Almost Monday’s Dawson Daugherty - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 565 - video Dailymotion

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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”, Dawson Daugherty, guitarist/vocalist of the indie pop band, Almost Monday, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on The Dive Tour. Almost Monday is currently supporting the deluxe edition of their newest album, DIVE.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Kemper Profiler Stage Floorboard Amp Profiler - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6yVXYE Nash Telecaster T63 Guitar - https://www.nashguitars.com/tmodels Elixir 10 Gauge Guitar Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Wy2J7J Fender Stratocaster - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/RG2Y7X Dunlop Jazz III (1.38mm) Guitar Picks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/dO53YW AKG Wireless System - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/N92o7q  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - January 31, 2025 Location - Beat Kitchen in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH ALMOST MONDAY: Facebook - https://facebook.com/almostmonday Instagram - https://instagram.com/almostmonday Twitter - https://twitter.com/ALMOSTMONDAYY  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  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:31 Pedalboard 01:33 Guitars 04:36 Picks  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 artists on tour, and "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage.  Affiliate Disclosure: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you if you make a purchase. Your support helps me continue to create content like this. Thank you!

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00:00What's up guys? I'm Dawson from Almost Monday and we are checking out my gear.

00:15So I am rolling very standard Camper. I'm actually kind of just rolling the same setup as Cole.

00:24Cole is kind of the smart one and he helps me figure it out because it feels sometimes like a spaceship.

00:32This thing is kind of confusing. But they have an app now which has made it a lot easier.

00:37I think a Fender Twin, I believe. Yeah, so I got the Fender Twin.

00:44Yeah, I've been playing this thing since day one of Almost Monday and I love it.

00:50You don't have to lug around an amp which is really nice.

00:54But yeah, I mean obviously the amp vibe is, it's got that, you can feel your guitar.

01:01So, you know, we've got that in here.

01:03I feel bad, I'm just kind of like Cole's student. He is like the brain on it all.

01:10I'm definitely a singer. I'm a singer that's playing guitar. I'm not a guitar player. I'm a guitar player that's singing.

01:20So, Cole really helps me out on getting all of the tones right and everything.

01:25So, I mean, what can I say? Shout out to Cole. Shout out to the guitar player of Almost Monday.

01:31And then my guitars, this thing is actually Luke's guitar and it is Nash guitars.

01:39It's a custom Tele and Luke's had it forever. It's such a sick guitar.

01:45And a little fun fact about it is our friend, shout out Kirk Henson back home, San Diego, Henson & Sons, shout out.

01:53He has an auto body shop and Luke took this back when we were kids and got like a custom spray with it.

02:01So, it's kind of a nice blue. I feel like you don't really see a blue like that that much on the guitars.

02:06So, shout out Kirk Henson, Henson & Sons.

02:08Yeah, I typically am just sticking on the bridge pickup.

02:12Usually stay there, just a little bit meatier sound. Volume and tone always full volume, full tone all the way up.

02:21I mean, really simple rig for me, man.

02:25I think I'm playing Elixir's, Elixir's 10 gauge. That seems like the sweet spot.

02:32I don't really break a lot of strings on this guitar.

02:35This one is actually, I'm sure Cole gave you a rundown of this one, but this is my guitar.

02:40So, we're kind of doing a little switch on this tour because he misplaced his other Thunder, his Telecaster Deluxe.

02:48But this one's mine, and I just have something with this Tele. It's just a standard Tele.

02:54I just break strings on that one so much, but for some reason on this one, I can go basically like an entire tour without changing a string.

03:04Knock on wood. Hopefully I don't break it tonight. Just standard tuning. E-A-D-G-B-E.

03:11The backup. I have a lot to say about this backup. I've never played it.

03:17Tonight, Cole made that switch up because he wanted to have, like I just said, I never break strings and he breaks a lot of strings.

03:24So, he thought we'd just make the switch. So, this is my first night on the job with this backup.

03:30So, that was sarcasm. I don't have a lot to say about the Strat. But it's beautiful. I like the yellow. Looks good.

03:40For some reason, I feel like tonight is going to be the night where I break the string and have to try it out, but we'll see.

03:46I am rocking AKG, wireless setup. First tour, well not first tour, but first tour, a first headline tour running wireless, which is new for me.

03:56I typically like being in. I like being in with the 58, but we were just in Europe and I was doing that setup a lot.

04:08And I tend to run around a lot. And I always, always unplug stuff and it ends up being like the biggest disaster.

04:18So, Robbie, sweet Robbie, thought it'd be a good idea this time around to just free me up.

04:24Which has been nice, but I do miss, I like the look and feel of having the XLR.

04:31But, hey, less problems, right, Robbie? Yes. Okay. Yeah, picks. I'm running the Jazz 3s, which Cole put me onto.

04:42I was rocking a Tim Dunlop, just kind of standard purple pick, but these, Cole kind of got me on these.

04:50I love, I just really like with these guys, they're a little bit smaller so you can be really accurate.

04:55I just really like that. So, Cole, again, shout out for just getting me dialed with all my guitar needs.

05:02But you know what? This is hard hitting journalism, so we're going to make sure we know.

05:06Jazz 3, 1.3, well, I mean, yeah, okay, so the Jazz 3 is the 1.38.

05:14We were just in Europe on a tour, and the night of our show in London, or the night our album came out was in London,

05:24and we were kind of celebrating, our producer came all the way out to London, and I was rocking some really nice ultimate ear,

05:33like really good molds, and we were having a good time right before the show, celebrating the album coming out,

05:39and I literally squashed them, and they're, I mean, the people that know those aren't cheap, the custom molds.

05:45And so right now I'm rocking literally like $40, like, what are they, Rafa?

05:52What are the, what are the Amazon generic ears, and I've been rocking them now for like months, and I kind of like them.

05:59But I missed the ultimate ears, I gotta go get them fixed, but it's literally completely smashed.

06:05It's, it doesn't exist anymore.

06:07Our album, Dive, is out now, we just released Dive Deluxe, which is cool.

06:12And yeah, we're on tour right now, we are currently in Chicago, and we're heading to Detroit.

06:17We're heading all over, we're going back to Europe, and the UK, so check us out.

Almost Monday’s Dawson Daugherty - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 565

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