Dreamfone’s Richie Arthur - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 579 - 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”, Richie Arthur, guitarist/vocalist 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 Telecaster - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LKWXGo Fender American Jaguar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DyJKra Kemper Profilers - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QjWygx Ultimate Ears Custom In-Ears - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/9Lrg3j Behringer X32 Rack Mixer - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/raBQxy PlayAudio Interface - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jeBrg6 Universal Audio Apollo Interface - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/55xg33 Picks (1.0 mm) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/kON0X3 Ernie Ball Power Slinkies Strings (.011) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/e1bKGX Sennheiser EW G4 Wireless Vocal Mic - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LKWXGL  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 00:25 Guitars 01:37 Rig 05:46 Picks 06:21 Microphone  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 going on? I'm Richie. I sing in the band Dream Phone. We are on the American Hedonism Tour

00:15right now with your neighbors. Our first US tour has been amazing. We're here at Shuba's in Chicago.

00:22So I'm going to run you through everything we use on stage. I'm going to start with my guitars.

00:25So this is an American Tele. I've had it about a year now. It's all stock. I use my neck pickup basically the entire time.

00:33I got volume up. I push this guy out. But usually I just kind of keep it all the way up because we run our tones through Kemper.

00:41So I use Ernie Ball gauge 11 power slinkies for my strings. I really like the little bit heavier just for the parts I play.

00:49I play mainly rhythm. Yeah. And then any solo stuff I do is just the D and A. So I really like the heavier ones.

00:56So this one's always in standard. I have a Jag that I'll show you next. That's always drop D half step down.

01:03So basically drop D flat. But this guy's always in standard. Most of our stuff is in standard.

01:09So this is my American Jag. I use the same strings as the Tele. Gauge 11 or Ernie Ball power slinkies.

01:15I always have it in drop D half step down. So really drop D flat. But I play it like drop D.

01:22I use my neck pickup for this one too. I got the volume and the tone always up.

01:29Yeah. I've had this thing for about 10 years now. So you can see it's been a little wear and tear.

01:35But this is my baby. I'll always have this thing. I love it.

01:38So this is our in-ear rack. It looks like a lot. It's not too bad. You can see we have a bunch of panels on this for airflow and stuff.

01:46These are our two in-ear systems. We have one that I use. It's stereo. It sounds great in my ears.

01:53This one's a dual. We were able to finagle it. So Reese the guitar player and Demi our drummer can have their own mixes.

02:00It's mono though. So they don't get as nice of a sound as me.

02:05And then this is our X32. This thing is a game changer. This allows us to run our own ears.

02:11So front of house we don't have to do up, down, guitar, drums, all that with front of house. It's made it a lot easier.

02:18And then that runs through this guy right here which has all our tails.

02:23And all of these are everything that we use on stage. And that's what shoots into this.

02:27And then we have another snake at the back of it. And this guy comes out into the front of house.

02:35So they get their stuff. We get our stuff through here.

02:39And then this is our stage box. And this is where everything that comes out in the front of house goes into.

02:44So you got your drums. You got playback. You got guitars. My vocal.

02:48Anything that anybody needs to hear goes through this.

02:51Yeah, this is really nice to not have to go into the front of house all the time. We just give them the tails.

02:56So this is our guitar rack. I have two wireless systems. I use one for my Tele, one for my Jaguar.

03:03And this is sick too because I got this little switch right here.

03:06So you plug guitar one into A and then that will be on red.

03:10And then when I hit B, it will be my Jag right here so I can use wirelesses for both which is awesome.

03:15And then these are our two Kempers. We got Reese, Richie.

03:21We do our own tones on the computer. They go in and this saves it.

03:25And it's got patches for every song.

03:27The game changer about this one is we don't need pedals.

03:32And that's because we have MIDI coming out into that, which I'll show you next.

03:36And it automatically, through our live session, changes all the sounds.

03:41So we have verse, chorus, pre, anything that we need, it will just change it.

03:45So as a singer, game changer.

03:47I don't need to be going through pedals, nothing like that.

03:50These things are amazing.

03:52So most of my sounds are a Morgan AC-20.

03:55It's all clean, very 80s, like Michael Jackson type sounds.

03:59For my distortion, we use the Friedman tones.

04:03They are not used very much by me.

