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On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Marc Finn, drummer of the surf punk band, The Frights, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on the Ready When You Are Tour with Flycatcher, Remo Drive, Liily, and Buddha Trixie. The Frights is currently supporting their newest album, Ready When You Are.
PLAY THE SAME GEAR:
C&C Custom Drum Kit (20" x 13" Kick Drum, 13" x 8" Rack Tom, 16" x 15" Floor Tom) - https://www.candcdrumsusa.com/
Supraphonic-style Snare Drum (14" x 5.5") - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/yZZ6ZW
Remo Controlled Sound Drumheads - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/MKKdKo
Remo Emperor Drumheads - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/KBBdB9
Evans EMAD Clear Bass Drumhead - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/m44y41
Paiste 2002 Ride (20") Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/L00d0Y
Paiste 2002 Ride (22") Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/xJJ6Jv
Paiste Masters Thin Ride (20") Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DWWdWd
Paiste Giant Beat Hi-Hats (13") Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/9VVdV3
Innovative Percussion 3A Drumsticks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rEENE3
Innovative Percussion 9A Drumsticks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/5kk0kN
VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - November 8, 2025
Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL
KEEP UP WITH THE FRIGHTS:
Facebook - https://facebook.com/frightsband
Instagram - https://instagram.com/thefrights
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VIDEO SUMMARY:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Skip Intro
01:10 Drum Kit
07:45 Cymbals
10:05 Drumsticks
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 meaning and inspiration behind the clothing artists wear during their performances.
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Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch
On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Marc Finn, drummer of the surf punk band, The Frights, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on the Ready When You Are Tour with Flycatcher, Remo Drive, Liily, and Buddha Trixie. The Frights is currently supporting their newest album, Ready When You Are.
PLAY THE SAME GEAR:
C&C Custom Drum Kit (20" x 13" Kick Drum, 13" x 8" Rack Tom, 16" x 15" Floor Tom) - https://www.candcdrumsusa.com/
Supraphonic-style Snare Drum (14" x 5.5") - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/yZZ6ZW
Remo Controlled Sound Drumheads - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/MKKdKo
Remo Emperor Drumheads - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/KBBdB9
Evans EMAD Clear Bass Drumhead - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/m44y41
Paiste 2002 Ride (20") Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/L00d0Y
Paiste 2002 Ride (22") Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/xJJ6Jv
Paiste Masters Thin Ride (20") Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DWWdWd
Paiste Giant Beat Hi-Hats (13") Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/9VVdV3
Innovative Percussion 3A Drumsticks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rEENE3
Innovative Percussion 9A Drumsticks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/5kk0kN
VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - November 8, 2025
Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL
KEEP UP WITH THE FRIGHTS:
Facebook - https://facebook.com/frightsband
Instagram - https://instagram.com/thefrights
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
01:10 Drum Kit
07:45 Cymbals
10:05 Drumsticks
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 meaning and inspiration behind the clothing artists wear during their performances.
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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00:00Like, memento shirts in here. This is the shirt from a college improv group I was in, which is still
00:05in here.
00:06The snare is, to be honest with you, a complete piece of shit.
00:09I'm finding that I think a single ply head sound a little better when you've broken them in.
00:39Hi, I'm Mark. I play drums in The Frights. We just put out our sixth studio album, Ready When You
00:47Are, this year.
00:48I really, really loved playing on it. Love this record. We are currently on tour for it. It's been great
00:54so far.
00:55I hope you will come slash have been to one of those shows. This is the kit that I used
01:02parts of it on the record,
01:04but this has been my touring kit for a couple of years. So, let's see. This is a custom CNC
01:11kit.
01:12Before I talk about that, I'll just say what size this is. It's a pretty small kick. It's a 20
01:17-inch width, but only a 13-inch depth.
01:22So, yeah, pretty shallow. I don't think it makes for a good rehearsal kit because it doesn't, it's not very
01:28deep.
01:29It's not very, like, you know, it won't project a lot, but I really like how it sounds mic'd up.
01:35And obviously, it's lighter, which is great for everybody who has to help me carry this.
01:40And, yeah, the floor tom is a little more conventional. It's 16 by 15, 16-inch width by 15-inch
01:46depth.
01:46The rack tom is 13 inches wide, which I love, but I think only about 8 inches, yeah, 8 inches
01:54deep.
01:55And I do wish it was slightly better. I think that's the only thing size-wise I would change on
02:00this
02:00because I just really like getting, being able to get deeper tones from longer drums more so.
02:06So, I have to tune this thing pretty low and then with the heads and stuff like that, that could
02:11be problematic.
02:11But, it's the perfect width for me and just, it just, the placement feels right.
02:16Yeah, this is my favorite kit I've ever had.
02:20The story was we had to, we were doing two different tours, two support tours,
02:24one on the West Coast, one on the East Coast with a very short travel time.
02:27So, there wasn't a way for us to travel with the kit I had.
02:30So, we had to rent some gear.
02:31Tour manager at the time was like, hey, I got a friend. He's got a CNC kit.
