Slow Crush Gear Talk (with Isa Holliday & Jelle Harde) 

🖤💜 thanks Jason

hope to see you soon!

Thank you 🖤💜 kind words

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Both certainly go hand in hand. New effects can spark new ideas and new ideas can call for new effects (any excuse to buy more pedals, am I right?! 😉)

Thanks for tuning in! Enjoy the jam!

Unique guitars! I love my strat jazz!

@@SLOWCRUSH do you find that it responds better to a certain amp, rather than your usual rig? I’m still researching amps to pair with the tele-jazz.

@@ThomCoe since it has jazzmaster pick ups try a twin reverb. Works for us.

@@SLOWCRUSH twin reverb = amazing pairing but I’m trying to go small for my home. I wanna keep things at bedroom volume levels so I don’t annoy my wife and kid. Too bad they don’t make a twin reverb that sounds good at 1 or 2 but I guess blaring audio levels is a requirement of rocking.

I cant stop listening Isas voice

Cheers!

🙇‍♀️🙇‍♂️ fanks Bobby! 😘

Thank you, kinda hard to type this out. It’s 3 notes but a bit crazy chords progression wise (a ton of changes around few notes). Reverb into OD into more reverb. Modulation into reverb for cleans. Fuzz into less reverb for the heavier rhythm guitars.

Glow is fuzz into short reverb with lots of modulation into another bigger / longer reverb with some more modulation.

Definitely stereo out for 1 of the guitars. The rhythm / other guitar is mono. We’ll do another of these videos soon since a ton has changed.

@@SLOWCRUSH Thanks for the quick reply. I’m still a bit confused how you’d get stereo out of one amp, or one compressor though. I’ll be looking forward to the next one. ;)

I think there are a few covers floating around online. They do it better then we do!

We’re always stacking tons of reverbs even when using a fuzz pedal (before or after) Vibrato always on at the start to get some movement. Sometimes Tremelo after the verbs. It’s a bit all over the place.

@@SLOWCRUSH Awesome, thanks!

🤣 see you both soon irl for a personal beanie delivery!!! 😘

It is the space. That's the best reverse reverb around, it's also used on the new album

😹😹😹 of course! Double fuzz for purrfection! 😸

Looking back at this video. My pedalboard has changed a ton already. I downsized, sold this massive pedaltrain in this video and settled for something smaller. Will probably need to downsize even more since we’re touring again soon.

D standard D#

It’s basically, my bass into a sansamp pushed into slight overdrive, into Le bass for more drive and finally a hot amp. Either darkglass, orange ad200 or ampeg svt. 3 gain stages! Since I push the amp hard and we like our bass sound on the warmer side away from main guitar frequencies we always take out a lot of mids on the amps and on the pedals. Most of the time we use Le Bass as a live DI because the first stage (the sansamp) can be a bit dry. Nothing super fancy just gain staging with scooped mids and a really good amp and good cabs. But I’d say since I changed to Mesa Boogie cabs I’m totally in love with my sound 💜

@@SLOWCRUSH Two pre-amps!!! Damm =D

@@SLOWCRUSH You mean BASSically!

@@helicoid9415 :)

That's right, I play with in-ears live. I currently use a Frankenstein Shure SE425 + SE215 pair as one ear of my 425 was ripped out and shattered at the very end of our set on the last show of the Torche tour last year (timing couldn't have been more perfect). I honestly don't notice a difference between the two ears amplification power... it works for now 🙂 To answer your question though, I have a simple DIY board, splitting the signal out to handle my own mix of bass + vocals. The rest I get enough of via bleed through the mic into my ears. For Euro tours I use a wireless system and for fly out tours I use a long cable, a splitter and micro amps to boost my vocals into my ears. Job done!

@@SLOWCRUSH Awesome thank you, we do the same with the long cable. I was curious if you were doing something different than we do. Might have brought ideas we didn't think of ;)

Thanks Fernando! Yes to Sansamp, then LeBass, then straight into the amp. Mixing it up a little at the moment - a Dark Glass microtubes pedal has now made it's way onto my board 🙈

SLOW CRUSH Hey Isa, thx so much for replying back, I’m currently setting up my gear and after watching this vid, I fell in love with the Le Bass, I’ll try to get one soon! I thought you were running your pedals into the fx loop, but now everything is clear to me, would be nice to see more gear videos, I love your tone, pretty tight and solid! 💪🏻 Greetings from Mexico City, i hope to see you around soon! 🇲🇽

Yup! Used them live for a while and liked them at the time. But there are amps that fit us better 😊

It really depends on the song. We don’t have too many effects on vocals, some verb that’s it. Certain songs are single takes but mostly we layer it up. We love harmonies although not always clear in the mix. Reel has one lead vocal and 3 extra harmonies at the end chorus. I’m a natural quiet singer so that’s probably why I sound so breathy as well 💜

@@SLOWCRUSH thanks so much! What’s one of your default recording mics?

@@RobinZV1 For vocals i think we use a Shure ksm condensor mic at home to record demos but it will vary in the studio. Last time we used a sphere townsend labs mic. Live i use an Audix Om7 or Om5.

Rammeloo 👌

@@SLOWCRUSH Thanks! It’s so pretty. Love Fano, too ❤️

glow fuzz sounds great!

ofcourse :)

@@SLOWCRUSH haha can't wait to hear it live again!

Love HOF