Hunter Hayes - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 633 - 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”, the guitarist and singer, Hunter Hayes, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on The Evergreen Tour. Hunter Hayes is currently supporting his newest album, Evergreen.   PLAY THE SAME GEAR:  Ernie Ball Music Man Hunter Hayes Signature Cutlass Electric Guitar - https://www.music-man.com/instruments/guitars/hunter-hayes  Ernie Ball Music Man Steve Lukather Signature Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/R0mJ3y  Martin Custom Acoustic Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/YVBW3q  Martin Retro Series Acoustic Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/MKya3N  Morgan Custom Deluxe-Style Guitar Amplifier - https://morgancustomshop.com/heads-and-combos  Neural DSP Quad Cortex Amp Modeler / Multi-Effects Processor - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/WOR0a3  Neural DSP Cory Wong Plugin - https://neuraldsp.com/plugins/archetype-cory-wong  Mojave Audio MA-D Microphone Capsule - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/2RMn3M  Nord Electro 3 Keyboard - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/7Xo37V  Roland SPD Sampling Pad - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/m4ZxBy   VIDEO INFO:  Film Date - April 11, 2026  Location - House of Blues in Chicago, IL   KEEP UP WITH HUNTER HAYES:  Facebook - https://facebook.com/hunterhayes  Instagram - https://instagram.com/hunterhayes  TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@hunterhayes  Twitter - https://twitter.com/hunterhayes   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  00:36 Skip Intro  01:13 Amp & Quad Cortex  09:41 Guitars  22:31 Guitar Picks  23:07 Microphone  26:24 Keyboard   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.

Transcript

00:00I think it was the Cory Wong plug-in.

00:02I was absolutely blown away by the air.

00:05I like the size of it. I like smaller guitars.

00:08Not just because it makes me look taller.

00:36What's up? Hunter Hayes here. Welcome to the stage.

00:38We are on the Evergreen Tour because I just put out the Evergreen album.

00:42So this is night, I think, 11 of the tour.

00:46It's been a long time since I've been here in this room, and it kind of feels like home.

00:50But I want to show you around, show you some of the toys.

00:53We've streamlined a lot on this tour. This is the most streamlined I have ever been.

00:58But there's a lot of really fun, nerdy details that I feel like some of you might appreciate.

01:03So, welcome.

01:04We'll start with something I never thought I would do, which is I am entirely quad-cortex based.

01:12I used to run three amps upstage. I still run one.

01:15It's not miked. It's just for me, and it's just for solos.

01:19Just because I need that stage volume, and I need to feel it on stage.

01:23And that is the same app that I've been using for almost 10 years.

01:25It's the Morgan, basically a deluxe-ish, 66-based kind of thing.

01:31I absolutely love that amp. It's got a ton of headroom.

01:34And that is a 200-watt EV speaker. That's kind of the one thing that I can't live without.

01:40They're harder to find these days, but I rely on that for a lot of things.

01:45Typically, I'm honestly, on this tour, kind of just running there-ish.

01:50Because that's...

01:52Like I said, it pushes, especially with the 200-watt EV in there.

01:56This is an aggressive amp.

01:59It's got a lot of power. It's got a lot of punch.

02:02And we have very little stage volume at this point.

02:05So I'm just trying not to, you know, make everyone's life a living hell.

02:12I've been the guy... I've been a holdout for a long time.

02:15Like I said, I had three amps upstage. Very traditional pedalboard.

02:18And I think it was the first time that I heard the Neural plug-in.

02:22I think it was the Corey Wong plug-in.

02:24I was absolutely blown away by the air.

02:28I've tried other versions of this world.

02:31And I was really impressed with the modeling as well.

02:34And I've got all of the amps from home, including that amp, in here.

02:40So, like, I've got a couple of, you know, really cool custom things that Joe Morgan made for me in,

02:46like, 2015.

02:48That's all in here.

02:50A couple of compressors that I really love.

02:52They're in here now, thanks to the update.

