Wheel's Santeri Saksala - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 508 - video Dailymotion

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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”, Santeri Saksala, drummer of the prog-metal band, Wheel, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on the "Charismatic Leaders Tour" with Aviations. Wheel is currently supporting their newest album, Charismatic Leaders.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Yamaha Birch Custom Absolute Drumkit - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/R5xv0g Ludwig Supra Snare Drum - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NkdONK Evans EQ3 Bass Drumhead - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Y95QdR Evans UV2 Coasted Drumheads - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/75Ajby Evans G1 Clear Drumhead - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/m56WnX Latin Percussion Timbale - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DKEXLn Bosphorus Cymbals - https://guitar-center.pxf.io/jrEo15 London Drumsticks Co. - https://londondrumsticks.co.uk/product-tag/5b/ Roland SPD-SX Pro Sampling Pad - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LXvrJM Tama Iron Cobra 900 Rolling Glide Double Bass Drum Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/anJaKZ Tama Iron Cobra Lever Glide Hi-hat Stand (2-leg) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/1rjqbd DW Drum Hardware - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Jz3Eqa Drumstick Mallets - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/g1zZoB Hi-hat Tambourine - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/B0WZKL  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - May 12, 2024 Location - Beat Kitchen in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH WHEEL: Facebook - https://facebook.com/wheelband Instagram - https://instagram.com/resident.wheel Twitter - https://twitter.com/Wheel_band  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_mIDoSuZmgzJ

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00:00Hello, I'm Sandri from Wheel, and we are on tour in the States, in Chicago at the moment.

00:18We are promoting our new album, Charismatic Leaders, that was released a week ago, a bit

00:26more than a week, 10 days maybe.

00:30And yeah, the tour has been great so far, and I'm here to talk about the kit, the setup

00:39a little bit, so let's go.

00:42Alright, so the drums, the kit, it's a rental thing, and I usually play Gretsch, but they

00:55didn't have the suitable one for me at the rental shop, so I took another brand, Japanese,

01:03and it's a 24 kick, I don't even know the depth, maybe it's 16, it's not 18 I think,

01:14in my own kit it's 14, so it's a bit more shallow, then there's a 10 inch, I think it's

01:19a 10x9, and there's a 13x11, and in my current setup, in my own kit I have a 14x10, which

01:31brings us to the floor tom, which is an 18x16, and kind of the idea, I just recently got

01:38rid of the second floor tom, I used to have always 16 and 18 here, but now I kind of have

01:45the floor toms up here, so I don't have to twist myself to go to the lower ones, and

01:50it's, yeah, I like the new setup.

01:54The snare drum is also a rental, it's a Ludwig Supra, aluminum, I play an aluminum snare,

02:03the Gretsch one back home, but this is a thinner shell, it's alright, I'm not a huge fan to

02:10be honest, but it gets the job done basically, so it's all good.

02:16Yeah, regarding the heads, they're Evans, and it's the same stuff that I normally use,

02:24the kick is an, what's it called, EQ3, and then the others are UV2, which are fantastic,

02:33you know this, if you take a closer look, they have been played for, what, 9 shows,

02:39and you don't really see a mark on them, it's fantastic, same with the snare head, it's

02:44been really beaten up every night, and yeah, they're really, really durable, and I like

02:50the sound as well, so I use the same head for the snare and the toms, except for the

02:58Timbali that I have here, which has a G1 and a clear one, yeah, this is my own, I brought

03:07it, maybe just quickly I will talk about this, it's, this is not even miked, it doesn't

03:15have a closed miking, so it's bleeding to the overhead pretty much, it has a bright

03:25sound that goes through really easily, but there's a trigger on it, so whenever there

03:33are second snare sounds and stuff like that, I trigger it from the Timbali, yeah, about

03:41the tuning, basically the snare is kind of middle, a bit higher than middle tuning, nothing

03:51special, then I keep the 10 quite high, and then as I said, this is kind of mimicking

03:57a floor tom, so it's really, really low, so these are almost one octave apart, and

04:08then as low as it goes, basically, with the 18, and the Timbali is quite high as well,

04:20so this kind of works as the first tom and the second snare at the same time.

04:25With the tuning, I try to keep these also apart, so this Timbali is a bit higher than

04:33the snare, and then it goes down from the first tom, and yeah, this small thing here

04:42is because when I play the snare sounds, of course there's the Timbali sound, but when

04:47I have it as a snare, I put this damper thing on, so it's less of the Timbali sound, but

04:54still some, I can get the rim sound and stuff, and so it's kind of a hybrid in a way, it's

05:01electronic and it's a natural sound as well.

05:06So yeah, I play Bosphorus cymbals, they are handmade in Istanbul, Turkey, and I have a

05:13really, really nice relationship with them, and I get to order stuff straight from the

05:19factory, so it's a good deal, and they are beautiful, beautiful cymbals.

