Dreamfone’s Reece Alan - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 571

Hi, my name is Reece from Dream Film. We are out here on the American Hedonism Tour with Your Neighbors and this is our gear rundown. Alright, this is my first guitar. This is my primary guitar on this tour. I got it just for this tour. It is a Fender American Professional II Telecaster. I love this thing. It has been great. Black finish, satin neck. I'm using 10s on my strings. Ernie Ball, shout out for hooking us up on this tour. Stock pickups and nothing really special about it, but it does the job. Typically I use the neck pickup for everything. For my heavier stuff I switch it down to the bridge. I roll the tone knob a little bit to get a little more beef out of it. But for the most part I'm kind of using clean stuff. Letting it rest right here and just letting the tone sing through. All of the stuff that I use is in standard tuning. Richie does some alternate tunings here and there, but for the most part I'm just in standard tuning. This is my secondary guitar for this tour. It was my primary guitar for a long time. I love this thing. I believe it's a Fender American Standard. I worked as a music teacher for a very long time. My music director slash boss in Dallas, Texas, where I came from, sold this thing to me. It looked very different. It had a black pickguard. It had Lawler humbuckers in the bridge. I don't play in a pop-punk band anymore, so I swapped that shit out. I got single coils on here now. I swapped it out for a pearl pickguard. Everything else I believe is stock. Again, using 10s from Ernie Ball. Standard tuning and everything. We got some locking tuners that actually were installed after the fact on this guitar. But it sounds beautiful. I do not stray away from anything other than position 4 on this guitar. It sounds incredible. I was not a Strat guy for many, many years. And then I picked up this thing and I was like, I need it. I must have it. And I just beat this shit into the ground. It sounds amazing. Alright, so this right here is our in-ear rack. This is something new that we started incorporating for this tour. We've got our X32 in here. And the beautiful thing about this is it allows us to control our own mix when we hear in our in-ears. It has an app that comes with it. You just put it on your phone and I can go, you know, I need more guitar in my ears. Just slide that fader up. Everything plugs into the back here. It's all labeled. Playback, guitars, vocals, drums, everything has its own place that it gets plugged into. And then we just take this big snake on the front right here. And we just hand tails to the house. And they get everything just coming out of this rack. It's all self-contained. We hear it all in our ears. Front of house doesn't have to do any mixing for us in terms of what we hear in our monitors. And it's pretty easy. We're good to go. Alright, this right here is our guitar rack. We are using Kemper's on this tour. I've been using Kemper for about six years, seven years now. I use the same tones primarily for everything. All of our clean stuff is a Morgan AC-20 tone just drenched in chorus, reverb, and delay. I use that for absolutely everything. All of our heavier stuff is, I believe, a Friedman amp profiler or a Bogner. I think it's both of those actually, depending on the tone. But beautiful thing about the Kemper is everything can be automated. So all of our tones, we have different scenes for each song in our set list. So for instance, our first song, the set is Drunk and Venting. We have five different tones for that song. And we are able to MIDI all of our tone changes through Ableton, our session running playback. And when certain parts of the song hit, the tone changes automatically. So I don't have to have any pedals at my feet or anything like that. Just all is automated based on what we're running in our Ableton session. The primary effects that we're using are going to be reverb, chorus, a lot of octaves, and flange on some of the kind of more drenched, kind of fat sloppy sounding stuff. But for the most part, it's clean tones, chorus, delay, reverb, very 80s influenced. Yeah, just kind of let that amp simulator shine through it. The Morgan AC-20 is amazing. Alright, so this is our playback rack. All of our backing tracks, as well as our vocals, are processed through this rack right here. We've got our Mio right here. This handles all the MIDI, all of the guitar effects that I was talking about earlier. We plug our Kempers in through here in the back. And this is what controls all of our tone changes throughout the Ableton session in each song. We have our Apollo. This runs vocal processing, so the vocals actually run through the playback as well. To do light auto-tune certain parts of the set, reverb, any other vocal effects that we need, just all through that Apollo right there. And then we've got our Play Audio, which is our actual interface that is running the multitracks. So we have all of our tracks set to stereo. We plug in this Snake into our X32 in the back here. And it's 10 channels of playback, so everything can be mixed individually and just sound as full as possible. Alright, so these are the picks that we're using. We are sponsored by Intune Guitar Picks. We've got custom picks through them. We've got Dreamfun on one side, Postmanic with our signatures on the other side. I personally use a medium gauge, like 0.77. Rishi uses heavier stuff, but this is what I like. I've been using this exact pick, gauge, and company for probably five years now, and I love them. I would never go with anything else. For in-ears, we are through Ultimate Ears. I'm using five-driver in-ears, custom molds through the company. That was the weirdest experience of my life, was getting my ears molded. I went to an audiologist in, I believe, Burbank, California, who also worked for Van Halen, which was a really cool experience. They molded my ears, and I use those every night. Thank you so much for watching. Again, this is Rishi from Dreamfun. We have an album out called Postmanic. We are releasing new singles right now. Our latest single is called Chaotic. It's out wherever you stream music. Follow us at Dreamfun on Instagram, Dreamfun Band everywhere else. Follow us on Spotify, and I hope to see you next time.