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@bunnyadrian Жыл бұрын
Hey all. It's Ben, one of the amp/effects modelers for Helix/Line 6. After an update a while back, the tuner got a "Trails on/off" control, which allows delay, reverb, and looper audio to pass when the tuner is engaged. Also, with an update, "Command Center" was implemented a while back.This allows almost any function to be assigned to any switch in stomp mode. This includes all the controls for the looper. Check it out!
@manonthelivingroad Жыл бұрын
The looper could get some quantization love ❤
@scandallpower Жыл бұрын
Looks like a cool rig. Thanks dude
@yourashero Жыл бұрын
The cartographer is crucial, Ben. Bravo to that and the rest of the work you’ve done. I think he also missed that native doesn’t have to be crippled but I can’t remember the setting to turn off hardware limitations
@premierguitar Жыл бұрын
Thanks for chipping in, Ben!
@AudacityWorks Жыл бұрын
Also, you don't need to tape the Main Volume knob. You can assign it to only control the digital out, which means it won't affect your XLR or 1/4" outs.
@Randscorporation Жыл бұрын
Ended up watching Nate eat that entire banana because I was too scared to break eye contact Edit: I’m definitely being over sentimental about it, but I really love that he brings Caleb’s bass on tour
@billyturk8117 Жыл бұрын
Haha dude when he showed up in frame, I literally couldn't look away.
@Jarrodpimental Жыл бұрын
Lurking banana eating was great 😂
@billyturk8117 Жыл бұрын
@@Jarrodpimental dude was funny asf
@ThePhantomnaut Жыл бұрын
I can’t get tired of Kurt. Hella knowledgable. Also Nate is a great plus!
@fhg897411 ай бұрын
A great plus?!!? Hahaha! Broooo!
@ileutur6863 Жыл бұрын
Almost an hour of the best hardcore band ever plus there's a bass rig? Bring it on
@ajandtheerathpoem Жыл бұрын
Great run down. Glad bass was given some time. Hope this happens more often. Also, Nate at 22 mins just eating that banana in the background was great.
@dantelamusta Жыл бұрын
Seriously the best part of Kurt’s interview! 22:17
@vwharman Жыл бұрын
Trying to get ready for work and you all drop this? Looks like I’m going to be late today…
@Keith4Childs Жыл бұрын
😂
@Mothhole Жыл бұрын
😂same
@vwharman Жыл бұрын
This thing can go the moon, but it can’t go to Kroger. That made me laugh out loud, nice!
@sira.scottascot8865 Жыл бұрын
You're not trying! I know because I do the same shit. 😆
@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power Жыл бұрын
This is your boss... so THAT'S why you were late. We're going to have a chat when you come in to work tomorrow 🤔
@leavingsoulsBO Жыл бұрын
Great rig rundown! As a modeller user I'm often disappointed that in many rundowns when there is a Helix, Fractal or whatever it usually goes like "oh here's my entire rig, plugged this way" and that's it; so this was a nice change of pace to see the artist actually going through his preset and explaining his design idea and reasoning. Hope to see more like this in the future
@BishopDelicious Жыл бұрын
Awesome to see Kurt’s rig and to see some detail about the Helix setup beyond “I use a Helix” and moving on. As someone who tours/gigs Helix regularly.. I’d love to pass along to Kurt that the giant volume knob can be disabled “in the menus” - lest he doesn’t love neon tape ;). Hopefully Helix 2 won’t have that damn thing: Long live Converge 🤟🏼
@scandallpower Жыл бұрын
Do you like the helix? I have used line6 stuff live and I love it
@paulodantas1492 Жыл бұрын
Premier Guitar never fails with the rig rundowns, what a surprise this one!
@Scott__C Жыл бұрын
Chris is always amazingly researched on folks he doing rundowns with.
@jakelorefice Жыл бұрын
I think he's just a genuine fan of most of the artists! Chris seems to have deep HC roots
@Scott__C Жыл бұрын
@@jakelorefice Definitely, it's just cool and even they seem surprised sometimes when he pulls out some deep info.
