I'll never understand this! | The Warning's Daniela Villarreal Vélez - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 471 

I dare people to try to not smile watching Dany talk about anything.

Basic guitar anatomy: The pickups are those black blocks in the middle of the body under the strings. They are basically magnets with metal bars in between that are hooked up to wires. When the guitar strings vibrate above the magnet, they generate an electric current which is sent to the wires. The amplifier takes this signal, makes it stronger (amplifies it) before sending the signal on to the speaker. There are two kinds of pickups. Single coil and humbucker (double coil) pickups. Single coil pickups are "noisy" in that they pick up the signal from electric wires (hum). Humbuckers use two coils in opposite polarity. They cancel the noise making a cleaner sound, but they also sound more dense and muddy, so they are also often used in metal music. Coil taps (the extra switches on the guitar Dany has) turn off one of the coils in the humbucker, turning them into single coils. This gives Dany a lot of different tonal options. Hope that helps!

All three of the ladies have one of these gear breakdowns.

Dany is fantastic.❤she's not just the racecars driver, she knows everything under the hood.😎

The cool part is that two major rockstars gave her a guitar …she’s popular 🤘🔥

I love Dany's personality. She's so enthusiastic and real. In this particular video she's working on the very reasonable assumption that only people already into gear would likely be watching this type of video in the first place. I suspect there are dozens if not hundreds of YT videos that cover "how do electric guitars work?" or "Modern concert stage gear explained" that would be helpful to understand the lingo she was using.

Just in case anyone ever doubts how much of a guitar nerd Dany is, here's the proof. She knows more than most people give her credit.

The Warning are awesome and very knowledgeable about their instruments. Very cool 😎.

Dany is sweetheart such a nice person she's funny, goofy and extremely knowledgeable about her craft. It's funny having said that she's a beast on stage really fun to watch. Great reaction thank you. 🔥⚡

Wee-oom, wee-oom is a technical term used by guitarists and engineers the world over.

🤘🏻😀🤘🏻. Pau is correct, Dany truly is a beacon of light in the darkness.

Hey Mrs. R - I see a lot of folks here have already given you some (actually a lot) of info. Not a musician myself but here’s an example of what that pedalboard does. At the bottom of the board there are 5 buttons that Dany will step on to change the sound of her guitar. So take a song like Choke: Dany will step on one button to have that clean guitar sound to start the song. Then after the first verse she steps on another button and then you hear her big distorted sound going into the pre chorus and so on. And the effects from each button can change from song to song which is why each song is programmed into the board. So when she said that it took a while to “build this baby” it was the programming of the effects that would be used for the different parts for each of their songs. Essentially this modern technology enables guitarists to make a variety of sounds from the same guitar from one box versus a number of different effects pedals. There’s more to that board than this, but just thought I’d clarify that one aspect for you. If you do these for Ale and Pau, I think you will find them less complicated. Which emphasizes how complicated Dany’s role is being the only guitar on stage covering the work that most bands would have two or more guitarists to handle. Glad you did this, it was great. Thx!

I love how casual Dany is just talking to us. I’ve watched this many times and I learn more every time. ♥️✌🏻😎

As another indicator of how popular TW is becoming. All three of the ladies did a gear rundown for Gearmasters/ Digital Tour Bus. All three rundowns are the top three most watched reactions on that channel in the last 4 years. Alejandra’s run down is approaching 300k views.

We all get to learn from the Ladies....they absolutely know their stuff...all of them. There is Gear Masters for all the ladies and so so interesting to learn from the experts...they are such professional musicians at such a young age...love them. Thanks Mrs. R. for doing this. Pau just posted an IG unboxing her new Sabian cymbals....she is like a proud parent and they are her children...anything they post, and I mean anything is worth watching. In my long lifetime have never seen anything like these Ladies, so much fun to listen to.

She's so freaking adorable.

Don't feel bad, I have no idea what she's talking about either, but I just like listening to all of them talk. They are very passionate about what they do and all have such Great personalities. And whatever they are using, it sounds fantastic, so just keep doing what you're doing ladies. I'm always impressed by them.

