LANCO’s Tim Aven - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 568 - video Dailymotion

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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”, Tim Aven, guitarist of the country band, LANCO, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on the "We're Gonna Make It Tour." LANCO is currently supporting their newest album, We're Gonna Make It.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: PRS CE 24 Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/gOrAXA PRS DGT Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/o4GX6O PRS Hollowbody II Piezo Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/BnGzdy PRS HDRX 20 - 20-watt Tube Head - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/zx0emr Suhr 1 x 12-inch 60-watt Speaker Cabinet - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/09nxKR Wampler Tumnus Transparent Overdrive Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/EExzd2 Wampler Belle Transparent Overdrive Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/nXAR6A Nobels ODR-1 Natural Overdrive Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6yxPMq Line 6 HX Stomp XL Guitar Multi-effects Floor Processor - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/2agQ07 Dunlop DVP4 Volume (X) Mini Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4GLrnn LR Baggs Venue DI Acoustic Guitar Preamp / DI / EQ / Tuner Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/7aDG0g Rock Slide Brass Slide - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/mOaXyM Dunlop Tortex Flow Picks (.73 mm) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LK5xdM Fulltone Full-Drive 2 V2 Overdrive Pedal with Boost - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/qz0E6Y JHS Pulp 'N' Peel V4 Compressor Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/xLm261 Radial ProRMP 1-channel Passive Re-amping Device - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Dyqbd2 Elixir 10-gauge Guitar Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QjGNdo  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - February 28, 2025 Location - Joe's Live in Rosemont, IL  KEEP UP WITH LANCO: Facebook - https://facebook.com/lancomusic Instagram - https://instagram.com/lancomusic Twitter - https://twitter.com/lancomusic  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  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:28 Guitars 10:49 Pedalboard 18:06 Amp & Cabinet  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, Machine Gun Kelly, Papa Roach, and thousands of others, over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of artists on tour, and "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage.

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00:00what's up guys I'm Tim Avon from the guitarist in Lanco we are out here on

00:14the we're gonna make it tour just got single to radio we grew up together and

00:18I'm gonna take you guys through my rig let's start with guitars that's my

00:22favorite part I'm playing an electric guitar mostly all night and we'll get to

00:27why I say mostly a second but I've got three guitars out on the road for this

00:31I'll say off that all of these are set up with 10 standard elixirs I use it on

00:37everything 10 gauge that's what I use on everything all PRS on this tour this is

00:43a 2021 PRS CE I've got the head cover off of it right now this is the first PRS

00:52guitar I bought it's the one with the bolt-on neck and out on this tour I

00:57only use it for one song this is tuned to open E and we've got a song called

01:03troublemaker that I do play slide on and whatnot you know the open E slide I fake

01:08it at least I'm an alright slide player but it's great fairly light to semi hollow

01:14one obviously it only comes out for that one song but I've had this guitar for a

01:18while and really loved it it's a road dog it's held up great taking a beating no

01:23doubt just keeps playing I've got so this is a levee's strap I believe these things

01:29are awesome man and especially you'll see my main one in a second when they get

01:33worn in this leather last forever I mean you could use this strap till the end of

01:37time on it 85 15 pickups the American made version of it I believe they use the

01:44Korean even though it's built in American Korean hardware but the locking tuners

01:49single volume tone push-pull tone split the coils the split coil sounds pretty

01:55good I don't use that at all in this context but in other gigs I've played and

01:59stuff I would use that a lot and that's what I originally got this guitar over a

02:03Les Paul because I didn't have a humbucking guitar for some of the

02:07versatility split coils I think sounded better it's lighter locking tuners made it

02:11say in tune more and this has that PRS scale length 25 which I come from a

02:18Fender background and I've just gotten really accustomed to the in-between

02:22scale length of the PRS guitar so this is that scale length and I really like it

02:27that with the locking tuners everything was like a main choice of why I bought

02:30this one in 2021 and abused it so much so only one song tonight on it

02:35that's the CE now this guitar looks similar same color this is a PRS core model

02:45DGT David Grissom trim that's what that stands for in case any of y'all were

02:50wondering and this thing is awesome I mean this rocks this is like my Les Paul

