Pinkshift's Paul Vallejo - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 514 - 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”, Paul Vallejo, guitarist of the alternative rock band, Pinkshift, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on the "History Books Tour" with The Gaslight Anthem and Joyce Manor. Pinkshift is currently supporting their newest EP, suraksha.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Epiphone SG Standard Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/g1MOj2 Epiphone G-400 Les Paul (SG) Custom - https://tidd.ly/4eitnI0 D'Addario XSE1052 XS Nickel-plated Steel Coated Electric Guitar Strings 10-52 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jrxeo6 Schaller S-Locks Security Strap Locks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/da2P5K Shure GLXD16+ Digital Wireless Guitar Pedal System - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jrxeov Quantum Industries BGXL Triple Bass Vault - https://www.quantumindustries.jp/products/bgxl Neural DSP Quad Cortex Quad-Core Digital Effects Modeler/Profiling Floorboard - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Qyav2A TC Electronic PolyTune 3 Mini Polyphonic Tuning Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/nLrXOo Mission Engineering Expression Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/OrVeNz Ernie Ball Prodigy Guitar Picks 2.0 mm - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4POGkM Pedaltrain Pedalboard - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/y2JqDv Strymon Zuma 9-output Guitar Pedal Power Supply - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Kja0RA CIOKS CIO-CRX CRUX Converter for DC7 Pedal Power Supply - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DK9yEo Boss RC-5 Loop Station Compact Phrase Recorder Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rQkav5  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - August 29, 2024 Location - The Salt Shed in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH PINKSHIFT: Facebook - https://facebook.com/pinkshiftmd Instagram - https://instagram.com/pinkshiftmd Twitter - https://twitter.com/pinkshiftmd  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-qmqFF3X

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00:00Hey, this is Paul from Pink Shift, we're on tour with Gaslight Anthem and Joyce Manor.

00:16We're in Chicago today playing Salt Shed and I'm going to run you through some of the gear

00:21that we're using specifically on this run.

00:24So, this is one of the guitars I brought on this tour.

00:28The main one I've used since the fall of 2022, it's pretty much the main one that I use on

00:36tour.

00:37It's very light, it's an Epiphone SG.

00:40Picked it up for pretty cheap at Guitar Center, it's got a little dinged up.

00:45Yeah, so pretty much I have the neck pickup turned off for the whole set.

00:51This is dialed down to zero and the tone knob, well I guess this tone knob is virtually useless

00:56for this one since it's off, but the tone knob for the bridge pickup is all up to 10

01:01and volume is up to 10 and I kind of use this switch that I just replaced.

01:07These are like the single coil humbucker, you can switch them by pushing up on these

01:13pots, but I switched them because I don't really use the single coil feature.

01:18So I just kind of turn it off when I don't need to use it, flip it down for when it's

01:24time to play, and just kind of like do little kill switch effects on certain songs.

01:32There's this company called Chipsin that makes this funny little thing, my name is Paul so

01:39I was like, oh, why not use less Paul, more Paul when I play.

01:43Yeah, so Mikey, who's playing guitar for us, put me onto the D'Addario XL, or XS actually,

01:5310-52s, XS, because my hands are really sweaty, so this keeps me from not having to change

01:59them every few shows, but usually every five to six shows I try to give them a little restring.

02:06And I have the Schaller strap locks on pretty much all my guitars,

02:13they're pretty sick, really easy to just slide in and off.

02:19And I got a little Ellis Dunes bandana that is just like really cute,

02:22I threw it on when we toured with them last year, I just put it on and I was like, damn.

02:27And yeah, this is a little wireless pack, I use a Shure GLXD-16, I think is the model

02:35for the wireless system that I use.

02:38So this guitar is tuned to drop C sharp, so it's the backup guitar,

02:43but some songs we play are in drop B, so my pedalboard has a little pitch shifter that I use,

02:49so I didn't bring too many guitars on this one.

02:52So yeah, either drop C sharp or drop B for this tour.

02:56So just got this flight case earlier this year, it's from Quantum Industries,

03:00it's actually a bass case, because we were flying to Europe and we needed

03:04something to put our guitars in, in a pinch, so Zach from Quantum Industries hooked us up with

03:10a nice little discount on this Quantum Industries bass flight case.

03:16And in here we got like little pouches, store some of the guitar

03:24tools whenever we're in a pinch.

03:27In here it's got, oh here's the Shure wireless system,

03:32it's all little tools to make sure we're ready to go for the show.

03:36So this is the backup guitar,

03:38it is also an Epiphone SG, it's an Epiphone SG400, I'm not sure from what year it is,

03:45but it's the first SG I got from like a yard sale,

03:50and it made me fall in love with SG's just when I got the gold one, not too long after.

