Unprocessed’s Manuel Gardner Fernandes - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 631 - 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”, Manuel Gardner Fernandes, vocalist/guitarist of the progressive metalcore band, Unprocessed, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on their 2026 North American headline tour with Allt and Midwinter. Unprocessed is currently supporting their newest album, Angel.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Ibanez MGFM10 Manuel Gardner Fernandes Signature Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Pz4W96 Ibanez Custom RG 8-String Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/k4ZN3M Ibanez Thinline Nylon-String Acoustic-Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/X4OKA5 D’Addario NYXL Nickel Wound Electric Guitar Strings, 9-46 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/B5b1J9 D’Addario NYXL Nickel Wound Electric Guitar Strings, 9-80 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/zzrB3m Neural DSP Quad Cortex Amp Modeler / Multi-Effects Processor - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/WOR0a3 MixWave Manuel Gardner Fernandes Signature Plugin - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/n4oB3x Shure Wireless System - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/2RMJqD Shure Wireless Guitar Transmitters / Receivers - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vDxO3A  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - April 27, 2026 Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH UNPROCESSED: Facebook - https://facebook.com/Unprocessedofficial Instagram - https://instagram.com/unprocessedband TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@unprocessedband Twitter - https://twitter.com/Unprocessedband  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 00:33 Skip Intro 00:58 Guitars 07:49 Amp, Wireless, Etc.  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 cont

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00:00Weird angle frets so I can do my chords a little bit better. We don't have like

00:04pedals on stage. Everything is broken from front to back.

00:33Hey what's up people it's me Manuel Fernandez from the band called Unprocessed and today

00:39we are in Chicago in a venue I've never been in so this is going to be super exciting.

00:46We're currently promoting our newest record called Angel that we put out last year in

00:50October and yeah today I will show you some guitars that I'm using for the current shorter.

00:57So first things first obviously my go-to guitar is my signature Ibanez MGF-M10 and this

01:09guitar was released oh my goodness one and a half years ago so yeah it's my first ever

01:17signature guitar I'm very proud of it. Ibanez own pickups in here Q58 you know

01:25weird angle frets so I can do my chords a little bit better. 24 frets because you

01:30know I like to use the whole range of a guitar it's tuned to E standard and we

01:39have you know a five way switch in here with a call tap so I can use tons of

01:45variety when it comes to tones. Tone up, volume up pretty easy obviously it's headless because

01:54Ibanez during that time was promoting the Q series and I made it I made it you know my

02:01goal was to make the Q series to look very cool you know so we have the gold and the

02:10black obviously

02:11because I'm just a huge fan of gold and black and Tomo my Ibanez NR he got the idea with

02:18the red

02:19so yeah it's just you know it is kind of like an old-school guitar vintage meets modern way I

02:26really

02:27like that I really like the color scheme yeah I just love the guitar so shout out to Ibanez.

02:32So for strings since 2019 which was my first endorsement is Daddario. Normal six string set from 9 to 46

02:44I'm used that I'm using these strings for like every six string guitar for eight string guitar I'm using

02:529 to 80 sometimes 10 to 80 uh yeah it's all NYXL's Daddario. All right next one would be

03:02my beautiful custom eight string guitar it's based on of that one right here um so it's pretty much the

03:09same model but it's like a little bit customized when it comes to colors and pickups we got Dimarzios in

03:15here and um three-way tap with a coil switch so we're having that strat sound in the eight string

03:25guitars

03:25which is pretty much needed for my tone for my sound um yeah nothing special it's

03:32just a normal RG eight string but you know customized for me we have these uh lock continuos

03:40right here um so it's really really easy and not complicated to work with it's easy like it's

03:48really not that heavy as well so like I can do my thing on stage um the idea behind that

03:54guitar was

03:55um pretty much only the gold thing because I really love gold and um yeah they uh were so kind

04:02to send it to me I was maybe like two and a half or three years ago so strings we

04:07got NYXL's Daddario

04:08again from 10 or 9 to 80 that one is probably 90 uh tuning should be for that one e