02:55And I've got a bunch of these really cool amps that I've found at Caveman Vintage in Los Angeles.

03:01There's a guy that makes amps out of random things.

03:05And they're just one-off pieces.

03:06And some of them are tube-based.

03:08Some of them are solid-state.

03:11But they're all, like, right around, like, 200 or 300.

03:13And I went to Caveman expecting to find something very specific.

03:18And I found these amps, and I started collecting a lot of them.

03:22And they're all in here, which is just awesome that I can take them all on the road.

03:26So, it's hard to beat that.

03:27So, and flexibility, too.

03:28I mean, this thing is...

03:30I started using it on a solo tour when I was doing just me and a bunch of looping stuff.

03:34Because, I mean, I was running...

03:36I was using the guitar to, like, trigger SPD samples.

03:40And this helped me with that, kind of controlling the output.

03:44It was kind of wild the way that it worked.

03:46And then Z actually built this pedal board.

03:49So, we've just got, you know, six more buttons we can kind of use to go anywhere.

03:53This is programmed for looping.

03:58But, yeah.

03:59So, this is, like, the line check kind of situation.

04:01Just tap through.

04:02I've got four lines on stage now.

04:04And we use them in different ways.

04:06Right now, I've got...

04:07Line one is what we call the clean channel.

04:09And that's just, like, I need a very clean kind of no-breakup compression deluxe circuit kind of thing.

04:17I'll show you.

04:24So, this is the current routing.

04:26It will change tomorrow.

04:29But, so, the clean channel.

04:31I think I've got, yeah, the Morgan.

04:34So, basically, that amp with all my presets, the way that I am used to running it.

04:38And just this vintage deluxe because that's, like, if, you know, if I had to go anywhere with one amp,

04:45I think that's the amp I'm always trying to get back to is that 6264 deluxe circuit, you know.

04:52So, that amp and I get along very well.

04:55Corresponding cabinets, too, which is great.

04:57So, pushing two amps out of channel one, upward one.

05:01And then I've got what we call the sort of the dirty or the lead channel coming out two.

05:09And I think I'm running the...

05:12Yeah. So, there's a...

05:14Morgan made a really cool version of a brown Tolex deluxe that has a lot more gain and a lot

05:21more saturation.

05:23And I love it for leads.

05:26And I paired it with an Analog Outfitters model because I like how aggressive that Analog Outfitters is.

05:33I made a big B3 transformer in there.

05:36It's just, like, it's really aggressive and it's great for solos.

05:38So, that comes out of channel two.

05:39I'm always running a compressor.

05:41I'm actually currently using the Cory Wong compressor because it's just the easiest one to dial in and it sounds

05:46phenomenal.

05:47Also, using his envelope filter.

05:50The Pulse to Service, I believe, is what it's called.

05:52Got a delay on both channels.

05:54Analog, just the standard analog delay, not doing anything crazy.

05:58A little bit of a tight plate reverb.

06:01Use that for some of the slower, like, you know, solo type things.

06:05They're only going to one amp per side versus kind of going through both.

06:09What else are we doing?

06:10Oh, yeah.

06:11Classic myth drive.

06:13You know, I had the Archer on my pedal board.

06:16Never took it off.

06:17Used it.

06:18That was my, that is my solo.

06:20It's everybody's solo channel, I feel like, is that sound.

06:24So, it's pretty simple.

06:26And then for acoustics, I've got a bunch of weird stuff going on, but I also use this as a

06:33mute.

06:34If the light's on, it's muted.

06:36Trips up a lot of people, but running a Fishman Aura back in the day when I first went on

06:44tour in, like, arenas.

06:45I had an acoustic, couldn't figure out how to make it sound the way I wanted to.

06:49Tried an Aura and was blown away.

06:52And even still, I think it's some of the best, like, acoustic mic modeling.

06:56And so, I just captured all of my favorite settings into here, and I can, I bring the Fishman Aura

07:04pedal on the road.

07:05We also have the Jerry Douglas Aura modeled in here, because the resonator tones in that are amazing.

