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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”, Jack Simmons, vocalist/guitarist 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, Real Estate.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Squier Telecaster-style Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/envM2g Fender CD-60 Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DW0gmq Fender JMJ Road Worn Mustang Bass - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jRX34a ISP Technologies Decimator Noise Reduction Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/k4g3vv Wampler Tumnus Overdrive Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/aNRmzQ Boss CH-1 Super Chorus Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Jkb0AN Universal Audio UAFX Starlight Echo Station Delay Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/oNR3vY Universal Audio UAFX OX Stomp Dynamic Speaker Emulator - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/0GQ75L Hologram Electronics Chroma Console Multi-Effect Processor - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/R0Pjdy Line 6 HX Stomp XL Amp and Effects Processor - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4a5DnG Fender Deluxe Reverb Guitar Amplifier - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NGBDyN Third Man Hardware Triplegraph Octave Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/7Xer0O Novation Launchkey MIDI Keyboard Controller - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6y3x73 Ernie Ball Paradigm 10–46 Electric Guitar Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QYPrdz Dunlop Tortex 0.73 mm Yellow Guitar Picks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/X4yA9M Telefunken M80 Dynamic Vocal Microphone - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/oNR36Y Universal Audio UAFX Dream ’65 Reverb Amplifier Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/WOXaQn  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 TikTok - https://tiktok.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 00:48 Guitars 03:21 Pedalboard 06:10 Amp 06:52 Microphone 07:59 Keyboard  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 yea

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00:00We just try to keep it as dead as possible. We don't really love a super

00:04bright sounding acoustic. Coming out of this mic, I'm going into the Troika, which

00:08is something we added on to my rig recently. I'm mostly hitting up here.

00:12That's typically my world.

00:39Hey, I'm Jack. I play in a band called Little Image, and this is my rig rundown. For starters,

00:45this is my main guitar I'm playing on this tour. This is actually just a Squire. It has

00:53fake, custom shop stuff on the neck, but me and Brandon actually found this thing at

01:00a local place in Dallas for like 300 bucks, and we put some really good electronics and

01:06pickups in it, and you know, it's just a nice little guitar that we can throw around and

01:11not worry about, you know, messing up. So I use the pickups we put in this thing. They're

01:18very similar to like a Lawler type pickup, hand-wound pickups. Brandon found some from

01:24this smaller company. I can't remember the name. I use 10-gauge strings, Ernie Ball, Paradigms,

01:33love them. I pretty much rock the bridge pickup at all times and just have, you know, full volume

01:41for driving moments and I cut volume for to get cleaner tones, but tones all the way up

01:48at all times and yeah, I love this thing man. It's great. Tuning is just, I just rock standard

01:54tuning pretty much all the time. I capo sometimes for a couple jams and yeah, but just standard

02:02tuning. We are only playing this on one song on this tour, but this is my trusty old acoustic

02:09that Fender sent us and it's just a, you know, one of their basic line acoustics. We love it.

02:16Gets the job done. We use like just as old strings on it. Oldest we can find, the better.

02:25We've had these on for a couple years. We just try to keep it as dead as possible. We don't

02:29really

02:29love a super bright sounding acoustic, but yeah, this thing's great. It's just a nice affordable

02:36Fender acoustic and we love it. It's great. Right here we have this Mustang bass. It's the

02:43JMJ Fender bass and this is actually Brandon's. I'm just using it for kind of one moment. We run this

02:52through my guitar rig and it's just a fun little jam moment on this new song that we're trying out

02:58on

02:59this tour. But we love it. I, you know, pretty basic setup here. Just the one pickup setting and,

03:06but I keep all the settings just, you know, pretty, pretty standard, just on everything on. And then

03:13I throw some drive and some, some sauce on it, you know. Yeah. So pedal board, we're coming into this

03:20decimator. It's just a, in my opinion, the best noise gate that you can get into the Tumnus,

03:27which is my main overdrive that I'm rocking. Uh, and then I believe we actually jump over to the

03:34chorus from that, uh, which is just a boss super chorus. I'll pop this on for certain moments. Uh,

03:43this is, I've done a lot of research on chorus pedals and I've tried out a bunch of them and

03:49this

03:49is my favorite one that I found. Uh, I like that you can change the EQ on it and the

03:55effect level

03:55and the depth. It's, it's just really nice. Um, and we're coming out of that into the starlight,

04:03which is the, uh, UAD, uh, starlight. It's a, just a delay. It's really cool. I use the tape

04:10emulation on it a lot. Um, cause it just, it sounds amazing. It's like basically an echoplex,