02:56option these pickups are David's signature pickups the David Grissom ones and they're

03:01a lot more closer to what an old Gibson might be people say like that PAF thing

03:05I haven't played through very many PAFs but to me they sound really good in more

03:09the 8515s in that CE are a lot more hi-fi kind of I think if I was playing a lot

03:15of high gain music they'd be great Lanco high gains not our vibe you know as

03:20you'll see we've got people on banjo and stuff different vibe but this works

03:25great for some of the rocking stuff this used to be the main guitar for this gig

03:29and this is all I would play now tonight I'm just bringing out for I do big long

03:34solo that's rocking and I've got all the time in the world for it and that's what

03:39this is for right now and then a backup just in case if I were to break a string

03:43on my other main one or something switch right back and we're rocking you know

03:49this is what's interesting about this it's got two volumes in a single tone push

03:54pull also right split the coils now these volumes are routed opposite what you'd think

03:58actually so on the Grissom model this first volume is the volume for the bar

04:02rate the bridge humbucker this volume for the neck humbucker and I think that's

04:07just because David Grissom is using the bridge humbucker almost exclusively and he

04:10just wants that volume there quicker which I've grown to really like it's good

04:14it's not too heavy the back of it beautiful red this is McCarty burst just

04:19like that CE but this is a true core model it's a 2023 open back tuners it's got the

04:26ivory buttons on it which I love it might be hard to see on camera but really a

04:31cool guitar man and it's been I played this thing a lot this has been under a

04:34lot of planes on the bus a lot a lot of cars vans no trains I was gonna say

04:39trains too but it's great I've got to one thing I've got different it has a trim

04:44system I have it locked all the way down I don't use the trim at all and the

04:49tuning speedily stability is just a little bit better and switching to drop D I

04:54don't have to tune all the strings again once you change that tension on the

04:57bridge sometimes when it's floating you need to adjust them all a little bit and

05:01with that locked I don't have to worry about that so that's why great guitar it

05:07used to be the main one for this standard tuning on on this nothing nothing

05:12different there's one song that I'll go to drop D and I don't have to go to drop D

05:18sometimes it depends on the night sometimes I have time and I go to drop D

05:22sometimes we don't have time and I just play it in standard don't go drop D okay

05:26I'm always on the bridge pickup for this especially for the solo stuff it's bridge

05:30pickup volume in tone the volume is kind of a taste I'll start the solo sometimes

05:36at about 8 right then when I need to bring it up a little bit because when I'm

05:40doing the solo too which is right now the context I'm using this guitar and I am

05:44not at this station I'm up on front or I'm standing on something so I turn on a

05:49little more drive than I need off the bass and then I roll it in with the

05:53volume right so this is just turns into my control when I'm up there tone most of

05:58the time I'm leaving wide open but it's same thing it's to taste when I was using

06:02this as the main guitar for this certain songs if it's feeling a little bright I

06:05just back that tone back a little bit it's not feeling bright enough I run it

06:09all the way wide open you know I mean that's kind of how I go with all the tones

06:13and volumes it changes every night a little bit especially tone wise if it feels a

06:18little bright you know this guitar is pretty full-bodied so most of the time

06:21that tone is run all the way up so the main one now and I will shout out

06:25obviously I'm a PRS artist and I love this stuff man they've been so great

06:30working with and we have got a brand new thing out on the road and this is

06:36cool this is brand new this is well brand new to me this is a hollow body to

06:41and piezo which you'll notice there's two input jacks there and I'm going to

06:47talk about how I use that in just a second but this guitar brand new to me it

06:50is a 2019 great top and this is my favorite part check this out that's the

06:57back of it man beautiful and last night was our first night of me using this is

07:03the main instrument and so a couple notes about this how it's different than the

07:07DGT obviously the piezo system which we'll get into here two pickups they're

07:1258 15 low turns so they've got it's a three weight toggle switch a master volume

07:20for the magnetic pickups a master tone for the magnetic pickups and then there's

07:25a piezo pickup under the bridge and this is the volume for the piezo pickup this

07:31toggle this little mini toggle is going in between all the way down you're just

07:35magnetic pickups in the middle your piezo and magnetic and then up top you're

