Enterprise Earth’s Gabe Mangold - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 624

TSA can beat it up even more and I'm sure it'll be fine. I don't know if I could do it with a pedalboard live, honestly. I could try, but it wouldn't be very fun. The bottom ones are real, the top ones are dummies. You know, because eight real cabs would be crazy. Hey, my name is Gabe Mangold from Enterprise Earth. We are on tour right now with Hanabi and Necro Goblicon at the Chicago House of Blues for what I believe is a sold-out show. So this whole tour has been great, it's been amazing, and I'm going to show y'all some of my ----. So first up here, a quick note. Koda, our bassist, and I recently started working with Ibanez. Shout out Tyler and Ibanez for helping us get these amazing instruments in our hands. I've been a lifelong Ibanez player and to work with the company is like an awesome, really cool thing. So thanks, Ibanez. The first one we got is the RG2027XL 27-inch baritone 7-string. These are loaded with DiMarzio. I also work with DiMarzio, shout out DiMarzio. We got the Tone Zone and PAF bridge neck. Tone knob delete, volumes down here, 5-way switch. On this guitar for this set, I'm mostly on the bridge pickup here. Other songs in the set that we're not playing tonight, I will utilize the neck and sometimes the second, third, and fourth position. But today, or in this tour, it's pretty easy for me on this one. I just rock the neck for all my solos and rhythms. But yeah, this guitar is amazing. I got it set up in drop E. E, B, A, D, G, Gb, B, if I said that right. If I didn't say that right, sorry world. But we got a 10-52 set and then an 80 on the bottom for the low E. Intonates and holds up great. I got like virtually no buzz on that low E because we love tuning stupid low in this band. Also, I work with D'Addario as well. Shout out D'Addario for always hooking us up with strings, they're great. So yeah, I got D'Addario 10-52 and then an 80 on the bottom. So the best strings, NYXLs by the way. So next up, another Ibanez. We have the RG5328 Prestige 8-string. This has quickly become my new favorite 8-string. I used to play multi-scale, but after going back to Ibanez and 27-inch straight frets, I don't think I'll ever go back to multi-scale ever again, nothing wrong with it. I just like the straighter frets, it's just easier for my brain and my fingers to play. But this one I have done some modifications to. So I guess I'll start with the strings. Also D'Addario NYXLs. I got a set of 8s on these, 8-38, a 60 for the A and then a 94 for the low D. We play in a couple different tunings in Enterprise Earth for our 8-string songs. Right now we are in dadgad or what I call double drop dadgad. So we have a D, A, D, A, D, G, A, D. Anyone that's familiar with open tunings will know dadgad, it's the most common one. We also do standard double drop D where these two high strings go up to a B and an E. Sometimes we play in drop A as well where this goes to B and E and then the 6-string goes up to an E. So I effectively have drop A on a 7 with a low D as well. And let's see, for pickups, I just swapped these out. These are DiMarzio Deactivators, gold-plated. I plan to swap all the hardware to gold at some point in this time because black and gold goes ******* hard. Tone knob delete on this one because I can't stand when it gets in the way of my hand. Get those out of there for this kind of band. If I was playing blues, I would have that tone knob there all day. But yeah, coil tap right there as well and a three-way switch. I am utilizing the middle position on this tour for Song of Agony for the clean, vibey, bluesy solo in the middle. Otherwise, I'm rocking pretty much all bridge pickup on this one. And yeah, I love this guitar. It's really frickin' cool, really great. And again, shout-out Ibanez for hooking these instruments up for the store. We are loving them. So real quick, my backups here. Probably the most expensive backup in the world. An Aristides 080-S. Shout-out Aristides. I love those guys. They're great. I used to work with them, but I have since, of course, switched over to Ibanez. The build quality and craftsmanship is truly unmatched. Those guys are amazing. All the love in the world to those guys. They make incredible instruments. But yeah, 080-S, 28-26-5 multiscale Lundgren M8s. Pickups right here. Hipshot bridge. Pretty straightforward rig here. But yeah, this used to be my main for many years, and I still love this guitar. And it's always going to be my backup. I'm always going to have it with me. All right, second backup. Last but certainly not least. Some of you may know the lore of this company. Some may not. This is a Strictly 7 Solar. So Strictly 7 was a company that started popping off in the early 2010s. They were making really great multiscale baritone instruments. This is the Ola Englund signature. It's what he had. He was a signature artist with Strictly 7 before he started Solar, his own company. Bareknuckle nail bombs for the pickups in this one. This used to be my main for pretty much six or seven years of Enterprise Earth. This guitar has been around the world. It's one of those guitars I will never sell because it has so much sentimental value. But right now, it's my backup, and it's still solid as a rock. We also work with Anki. Shout out Anki and Dave. They're great. I have an old Anki. We got the old and new here. We got the old, I think these were the Gen 2 or the Gen 3 of the old bass case Ankis because I needed it to fit my S7, the baritone. And then I have the brand spanking new