03:55But yeah, this one is a little different, I think, I don't actually know like which of these are

04:05I don't actually know like which of these knobs go to these pickups, but it's the same deal,

04:11where everything's turned up to 10, I'm just solely on the neck, sorry the bridge pickup,

04:17and yeah, this one does not have Schaller actually, it's my one guitar, I lie, it's my

04:23one guitar that doesn't have Schaller strap locks, but yeah, also tuned to drop C sharp,

04:28a little bit heavy because it's got more electronics in it, and I guess, I don't know,

04:34maybe it came from a smoker's home, who knows, but this is the backup that we thankfully have

04:39not had to use yet. So this is our little motherboard case, this is the IEC cable to

04:46connect to it. So recently, last year, I switched over to a Baud Cortex before I had like a whole

04:54digital system, ran into an EVH head, a 5150, but because this tour is, we're playing big stages,

05:05my little cab is not really needed, so I ditched the cab and the power amp just for this tour,

05:11and I'm just bringing the Quad Cortex. I have a Mission Engineering expression pedal and a

05:18Polytune Mini, and a little Altoids bass, my picks. Specifically, I use the 2mm

05:26Perney Ball Prodigies. This, I don't know why I have it. So for this run, I actually just

05:33updated it to the 3.0 thing where you can use like plugins, so I actually am just running

05:40the Gojira plugin for the dirty sound, and for the clean sound, I think I'm using like

05:49their Vendor Deluxe Reverb, like sim of that, and just switching between those two,

05:59and then using like the Gojira Pitch Shifter, the compressor, just kind of like

06:04sprinkling in little things here and there for that.

06:10On the bottom, I gotta figure out a better way to like dismount it,

06:16but on the back, because I've like kind of downsized,

06:23I try to hide a lot of my stuff under there, so I have a Strymon Zuma that when I was running

06:29like my eight analog pedals, this was like perfect for it, and in order to power the

06:36Quad though, you can't plug the Quad straight into this, so I was like trying to find a little thing

06:40to make that run without having to have like two power supplies, so I run the Chox Crux

06:48out of the Strymon. You can like chain the Zuma to like the Oji and other little power supplies,

06:57so instead of chaining it to an Oji, I don't think that's how you say it, but I plug it into the

07:05Crux, and the Crux goes into the Quad, so when I use the IEC cable for the Strymon, everything

07:09powers up nice and easy. Oh, this is the Shure receiver. I had to like, it doesn't just mount

07:17under the pedal train, this is like an old version, so I like kind of cut a little piece of wood

07:23to like have it sit like perfectly, and just velcroed the hell out of it, but clearly it's

07:30not working, so I gotta figure that out, and oh, this is a little junction box that a buddy of

07:36mine made for me. It's just like, there's no electronics in it, it's just a convenient thing

07:42to have all the pedals go in and out. I don't really use it to its fullest extent right now,

07:46just because it's, you know, the Quad has direct line out, but when I was running like the four

07:51cable method with the EVH, this was perfect for it. So for this tour, we have like a few different

07:58presets for different songs, but one thing that's pretty standard is I have this expression pedal

08:05that doubles as a volume pedal and a wah pedal, so when I turn it on, it's automatically sent to

08:11like volume expression, so I use that for swells and stuff, and I inverted the like the wah,

08:19like the engage switch, so when I click it, it turns into a wah, and I can just kind of like

08:25play around with that for solos or any other like textural things, and if I click it back again,

08:31it turns back into a volume. So it took me like a few minutes to figure out,

08:38but aside from that, because on my old pedal board, I had both a wah and a volume pedal,

08:44so I was like trying to get a way to include that in this like digital rig,

08:49because you can't really have multiple expression pedals with the Quad. Maybe you can.

08:53And so that's pretty much standard for every preset for each song, and the way I have my tones kind of

09:05lined up is I have like, if I'm playing like a rhythm part during a song, I got this bottom

09:12left one, it's easy to reach rhythm, then I engage like a little overdrive and a volume boost for leads,

09:21then a little bit more volume for solos here, and for some songs, I want like the same like solo

09:29tone with just like a lot of reverb on there, and I just tune that up here, or I switch to

09:35H on there, so everything's pretty much just on this lower row, like rhythm, lead, solo, and then

09:42solo with verb, and then for some songs, we use a clean tone, and that's usually like up here,

09:50but that's pretty much it for each song, and I have a pitch shifter engaged, like a pitch shifter

09:57button, which is one of these two, depending on the song, but that pretty much takes us

10:05through the whole set for this run specifically. We got a little loop station and a NUX like foot

10:11switch, so for some songs, so this is actually our first tour with Mikey and Kirby joining us,

10:18so before, I was on guitar, and either Mikey or Kirby would be playing bass, so I got this

10:24little rig to put the rhythm guitar tracks on here, and I would trigger them myself, so Mara

10:31would like count us off, and he's playing to a metronome in his ear, and I would trigger this

10:39so that the rhythm guitar tracks would come up with us, and pretty much also have like little

10:44samples in there. On Suruksha, our EP that we put out last year, we have some like Indian folk

10:52instruments that are layered in the songs, so we tried to bring that to our live show too, so we

10:57just kind of loaded that onto here too, so we're not using rhythm guitar tracks anymore, so we got

11:01a full five-piece band, but we do have like synths and pads, don, tabla, layered into certain songs,

11:11and yeah, I made this little plywood board, so we'll call it,

11:19daisy chained into the one spot. I have to find a better way to do this, because when you fly

11:25through TSA, and they open your bag, and they see this, it is not the, for someone that doesn't know

11:33what this is, they see the wires and things on a plywood, and they're like,

11:39they're like, that's awesome, so this might have to change soon. Yeah, thanks for watching this

11:45video, and checking out the gear, just gonna play in Pinkshift, Pinkshift MD on all socials,

11:53and keep an eye out for early 2025, we're gearing up to release some songs soon,

12:01and potentially a tour in the first half of 2025, so keep an eye out on that.

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