07:40just piezo now I brought this instrument out and acquired it just literally I mean

07:47less than a week ago I think it's been awesome but a lot of this stuff on the

07:51record I played acoustic for we have an intro that's acoustic and then the chorus is

07:56big hits on electric and acoustic or whatnot and I wanted to be able to emulate

08:01those parts more true to the record than just electric over dubbing which we did

08:06that for a little while where I just play the acoustic part on clean electric and

08:09it gets the job done but what's really cool about this is I've got both of these

08:14plugged in at the same time and when they're both plugged this bottom one's

08:18just magnetic pickup and the top one is just piezo magnetic output goes through my

08:23board normal amp which we'll get to that stuff but it's normal sound now the piezo

08:28pickup I'm running into this LR bags acoustic its venue full isolation DI and

08:34this goes straight to front of house just like you would an acoustic guitar and

08:38it's really impressive how running this through a PA sounds like acoustic and

08:42what's really cool is a lot of times when I'm using that I am on the blend

08:46switch where both are being outputted and if it's mostly an acoustic intro I

08:51don't turn off the electric but I roll it down and then I've got the piezo wide open

08:56so it feels more piezo but it feels like you're playing two guitars I mean I'm

09:01hearing my acoustic signal and the electric at the same time and for the big

09:04hits where we're going to do ding you know it's um it's getting the crunch of

09:09the electric but then the good clean acoustic and it makes it feel huge man I

09:14mean it's really cool it's something that's unique I haven't seen too many

09:18people doing although I know there's a lot of people that have and it's been

09:22awesome it's a whole new thing so this has been the main guitar because I'm

09:26covering a lot of both of those grounds on it and I really like it big thing is

09:30you can't feel it in here and I don't know the exact weight this guitar is

09:34incredibly light it is awesome it's a full hollow body so the whole body is

09:38hollow and there's a block just underneath the bridge where's a 335 style

09:42guitar there's a block most of the time through the whole center this is

09:47completely hollow and it's so nice it's light it feels like nothing's on the

09:52whole show and then having that acoustic capability is just awesome so brand new

09:58toy I love it 2019 hollow body too I believe they called this finish charcoal

10:05burst it's what it's called the back one more time and I think the back is nicer

10:09than the top but that's that same Levi Levi I don't say it levies levies strap now

10:16this strap I have had forever and it is so worn in and I would love to show this

10:21off shout out at Lafayette high school my guitar teacher Tracy Bolton gave me

10:25this I'm 31 now Tracy gave me this as a gift when I graduated high school and this

10:31has been the strap I use on all my gigs I mean these things last forever I'm

10:34gonna use this forever so I've got her signature back there that's a fun thing

10:39just for me but it's really special shout out Tracy she really set my life on

10:43this path somehow I've ended up here I'll start on the acoustic side it's

10:47actually pretty simple LR bags which is also an LR bags piezo inside that that

10:53they built in combination with PRS so it's both LR bag system this thing is

10:59great I've got it set honestly treble pushed a little bit presence pushed a

11:04little bit the mid and bass just pulled back a little and that's about it this has a

11:10dedicated mute slash tune button which is great and a boost I don't really ever

11:14tune the boost on on this gig there's other situations outside of this where

11:19I use that but here I just use this to turn that on or off can kill signal can

11:24drop the cable if I need to if I'm going out into a crowd which we do some stuff

11:27like that so that's pretty simple now here moving to the normal board it's a

11:32desperately needs to be professionally wired man I mean this is this is as messy as it

11:38gets but I'll run you through it so this where my wireless signals come in just a

11:42ring amp box and so the wireless signal comes through here then we're going into

11:46the board so I switch up what I'm using a lot every night every night's kind of

11:51different I dial it to the room what I'm feeling but I've got four drives which

11:55I'll go through JHS pulp and peel right now which is not plugged in but it'll be

12:01I'm plugged in at soundcheck it'll be plugged in for the show

12:04Dunlop mini volume and then this HX stomp XL so how I'm using it the signal

12:08chain goes from this Wampler tumless tumness into the Bell overdrive into the

12:14Nobles ODR one you're not a Nashville guitar player if you don't have nobles