04:06But there are some parts where we get a little beefier, a little more rock.

04:09And so when we go to that, we switch to those.

04:12A lot of the effects I use, I have a lot of slapback reverb, normal reverb, delay.

04:17We use some octaves every now and then with some beefier songs.

04:20We have a song called Chaotic that has a lot of baritone guitar sounds.

04:24So we have that go through this to make it sound like we've got a baritone with our normal electric guitars.

04:30Yeah, a lot of it's the verb, a lot of it's the delay, trying to keep that 80s style.

04:35So this is our playback rig.

04:37This thing is another game changer.

04:40Right here I have my wireless mic.

04:42The reason it's in this is because it runs through the play audio as well.

04:45So the play audio, we have a snake right here.

04:49And it's 10 tracks of our backing tracks.

04:52So everything's stereo, everything can be controlled, any volume we want.

04:56And my mic goes through that as well for effects like reverb.

04:59We have a lot of delay.

05:01Some parts we go hard on the tuning.

05:04Yeah, and then also the Mio right here.

05:07This thing is what makes all the sounds change automatically from the Kempers.

05:13We also have an SPD and triggers that go on the drums.

05:17So in choruses and stuff, we can have the sample snare, the sample kick on top of the live, which is amazing.

05:25And that will change the sounds as well.

05:27So we do that from the back.

05:29And then this is the Apollo, and this runs those vocal effects.

05:32So like I was saying, the verb delay, the tune, all goes through this.

05:36And these all connect to our computer, and it reads it through Ableton.

05:40And, yeah, it makes it so easy.

05:42We don't have to do anything on stage.

05:43It's just great.

05:45So the picks I use, it's a one millimeter gauge.

05:48I like the little bit of heavier.

05:49I don't like it when they bend and stuff.

05:50I play a lot of picky stuff.

05:53On the front, we got our logo.

05:55On the back, we got our album name, Postmanic, and my signature.

05:59I throw these things out a lot.

06:01It's good promotion.

06:02People love it.

06:03I sign it at the end of the night.

06:05So I gear up on like 300, 400 for every tour.

06:09And I drop them a lot.

06:10So it's good to have all those.

06:12But I love these picks.

06:13They're really nice in my hand.

06:15They're really, like I said, picky.

06:18I don't know if you know what that means, but I know what that means.

06:21And, yeah, I love these guys.

06:22So the mic I use, I use a wireless.

06:24I like not having the cable go down.

06:27I trip on it a lot.

06:29It's an EWG4.

06:30I've used this thing for about eight years now.

06:33It's never failed me.

06:35Battery's great.

06:35It's so clear.

06:37It's got a lot of power behind it.

06:39When we plug it in, it's very, very loud.

06:41I'm going to take it off the stand, too.

06:42It's really light, too.

06:44And not having the cable is a beautiful thing.

06:47So, yeah, I love this guy.

06:48Really reliable.

06:50So for in-ears, I use Ken Driver's Ultimate Ears.

06:52They're molded.

06:53I went to an audiologist.

06:55Got them all molded.

06:56It is the best thing ever.

06:58I started using them when I was, like, 15 years old.

07:01I haven't looked back.

07:02I haven't used a stage monitor in, what, 13 years now?

07:06Really consolidated.

07:08You can't hear much outside the mix.

07:11With the ears, too, I never take them out.

07:14I used to do that to hear the crowd and stuff.

07:17But like I was talking about with my mic, my mic is so powerful that I do hear the crowd through that.

07:22So I like to keep them in.

07:23I like to be in my head.

07:24I feel like I hit the vocal notes a lot better.

07:27I hit my guitar a lot better.

07:29It's just nice not having anything else going on.

07:32So I'm one of those guys that keep it in all the time.

07:34I never take them out.

07:35And they're another game changer, man.

07:37They're great.

07:38So once again, I'm Richie from Dream Phone.

07:39We have a new song out right now.

07:41It's called Chaotic.

07:42It's one of my favorite ones we've ever done.

07:45Come see us on tour.

07:46We're on the American Hedonism tour right now.

07:49Check us out on Instagram at Dream Phone.

07:51TikTok at Dream Phone Band.

07:53Anything else you want, DreamPhoneBand.com.

07:55Everything's listed.

07:56And we'll see you guys soon.

Dreamfone’s Richie Arthur - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 579

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