07:11So, I use that, this is kind of my Jerry Douglas Aura, using the Corey Wong compressor again.

07:19Jerry Douglas Aura has a, the resonator sound, the resonator sampler basically, has its own output.

07:26So, during the show, I do a lot of riffs on acoustic, and that's just kind of like a boost.

07:30It kind of acts like a boost.

07:32It just, it has such a mid-range transient that cuts through, and it lets the acoustic tone be nice

07:40and mellow.

07:40And I've also got a way to turn off any of the Aura stuff, and just have the direct acoustic

07:46signal.

07:47And then this, I believe, is an octave.

07:51Oh yeah, that's what I did yesterday.

07:53So, just put an octave up, so that I have it for around the sun.

07:58It kind of needs a 12-string approach, and this is my way of getting that without actually taking a

08:0412-string on the road.

08:06Heavily EQ'd.

08:07I mean, it's kind of insane, but that's kind of the only place where I want that octave up to

08:12come through.

08:14And then, whatever, yeah, that was the compressor I tried yesterday, and I guess I liked it.

08:19So, that's still there.

08:21I have some reverbs on that, and then the craziest thing I think I'm doing is probably this Mando channel.

08:26So, I've got, I'll show you in a minute.

08:27I've got the, this really cool Eastman kind of Mando Cello electric Mustang kind of looking thing.

08:35I needed it for Evergreen. Evergreen has such a specific octave Mando part that I did not play on an

08:42octave Mando.

08:43I played on like five other things on the album, but I needed something consistent for stage, and I needed

08:48something that looked cool.

08:49And so, I found this thing, and we strung it differently, and we set it differently, set it up differently.

08:54So, for a while, I had no idea how it was actually strung.

08:58But, thanks Bella.

09:00But, this is, this is the thing I'm talking about.

09:02So, octave Mando on a really cool, kind of historic looking shape, you know.

09:11It's nice and small.

09:12So, I feel like a rockstar, but when I play it, it sounds very, it's very confusing for people to

09:17see.

09:18But, I've actually got three different channels of the Fishman Aura modeling.

09:23There are three different settings that I liked, and we blend them.

09:27We change the blend depending on the room.

09:28There's kind of a top end, there's a mid range, and there's kind of a low end that we just

09:33like, kind of balance and blend every day.

09:36Guitar world.

09:38This is also the most concise I think I've ever been on the road.

09:44But, it really, for me, electric-wise, everything's based around two things.

09:49One, electric.

09:50This is my signature with Ernie Ball.

09:53It is a Cutlass model.

09:54It's got a giant, I can't remember if it's 12, 10 or 12 dB boost, but I did copy and

10:02paste this out of Steve Lukather's signature model.

10:05Because that's one of the first models that they sent me.

10:07I thought I would hate it.

10:08I love it.

10:08I'm obsessed with it.

10:10And so, when I say I thought I would hate it, I typically, humbuckers and I don't get along.

10:16I do.

10:17I'll show you that.

10:18Anyway.

10:18So, this has the boost.

10:20It also has no tone knob.

10:23Because I've never really used the tone knob.

10:25And so, what we did was we put piezo pickups.

10:28It's also a brass saddle based Cutlass because I'm a big Tele guy.

10:32So, this kind of gives me the best of both worlds.

10:35This is a blend knob.

10:37It puts these in series.

10:39So, I can get kind of some really interesting, clean, you know, almost Gibson-esque type things out of this.

10:46This is a volume knob for a separate output.

10:48So, you'll notice this is taped up so I don't mistakenly use this one.

10:52But, sometimes I'll be able to run two packs.

10:55And this is a piezo output.

10:57So, you can blend this into your magnetic pickup world.

11:00But, you can also do a separate output like I have done.

11:03And I run that to a Fishman Aura.

11:06And so, I'm getting an acoustic tone through one direction.

11:09And then my favorite single coil electric tones out of the other.

11:15I love this thing.

