00:00I usually only go up to 3. I know that, you know, it doesn't go up to 11 or anything.
00:04I am not playing many songs where I need this at all, and this is...
00:09The Electro Voice in D96.
00:12Couldn't have said it better myself.
00:40What's going on? My name is Matt. I am lead singer for Somersault.
00:45Currently we are on the Reside tour throughout the U.S.
00:49New record Reside, and yeah, we're having a lot of fun.
00:52So this is my first electric guitar that I ever got,
00:56and it stuck with me throughout all my other electric guitars.
01:00So this is a, yeah, it's a Fender Telecaster right here.
01:04Originally it was white on white, and this was the first thing I bought.
01:08I thought it looked like a, you know, a fried egg.
01:11It's got the pick marks. I haven't changed any pickups or anything.
01:16It's really just how it came other than, you know, little accessories.
01:20Like I changed the black knobs because I thought it looked cooler with, you know,
01:26the bridge pickup.
01:28So I changed that stuff.
01:30But all the hardware inside is all the same.
01:33The strings are standard tuning.
01:35They are D'Addario strings, NYXL, 11 gauge.
01:40And they are, it's like the purple and black pack.
01:44I like to use those.
01:45If I can't use those, I'll use the just regular D'Addario strings that are 11.
01:52And that's, yeah, that's the strings.
01:54As far as the knobs, I have it just all the way turned up most of the time.
01:59And if I am playing leads where I want to, you know, I'll do that.
02:04Or, you know, with the tone, if I'm playing something that I want to be,
02:08when I record, I'll use, I'll turn the tone down.
02:11But for live shows, I always leave the tone knob up.
02:14And I always leave it in the neck pickup.
02:18Except for when we play our rock songs, I'll switch it to bridge pickup.
02:22Yeah.
02:23And I don't really ever use that.
02:25You know, it's either or.
02:28Those two.
02:29Yeah, I like this, the Tele, because I feel like it's just,
02:32the less things I have to think about, the better.
02:34Yeah, so this is a backup guitar.
02:37This was custom.
02:40Custom made.
02:41Same exact thing.
02:43I don't really, it was so long ago, so I forget who made this.
02:49Because it was through a friend.
02:52But it was a custom made guitar.
02:54And it's essentially just like a Telecaster.
02:57A single coil, you know.
03:01Got the neck and bridge pickup.
03:03Then, it's missing a little bit, things here.
03:06But I, you know, do the same.
03:08It's pretty much the exact same thing with my Tele.
03:10I'll play it the exact same way.
03:12The only other thing is I found this Thunderbird,
03:15and I didn't have a logo, so I made my own logo.
03:18Sometimes I change things.
03:20But for this tour, I have my polytune,
03:25because I just like to strum all my strings,
03:28and see all the tune, you know, all the strings,
03:30and what needs tuning right away.
03:32And then I can, you know, dial it in each string if I need to.
03:36This is called Quintessence, and I just started using this.
03:40It's a harmonizing pedal, and so you can change the key,
03:45and the scale that you want to harmonize.
03:48If you want to do a third or a fifth harmony,
03:50or some weird stuff.
03:52It can do a lot of things.
03:54So I use this in some solos.
03:56It's really good for songwriting.
03:58This is my distortion overdrive.
04:00When I use, when I'm doing leads,
04:03I will just always hit that.
04:05It just gives a little bit of boost.
04:07I don't really use it for anything, you know,
04:08to do any distortion or anything like that.
04:11More just overdrive.
04:13This is called a choka, and it's a tremolo.
04:16I am not playing many songs where I need this at all.
04:20But I do have a lot in other tours where I've used this for tremolo leads.
04:26I use this as the same TC electronic, but this one is the vibrato.
04:32This is called Tailspin.
04:35I use this a good amount, maybe on three or four songs where I want a warble effect.
04:41But it's very slight.
04:42I don't do anything crazy with the rate or the depth.
04:46It's all just really, really slight.
04:47So just to kind of give a little warble feeling.
04:51This is the Carbon Copy MXR Analog Delay.
04:55I do this in most of my leads just to give a slapback delay.
04:58I never do full-on delay parts.
05:00Only for tidal waves, but we're not playing that song.
05:03I usually just like slapback delay, so that's what I use for that.
05:09And the last one is if I do any surf leads that I want that kind of wet spring reverb
05:16sound,
05:16I use this Topanga reverb pedal.
05:21And that's pretty much it for my pedal board.
05:23So for my amp, I use a Deluxe Reverb amp.
05:28I think I've always used that.
05:30And that's mostly, except for Sequoia Moon, this would be the amp that we record with.
05:39When I'm playing live shows, I usually only go up to three.
05:43I know that, you know, it doesn't go up to 11 or anything.
05:47But yeah, I usually just go right up to three.
05:50And I don't like a lot of treble in my guitar.
05:53And this only has treble bass, so I have the bass kind of high, treble a little low.
05:59Very slight reverb, always.
06:02And I don't really use the vibrato since I have more control up front.
06:07And that's that.
06:07And then the other thing custom-wise is for every tour, I always change.
06:12We all always change the color of the grate in the front.
06:17For this tour, it's green to match the back.
06:21I usually never go above 0.7 millimeter.
06:26That's kind of what I like.
06:28And I really like the Dunlop, the ones that have the grip on it, or the gator picks.
06:35The ones that have, they kind of look like they have a little bit of like a grain to them
06:41or something.
06:42I don't like nylon, like the nylon like picks or anything slippery.
06:46I like things that have, they feel like they have grip.
06:48So that's what I'll use.
06:50I don't like anything lower than a 0.5 unless I'm doing some like acoustic strumming.
06:57Oh yeah, for this tour, I'm doing a harmonica.
07:01I was given this holder when I was 18, 19 from a friend that I went to college with.
07:09And this harmonica is only, I'm using this in this tour specifically on Can't Give It Up.
07:15Honestly, I'm so not savvy in the tech world with mics.
07:24I know the mics I use at home.
07:26But this is Robbie, our engineer, and he uses these mics on our caps.
07:33Alright, so this mic is a Sennheiser 906.
07:38And then this one right here is my vocal mic for live shows.
07:42And this is?
07:43Yeah, let your voice in D96.
07:47Couldn't have said it better myself.
07:49Yeah, so once again, my name is Matt.
07:51We are Somersault.
07:53We just came out with a new record, Reside.
07:55You can find it pretty much any streaming place.
08:00So if you want to check us out, our website, we have somersault.band.
08:06And our Instagram is underscore summer underscore salt underscore.
08:10And yeah, so check us out.
08:14So check us out.
08:14Bye.
08:16Bye.
08:16Bye.
08:18Bye.
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