@bassyey Жыл бұрын
Wow this guy is knowledgeable. I don't want to diss other professionals because they're obviously better than me, but Kurt knows what he uses and is eloquent in explaining the how's and why's. Good interview.
@HTRism Жыл бұрын
Nate eating a banana in the background while serious cabinet talking happening is gold. Also he is becoming Tom araya. Boss.
@kevinmyles63698 ай бұрын
Kurt knows his shit, a true passionate gear nerd. He's incredible
@MrMikewright1980 Жыл бұрын
Nate eating a banana at 22:30!!!! LOL!!!
@davidwaldeck8736 Жыл бұрын
Michael Myers vibes.
@josecansecoismyhero Жыл бұрын
Nicest, most down to earth people and ground breaking musicians. So awesome to see this.
@benmpearson1 Жыл бұрын
Nate is my bass hero. So good to watch live, and unreal tone.
@wolvesdensound Жыл бұрын
GREAT banana
@noyd4172 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for including the full bass rig with Nate and letting Kurt dive into the reasoning behind his Helix patch (his take on noise gates is priceless wisdom). They've always had great songs with a great sound.
@20042842 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for having Kurt go through his helix pedals. I've been wanting that. So many of us use modelers and it's so helpful to see how other pros are using the same gear. It's the same as going through their pedalboard signal chain and I hope you do this every time.
@ChrisVenturaArt Жыл бұрын
I could not have clicked on this faster. Love this band for 20yrs and this was cool to see. Also I love that a performance was included at the end. I hope that becomes regular!
@ileutur6863 Жыл бұрын
When Kurt and Chris talk about the problems with the Helix setup, this is exactly what I've found troubling with most multifx units and modellers. They're extremely powerful for complex stuff, but have glaring oversights in unexpected places
@Therealbackslabbath Жыл бұрын
As someone who has been playing in heavy bands for the last two decades, and now making my first tentative steps into music production, Kurt is a massive influence. IMO, God City is the perfect moniker for his various endeavours. Thanks so much for this rundown. One of the best!
@sammadden5540 Жыл бұрын
Nate staring into my soul
@paulfitz66147 ай бұрын
I listen to a lot of music. This dude might be one of the best hardcore guitarists of all time. Very creative, incredible technique. Does some genre blending stuff.
@eric3198 Жыл бұрын
i admittedly don’t listen to much converge, but i could listen to kurt talk about gear for hours
@Ryo7_7 Жыл бұрын
Haven't heard from these guys in a while. One of my favorite bands.
@macdad159 Жыл бұрын
Converge's Jane Doe got me through multiple combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Prior to missions it was all I listened to. I absolutely love this band! Thank You for being there for me.
@ileutur6863 Жыл бұрын
I'm sure hardcore punks love the fact that oil empire invaders listen to their music
@stevenspiva26165 ай бұрын
That part about Nate using Caleb's bass brought me to tears. As a former touring bassist, Caleb and Nate's style were huge influences on my writing and playing. That's so sweet he keeps him that close.
@oddthemute617210 ай бұрын
Kurt is such a passionate gear nerd. I love hearing him talk shop.
@G.GordonMidi Жыл бұрын
My man at 22:17 eating the popsicle kinda stole the show Edit: P.S. can we get a Nails Rig Rundown, guys?
@aubreyxengland Жыл бұрын
lmaooo so glad someone else noticed this 😂😂
@NimrodBoz Жыл бұрын
Looks like a banana
@G.GordonMidi Жыл бұрын
@@NimrodBoz He does sort of look like a banana
@blendernoob64 Жыл бұрын
NOW I KNOW WHAT THAT MINI HEAD THEY HAVE BEEN USING IS! Seems like such a cool amp for playing with amp modeling. Kurt and Nate are kings of tone and riffs to me
@Bilsuburbians Жыл бұрын
22:18 I love how the Side Villain Character goes up like that in the middle of Conversation 😂
@MercyBlastTV Жыл бұрын
I knew this would be an excellent Rundown and it was but Nate in the background eating that ice cream?... LMAO
@premierguitar Жыл бұрын
🍌
@willlabuffalo6679 Жыл бұрын
I’ve never been so intrigued and so lost at the same damn time.