About the strings - D’Addario is the brand name. NY-XL is the model. The numbers are the thickness. Bass strings are super thick and guitar strings are much thinner. Recently she has been playing a baritone guitar wich is between a regular guitar and a bass - has a longer neck and thicker strings than a regular guitar. There is a video of Ale showing Dany how to play a bass and Dany discovers that bass strings hurt your fingers. About the pedal board. In the past guitarists had individual pedals arrayed in a cage. The guitar plugged in to the cage, went through the pedals and then that went on to the amplifier and the speakers. Each pedal did one effect through electronics - distortion, reverb, echo, etc. Now that cage of pedals is replaced by a computer/amplifier that has all the effects built in and is programmable. It can even duplicate/triplicate the guitar signal in different octaves each with different effects. It has foot switches to turn the effects on or off. If you duplicate the signal with a few milliseconds of delay, you can simulate dual leads from one guitar. So Dany spent a year or more with Pau and one of their teachers creating the programs for each song. Dany used to have another programmable pedal board and Pau would download the program for each song during the show from a laptop to her left. Now this pedal board can hold all the songs.

Regarding the Kemper modeler she has, it does a lot of signal modeling. Some of the effects she mentions: Reverb adds a slight echo sound that makes it sound like you're in an echoey room. It makes the notes carry longer. Delay basically plays a second doubled note shortly after the first note. Harmonizers/octavers are different ways of adding extra notes on top of what Dany is playing. This can create fuller sounds when you only have one guitar, it makes it so when she plays one note, two sound. Wammy is like a harmonizer you can rapidly switch on and off with the expression pedal. That large foot pedal on the Kemper can be rocked back and forth to bend the notes up and down, often really dramatically. Tom Morello is a famous user of wammy pedal. Wah is a different expression pedal effect, which is a type of filter that strips the treble out of the guitar sound, making it sound like it's being played in another room or something. By rocking the pedal on the Wah effect, it opens and closes the sound of the guitar, making it sound like the door to the room is being opened and closed. Hendrix loved the wah. I think that's everything she talked about. It's also only a small portion of what that Kemper can do.

Not only are they top tier musicians but they are gearheads and techs. Amazing.

Who says badass rockers can’t also be the sweetest nerds? Dany breaks all stereotypes!

NYXLs are a string manufacturered by D’Addario, one of the biggest string companies out there. This particular string set is known for having a loud bright sound. The 10-46 she is talking about is the gauge of the set running from 10 on the high E to 46 gauge on the low E. It’s a very standard gauge of string for rock guitarists. Before the Kemper and similar profiling pedals you needed multiple amps and a boatload of pedals. With the Kemper it incorporates all of those sounds into a single programmable device. This gets you a huge number of different sounds you can recall on demand. It’s far more flexible and capable than back in the not so distant past when you needed a boatload of gear. And once you set it up the old gear a certain way you were stuck with that setup for the rest of the show. These profiling devices get everything into one reliable device that’s easy to set up and use. And you can have multiple setups available at tge tap of a switch. No more little boxes and wires everywhere.

She's so genuine when she speaks to us. I must mention how cool it was to watch the girls play with Band Maid in Tokyo the other night. The mutual respect the two bands showed each other was incredible. The icing on the cake was when they brought the Warning out at the end to say goodbye, and we saw them pushing Pau's drum kit back out on stage placing it right next to Adane's kit! They played a new collaboration with all eight ladies rocking the roof off the house. I was in tears. You have to go see them live. They're incredible.

Dany es verdaderamente una maestra de música, su amor , conocimientos y su pasión y entrega ,han echo que The Warning sea un grupo de rock muy solido y de gran calidad

!!!GOODISM¡¡¡ Greetings from Argentina

I´m not a musician and I don´t play anything, but I´ve seen this clip (and her sisters´) so many times, I just love to see musicians I admire explain their craft with joy.

