JOSEPH MCCAFFREY: Greetings. You are watching Gearwire.Com, and I am Joe from Nightmare of You.

BRANDON REILLY: Hi. My name is Brandon.

MICHAEL FLEICHMANN: Hi. My name is Mike.

RYAN HEIL: And Ryan.

JOSEPH MCCAFFREY: We have two guitar players, a bassist and a drummer, and Brandon and I use some combo amps for the guitars. We like to keep it, you know, nice and simple but still sounding good.

BRANDON REILLY: Classic.

JOSEPH MCCAFFREY: Classic sounding good gear. It’s important to start with some good gear. And Mike, you know, has a four-piece drum kit.

MICHAEL FLEICHMANN: I play a four-piece DW drum set, Yamaha Jimbo Akira snare drum with wood hoops, and I play Sabian cymbals and DW hardware. When I was younger, a lot of bands I had liked at the time were using DW and so I pursued it and worked when I was 16 years old at something like really a job I don't want to really mention but I saved up enough money and then I bought it and I came to like the cymbals from -- I’m endorsed by Sabian that’s why I use their cymbals and it’s great.

BRANDON REILLY: I use a Fender Thin Line Telecaster? A Fender Thin Line Telecaster. I play through a Vox AC 30 combo amp, and the pedals that I use are I use a Boss digital delay pedal, a Rat pedal, a Boss chorus pedal, and -- What’s the? I use a little booster. That -- What’s it called? That distortion booster? A little nice little distortion booster, and that’s it.

RYAN HEIL: I have an SVT Classic head, all tube. Just I kind of go between bass cabinets but it’s always usually Ampeg 410, 610, or 810, depending on what I feel like carrying, a ’79 Fender P-Bass, and that’s it. I have a distortion pedal. I usually go between a Boss or a Big Muff. I like a lot of just classic, pretty simple setup. It seems to be kind of like the industry standard, and there’s I really, really like the way their vintage equipment sounds. Unfortunately, I can’t really afford it but I just think they make really solid, solid sounding bass amps.

JOSEPH MCCAFFREY: I play a Fender 1970s Super Reverb amp. I played a bunch of them in various guitar shops before buying the one that I actually use today. I’ve had it for about three or four years and it sounded way better than any of the other ones that I played. I think I got lucky and it’s a beautiful amp. I hope I have it for a very long time. For guitars, primarily these days I use a Gibson ES-335. It is a pleasure and an honor to be part of the Gibson Family. They take good care of me, and I love them very much. Pedals: I use a variety of effects pedals in a custom sort of pedalboard that I have. All my pedals are routed through a true bypass strip, and if you’re going to use a lot of pedals, I recommend that you look into a bypass strip regardless of whether your pedals are true bypass or not because you don’t want to get your tone sucked out in a chain of a dozen pedals.