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On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Leah Levinson, bassist/vocalist of the black metal band, Agriculture, shows off the gear that she uses onstage, while on tour with Knoll. Agriculture is currently supporting their newest album, The Spiritual Sound.
PLAY THE SAME GEAR:
Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay 5-String Bass - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/n4R2NX
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 5-String Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/bkDmGk
Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vDNn23
Ibanez Pentatone Gate Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NGQ6z2
Electro-Harmonix Switchblade Pro Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/m4X2z1
MXR Poly Blue Octave Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QYN6J3
Electro-Harmonix Green Russian Big Muff Pi Fuzz Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Pzr6KQ
Catalinbread Katzenkönig Fuzz Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/k4aozd
Electro-Harmonix Canyon Delay Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Gb0ZnL
Old Blood Noise Endeavors Haunt Fuzz Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/VOb6ZE
Keeley Bassist Limiting Amplifier Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/JkLmJE
Darkglass Microtubes B7K Preamp Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/X4LXdg
Genz-Benz Shuttle 6.0 Bass Amp Head - https://guitar-center.pxf.io/oNXyzm
SWR Henry the 8x8 Bass Cabinet - https://guitar-center.pxf.io/WO6G6X
VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - February 4, 2026
Location - Empty Bottle in Chicago, IL
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VIDEO SUMMARY:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Skip Intro
00:59 Bass Guitar
03:53 Pedalboard
11:59 Amp & Cabinet
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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On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Leah Levinson, bassist/vocalist of the black metal band, Agriculture, shows off the gear that she uses onstage, while on tour with Knoll. Agriculture is currently supporting their newest album, The Spiritual Sound.
PLAY THE SAME GEAR:
Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay 5-String Bass - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/n4R2NX
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 5-String Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/bkDmGk
Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vDNn23
Ibanez Pentatone Gate Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NGQ6z2
Electro-Harmonix Switchblade Pro Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/m4X2z1
MXR Poly Blue Octave Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QYN6J3
Electro-Harmonix Green Russian Big Muff Pi Fuzz Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Pzr6KQ
Catalinbread Katzenkönig Fuzz Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/k4aozd
Electro-Harmonix Canyon Delay Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Gb0ZnL
Old Blood Noise Endeavors Haunt Fuzz Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/VOb6ZE
Keeley Bassist Limiting Amplifier Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/JkLmJE
Darkglass Microtubes B7K Preamp Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/X4LXdg
Genz-Benz Shuttle 6.0 Bass Amp Head - https://guitar-center.pxf.io/oNXyzm
SWR Henry the 8x8 Bass Cabinet - https://guitar-center.pxf.io/WO6G6X
VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - February 4, 2026
Location - Empty Bottle in Chicago, IL
KEEP UP WITH AGRICULTURE:
Facebook - https://facebook.com/agriculturemusic
Instagram - https://instagram.com/agriculture_music
TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@agriculture_blackmetal
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Agriculture666
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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
00:59 Bass Guitar
03:53 Pedalboard
11:59 Amp & Cabinet
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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00:00The active EQ on this is so insanely powerful. It becomes like a little bit
00:06incomprehensible where the actual note is sitting. It's actually like so
00:09powerful and light that I usually just keep it on the floor.
00:38Hey, what's up? This is Leah Levinson from Agriculture, bassist and vocalist, and I'm going to show you what I
00:45play on the road.
00:46We're on tour through the Midwest and East Coast right now promoting our record The Spiritual Sound.
00:52We're out on the road with Noel, and yeah, this is what I play when we're on our tour.
00:58I've been playing a Music Man Stingray as of last year from Ernie Ball.
01:04I really love this bass. I used to play an Ibanez Sound Gear 5 string, which was my bass for
01:12a long time.
01:13Super clean studio sound, but I tried this one out and I really fell in love with it.
01:20And the thing that makes the difference about this Stingray is it has the dual humbuckers,
01:26and that's been really important for me because I tend to like a little bit of a rounder sound that
01:33I can get from the neck pickup.
01:36And it has five switch positions to go between these two pickups.
01:42So there's the center which uses both, and that's what I'm on most of the time.
01:47And it gives me a little bit of that like classic Stingray sound that's kind of the chimey attack when
01:54I play with my pick.
01:57But I also like this position, which is the second from the neck, and that's giving me just these.
02:05So it's sort of simulating a middle pickup there, and that's softening that attack a bit.
02:11So I changed between those for different songs basically.
02:16And yeah, I've got the five string, the Ernie Ball regular Slinky five string pack.
