Together Pangea’s Danny Bengston - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 629 - video Dailymotion

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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”, Danny Bengston, bassist of the garage punk band, Together Pangea, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on the Hard Days Were Harder At The Time 2026 Tour with The Red Pears. Together Pangea is currently supporting their newest album, Eat Myself.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Fender Precision Bass (Made in Japan) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/n4yrL6 Fender Precision Bass (Made in Mexico) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/bkV4a9 Ernie Ball Cobalt Flatwound Bass Strings (.045 to .105) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/OYbVrQ Fender Bassman 500 Bass Amplifier Head - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/2Rdb1z 6x10 Bass Speaker Cabinet - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/3kE6eK BOSS TU-2 Chromatic Tuner Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/RGMRy7 Electro-Harmonix Nano Bass Big Muff Pi Distortion/Sustainer Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/dyGNaM MXR M234 Analog Chorus Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/YVNE9J Ernie Ball Instrument Cables - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/KBzajn Ernie Ball 1.0 mm Grip Guitar Picks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/L02AXj  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - April 10, 2026 Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH TOGETHER PANGEA: Facebook - https://facebook.com/togetherpangea Instagram - https://instagram.com/togetherpangea TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@togetherpangea Twitter - https://twitter.com/TogetherPangea  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 00:37 Skip Intro 00:55 Bass Guitars 05:18 Pedalboard 07:19 Amp & Cabinet 11:02 Picks  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 yo

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00:00Literally you got two knobs and you can make them do kind of anything. Last year

00:04we played Coachella and I figured it was finally time for me to get a pedal board.

00:08I could literally pick it up with my pinky. It's crazy.

00:37Hi I'm Danny from the band Together Pangea and we're in Chicago at Bottom Lounge and we're

00:45on the tour promoting our new album Eat Myself with doing a little co-headline with our friends

00:51the Red Pairs. So this is my main bass. It's my birth year P bass.

01:00Made in Japan. Fender P bass. I love this thing. I bought it off my buddy Chad Ubovich who plays

01:11in a band called The Meat Bodies and in another band called Fuzz. I was playing a Rickenbacker

01:17for a really long time and then our friend Jason at Fender got me my first P bass in like

01:292016 and I kind of realized that in my opinion a P bass does everything and more than any

01:36other bass I've ever played a little bit. They're just so versatile. They feel so good. They're

01:43so playable. They're easy. They're light. They just feel great and I kind of fell in love.

01:49That bass is over there which I'll show you in a second. But yeah I've been playing a Rickenbacker

01:55for a while and I realized that I slowly stopped playing it because it kind of in my opinion

02:01I love Rickenbackers. I think they're really bitching and they sound really cool but I feel

02:05like they kind of do one thing really well and sort of like a mid intense aggressive sound.

02:15Whereas I feel like yeah P bass has literally got two knobs and you can make them do kind

02:20of anything with those two knobs. It's kind of incredible. On all my basses I put the Ernie

02:25Ball Cobalt Flatwounds 45 to 105s. It's like the orange, yellowish orange pack. Tuning, just

02:34normal, basic, nothing crazy. We have a couple songs in Drop D but that's, yeah, that's kind

02:43of it. So just standard tuning. I've kind of almost always only played Flatwounds. I just

02:50think that they sound so much better. You can get really punchy with them or you can get

02:56really, you know, dead with them if you want a palm mute. They're great. I love them. It

03:02depends. When I go in, I'm pretty much rolled all the way up. Both maxed all the way, tone

03:08all the way up, volume all the way up. Except when I put on my fuzz pedal then I roll

03:14off

03:14the tone about half way. Just so that I have some room. Like if I want to do feedback then

03:21I can roll it up. If I don't, if I want it to just be more like straightforward playable

03:26and not be too crazy crunchy sounding and blown out sounding, then I can, yeah, roll

03:32it back off and it sort of has like a nice dead fuzzy sound to it. So this is my

03:37other

03:38P bass. This is my first P bass. Like I said, Fender gifted it to me back in 2015 or

03:4616 I want

03:47to say. Shout out to Jason Klein. And I don't know. There's something really special about

03:55this bass. I've had a lot of P basses since then. Probably had about half a dozen and maybe

04:02more. But for some reason this one always just stuck with me. Maybe it's because it was my

04:07first P bass and I fell in love with it. But I've actually talked to some other people who

04:10said like weirdly like this era of Fender manufacturing made in Mexico. Basses are, there's just something

04:17about them that's really good. I don't know. It feels really good. It plays really well.

04:23It sounds good. I think I'm going to play it tonight actually. It's, I don't know. I can't

04:29really, I have much more of a sentimental and emotional attachment to this bass. I think

04:35this bass is technically a far superior bass. It's an incredible, like the made in Japan

04:40Aero Fender stuff is insane. And it's, it's really cool too because it's my birth year.

04:44And that's why I let go of my Rickenbacker because my buddy was like, I have that bass

04:50in your birth year. And you should, I was like, I think I have, it's made for me then.

04:55Um, but that being said, I don't know. There's just something really special about this bass

05:00and I play it quite often still. Oh, shout out really quick. This is a, my friend made this

05:08strap, Sunday leather. Uh, it's gorgeous. I'm kind of obsessed with it. It's really cool.

