little image’s Brandon Walters - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 602 - 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”, Brandon Walters, the bassist/guitarist/keyboardist of the alternative pop band, little image, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on tour with The Academy Is. little image is currently supporting their newest single, COME SAIL AWAY.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Fender Precision/Jazz PJ Bass Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6y013N Aguilar PJ pickups - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Z6nm7k High mass bridge - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Xm0r7g DR Fat-Beams Bass Strings (45–105) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/YREjMR Fender Jazz Bass - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6y3xjr Fender Noiseless pickups - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/o4mGYm Fender Player Series Telecaster - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/3J6RQB EverTune bridge - https://www.evertune.com/ Lollar El Rayo Humbucker Pickup - https://www.lollarguitars.com/lollar-humbucker-pickups/el-rayo-humbucker Lollar Special T Single-Coil Pickup - https://www.lollarguitars.com/tele-special-bridge Behringer Ultra Chorus UC200 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6y3x4G Fender Bassman Compressor Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/2abg4Q Wampler Tumnus Overdrive - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vPG0Aj Vertex Preamp - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/N91ej2 Benson Preamp - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/yqJOVW Mr. Black Supermoon Reverb - https://www.mrblackpedals.com/products/supermoon MXR Dyna Comp Compressor - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/K0aPQ9 Line 6 HX Stomp - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/7aRDYQ Electro-Harmonix Oceans 11 Reverb - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LKA59Y Strymon Flint V2 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/xLVm1v IK Multimedia ToneX Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QjZGk3 Fender Bassman 800 Hybrid Bass Head - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jex5q0 Fender Tone Master Deluxe Reverb - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/552q4N Ableton Live - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vPG00N Apple Macbook Pro - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/2abg2G Behringer Pro-1 analog synth - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rak05v  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - November 17, 2025 Location -SPACE in Evanston, IL  KEEP UP WITH LITTLE IMAGE: Facebook - https://facebook.com/littleimage Instagram - https://instagram.com/littleimage Twitter - https://twitter.com/LittleImageTX  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 00:58 Guitars & Basses 06:08 Pedalboard 13:46 Amp & Cabinet 14:47 Synth/Keyboard/Electronics

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00:00I set it up to where it's just a normal guitar so I rock a little bit of foam in

00:06here this is sort of the heart of both guitar and bass tone and I set up around

00:12it because I love it so much

00:30hi I'm Brandon I play bass and guitar and keys for little image and this is my

00:46rig I guess we'll start here play mostly bass so I'll start with this one I play

00:53this for most of the set so a little PJ got Aguilar pickups in it sounds really

01:03nice and fat I rock a little bit of foam in here so I installed this kind of high

01:09mass bridge and have the foam just kind of allows me to dig in a lot without

01:16losing it too much and it still stays nice and tight but I also do a lot of palm

01:21muting even over the foam so I would say most of the time I'm palm muting so that

01:28just helps a little bit I kind of rock this at about 25% of the jazz pickup so

01:35it's mostly the P sound and then just barely cut a little bit on here and

01:40that's the tones pretty much all the way up for the most part so I'm going standard

01:45tuning strings are 45 to 105 and I think these are fat beams on this one and then

01:54we have this guy we got fender noiseless pickups pretty much standard I rock

02:04pretty much everything up all the way maybe I sometimes will dip this down just

02:08a little bit yeah this isn't really a backup this is sort of like a the set

02:13sort of takes a different turn and this one is just a little bit more raw so I got

02:18no foam in it we're just wide open and strings the same strings on there the 45 to

02:25105 fat beams and we're just getting a lot of really nice gritty sounds out of the

02:31jazz bass whereas the P is a little bit more like scoop not scooped the P feels a

02:37little more it's got a little more body this has more scoop and so this cuts through in

02:44a bit of a different way with a little more overdrive yeah so start the set on this just

02:50because a lot of the stuff I'm doing on there is a little tighter so like we have a new song that

02:57we've been doing called strange friends it's just a little more tighter a little more pocketed

03:01and then a lot of the last part of the set is just a lot of open I get I dig in a lot and you kind

03:09of want it to sound unhinged so that's just how it works out this time I'm not really like going to

03:14this then that and then back it's really just kind of set just works perfectly yeah guitar this one's a

03:21little interesting so this is it's got an everton bridge on this and it's kind of like the new cool

03:29thing so this was completely routed out so you you don't usually see a backplate on a telly long story

03:36short has six individual springs that keep each string offset on the tension so you can set these