02:25And yeah, and I'm using stock pickups on this.
02:29And what I really love also about this bass is it is active.
02:34So it has active EQ, treble, mid, and bass.
02:39And the active EQ on this is so insanely powerful.
02:44Like the boost it gives to each of those is kind of more than you could ever want,
02:49which gives you like so much range and lets me do a lot with my sound.
02:55I do a lot with feedback throughout the set.
02:58I do a lot of different sounds and different songs where I might want to boost the bass
03:03or cut the bass to get more mid-range feedback.
03:06Or turn up the treble to get like really bright articulation that cuts through my distortion.
03:13And I'll get into how I do that once we go to the pedals.
03:17But yeah, I've found that the EQ on this bass is just really awesome.
03:22So love that part of it.
03:23And yeah, I just play my bass in standard for five strings.
03:28So it's B-E-A-D-G.
03:31And I'm pretty much there throughout the set.
03:34While the guitars move all around in different tunings, I get to just hang tight in standard.
03:40So yeah.
03:41Alright, so here's my bass pedal board.
03:45I've got a lot going on here, so I'll try to walk you through it.
03:49I go straight into a Boss Chromatic Tuner, the 2-3.
03:55I use that as a mute switch as well.
03:59From there I go into this Ibanez Pentatone Gate, which I really love.
04:07This does a four cable system where it's getting the articulation directly from the tuner.
04:18But it's not gating until after I go through my whole distortion chain.
04:22So what that allows me is like, if I have, I can have my gate on, I can have really,
04:30really high gain distortion.
04:34And even if I just touch a note, this is always going to be set at the right threshold.
04:40So that it cuts through with any volume touch and then it cuts out as soon as I'm done playing.
04:46Because it's always monitoring the clean signal and then affecting after the distortion.
04:52So, from there I go to this switchblade, which is electroharmonics.
04:58And I use this to switch between and blend two different distortion chains with my clean signal as well.
05:10So the reason I do that is because the clean signal gives me a clean low end unaffected and also
05:19a clean articulation unaffected.
05:21So when I play with my fuzz, I'm still getting the sound of the pick on the string and I'm
05:27still getting the clarity of a low bassy note.
05:31And so, that's sending to two separate distortion chains.
05:36One is this over here.
05:39That's my A chain and it's based around the Big Muff sound.
05:44This is the Big Muff Russian reissue from Electroharmonics.
05:48I really love it.
05:50I used to play a Big Muff pie and then I tried one of these and it's just a really
05:56like gutsy, heavy drive fuzz.
06:00And before I go to the Big Muff though, I have this MXR Poly Blue Octave.
06:06And the Big Muff is basically always on for this chain.
06:12This I switch on and off and what this is doing is giving me a sub octave and a little
06:21bit of an octave below that even.
06:24And then a little bit of two octaves up.
06:27And all of that is going into the Big Muff which it just gives it, it's like a roaring sound.
06:39You're not getting the clarity of those different octaves because it's all going into the fuzz.
06:44But it becomes like a little bit incomprehensible where the actual note is sitting.
06:52And because I'm blending in the dry signal, I can kind of get away with that.
06:59So that's the distortion A chain.
07:02The B chain is this carbide distortion from Catlin bread.
07:06And this is basically modeled after the Swedish Chainsaw sound.
07:13That's a HM2 with all the knobs turned fully up.
07:19It's a super high mid sort of sounds like factory machinery grinding away basically.
07:28And yeah, what they did is they basically made that sound the basis for this pedal.
07:35And then they added a dry blend, which is great for bassists because you can do what I was talking
07:42about here, but just with this pedal.
07:45So it's the dry blend, the wet blend, and then it has this sort of emphasis where you can kind
07:51of tweak where that mid range is sitting.
07:54But that's just a sound I really love, the Swedish Chainsaw.
07:58And I will use that again with the clean signal or blend it in with the octave fuzz pedal.
08:08So I can use basically both distortion chains and that clean signal at once, which I will do throughout the
08:15set.
08:17So after all of that, it goes back to the Ibanez Pentatone gate.
08:22So then it's gated.
08:24And from there I go to my time based effects, which are all just the Canyon delay.
08:31This is also electro harmonics.
08:34I love this pedal.
08:35It has like a ridiculous amount of different effects and settings on it.
08:43I mostly in our current set use just like I can set it and forget it with a tape delay
08:50it has.
08:51But I've also in the past I've used it as my octave pedal because it has an octave delay and
08:57you can just set the timing all the way down.