02:34And I'm like, yeah, cool. I see that. I see that brand a lot with some, with a lot of
02:38bands I like.
02:39Yeah, let's go for it. I was like, small kick drum, but whatever.
02:41And like, literally the first time I get, I play this thing was on stage at Marathon Music Works,
02:47a venue in Nashville, kind of like a low, wide, like, boomy room, which kind of helped it.
02:51And I don't know, man, like, I just fell in love with it immediately.
02:53And it was a smaller kit than what I had at the time.
02:56And so, I just, I don't think I would have taken the leap to try some of like, you know,
03:00this,
03:01if I didn't have that experience, I think.
03:03So, I really lucked out.
03:04And so, we finished that run.
03:06I emailed the guy who we, who I borrowed it from.
03:09I was like, hey, like, what are the dimensions?
03:11And he's like, it's like a custom thing I ordered.
03:13Do you, like, do you want to buy it?
03:14And I'm like, yeah.
03:15So, I bought this off of him.
03:17So, yeah, you can, you can replicate it with the sizes I mentioned, like, like pretty well.
03:22But I just, I love this thing so much.
03:24It's become my favorite, like, touring kit.
03:26And yeah, I use it, I use it sometimes in the studio.
03:29The snare is, to be honest with you, a complete piece of shit.
03:31But I love, I just, I started going with like, superphonic knockoffs starting just, I don't know when,
03:43maybe like 2016, 2017 when I started like, you know, being able to take a backup snare.
03:47And I just bought one for cheap.
03:48I remember this now from a music shop in Santa Cruz.
03:53And this one in particular is called a super light.
03:55It's a standard size.
03:57It's like five and a half depth and then 14 inches wide.
04:01So, yeah, I mean, I just, I, I, I am constantly fiddling with the tension of, of the snare more
04:09than anything else.
04:09And so, I just kind of like, I control it a little bit with muffling.
04:12And I use two-ply heads on everything just to part, partly, probably because of that factor.
04:19And partly just because on snare it just serves me best.
04:21But, yeah, so it's kind of, it's kind of a piece of shit.
04:23And I think you can coax the right tone from the snare with like, degrees of muffling and how much
04:30you crank it more than anything else.
04:31So, yeah.
04:32So, I like, I like two-ply heads.
04:35Um, but I'm finding that, uh, I'm finding that I think a single-ply heads sound when you, sound a
04:42little better when you've broken them in.
04:43Because, I don't know, um, when I crank my two-ply heads, like, you get, you get a lower, quicker
04:49tone.
04:50Which means, like, not a lot, not as much muffling.
04:52Like, this is not a lot of muffling for me.
04:54It's just a couple of horrible things of tape.
04:57Um, so in that sense, like, out of the box, you're getting a better, like, a more controlled tone.
05:01Which I kind of, like, mic'd up, um, and you get, like, you know, quote-unquote more durability.
05:06Um, but, yeah, you know, I think, I don't think you can go wrong again.
05:10I think other factors kind of, like, are at play more when you're dealing with, like, that sort of thing.
05:15Um, but, yeah, these are remote-controlled sounds, uh, right here and here.
05:18I just, I like them.
05:20I like, I've used this a lot lately.
05:22And I just, like, had to swap this one out the other night.
05:24Because the other one I had got a big old dent in it.
05:27So, yeah, this is a, uh, uh, emperor that I had from the studio, I think.
05:31I've been, you know, we did a record, uh, two records ago where we kind of worked with a lot
05:36of muffling and a lot of very focused tones.
05:40Um, and it was just, it was so, it was so wonderful.
05:42And I think it was a little too nice because I started to try to, like, control that a little
05:47bit.
05:47And so when we opened the tones back up for this record, um, uh, with, uh, just, just, just talking
05:54about what the guys were hearing in the control room.
05:55And then with, uh, Christian Cummings, our engineer, what he was hearing, and he's a drummer, he was like, yo,
06:00let's go for some, like, let's, let's do some tone matching.
06:02Let's open it up a bit.
06:03Let's take the muffling off and let's go.
06:05And I was like, you know, yeah, like, you know, a lot of that stuff kind of, like, it's another
06:09problem with, like, hearing something here, which is just going to be naturally very different from what's actually out there.
06:13So you just got to trust other people.
06:15But, um, I, I still like to muffle the snare a little bit.
06:20Too ringy means I don't get a lot of articulation, so I'll always have something like that.
06:24And then otherwise it's cranked, I'd say, like, like, a turn and a half of the key below, like, piccolo
06:31snare strength, if, if, if you guys know what that is, to, like, just, like, cranked all the way, like,
06:36pingy hardcore stuff.
06:37Like, it's not like that, but it's, it's, it's pretty cranked.
06:40Cranked and muffled gets kind of, like, where I want to be.
06:43So snares are kind of, like, mid, midway loose.
06:45This is a, this is an Evans E-Mad head, uh, with the dot, it's clear.
06:50Um, I don't, I don't know.
06:52I, I actually do really like the muffling rings.
06:54I really do.