05:13She's a leather worker. Um, I'm stoked on it. Yeah. Oh yeah. Very crazy stuff going on over

05:20here. Um, it's my tuning pedal. Um, which we painted a long time ago. Uh, if you ever see

05:31something that says Jummies backstage at a venue, uh, you might've, we might or may or may

05:38not have played there. Um, let's see what else. Uh, Bass Big Muff. Classic. I mean, it's just,

05:47I had the bigger one for a while and then a couple, a few years ago they started making this

05:51one. And I tossed it on here and it's, it does everything that any of the other ones do.

05:56It's smaller. So, um, I don't really do a whole lot. The sustain is like kind of all the way

06:02up. The volume's at about three quarters and the tone's about three quarters and I keep

06:07it wet. Um, I have this MXR analog chorus pedal, which I stole from William, my bandmate.

06:17I only started really using this on the last rec, our newest record, uh, Eat Myself. I, we

06:25were doing some stuff in drop D and had certain sounds and, um, I just thought it sounded really

06:31cool. I always liked the sound of like a bass with chorus on it. You know, it's like a really

06:36cool eighties post-punk new wave adjacent sound. And when you're playing really heavy, sad music,

06:45I think it compliments it really well. So, um, yeah, once again, Ernie Ball with the cables.

06:53Shout out to Tim and Ernie Ball, our rep. Um, yeah, I just got, for the first time in my

07:02life,

07:03I started using a pedal board. Uh, last year we played Coachella and I figured it was finally time for

07:08me

07:08to get a pedal board, uh, when that show came around. And so, William, my bandmate, gifted me

07:16his old pedal board. So, thank you so much, William. Fender Bassman Head. God, I can't remember the story,

07:23but, um, I needed a head really badly. I think that my head either,

07:32here's what it was. I was like a PV loyalist for a really long time. Like the 70s solid state

07:38PV amps,

07:39I think, sound absolutely amazing. I still think they sound fucking amazing. But, um, I was playing those

07:47kind of from day one of this band. Uh, I found one for like a hundred bucks and I was

07:52just playing on

07:53those forever. Um, we were going out on tour, I think with Alkaline Trio, 2018-ish, something like

08:01that. And, um, it was shortly after Jason at Fender had gifted this bass to me. Um, my head stopped

08:10working.

08:11And it was like a week or two before the tour. You know what it was? We were on a

08:16tour and I brought

08:17two of those old PV heads and both of them blew. I was loaning them out to the whole tour

08:22and one blew

08:23and then the next one blew and then I didn't have a head and I reached out to Fender and,

08:32um, they had

08:33mentioned that they just started remaking the Bassman. This thing weighs like nothing at all. Like, you can

08:41literally pick it up with my pinky. It's crazy. Um, it sounds just like the old Bassman, but it weighs

08:49nothing. It's an amazing, amazing head. I'm kind of, this is all I want to play now. This is all

08:55I do

08:55play when we go to Europe. I rent one of these. Um, I just keep it on the clean channel.

09:03There's two.

09:03There's an overdrive and a clean. Vintage is clean. I just keep it on the clean. I crank the volume

09:09all the way up.

09:10I like the presence that it gives. Um, I keep the Bass around seven, mid around four, treble around seven.

09:20Sometimes, I feel like sometimes, depending on which bass I'm playing, I might, like, it has this feature

09:25where you can pop out for, like, extra treble, you know, or extra bass. Sometimes I'll do that. But, um,

09:32yeah, it just depends on what I'm playing. Then I keep the Master at about three or four, depending

09:35on the venue. I've never had to go above four on this thing. It's a beast. Um, and then my

09:42cab,

09:43I have, I have a, it's a 610 Ampeg. Um, I've always preferred, I've, you know, like, I do like

09:54the 810s a lot,

09:55but they're really annoying to have to deal with. Uh, you're, like, traveling around with a fridge,

10:01basically. Um, and your bandmates get tired of, uh, you asking them for help. This is much more

10:09manageable. And honestly, I kind of think it sounds better than an 810 in some weird way. I can't put

10:13my finger on why. I think it does everything an 810 does, but there's something, like, less, uh,

10:20overpowering about it. But it's big enough to still have, like, presence on stage. Um, there's a lot of

10:26artists now who, like, go amp-less and who, you know, don't, or they use, like, a small cab or

10:32something like that. I personally really like, even though we've got monitors and things like that,

10:37and technology has gotten to a place where maybe you don't need these sort of things,

10:41I really like to feel and hear the, my bass behind me. And, like, I don't know, there's something

10:48about it, like, it just feels weird to me if it's coming out of my front monitor. I always want

10:52to,

10:52like, feel it on stage with me. And, yeah, I bought this cab from my buddy Killian, and, uh,

11:01I'm very glad I did. I use the grippy Ernie Ball 1s, uh, 1mm, right? That's what it is. 1

11:09.0,

11:09I guess that would probably be a millimeter. Um, yeah, I need the grip. They fly out of my hand

11:15otherwise. Uh, the, the chalky ones don't do it for me, so I need the grip. Kind of it, yeah.

11:22Standard stuff. So, yeah, Together Pangea, we're playing here at, uh, Bottom Lounge. Really stoked

11:28to be doing it. Uh, uh, we have a new record out called Eat Myself. It came out a couple

11:34months ago.

11:35Um, we're on tour right now, and we're probably gonna be playing shows, we definitely will be

11:41playing shows throughout the rest of the year. So, yeah. Thank you. Oh, and, uh, you can follow

11:46us on Instagram, on any social media, is, uh, at Together Pangea. My personal Instagram is

11:54at Bangsman, B-E-N-G-S-M-A-N. Thanks.

11:59And, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

12:25uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

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