04:18b e a d g b e shows like

04:23normal tuned and live we're just pitching it down uh for the specific song that one is the uh

04:32first eight string that I'm gonna assembly after being an Ibanez artist so I'm currently using that

04:40pretty much the same setup I'm using that for as a backup but that one is also like tuned F

04:45sharp

04:46and then standard so sometimes I'm using that for the last song which is terrestrial which is in that

04:52tuning okay so the newest one to my touring edition is that beautiful new AZ

05:01uh but Ebenez it's just very beautiful that one is super heavy though um it if I'm not lying like

05:09I think this is ash so yeah that one I just got right before tour so I haven't had the

05:14chance to swap

05:15uh you know the pickups uh with DiMarzio's because I want DiMarzio's in there but uh maybe I'll have the

05:22chance somewhere actually so that guitar just uh came out this year uh the 2026 rendition uh one of the

05:29used Az's um also pretty standard uh E A D G B E standard tuning uh 9 to 46 N1

05:41XL's the Darius

05:43luckily I can decide whenever I want to switch guitars so that one I'm using for the more like

05:51single chordly strat sounding songs like thrash beyond heaven skates you know a little bit more of the

06:00hindi indie kind of things you know I'm saying um my mgfm10 i'm using for the songs that are fast

06:09and really heavy to play because it's so convenient to play like dad rose you know where i'm doing like

06:15the tapping harmonic stuff and a dark sound complete um so yeah so mgfm10 is for like all the very

06:23technical

06:24difficult songs. My custom-made string I'm using for like every string song and

06:31except the last one because the last one is in a different tuning so I'm using

06:36the last one for terrestrial at the end of set. That's pretty much about it but

06:42we have something special that we haven't done before and I'm going to show

06:47you what I mean. So Ibanez was super kind to like send us these beautiful nylon

06:57guitars for our VIP. So what we're doing like is we are playing two songs in the

07:06VIP with nylon you know yeah they feel great it's just like an electric guitar

07:12but nylon strings. Standard tuning. I actually don't know what strings are on

07:19there right now. Hopefully D'Addario's nylon strings but I don't know. We have like in a

07:28tuning system and like a volume and treble and a bass knob for here so it's

07:32like really convenient to like you know got this tune with mute so this is

07:39really nice you can even switch the face in here you know yeah so we are

07:45currently in our life rig station right now so this is our gear this is our rig

07:52Max probably knows all about it but what I can tell you is that we are using

07:58wireless system obviously you know we're using the Cortex mainly for everything we

08:05do you know tone wise. What we did is I just released my plug-in the mix wave so we

08:17captured the mix wave tone into the Cortex so we pretty much have the tone and also

08:25you shout out to Kion who did the life tones for it it's it's amazing we basically

08:32have every song in here you know every song and with like heavy rhythm lead clean

08:46octave heavy like pretty much everything we need thrash same here so it's really

08:52convenient it's really easy everything goes through MIDI so we don't have like

08:56pedals on stage everything is programmed from front to back lights sounds

09:01effects automations and you know that rig helps to get the sound and get it

09:09delivered how we want that so we are using I just have that one but like

09:15customize some process pics and sometimes when the time is right I'll do some funny

09:21games with the audience just like hiding a pic somewhere in the venue so the

09:25thickness is like either 0.75 or 0.8 so it's kind of like you know flexible

09:33because I just like it to you know to be more progressive so our in-ear

09:41providers are it is a company called RH from Germany and they're doing this

09:48beautiful beautiful optics and they sound super crisp so shout out to these guys

09:54yeah that was everything I use for my life set up so shout out to Ivan and

10:01shout out to Dario shout out to our H in years so we are working with them for the

10:07first time on this tour so they're amazing shout out to neural also shout out to

10:12clots cables and sure for providing us with the stuff we need

10:43kind of these folks that are very much going to love you for the reason to

10:44watch out for you know that I love you as well

10:44is just kind of a huge problem

10:47so there's not the fuck we can do

10:48about what we want to do

10:48we want to be in that

10:49that we need them to be said

10:49we need them to be

10:49to be

10:49about

10:49what we need

10:49to be

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