Rig Rundown: Khruangbin's Mark Speer & Laura Lee

[Music] very cool I love ending on that on that 13 kind of gets all gives you a little bit of tension like what's gonna happen next hey dog Bolger with premier guitar I'm here with Mark spear of chrome min mark thanks so much for joining us today the pleasure belongs to me uh-huh tell us about this guitar this is your this year number one in fact it is just the only it's the only one I have only guitar you want to play yeah let's hear all about it okay well I got this I guess the 2001-2002 somewhere in there so I've had it for a long time what'd you say what year is the guitar it is probably a 2001 Roque it's not a vintage or anything yes he's got it's gotten pretty beat up over over time it looks like hi miles on that guitar I thought it was a 70s era just because of the abuse you know you've put it through but a reissue from Sade early 2000 early two-thousands I think one of the first things to do is probably put one of these in here a little cruiser is that DeMar DeMar doors right because I was doing a lot of sessions and the engineer would always be like wow this your guitars really buzzy sure you know cuz it's strapped yeah yeah that's 60 cycle thing yeah so I put that one in there so I could get much more you know clean sound sure worry about buzzing and stuff like that and uh but at this point is made it into the movie you know the tone the toll spectrum sure what you know what I love about that too is those those DiMarzio bars to me really retain that single coyly sound but they just take away the 60 cycle hum so it's like a yeah I don't even really know I haven't really a beat it against anything I just know it's a little bit darker and doesn't buzz and that's that's what I liked about it sure I think once I got deeper into playing guitar I was able to get that kind of like that jazzy sound so yeah right love that but I didn't you know necessarily get on a single-coil but they sound great to me so I'll put another one here so the same kind of deal so I could give high gain back there this is still stocked its exact same thing it's always been I had my buddy put in a super switch here so that I can switch between stuff but I had I actually ended up wiring it and I wired this one wrong so it gives you this really like that's not a standard there's your Stevie Ray Vaughn toe which I [ __ ] hate can't stand that stuff so I like that it's got this really cool harmonic thing happening on top yeah that's cool I think it just sounds like one of those like kind of crappy sears guitars like that yeah it's it's it's almost like that I guess it's a Peter Green thing when he put the pickups in backwards and it made it out of phase and the boss of the guitar shop he used to work out of Houston was oh yeah he's like Peter Green but well that's a happy accident but that's so the pickups have you made any other changes other than the nuts is that good that's great that's it there's a tusk tuft saddles in here oh it's great so because I was just getting tired of having those little metal burrs in the end of the shirt saddles would break all the time it's got a bone nut on it I've replaced the frets two or three times Wow are those larger than the original yeah way bigger I just really like the bigger frets curtains here to bend on and have more fun with Cordy and all that kind of stuff I think initially I've got bigger fresh because I was wearing them down cuz I was playing all the time was it yeah you playing at church for like eight hours of time really you know like every Sundays Wow eight hours of straight playing Wow so they wore down pretty fast those like just give you taller for it you know maybe I'll just have I won't have to come back here again and write more room - chew through all right exactly so got those on there kind of have these same sort of tusk stream trees they also help with like friction and catching string so if I'm doing a lot of you know [Music] wow that's really impressive witty good very good I mean I never dive bomb on stage but if I could yeah if I did it'd still be pretty good you know what I mean I'm I'm happy about that yeah that's really impressive you can you can bend that far to have it yeah hop right back up that's right well no wonder that's the only guitar you yeah I've got a kind of dial oh wait no that's great so those what strings are you running on it I used to buy daddario chrome 12 and throw out the huge E and then put like a 10 right here okay so this is an a string a D G B II and then a 10 but it's just to normal you know this is an e it's just uh it's like a 42 huh okay so cuz you know you put on a set up so stiff you can't ban and swoon gee it's like I can't use that but I like the tone of them so those are flats these are flat [ __ ] okay no very cool okay I've been using flats maybe about 1516 years Wow cool and that's just the tone you're drawn to the tone alike also once they're broken in they don't change how they sound they're gonna sound till they break yeah I have some flats on a on a Gretsch White Falcon that have been there for four years or these strings have been on there since you got the bass in 2010 Wow yeah you need a tetanus shot when you