Friday Pilots Club’s Sean Burke - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 582 - 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”, Sean Burke, guitarist of the pop rock band, Friday Pilots Club, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on tour with Circa Waves. Friday Pilots Club is currently supporting their debut album, Nowhere.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Fender Stratocaster - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/dOrN7j Walrus Audio Ruby Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/N9E16V Line 6 HX Effects - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/yqoJm3 Walrus Audio Canvas Stereo - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/MAEGNq Truetone 1 Spot Pro CS7 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/K0EaZN  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - April 28, 2025 Location - House of Blues in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH FRIDAY PILOTS CLUB: Facebook - https://facebook.com/FridayPilotsClub Instagram - https://instagram.com/fridaypilotsclub Twitter - https://twitter.com/fridaypilots  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 00:40 Guitar 03:36 Pedalboard  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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00:00Howdy! I'm Sean Burke. I play guitar in Friday Pilots Club. We're on tour for our second leg

00:16of the Nowhere tour. We released an album I think it was last May. So yeah, we're coming up on a year

00:24now. We're playing House of Blues in Chicago tonight with Circa Waves. Yeah, stoked to be home and to be

00:31doing this. This is my rig. This is my guitar. It's a Fender Strat American-made. I believe it's a

00:39Highway 1. Bought this thing when I was like 13 on eBay for about a thousand

00:48dollars less than I should have so I feel like it's a steal and I think it's the

00:52only guitar that I've ever owned. So this is all this is all I got here. The color

00:58the color is this nitro blue finish you can kind of see the wood through it. I

01:02actually believe it or not didn't do all of this wear and tear on it. I bought it

01:06like this and I as a 13 year old and you know lover of John Frusciante I was I was

01:12pretty drawn to that style of guitar. All his guitars are like from the 60s and

01:16pretty worn down so I loved it. It had the Rosewood fretboard and honestly I think I

01:24played a few guitars beforehand but none of them felt very good in my hands and I

01:29think I just got lucky with this one. I played it immediately and like even all

01:33of my guitar player friends think this is one of the better guitars they've picked

01:37up so I feel like I got lucky with it. So yeah definitely inspired by John Frusciante

01:44and the chili peppers stuff like that. So yeah yeah everything is stock. I briefly

01:49for a couple years used a maple neck instead of the one here but this is the

01:54original I put it back on. I just feel like it glides a little easier and and the

01:59tone is great. Yeah I just I use everything pretty much all the way dialed up I

02:04use my bridge pickup every once in a while if I'm playing certain songs kind

02:10of call for a little less of like a gnarly kind of intense tone so I go to

02:14this middle pickup but for the most part it's just bridge. A lot of the things

02:19tone wise I try to control on my pedal board and keep this as straightforward as

02:23possible so I don't have to mess around too much on stage. So I actually I tune to

02:28E flat standard which really for no other reason then that's how I learned the

02:32songs in this band. Usually I go E standard but yeah we use we use Ernie balls I

02:38do a heavy bottom thin top so I think it's I use 11s to 52s. They're great you can

02:48get chunky with them. I can also play leads up top and feel pretty smooth. I can

02:52bend pretty easily. It's comfortable so it's it gets a little bit of both worlds in it.

02:56Usually I like to use the the point sevens the tortoise ones. We're using Ernie balls

03:03right now as well which are kind of inherently like a little bit thinner I

03:07feel like or a little bit more flexible so it's a little easier to play some of the

03:11funkier stuff which is definitely a constant in this group. I think there's a

03:16lot of bouncing off guitar parts and stuff like that rhythmically so it's nice to

03:21kind of do that thwacky thing that I feel like the strat lens itself to which is a

03:26very funky kind of percussive thing. So yeah I use the kind of a thinner Ernie ball

03:32ones. I guess let's go through maybe one of the more complicated ones I suppose.

03:40Let me see here. So like for our song Bury Me it goes from these like very funky kind of

03:50like soft like riff based stuff in the verse where I play a lot of ethereal stuff

03:57so I have just a couple delays going. I basically through it through all of my

04:03patches that I have on this I do a initial noise gate because my single coils on the

04:07strat are very noisy and then I do my like a little bit of compression kind of

04:13standard. This one I have a low cut on just ever so slightly I feel like the

04:18base ends up building up a little bit but it's not much it's probably like a

04:23hundred yeah it's the 110 and then yeah these so this is kind of the effects that

04:30I feel like I gravitate towards the most. This vibrato it's definitely like a

04:37digital vibrato but I think I gravitate towards the vibratos that have a lot

04:44more movement to them and that you can really feel the kind of like authentic

04:49warble sound and this one is great I feel like I use it pretty much on every

04:53one of my patches so I use that and then this delay pedal I have going again more

05:02analog sounding is usually what I gravitate towards on the helix some of

05:08them can get pretty digital which is cool because you can do a lot of you know

05:11unique sounds and stuff like that but just because of the style of the music that

05:17we play I kind of lean towards the things that sound most authentic yeah so I have

05:21basically how I set up all of my patches just for ease is like each row is a song

05:27and then I usually have like a verse patch and a chorus patch so this verse

05:32patch for instance is mainly delays reverbs and then like dry tones this one

05:37is is pretty intense we've got like a some pitch shift going on the song is like in I

05:45think it's in C standard so you go pretty deep with it therefore I don't have to

05:50tune super far down which is pretty nice and it's that there's big riff in the in

05:54the chorus and it translates pretty well so I'm actually happy with the the pitch

06:00modulation on here and then yeah my chorus tone is just a bunch of fuzzes this one

06:06this fuzz is super buzzy which is cool but I kind of mask it a little bit with

06:12this distortion I feel like the distortion cuts off a little bit of the high end

06:15there so they work together to kind of fill out this tone yeah so this is a

06:19UAD AC 30 amp emulator it's got like a surprising amount of control over it and

06:29I use an AC 15 at home the actual amp the beauty of it is that it kind of always

06:37sounds good but there's not a lot of controls on the amp itself it's kind of

06:40just bass treble volume you got your top boost this one you can add like

06:45different room sounds on it and stuff and you can also see presets so I have a

06:51personal preset saved that I stick with for every song and then I run this through

06:58it just to kind of get some natural saturation in it stuff like that yeah this

07:03is just a yeah this is a stereo box we send both of our guitars in stereo yeah

07:10and then I just use this one spot it's pretty pretty straightforward here it's

07:15kind of a jerry-rigged situation because the the helix thing ended up breaking on

07:20this but yeah it's pretty much that yeah thanks for watching yeah you guys can

07:27find us anywhere on Instagram Facebook all that stuff FridayPilotsClub.com is our

07:31website we're selling tickets for the rest of the tour with Circle Waves here

07:35yeah come check us out

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