behind me because I could feel and hear the
[WM] What is your ‘go to’ gear right now?
amp behind me so the stage doesn’t feel dead.
consistent board I’ve had has been my tuner,
the compression, the Noble Tube DI, the Aguilar
Sound guys are afraid that if there’s an amp on [David] I’m doing a fly date this upcoming Tone Hammer, and the EHX Bass Micro Synth.
stage you’re just going to blast it, and that’s not week and I didn’t want to bring my whole rig for And I love the Micro Synth because it can do
true. It helps fill the stage up and that way we one song. So, what’s the most important thing, so many things. For Elevation, I was using it for
play together. and right now it’s just a Korg Pitch Black Tuner the fuzz sound. I think a lot of the bass players
that I’ve had since day one of playing bass in Bethel, that’s kind of the Bethel bass sound,
For this gig we have amps on stage, we’re all professionally, the Cali 76 Bass Compressor that Bass Micro Synth. For a while I was using
trying to control our volume so we can hear that is killer, going into my Noble Tube DI. If that it with that square wave cranked and that sub
each other, I don’t want to be the loudest was my desert island I would be fine with those octave cranked, just that huge overwhelming
thing on stage and I think the amp is a big things. I would love to have my full pedalboard, sound. Now for Lauren’s gig I use less of the
thing. I’m using fewer overdrives and focusing but I don’t need everything that’s on there. square wave and used it more like an octave
more on just getting my hand tone to be really Those have definitely been my go-to’s I would pedal because you can do that. We were about
important and being more consistent. I just put say. to do “Chameleon” by Herbie Hancock for
a compressor on my board for the first time
in probably eight years, and I’ve been mainly
one show, and I was able to change the filters
[WM] What’s on the full pedalboard?
focusing on my overall tone and less on effects.
around and fade it down almost like an auto-
wah. You can do all these different things with
I would throw an effect on in the past just to [David] I always feel bad for people who try to it, it’s like a Swiss Army knife of pedals that I
put effect on it, now if I’m putting something on set up a pedalboard for me because I change always like to keep on the board.
my bass it has to be as musically important as pedals so much it’s not even fair to whoever is the song is. setting up the board for me. I will say the most
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