pick it up but it sounds fine oh yeah also like I just I know that you can get into the whole thing of chasing that bright bright sound you get with brand new around Wow you get it might get like addicted to it you're like oh that that has to be my tone yeah but then you know you've been playing two days in and then the tone goes away you're like well now I have to buy more strings yeah and then you're spending your life you know putting strings on your guitar yeah who wants to do that I just want to play yeah so once these that you're broken in there good that's good so how often do you change maybe like once a tour yeah Wow these don't these don't break cuz I'm there there's no there's no burrs or anything there's no sharp edges I don't you know I don't you know hit the [ __ ] out of the guitar so yeah there's a lot of a lot of space to work with and you're doing a lot of hybrid picking but what pics do you use when you're uh this this is my only pick I have everything yeah I mean you can see it's been worn down to a novice Wow look at that it's like another one in here in case I lose it at one point it was like a jim dunlop greatest standard what what's the tour Tex yeah the tour Tex green sixty cleaner it's a standard we can leave good good geek reference but I don't know I just really liked the way they feel the kind of what the medium thing Wow but it's been worn down actually at this point if I play with the brand-new and it feels really weird so I've just and the thing is like I don't lose it cuz just screw it they're worthless I really kind of love your Spartan approach you know one thick ones are one set of strings were - yeah okay speaking of Spartan approach let's talk about this am you're running one amp actually I have a backup having back which you have to have yeah yeah tubes being what they are indeed you know this is the one I use in the road because it looks great and it matches Laura Lee's beautiful basement an overall about the match on the record I you usually use a thinner deluxe like a 65 like the kind of black bass well sure and is this the the newer yeah this is a new reissue yeah what is it is this the the 73-68 I think yeah that's it 68 it looks so face yeah yeah and they're right it's not as like I don't know it's not as openness is the one I record with mm-hmm but it sounds normal did you change speakers or do anything to it or has stock post-rock am they're both identical in theory they should be and running it flat ish maybe a little goose on the bass on that yeah I pushed a little bass up because I believe the wah pedal on all the time No never turn it off it's weirder yeah that's well you know so like here's the usually play this tone a lot and if that's off its sounds very normal but I really like that I like it to bite us when I use the wall I don't want to hear the click I don't want the tone to change so much cuz if I'm usually sitting around here then turn it on that sounds very different so I just leave it on and when I used to use the law to step on it okay that is a that's a good segue let's talk about the rest of this pedal board so plugging a coil into it old-school coil love that and you're worried this is also utilitarian no sure because if I step on a straight cable I'll trip yeah because there's no give so I can step on this thing and all day long yes and you're running the wall on batteries you go through them pretty quickly with it being on all the time um I guess I'm in it I don't really it's only no I just take the battery out and taste it and if it tastes like it's not their thing yeah I'll try not to leave it plugged in when we're not actually on stage sure makes sense okay so why into then right now he's doing it uh it's not really mysteries to just a green boss phaser yeah I've been using that for uh [Music] kind of like Isley vibes right one of my favorite guitar players aren't Isley oh yeah that's that's the guy right there a lot of people like man you sound like Hendrix I'm like no I don't yeah Hendrix sounds like Hendrix he's amazing I'm sure I'm trying to sound like Ernie yeah that's great so goes into there and then it goes into this boss ds-1 boutique boss ds-1 stock the stock boat yeah they only made a few million of these yeah only a very very standard distortion pedal I also have everything just spatially turned down all the way except for the level which is cranked so no disc no tone all volume and how often do you do you jump on that just sometimes I'll just leave it on for the whole show it's it's certain songs that I don't have it on where it used to be really clean usually it's just on and if I want to clean up I just [Music] there's this time we got for the record that I thought sounded like a Wurlitzer electric piano I was always trying to get that one again but it's I think it was just kind of a once-in-a-lifetime thing you found it during the session yeah now I never found it again it was just he was using this exact same stuff huh no different well you know if you're gonna find it one time that's the time to use it while you're recording but I usually use this in conjunction with the wah a lot to get those kind of like where you just kind of put it in a spot and leave