FELICITY's Cory Nicholas - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 516 - 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”, Cory Nicholas, guitarist of the rock band, FELICITY, shows off the gear that he uses onstage. FELICITY is currently supporting their newest EP, WASTED.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: ENKI Guitar Case - https://tidd.ly/4gMWdSc Fender Telecaster Diamond Series 60th Anniversary - https://tidd.ly/4gVsabg Dunlop Tortex Flex Standard Guitar Picks (1.00mm) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/PyJ30e Ernie Ball Ultra Slinky Nickel Wound Electric Guitar Strings (10-48) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/GmPzmm DigiTech Drop Polyphonic Drop Tune Pitch-Shift Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/EKo5AQ 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  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:28 Guitar 02:13 Picks 03:30 Pedal 04:38 Kemper Profiler  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digita

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00:00Hey guys, my name is Cory, I play for the band Felicity, I'm one of the guitar players.

00:15We are in Chicago playing a new show for one of our tours, we are also playing our new

00:19single Lovesick Blues tonight for the first time, yeah, and I'm going to show you guys

00:23our travel rig and our flight rigs.

00:25So since flying is really hard we bring everything in Enkei guitar cases, so we actually recorded

00:31Lovesick with this one as well as a lot of the new singles.

00:34It's a Fender Telecaster, it is the Diamond Series 60th Anniversary Edition, it just sounds

00:41great, it plays great, I'm a huge Fender guy, so if I can only bring one guitar I usually

00:45like to bring this one because with drop pedals and everything and all the different tunings

00:49it just makes it so much easier to use this, and yeah, and it's pretty.

00:52So as you can see there is a lot of switching, I've dung it up a bunch, I lost my little

00:56selector, so primarily for a lot of if I'm going to be playing a lot of our riff stuff

01:01I'll keep it down here on the bridge pickup just to get it to pop, if we're doing a lot

01:06of like our heavier parts for it we always flip it, for me, always up here on the neck

01:11because we just found that using the Telecaster with the drop and some of our different selectings

01:18for our tones, it just gives it this weird tonality and it really makes it stand out,

01:23so we'll use that for a lot of the heavier riffs, but for the most part I'm sitting here,

01:26I'll adjust my volume depending on the intensity and how loud I want to be present in the mix,

01:32and I always keep the tone up here, pretty much just dialed in on 100.

01:36Everything on this is stock, I just loved how they built it, I didn't feel the need

01:41to go ahead and change anything, if I was going to change anything I would change the

01:45pick plate, but this little shiny pearl whatever, it's just great, so everything on it is stock

01:52as it came from the factory, and yeah, there's not been a need to change everything, the

01:58tuning pegs are all the same, the bridge, the nut, the little string holders, it's all

02:03the same, so the only additions I did were just add strap locks, and that's about it.

02:10So as far as picks go, I always use the Jim Dunlop Tortoise, the 1mm flex, it's my pretty

02:17much go-to standard that I've tried, I've tried tons of their other different models

02:20and I've found that for versatility reasons for myself, I've enjoyed these a lot, I can

02:25grip with it, I can play solos, I can play rhythms for it, the only other pick I would

02:30use that I didn't bring would be the Jazz 3 grips, they're just like very small little

02:35boys, but yeah, I know I love those ones, but yeah, the flex 3's, or the flex Tortoise

02:42are pretty much my standard go-to that I would bring, yeah, and Amazon gives you like this

02:46whole bag for like 10 bucks, so.

02:48As far as strings, all the reliables are the Ultra Slinky's, the 10-48's, they're the custom

02:56gauge nickel wound by Ernie Balls, these ones I've actually never seen them before until

03:01probably like two years ago, never used them, but as far as all the different tunings we've

03:07used, how many different parts they play, I've found that the 10-48's, it doesn't make

03:11the top string so, or the bottom 6, like so heavy, and it doesn't make the top first so

03:16like thin and like fragile, and it's a lot of bending ability, there's a lot of flexibility

03:22with it, and dexterity built into it, so yeah, I pretty much won't use anything else other

03:28than really these honestly.

03:30For all my guitars, I tune everything into E-flat standard, unless we need to do a drop

03:34and then we'll just be, you know, drop D-flat or C-sharp depending on what song we're playing

03:39and how we have it labeled, but most of the time we just use drop pedals, it's the Digitech

03:43Drop, and you know, everything's broken down into chromatic half steps, so if I'm tuning

03:50to, you know, E-flat standard, and we have a song, for instance like Charlie Sheen, we

03:55play in D standard, then I just need to click it on, drop it down to 1, go down a half step,

04:00so this just makes everything, especially when you're flying and traveling like we are

04:04today, it just makes not having to bring 8 different guitars on the road, it just allows

04:09you to just drop in, tune up, if you bring it all the way down to the octave plus the

04:13dry, that's really cool, we do that with a lot of our songs including Lovesick actually

04:18and She's Nuclear and all these other songs, you drop it down to the octave and the dry,

04:23it keeps your regular tone of what you're sending through the pedal, but it also will

04:27drop it down a whole octave, so it just makes these very big, anthemic, wall of sound guitars,

04:33and it's just a good way to just sound very massive on stage when you have minimal, you

04:36know, instruments and instruments, awesome, so yeah, so just like Drew, we stopped using

04:41tube amps and everything else and we just run everything now through the Kemper Profile

04:46or Stage, these are great, because again, once you're traveling and just touring, even

04:50if you're just like on a bus or something, it just makes everything so much easier, because

04:56you really just have two outputs coming in, left, right, stereo, if you wanted, you have

05:01your inputs for your drops and everything and you have your power, you can obviously

05:04do any sort of like looping and playback, or if you have MIDI controls that you want

05:07to use for your stage again, but it just makes everything so much easier, I have four different

05:14presets as far as like different channels I use, with everything from like Silver Jubilee

05:20from Marshall, PV 5150, 6505s, there's Bogner's that I use for my clean channels, and it's

05:27just the ability, just flexibility of just having every sound we need from all of our

05:31songs and records, everything we've recorded, I'll go ahead and add and download into the

05:35Kemper here, so that way what you hear when you're listening to our songs, you actually

05:39can hear live as well, and it's the only amp that we've found that gives us that flexibility

05:44to be able to do that.

05:45So yeah, we just released the Lovesick Blues on May 14th, it's out everywhere, everywhere

05:49you stream music, YouTube, Spotify, Tidal, Apple, anywhere you go, you can find us on

05:54every social media platform, at WeAreFelicity, we have our own Discord that we heavily promote,

05:59we want everyone to join, when you get inside you get special discounts on new merch, you

06:03get insider knowledge on new songs, new shows, everything, so it is imperative to join the

06:08Discord, and we do a lot of lives from there too as well, so, at WeAreFelicity guys.

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