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On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Tristan Kaos, guitarist of the metalcore band, Not Enough Space, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on Dark Divine’s The Shallow Graves Tour with Bailey Spinn and Set For Tomorrow. Not Enough Space is currently supporting their newest album, Weaponize Your Rage.
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Schecter C-1 Platinum Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/yZm5MB
Schecter Omen-6 Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/7XJ7PV
EMG Active Humbucker Pickups - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/L0ZG63
Ernie Ball Electric Guitar Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QY6gD9
Dunlop Tortex Custom Printed Guitar Picks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jROgbb
Neural DSP Quad Cortex Digital Amp Modeler - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/YVqZ6R
REAPER - https://www.reaper.fm/
Apple MacBook Pro - https://amzn.to/3R0kLib
Focusrite Scarlett Audio Interface - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/1GW3x6
Sennheiser EW 100 G4 Wireless System - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/ZVyDa0
Tascam TA-1VP Vocal Processor - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/gRWV0v
Behringer X32 Digital Mixing Console - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4aWYvL
Seismic Audio 16-Channel Splitter Snake - https://amzn.to/4nbJtYX
Enki Guitar Case - https://guitar-center.pxf.io/qW2qaq
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Film Date - March 15, 2026
Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL
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VIDEO SUMMARY:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Skip Intro
00:55 Amp/Wireless/Electronics/Etc
06:26 Guitars
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”, Tristan Kaos, guitarist of the metalcore band, Not Enough Space, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on Dark Divine’s The Shallow Graves Tour with Bailey Spinn and Set For Tomorrow. Not Enough Space is currently supporting their newest album, Weaponize Your Rage.
PLAY THE SAME GEAR:
Schecter C-1 Platinum Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/yZm5MB
Schecter Omen-6 Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/7XJ7PV
EMG Active Humbucker Pickups - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/L0ZG63
Ernie Ball Electric Guitar Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QY6gD9
Dunlop Tortex Custom Printed Guitar Picks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jROgbb
Neural DSP Quad Cortex Digital Amp Modeler - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/YVqZ6R
REAPER - https://www.reaper.fm/
Apple MacBook Pro - https://amzn.to/3R0kLib
Focusrite Scarlett Audio Interface - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/1GW3x6
Sennheiser EW 100 G4 Wireless System - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/ZVyDa0
Tascam TA-1VP Vocal Processor - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/gRWV0v
Behringer X32 Digital Mixing Console - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4aWYvL
Seismic Audio 16-Channel Splitter Snake - https://amzn.to/4nbJtYX
Enki Guitar Case - https://guitar-center.pxf.io/qW2qaq
VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - March 15, 2026
Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL
KEEP UP WITH NOT ENOUGH SPACE:
Facebook - https://facebook.com/NotEnoughSpaceFL
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LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc
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VIDEO SUMMARY:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Skip Intro
00:55 Amp/Wireless/Electronics/Etc
06:26 Guitars
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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00:00I have my pickups dangerously close to my strings to get all those pinch harmonics in there.
00:05I do this on all my touring guitars. I always glue a pick holder on the back of my headstock.
00:10We are a modern metalcore band, so we need our laptop.
00:39Hey, what's going on, guys? I'm Tristan with Not Enough Space, and I'm currently on the Dark Divine Headliner Tour
00:44as direct support with a band called Step 4 Tomorrow.
00:47It's all thriller bands, so it's really cool to be with the family right now.
00:51And I'm here today. We're going to break down what we do with our equipment for our live shows.
00:57So, first and foremost, we are a modern metalcore band, so we need our laptop.
01:03This is what does all of our backing tracks, and I do only have one of me, so we need
01:08two guitars when we play.
01:09So all the rhythm, whenever I'm doing a cool lead, it'll be all in here.
01:13All of the cool synth tracks, 808s, so the venue shakes.
01:17And then our click track with a couple of MIDI tracks that I will get into here in a second.
01:23But it's all color-coordinated. Here's the whole set list.
01:28Shout out Kaelin from Attila for helping me learn how to do all of this. Now I'm a pro, I
01:33think.
