Dreamfone’s Reece Alan - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 571 - 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”, Reece Alan, guitarist of the alternative pop duo, Dreamfone, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on "The American Hedonism Tour" with Your Neighbors. Dreamfone is currently supporting their newest single, chaotic.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Fender American Professional II Telecaster Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/XmrJka Fender American Standard Stratocaster Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/BnG4gL Intune Guitar Picks (0.77 mm) - https://intunegp.com/ Ernie Ball .010 Gauge Guitar Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/09n4qV Behringer X32 Rack Mixer - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/EEx4B4 Ultimate Ears Custom IEMs - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6yx4jr Kemper Profiler Rack - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/OeaPqN MOTU MIDI Interface - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/3JR4QB Universal Audio Apollo - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/RGLeQg iConnectivity PlayAUDIO Interface - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vP0AMe  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - April 16, 2025 Location - Schubas in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH DREAMFONE: Facebook - https://facebook.com/dreamfoneband Instagram - https://instagram.com/dreamfone Twitter - https://twitter.com/dreamfoneband  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 00:18 Guitars 02:01 Rig 02:55 Amp 05:17 Picks  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.  Affiliate Disclosure: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you if you make a purchase. Your support helps me continue to create content like this. Thank you!

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00:00Hi, my name is Reece from DreamFoam. We are out here on the American Hedonism tour with your

00:14neighbors and this is our gear rundown. All right, this is my first guitar. This is my primary guitar

00:19on this tour. I got it just for this tour. It is a Fender American Professional II Telecaster.

00:24I love this thing. It has been great. Black finish, satin neck. I'm using tens on my strings.

00:33Ernie Ball, shout out for hooking us up on this tour. And yeah, stock pickups and nothing really

00:39special about it, but it does the job. Typically, I use the neck pickup for everything. For my heavier

00:43stuff, I switch it down to the bridge. I roll the tone knob a little bit to get a little more beef

00:48out of it, but for the most part, I'm kind of using clean stuff, letting it rest right here and just

00:52going, kind of letting the tone sing through, you know? All of the stuff that I use is in standard

00:58tuning. Richie does some alternate tunings here and there, but for the most part, I'm just in standard

01:02tuning. This is my secondary guitar for this tour. It was my primary guitar for a long time. I love

01:07this thing. I believe it's a Fender American Standard. I worked as a music teacher for a very

01:13long time and my music director slash boss in Dallas, Texas, where I came from, sold this thing to me.

01:18It looked very different. It had a black pickguard. It had Lawler humbuckers in the bridge. I don't

01:24play in a pop punk band anymore, so I swapped that shit out. I got single coils on here now. I swapped

01:29it out for a plural pickguard. Everything else, I believe, is stock. Again, using 10s from Ernie Ball,

01:37standard tuning and everything. We got some locking tuners that actually were installed after the fact

01:41on this guitar, but it sounds beautiful. I do not stray away from anything other than position four on

01:47this guitar. It sounds incredible. I was not a Strat guy for many, many years, and then I picked up this

01:53thing, and I was like, I need it. I must have it, and I just beat this shit into the ground. It sounds

01:59amazing. All right, so this right here is our in-ear rack. This is something new that we started

02:04incorporating for this tour. We've got our X32 in here, and the beautiful thing about this is it

02:09allows us to control our own mix when we hear in our in-ears. It has an app that comes with it. You just put

02:14it on your phone, and I can go, you know, I need more guitar in my ears. Just slide that fader up.

02:20Everything plugs into the back here. It's all labeled, you know, playback, guitars, vocals,

02:27drums. Everything has its own place that it gets plugged into, and then we just take this big snake

02:32on the front right here, and we just hand tails to the house, and they get everything just coming

02:39out of this rack. It's all self-contained. We hear it all in our ears. Front of house doesn't have to do

02:43any mixing for us in terms of what we hear in our monitors, and it's pretty easy. We're good to go.

02:48All right, this right here is our guitar rack. We are using Kempers on this tour. I've been using

02:54Kempers for about six years, seven years now. I use the same tones primarily for everything. All of our

03:01clean stuff is a Morgan AC 20 tone just drenched in chorus, reverb, and delay. I use that for absolutely

03:07everything. All of our heavier stuff is, I believe, a Friedman amp profiler or a Bogner. I think it's

03:15both of those, actually, depending on the tone. But the beautiful thing about the Kempers is everything

03:20can be automated. So all of our tones, we have different scenes for each song in our set list.

03:26So for instance, our first song, the set is Drunk and Venting. We have five different tones for that

03:31song. And we are allowed, or we are able to MIDI all of our tone changes through Ableton, our session

03:38running playback. And when certain parts of the song hit, the tone changes automatically. So I don't

03:43have to have any pedals at my feet or anything like that. Just all is automated based on what we're

03:48running in our Ableton session. The primary effects that we're using are going to be reverb, chorus,

03:52delay, reverb, very 80s-influenced. Yeah, just kind of let that amp simulator shine through it.

04:12The Morgan AC 20 is amazing. All right, so this is our playback rack. All of our backing tracks,

04:21as well as our vocals, are processed through this rack right here. We've got our Mio right here. This

04:28handles all the MIDI, all of the guitar effects that I was talking about earlier. We plug our Kempers

04:33in through here in the back. And this is what controls all of our tone changes throughout the

04:37Ableton session in each song. We have our Apollo. This runs vocal processing. So the vocals actually

04:43run through the playback as well to do, you know, light auto-tune certain parts of the set,

04:48reverb, any other vocal effects that we need, just all through that Apollo right there. And then we've

04:55got our Play Audio, which is our actual interface that is running the multi-tracks. So we have all of

05:04our tracks set to stereo. We plug in this Snake into our X32 in the back here. And it's 10 channels of

05:12playback. So everything can be mixed individually and just kind of sound as full as possible.

05:17All right. So these are the picks that we're using. We are sponsored by Intune Guitar Picks. We've got

05:23custom picks throughout through them. We've got Dream Fun on one side, Postmanic with our signatures on the

05:28other side. I personally use kind of medium gauge like 0.77. Richie uses heavier stuff, but this is what I

05:35like. And I've been using this exact pick gauge and company for probably five years now. And I love

05:43them. I would never go with anything else. For in-ears, we are through Ultimate Ears. I'm using

05:48five driver in-ears custom molds through the company. That was the weirdest experience of my

05:54life was getting my ears molded. I went to an audiologist in, I believe, Burbank, California,

06:00who also worked for Van Halen, which was a really cool experience. They molded my ears

06:04and I use those every night. Thank you so much for watching. Again, this is Reese from Dream

06:07Phone. We have an album out called Postmanic. We are releasing new singles right now. Our latest

06:12single is called Chaotic. It's out wherever you stream music. Follow us at Dream Phone on

06:16Instagram, Dream Phone Band, everywhere else. Follow us on Spotify. And I hope to see you next

06:20time.

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