@cheeseburger1752 Жыл бұрын
54 mins of kurt and nate talking about gear?! I love you premier guitar
@Betweendillinger Жыл бұрын
Axe to fall plus you fail me. Yes thanks, great rundown thank you guys
@premierguitar Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed
@Betweendillinger Жыл бұрын
@@premierguitar also the live song is Axe to Fall then goes into You Fail Me. Cheers
@BoaeCH Жыл бұрын
Great rig rundown ! So fun to see Kurt being all nerdy and precise and Nate being.........himself xD Freaking legends, Converge rules !!
@Metalbaum Жыл бұрын
Interesting that he doesn't use a Kemper since he has a dedicated pack, also props to Nate for just staring at us while eating
@shaunlafountain7189 Жыл бұрын
Hands down my favorite Converge gear was their Jane Doe setup
@duhlike Жыл бұрын
Iconic.. Kurt's Rick with his stampede, and nate with his Ernie Ball Sting Ray.
@shaunlafountain7189 Жыл бұрын
@duhlike I think Kurt also ran a Ampeg v4 and JMP in combination while Nate bi amped his bass with the Ad200 and Thunderverb guitar head if I'm not mistaken...and of course Kurt's sick Rickenbacker
@Tyrannosaurine Жыл бұрын
@@shaunlafountain7189 can you imagine how loud it was in front of that V4 and JMP combined? Fuuuuuuuck….
@Direksone Жыл бұрын
Shoutout to Stefanie and Stijn in the background waliing by. Brutus deserves your ear KZbin commentors!
@Chris-em4tc Жыл бұрын
I used to help out Nate all the time at Guitar Center, Danvers. Always such a cool dude. I was dying watching him standing in the background. 😂
@droptunedemos2204 Жыл бұрын
Cool tone from the Helix. 2 button looper should be possible if you connect midi cable from in to out, and setup buttons to use the midi mapping of the looper instead.
@brooksrocco Жыл бұрын
Shame we can't do that in the box-the beauty of keeping everything in Helix is reducing or even eliminating points of failure, but that definitely seems like a solid workaround! Thanks!
@pattonPwr Жыл бұрын
Finally some bass! Great Nate’s gear 🎉👍🏻
@nickynoodles88 Жыл бұрын
As a guitarist, Kurt is f***ing incredible.
@IanHaghighat Жыл бұрын
Had no idea this rundown was happening and now I only wish my lunch break was longer!
@raminile Жыл бұрын
I love taking the time to walk through the modellers setup rather than just ”I use a kemper… ok moving on”
@mattrulz98 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic video, great interview, great band. This made my day! Excellent work Premier Guitar!
@premierguitar Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@TheEnderBand Жыл бұрын
I like the dude just standing eating a popsicle or something at like 22:30
@TUNNELOFREVERB Жыл бұрын
this was awesome
@biteyourownteef Жыл бұрын
Amazing! Been waiting for this for ages!
@BasilHayden Жыл бұрын
This guy has great advice, especially that you don't need a magical pedal like a Klon. What's weird is how we got here. Imagine Hendirx's rundown, a wah, fuzz, octavia, vibe, amp
@elcaminocarcrsh Жыл бұрын
What a fantastic treat y’all
@jimotten58879 ай бұрын
This guy eating in the background 😂 classic. Also Kurt is amazing. So down to earth and I love his view on gear. I mean, I love my old 2203 and my sg’s but lately I just plug into my cheap orange super crush and we just jam a bunch of doom stuff and it sounds awesome… It really is just in the fingers. Cheers guys, love this stuff🤘🏻😎
@duhlike Жыл бұрын
Finally First Act getting their shout out for the design.