01:33Yeah, the program that we use is called Reaper.
01:36I know a lot of people use Ableton, but I find Reaper's UI to be a little bit more, what's
01:41the word, user-friendly.
01:42This is my quad cortex. We actually, so me and Jacob, the bassist, we share one quad.
01:49So this top channel here is gonna be guitar, and then this bottom channel here is bass.
01:55Not a whole lot going on, so all these buttons here actually do different automations to change our tuning live.
02:01A lot of our songs, I'll be playing a verse riff, and then because my producer hates me,
02:08halfway through it'll drop a half step, like the tuning that I'm playing.
02:11And this is all set up for each song.
02:15And then I also automate my gate a lot, because we do the super tight metalcore chugs,
02:21and then it'll open it up, like it'll open up the gate whenever we do a chord progression,
02:25or I need some like string noise or something.
02:28But, so talking about FX chain on the quad, so I actually uploaded Gojira, the Archetype plugin,
02:35and this is all literally pretty much mirrored from the tone that we use on our record.
02:40We do use a couple more things on the record, obviously, but this is as close as we can get
02:45it,
02:45so that way it does sound, you know, perfect live.
02:48And then for the bass tone, we use Parallax, which they just updated for the quad,
02:54so it was really cool to be able to upload Parallax and be able to get some really sick low
02:59tone.
02:59I mean, you can even see, it's just no mid, all high, all low. It's awesome.
03:03And it sounds really, really fat with a couple of model amp heads and, you know, some gain.
03:08I like to use a Ranger Boost on my guitar to get a really bright sound, so it cuts through
03:12everything.
03:14Because it's metalcore, baby.
03:18And, oh, and then for fun days, I actually have this channel here that I can turn on,
03:23and this is a second cab, which will help for, so for PAs that are a little bit,
03:29they're not, like, the best for the genre of music that we're playing.
03:33This will give my guitar just a little bit of extra beef to, just to help cut through,
03:38so that way we sound, you know, as full as possible.
03:40Because metalcore, in my opinion, is driven a lot by the guitar and the drums.
03:45And if you don't hear a guitar, then, like, there's not a whole lot of context in what you're listening
03:50to live.
03:50Okay.
03:51Looking down at what we call Rachel, this is our pretty rack of all of our things that we use
03:57to, in order to get sound out there.
04:01It's a mess back there.
04:02We're not going to look back there.
04:03But, so, these are our IEM consoles.
04:07They're pretty straightforward.
04:07These are the Sennheiser G4s.
04:09They're muted right now, obviously, because we're not playing a show.
04:14But, super rudimentary.
04:16Down here is our, just our RF here.
04:19So we have an antenna there.
04:20So this is our in-ear antenna.
04:22And then we have an antenna here, which is for our wireless instruments, which are down here.
04:26This is our Focusrite.
04:29We just use a Focusrite A-channel.
04:30We are about to upgrade to an Apollo.
04:32Just because Apollo, I can do UAD console.
04:34There's a lot more range of a bunch of cool effects and stuff.
04:37But, for right now, this is what we're using to route out all of our tracks from the computer out
04:43to the front of house into a stage box.
04:45Down here, these are our wireless instrument transmitters.
04:48So, up here, you see Liv and Lizzie.
04:50So that's the microphones.
04:51And then Tristan and Jacob, which is me and the bassists, so we're able to play.
04:55Down here, we have the Tascam, the Tascam on Taurus rack mounts that are, it's a vocal processor.
05:02So, for cool little sections, we want like a blown out screen thing.
05:06Or we want like a super, super strict tuning to the vocals for pitch correction.
05:12All of this does all of that.
05:14And this is all automated through the computer.
05:16It was a pain in the ass to do.
05:18But, I did it.
05:20And then down here is our X32.
05:21We actually bought this off of the home team.
05:23Thank you guys.
05:24This has been a lifesaver because this is able to, we're able to mix our ears.
05:29And this is literally all I use it for.
05:31It's just for an ear mix.
05:32So that way it sounds as perfect as possible because we're using one, we're using single
05:36driver headphones for our lives, you know, for our live shows.