11:16I can play a whole show on this if I had to.

11:18One guitar.

11:19And that's what I love about it.

11:20In fact, when we've done like some of our crazier, you know, international shows where we can only fly with

11:25very limited things.

11:27I have absolutely played a whole show on maybe two of these.

11:31This one stays a half down.

11:32So, you see this on Tattoo.

11:34You see it on Crazy.

11:38You'll see it on Better Than This.

11:39You'll see it on some other songs.

11:41Some throwback songs.

11:43Because almost everything on my first like two albums was a half step down.

11:46So, yeah.

11:47This comes out towards the end of the show now.

11:50Half step down electrics.

11:52I think we use 11s.

11:54Standard we use 10s.

11:55That's what we've settled on.

11:57So, this thing.

12:00This thing is wild.

12:01Eight strings.

12:03Dave Brown, my buddy Dave Brown came up with a way to string this with just standard electric.

12:09I think he uses 10s.

12:11Two sets of 10s.

12:13And tuned like an Octomando.

12:15I can't remember off the top of my head what that is.

12:17I've got it written down.

12:20But I just love this thing.

12:21It's just so cool.

12:22I have a lot of stuff that needs mandolin.

12:24I only play it once in the show, but this is what I start every show with.

12:27This is the Evergreen guitar.

12:29What I love about it, even though I like to play crazy tunings and crazy things.

12:33On Evergreen, it's just the riff, you know.

12:41And then I spend the rest of the song just.

12:47Or the verse is just.

12:48So, it's great because in the first song of the show, I don't have to think about playing.

12:52I'm focused on singing.

12:53I'm looking at the audience.

12:54And I am here versus here.

12:57So, huge fan of that.

13:00This is the For the Love of Music guitar.

13:04This is my custom.

13:05When I first started working with Martin, I got to order this.

13:09And it's got koa back and sides.

13:12It's got a bunch of really cool details.

13:13They copied my handwriting on my first guitar.

13:17We painted everything on the stage for a while in chalkboard paint.

13:22And we picked lyrics to put on our instruments.

13:25This wasn't a lyric, but it's been on my guitar for a better part of 15 years.

13:29They copied it in this beautiful...

13:33I don't think it's actually Pearl.

13:35It's like some other version of...

13:39Doesn't matter.

13:41They also put my logo at the top here.

13:43And they also put the lightning symbol from Storm Warning.

13:47And the cool thing about this is this, these two triangles,

13:51are the same triangles that make up my paper airplane.

13:54Which is on every pick.

13:55It's on a bunch of merch.

13:56And it's...

13:57We've tried to do a version of it.

13:59See?

14:00That's what that symbol is.

14:01It's the paper airplane.

14:02It comes from these two triangles, which come from my original logo.

14:05In the center there.

14:07So...

14:07A lot of really cool things.

14:09I use this the entire show.

14:12This comes out for Storm Warning first.

14:14Then this is on Still Fallen.

14:15And then this is...

14:17I mean, almost every song I play acoustic on, this is my first choice.

14:20I like the size of it.

14:22I like smaller guitars.

14:23Not just because it makes me look taller.

14:25But also because I just like...

14:30Smaller guitars tend to be louder.

14:31In the mid-range and higher frequencies.

14:36And...

14:36On stage, I don't really want anything that has a lot of low end.

14:40Because there's plenty of other things taking up that sonic space.

14:43And, you know, two sets of speakers.

14:45And so I need this to speak in the mid-range.

14:47I'm always looking for more mid-range out of an acoustic.

14:50So...

14:50This thing does that really, really well.

14:53So...

14:53Yeah.

14:56I mean, even sitting here, there's like no low end.

14:58But that's what I wanted it for.

15:00So...

15:01This has been with me...

15:04For...

15:0415 years as well.

15:06Just...

15:06Opening up and...

15:07Yeah.

15:08Finding...

15:08Finding its own story.

15:09Alright.

15:09This is a new addition.

15:12Beautiful artwork.

15:14Uh...