it or do some some sweepy bits yeah kinda like a synth sure yeah very non-conventional approach let's see okay so from the so from the disorder she goes into this mini boss Dyna comp yeah and that just just keeps everything the same level yeah I put it after everything and before the spatial effects like reverb and delay sure and it looks like you're running most of the output and very little of the sustain oh yeah I mean it it still compresses even at that small setting sure it's just the nature of what that pedal does but but fairly subtle doesn't it to me it doesn't you're not feeling that compression right but yeah that sounds great enough then it goes into this ehx holy grail oh okay they said around noon or one o'clock or so just depends on kind of where we're at in the set okay that always stays on just like the Dyna comp always stays on into a Strymon el capistan with this pedal controlling the repeats okay [Music] we just let it go or yeah you know it kind of kind of comp for me in this kind of weird way I know that can just turn it off [Music] that's great you know well in particularly in a three-piece you're covering a lot of ground yeah a lot of sonic territory and I don't want to have to rely on like loop pedals or yeah drum machines or laptops and stuff so yeah that's a great way to do it cuz you're controlling in real time uh-huh and if if something is not going how you want it you just cut it right there indeed yeah that's great man and powering this with on the bottom of the board there's a sigh ox o5o cool wow it's so it's like no imprint at all it's just tiny yeah I'm actually trying to make even smaller I'm like you know what can I make what can I take off of this thing oh I don't know that is about as lean as it gets that's great I mean particularly again when you're covering that much sonic territory to do it with so little that's great it seems like you're just adjusting on the fly mostly on your guitar yeah it's usually just right here yeah volume the volume knob gets a lot of work yeah that's great well in your tone rolling it down that's that's great yeah just it depends on the on the song usually flipping between either this won't you know this pick up the neck or the really weird out of phase one yeah or this guy for like people everywhere is always on this guy [Music] all right here a little bit of a signal thing happening just then yeah and you're doing it using the tremolo from the amp with it yeah yeah I would love to use the verb but I think I got in the habit of using that because we were touring overseas and backline amps the reverb would always work sure yeah what kind of sounds great mark I love the whole approach love the whole thing man thanks so much for joining us thanks till next time appreciate it okay now I'm with Laura Lee from Kingman Laura Lee thank you for joining us thank you for having me absolutely let's hear about this very cool bass this very cool bass I got it when I was still in college and I couldn't really afford a real Fender Jay bass at the time so this is a knockoff an SX bass and at the time it was still sort of early on I think in the SX days but they made the headstock that looked like a Fender je vais sure probably before they got sued yeah well yeah I mean it plays like a Jay bass keep things pretty simple mark replaced the pickups for me with DiMarzio ultra jazz or something oh yeah great and probably because of the noise issue maybe your yeah yeah it sounds really clean I keep foam I hide foam in here under these oh cool I love that you kept the ashtray on it I think that's cool classy yeah it is I know most people take them off but it looks so yeah people always talk about them like it's something that they haven't seen yeah and it was like why would I mean I you it sounds cool if you play up here which I saw I'm limited to playing and yes in these spots but it's worth the limitation really like look cool boys like I play with this ring you know probably makes me play 20% worse but I look 40% better right sorry yeah totally with you 20 up yeah well whatever it is that combination is working so yeah so good for you yeah and I play flats yeah I've had the same set of strings since I got the bass it's good they're like eight years strong not going yeah right you do anything do you clean them or anything or just a while yeah especially I'm here I wear glitter so there tends to be some like glitter gunk okay the only rounds that I've ever played that I liked were so old that they were basically flat because they were so disgusting yeah that they basically were turned into flats so yeah I just feel like I feel like you get the bounce and the like beep day that you can't on rounds are so binky yeah I think it's it's more percussive when you're when you're playing with flats no well that's great so other than the pickups yeah it's all star yeah I think mark might have replaced these but they're yeah it's all stock yeah okay very cool and you've got the the poly tuner up there that's great so nothing in your signal chain yeah I keep it really simple I don't play with I have one pedal okay your looks that's a good that's a good segue let's talk about this one yeah it's a Kili like limiter