Hello everyone!
I'm so glad to be here
Thanks to Wojtek for inviting me
Wojtek visited us in our studio to learn a bit about our guitar gear
So I'll tell you what I use
This is my main guitar
Gibson Les Paul Studio Satin Ebony Black
probably Special Edition
I bought it new when I was in the U.S.
I'm so content with it
This guitar went through some modifications
Previously there were EMG pickups
which didn't match our sound
especially in studio
so I decided to change pickups
Currently I play humbuckers which we removed from Maciek's Gibson SG
This is my main guitar
I love it!
I think Gibson guitars fit my hands perfectly
I always wanted to have Gibson
because my favourite guitarist has always played Gibson
I have another guitar...
My second guitar is Fender
Let me show it
It's Fender Telecaster Hot Rod
which is completely different when compared to Gibson
This guitar is also modified a bit
A luthier modified the bridge because while using stock bridge and picking hard,
the strings used to fall down
So I decided to modify the bridge a bit
Also I modified the pickguard
The stock one was white, so I decided to paint it black because I love to have satanic colours in my gear
This guitar sounds bright
That's why I love it so much
Sometimes its sound bites
So Telecaster sounds absolutely different when compared to Les Paul
This instrument perfectly matches some of our tracks
I can't imagine any other guitar in such situations
I plug my guitars into Fender Twin Reverb
which is another modification in my rig
We started with Laney amps
Then we played Orange heads + cabs
Eventually we decided to use Twin Reverb
which features awesome glassy clean tone
We're the kind of a band which loves to fiddle with the sound
That's all for my main gear
The most interesting things in our rig are our pedalboards
where a lot is happening
I use TC Electronic tuner, Dunlop Cry Baby Wah
EHX Micro POG
Here's TS9 clone
As I'm a big computer games fan, this pedal has Isaac Clarke's face from Deadspace on it
This is awesome phenomenal Perun distortion pedal by Visar Stompboxes
I love this effect so much
This is one of the best overdrive pedals I've ever used
because it's sound is meaty, not harsh
so I feel what I play
Now delays
Strymon TimeLine
which is a factory of sounds I need
I use Boss delay
I've always used Boss delays until I found Strymon
It's Digital Delay DD-5
I've always used DD-6 but after 8 years of kicking it, this pedal has fallen into pieces...
I use DD-5 for loops between tracks etc.
or for ambients
I enrich everything with Strymon Blue Sky reverb
which fits my preferences the most
Let me introduce some sample sounds
I play live in Tides From Nebula
For example the intro of 'Higgs Boson' from our debut album Aura
These settings are my current ones
because we always tweak the sound and modify the tone
We perform the same tracks but we try to play them a bit different live
It's quite simple
This intro originated from my first fascination of reverse effect
Currently I add a touch of reverb to it
This is one of our characteristic tones
People often ask me how I tweak the sound for 'Tragedy Of Joseph Merrick'
which is not a big and difficult thing
The key is delay in proper mode and tempo
Also I use wah wah because I love to play with this effect
or even... play the wah wah
We play more with our feet than hands. We often laugh about that fact!
With our hands we don't play anything complex
we just play simple things
We don't even want to be technical guitarists because I, for example can't play the guitar with good technique
As I mentioned before, not every guitar sounds the same
so there are some parts I play with telecaster
especially those from Safehaven, our new album we relased on May
Some motifs wouldn't sound good enough with Gibson
For example...
Yeah, every preset is saved
That's why I love Strymon
Ok, 'The Lifter'
I switch some pedals on for the first part of this track
That's how I get this spacious tone
For this part I use delay with proper mode and reverse
with POG which adds that touch of space into melody
We prefer to base our music on melody and we love the reverb
We laugh about the fact that our band wouldn't exist without reverb
Maybe it won't be interesting for guitarists, but people ask us how do we play ambient parts
so I'll play a fragment of 'It takes more than one kind of telescope to see the light'
We use too long track names...
So I use reverb with delay in proper mode
A lot happens in our band when it comes to delays
We would talk for hours about delay settings
Anyway, the key is reverb with delay
and volume pedal which actually functions as a volume potentiometer
Volume potentiometer...?
Volume knob to be precise!
There's another guitar gadget people ask about
Maybe it won't be interesting for guitarists
There's something called E-Bow
I use in some parts
Unfortunately the battery is exhausted, so I won't show you how it works...
but I'll tell a bit about it
E-Bow works like an electronic bow
E-Bow makes the string vibrate fast
Thanks to it I can play stretching out and beautiful melodies
Combining E-Bow with guitar pedals you can get phenomenal results
I hope you didn't get bored
Thank you so much for watching. Cheers!