15:14Martin actually surprised me with this.

15:16On the week that the album came out.

15:19Um...

15:19I had gotten to meet the artist who has done...

15:22So many other guitars.

15:25Um...

15:25And...

15:26We talked a little bit at NAMM.

15:28And then my manager and Martin started working on this secret project.

15:32And surprised me with this on release week.

15:34And so this comes out...

15:36I've currently got a...

15:36A little rubber bridge kind of thing here.

15:39I think it's called the Dead Ringer Bridge.

15:41Um...

15:41Because the...

15:42This comes out on Too Late.

15:44And on Too Late it's almost all...

15:45Not rubber bridge, but it's all nylon.

15:55So it just kind of gives me a different texture in the show.

15:58And uh...

15:59It's the third song in the show.

16:00So it's a nice little scene change, you know?

16:02But I love just like...

16:03Getting to see the Evergreen from the audience.

16:06This guitar is just beautiful.

16:09So...

16:10Yeah.

16:10Huge fan.

16:11We've got the...

16:14Steve Lukather.

16:16I absolutely...

16:17I beat this thing up so much.

16:18Because I ended up playing this on so many of the like...

16:20More aggressive, like...

16:21Almost rock influenced tunes.

16:25Um...

16:25But I also use this on Until She Comes Along.

16:27Which is a very sort of like...

16:296-8 ballad guitar song.

16:32I feel like every show I've done we've had some version of a 6-8...

16:35Guitar song towards the beginning of the show.

16:38And on this show it's Until She Comes Along.

16:40And it's kind of my chance to like...

16:41Relax a little bit with the fourth song of the show.

16:44So I get to just kind of sing and be the vocalist.

16:46And then when the song ends we go into a big guitar jam.

16:49And it's the first time that I've gotten to be like...

16:51An electric guitar player on stage.

16:53And so the whole first four songs are just a series of like...

16:57Kind of sinking in to like...

16:58Found my foundation.

17:00Get comfortable on stage.

17:01Awesome.

17:02And this is the guitar that you see on Until She Comes Along.

17:04Also on Dream About.

17:08I just...

17:09These pickups are the perfect balance.

17:10They're...

17:12There's enough attack for me to play it the way that I like to play it.

17:15And get some dynamic push out of it.

17:18But it's not nearly as like...

17:24Transient forward as, you know, a single coil.

17:27And when you...

17:29Throw the boost on.

17:30It's just a different machine.

17:31It just goes to...

17:32It goes to 11.

17:33So...

17:34These are stock pickups.

17:35This is exactly how they sent it to me.

17:37And this is one of the guitars.

17:38They sent me this.

17:39The first time I was talking to them.

17:42They were like,

17:42Why don't you try a few things in rehearsal and kind of see how you like it?

17:45So we were rehearsing back in 2015.

17:46And they sent a cut list for me to try.

17:48And they sent this for me to try.

17:50And I bought this.

17:51And I bought the cut list.

17:52I didn't...

17:53I wasn't...

17:53I don't know what I was expecting.

17:56But I just loved the...

18:00I loved...

18:01I ended up playing the cut list on like five songs in that rehearsal.

18:05Because it had...

18:08The pickups were hand-wound.

18:11They were, I think, slightly lower output.

18:15So it gave me so much more room to work with everything else in my pedalboard world.

18:21And then these...

18:24Did not do what I expected humbuckers to do.

18:27Normally I don't get along with a humbucker design.

18:29But obviously...

18:31These are made for...

18:32Look at...

18:33They're made for crazy playing.

18:35So...

18:35Just trying to make them proud.

18:36You know?

18:37Then we've got two other versions of my signature model.

18:40We've got a red one for Red Sky.

18:42Which actually this is the standard one.

18:45So this has got tens on it.

18:46This is the tuned standard.

18:47And then this one is in 21 tuning.

18:51Which is the E string is up a whole step.

18:55On the song 21.

18:57On the song Wild Card.

18:59I started doing this tuning to get B...

