Together Pangea’s William Keegan - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 635

Leaving it in that position when you're strumming sometimes is knock it out so I just tape it up to keep it up there. I don't want to break strings so I use kind of a softer pick. Hi, I'm William Keegan. I'm in Together Pangea and we're in Chicago playing a show to support our new record Eat Myself and we're at the Bottom Lounge. Alright, I'm going to take you through my gear today. This is my Fender, Mexican Fender Strat. I got it in like, it was like 2011, 2012 for a hundred dollars. I still just play the same guitar. I've bought other Strats, I've gotten other Strats that I keep and I like but I don't play them as much as I play this guitar. I don't know what it is. It just feels right to me and I put Fender Custom Shop 69s for the pickups. That was the only thing I replaced. Everything else is just as it was when I got it. I only use the neck pickup ever and so, you know, leaving it in that position when you're strumming sometimes is knock it out so I just tape it up to keep it up there. Yeah, and because the neck's kind of, you know, it's kind of low-end-y, I always just crank the tone knobs to kind of balance it out. I'm not really sure how it came to that. I think I just like the way it sounds when it's strummed and the neck pickup, like it sounds fuller to me. Okay, I use Ernie Ball, I think they're 10s, regular slinkies and the tuning's just standard, standard tuning. These strings, the last time I changed these strings was probably five or six years ago. I don't change strings ever. I don't know why. Once I get comfortable with it, I just don't want to mess with anything. This is just some kind of Frankenstrat, like I don't even, there's no name on it. I just got it at a kind of random guitar shop and I just thought it was kind of ugly but cool. The plan was to put custom 69s in it so that it kind of matched the sound of my other guitar but I haven't done it yet and I've actually, I don't think I've ever needed to use it live yet. It's just a backup guitar and I just got it because I thought it looked kind of weird and cool. But we'll see, maybe tonight I'll use it, who knows. Okay, yeah, just a tuner and then this boost is just a volume boost that I use to gain a little bit but mostly it's just to make the clean guitar louder and I think that the Spark does that pretty good. A lot of pedals like this I feel like sort of change the tone or they add some dirt or something to it and I didn't want that. I just wanted the clean signal just louder and that does that pretty good. I got this T-Rex a couple years ago. I used to use two different distortion pedals. I had a Maxon and I forget what the other one was but it was like two levels of distortion. One was kind of a fuzz, one was kind of just distortion and this kind of has both. So this side has a boost that makes it kind of fuzzy and then this is just kind of a regular distortion but you can just click them back and forth and you don't have to turn one off and turn the other one back on. So it's just kind of an ease of use thing and I like the way it sounds. And this is a Maxon chorus pedal. I don't use it that much. I use it for some songs. I like Maxon a lot. I like a lot of their stuff. This, I don't know how I even got this. I think it was like we shared our rehearsal space with other bands and I feel like I just found it on the ground one day and it's a delay but it's a really clear delay like it doesn't add any tone or anything. I looked it up once. I think they're pretty cheap. I think it's like a $40 delay or something but I always just like the sound of it. And the Holy Grail is just for this tour because the spring reverb on my amp broke and I didn't have time to fix it so it's just and I just barely I have like just a little bit of room on it just so that it's not completely dead. It's a Music Man 65 reverb. The reverb on it doesn't work right now but this amp has been on all of our recordings like I got it in 2011 I think and it's been on every record. It's good. It's the amp that I've always used and I really like the breakup. It's like a hybrid solid state and a tube. I think it's the preamp solid state and then the power is a tube and I just feel like it sounds really good. I don't change it from room to room but because I just feel like you know strats can be kind of bright and even even when I have my guitar on the the neck pickup and stuff I still like to tone down the brightness a little bit so I don't turn the treble more than like three or four and then I keep the bass and the mids in the middle. The volume is like add some grit and then the master is just the actual volume. So I always have a little bit of a little bit of grit a little bit of distortion going on and this is a Fender. It's a 212 supersonic cab. It's got Celestion Vintage 30s. Two of them and it's just stock. I just got this from Fender exactly like that. I feel like they sound really good together. I use 0.73s. I guess I don't want a hard pick like I've been using the same strings forever and I don't want to break strings so I use kind of a softer pick and I dig a little bit but not too much but I like the the ones with the grips on them too. I'm again William Keegan from Together Pangaea and we have a new record called Eat Myself. You could stream it wherever you stream stuff. You buy the record from our website it's togetherpangaea.com or follow us on Instagram. Same thing. Fan name.