Meatbodies' Chad Ubovich - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 501

Name: Meatbodies' Chad Ubovich - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 501
Uploaded: 2024-07-14T18:11:33+00:00
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On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Chad Ubovich, guitarist of the rock band, Meatbodies, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on the "Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom USA Tour." Meatbodies is currently supporting their newest album, Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom.

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Film Date - April 21, 2024
Location - Schubas in Chicago, IL

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VIDEO SUMMARY:
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Guitars
03:43 Pedalboard
07:36 Amps and Cabinets
10:51 Microphone
11:42 Guitar Picks

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00:00Hi, I'm Chad Yebovich of the Meat Bodies.

00:16We're playing in Chicago.

00:19Welcome to the gear.

00:21Okay, so this is my 1968.

00:27I just found out, that's the year, Thunderbird, the strap keeps falling off.

00:35It's been modded, and yeah, I thought that this was originally with a neck replacement

00:43and a different headstock, but it's not.

00:46I guess this was stocked to 1968.

00:51It's just been stripped, previous owner, don't know what they did.

00:55I took out the pickups that it came with and I put some Burst Buckers in there.

01:02I thought they were Burst Bucker Alnico 2, but they turn out to be, I turned them over

01:09one day and they're Alnico 5.

01:13It's funny that that matters, but they're potted and they're Alnico 5.

01:17They're not un-potted.

01:18Then I had this put in by my guitar tech, Greg, and he made this floating, and yeah.

01:29It's now this kind of weird Les Paul, if you may.

01:35It's SG or something, you know?

01:37I'm mostly half and half.

01:40I'm mostly here for the leads and for a lot of heavy stuff.

01:47I don't know if you want me to get real heavy.

01:51A lot of the heavy stuff I flip here.

01:56Yeah, tuning is standard, standard E. I use, as you can tell by these colors, D'Ordario

02:0410s, you know?

02:07Real standard stuff.

02:09Real easy, standard guy.

02:13This is my 1971, I think?

02:20SG Deluxe, I believe it's a Deluxe.

02:25It's 71 or 72, I can't remember.

02:29But yeah, it comes with the embossed pickups that were, I guess, only around for that year.

02:391972, I think?

02:42I can't remember.

02:43The nerds are going to know, and they're going to tell me whatever year it is.

02:49Oh, this is in D. We have one song in D.

03:00Yeah, I've been using this guitar, man, from the very early stages of Meat Bodies.

03:08This is my first, one of my first guitars I ever got, and it needs a fret, a re-fret.

03:19The frets are really small.

03:22And I just had, again, my buddy Greg, he got this going up and down, it used to be a side

03:28to side.

03:31And he fixed this going with a new bridge, new weird roller bridge, because these things

03:38get out of tune really fast, but now it's ready to go.

03:43Okay, so my chain, this is the newest pedal board that I kind of constructed that used

03:48to be a lot bigger, but now my chain is kind of weird, it's kind of all over the place,

03:53it's not really like, whatever.

03:56So I have my Waza Crafts DM-2W, it's always on, it gives it this slap-back, warble kind

04:06of thing.

04:08Then it's going to the Smallstown, 70s Smallstown.

04:13Then it's, I believe, going into the Double Hotcake, and then it goes into the Distortion,

04:21Distortion goes to the Ice 9 Overdrive by Joe Satriani, I don't know why I like it.

04:33And then this, I believe, goes to, I think the Octave, the Octave Clang.

04:42And then that's all ending up back over here at the Echoplex, this is just my cheap version

04:51of the Echoplex.

04:53So it's going to the Preamp, and then this is the Long Delay with Age Filter on, to sound

05:01like an Echoplex.

05:04And then it's all, then it goes to the Jam, I forget the name of this thing, it's the

05:13Univibe, but it, you can kind of hear that.

05:20It sounds like a Univibe, but this is their custom, I don't know, I got it off Reverb.

05:26And then it's all ending up at the Blonde, and the Blonde is kind of just adding a little

05:32more color to make it sound like a Fender, an old Fender.

05:38That's my pedals right now.

05:40Oh, and I also do this.

05:43I also have my Music Man Vibrato Tremble Out that I throw on, yeah.

05:51The most used is going to be the Ross Distortion, this 80s Ross Distortion, this is kind of

05:57my go-to for a lot of recording and stuff with meat bodies.

06:05I don't know, I just kind of found it one day, it's failed so many times, I've had it

06:09modded and added a light and all this stuff, and it's, yeah, it's just like, it's my go-to.

06:17It's gone off the board and then it comes back and I get it fixed, but that's kind of

06:23most of my distortion sound, my big heavy stuff is that Ross.

