel but it's quite close

12:45I also um try and recreate settings I have on carbon copy here uh which to be honest I probably should

12:53have just bought which I've got on here but I like it self-oscillating right to the point of like too

12:59much so you know all that sort of stuff um again really hard to to fake that without the actual pedal

13:07so many I can't even get that out of um like different delay pedals the carbon copy just

13:14absolutely nails it it's one of my favorites and then I've got a dotted eighth delay which I sometimes

13:21chuck on it's the same settings as the uh the eighth delay I just kind of chuck that on just if I want

13:27a little bit more movement uh reverse so at home I just use uh I say at home in my studio if I've got

13:35my amp out which I never I never bring my twin reverb out but if I had a twin reverb I'm always using

13:41a small circuit on there probably sitting around four uh the magic spot I like um and then I would

13:50stack that with reverb pedals so think like a big sky or sometimes a holy grail um I like like adding a big

14:01wash verb at the end of the chain to be a holy grail uh and that's usually I dime that about

14:08like 11 10 between 10 11 o'clock um and yeah that is basically it uh I know that these things

14:19can be amazing but this is the first time touring with a quad I also like in the studio at home I use

14:26an axe effects some again sometimes if I need to just dial in something very quick but for the most

14:32part man a 57 an arroyo in front of my twin reverb with that pedal board chain that I've just mentioned

14:39um other pedals that would be in there would be a shallow water um for like this weird kind of uh

14:48unconventional vibrato and also a timeline and a mobius um I'm trying to think anything else I've

14:57got on that board um uh fuzz factory z-vex I use sometimes and uh a big muff and that's that's

15:08about it and the last thing I use sometimes I bring it out on tour I didn't on this run because I wanted

15:13to keep it just super simple is a chroma console um they're just amazing but to be honest my favorite

15:18way to use chroma consoles is di-ing them in fact when I record guitars now most of the time um di-ing

15:25them I'm just going through a phase where I love the sound of a di so chucking it straight into a tg2

15:29uh channel strip absolutely cooking it on the way in through a chroma console as well and I love doing

15:37that with baritone guitars but actually going further than baritone guitars like bass sixes

15:42I love at the moment or rubber bridge guitars going into a chroma into a tg2 getting absolutely

15:48fried and that's my favorite guitar at the moment um yeah let's talk about mics so this is and let me

15:56get this model for you this is a 965 so this is sennheiser's condenser version essentially of this

16:03mic a 935 um usually to be honest I have two 945s that have gone missing and

16:12we found these in the units I don't know where they came from but they're spares I love the 945s

16:18over these but again they're spares um in case this goes down and this can sometimes be

16:24too harsh you need to spend time in soundcheck just taming some of the high end um but condenser

16:30mic's good because just get a little bit more power um and ability to sing away from the mic

16:35which I like to do in little ad-libs and atmospheric bits in the set um and it's great just like being

16:42right up on the grill as well it can take it thank you so much for checking out uh this very small

16:47amount of gear that I've got with me I appreciate it so lovely to see you again man um yeah my name's

16:53Sam Ryder uh check out our new single OOK coming out 23rd of May um album comes out later in the fall

17:01uh we've just announced the show at Wembley Arena in London later in the year to coincide with the

17:05album release which is berserk uh first saw Sum 41 at that venue that was my first ever show so it's

17:12amazing that we're like getting to that level man I'm so grateful thank you it's blowing my mind

17:17we've got Glastonbury uh in the summer in the UK if you want to come and join us there and uh other

17:24things I can't remember but bless you take care of yourselves and I'll see you soon peace love you bye

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