@sebastianjaromi35402 ай бұрын
HAHAHAHAH Nate waiting his turn patiently in the back 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Mumumumykul Жыл бұрын
love how much security is enjoying them playing. haha
@sebastianjaromi35402 ай бұрын
Gonna have to try out a quilter on my 80s road ready boogie 2x15. Cheers bro
@GothicXlightning Жыл бұрын
didn't knew anything about the guys and did not expected MachineGun Blue Sparkly cool riff i could relate 7:35 so simple yet cool in that SG sort of coolness
@slickrick5574 Жыл бұрын
Coverage are Lords🤘🏼need one of those GCI guitars. I love the deconstructivest shape the most wish he had one out for this. You guys should do an in person redo of the Dave Davidson rig rundown as well!!!
@leonsibum Жыл бұрын
I love the Helix line of products. I own a Helix LT, an HX Stomp XL and Helix Native, and I love them very much. Good sounds, awesome interface, and tons of options, but it's nuts to me that Kurt says that his Helix is reliable. I've had all sorts of footswitch malfunctioning problems and am down to my second Helix LT unit (original was replaced after of a fabrication error of the expression pedal). The Stomp I also had to send back for a footswitch fix. I love those products but it would be awesome if Line 6 would do something about the sturdy-ness of those products. Great interview once again, PG!
@HARTYNMUGHES Жыл бұрын
Possibly luck of the draw? I’ve gigged with my floor 3 nights a week for 2 years with no issues.
@azraelgm Жыл бұрын
Nate is excellent, seems like such a chilled out dude.
@merkantelismo Жыл бұрын
These Rig Rundowns never fail and to feature one of my al time favorite bands is just too awesome! Just wondering with their sound demos here, if that's captured from room mics or from the FOH signal? They're sounds here are killer and totally gives justice to how loud they are.
@premierguitar Жыл бұрын
Kurt put his sound direct from the Helix into our cameras via XLRs. We plugged into the mic on Nate's Ampeg 8x10.
@fancykarlmarx Жыл бұрын
That moon/Kroger line was great
@jonluick Жыл бұрын
Nate eating a banana in the backgound at 22:20 is hilarious
@collisiondevices Жыл бұрын
Loved to see Kurt and Nate too! nice one
@BethGazoJC Жыл бұрын
Best band. So excited this happened
@riffsNriffsNriffs Жыл бұрын
Kurt and I are similar build. Im a. It taller. anyways, my custom guitars all have even wider nuts than the 1 and 3/4 inch nuts…or around 44.5mm. That felt awesome years ago, but I took a chance and went even wider with a 46.5mm wide nut and wider spacing. The bridge is also roughly 4mm wider total than a standard 6-string and the strings are spaced further apart accordingly. THEN, I thought well maybe I need a thicker neck too to feel totally comfy…..so I ordered some foam and carved mock-ups….1” thick is only on like older gibsons and fenders as far as I could find for electrics. And 1” or 25.5mm is thick as hell. BIT, it wasn’t enough ….honestly I could tell it wasn’t optimal. So in the end I went with 31.5mm-33.5mm - first fret thickness and 12tj. This was life changing….seriously life changing. First time I was fully comfortable on a 6-string….and again, I play obnoxiously technical death metal guitar….not dad rock bullshit lol. For decades necks have imo gotten way the hell too thin….to where it’s interfering with our hand anatomy.
@Tyrannosaurine Жыл бұрын
“I play obnoxiously technical death metal, not dad rock bs” Have you consider that there are plenty of musicians that think what you do is endlessly boring and derivative and every bit as unoriginal and stagnant as manufactured pop music and would classify it as “bs”.
@k_dawg7475 Жыл бұрын
the best bit is the story about joining Converge, that Nate tells 😂😂😂😂
@drewsmithbass Жыл бұрын
Can't wait to see these at Arc Tangent and explain to a stranger in between songs that is silence because the Helix tuner mutes the output and not the input
@ziva6630 Жыл бұрын
42:29 - Kurt Ballou is a legend
@marcelinomedina3232 Жыл бұрын
This is awesome! I thought that Nate was The Terminator for a moment.
