PeelingFlesh’s Mychal Soto - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 595 - 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”, Mychal Soto, guitarist of the slam band, PeelingFlesh, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on tour with Lorna Shore, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Shadow of Intent. PeelingFlesh is currently supporting their newest album, PF Radio 2.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Ibanez RGR52-ET 6-String Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/EEmM52 Ibanez RGA21PB 6-String Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/RGBM4N Ibanez RGRT-BB21 28″ Baritone 6-String Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/yq0Xn3 Evertune Bridge - https://www.evertune.com Fishman Fluence Modern Pickups - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LKVMzM Solar Guitars 6-String Guitar - https://www.solar-guitars.com Dunlop 7-String Guitar Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/POXM2e Dunlop Guitar Picks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/kOer7L Gator Mini Vault R2 Guitar Case - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/POX7j6 Gator Mini Vault Case - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/o41YRg Fractal Audio Axe-Fx II Guitar Processor - https://www.fractalaudio.com/p-axe-fx-ii-preamp-fx-processor/ EVH 5150III 50-watt EL34 Tube Head - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/mOAYRD Vader 4×12 Guitar Speaker Cabinets - https://www.facebook.com/p/Vader-Cabinets-Inc-official-100057865800888/ Behringer Digital Stageboxes - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Oeg7RA Midas M32C 40-channel Digital Rackmount Mixer - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LKV7Xa Furman Power Conditioner - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/kOeY0M  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - October 23, 2025 Location - The Salt Shed in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH PEELINGFLESH: Facebook - https://facebook.com/peelingfleshok Instagram - https://instagram.com/peelingfleshok Twitter - https://twitter.com/peelingfleshok  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 00:38 Skip Intro 02:12 Guitars 09:49 Cable Management 11:13 Rack 14:10 Amps & Cabinets  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, MGK, Papa Roach, AJR, Pierce The Veil, Simple Plan, A Day to Remember, 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, "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage, and "Stage Threads" dives into the meani

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00:00really really like Ivan is you know what I mean this makes everything so much

00:04faster when you have all this stuff to get on stage and get off stage I could

00:07run off stage grab this thing put it on and the Everton will make sure I'm in

00:10tune no matter when it was the last time I touched it

00:30and we're back this is Soto for peeling flesh we hire at the salt shed with Lorna

00:46Shore black Dahlia murder and shadow of intent who are all our friends in case

00:50you wanted to know they are some of our favorite people so y'all guys remember

00:56our last year rundown some things have changed we've got some endorsements we've

01:00got completely gear upgrade and I did want to go a little bit more in depth on

01:06how all of this even ties together we touched on pieces but we're only talking

01:10about a piece of the machine so we'll start with guitars so last time we had

01:15BC rich guitars which were awesome this is something that like we bought with our

01:19touring money but me and Jason have both been Ibanez fans since the time we

01:25started playing guitar you can go to a pawn shop and pick up an Ibanez Gio for

01:28$99 throw a sick pickup in it and it just sounds awesome so a lot of appealing

01:34songs were written on an Ibanez RG from a pawn shop so when we got approached by

01:38Ibanez our friend Tyler actually our friend Adrian from all show parish

01:43introduced us to our friend Tyler from Ibanez and he immediately said yes we know

01:47exactly who you are let's get some guitars in your hands so we have two

01:51tunings drop a and drop f we used to use the pitch pedals to pitch down but we

01:58decided that it sounded a little bit more clearer by actually tuning that far

02:02down because that's what we would do on a official recording of an album or an EP

02:06or a song is we would actually tune that way so for the drop a stuff I'll start

02:12with mine because me and Jason got different guitars for our drop a stuff

02:15this one is mine that was given to me by my friend Tyler and Ibanez this is a

02:21brand new model of Ibanez I it is called the RGR 52 ET this kicks ass has the

02:31Evertoon which after starting this tour and all of our friends on this tour being

