FELICITY's Drew Rapier - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 510 - 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”, Drew Rapier, guitarist of the rock band, FELICITY, shows off the gear that he uses onstage. FELICITY is currently supporting their newest single, CODEBREAKER.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Burny Les Paul Electric Guitar by Fernandes Guitars - https://www.fernandes.co.jp/ EverTune Bridge - https://www.evertune.com/shop/bridges.php EMG 57 MetalWorks Active Alnivo V Bridge Humbucker Guitar Pickup - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/g199BO 1mm Guitar Picks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/0ZbboP DigiTech Drop Polyphonic Drop Tune Pitch-Shift Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/EKo5AQ Ernie Ball 2216 Skinny Top Beefy Bottom Slinky Nickel Wound Electric Guitar Strings (.010-.054) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6evvLV Kemper Profiler Stage Floorboard Amp Profiler - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/OrNWzQ  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - May 18, 2024 Location - Cobra Lounge in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH FELICITY: Facebook - https://facebook.com/wearefelicity Instagram - https://instagram.com/wearefelicity Twitter - https://twitter.com/wearefelicity  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

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00:00My name is Drew. I play guitar in the band Felicity. We're here in beautiful Chicago,

00:16Illinois at Cobra Lounge for our first show ever in Chicago. We flew here, so my rig's

00:20a little bit light of what I would normally bring on tour, but I'm going to show you what

00:24I got anyways. This is my Pride and Joy Workhorse guitar. It is a Fernie guitar, and for those

00:34of you who don't know, most people think of Les Pauls, they think of Gibson Les Pauls,

00:38but this is a company from Japan that was making knock-off Gibson guitars in the 70s

00:46and 80s until they got sued by Gibson and Gibson absorbed everything and they stopped

00:50making them. This is one of the Fernie Les Pauls, which is pretty cool because it just

00:55has a different headstock and stuff you might recognize from Gibson, but really everything

01:00else on it feels like a Gibson Les Paul. I put our band ad on the back for when we have

01:07Felicity's show off and whenever I can play it, I can flip it over and try to get a couple

01:11of followers out of it. But this guitar is really my workhorse. I've had it for probably

01:18going on 5-10 years now, somewhere in between 5-10 years, but I got this one specifically

01:25because it was a Randy Rhodes, who's one of my favorite guitar players, he played guitar

01:30player for Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot, but his custom guitar, and I've actually modded

01:37it pretty significantly. I have a Evertune bridge, which is one of the probably coolest

01:44technologies for guitars to have now, is these Evertune bridges. My guitar never goes

01:48out of tune, I can play a show, put it back in, the next day I can put it out and everything

01:52stays perfectly in tune. I also only have one pickup in here, which is an EMG 57 pickup,

02:01which kind of sounds like a vintage Gibson pickup, but it has the active capability so

02:06it's got a little bit more power behind it. And other than that, I just have it wired

02:10with one volume knob that's pretty much on all the time, and all of these knobs, I just

02:18gutted it out, all of the wiring and knobs and pots, and I just put these caps from,

02:24I got, there's like pushpin caps I got from Lowe's or Home Depot or something, just so

02:29there's not holes there. And there was one here too for the pickup selector, but it just

02:32fell off, so that's just a little hole there, but this is really just one pickup on and

02:37off, and so that's why I call it my workhorse, because it's never let me down, I've never

02:41had problems with it, and it's extremely reliable, it sounds great, and it's I think from 1991,

02:48so early 90s, late 80s before Bernie got shut down by Gibson. But yeah, that's the guitar,

02:56super fun to play. The guitar is in basically like a drop D, but a half-step down tuning,

03:04so it's like a E flat standard, half-step down on all the strings, and then the D string

03:10is dropped, and most of our songs are in like a drop D bass tuning, we have a couple that

03:15are in like standard tuning, but everything's basically drop D, so it's tuned a half-step

03:18down. This is my custom picks I have, they are I believe 1mm in width there, but they

03:29say Felicity on one side, and I got Slimer from Ghostbusters, I'm a big Ghostbusters

03:36guy, so I got my Slimer tattoo, and then on the other side, I have a Stone Cold Dr. Phil,

03:43I'm a big wrestling and Dr. Phil fan, to match my Stone Cold tattoo I have, and I got my

