The Acacia Strain's Griffin Landa - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 506 - video Dailymotion

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Subscribe to DTB at http://digtb.us/subscribe 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”, 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  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  WATCH OUR DIFFERENT VIDEO SERIES: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7_ByKsuzBlHLw8Z9vlvMHpo https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7-qmqFF3X8-CewdMmig-D2a https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs78kkdygO4-67vxS4u5P6Qh7 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7_eKAu5-RHLaIhZD07cL_iy https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7-w9-ii7pFxKrqa3Fd6zEh3 https://www.youtube.com/playl

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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.

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