Palace's Rupert Tuner - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 468

[Applause] hi there rert from palace here um and this is my gear Zone um these are my guitars I have a pair of Hondos which I know a lot of people probably think that's a terrible idea but I like them I think they sound pretty good this is uh yeah it's an the s335 kind of knockoff from like the late '70s maybe early 8s I don't really know it's it's a mess it's kind of um the neck super twisted and the Frets are all dinged and but it sounds good and I like it okay so I use both these guitars live they're different tuning so this is just standard and that's open D um they sound pretty much the same that one's maybe a bit me here and I run off the um the bridge pickups and I just I have the volume and everything on full this one I actually go to the the neck for one song but uh yeah I just everything on full generally I do all like adjustments and stuff with my board on stage um so I yeah don't do that SCS me off a lot and I get quite lost strings I use are deio this one's 11 to 49 and that's 11 to 52 because it's open tuning and the heavier strings on the bottom top I remember which low strings stay in tune better when you got the slightly heavier gauge so that's how I use those this is actually made by a guy I don't know where he is it's it's called Pine Grove leather and um he makes really nice straps that's that's a another pine grve one but this one's nice it's got a nice little detail in there whatever that is but it looks nice it's comfy too um okay so this is my board I go into the volume pedal here so that's how I do lots of volume control and swells during the show and do that into there and then that goes straight into this dyom compressor um and then we get into the the switcher which is a gig rig switcher which is amazing the great thing about this switcher well for me I mean it does loads of things but what I use it for mostly is it's a midi controller that can control the timeline which has infinite amount of delays on it and I can you know just press a button and it goes to the presets that you've made and whatever so it's super useful instead of having to have like five different delays on stage got one and I can just control it with a tap of a button and then here you just kind of dial in whatever pedals you want so each one of these pedals is assigned a number and then you can just put it in on not five that driving Deco if I wanted that in there so it's um it's super useful there's no no no more tap dancing I do a little bit of kind of several at the same time but nothing like the old days and then yeah so I kind of uh run a so once I've got into D I go to here and then the order they run in is it goes this is a Hudson Hudson broadcast jeel which is a like a it's a preamp based on 60s TV gear I think sounds really cool it's very fizzy and then I go into the Bon preamp which is a bit smoother it's very versatile but I use it for kind of like a Clean cleenish Gain slightly dirty and then that goes into the Deco which is just a clean boost yeah and then also has um I can use it as a phaser or a delay it's kind of got it's like a based on a double tape tracker thing so you can kind of put the tapes out of sink with each other that's the kind of idea so you get the saturation and the Boost and then the the other tape speed you can change it and then it goes to a Reverb which I the main reason it's that point in the chain is because I couldn't actually fit it anywhere else I didn't have enough patch cables right length so it just had to go in at six and then I go to the this guy which is like a Vibra it's called the Shaker by TC Electronics it's just kind of like a modulation thing which I've had forever and then into the timeline which is just the infinite delay machine then I have a Looper attached to that so I can make live loops and then go into the tensor well actually no these two the other way around sorry go to the tensor which is like a microl Looper SL pit shifter and it's got this really cool speed effect so it makes you can do like tape stops which is which we do in the show and then Holy Grail at the end which is just always on uh Reverb and it's you know Holy Grail called it for a reason don't need anything else the most important pedal I would say is probably the Holy Grail that was the first one I think that was the first pedal we got for the band well for my my part as well actually Lee had one as well but he had a slightly different ho Grail but yeah that and the timeline delay are probably the main ones and then we we we run a really clean sound like to hear the amp what the amp's doing for a lot so you don't want to change that too much but now you know we've got we do have to explore some different kind of Drive tones so this is very good for like dirty fuzzy stuff and that's just got a really nice kick to it but you can still hear the hear the amp you know working properly but um yeah the Holy Grail is probably the one you know um and I run it with um I use I use the amp Reverb just a little bit as well because it's I me you got a real spring in there and it's sounds amazing so actually back home I don't have one of these I've got a fender devil but cuz we have to get to hide them in I can kind of choose what I want so I get the deluxe Reverb which is much nicer and uh this one's super Trey so I've actually taken the treble right off down to about four and I have the base on full which I haven't done before but it's you think it would sound awful but it kind of works and then I have just tiny bit of Reverb just up like two three and then these are off I don't I don't use those and that's that's pretty much it really come with their own mics there an SE Electronics uh V7 something I I don't know but we've got Gare s guy somewhere and so he's come over with us and he loves us using those so that's what we use and then pickwise I'm kind of I'm not too picky but I used the 88 mil8 88 gy D good standard pit and yeah in is yeah we Ed we use iners I'm new pretty new to iners but uh it makes a difference they're very useful thanks for checking out my gear um and if you want to see us play a show and hear those noises uh we're at we are palace.com