09:00And it's actually really effective, really great tracking just to use as an octave pedal that way.
09:08So highly recommend that.
09:12After that, I have this Old Blood Noise Endeavors Haunt Fuzz, I believe it's called.
09:19Yeah, Haunt.
09:21This is a cool fuzz pedal I got.
09:23I wanted something to put at the end of my effects chain to that I could just kind of like
09:29hit on and get a little bit more gain and distortion in case I want to do some gnarly feedback
09:38or noise stuff.
09:40So I use that on occasion throughout a set and I put that after the delay so I can like
09:47if I'm doing a feedback thing I can sort of get really out of control where the delay is even
09:54fighting with my input signal.
09:58And then from there I go to my compressor which is a Keeley bassist limiting amplifier.
10:08I have that set so it's mostly hitting the threshold when I do have my distortion on and it cleans
10:17up everything that's going on and kind of helps me know that like I'm gonna have an even signal no
10:25matter where my distortion is set or which combination of effects I'm using.
10:29I get that clean signal and that the articulation isn't going to be too out of control and too bright
10:37because I do have that coming through clean.
10:41And then very last thing is the dark glass microtubes b7k and this is just a preamp that I use
10:51always on and it's kind of just cleaning up my signal.
10:58It's adding a little bit of distortion at the end of the chain and kind of giving me what I
11:03like to think of as the like ampeg sound.
11:06I've always liked ampeg amps and they have this like very extreme sort of scooped sound where you can really
11:17emphasize the bass and the treble with the like bright switch and the high-low switches.
11:23So I kind of think that's what I get out of this it makes it so like even if I'm
11:29borrowing an amp head or anything I can kind of get that sound going in and get that sound going
11:37straight to the board because we'll do a DI out of my pedal board as well as a mic on
11:44the speaker cabinet.
11:46So yeah so we go from the pedal board to a DI which we don't have set up yet but
11:54the DI goes out to the PA and we also use the DI for the monitors so we're not getting
11:59too much rumble in the monitors.
12:01We just get the crunch and the articulation of my bass.
12:07And then for touring I'm using this Gensbens Shuttle 6.
12:15This is an amp that Richard our guitarist turned me on to.
12:20He played in his band NR, experimental metal band.
12:26The bassist of that band was using Gensbens Shuttle 6 and when we were looking for a solution for TOR
12:32Richard thought of this.
12:35It's an incredibly powerful amp and like incredibly light.
12:41It's actually like so powerful and light that I usually just keep it on the floor because it will dance
12:49itself off of the speaker cabinet like its output is that strong and it's like really low weight.
12:55So it's great for touring.
12:57It sounds great on every cab I've played it on.
13:03And it also has this sort of scoop feature.
13:07I'll turn the lights off there but I usually do these all on and that gives me that sort of
13:14ampeg sound I was talking about.
13:16And it has a tube preamp as well which you can drive to get a little bit of distortion but
13:23I already have so much distortion on the chain I'm not really using it in that way.
13:30But yeah and then from there a lot of times I'm renting or borrowing cabs on TOR so there is
13:39some like adjusting of the EQ on the amp head to fit whatever I have.
13:45This tour I'm really loving what we have.
13:49It's borrowed from our support band Noel.
13:54Lucas was kind enough to let me borrow this for this tour.
13:57It's a SWR Henry the 8x8.
14:01It's 8 8 inch speakers with this tweeter as well.
14:06And I have never played on something like this.
14:09I'm more used to playing on like a 215 cab is what I have at home.
14:15So this is like almost on the opposite end of that.
14:20I would say almost like an ampeg fridge but more compact but it has that tight middle end response.
14:29And yeah I've actually I've been loving this cab so much.
14:34I know they're pretty rare and hard to come by so Lucas kind of lucked out with this one.
14:42But it has gotten me thinking about how to work with a more compact cab situation.
14:50So I'm excited to get home and look at some options for that.
14:54But yeah and that's my rig.
14:58Thank you so much for watching.
15:00You can find agriculture at agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com
15:04We're on Instagram, agriculturemusic.com for tour updates.
15:12Nowflensing.com for our label, all of the merch there.
15:16You can follow me at leah.happiness on Instagram.
15:20And yeah, thank you so much for watching.
15:24Cause of your org.
15:35And yeah.
15:45Make sure more of them to go to high school.
15:46Bye.
15:47Bye.
15:47Bye.
15:47Bye, bad.
15:48Bye.
15:51Bye.
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