19:02To get a high fifth on the E string.

19:06But play B shaped chords.

19:09And there's a lot of riffs that I ended up doing with that.

19:11So I've used the tuning quite a lot.

19:13It's just a simple, dumb, easy tuning thing.

19:17But...

19:17I need it.

19:18I need that.

19:19I need that for 21.

19:21So...

19:21That kind of lives there.

19:24This...

19:24Man, I went to Carter Vintage one day.

19:27And...

19:28I was trying out a little amp.

19:30I was looking for a little amp.

19:31Uh...

19:32I think my rule was it had to be weird.

19:33And it had to be like...

19:35Under $500.

19:36And it had to be a combo.

19:38And, uh...

19:39I was just walking around.

19:40I saw this thing.

19:40It looked cool.

19:41These pickups are wild.

19:43They're super high output.

19:45They're not like super bright.

19:48Um...

19:49And it's just a very different texture.

19:51So, like, I use this on...

19:52On...

19:52On one shot.

19:53Because Alex is playing a lot of single coil stuff on some of those songs.

19:57And this is kind of a good balance for that.

19:59I use it on weight.

20:00Um...

20:01Because it kind of lets me get a little bit more high output rock kind of thing.

20:05This is tuned standard with tens.

20:08Um...

20:08So, yeah.

20:08This and the Lukather kind of, like, end up going back and forth.

20:12This doesn't have a boost on it.

20:14So, I use the Lukather for anything I need a boost for.

20:16But, um...

20:18Yeah.

20:19A wild little guitar.

20:20And then, I fell in love with my buddy.

20:25Um...

20:26My buddy came to Nashville for a couple of weeks.

20:28A couple of years ago.

20:29And he just bought one of these at Guitar Center.

20:33And I had not spent a lot of time with this series from Martin.

20:36But it's like a vintage kind of, um...

20:38Retro.

20:39I love this finish.

20:41In that it's like a matte finish.

20:42There's not a lot of paint on it.

20:44I've already kind of, you know, messed it up.

20:47Um...

20:47But, man, do I love these things for, like...

20:51Not only the lightness of it, and the sort of...

20:56Um...

20:57I'm a big fan of this finish.

20:59I don't know what it is about this finish.

21:00But I just love how, um...

21:03I don't know.

21:04It just feels more grounded.

21:05It feels earthy to me.

21:06And it just speaks.

21:07It just...

21:08Oh, it's...

21:09Oh, it's got the...

21:10Oh, it's got the...

21:11Yeah, yeah.

21:11So, every now and then I'll tune the B string up a half step to get, like, a C shape.

21:22Um...

21:23I use that on Dear God.

21:24I use this...

21:26Man, I use this guitar on a bunch of stuff.

21:28This and the custom kind of go interchange.

21:30So, yeah.

21:31Love this thing.

21:31I have three of them now.

21:33Because that's how much I love them.

21:34Um...

21:34Bought one.

21:35Tried it on the road.

21:35And for a while, this was, like, in every music video on Red Sky.

21:39Um...

21:39Just because I love the look of it.

21:41It's just very retro and...

21:43It sounds amazing.

21:44So, there you go.

21:45Well, for a long time, this...

21:47Uh...

21:48My friend introduced me to the...

21:49The Hurdom picks.

21:52Um...

21:52Because that's what The Edge plays.

21:54And I'm a big...

21:55Big fan of The Edge.

21:56Um...

21:57And so...

21:57And I always play backwards.

21:58Like, any time I'm playing anything, whether it's acoustic or electric,

22:02I'm always holding it here and playing it, like...

22:07You know.

22:10And I actually really like how the grip separates the transient of, like, the attack.

22:18So, even when I'm playing lead, it just...

22:20It kind of helps to soften the attack a touch.

22:26But I can still kind of dig in if I want to.

22:28And just no matter how...

22:30No matter what pick I have on stage, this is how I end up holding it.

22:33So...

22:33We have standard picks.

