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Subscribe to DTB at http://digtb.us/subscribe Become a member (it's FREE) at https://digtb.us/signup Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch  On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Per Bergquist, guitarist of the rock band, Smash Into Pieces, shows off the gear that the band uses onstage, while on the Manifest Tour with Versus Me. Smash Into Pieces is currently supporting their newest album, Ghost Code.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - April 27, 2024 Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH SMASH INTO PIECES: Facebook - https://facebook.com/SmashIntoPieces Instagram - https://instagram.com/smashintopiecesofficial Twitter - https://twitter.com/smashintopieces  WATCH MORE GEAR MASTERS EPISODES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU1k_TJRZ6U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKLSY8Walzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSRt4jubpjE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFmpByRkZuk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH7fshlGZRU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHtWddN9YqI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYuqASDgSGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNd5bcdl_CI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsvELmoQlpo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIo-5Htb9zA  FOLLOW US: Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus  WATCH OUR DIFFERENT VIDEO SERIES: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7_ByKsuzBlHLw8Z9vlvMHpo https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7-qmqFF3X8-CewdMmig-D2a https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs78kkdygO4-67vxS4u5P6Qh7 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7_eKAu5-RHLaIhZD07cL_iy https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7-w9-ii7pFxKrqa3Fd6zEh3 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7_mIDoSuZmgzJTkhh522ZIE https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs78fQYYOLfFfCOFJOxTRfg-e https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB710EB72989541BB https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs795mjUgkfdK7YuWgwd5cluo https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7-9mycmBW-MljwWxKzQdQt2 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7_w6rQHnI6TBq-tjXQsQ5lt  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 01:24 Guitars 04:36 Rig 07:05 Drums 07:51 FOH Rig  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, Machine Gun Kelly, Papa Roach, and thousands of others, over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of

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00:00Hey, this is Per from Smash Into Pieces, and we'll be showing you our North American tour

00:17rig.

00:18So, it's pretty light, because we have to be able to fly with everything, so basically

00:26This is our monitor station and our backline station, so nothing special, it's two Kempers.

00:33I mean, it's more about the sounds that we're using than the actual hardware.

00:37I mean, Behringer X32 as our monitor mixer, connected to four in-ear systems for the band.

00:46The Kempers, I like a lot of, you know, to sneak in some fuss, it makes it, you know,

00:54for big choruses when the guitars are just like, almost like a synthesizer, it kind of

00:58gives that like a chainsaw thing that I like, and sometimes when it's more like riff-based

01:05we'll have something that is a bit more, you know, tight, low-end for palm-mutes and stuff

01:09like that.

01:10I think that the main guitar sound, it's a Marshall JCM-900, with like a fuss added in

01:19the effect loop, so, yeah.

01:23Main sound, the guitars, we use Solar Guitars, so, this one is mine, and it's a Baritone

01:3327-inch, with the Evertune bridge, so usually we don't switch guitars during the live set.

01:44We use the Kempers if we need to change like a key for some low-tune riff, we'll just transpose

01:49in the Kemper, and we're using the same guitars throughout the whole set.

01:55So, we're using, I'm using these D'Addario NYXL, and they're 10-52, so they're really

02:08thin strings, you know, for such a low-tune guitar, it's tuned in drop B, but then I replaced

02:16the lowest string with a 56, it's a bit thicker, the lowest string, but the funny thing is

02:24when you have like a Baritone with this scale, and the Evertune, it works really well with

02:29thinner strings, and it gives that, it feels better when you're doing palm-mutes and fast

02:34stuff to have thinner strings, for me, so, yeah.

02:39And it's the original pickup, it's the Duncan Solar Plus or something, so, I really liked

02:47it when I bought it, the original, so I kept it, but on my other guitar, I have the Lungreen

02:52M6, which has a bit more, like, dainty, maybe, yeah, a bit more, this one is more smooth,

03:01I would say, and the other one is more kind of forward in the high-mids.

03:06All the way up, and I even taped this, because when it's live and you're, sometimes you get

03:11the single-coil mode, so I just taped it for, yeah, nothing, only the bridge mic and the

03:20full-tone and volume.

03:22So this is pretty much the same one, but it's not the kind of treble, this is the, I guess,

03:30Power Strat or something, but it's a Solar, and it has these Fishman pickups, active ones,

03:38so it's pretty much the same guitar, but it gives, you know, a little bit of difference,

03:43so it's, yeah, when you're two guitars playing the same, like, chords in a chorus, then you

03:50get this, you can still hear us, like, differently, so.