05:39So, having the ability to be able to EQ my guitar to fit my headphones better or get the girls
05:46to have some sort of reverb bus so it sounds like a little bit more processed in their headphones
05:50so they feel like they're in the studio.
05:51It's all really, really important.
05:53X32 and then our seismic 16 channel split.
05:57This, so X32 comes out the back and I wrap this out in front.
06:01This goes through our seismic split here and then out the back again to get all these tails.
06:06But we're basically doing three different boom, boom, boom, boom into the front of house.
06:11And that sets all of our in-ears and instruments and all that stuff up.
06:14But we put a lot of work into this and we still have a lot more work to go to
06:17get it picture-perfect,
06:20I think is a good way to put that.
06:22Alright, so moving over to my guitar.
06:24This is my Anki case that I just got from Anki, which has been a huge help on this tour.
06:29This has been the first tour that I was able to go on.
06:31We have the longboard wheels, dude. It's so smooth.
06:35Kind of remind me of Cloud Richtas if you're a skater, you know what I'm talking about.
06:39And this is my pride and joy right now. This is Cirilla.
06:43I have a really cool guitar here.
06:47I think I bought this at Sweetwater, but it was a gift from my mom because I had just made
06:54it big and she wanted to hook me up.
06:56And she let me pick out this one named Cirilla after the princess, you know, from The Witcher, the Lion
07:02Cub Accenture.
07:04Another cool thing, I want to shout on my boy, Tactical Black Vault.
07:07He made me this super sick custom-made, not enough space tuning knob.
07:10Jacob also has one in his bass.
07:13So that's super, super cool.
07:15Another fun thing, and I do this on all my touring guitars, I always glue a pick holder on the
07:19back of my headstock.
07:21So that way, you know, I don't sing live, so it's super quick just to pull it out.
07:28So if I drop a pick, which happens constantly because it's sweaty, you know, just quick, and there it is.
07:33Also, I want to show my picks off. They're super cool.
07:35I got a Pontiard on my pick with my signature on the back.
07:41Jacob has a Wailord on his, so if you ever come out, make sure you try to catch one of
07:45these when we throw them in the crowd,
07:46because I freaking love these, and I don't think we're going to do these again, but they're absolutely awesome.
07:51Yeah, so Cirilla here, she's a Schecter C1 Platinum from the Platinum Series.
07:55I have this bad boy here to eliminate all string noise, because a lot of our chugs are very, very
08:02tight,
08:03like in songs like Devil Left Me I Dread, Don't Be Scared, where it's got to be super, super tight
08:09at all times,
08:10so having this just kind of helps eliminate some of the stringing issues.
08:13And whenever I'm, you know, my soloing or I'm doing a lead, like in Primitive or Solves the Silence,
08:17it makes it a little less noticeable whenever I'm, like, rubbing the strings up here.
08:22String gauges are actually custom ordered from Ernie Ball.
08:26We do have a sponsorship with Ernie Ball.
08:27They've been a huge help to make me feel as comfortable as possible.
08:31But the way I do it, so I play in Drop B live.
08:34A lot of our songs are in Drop B, so this is just, like, the most neutral place to be
08:38in.
08:39With a, with a, so, going through string gauges, so I start 62, 48, 38, and then down here is
08:4718, 14, and 12.
08:48The reason I do it like that is because I do a lot of vibrato and bends and stuff, but
08:53I also play a lot of really heavy chug parts.
08:58So having the heavy on the top and then being able to, yeah, being able to play it up here
09:03and have, like, gifs so I can constantly do that vibrato.
09:08Um, it's just a lot more comfortable.
09:10I, I tried, uh, they, they, uh, I used to have a 22 wound string up for my G string
09:15here, and it was the most uncomfortable thing I've ever played.
09:19Having your third, it felt like I was playing an acoustic guitar and it was awful.
09:22But, um, but yeah, I actually, uh, believe it or not, play the same string gauges as Chris Link from
09:27Attila.