02:36friends with all the big people in the industry they were introducing us to

02:39their friends and Evertoon reached out and said we would love to have you on your

02:43on our artist roster on top of that we were in New England and met Ken from

02:48Fishman pickups and he said those are my pickups you got your guitar and said I'd

02:52love to have you guys on our artist so he put us on and so now me and Jason are

02:57both Fishman artists and I am an Evertoon artist but this this is how this

03:03guitar comes equipped I'm pretty sure this comes black I put a gold one in it

03:07that it comes with gold pickups I put the gold knobs and the gold button on it I

03:12also put the old-school Ibanez check like a check mark logo that they used to do

03:18back in the day because I love the old classic Ibanez's that had the the the

03:24fish the fin inlays and the Nike chin Meshuggah had that back in the 90s and I

03:31loved it so when I got this I'll put one of those on the Fishman modern pick a

03:35Fishman moderns just balls to the wall fucking they really do the job whenever

03:42it comes to like trying to make extremely a high gain tone I do love EMGs but

03:48Fishman's really just give it just a little bit more for my tone that I was I

03:53was using a tube streamer for so this thing kicks in tone knob is completely

03:58disconnected no need for it volume knob and switch is the only thing that works

04:02this is a I think a different option for something but I just think I just have

04:07it disconnected I really just need to not accidentally hit my tone knob so I

04:13just need my volume on full my switch on my switch on we don't use the neck pickup

04:18very or at all so this one is mine and I absolutely love this guitar I do love the

04:26BC riches don't get me wrong they are very high quality but these Ibanez's are

04:31awesome it's a little heavier than I like but so are the BC riches but uh same

04:36strings we're still using Dunlop strings Dunlop picks same pick same strings that

04:41we had before the only difference is now we buy when we order pick when we order

04:47strings from Dunlop we order a seven string pack so it has an extra 74 for the

04:55drop F guitars so that way we just have a tire box full of strings and depending on

05:01what guitar we're putting it on we either do away with the 13 or we do away

05:04with the 74 but it works for both of them so if you find a pack randomly in a

05:08box somewhere and you need an emergency set of strings you'll know it works so

05:13this is for the drop a stuff for me this one is Jason's dropping tar this is also a

05:19brand new model this one is called the RGA 21 P 1 P B yeah it did come with the

05:31Marzio pickups we immediately put Fishman's in them I mean the day that it

05:35showed up I pulled everything out immediately put Fishman's in this thing

05:40and immediately tracked a song off of our new album that's going to come out next

05:44here like we were we were super excited to get these guitars so let's look at

05:51them the sunlight look at that I would have Jason out here right now but he's

05:59asleep because he's been up playing lowrider comeback all night building cars

06:04okay so we'll start with Jason's drop F guitar we both have the same guitar this is

06:11another brand new model from Ibanez this is the RGRT BB 21 so this is 28 inch

06:20scale this is the the stock Ibanez bridge but we same thing immediately pulled the

06:25DiMarzio's out and put Fishman's in it one volume one knob did away with the tone

06:31knob shout out Tyler and Tyler's people from Ibanez because they did this for us

06:35and when they got the guitars first set them up perfectly and then sent them to us

06:41this this is neck through and I keep the tunings on here because uh that's a lot

06:47of alphabet to try to remember

06:52but this is his drop F guitar so the difference between his and mine look at

07:02this shiny piece of shit look at this yeah this is the same guitar that he has the

07:08only difference is I attempted to route it for an Evertoon and did okay alright

07:14I'll do I'll take 95% of a homemade routing job where the piece of wood flew

07:19out but this thing kicks ass this is drop F Evertoon Fishman's I mean long

07:27scale the neck is a little bit thicker so it's a little bit easier to hold

07:30something this long but this thing right here is shiny my friend my friend Casey

07:39Foster in Oklahoma City at a place called Zenith Industries he does he does raps

07:46window tint he's a really good friend of mine that I'm known from working in body