06:54Like, like, the stock ones, just, like, I, we just put them in, they, they work, they're great.
06:59And then inside, I usually have, like, a couple of t-shirts worth.
07:03Actually, it's funny, there's a couple of, like, like, memento shirts in here.
07:08This is the shirt from a college improv group I was in, which is, which is still in here.
07:14But it's been in there for years.
07:16Um, a couple of bands I like.
07:19Uh, sorry, I just realized I messed up, messed up the microphone.
07:21Um, but, uh, yeah, I, I put a little bit in there.
07:24Not too much, because this kick drum's pretty tiny.
07:26So, um, I think if you have a big, beefy kick drum, I like a lot of muffling.
07:30I, I, I do.
07:31Then, I don't know.
07:32It kind of goes to the rim a little, a little bit better.
07:35Yeah, I have been really, uh, really lucky to be working with Paiste, or, or, you know,
07:39like, using their stuff for a couple, for a few years.
07:41And I, uh, when we're doing this, previously before this record, when we were doing this
07:48live, or when we were playing live, I think I only had this, a 2002 ride, and I kind of
07:53stuck away from that sort of, like, clear, really loud tone with my crashes and stuff.
07:59But I kind of just doubled up, and that's what we did for this record.
08:02And I, and I, I, or at least when we were practicing, and I think we did swap out some
08:09darker crashes for a few of the songs, um, like, like this one, which this is, I love
08:14this, I love this cymbal, especially at low volume.
08:16Um, and I use it kind of as an auxiliary crash, which I really shouldn't do live.
08:20Um, it's a great, great, great, great studio crash when you use it properly, which I'm not
08:24doing.
08:25And so, we basically brought it back to, you know, two, one, slightly higher pitched rides
08:32for my stuff, and people think, sometimes people really think that's crazy.
08:36But I just, I, I do, I, I really like the low wash I can get when I don't use
08:41a lot of
08:41tip, when we have wood tips.
08:42And I think the mistake people make with these is they don't play with wood tips, because
08:46then it's, like, unbearable, like, it's too trembly and stuff.
08:48So, I, and they're just absolute workhorses.
08:51Like, this, this thing survived a touring, like, like, six or seven years of touring.
08:55Like, yeah, I finally had to replace it, like, maybe a year and a half ago.
08:58Um, so, yeah, you, you will get the most bang for your buck, but it's, it's, you're driving
09:04a race car with these things, like, they can get so loud so quickly.
09:07Um, but if you treat them like crash cymbals and, like, go edge first, so you really have
09:12to hit them hard to get articulation.
09:15I don't know, it's, it's, it's kind of nice.
09:17And then these are giant beat hi-hats.
09:19Uh, the only giant beats that I really like, because I, I just think their crashes are
09:23too wobbly, um, as hi-hats, they're just, uh, they're kind of high-pitched and clicky,
09:29but, like, quick on it, kind of not quite the pinginess of these.
09:33Um, yeah, they're not, yeah, I, uh, I might switch up, do some warmer stuff, some bigger
09:38stuff, um, like 15-inch hats.
09:40I love those 15-inch, uh, um, uh, Masters series are, are fantastic.
09:44Um, and, yeah, I think, uh, yeah, that's, yeah, that's kind of what I, what I rock with mostly
09:50at home and out of the world, yeah.
09:52These are 13-inch, uh, Piestee Giant Beat hi-hats, uh, Piestee 2002 regular 20-inch ride,
09:58Piestee 20, 2002 22-inch regular ride, and a Piestee Masters thin 20-inch ride.
10:05I love these guys, um, Innovative Percussion, company out of Nashville.
10:10I used to use the Vader Fatback 3As, um, which are the ones you can kind of, I don't know
10:16if they make that specific line anymore, but that's what I use, the, the weight and the
10:19size of those Vader Fatback 3As, they were incredible.
10:22Um, I had to, I had to search for them on eBay, uh, I think after they stopped making them
10:27for a little bit.
10:28Uh, these are the closest thing to those that I have found, and they're honestly better.
10:32They're lighter and they're more durable.
10:34Um, Innovative Percussion 9A and, excuse me, 3A.
10:39Um, yeah, I, I love these, or, sorry, one of those was a 9A stick.
10:46Here we go, yeah, the 3A.
10:47Um, they're both pretty, they're both, like, the same weight.
10:50One has a bit of a bigger tip, and the other one is just kind of a smaller, small tip
10:54like
10:55that, yeah.
10:55Um, I sometimes will flip these ones around.
10:58Um, yeah, these are just my favorite sticks.
11:01I don't think I'm ever using anything else.
11:02Uh, yeah, uh, come out to, come out to one of these shows.
11:06It's, uh, we, we put a lot of, we put a lot of effort into this, and it's been super
11:12fun
11:12to just, to be doing this and, and get that.
11:15So, it's a, it's a great time.
11:16And, uh, I'm, I'm stoked to be here to, to, like, get to work with this stuff and these
11:20guys every day.
11:21And, and it's just, uh, yeah, please come to these shows.
11:24They're super fun.
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