03:55Now it's the same tuning, both are used on stage, and we have one of these as a backup,

04:01so, yeah.

04:03They're tuned in a drop B, and then we're going everything from, like, one half-step

04:10up to maybe five steps down, depending on, you know, if there's a really heavy breakdown,

04:16or, yeah.

04:18So it's easier to not have, like, fourteen guitars when you're traveling, it's just one

04:22stage guitar, and Kemper does the rest.

04:26Funny thing is, like, sometimes when we're playing the set acoustic, and you don't have

04:31the Kempers to transpose, it's like, you're so used to how you're supposed to play the

04:36riffs, so it's like, you gotta really think when you're without the transposing of the

04:42Kemper, so.

04:43So we don't use any pedal boards or cabs or anything, it's just Kemper straight into our

04:48monitor mixer, and then going to the front of house, so, and we just use, you know, nothing

04:55special, it's just the iPad where we, everyone monitors their own in-ear system.

05:01So we're using Logic, and inside Logic we have these MIDI switches for the Kempers,

05:10so during the set it just switches automatically, and we used to have, like, Behringer floorboards

05:18in case something goes wrong, but it's, you know, one out of a hundred that something

05:24goes wrong, so we just stopped using that as well, so, it works out well.

05:29And then we have all the different tracks channels for, yeah, synth and backing vocals

05:35and stuff, and then we have, like, meta events, cause there's markers for every song, and

05:43then I make the set list by programming where, yeah, just makes a playlist with the meta

05:50events, and I'm going to show you, obviously we use a digital kit, which is up on stage,

06:00and under the drum riser there's another X32 and a Mac Mini, which we're running Superior

06:08Drummer 3, so it's MIDI from the drums straight into Superior Drummer, to the X32 on the stage,

06:17which sends it here, and then to Frodom House.

06:20So this is basically the drum kit for our live show, it's, yeah, it's Bob Rock's, the

06:31foundation is Bob Rock, anyway, the kick, and then we're using, like, New York Avatar

06:37coded toms, the Near C snare, and then a couple of triggers, so it's like, yeah, mostly,

06:50you know, soft hits and ghost notes, that's just original Superior Drummer, but then,

06:55like the hardest hits are, you know, with some triggers to make it even more, you know,

07:01canon, or, you know, gunshots sounding, so this is not our kit, it's a, we rent the kit

07:08when we fly over here, so it's, that's a good thing about these digital drums, because all

07:14the sound is in our, the settings in our Superior Drummer, which is underneath here, it's just

07:20a Mac Mini M1, and straight into an X32, and, yeah, it's just the standard setup, we added

07:30like a extra snare, which, for, like, electro sounds, and sometimes we have extra kick just

07:37for electronic sounds, but, yeah, it's a Roland TD-50X, so, this is the hardware that we're

07:46using for Front of House, this hardware is called Emil, and it's the, our Front of House

07:51tech, and we keep it really light, as you can see, this is, like, the Front of House

07:56console, which is, again, X32, a small Waves server, and it's, well, no console, it's just

08:06an iPad, which you can unplug and just go wireless, and, you know, standing in the audience,

08:13and then we're using a Computeus to do the Waves server stuff, so, yeah, we're pretty

08:21much doing, like, Waves chains for vocals, guitars, and then we have, like, instrument

08:28bus, and, like, a master channel, and a bit of small tricks, ducking the kick against

08:33the bass, and, you know, classic stuff like that, so, yeah, it's a really light and neat

08:40Front of House, and today Emil even served it by changing a few Cat5 cables, and yesterday

08:49we had audio dropouts, so, no more.

08:53We think it's both the cable, I hope, but we will see tonight if it works.

08:58And Emil usually does this, since everything is digital, there's nothing except the microphones

09:05that pick up sound from, you know, so feedback, usually we, it's only the lead vocals you

09:13gotta check, and, yeah, it's really important for us, cause we're, you know, no cabs or

09:18nothing, to really have, like, a good master EQ and really dial in the room properly, so

09:24Emil usually does, like, his measuring mic, white noise, and just make sure that you get

09:31a good clean start, and then, yeah, we run a few songs and he adjusts what needs to be

09:38done for this specific venue, so, yeah.

09:44It's a easy-peasy fly rig, but it sounds good.

09:49So thank you for checking out our gear, and, yeah, please check out our webpage, smashintopieces.com

09:56for tour dates, Spotify to listen to our music, and, yeah, social media, TikTok to see APOC

10:05to awkward stuff, yeah.

10:09Check us out!

10:10Thank you for listening!

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