12:17like that's a that's a no doubt full drive into the pull and peel volume then

12:23into this and out to the amp most of the time the way I'm set right now tonight is

12:28this is always on my standard crunch signal I've had people ask before why do

12:34you have a the the Bell is kind of Wampler's take on a noble's why do you

12:38have them both this I have set brighter and with a little more gain this is

12:44darker with a lot less gain so it's still two different flavors very much but

12:49tonight what I'll be running is this on pretty much the whole time and then for

12:53solos certain solos I'll be stacking on the full drive this is a lot more

12:57saturated kind of thing great for the more rocking kind of solo so I do a couple

13:02that are a little more rocking with some spacey delays and stuff so I'm using

13:06these two in combination a lot there's a couple solos this tumness is like Klon

13:12style their take on a Klon type thing this has a great different tone than

13:16everything else and sometimes I'll kick that off and just run this first solo and

13:21then certain nights depending on the room is where these two are alternating right

13:26now tonight and soundcheck this feels good but if things are feeling really dark I'll

13:31use this and then change the gain accordingly beforehand at soundcheck just

13:35to brighten it up a little bit because these can be a little woofy but I will

13:38say that hollow body guitar that I'm using mainly is a little brighter than a

13:42standard electric this pulpit peel and these knobs are a little messed up this is

13:47normally about how I'd have it like this I'm using pretty much exclusively as a

13:51boost almost no compression on it so it's just to push the normal tone I've got

13:56already up a little bit more without adding a bunch of extra gain now this

14:00volume pedal is actually a really important piece of this set I do a lot of

14:05swells a lot of riding on that I'm using slide and going through almost pedal steely

14:11type of sounds and I have that after the drives because I want it already

14:15hitting that tone and then bringing in it instead of swelling into the drive tone I

14:21know people like it before a lot of times I've just for whatever reason I

14:25like it a lot afterwards and I'm not sure why but I do and so let's move up

14:31the last thing in the chain is this HX Stomp XL this is also my tuner it's on

14:35the tuner mode right now so this is what I use to tune with we've got a normal view

14:39kind of see this slap back and then reverb that's not mapped to a button is

14:45always on that's my basic reverb sound it's like a they're 65 spring type of

14:49reverb this simple delay I've got it set to a slap back yeah it's very subtle

14:54but I can turn it off if I want to the rest of all of this this kinky boost is

15:00what they call it it's just a boost most the time I'm using this instead I don't

15:04use that a lot the two I'm using the most are these this is elephant man

15:09obviously they're a memory man style delay and that is mapped with this tap

15:14tempo and I use that for a bunch of songs and I'll combine this is the Ganymede

15:19reverb which is a little space here and I'll use those to combine for a bunch of

15:25stuff greatest love story the slide parts I'm playing both of those are on with

15:29it and it adds a lot of I don't know more body to it and the delay and reverb

15:34makes feel a space here and then I'm doing a lot of swells with that with the

15:38slide makes it sound good intro to born to love you I've got both of these on and I

15:41just tap tempo to it now these two it's another same thing elephant man and

15:48Ganymede same set but they're set a lot more intense and we've got a moment in

15:53the set where I'm doing like really spacey church swells it's not even like

15:58normal guitar and that's when I've got both of these on and there's only one

16:02song in the set that comes is actually an intro of a song that that comes on I'm

16:05doing swells with the volume pedal on like a way more spaced out version of those

16:09two and and that's pretty much the board we'll set up this then goes out to the

16:15hand so slide wise I always played a glass slide loved it and then was out on

16:22tour and you find out that those can break brass ones don't break so I like

16:26glass more actually but these don't break so out on the road I'm using a

16:29brass one this is a rock slide I do not know what model it is I know it's the

16:35smallest one I have very skinny fingers I play it on my pinky as well and just

16:39because then I have the facility of these three fingers it's a lot easier

16:42for me a lot of my slide playing is swelly stuff it's not like Derek trucks

16:47man I wish it was but it's not but you know it gets the job done for me I love

16:52the cutout in it this makes it easy to bend it's comfortable so brass and then