06:28And then the Hotcake, I kind of don't use the other side, that's why it's tilted, I

06:34use this for like quiet leads, like to be quiet but just to have a little bit more

06:39preamp kind of sound.

06:42And the preamp I'm using almost all the time, all leads, if this is on, all leads, I'll

06:47just throw that on to get more sustain and a fatter sound.

06:56The Vox is now my new, like, thick, heavy, it's like, it's so stupid, it says vintage

07:06and modern, but apparently modern is germanium, and I don't know, it sounds good, I think,

07:15at least.

07:17Yeah, those are, this is kind of, this area is like the most used, the below deck, and

07:25then everything on here is like for flavor, but that delay is always on.

07:30Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so this is what I've been doing lately, this is my Music

07:38Man HD-130, that's kind of been my tried and true, I keep, I've tried like different amps

07:45and then I always end up back at the HD-130.

07:51I got it teched once, and I toured with it for like almost 10 years, and when I got it

07:58teched the guy was like, oh man, like, have you ever changed these tubes, have you ever

08:02done anything?

08:03I was like, no, he was like, oh, this is all original, like it's never been changed, so

08:09I don't know why, but it just never breaks, it's just like a trusty guy.

08:15I'm not really, let's see, I mean I kind of change it every night, according to the room,

08:19you know, but right now it's like I have less, treble's at 4, middle's at 5, and bass

08:27is kind of at 6, yeah, and I put the deep on, because I, when I like to get that real

08:32thick distortion, I like to hear that low end probably useless, because the bass player

08:39is doing all the low end anyways, but it's like a psychological thing in my head, like

08:43that distortion should be big and thick, but yeah, I'm slightly overdriven on the volume

08:51right here, 7, it's kind of a little spicy, this head actually comes modded in the back,

09:03it has a line out right here, and I'm taking this line out and I'm feeding it into this

09:13other music man, this is my new addition, I just got this other music man for this tour,

09:20and so it's kind of like a, yeah, I'm just line outing into that, so it's like a second

09:29version of it, it's, yeah, it's like two speakers, you know, it's not, it just has a master volume.

09:35So this is going to this, and this is like a Jerry cab, yeah, I bought it from some deadhead

09:45on Reverb, he made it, I think, it comes with all these dead stickers all over it, and I

09:54loaded it with an EV12L, and a JBL, like a 80s JBL, JBL, what is it, people are going

10:11to want to know, E120, JBL E120, and yeah, this is for this, and then like I said, the

10:21line out goes to this, and I just bought this because it came with Slutvania tubes,

10:28and original Sir Winn Vegas are in there, and I thought that was really cool, so as

10:37you can see, you know, Sir Winn Vega, all my brother, rest in peace Dickie Betts.

10:45I don't really have preference on, it's just kind of whatever, like, this is my mic that

10:51I accidentally brought from home, I just stepped on it in the back of my amp, and I was like,

10:55oh cool, it's like an 80s Unidyne 3, I lost the cap a couple shows ago, as far as cables,

11:08this is my buddy Dave Ozinga made this, I guess it's new old stock wire from the 70s,

11:16and it's really dense, and it looks like a snake, and this is a guy, this is a guy,

11:24his name is, oh man, it says on here, Ray, this is his company, Ray, Ray Decker, and

11:33he showed up in Baltimore with a bunch of cables, and I don't know, I just still have

11:39this one, and those are the cables I have.

11:42Oh, let me tell you, I only play, I don't leave home without my StarPix, okay, Cleartone

11:55knows, I've bugged them at NAMM, Cleartone, sponsor me, StarPix, only thing I use, I want

12:04a picture of me on Premier Magazine like this, you know, just like real, like, you

12:11know, like you can see my eye through the, through the star, you know, like, I don't

12:17know, like Phil Umsamba or something, Phil, oh no, no, not like him, not like him at all,

12:23not like that dude, not like that, what's his name, from Slipknot, that guy with the

12:33mask, you know, but I'm holding, instead of a guitar, like an Ibanez, I'm just holding

12:37a StarPix.

12:38We have our Instagram, MeatBodiesOfficialAuthentic, is that what it is, Dylan, MeatBodiesOfficialAuthentic

12:47at Instagram.com, is that what it is, Instagram.com, what else, what else do we have, no, not yet,

12:58there's gonna be, there's gonna be a website, there's gonna be a big cartel coming, a show

13:03on Shopify, sorry, there's gonna be a Shopify, loads of t-shirts, get your hats, get your

13:09t-shirts, that's pretty much it, that's all we got, yeah, yeah, besides our own individual

13:15Instagrams, yeah.

Meatbodies' Chad Ubovich - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 501

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