KYLE HUNT: Hi. I'm Kyle Hunt and I play in The Black Angels from Austin, Texas.

PATRICK OGLE: And I hear the youngest member of The Black Angels over there hollering.

KYLE HUNT: Yes. That's my daughter, [PH] Harper, over there.

PATRICK OGLE: We were talking about the.

KYLE HUNT: Yeah. It's an Echoplex EP4. The EP3 is probably the most popular solid state model. This one has a bass and a treble knob on it, so for the keyboards it helps again to add a little extra.

PATRICK OGLE: That's an older piece. I mean you don't see those very often.

KYLE HUNT: Yeah. I think the EP4's are a late 70s or a late 80s. This is the last Echoplex before the Fulltone, which is what Christian has over there.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: My name is Christian Bland and I play with The Black Angels.

PATRICK OGLE: And the Fulltone.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah. This is my Fulltone Tube Tape Echo. Really is amazing and reliable and easy to change the tape. Fulltone makes their own tape now, and I mean it lasts for probably about three months, and you got to replace it but top. Yeah. These are my pedals here. Standard tube screamer, probably my favorite overdriver of all time. I actually just recently got this other overdriver. It's made by our buddy, Oliver, who is in A Place To Bury Strangers, this band up in Broklyn, New York, but he makes Death By Audio Pedals.

PATRICK OGLE: And that is the name of his company? Death By Audio?

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Death By Audio. Yeah.

PATRICK OGLE: They're out of Brooklyn.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: They're out of Brooklyn. Yeah. And he makes several pedals.

KYLE HUNT: I want to hear the Fuzz War. The new one.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah. I'd like to check that out too. This Interstellar Overdriver though is, I mean compared to this, is probably like a thicker tone I'd say. This, I guess, you know, is a little bit more translucent, let's you hear the amp more rather than adding like a muffled.

KYLE HUNT: It gets hairy on the top and sizzly kind of, and it's got a lot of output. It's got that volume. You can push it like a clean boost or you can crank it like a fuzz or a combo. It's pretty awesome. They're not that expensive either, right? They're --

CHRISTIAN BLAND: No. They're like $180 for this.

PATRICK OGLE: Yeah. So like's that -- especially for like that kind of boutique stuff, that's average.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah. Exactly.

KYLE HUNT: And you know it's -- looks really cool. It's got huge knobs and simple [OVERLAPPING] overdriver.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah. And I mean the name Interstellar Overdriver, awesome. Let's see. What else here? This is my 1967 Fuzz Face.

PATRICK OGLE: That's another thing. You don't see many of those anymore.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah. This is -- man, I mean when it's on, this is one of the loudest pedals I've got. Just screechy, you know, not even playing, but it's an amazing fuzz that you know I don't think you can match with any other pedal. It's got its own unique sound, and it's not very good with playing chords but single notes, man it's the sweetest fuzz that I've ever heard. And then this is an old wah pedal; it's a V846. So, it's a -- I think this was probably made in 1968 but again I mean, you know, I mean this, compared to the 847's that they have now, I mean that just blows it out of the water. And this in conjunction with this, forget it man. Psychedelic madness.

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Holy Grail Reverb. Each of one actually has one of these. These are standard protocol for The Black Angels whether it be vocals, guitar, bass. Yeah. It's just -- I mean it sounds sweet. On my Twin, I crank up the reverb usually all the way, and then I throw on a little bit more with the Grail and it's just surfy.

This is my Muff. I think this is the fuzz that I use the most. It's thick and creamy, and--

PATRICK OGLE: It's the same basic things that once that used to be like Army Green, and [OVERLAPPING].

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Exactly. Yeah, yeah. This is the Russian one. It's just like that green. And this has been, you know, kind of been my standard thick fuzz but I just recently got this Experience because Kyle actually had one and I was using it in the studio. Who makes these then? Some Prescription [OVERLAPPING]?

KYLE HUNT: Prescription Electronics out of Portland, Oregon.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah. But this thing is comparable I'd say to a Muff. It’s a thick kind of fuzz and you can get a thin fuzz out of this. It's very versatile.

KYLE HUNT: The swirly ones, if you can find them, are the original earliest ones that they made.

PATRICK OGLE: That would be right there.

KYLE HUNT: Yeah, and there's a Prescription Overdriver over on my pedalboard. That's one of his early swirly ones.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Prescription makes some cool overdrivers [OVERLAPPING].

KYLE HUNT: They make all -- they're a small company, and they make gret stuff.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: They made this Yard Box also, and this Yard Box has kind of a more sizzly type sound. It's like a mosquito-type fuzz, a buzz kind of thing.

PATRICK OGLE: It's kind of almost imitating like an old like kind of a vaguely defective amp.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah. Exactly like.

KYLE HUNT: [INDISCERNIBLE]

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah. This is another on of my favorite fuzzes, the Maestro Fuzz. This is the fuzz that they used for "Can't Get No Satisfaction", that riff. This is a reissue one but it's yes it's super raddy, it sounds like you had spliced up your speakers just [CHRISTIAN IMITATES MAESTRO FUZZ SOUND].

PATRICK OGLE: Because that I mean the reissues -- I mean if they build them to what the original specifications were...

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Right.

PATRICK OGLE: ...there's not a problem.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah. Exactly.

PATRICK OGLE: But it's that they usually don’t.

CHRISTIAN BLAND: Yeah.