In the old days, guitars were acoustic and the box amplified the sound of the strings. As soon as they became electric, there was a signal from the guitar that went somewhere else to be amplified. Between the guitar and the final sound, you could put "effect boxes" that modified the sound. Any electrical signal, including those from microphones, can be modified. A simple effect is reverb. This is a sound reflection from something a short distance from the source, think of singing in the shower. So a reverb effect box gives that effect to the guitar. It can be turned on or off and the "reverb distance" can be adjusted. There are a lot of possible effects and each can have their own box so a guitarist can buy each effect and have ten or more effect boxes that they can turn on or off for a particular song. Those with enough money or need get an "effect board" like Dany's Kemper. This board consolidates all the effects a guitarist wants into one setting. So Dany has each of her songs set up and four different settings, clean, main, whammy, and bridge for each song instead of turning on and off a selection of effect boxes. I won't go into amplifier profiles here. It gets really complex and people work hard to get the sound they want.

The first time I saw a guitar effects board was in 1972 for Yes guitarist Peter Banks created by Pete Cornish designer of electric guitar effects and other electronic musical instruments. He is mainly noted for his elaborate fully custom guitar pedalboard systems. He has worked for Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. The Peter Banks board was the first one he made.

The pedal board, with all the settings in place for each song, plays a huge role in her big guitar sound. Pau’s gear rundown is also impressive, because she explains the Ableton Live set-up. And Dany’s pedal board is even to some extent controlled by Pau’s Ableton programming! Both Dany and Pau use a lot of technology in a very smart way to achieve the band’s live sound. Ale’s bass set-up is more straightforward.

Guitar effects all go back to the math of electricity and of sound waves, so if you like math or engineering it would be really interesting to study. Basically these modern setups emulate the older sounds which would be distortions applied to the input, usually in a simple way. Imagine a sin wave and then maybe duplicating it and overlaying in on the original. That would be one kind of 'distortion'. In electronics is just a bit of simple circuitry to maybe duplicate and delay a signal. All of the original 'back in the day' types of distortions relied on this kind of simple circuitry that applied math to a signal and then combined it with the original signal (again with math as performed by simple circuits). Nowadays you can have any kind of distortion you want. You could transform a guitar into sounding like a duck or a bowling ball if you wanted. Those kinds of distortions are obviously much more complex and done by more than simple circuitry. However, because originally electronic music was distorted in very simple ways most modern distortion, even if done by a computer rather than a simple circuit, will emulate the 'organic sounding' process of the old style distortions. Hope that makes sense.

When a string vibrates, it generates an alternating current in the electromagnet "pickup" directly below it. The pickup is basically a ferrite bar with wire wrapped around it. It becomes a mini-generator, producing current at the frequency of the string's vibration. That's fed to an amplifier (usually through a lot of pedal board electronics that modify the sound).

Thanks for reacting to this. I really enjoyed watching it again. I look forward to your reactions to Pau and Ale’s gear rundowns from DTB GearMasters. 🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥

Ahh, welcome to gearhead musicians corner lol. Don't feel bad not knowing what half.......or ......all this stuff is or means. It's what makes the sound..............sound the way it does. I've been into this for over 4 decades as a drummer/singer in club bands I learned guitar/bass/and keys over those years and have enjoyed the growth of tech that has happened since the late 70's. The video of Ale's equipment is awesome cause you get to hear her talk the whole time without interruptions from certain older sibs lol. And of course I'm partial to Poa's gear vid cause we're drummer/singers.

Even if you are not a gear nerd, like myself, just watching these amazing young women talk about things is entertaining, such humble, intellegent and goofy people!

Back in the day, there were individual pedals for each different guitar effect. Guitar players would use combinations of pedals to get the effect they wanted. Also, for instance, that big "Boston" guitar sound was formed using a huge stack of Marshall amps and running the sound through the whole stack to achieve that huge sound. Now, the same thing is achieved digitally in pedalboards like Dany's. BTW, Pickups are the "bars with screws" under the strings on the body of the guitar that "pick up" the sound (vibration) from the string to send it to the amp. Pickups are generally one of three different types: Single coil, Humbucker, or P90. Each has their own sound characteristics. Most guitars will have combinations of them and the different switches on the guitar body will allow you to switch between them.

