The Acacia Strain's Griffin Landa - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 506
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On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Griffin Landa, bassist of the metalcore band, The Acacia Strain, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on "The Colors Experience Tour" with Between The Buried and Me. The Acacia Strain is currently supporting their newest album, Step Into The Light.
PLAY THE SAME GEAR:
Ibanez LACS SR5 Bass Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/AWJq5N
D-Addario strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/XYDQEb and https://sweetwater.sjv.io/B0ZDkW
DigiTech Drop Polyphonic Drop Tune Pitch-Shift Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/EKo5AQ
Boss TU-3W Waza Craft Chromatic Tuner with Bypass - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/baAWgb
EarthQuaker Devices Gray Channel Overdrive Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4PQZBr
Way Huge Pork and Pickle Smalls Bass Overdrive Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Mm60Y2
Fortin Amps ZUUL - https://fortinamps.com/products/zuul-plus
1.14mm Guitar Picks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LXbzYo
Darkglass Microtubes X 900 900-watt Bass Amplifier Head - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/xk40qR
Shure GLXD4+ Digital Wireless Tabletop Receiver - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/eKVOxX
Darkglass DG410NE 1000-watt 4x10" Bass Cabinet - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/AWJqYN
VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - March 24, 2024
Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL
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On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Griffin Landa, bassist of the metalcore band, The Acacia Strain, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on "The Colors Experience Tour" with Between The Buried and Me. The Acacia Strain is currently supporting their newest album, Step Into The Light.
PLAY THE SAME GEAR:
Ibanez LACS SR5 Bass Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/AWJq5N
D-Addario strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/XYDQEb and https://sweetwater.sjv.io/B0ZDkW
DigiTech Drop Polyphonic Drop Tune Pitch-Shift Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/EKo5AQ
Boss TU-3W Waza Craft Chromatic Tuner with Bypass - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/baAWgb
EarthQuaker Devices Gray Channel Overdrive Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4PQZBr
Way Huge Pork and Pickle Smalls Bass Overdrive Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Mm60Y2
Fortin Amps ZUUL - https://fortinamps.com/products/zuul-plus
1.14mm Guitar Picks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LXbzYo
Darkglass Microtubes X 900 900-watt Bass Amplifier Head - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/xk40qR
Shure GLXD4+ Digital Wireless Tabletop Receiver - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/eKVOxX
Darkglass DG410NE 1000-watt 4x10" Bass Cabinet - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/AWJqYN
VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - March 24, 2024
Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL
KEEP UP WITH THE ACACIA STRAIN:
Facebook - https://facebook.com/theacaciastrain
Instagram - https://instagram.com/theacaciastrain
Twitter - https://twitter.com/theacaciastrain
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
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MusicTranscript
00:00What's up, I'm Griffin Landa, I play bass in the Acacia Strain, we're out here on tour
00:14with Between the Buried and Me, it's a sick package because we're doing two nights in
00:18every city, we're playing different records, so night one we play a lot of fast stuff,
00:24night two we play a lot of doom stuff, which kind of correlates to these two basses that
00:29I have, these are both Ibanez LACS SR5s that they made for me, and so I kind of based these
00:38off of their Prestige SRs, so it's a lot of similar woods and stuff, but I have an Ebony
00:43fretboard on this one, it's got a flame, or quilted maple top, and I always have them
00:51put North Strain Big Singles in my basses, and then these are both wired up just to both
00:58be on at all times, and then just one volume, so it's super simple, but this one is a 34
01:04inch scale, and then this is my G sharp bass, so I play it mainly on our fast, faster stuff,
01:12and I'm using D'Addario strings, I have a 105 four string set that I get, and then I
01:19have them give me a 135, but I have the 135 tapered, so then I can have the strings sit
01:27flush, it helps me keep it a little lower for lower tunings, which is ideal for a lot
01:33of faster stuff, and these basses play like butter, like they just fly, which is awesome,
01:40and then this bass is pretty similar, but it's a 35 inch scale, and so I had to make
01:49this 35 so I could have a dedicated drop F bass, in the past I would do drop F on a
01:5734 inch scale, and I would have to have up to a 170 low F string, and this is a 160,
02:06but it just seems to feel better, and I can still keep the tighter tension, better for