compressor so it just keeps everything even and to be totally honest the only reason that I have a pedal at all is because I was running straight from my amp and I was getting tangled during a performance so actually it's easier to have the cord coming from the front yeah so we thought it was time to bring a pedal in and actually this makes everything more consistent yeah that does it and Keeley makes such great stuff and they're very transparent so yeah yeah that totally makes sense so once you once you've turned it on you just said yeah I have it marked where I want it and I stay right there okay yeah is I think there's a lot there's a lot to do with just this right yeah you think about like the great in my estimation like the greatest bass recordings ever all that all that Motown's and early you know and beetle stuff all stuff was just basically a bass plug straight in a totally blowin so yeah yeah four strings right turns normally yeah there's actually yeah I remember like I did a lot of art growing up and remember my art teacher I started drawing like a human form and I was trying to mess with the way that it was drawn and he's like you can't draw you can't mess with the human form until you know the human form so sort of I think it's the same theory like I still have a lot to learn just here before I start adding other stuff it's like too many option sure well that's that's great Oh before I forget this is your backup over here right that's my backup ah and someone you're gonna notice a trend but similarly it's a knockoff Hoffner yeah that I think mark got in a pawn shop oh cool that sounds awesome do you switch no just I just have it back up its hollow body short scale I play it on the record mm-hmm I don't I've never maybe once I've played it live yeah but it's sort of cool because if for some reason this was to go out on me this is easier to play sure everything's more compact and it's a lighter so it's actually like if something goes wrong I get a bonus yeah you can reward yourself yeah things weren't bad for a minute but now they're better than ever totally no I know what brand this is no idea it's got a little kind of a geisha girl up there yeah yeah yeah no idea I mean it's technically Marx but I think it's become mine sure because it's also awesome to practice on cuz you don't need to plug into anything to hear anything oh that's great in the same foam kind of thing and I still I'm the same on both I I only I turned this one and my toe knob all the way up and I never use this this knob yeah same approach okay well that's great and then amp was your running yeah 10 which was my first like real amp I had like a practice like PBM yeah I got this from rock and Robin which is an awesome guitar shop in Houston that is closing sadly but they had it and we jumped on it and Mark was doing tech work there at the time so I think we got a good deal on it but it's in perfect shape that's great and then you've got to back up just in case yeah and it's pretty much the same amp and they changed the color they changed the color of the light yeah it's slightly there's a couple of slight differences I think that's a little bit it was built a few years later but yeah most people use it for guitar because it isn't that low or booming which is actually what I like sure and in chrome van because there's only three of us there's actually a lot of room for me to be higher mm-hmm especially on the recording side because if you're listening to us in a laptop and I'm really low it literally just sounds like guitar and drums mm-hmm so I actually like to be in that range feel hot so and I like a like--all to hear my fingers I like to hear the like you know peanut butter you know sound that that comes off of that so that helps me with that yeah I love that and so you you've got the back up never use it but just in case because god knows if you didn't have the backup it would die totally yeah yeah yeah she looks awesome yeah yeah I look man I love this whole lean and mean setup yeah yeah it's great that's all can we hear a little bit of that bad boy yeah let's do it I better turn i hope better turned on yeah when you said light at that wait a minute there is no light give those tubes a minute yeah we'll fix this in post you know it's it's almost kind of up writing it sounded yeah yeah yeah and part of it it's funny your upper stuff sound a little up righty and then the lower stuff reminded like Elvis records you know awesome yeah yeah like Elvis like late sixties stuff yeah - cool thank you oh well congratulations on all the success and have fun of never-ending tour thank you appreciate it oh that's good hey everybody thanks for watching the latest rig rundown guess what every week we upload a brand new rig rundown to credit our comm a full week before it's available here on YouTube so to get your gear fix as soon as humanly possible go to Premier Guitar comm forward slash rig rundown and while you're there be sure to sign up to get an email notification see the first to know as soon as each week's new rig rundown is available Cheers see you soon

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Length: 26min 4sec (1564 seconds)

Published: Tue May 01 2018