07:49shops together we had this idea to gold wrap a guitar and when I got the

07:55endorsement the first thing I did was texted him and said it's time to gold

07:59wrap a guitar so he immediately ordered the gold wrap as soon as the guitar

08:04showed up I stripped it down took it straight to him and we laughed and giggle and

08:08made this thing gold and I put a chrome logo on it on the top it's it's it's a

08:14little dirty right now because I haven't had a chance to really clean it up yet but

08:17it's absolutely love these guitars love I've been really really like Ivan is you

08:26know what I mean I've had this since I was 21 so and then the cases so the same

08:32two blue gator cases that we had that we had from the last one but this is a new

08:36one that they came out with this is really really cool date I just got this one

08:41right before the tour because we still have our two backups one is going to be

08:45see rich schedules but also for the drop f stuff if we need something I have

08:50this backup it's a solar fantastic guitar with an Everton so that way if

08:55something happens I could run off stage grab this thing put it on and the

08:59Everton will make sure I'm in tune no matter when it was the last time I

09:02touched it insane shout out Everton this lives in the case never gets tuned but if

09:09something happens and I switch to it it's in tune

09:12that's a testament right there and then the same BC Richmond from from the last

09:18one that's just a backup for drop a but it's they live in these cases and they

09:24have yet to have to have to come out yet I haven't had to do anything with them

09:30but if I do need them they are just as great as the last time I picked one so

09:36moving on from guitars because there's no bass all right let's move to we touched on

09:44this a little bit on how all of this stuff works we've made some changes me and

09:50Joey got together and had this idea of creating looms so we created so we made

09:54two looms one for the front of the stage and one limb for specifically drums where

10:01everything starts is from my axe effects to his axe effects and to the bass rig

10:08these will be on my side of the stage it's just one loom it's got a MIDI cable

10:17which will connect into my axe effects the DI cable for the bass the bass output

10:24from the axe effects and stage right guitar which would be Jason's guitar all

10:28on one loop this makes everything so much faster when you have all this stuff

10:33to get on stage and get off stage off of one loop on one side is this where it

10:38plugs into our stage box here

10:42which plugs in right here into its little slot right here where the green tape is

10:47that way we know which one it is and on this other side

10:52this is what goes to Jason's side of the stage which is super simple

10:58the cable for the axe effects for the bass DI blue for bass orange for stage

11:04right and Jason's MIDI cable you unplug this you pull the entire thing you have

11:09all your cables off stage those all go to the box

11:15go here which this on this side so the reason why this is so big is because

11:22technically we only need this but we need this for our front of house in the US

11:27now this looks scary let's not think about any of that this is just us this is what we

11:36hear in our headphones this is our mic inputs the stuff coming from the stage all goes into these

11:41mic splits down here and comes from here up here if we didn't have a front of house that needed all

11:47this stuff that we would just go straight from the stage right into this box super

11:51simple like if we go to Europe that's how we will run it but in the US it's a lot

11:56easier to keep this safe in a big case so this bottom half right here is all mic

12:02splits one input goes in two inputs come out they either go here or they go here

12:09this is for our front of house man his name is Nolan this goes to his Behringer

12:14wing on at front of house and this one right here it goes

12:23right to right Midas M32C super small super compact super powerful and it's it's

12:31very compact in a way that you can build a giant rig from which is very important

12:38when you have to fly on an airplane this all needs to be the most compact version

12:43that you can get it so that is our mixer that is our mixer that sends a very good

12:51stereo mix to me and Jason and a good stereo mix to Joey it sounds like a CD in

12:57our headphones there's click barely there and mine and Jason's so that way it

13:01sounds more like the live show in our headphones Joey's headphones have a click

13:05blasting they have a kick blasting that's all he needs that's all he wants he

13:10wants it super loud that's what he gets that one's his this was mine and Jason's

13:14and these two right here are just for backup something happens we're in a pinch we

13:19can immediately swap packs turn this one on in the middle of a show within 10