@tarkenton3895 Жыл бұрын
Nate! We need demovids back!
@PrimoSchnevi Жыл бұрын
sweet, awesome band
@everychild94733 ай бұрын
at 10:59 Stefanie Mannaerts from BRUTUS :)
@tjkennard9087 Жыл бұрын
DEMOVIDS!
@werdna38918 ай бұрын
I had this Crate amp that I had for 20+ years. Not sure on the model, but it was all transistor, but with two tubes working the pre amp. It had an effects loop that I never used. I tried hooking my Big Muff to the effects loop to see if I turned the loop blend knob down, could I get muff dirty with no hum. It didn't work, but I accidentally left it set up and realized I had more power and beef to my tone. So I just used a six inch cable that went from effects out to effects in. It kept that amazing tone! I used it forever and it became my sound. Unfortunately I would notice some heat building up above the Fx loop. Nothing too hit. But less than a year of that and the amp kicked the bucket. After years of use and abuse, it decided to die onstage at my then bands last show. Anyway, now after all that, I was wondering if anyone knew what was happening? Such an odd thing to occur. But after hearing about this Quilter, maybe it was a happy accident. Not sure, but happy to share the story and ask for any info on why this happend. Thanks!!!
@Alfredo78666 Жыл бұрын
Big man!
@diodesDankessAndDives Жыл бұрын
I will watch anything coverage/kurt vidjios 🤙👏👏👏
@rlm4471Ай бұрын
Kurt looks and talks like he's explaining his new birding setup.
@alexstewart839 Жыл бұрын
38:43 "It's not very exciting..." then plays the exact sound that I think about when I think about metal and hardcore bass.
@jsmr2281 Жыл бұрын
YESSSSSS!! 🎉 and thank you 😊🙌
@stephenscala3114 Жыл бұрын
Man that crowd really showed up to have absolutely zero fun
@herfizhussin Жыл бұрын
converge is a master of dark guitar
@jsmr2281 Жыл бұрын
Hey Chris! I know you read these. Do a Rundown on Sumac if they go on tour. You know you wanna talk about Aaron Turner's Fryettes 🤙🔊😎
@stevenashmore4522 Жыл бұрын
I love hearing a gear monster like Kurt saying that the gear isn't important, and that a good show comes from connection over gear fetishism.
@dan.miller35 Жыл бұрын
Would really love to know why Kurt uses the Overdrive 202 instead of the ToneBlock 202 if he's just using the FX loop.
@yomuthabyotch Жыл бұрын
he said he will use the quilter's preamp if the helix goes down.
@Evy-1988 Жыл бұрын
this guy, Nate, this guy
@TheHighestOrderHO Жыл бұрын
This is the Lord’s work.
@badjon Жыл бұрын
kurt rips! nice seeing Tomas in the background
@badjon Жыл бұрын
then nate with the banana lol
@jamesfinch691 Жыл бұрын
Ed Kemper on guitar. Thats nice
@drownthepoor9 ай бұрын
Not a huge fan of having the security at the front facing the crowd. I know it's kind of common, but I feel like this is the first time I've seen it at a venue like this one.
@pranayvdha Жыл бұрын
YESS
@raytorvalds3699 Жыл бұрын
Toasted maple neck. Cool!
@HTRism Жыл бұрын
Of all the years Kurt used cool and weird gear,including pedals and guitars-it would be the tour with the helix
@Killall12 Жыл бұрын
Let's. Fucking. Go.
@Left_Hand_Path Жыл бұрын
YES.
@tyhen12 Жыл бұрын
YES
@dustinsroka2737 Жыл бұрын
The dude in the back at 24 was hilarious 😂
@apkwiab10 ай бұрын
Could there be a more stark contrast between two people explaining their gear.