This was from the Digital Tour Bus Gear Masters series Ep 471. Ale is Ep 473 and Pau is Ep 475. All 3 were well done. You might be interested in what Pau is doing with that laptop that sits beside her. She touches on it also during her rig rundown. On a side note, this shows a bit of Pau ingenuity: Cowbell can be useful sometimes 🍟 #TheWarning ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kyjc2zZJu9s.html

Most Digital Tour Bus Gear Masters videos: 200-1000 views. Pau, Dany and Ale's: 644,643.

Lzzy Hale and Pat Bellamy gifting guitars to Dany is a huge affirmation Dany's rare talent. Dany's ability to sing and play riffs at the same time is Dave Mustaine territory.

The pickups are the black and silver blocks that are under the strings in the body of the guitar, so you strike strings which disturb the magnets in the pickup and this is transformed into electric signals for the amp. The string numbers she gave are for the sizes, so 10-46 means that the smallest string for the highest notes is 10 thousandths of an inch and the biggest string for the bassier notes is 46 thousandths of an inch in diameter, and you can buy thinner or thicker strings that go from extra light .008-.038 to heavy .012-.052. The size of the strings changes the tone of the guitar and makes them more or less difficult to strike or bend. Before pedalboards like the Kemper that Dany uses which lets you emulate multiple pedals, amps and speakers digitally, you had to buy separate pedals for different effects like distortion, echo, reverb, etc., so you had a physical board with the pedals mounted on it, the guitar connected to the first pedal, then that pedal connected to another, from that one to another, etc. and the last one would be connected to the amps.

I think in the old days of rock and roll all were analógic waves from sounds that were sent to the speakers. Now in the era of internet, I mean binary era, her instruments sends its waves to a processor that converts that in 0 s ans 1 s. Then that is carried to an Ethernet network that they use and that’s how Pau laptop is connected to Dany’s pedal board. So Pau and Dany also know how their equipment works. Fantastic.

When your idols become your fans. Metallica also gifted them that huge 30th anniversary box set of the black album and the warning did an unboxing vid for it

Great reaction!! As always! You are quickly becoming my favorite reactor! I look forward to supporting you 😊. I forgot about "Surfs Up". That's the funniest scene!!😄. Thanks for the unexpected laugh!!! 😂❤️

That explorer you like has a story behind it. Links are all short. Lzzy Hale talking about that Explorer: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UsODslFukGA.htmlsi=F_5Wh2W9Zn2Oe3dY The moment, notice the number of shots, everyone was in on this except Dani: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4Pv5W9l2JrI.htmlsi=5fwpqVahRd6p1Q6I Dani talking about it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5W8un7ajCQk.htmlsi=EZpn3j375CeWevhT

You don't need to know anything about the gear to enjoy this video. Just listening to Dany talk, getting to know a bit about her personality. She's just 'good people'. Same with Ale and Pau and their gear rundowns. These were recorded last summer, but not released until November. And, it's got lights!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Hendrix's day had overdrive and distortion pedals (e.g. fuzz boxes), wah pedals, Binson Echorec delays, feedback effects, treble boost and such like - it wasn't just straight guitar (that was more an early 50's thing). Chorus and flanger pedals came in the mid 70's. These days its all integrated and emulated in a single highly controllable/programmable box.