03:45up a couple different ways I set it up to where it's just a normal guitar so it bends but you can

03:55kind of go crazy if you want to the other thing is that this is great for being on the road conditions

04:03are always pretty wild you go from really cold to really hot and everything so this just allows you

04:09to uh allows you to stay in tune you did hear it drop a little bit so you can set it up to where

04:18this is just the way it rocks and it will not no matter how much you bend out it will not uh change

04:30pitch uh from tension just whenever you're going up I don't have it set up that way but it's pretty sick

04:38so uh yeah I've got a couple different things happening here so these are this is a Lawler

04:43Eldorado humbucker and this is a Lawler specialty and then I have the coil split so a lot of times

04:54if I need to have a little more clarity and a little less output pull that and then I roll the tone

05:02down a little bit if I'm just using it in split coil mode um but I've found I mean it's a really

05:10great humbucker I'm not doing anything in this set with just the humbucker um but what's really

05:15special and I feel like where this continually shines is humbucker plus specialty so you could

05:22pull that and go dual single coils it'd sound more telly um but this just gives like it cuts

05:27through really well but also has like a lot of punch and kind of I feel like there's a lot of

05:33power I think this is a Fender player too but I uh I kind of like all my guitars to feel a little

05:41just really old if possible so I'll always do like this one I think came with rolled frets but I rolled

05:47them way more I sprayed nitro over it and uh tried to make it feel like it's been around for a really

05:55long time even though it hasn't uh but yeah I love this thing it's absolutely been solid out here so

06:03yeah this is where pretty much everything is coming from and I play bass and guitar so

06:11it's set up kind of in a weird way so basically what we have is

06:18HX is sort of the routing brain of everything so I don't you can see I've got outputs up here

06:27I've got outputs on the side um I've got an input from the bass synth over there so everything is just

06:35being routed through this essentially and I have basically made it to where I'm using this more as

06:42a brain for routing and some effects so I'm not really doing much amp sim in this

06:48uh so I'll try to break it down I go in to the fuzz that's what we hit first that way

06:57uh that doesn't get weird sometimes if you put a drive before a fuzz it changes the way the fuzz works

07:04because your impedance changes so I have that first this uh a buddy of mine Adam made this uh so

07:12there's two really cool fuzz circuits on this this one's really gated and this one is just

07:19super aggressive you can see I have the the uh foot stomp cover thing on this one I mostly use the left

07:27side which um it's just a bit more of an aggressive fuzz thing so we go from here the fuzz into

07:36this Behringer ultra chorus you can get these for like 20 bucks on reverb this is my favorite chorus

07:44I've tried a few of them I really like subtle choruses you can even go stereo out if you choose

07:51but I'm not just keep it at mono so I go from here into this basement comp really nice uh kind of

07:59newish pedal from fender it's really sticky and if I have anything that I want to keep it really tight

08:09but give it a little bit of a boost I have this set up to basically be a boost um that doesn't get

08:16away from you and then this is another uh kind of rehoused pedal made by another friend of mine this

08:22is uh like a modded tube screamer and then a rat on this side um I really just use the rat

08:30the tube screamers it's always been a little difficult to figure out how to use a tube screamer

08:35in my rig especially playing bass um but it's there if I ever need it and then going from there to

08:42a tumness which is like a clon thing I love this this has been on my board since the early days

08:49um it's just a great circuit it does cut a little bit of bass so I only would really really use the

08:56tumness uh for guitar and then interestingly enough we go from like the drives and the fuzzes into a

09:04preamp so we're already a little backwards uh but this is a really great uh pedal by

09:12vertex it has like the dumbbell circuit and then it's got a little bit of uh it's hard to describe

09:24it kind of acts as compression and you can see I have like the cleans all the way up almost

09:31and it just does something really special where it brings out some of the sweetness without

09:39bringing up the volume so for drive stacking that's really awesome because you can sort of

09:46bring up just enough of a certain frequency with compression and it just makes it sound a little

09:52more alive which I'm always down for and then this is sort of the bread and butter I always have the

09:58Benson preamp on it's great for bass and guitar uh bass is usually just at around 50 percent

10:06uh I was just messing with all these pedals because I was having a little bit of a grounding

10:11problem uh but yeah but basically we're just 50 percent uh on bass and treble and have a little

10:20bit of drive going but this is sort of the heart of both guitar and bass tone and I set up around it

10:26because I love it so much it's essentially a Benson chimera circuit um that I'm pretty sure they're using