13:24seconds we can swap if anything happens but fingers crossed we haven't ran into that

13:30which this is all guitar and bass world when it plugs into here D's vocals plug in

13:38here my vocals plug in here D takes care of all the vocals vocal stuff before and

13:44after the show so that way I don't have to worry about that part I just focus on

13:47bass and guitars but that is how all of this runs to one cable one input right here

13:55we get on stage and we get off and nothing changed as far as the axe effects

14:01head cabs except the only difference with these cabs now I did the thing I was

14:09talking about and I put the v30s in the bottom cab but this time I put four v30s

14:14but I left the two eminence here both of them running in four ohms chunky so this one's my

14:21rig this is my side both identicals Jason's mine it's a saint completely set up

14:26yet

14:29not much has changed from the last rig rundown if you want a more in-depth

14:33how all that ran I'll start I'll just do an easy part from here XLR goes to the

14:40stage box it's the same for his MIDI cable from the split going to MIDI cable to the

14:45other side now this is something that was really smart on our part we zip tied all of

14:51the power pieces that we need to the head so we don't lose them in the cable

14:56case or we don't lose them and accidentally drop them at a venue because

14:59if you don't have one of these you're asking somebody to borrow some stuff but

15:03these uh these speaker cables are really special to me because a friend of ours

15:08here in Chicago his name is DeLon he hand makes our speaker cables for us and I

15:15have had these for maybe a year and a half two years literally have never ran

15:22into an issue the other ones I only have two so Jason has to suffer I've replaced

15:31these twice in the time that I've had these I've replaced these twice and I can't

15:38wait to get more so that way I won't have to keep replacing these but um EVH 5153 EL34

15:46Axe FX AX8 Vader cabs 2212 eminent speakers for v30s same thing for both of them

15:56carbon base cab oh shit we got gifted something from Seymour Duncan this is this

16:07isn't it because it's not in here yet I have to get the rack ears for it but our

16:11friend Wes from Black Dahlia Murder introduced us to the guys at Seymour

16:14Duncan and they brought us a present they bought us a brand new Seymour Duncan

16:20prototype power stage bass amp and as soon as we get home we're immediately taking

16:25this thing out and putting that in and we're gonna start rebuilding some more tones

16:29but this is all still the same from the last one

16:33Axe FX 2 just fantastic for bass tone we don't even really need this or this if we

16:39wanted to we could go straight to front of house with this like if we go to

16:41Europe we won't bring a bass rig we'll just bring this put this in with this

16:47rack and then that's just our bass tone for Europe which a lot of the stuff is

16:52going to still be the same in Europe except for we won't have calves we will

16:55have amps everything will basically be down this that in these cases somehow so

17:04that's basically everything from front of stage that's everything me that I've

17:09worked on for our in-ear monitoring rack to guitars the bass the guitar is

17:13everything this is this is our fastest way of getting on stage shout out

17:18everton because on this tour I have had the best tuning stability I've ever had

17:27tuning consistency tuning consistency I've ever had on this tour because everton

17:34shout out Fishman for making some of the best pickups because they've really

17:39really separated our tones from everybody else's of how gnarly you can get and big

17:46thank you to Ibanez shout out Tyler and Ibanez because me and Jason never

17:53thought that getting an Ibanez endorsement was even something that was

17:56possible and starting the conversation it was almost like they were waiting for

18:01us and that that feels really good to some Oklahoma boys that really thought we

18:06wasn't going to make it out of here shout out Lorna Shore for being one of the

18:10best biggest bands on the planet Black Dahlia thank you so much because y'all

18:15guys have really accepted us as if we were just all local band friends together

18:18and everybody in shadow of intent for sharing green rooms with us and just

18:25laughing and hanging out and sharing food and sharing stories and this entire tour

18:30package this we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for everybody else here and we are

18:36entirely appreciative of everybody and gear masters and digital tour bus and just

18:43making friends on tour it's been one of the best experiences of our life

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