16:56pick wise these are Dunlop Tortex flow I'm using the 0.73 and then the only

17:03unique thing maybe on the pick which I know some other Nashville guys use this is I

17:07do not use the point of the pick I use the shoulder of it and I have for a

17:11decade so these have a little point on the shoulder and before I was using like a

17:18fender medium shoulders more rounded in this point is a good in between from

17:22this actual point in the side I feel like it just it makes it not quite as

17:26bright it feels like I can pick a little faster I don't know I've always used it

17:29that way and for some reason that's how I just I use the shoulder so a little

17:33different but I love these things now I will say during the show these are not

17:37our Lanco picks and I do not like using our actual Lanco picks very much so

17:42they're not set up on my stand yet but there's a couple moments in the show

17:47where I know I'm gonna get done with something and throw a pick out all set

17:50these picks off to the side and I grab a Lanco pick for that so I don't get

17:54rid of these so I don't throw these out but at some point I'm gonna get some

17:59custom ones of these and then we can actually throw them out that's what I like pick

18:02all right let me take you guys back to the okay amp world yeah all right somehow

18:10still standing last one in the group that uses a real amp I'm very thankful that I

18:15can a lot of times and I have a lot of peers that you have to go direct I like an

18:21amp I just I play terrible direct I just like an amp so I'm very thankful that I

18:26can and it works good it's a good blend we've obviously have it backfired this is

18:31facing away from the stage and and I've got pretty simple setup wise this is a

18:37PRS HDR X 20 and same thing obviously shout out to PRS for working with so much of

18:44this stuff man such a good company and it's just really helped build this rig out

18:49and this stuff is awesome this they say is like a Marshall kind of thing I run it

18:55probably a lot cleaner than someone would be international I grew up playing

18:58fender amps fender clean platforms what I'm comfortable with I dial this in to

19:02feel more like this it's 20 watts and I do not know what type of tubes are in it

19:06normally I would this specific one I don't settings wise is pretty standard on

19:12here you can kind of see and it's hard I'll run you through because it might be

19:15hard to see how these are this presence base middle treble these Tom mini toggles

19:21are off master volume treble preamp and bass preamp so what's unique about this is

19:26it's like a Marshall that's already jumped so you always got the treble preamp and

19:32bass preamp volume on and it's nice you can deal in a ton of tones with it but as

19:38you can see I mostly got the master up past six the treble in a little bit to

19:43push it and then the bass pretty low if the bass if you kick too much bass up on

19:46this it will get woofy with the humbuckers so keeping it like that I've got a

19:51little bit of crunch on my normal signal but as I said before I'm keeping that

19:55Nobles ODR on and that's most of where the beef comes from and this is fairly

19:59clean not crazy loud 20 watts and the great little amps workhorse and they're

20:05really accessible they're not that expensive I'm running that into this

20:08cabinet that I love this is a sir cabinet with the Bella reverb head that

20:13sometimes I run but I don't have that out today and this thing is awesome it's a

20:18one by 12 I love the fact that this is like actual mahogany that they put they

20:22discontinued that a while ago and just went to wraps tolex like this but got

20:27them in a hoggy one speaker wise I don't know if you can see it but it's a

20:30Celestian V-type g12 you might be able to get a shot in there

20:35Celestian V-type and it's great this speakers really worn in I've had it for

20:42maybe five or six years and it's played who knows how many shows and it's great

20:48thanks for coming out following along on this checking out the gear today I love

20:52showing this stuff to you guys and Lanco we're on the we're gonna make it to a

20:57brand new record out we're gonna make it a single we grew up together just went to

21:01country radio really excited about it we're here in Chicago tonight I don't

21:05even think I said that Joe's on Rosemont and can't wait it's gonna be a

21:09great show you can check out any of our socials Lanco you type in Lanco it's

21:13everywhere you'd find it right everywhere Spotify all the stuff you

21:17can check out our website for merch and tour dates and then also I run my own

21:22YouTube channel if you're interested in some stuff like this and following along

21:25with what life's on like on the road it's Tim Haven music at Tim Haven music

21:29you can find me anywhere on my own personal stuff there so thanks you guys

21:33for stopping in with digital tour bus and gear masters see you next time

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