X-Series. I believe it's called X-Series Anki. The updates here with the cases are really cool, like the super thick skateboard wheels, thicker casters, recessed handle on the lid as well, which is really great. It's more boxy, and it's actually sturdier too, so it packs on the trailer well. And TSA can beat it up even more, and I'm sure it'll be fine. So yeah, shout out Anki. This new case, X-Series, is ******* awesome. So welcome to our mothership rack, aptly named Big Dick Daddy. It's a girl, Big Dick Daddy. She, very, very important. This has been our live rig since 2021. Me and our old sound guy Cameron Breen, shout out Cameron, best sound guy in the ******* world, along with our current sound guy Adam Skinner, they're the best. He and I put this rack together back in 2021 to be like the kind of end-all be-all mothership rig for IEMs, playback, guitar and bass tones, everything. So yeah, I'll just do a quick rundown from top to bottom. Up top we have our Session in Cubase. I've been a lifelong Cubase user, shout out Steinberg. It's got our click track and reference going to our drummer. It's got our stereo track and 808 going to front of house. I'm always live stage left, and then we have a track guitar going to stage right. And we have some FX as well as going on our vocalist Travis' mic. You can't, obviously it's a computer, you can't see what's happening, but the effects come on and off. Flanger, saturation, all kinds of fun things that we automate in the Session. Everything is also MIDI controlled as well for our guitar and bass patches because we fortunately or unfortunately have written songs that necessitate that. So it's super fun. A lot of our songs, like Psalm of Agony, was actually composed around MIDI changes. I don't know if I could do it with a pedalboard live, honestly. I could try, but it wouldn't be very fun. Because we utilize a lot of pitch shifting, whammy, automated choruses, flangers, all kinds of crazy stuff. So on the top rack we have our interface, Scarlett 18i20. We have three IEMs, G4, Sennheiser series, antenna combiner. Pretty straightforward, anyone that knows anything about IEMs. Down in the middle rack is our guitar and bass world. So we have our instruments. The new Sennheiser EWD series are great. I just can't say enough nice things about the EWD series. There's two channels in this EWDX, which supplies Koda and I's guitar and bass. And then we have an EWD for Travis's wireless mic here as well. So we got three channels of wireless, all in one U. Very reliable, great range, sounds great. Also pretty affordable as well. So thank you Sennheiser for that. Now on to the fun stuff, which I'm sure you're all interested in. Our Quad Cortex rigs here. So we have these racks built in here. Take that off the tuner. For our QCs. We also are fortunate enough to work with Neural. Shout out Neural and the team, they're great. They've always been very kind to us and helped us out a lot. So they're awesome. But yeah, we run everything off of these Quad Cortexes. Again, MIDI automated in the session. My amps, for those at home wondering. For my rhythm, I'm using a Dual Rectifier Rev F. Capture into a Mesa 412, but it's got H30s in it, not V30s. Important detail. And then also an important detail, a Dirty Tree clean boost in front. I really, really enjoy this overdrive pedal. It's like, or boost pedal, sorry. It just adds this really nice abrasive attack texture without going like too far. Like some other boost pedals may. But it also does more than a standard TS-808 or Maxon overdrive might do as well. Nothing wrong with those. I love those too for the right application. But yeah, it's pretty straightforward. I run the Dual Rec for my rhythms. My lead channels here, I'm running a Soldano SL-100. And then for cleans, let me go to my other casket patch here. Cleans, we are running, I believe it is a Twin. Yeah, Fender Twin with a little Blues Driver in front. So all pretty standard, tried and true guitar tones, honestly. We do run live cabs on stage. So I use my VHT-252 power amp. We will always run cabs forever because we are a rock and roll metal band. And I like pushing real speakers and air on stage. So we are also endorsed by Orange. These are all of our Orange cabs on stage. So no logos, but we have our custom grills on the front here. All of these Orange 412s and Bass 410s were supplied by Orange to us. Shout out Orange. They sound great. They play great. The bottom ones are real. The top ones are dummies, you know, because eight real cabs would be crazy. But yeah, we have our cab back line up here. And I love it. Every album cycle, we change out the grill cloths to whatever art is appropriate. So if you weren't aware, Enterprise Earth has our latest EP called Descent Into Madness, which came out January 31st of 2025. We are promoting that on this tour. That's what all our art and our backdrop and everything is based off of is Descent Into Madness. You can go pick it up on vinyl at the merch table. We're also going to have it for sale online on the web store after the tour. We're on the rest of this Hanabi-A tour until April 12th, ends in LA. We're also going to China and Japan in June and July. And then we're also supporting Humanity's Last Breath in Vildhjarta in Europe in September, October of the end of this year. Carmen Yaka is also on the tour as well. That's all we got on the books for this year. And we're very excited for all these amazing tours that we've been able to do this year. And we're stoked to get some more new music out to y'all, hopefully by the end of the year as well.