Modern rock music since the mid-1960s happens first in a studio, and then on stage, so it's imperative that bands have ways to recreate some or all of their studio sound on the road. It's not all that complicated if you do it every day. The pedalboard is basically a computer that simulates all the old analog effects that used to take a whole bunch of different devices and amps to produce a sound. There are fancy tone controls (equalizers). There are compressors and limiters (dynamic range reducers). Those make loud sounds quieter and allow the quiet sounds to be turned up. That way, the level stays the same. There are phasers that use time delay to cancel out certain frequencies in a variable pattern. There are harmonizers, that take fundamental notes and bump them up or down in harmony with the fundamental, then add them back to the main signal, or split them into stereo. There are delay units that split the signal, delay one side of the split by a fraction of a second, then send one signal left and another one right. All these effects can be blended in infinite ways to create "wall of sound" effects. The Warning have very sophisticated sound engineers who understand all of this and make it happen for them. David Bendeth produced *Error,* album #3. I'm sure Dany got Anton DeLost to help program that pedalboard with the amp simulations they used on *Keep Me Fed,* so they can match the studio sounds on stage in the same manner. This is a 21st Century Band with a Dad who was a recording studio manager and engineer. They grew up learning a ton from him, and from all the people he knows. They are REALLY well educated in the music biz.

I wanna give their parents a big hug 😂

These are pretty cool to see how they explained what they used. All 3 are good. Peace and Love to you and your family and have a great weekend.

Just more proof that they are the real thing--they study their craft at every level.

Funny you should mention Jimmie Hendrix, because He and Dany do/did the same thing. They both explore sound. Early in the video she spoke of that she had to explore the possibilities of the Manson (the yellow) guitar. Dany is always testing new ways to play the guitar so she can get the most sound out of it. She understands her instruments and gears. She is not only a user of technology, she tries to make it better. Having a kind of relationship with your guitar/-s is something I have my self I have 8 electric guitars and three acoustic ones. And I feel different depending on what guitar I am playing. But I have not named them like for example BB. King did with Lucille. But he inspired me to get at red SG (That is a Gibson guitar). Good reaction.

On Stage Dany Is The COMMANDER Off Stage Could She Be Any More Of A Sweetheart !!! Go Dany !!! PUH PAU !!!

The technical knowledge these 3 demonstrate amazes me and I am sure other musicians are equally tech savvy - if they are any good.

Digital Tour Bus also did a video with Pau, all about her gear.

Dany is a true Techno-nerd!!

I♥ Dany

Informal glossary of the stuff Dany talks about, way late sorry: Pickups - as @jasonremy1627 already said, they're wire wrapped magnets that translate the vibration of a steel string into an electrical signal that can be amplified. A lot depends on the kind of magnets and how much wire they're wrapped in, how tightly they're wound ... big reason different electric guitars sound different is because of different pickups. Humbuckers - hilarious word - these are pickups that are made of two wire-wrapped magnets next to each other - wound in opposite directions - without this a pickup (called a single coil) picks up a 60 Hz hum from the main power (50 Hz in Europe) but with this trick you don't get that hum. Profiling amplifier - Dany's Kemper is a very sophisticated beast. It can reproduce the sound of particular amplifiers using digital electronics. Dany basically trained this unit to be able to sound like the amplifiers she used in producer David Bendeth's studio - often times these are big, fragile, vintage, or otherwise special amps/speaker cabinets that you don't necessarily travel with, or you need to save weight or expense ... great tool. The Kemper also has lots of effects built in that alter the sound - including overdrive and distortion, fuzz, and things like: Chorus / Harmonizer - an effect, usually digital, that takes the guitar sound and doubles it with a shift in pitch to pleasing harmonic intervals. Dany's an absolute wizard with this effect, and has used it forever to make her single guitar sound bigger and thicker while performing on stage. Delay /echo - an effect that's like reverb only you can control the length of the delay and the number of repeats and how fast they decay. Dany uses this a lot verrrrry subtly as a basic component of her sound to thicken it and give it more presence. She's a wizard with this stuff, like I said. Whammy / wah pedal: This is basically a tone control that you can use a foot pedal (or a voice box) to control. It selectively filters out part of the sound spectrum to give you a "wah" sound when you sweep it across the spectrum. Very old guitar effect, made very popular by Clapton in his Cream days. Dany says she doesn't use it much, but it's definitely part of the sound in the "Narcisista" solo.