02:14tuning stability, and just how it sounds, sometimes when it gets too flubby it just
02:19loses all definition, and so with this 35 inch scale it kind of sucks that back in,
02:25which is awesome, so yeah the only difference between these two, other than the scale length,
02:31is a Wenge fretboard, a Flame maple top, different color obviously, but then this is D'Addario
02:41strings again, and I use a 110 4 string set, and then a tapered 160, got a little Wenge
02:53purple heart neck, and this one has the same neck woods, just different fretboard, pretty
03:07straight forward rig, but when we're in two nights, two nights in every city on this tour,
03:16so it's a little easier, but every night when we're going in and out, having just a simple
03:21rig like this, and simple pedal board, everything plugged in always, it just keeps us kind of
03:27going, we rarely have issues, which is awesome, and I think it comes down to how clean we
03:34try to keep everything, so I only use this drop pedal on one song on this tour, but in
03:41the past I've used it to drop down from G sharp to drop F quite a bit, so it's on here
03:47just for one song right now, but then it just goes into my tuner, into my gray channel,
03:53which is from Earthquaker Devices, and I use this for two different distortion channels,
03:57or three I guess, because I can kick it off, and then I have a little bit of gain on my
04:01amp, but green is channel one, red channel two, and then for the crazier fuzzy distortion stuff,
04:09I have this way huge Morgan pickle, it's kind of similar to the swollen pickle for guitar,
04:16but bass version, and then to clean everything up, I've got the Fortin Zool, and I have it
04:23keyed off of my tuner, so it's getting the clean input to gate, and it's a pretty simple rig,
04:29this tour we're doing a lot of doomier stuff, so that's why I have the three different channels
04:35of distortion, typically on a normal tour where we're just playing random songs off
04:41of various records, I might not even have these, but it's fun to play around with them
04:45on this doom stuff, and some of our faster stuff, some of the faster newer stuff, we've
04:51been experimenting with more different styles of distortion, so it's kind of cool to expand
04:56on that on this tour, yeah it's pretty simple, most of us are just using Intune picks, and
05:01so these are just their 1.14, and pretty much every tour I use the same pick, but I just
05:08have different colors made, pink and orange, they glow in the lights and go flying, which
05:14is sick, so these are both guitar guys, I'm down here with my dark glass rig, and so I'm
05:20still using two, I've been using these heads for maybe about six years now, I've got two
05:26microtubes 900 heads, they're both live, so my red channel, which is the B3K distortion
05:34circuit is going to Mike and I's side, and then the blue channel is going over to Devin's
05:39side, it's just not as bitey, it's a little more of like a round vintage distortion, and
05:45then both go to front of house, and both go to our ears, so we can mix whatever we want
05:50in our ears.
05:51Like I said on this tour, I'm using these a little more clean than I typically would,
05:56so the gain is at about half, and my blend is about half here, and blend a little more
06:02on this, so blend I mean, these have a clean blend, so your clean bass goes in, and you
06:09can select how much you want to affect your tone or not.
06:15On the EQ I'm just pulling out, what is that, I believe, a lot of lows and low mids, specifically
06:25200 and 500, everything else is pretty much flat, and then I just use Shure wireless systems,
06:33and then there is a orange splitter that splits my signal from one into two, and that's how
06:42I'm split into the two heads, but that orange splitter has a buffered output, so I haven't
06:48had any noise issues or anything, which is sick, sometimes when you're running two heads
06:52you can come into some grounding issues and stuff, but yeah, and then I'm just using Dark
06:58Glass, I believe this is the DG410N cab, and typically I'll have four of them on stage,
07:09one stereo, so two on each side of the stage, but on this tour we're side-washing the cabs
07:14just because of the light show and everything, and so both of these are live, but on a normal
07:20tour I'll have four of them, but they're rad, I've had these since day one when they came
07:26out, my old Dark Glass rep Lauren just wanted me to try them out, and I loved them, before
07:33this I was using Mesa cabs, and these just smoke it, although I still use my Mesa in
07:38the studio.
07:39Yeah, check us out on Instagram, all of our social medias are The Acacia Strain, so Instagram,
07:44Twitter, Facebook, everything, we even have a fan Facebook page that people made called
07:50The Strainiacs, and they're always chatting in there, there's like 6,000 people in it
07:53now which is awesome, and our merch guy Stu always posts special merch items in there
07:59which is rad, so The Strainiacs on Facebook is sick, my name's Griffin Landa again, and
08:06all my social media is just at Griffin Landa, so G-R-I-F-F-I-N-L-A-N-D-A.