04:16which is one of my favorite delays of all time. Um, and then we go from that into the

04:22Chroma console, which I was using the Chroma console a little bit more for fuzz and drive,

04:28but it's just a little too squishy. I feel like for the live setting. Um, so I'm basically, I'm,

04:34you know, it's a little overkill, but I'm using it just as a verb on this tour. Um, and then

04:40coming

04:40out of that, we're going into the Helix and I'm using this as my, um, kind of my main amp

04:47rig going

04:47to the house. Uh, and then going from that, I have a few effects here just to drive a reverb

04:53chorus

04:54and a delay that are just kind of standard effects that I'll click on here and there. And then we're

04:59going out of that as the amp sim into the aux stomp, which is in my opinion, the best cab

05:06simulation

05:06you can get, um, for amp rigs. I think it's just amazing. We love it. It's Brandon showed it to

05:15me recently and it's just been my secret sauce. I love it. No cab simulation here, just amp simulation

05:21coming out of this. And then all the cab simulation is coming from this guy. Yes. So we're, we're rocking

05:26an AC30 type amp on this guy. Um, I was running like a more, like a deluxe type amp for

05:33a little bit.

05:34Uh, I feel like the AC30 cuts a little bit better for the, the style that we're, we're going for.

05:40Um,

05:41so yeah, we, we switched it back to the AC30, nothing like a telly and an AC30. It's just a

05:46perfect,

05:47it's a match made in heaven. If you, if you ask me, I love it. So from there, we're going

05:52out of the

05:53aux. So we have a, we have a signal going, uh, from one side of the aux box to the

06:00house, um, as the main

06:03house amp sound. And then the second out is coming to my deluxe reverb over here. And this is, uh,

06:12I'm

06:12sure, you know, we tried to use no stage amps for a little bit just to try the, the sim

06:21thing, you

06:22know, full on. And we really missed a stage volume. So we got these bad boys and we love them.

06:28They're

06:28just great. We have the, a different dial in setting on these than what's going through the

06:32helix. So we actually have a send, uh, a blank send going from the helix to that, uh, B side

06:40of

06:41the aux stomp sending out to here. So we can dial in a totally different tone here from the helix.

06:47Um, so that there's not any weird, you know, over compression going to the amp. This is

06:51the mic I use. It's, um, it's taken quite a few tumbles. Uh, so we have it taped up right

06:57now, but this is the de facto by DPA. Um, you know, pretty staple mic. I think a lot of

07:03people use this mic and it's, in my opinion, I've tried a lot of mics and this is just the

07:08best one that I've found for my voice. Love it. I have an effects mic here that we have just

07:12a lot of, uh, vocal effects running through. This thing's seen better days. It's, this

07:17is an old Telefunken M80. Uh, I think we've had this thing kind of since we started the band,

07:22but we've been slamming that thing left and right. Um, coming out of this mic, I'm going

07:28into the Troika, which is something we added onto my rig recently. And this is just a, a vocal

07:34delay thing that, um, Jack White's company, uh, Third Man Records made. And it's honestly,

07:42we've, we saw the video for it and that, that day we, we were in Nashville rehearsing and

07:46we called the store and they were like, we have one in stock. So we went and grabbed it

07:50and I've always wanted to have some sort of delay vocal thing for my rig. And, um, yeah,

07:57we just have it sitting on my keyboard here. This is my keyboard. I, I kind of do mostly sampling

08:02from this thing. I'm not much of a synth player myself. Uh, I kind of just pretend for the most

08:08part, I can play the parts, but never really known how to play piano, never learned. So

08:14I'm mostly hitting up here. That's typically my world, but, um, every once in a while I'll

08:19hit a little, I hit a little something. Picks of choice. I use the 70.73 millimeter yellow

08:27Dunlop Tortex picks. I rocked a couple different sizes. I used to use the orange ones for a little

08:32bit, but I've always just kind of come back to the yellows for some reason. Just feels right.

08:36It's the perfect weight for how I play and I love it. Uh, you can check us out on Instagram.

08:41It's just at little image at little image is pretty much for everything else as well. Uh,

08:46you can check out our website for any tour dates we have coming up little image music.com.

08:51And this is an honor to do this. We've always wanted to do this and we love gear and we're

08:55just happy to be here. So thank y'all for having us.

09:01We've always wanted to do this. We've always wanted to do this. We've always wanted to do this.

09:03We've always wanted to do this. We've always wanted to do this.

09:04We've always wanted to do this. We've always wanted to do this.

09:04We've always wanted to do this. We've always wanted to do this. We've always wanted to do this.

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