LZZY AND MATT DIDN'T GIFT HER THESE GUITARS BECAUSE SHE'S A PRETTY FACE AND YOUNG MUSICIAN AND OF COURSE SHE IS BUT THEY LZZY AND MATT WERE AT AWE WITH HOW DANY IS A YOUNG GREAT GUITARIST AND SINGER AND DANY OWNS A STAGE WHEN SHE'S PERFORMING🎸🎤 CAUSE ITS HER HOME AWAY FROM HOME, SHE WAS BORN TO ROCK 🤘😝

Hendrix used a wah peddle. If you're familiar with Electric Ladyland, Rainy Day Dream Away is heavy on wah. Electronics have been miniaturized over the years. Hendrix had a wall of amps to produce the sounds that her "battle station" produces.

Look for Ale’s, she talks for several minutes.

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Hendrix was an innovator of guitar electronics.

Gerald save the gear rundowns for musicians , send her songs lol

Jimi Hendrix use a Fuzz pedal and a wha wha pedal, so pedals have been with us so long ago.

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Interesting you mention Jimi Hendrix and electronic effects. Before Jimi, that level of distortion and other effects like wah-wah and so on were largely unused. What Jimi did changed the landscape. Both driving guitarists to want those sounds and creating a demand for new effects equipment to be created and developed. I'm pretty sure the first commercially available effects pedal was introduced in the 1940s bit it wasn't till post WWII 1950s that they became a common part of a guitarists setup.

It's crazy how attached you get to guitars that you "click" with. This coming for a weirdo that names his guitars!

There are a couple YT videos in electric guitar basics which might be worth a watch to help explain some basics. 🔥🤘#NumberlyGarfs

A guitar pickup is basically a small set of magnets surrounded by copper wire that transduces the vibration of a metallic guitar cord into electrical impulses. (there are several types of pickup designs). This electical signal is weak and neds to be amplified before it goes to an speaker to be transformed in sound we can hear. Guitar amplifiers are not perfect machines... if you put then to work at ther limit ( by increasing the volumen) this signal will distort. in the early days this was consider a problem... until someboby noticed that this unwanted distortion could be musical too.... so the sound of rock was invented. As time pased several electronic gadgets were invented to give color to the signal produced by a guitar (usually this devices are small boxes operated with a foot). The sound of a guitar player is the combination of guitar + efects+ amplifier+ speaker. dany´s pedalboard is capable to use digital modeling tecnologies to emulate diferente efects, amplifiers and speakers in many diferent setups so she can reproduce (emulate) the same elemets that she used to record each song in the studio. in this way she can get a very consistent sound each time. (sorry for the long explanation).

Guitarist have been hot rodding and tricking out their gear ever since electrics came into play. The old blues players in the 1950s would put slits in the cones of their speakers with a razor blade to get a distorted sound. By the early 1960s they would take a small amplifier and push it all out and feed the signal of the dying small amp into a larger amp. By the mid 1960 sixties with the advent of solid state electronics distortion boxes and tape loop echo devices were in play. Live on stage you could take a large amp and push it to the point of overdriving the input with a high gain booster and overload the signal to the outputs, but unless you had money to replace your amps and speakers on a regular basis it wasn’t practical so electronic devices moved to the forefront do to economics. Hendrix was at the cutting edge of working with distortion, delays, flangers, ring modulation and other signal enhancing devices. The Cry Baby Wha pedal was a favorite of his. Some purists found themselves using stomp boxes in the studio even though they didn’t live just out of convenience and flexibility. The long story short, electric guitarists have been engaged in 6 string voodoo from the start. The idea that this is some sort of cheat is B.S., is it cheating for an opera singer or orchestra to perform in a tuned hall? It reminds me of a quote attributed to Bach. He was criticized by some for shifting from the harpsichord and piano to the newer pipe organ, some saying the organ with all its pipe tonal variations, pulls and stops, that it nearly played itself. Bach retorted of course they were correct, “ All you had to do was press the right key at the right time and the song came out “. And no, while I am an old musician I was not there when J. S. Bach put the jackasses in their place.

Y así hay "gente" que dice "¿su papa les compro todo así cualquiera"?... pobres frustrados. ¡Vivan Dany, Alejandra y Paulina! y Arriba The Warning

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