10:33like fets instead of tubes uh to achieve a similar thing so and then we go into a supermoon which is

10:43this is a modded supermoon it's like a special edition and it's even crazier than the original

10:49mr. black supermoon just like way more sway and I have the sway turned down all the way because it's

10:55already too much at zero but it's really cool and then I have that going into a dyna comp so it's

11:04basically dyna comp always stays on as well these two uh I set up completely around that and it gives

11:12it a nice alive sort of tube feels just in the pedals before we even get into like an amp sim I feel

11:18like there's a lot of control just in the rolling the volume up and down which I am I'm always kind

11:24of like nursing the volume uh throughout just to use that as the main expression point so then we go

11:36into HX and then for bass it ends here so I have like a bass DI uh preset on here and within HX it's split

11:48off and so I have another drive going and then I blend the drive back into the bass DI so that's the

11:56the bass thing but for guitar we come right back out of the HX and we go into the Oceans 11 and I

12:02basically have this set up to be uh like a roomy cab sim kind of thing so I have the time all the way

12:11down effects levels like you know 40 percent and then tones basically ducked on the hall setting

12:17and it just makes in your ears it just feels like you're you're playing a mic'd amp in the room

12:24and then from there going to the Flint this is the V2 uh I love this reverb it's my favorite reverb

12:31that I've found um the tremolo is also really sick um and then we go from here into the tonex

12:39and the tonex is the amp sim and I simulated a 59 basement that I have at home and um it's crazy

12:49how good it sounds like compared to the actual amp I love it I think that these are the future in many

12:58ways uh it's crazy how much it's doing it's just small package um used to have to do the kemper

13:05you know the the rack unit with the with the thing and this already sounds better than any of the

13:12other amp sims that I've tried um but I it's a clean channel I bet all my stuff is is really

13:19the tone and then I just set it up to have a clean amp um but this does a really good job of of like

13:28squishing and actually feeling tubey um and so that's it and then that's what runs to the house

13:35so everything is running to the house from the board I have a couple of different outs going into

13:41this like io thing and these outs go to the amps that I have back here and this is really just for

13:49us this is for the front row this is to take your ear out and it sounds awesome uh this is a basement

13:55800 it's a hybrid amp so there are tubes uh just in the pre section but not the power section so

14:02you pick this up and it's like really nice um and then same here this is a tone master deluxe reverb

14:10so you pick this up also really nice um and again these are really just for for us and for the people

14:19that found their way to the front row uh and they sound really great um it really is just like I

14:26would use this as the sound other than we do a lot of fly shows and you just never know what you're

14:32going to get sometimes um it's it's really up to just whoever sorts you on back line and we've had

14:38some various different things that have shown up and we're like all right that's going to be

14:43interesting tonight and so this sort of helps alleviate that problem um but it i can just say

14:51it just sounds awesome in the room we love these amps lastly keys um i'll make this pretty simple

14:59we do everything vsts vst plugins and so um we use a lot of arturia synths and um you know i think

15:11i think there's like one song we use ableton synth on but it's it's really all just in the box

15:16and all that runs through one network cable which makes my life very easy you know you don't have

15:23to do the di box quad thing and figure all that out this is just really easy and it sounds awesome

15:31and so we run it on the same computer that we run tracks on and it changes by itself with every song

15:37so that took a lot off my plate uh burden wise i'm not having to think about it i just walk up

15:44and play it it's already on the right patch and then uh that's it for keys but then bass synth is

15:52like a lot of time there's a few songs where i don't have the low end covered on bass but i have

15:59it covered here and naturally it runs through the bass rig so we go uh pro one which is a modded

16:10thing so this has different filters in it so it's a behringer pro one but had it modded so it's got

16:16different filters i wish i remembered what the filters are in it i don't it's a really long time

16:21but these are running into kind of a multi-effects unit down here um just a you know cheap affordable

16:30amazon thing which we love uh it's got an octave pre i've never used the pre the octave i do use

16:38it's got a really cool fuzz and a compressor compressor and uh really the fuzz and the octave

16:46are the like quick fun tools to like mess with um but this just sounds really cool with this filter

16:54going into a fuzz and it breaks up in a cool way and then i can send that into here with more stuff

17:00going on on hx which a couple songs i do have it going into other things then that goes into the

17:09bass amp so that you never lose stage body which is great uh well that's it for me that's

17:16pretty much the rig there's a lot of things going a lot of ways we have like ins and outs

17:21like mixing each other uh but we set it up every night always sounds great so

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