22:35And we've branded them with the paper airplane.

22:37And they're really cool.

22:38But...

22:39This just ends up being the one.

22:40I always have one in my pocket, whether I intend to or not.

22:43They're...

22:44I can find them in every jean pocket.

22:46Um...

22:47So, I kind of go back and forth between this and the, uh...

22:50The Dunlop.

22:51Um...

22:51I can't remember what millimeter we're on right now.

22:53But it's...

22:53We went with a thicker.

22:55Because I end up playing really hard.

22:57And I want to make sure that when I go for...

23:00When I go for something, especially on like...

23:02You know, tens.

23:03I want to...

23:04I want to feel it.

23:05You know?

23:06So...

23:06Yeah, last year, um...

23:09We...

23:10We started using the Mojave MAD capsule.

23:13I loved it.

23:14And...

23:15For some reason, when I was at home running this show...

23:18By myself...

23:19In my studio.

23:19Which I did for two months before we started rehearsals.

23:22So...

23:22I tried...

23:23I just...

23:23This was the only capsule I had in my little studio.

23:25And I fell in love with it.

23:26And I got really used to it.

23:28Because I didn't have to do a lot of EQ.

23:31Um...

23:31I end up...

23:33I end up doing a lot of specific EQing.

23:35On my vocal.

23:36Most of the time that I spend with Z side stage.

23:38He's just got my EQ pulled up from my vocal mic.

23:41And we do a lot of crazy stuff.

23:43A lot of, like, dynamic EQs.

23:44Especially with the Waves consoles.

23:46Um...

23:47But I liked the top end presence.

23:49I liked that this didn't have too much...

23:53Um...

23:53I...

23:54For my voice...

23:55It...

23:55There's, like, a relationship between, like...

23:58The 1K area...

23:59And the 3K area.

24:01And...

24:02If that relationship isn't right...

24:04I'm miserable.

24:05And so...

24:06Um...

24:07I liked how this was just...

24:08We...

24:09It...

24:09It had a nice presence.

24:11It...

24:11It was great in the mid range.

24:13But it wasn't aggressive.

24:14Um...

24:14But I didn't have to, like...

24:16Carve out a ton of 3K.

24:18And the low end was sculpted.

24:20It's not too...

24:23Um...

24:23You know...

24:23It's not too boomy.

24:24It's not too...

24:25Low end-y.

24:26Um...

24:27But it does have a nice...

24:29It has a nice low end.

24:31Whereas the MAD capsule...

24:32What I loved about that capsule...

24:33Is the low end.

24:35It has a really, really...

24:37Smooth low end.

24:38That we can actually do a lot with.

24:39So it kinda depends on...

24:40The stages too.

24:43Um...

24:43That we're on.

24:44You know...

24:44And the room.

24:45But...

24:46We go back and forth.

24:47And I love both of them.

24:48We have a lot of fun stuff on stage.

24:49Michael's doing a really cool...

24:50Main stage setup.

24:52It's...

24:53Insane the amount of like...

24:54Sound sculpting...

24:55That he's doing with his world.

24:56Alex is also using a...

24:58Quad Cortex.

24:59Over here.

24:59Uh...

25:00With some other things as well.

25:01And obviously he's running...

25:02The whole show.

25:03So...

25:04We've got like an able set...

25:05Kind of situation.

25:06You know...

25:07Cause we're time coded with lights.

25:08We have a lot of very specific arrangements.

25:10So to make it easy on lighting...

25:11We do time code.

25:12Because...

25:13You know...

25:13We have a lot of very specific arrangements.

25:16Um...

25:16And then yeah...

25:17We're actually doing a really fun thing on this run.

25:19Um...

25:20I've wanted to do...

25:21Some version of 5.1...

25:23For a long time.

25:23Very difficult to do in a room like this.

25:25But...

25:25And it's not for a delay tower.

25:26The whole goal with it...

25:28Is that it does the opposite of what we're doing.

25:29So...

25:30We run...

25:31A stereo set of speakers...