05:25Ok, let's start from here, this is a 15-inch, what's it called, I can't remember, I still

05:34don't know, it's called something trash or something, it's kind of a splashy thing, but

05:38it's 15, so yeah.

05:41Then I have a couple crashes, this is 21 Antique Series, so it has the lathed side and this

05:52kind of more, how do you say, rough side, and the other crash here, which is kind of

05:58a ride, it's a 22 Syncopation Series, and yeah, there's another 22 here, it's a Black

06:06Pearl ride, really nice, and this is the one that I keep smashing the most during the set,

06:14so basically the difference between these are, this is darker, and it doesn't bother

06:21people so much whenever I smash it really hard throughout the song, and then this still

06:28works as a crash for this, because it's brighter and cuts through a little bit more.

06:35Then there's the heavy ride, and this is a special made, it's a travel size heavy ride,

06:42I was weighing my Symbol kit just before leaving for this tour, and it was over the flying

06:49kilos, so I had to do something about it and I ordered this custom made 19-inch, so I asked

06:59them to make a 19 as heavy as possible, basically, and it has this series that's called Turk,

07:10the top is Turk, and then the bottom is Brilliant finish, so it gives it a little bit more

07:18brightness, I think, cuts through a little bit more, so yeah, usually I have a 21, but the 19 just,

07:27you know, cut one kilo off the set, so I can fly with it, yeah. Then a newcomer in my Symbol

07:38setup is the 18-inch second hi-hat, and it's really dark, trashy, but not the lightest one,

07:50so yeah, I really like the sound, and I like to have the second hi-hat, especially when I play

07:59the double bass stuff, it's handy to have, kind of play open-handed, and then there's a China,

08:06it's a 21, this was also a special order, so it's the antique series, same with this crash,

08:14but the lathered parts are made Brilliant instead of the standard finish. Oh, yeah,

08:24the main hats, they're 16, and it's a mixed pair, this is Syncopation SW on top, and there's a black

08:31pearl on the bottom, and I think this is the, because I mixed these, I have pairs of both,

08:38and I mixed, this is, the top is the, I think it's the bottom of the Syncopation hats, and the

08:45bottom is the top of the black pearl, so yeah, it was also this flying kilo issue related thing,

08:54so I got it on board. Sticks, yeah, sticks, I play with London Drumstick Company sticks,

09:02I've played their sticks for a couple of years now, and they have made me a custom

09:10model, and for this tour, for the first time, I got this tour stick, so it's really nice,

09:18and these are really fantastic, they last for many shows, actually on this tour I can afford to

09:26toss one, because we sell them at the merch, so I can play a first pair on every show, it's great,

09:33but yeah, they're kind of 5B, a little bit thicker than most 5Bs on most manufacturers,

09:45but with a half an inch more length, so it's a 16 and a half, I cannot remember the diameter, but

09:53you know, 5B-ish, a bit bigger, and then I have a Roland SPD-SX Pro, the new, or is it new

10:02anymore, I don't know, maybe it's been out for two years or something, it's fantastic,

10:09I just got this for this tour, and it's a massive improvement for the classic

10:17SPD, so it has the colors, that's nice, and it's much easier to program too,

10:25and also a big benefit is that it has these multiple outs, I think the old one had the

10:32left-right plus two additional ones, and this has four, so I have the left-right,

10:39in the left-right there's this, we have some intro sounds, stuff like that,

10:45and then there's some click tracks, there's a separate click track for James, and then there's

10:52a separate channel for this Timbale, which is triggered, and I have a bass drum pedal here,

11:04it's down here, below the floor tom, I use it in a couple of songs, so these are routed to

11:12their own outputs, which helps the mixing quite a bit. So yeah, with the pedals I got this

11:19Iron Cobra, Tama Iron Cobra, it's called Rolling Glide, so kind of more traditional-shaped cam,

11:29and it's the same, this is rental, but it's brand new actually, I'm the first one to play it,

11:36but it's the same one that I have back home, and same with the hi-hat stand, it's also an Iron Cobra,

11:46905 maybe is the model, I can't remember the exact model, but it's a two-legged

11:51thing, and it's really nice. Other hardware is always rental,

11:59and it's DW, I use DW myself also, and it's really, it's a 9000 series, it's really sturdy,

12:07and I even got some of these, some of these booms are actually my own, and the hi-hat adapter, and

12:16as I love the clamps, so it's, yeah, works nicely, and I have mallets for a couple of swells,

12:24then I have a chain, the jazz chain, so I put it on the right cymbal in one song,

12:36here we go, and I have a small tambourine that I use in the song Disciple, there's a part

12:47that has a kind of tambourine-ish sound, so that's that, and again, yeah, we are touring here in the

12:58States for a couple more weeks, the last show is in Seattle on the 25th, and there's quite a few

13:04on the way there, and so please come up and see us, and yeah, Charismatic Leaders is out,

13:12go and check it out on the streaming platforms, and you can find us on Instagram, it's

13:19resident.wheel, and yeah, see you at the shows, take care!

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