Colorblind’s Nicholas Asper - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 574 - 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”, Nicholas Asper, bassist of the rock band, Colorblind, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on "The Cult Tour" with Capstan, True North, and Not Enough Space. Colorblind is currently supporting their newest album, Safehouse.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Dingwall NG-3 4-String Bass Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/je2rdM Balaguer Archetype Guitar - https://balaguerguitars.com/archetypestandard/ Evertune Bridge - https://tidd.ly/40b2xwW Shure GLXD16 Wireless Tuner - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/zxqNM0 Digitech Drop Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/09OZqO Darkglass Microtubes B7K Ultra - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/EEVKBW ISP Decimator II Noise Gate - https://guitar-center.pxf.io/dOZaBW Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/N9PkLq Behringer X32 Rack - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/YRo9ee Universal Audio Apollo Twin - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/K09jb7 Furman Power Conditioner - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/je2rbM Kalium Strings (.130 gauge range, long scale) - https://kaliummusic.com/shop/strings/electric-bass/  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - April 12, 2025 Location - Cobra Lounge in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH COLORBLIND: Facebook - https://facebook.com/Colorblindtx Instagram - https://instagram.com/colorblindtx Twitter - https://twitter.com/colorblindtx  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 00:30 Bass Guitars 02:50 Pedalboard 04:41 Rig  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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00:00what's up my name is Nick Asper I play bass in a band called colorblind from

00:14Austin Texas and we're currently on tour with capstan true north and not enough

00:19space today I'm going to show you some of our gear that we use throughout this

00:22tour we're gonna start with my bass personally oh I'm in love with the

00:29dingwall I believe this is an ng3 four string it actually was my studio bass we

00:38were just out with caskets in Europe sadly my food again my normal bass I use on

00:48tour kind of shit the bed one of the my bridge pickup went out so I decided to

00:55bring this one out we only had five days in between you know getting a home from

01:00Europe and leaving on this tour so I didn't have time to fix that bass for my

01:04dingwall I have it set up in drop C we do tune to a lot of different tuning so it's

01:10in drop C but on my pedal board I use a drop tune pedal we play in G G sharp a a

01:16sharp and B so it takes a lot I don't want to carry around multiple bases so I

01:24just use a pedal and then tune this to see I honestly leave most of these knobs

01:29just at a hundred percent I get most of my other like tone and I shape it through

01:35my pedals but yeah I just leave this on full blast the entire time I love it I

01:41believe these are Calium strings I think I'm saying that right I may not be and I

01:47want to say they're a hundred and thirty gauge bass strings long scale I kind of

01:54wanted to change it up with the dingwall I've never played with fan frets

01:57before I have a Fender Jazz at home I have a Fujigen and I had a Schecter none of

02:05them had fan frets so I kind of wanted to try this out and so far I've been loving

02:09it I've only had this bass for a couple years now but it's been awesome really good

02:14to me yeah so this is our guitarist Baliger it's a custom archetype I believe

02:20so this is equipped with the everton bridge it's super useful for the studio

02:24or live I think my guitarist has only tuned it like once or twice throughout

02:31this entire tour it stays in tune pretty much perfectly he's set up in dropsy as

02:37well and then he uses a neural DSP plug-in actually and then we use automation

02:44to change the tunings and to change all of the tones automatically so I usually

02:49start out with the shirt it's basically a sure wireless and tuner combo super

02:56convenient works pretty much perfectly all the time and then that will go into my

03:02drop tune pedal a gigi tech so when I drop to C from standard I can just turn

03:12this on and then I'll have my other tunings like I said earlier we play an A G

03:18sharp G B A sharp so that's super convenient to have I can tune to one

03:24tuning and not have multiple bases to yeah take up room in our trailer and then

03:30from there we go into a dark glass micro to be 7k ultra it's a preamp and

03:37distortion pedal for the base usually leave the master and level around 12 o'clock I

03:45crank my blend all the way up I keep my drive around 12 o'clock our music's more

03:52like pop rock so I don't need a whole lot of distortion and drive in my base and

03:57and then I have my base and settle treble pretty much cranked as well then high

04:03mids cranked and low mids right around like 10 o'clock maybe and then I have

04:09basically the voodoo lab to power everything this is an ISP decimator

04:16noise gate I'm currently not using it I used to go from my preamp pedal into here

04:22and then from here into a DI box but my DI box has been weird recently so I'm

04:29actually bypassing this and then this is basically my entire base chain for this

04:34entire tour so this is our main rig at the bottom we have our Apollo we have two

04:40different interfaces the Behringer x32 rack that kind of runs our in-ears and then

04:46the Apollo twin that runs all of our vocal processing it can do EQ preamps

04:54compression limiting tuning a whole bunch of stuff so we pretty much send

05:01everything into these splitters so we send our bass all of our vocal tracks our

05:07guitars our drums kick snare toms and then we run our overheads to the back

05:14straight into the x32 and then from there it goes into our x32 which goes

05:21into our in-ear monitors we control all of our in-ear mixes ourselves up here we

05:27have a router and each of us have an app on our phone that we download it

05:34connects to this router which is connected toward the x32 and we can set our in in

05:39ear mixes individually so from here it goes it splits goes into the x32 for the

05:46rack and then from there in their inner monitors so from the x32 into the Phoenix

05:52Pro they were nice enough to send us a free unit to test out on the caskets run

05:58last fall thank you for sticking around and checking out colorblinds rig rundown

06:03my name's Nick I play bass I also handle all of our production yeah be on the

06:07lookout for our new record coming out this fall a beautiful horrible life

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