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On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Dante Melucci, guitarist/vocalist of the alternative rock band, Anxious, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on tour with Ultra Q and Stateside. Anxious is currently supporting their newest album, Bambi.
PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Kauer Guitars Custom Model Electric Guitar - https://www.kauerguitars.com/ Gibson Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/gOLeZO Warp FX Ratticus Finch Pedal - https://warpfx.bigcartel.com/product/ratticus-finch Ibanez Tube Screamer TS808 Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/BneVZx Boss CE-2W Chorus Waza Craft Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/zxX5Le Walrus Audio Lillian Phaser Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/WyJvmG MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/09XMLP Walrus Audio Slötva Reverb Pedal - https://guitar-center.pxf.io/nXjZ0o Line 6 HX One Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Oeov2z TC Electronic PolyTune 3 Mini Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/3JXqDX Ernie Ball VP Jr. Volume Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/RGYNva Marshall 4-Button Footswitch - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vP19RO TC Electronic Sentry Noise Gate - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4GRxQM Marshall JCM2000 TSL100 Head - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/YR4vQm Marshall 1960A 4x12 Cabinet with Celestion Greenbacks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LKoybL
VIDEO INFO: Film Date - April 6, 2025 Location - Cobra Lounge in Chicago, IL
KEEP UP WITH ANXIOUS: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/people/Anxious-CT/61553904785226/ Instagram - https://instagram.com/wereanxious Twitter - https://twitter.com/anxiousct
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00:00What's up? I'm Dante. I play Anxious. We put out Bambi a couple months ago, our sophomore record.
00:17I'm here to do a rig rundown. This is Cower Guitar. It's this boutique shop out of Sacramento,
00:26California. Two fans worked there a couple of years ago. They hit me up over Instagram.
00:33They were like, do you want to buy a guitar? Do you like a deal? I was like, I don't have
00:36any money. They just came to Sound and Fury in LA and they just built me this for free,
00:43which is so nice. All their guitars are awesome. I put this P90 in it because I love P90s.
00:50They're a great shop. I've been meaning to go see the actual shop, but everyone I talk
00:56to about it says it's incredible. I usually just max these guys. When I'm at home fooling
01:04around, I like to play with my tone knob, but when it's live, I really can't tell how anything
01:10sounds, so I kind of just go with full volume. I use mainly the P90 pickup, but I flip around
01:20sometimes for some softer parts depending on how I'm feeling. Sometimes I forget, but yeah,
01:26it's all fun to do in my free time, but during the set, I usually just forget about it.
01:32Oh yeah, these are Daddario NYXLs. I think they're 10 to 49. We just play in standard and drop
01:44D some songs, but yeah, I've been having fun with some other tunings at home, but Anxious
01:51has always done standard, so we've kind of stuck to it. This is just a Les Paul that I use as
01:57backup. We used to kind of do one for D, one for standard, but it's a really nice guitar. I
02:05kind of just like to keep it on the side, and the other one gets so beat up, but yeah, it's
02:12a beautiful guitar. This one, I would roll the tone back a little when I used to use this. I was
02:20using a lot of different shit back then. I think I was using a fox head. I definitely
02:28knew what I was doing less, but yeah, when it comes to the Anxious set, I usually just kind
02:37of wing it the whole time. I've actually gotten a couple new ones on this tour. This company
02:47out of Utah, Haunt Audio. They built me this really cool green Russian Big Muff clone, which
02:57is like, I've literally been looking for this exact pedal, so it's really cool them to have
03:04made it for me. They just, they knew like on the new record, I was really referencing like
03:08a lot of Smashing Pumpkins and stuff, so they assumed I would like this, and I really do.
03:14It's really, it's really cool. And then the other day in Minnesota, in Minneapolis, our
03:23friend Jake, who plays in Price Horse, works at this guitar shop, Twin Town, and he knew I was looking for a rat,
03:31so he found me this like really cool custom rat some guy built, and I guess like his ex-girlfriend
03:38sold it to the shop, and it's just really nice. I started using it last night. I've got Tube Screamer,
03:48classic, kind of always have this on. I've been using this chorus a lot on this tour, which I usually
03:57haven't thought about chorus for anxious, but we used a lot in the studio and stuff, so I thought I
04:05should have it on the board. This carbon copy, MXR, is really fun. At the end of the set, when we
04:13played Growing Up Song, I do this thing where I crank the region and the delay, and make it like feedback
04:20into itself. It sounds insane. And this slow as Walrus Audio is one of my favorites. It's just like this
04:29really nice reverb, and I use it as like a freeze, where I just, you turn it on and then you hit the
04:37sustain, and it just has this really pretty freeze over whatever chords you're playing, plus the reverb
04:46from it. And this is a phaser I've been using a lot on this tour. I've just been using a lot more
04:56phaser. I in the past haven't really been that much of like a toe-tapper during the set, but I've been
05:04doing a lot of that on this tour. It's fun to do different stuff for different parts. And this line
05:13six is this like digital effects that I'm using to tune up a whole step for a couple songs that we used
05:22capos on the new record for Some Girls and Tell Me Why. I was going to use a whammy ricochet, but it didn't come in time. On the whammy, you can just like have it pitch up a couple instead of, you know, using like the full effect.
05:41So I've been using this in its place, and it doesn't sound perfect, but it's cool. It gets the job done. I've got a polytune. I've got a volume pedal, which I would be totally lost without because I'm not fast enough with the knobs during everything going on. And yeah, I've got this is my channel switch for my Marshall Head.
06:08Yeah, this is just my noise gate. I usually end up turning it off because I like being back to stuff, but I have it on when I'm not playing.
06:18I've just got Marshall Stag. I've got the JCM 2000. Everything's a little dusty right now because I've not had time to get in the cracks and wipe everything down.
06:30I usually stick to the crunch channel. I've tried doing the lead, but I'm not very smart. So I feel like one to two channels is enough for me.
06:42But we brought down the volume last night because it was a tiny room, but usually I just kind of scoop it with the bass around noon, treble around noon.
06:56It's down a little. I'm always trying to find the perfect mix for the effects. It looks like I've got them a little high right now, but I like to get to hear my phaser and stuff because it makes it more fun for me.
07:19On the clean channel, I'm always kind of guessing. I'm never really satisfied without my clean sounds, but it looks like we've got it. It looks pretty undecisive right now.
07:33But yeah, I like my clean channel pretty for what it's worth. Yeah, and this is just Marshall Cab. Yeah, it's got greenbacks. I like how they sound. They sound cool.
07:47Yeah, I've got, I don't know what type of picks they are, but I, someone, yeah, they're just like these nylons. They're like a little thick. I used to rock like really thick picks, but I've realized that was just like I was not playing guitar right.
08:09But these, these are really nice. I like the nylon feel. I've been on them for a minute now. Um, I think I'm sticking with these. I used to use the Doritos like Sam. I think I kind of put them onto them.
08:22Uh, but they were, they were, they were kind of too big for me to handle. Bambi's out now on Run For Cover. Um, it's our best stuff we've done. Um, our Instagram's We're Anxious. Yeah, come to a show.