25:33On the outside of every room.

25:34And obviously you'll notice...

25:35This is a three story room.

25:37You know...

25:37We're not...

25:37We're not trying to get it in every story.

25:39The goal is for sound to come from a place you don't expect it.

25:42And it's got nature.

25:44It's got...

25:45You know...

25:45Ambient sounds.

25:46We do a lot of transitions...

25:48Flipping the room upside down.

25:49So when we finish the song...

25:51It pulls your attention to...

25:53There's an orchestra in the back corner.

25:54The pre-show changeover...

25:56Flips the room.

25:57So...

25:58We don't run our pre-show playlist on the...

26:01Traditional left right.

26:02We run them in the back of the house.

26:03We do ambient...

26:04Stuff from the stage.

26:06And...

26:06You know...

26:06Nature stuff from the stage.

26:07And the...

26:08We've been having a lot of fun with the...

26:10I use a lot of Wave stuff in the studio.

26:12So to have the Waves consoles...

26:13Out on the road...

26:15Um...

26:15It just...

26:17My brain works well.

26:18It just works better.

26:20Because...

26:20I use a lot of Wave stuff in the studio.

26:22So...

26:23It feels like home out here.

26:24This is my desk.

26:27Um...

26:27Yes, I like...

26:28A piano shell better than just a...

26:30Traditional piano stand.

26:31Unless you're cool like Michael.

26:32And you just look cool behind the piano.

26:34Um...

26:34Or keyboard.

26:35But...

26:36This has been with me for years.

26:37I mean, it's been taped up.

26:38And it's been beat up.

26:39But it's just...

26:39The Nord Electro 3, man.

26:41This is the...

26:41The keyboard that I bought to go on the road with Taylor Swift...

26:43For the Speak Now tour.

26:45Back in...

26:46Whatever that was.

26:462011.

26:48Um...

26:48And this shell...

26:49Is uh...

26:49Something that...

26:50A buddy of mine made...

26:52In...

26:53Literally...

26:53A day.

26:55Texted him and I was like...

26:56Hey, is there any version that...

26:57You know...

26:58Folds flat.

26:58Tucks away.

26:59And uh...

27:00I...

27:01My favorite part about it...

27:03Is that it's my desk.

27:04So like...

27:04Whatever I need during the show...

27:06Is gonna be here.

27:06Water.

27:07Picks.

27:08Um...

27:08Sometimes I have my AirPods for like...

27:10Rehearsals for...

27:10Soundcheck or whatever.

27:11You know...

27:11Cough drops.

27:13Throat sprays.

27:14My set list will go back here.

27:15I got a little light on it.

27:17It literally acts as my desk.

27:19I can sit down here.

27:20And it's kind of like...

27:21My mission control.

27:22Yeah.

27:23Thanks for walking around the stage with me guys.

27:24It's good to have you.

27:25Uh...

27:25Thanks for letting me be a little bit of a nerd for a minute.

27:27Um...

27:28Shout out to our incredible crew by the way.

27:30Who's not featured on this video.

27:32But...

27:33I want you to know how much I appreciate them.

27:37Um...

27:37Yeah.

27:37Come see us.

27:38The evergreen tour will continue.

27:39So...

27:41Um...

27:41Find me on socials under...

27:42Just...

27:43Hunter Hayes.

27:43H-A-Y-E-E-S.

27:45And...

27:45Come hang out with us at a show.

27:46I think you might have some fun.

27:48Even if you don't know...

27:49Any of the music.

27:50Hopefully you'll leave...

27:51With uh...

27:52Something that feels like it's yours.

27:53Alright.

27:54Take care of yourselves.

27:55Be good.

27:55Be good to yourself.

27:56Be good to the world around you.

27:58Cheers.

28:08Cheers.

28:10Cheers.

28:12Cheers.

28:15Cheers.

28:17Cheers.

28:19Cheers.

28:20Cheers.

28:21Cheers.

28:21We'll see you next time.

Hunter Hayes - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 633

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