09:28I found out a couple weeks ago, but, um, talking about my knobs, so I don't do anything super, super
09:34big because I have an IR modeler, um, on my, uh, on my quad cortex.
09:39So I just turn my knob all the way up and then the quad kind of does all the carry,
09:43or all the heavy lifting, so I'm never having to, like, constantly, like, be turning it up and down.
09:48Sometimes, if I feel like a venue is giving me a lot of feedback, which tends to happen if there's,
09:52like, a weird power thing, I will turn down my knob a little bit and almost use it like a,
09:57like a, like a gate on the actual guitar just to keep it, because I have my pickups dangerously close
10:03to my strings to get all those pitch harmonics in there.
10:07Um, but, uh, most of the time it's usually just all the way up, especially with the rooms that we've
10:11been playing with now.
10:11We're not, you know, playing dive bars very much anymore. We're usually in actual sick venues, so, um, haven't had
10:18a lot of trouble there.
10:18And then, always play that down. I don't think there's any point in any song where I'll flip this up
10:24and use this pickup for, like, the bassier tone, just because I'm, I am a huge, uh, fan of those
10:30super bright guitar tones.
10:32I mean, I'm playing a Schecter, obviously, I'm a big fan of Avena Sevenfold, so, um, but that's really much,
10:37oh, last thing.
10:38And then I also have locking tuners back here, uh, to make, uh, changing strings just a little bit easier
10:44and quicker, uh, for days where, because I, I'm constantly changing my strings.
10:47I change my strings about every two shows. So, uh, having locking tuners, uh, thank you, Shelby, for buying these
10:52for me for Christmas.
10:53It's been super, super awesome and very easy to just restring, because all you gotta do is wrap around once,
10:59pull up, and clip it, and you're done.
11:01Um, and it looks really neat. Uh, I like the black. So, my guitar is just stock. I haven't done
11:06a whole lot of the changing with EMGs,
11:07and I thought about it. Uh, this is just stock EMG pickups that come with Schecter guitars,
11:13and I thought about it, but the quad is so magical. The quad cortex, you're able to get your guitar
11:18to sound literally like anything.
11:19If you're playing a, uh, I mean, we, we've plugged up a, like a Stratocaster, and that, we can get
11:25that thing to sound super mean with Gojira,
11:27and you have the, uh, the, the Plini plugin, and, um, uh, and you can also just upload, like, all
11:34of your IRs from your, from your DAW,
11:36and just, just, just copy tones, and it'll do all of the work. Maybe a little bit of EQing, but,
11:41um, changing this just always felt unnecessary to me.
11:43Just an unnecessary purchase, because what works already sounds really, really good.
11:47Um, but yeah, Cirilla, and then, this is my backup. This is old, old Sally here. I actually carved Sally
11:55on the back of my guitar.
11:57Named her after, um, the, uh, Nightmare Before Christmas movie, because I felt like the color just reminded me.
12:03This is just an Omen 6. Uh, a little low-end Schecter guitar, um, but this thing fucking rips.
12:09Um, and sometimes I'll bust it out whenever I don't feel like playing Cirilla, but this is also here, so
12:15if I pop a string, or whatever, I can quickly just boom boom,
12:18especially because we have the wireless, um, G4, so it's all contained, and it's very quick to just, just switch
12:25over.
12:25Um, and I also still have that pickguard thing. Like I said, I'm telling you, if you don't do this,
12:30and you play a lot of shows,
12:31just super boom that bad, that bad boy right there. Quick access at all times. It holds up to like
12:36five picks, so it's like, it's, it's, it's game-changing, I promise.
12:41Once again, Tristan from Not Enough Space, you can totally listen to us on pretty much everything.
12:46Spotify is a huge one. We actually just hit 2 mil on Devil Left Behind Red, so keep that coming.
12:50And make sure you try to catch us at Rockville and Sonic Temple later this year with more announcements for
12:55the latter half of the year coming soon.
12:57Again, thank you guys so much for watching and letting me geek out about all this.
13:00It's very nice to be asked questions about a lot of the job that I do for the band, so,
13:04peace out.
13:35We'll see you next time.
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