03:51Instagram on one side, and Felicity's on the other, so just if I throw it out in the crowd,

03:56people are like, what band's pick was this? They'll know where it came from, and I have

04:00a whole bunch of these, so if you come to a show, I'll try to throw one at you, when

04:04you go there. Right here I have my signature drop pedal, and I have Drew's Moves, that's

04:12at Drew's Moves, that's my Instagram, and handles for everything, this is basically

04:16just so we all have drop pedals, I can tell which one's mine, so this is the Drew's Moves

04:20pedal, and basically this is so that we can change tunings without having to bring multiple

04:27guitars, we have probably three to five different tunings, depending on how long of a set we

04:32play, and like, you know, maybe Sunday we could have a cool guitar tech, and they bring

04:36us out a different guitar for every tuning, but this makes it so much easier, where basically

04:42I can just turn a knob to change the tunings, and we do use this kind of like octave mode

04:46that kind of does an octave of it to make it cool, kind of sounds like 96 Quite Bitter

04:52Beatings by CKY kind of tone, which is fun, so we use that kind of for effect, other than

04:56that it's really just to change tunings, so I can do the entire set with one guitar. Yeah,

05:01and then I use these Skinny Top Beefy Bottom Springs, mainly my low string is the 54, and

05:10the high string is a 10 from Ernie Ball, and so yeah, I might rotate what brand, but

05:17basically if it's like 54 to 11 or 54 to 10 guitar strings is mainly what I use, but I've

05:24been using these Ernie Ball ones so far, they haven't let me down, they've been really good.

05:29And this is our Kemper, we switched from like real amps to Kemper probably about five years

05:39ago, and the reason we did that is because we love all two boutique amps, I would love

05:45to be able to bring a Marshall JCM800 or maybe an Invasive Boogie or something, but those

05:52things are really heavy, they take up a lot of space, and if they're really expensive

05:59and if they got stolen or something, these boutique amps would just be heartbroken, and

06:04a lot of these shows we've been flying, for our latest shows, or like today we flew the

06:08Chicago show, and so we're able to just do everything we need on our entire guitar amp

06:11just in this pedalboard version of the Kemper, we have the actual racked ones, and just last

06:19year we switched to these pedalboard ones once we made these available. The only thing

06:26we would need is if we ever wanted to put it through a guitar cab, we would need a power

06:28amp, so we have these power amp pedals we use as well, but that's only if we're using

06:32actual cabs, and for this show we're actually stripping it down, so everything's just DI'd

06:38straight through the Kemper, and really with the Kemper I have a few different settings,

06:45most of the profiles are based around a Marshall JVM, and a PV5150 are the main amps I use

06:53in it, and I have basically a clean tone, sounds kind of like that, I have a clean tone,

07:01and then like a heavy tone, and then like one for basically leads, Corey's is a lot

07:07more complicated, mine's pretty simple as far as the profiles go. On the Kemper, I'm

07:13modeling a JVM, a Marshall JVM, with I think a Marshall JCM800 cab, and a PV5150 head with

07:24the same cab pretty much I think I use for all of them. With most of them, the only really

07:29effects that I'm using are compressor to kind of just control dynamics, some reverb

07:36and delay on some of the lead, high gain, like lead tones to kind of get it really creamy,

07:41and then on our new song, we have a new song called Lovesick Blues, that we use clean with

07:47like chorus effect, and so there's that one time in that one song, we gotta have a big

07:51bright clean, and that clean tone is modeling an orange rocker verb head, and then we use

07:58chorus effects on that one, and other than that, I really don't use any type of distortion

08:03pedals or anything in the Kemper, because all the amp clones have plenty of distortion

08:07and everything we have dialed in, and we have so many profiles in there, I could spend days

08:11just going through the different amps that are in there, so I kind of have it set to

08:15something that works, and I kind of try not to mess with it too much, because I could

08:18be spending days just playing around with it if I let myself. And that is basically

08:23the rig I'm using for this show, and most of what I use on tour, maybe a couple more

08:27things on tour, but that's basically what we use for this show. We are playing for the

08:31first time ever our new single tonight, Lovesick Blues, which you can go stream anywhere you

08:37stream music, and you can follow us at wearefelicity on any social medias, and other than that,

08:45we hope to come to a city near you very very soon.

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