The Frights’ Jordan Clark - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 606

I wanted something over the top and ridiculous for the over the top ridiculous songs that we have. Kind of my signature, if there is a signature sound for me. Yeah, I'm just a bridge bitch. I can't help it. Hey, I'm Jordan with The Frights. I'm here in Chicago, Illinois. We're touring the new record we have out called Ready When You Are. I'm going to give you a little rig rundown. So, more importantly in this guitar is this thing. It's called a guitar cable. This is priceless. It's worth about $1,000. It's 100% silver and it's blue. This is an Ernie Ball. 100%. It's custom made silver. It's made for me. No one else has this cable. As you can see, it's blue. And that's the magic. This is my guitar right now. My sweet little baby. It's a Gibson ES-339. I played a 335 on the Gallus Humor record, our previous record. And fell in love with it in the studio. And I found the closest thing I could within my budget and I got this one. And it's red. I like colors. I'm always on the bridge pickup. Pretty much every guitar I ever use. And I got everything just cranked up all the way. Just because I'm not one of those fancy guitar players that does all the weird stuff. Usually, just in standard tuning for all the Freight stuff, we're half a step down. The regular Ernie Ball Slinkys, just because that's what we get. Other than that, I usually tend to change my strings when they break. These strings are a couple months old. I really just like to keep them on as long as I can. I'm using two guitars. I usually use this to accompany Mikey on his acoustic songs. Just because, I don't know, I think it's just an aesthetic thing. Both of my guitars kind of sound pretty close to the same. I think it just looks a little more homely and warm with an acoustic guitar. Strictly looks. And this guy is just a recent purchase of mine. It's a 90's Gibson Flying V. Nothing fancy. I wanted something over the top and ridiculous. For the over the top, ridiculous songs that we have. This kind of spoke to me. Same thing. All my guitars, I've always gravitated towards the bridge pickup. Except for in recording, maybe the occasional messing around with the neck position. I'm just a bridge bitch. I can't help it. I believe this is all stock. I bought it used. It seems to be just your regular old Gibson Flying V. I'm going to take you through the chain. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't really get on the technical side of guitar stuff. It just is as it is. It's more based on where my feet are and where I can do my little pedal dance. And kind of make it easy on myself. I've got some standard Boss delay, which is a pretty crucial part of my thing for years. Along with reverb, because I don't have reverb on my amp. So this kind of substitutes for that. This is the only particular pedal that really is kind of one of a kind for me. A gentleman by the name of Randy Bemis built it for me. He built my amp as well. And this thing is just kind of my signature, if there is a signature sound for me. As far as my gain, my overdrive, my distortion. And this is a Boss Harmonist. I don't really use it for much. I've messed around with it. It does a million things. But I just use it to kind of make this warped out sound at the end of songs. And this, actually, the band that's on tour with us, Remote Drive. They were sweet enough to gift us fuzz pedals. And I've been trying it out. It's by Mercy Fuzz, as you can see. It's just an over-the-top fuzz pedal. And I've been enjoying it for just kind of over-the-top distortion stuff. Typically, I have this guy on deck. I've used it on a couple songs on our latest record. But we're not playing those songs, so I just kind of cast it to the side. And I'm having fun with this fuzz that I've been gifted. This Boss pedalboard is a staple of my life for probably 20 years. I just love it. It's really convenient. It's kind of ready to go when you buy it. And it folds up into a little briefcase, and it's hard. And I don't have to worry about anything getting busted or anything like that. And I've had this one for probably the whole time I've been in the frights, so 10 years or so at this point. This amp I've had for about 15 years, and I absolutely love it. A gentleman by the name of Randy Bemis built it for me. It's pretty much a cross between an AC-30 and a JCM-800. More leaning towards a JCM-800, which is kind of my bread-and-butter thing. Gibson JCM-800. So it's just a beautiful sounding amp. Low wattage. I think it's maybe 40 watts. And it just does it for me. I love it. And I'm just running it through an Avatar cab. I think that's what the brand is called. And I have a couple of Helitone speakers. I've got a 60-watt at the bottom, and I just like to mic up the bottom one because, I don't know, I've had sound guys tell me it sounds good, so you trust the sound guys. Unlike Mikey, my stuff is pretty dialed in. Our old TM did this, and this was kind of the way I've set it for years and years. I just kind of figured it out. I kind of like to scale back from a lot of the shrill high-end stuff, so I've got my presence pretty much non-existent, and I've got my bass cranked all the way up. I like a fairly good amount of mids, and I just like to run it pretty even like that. If I kind of push up the presence anymore and the treble, it just gets a little too shrill for me. So it's kind of just where I like it. All right, picks. I always have these. What are they, Dunlop? Well, this one's just some imitation. But yeah, these guys, I've played these forever. I'll occasionally play the little bit lighter gauge, but these ones are perfect. I'm kind of heavy-handed, so I need a little bit of flexibility. If I play the heavy picks, I'll just break a string in like five minutes. The Frights have a brand-new record out, Ready When You Are. It's the best record we've ever made, and I don't care what anyone says, we had a lot of fun making it. Go buy it somewhere.