Chords for Guitar Nerds at ArcTanGent 2016: Devin Yuceil of Delta Sleep

Hello, it's Matt from Guitar Nerds and [F] we are back here at
[Eb] Arc Tangent Festival in association with [C] Boss.
I'm here
with [Gb] Devin from Delta Sleep.
What's up?
Yeah, and we've [F] got his awesome pedal board, [Gb] Hulk Hogan, all
the tone from [Eb] Hogan there.
Tone King.
Yeah, exactly.
[F] So the first thing I want to talk about on
your pedal board [Eb] is [Gb] we were like, everything's in like a
weird angle.
And we're like, is it just because stuff isn't
stuck down?
[Fm] Or is it and then you said [C] no, it's specifically
that way for a reason.
Yeah, yeah.
[B] Talk us through the kind of reason you got all your [Bb] pedals
set out the way you have.
So it's just for [Eb] accessibility, really.
So like, for example,
[Ab] so the the two overdrives, okay, so I use one as a kind of like
clean boost, okay, with a bit of grit.
And then [Db] this is like my
main [Bb] overdrive, the OCD.
_ They're like, they're kind of like
angled like that.
So just so [C] when one of them is on, I can, I
can easily click [Db] hit both pedals at the same time.
And it just
turns [F] that one off and that one on.
[Bb] Okay, cool.
I don't have to
do the awkward like double tap.
[A] _ So yeah, so that's that so I can
like access it with like [Bbm] the same foot basically.
And just
like keep switching.
Cool drives just like really simply.
_ _ [Db] So same
with so this the [Ebm] delay here, the earthquake [E] devices. _
_ Disaster
transporter, Jr.
Yeah, they're awesome. _
Really cool.
Like really, like the [Ab] also the repeats on it [Dbm] are
amazing.
Like it feeds back but not [Bb] like super it's quite controlled.
If I'm not I can't remember exactly but I think they're like
digital but like [Gb] analog controls.
They've got like a
real [D] kind of analog vibram but they kind of respond [Bb] slightly
differently to like yeah, exactly.
It does sound really
warm and really like analog like rounded.
It's really really
nice sound.
But yeah, so that's that's here because I often
combine it with the whammy basically so I can have the
whammy on and kind of like use the foot switch the sorry that
the foot pedal [Db] but then also like [Dbm] access okay, okay.
So I've got the same thing on and off.
Same.
It's [A] same with
the [N] DD six.
I've just got this _ set to these are amazing pedals
actually.
I don't think boss make them anymore.
But it's got
this one function that I use and Glenn also uses _ the hold
function.
Okay, yeah, that's the one way like looper.
It's like
a tiny looper.
Yeah, tiny looper.
So you where you like
hold it down and records and then let it go and it plays it.
But we just use it for like really short like glitchy
sounds.
You can just trap like loops and it just has this like,
really like _ or like, yeah, yeah, there's some there's some cool
things you can do with that.
Do you do a similar thing?
So say
you've got the electro harmonics freeze on there as well.
Do [B] you
do a similar thing with that?
Yeah, yeah, essentially.
Yeah.
But that just sounds a bit more like rounded and like droney and
a bit in a nice way.
Okay.
Whereas this is a bit more like
[Bb] harsh and visceral, you know, okay.
So yeah, so [Ab] that's in the
same way that I [Bb] use these two connected together.
Yeah, these
two as well.
Okay, hit at the same time.
[B] So it just makes life
easier on stage.
Yeah, cool.
Yeah.
And then yeah, so finally,
you've got the jamman on here.
So using the live looping or
have you got stuff programmed into it?
The jamman we [Gb] use for
like some sampling stuff, basically.
[Bb] So I've got like
samples [B] on there.
A [Ab] few like a few like beats, things like that
really.
And you can just, [Bb] yeah, you can just trigger it.
And
also, it's Yeah, it's great.
You can store like [A] 99 banks of
stuff.
Yeah, there's like a ton of memory and memory.
Yeah.
So
cool.
Yeah.
And the other thing is your guitar, which [Ab] we've
commented on.
And your other bandmates got a similar thing
done by the same guy.
Yeah, yeah.
Let's just have a quick
[N] look at it.
So it's a modern telly, right?
Because this is
the thing we was like, these guitars look really vintage.
But
yeah, like a more modern guitar.
That's it.
Yeah.
I mean, so
yeah, it's just a basic Mexican deluxe really from the early
2000s.
Okay, which I got secondhand from GAC actually. _ _
_ _ [A] Oh,
probably.
_ [Bb] Anyway.
_ _ [N] Yeah, so just like a bog standard [Abm] telly.
And
[A] then good friend Evan, [Ab] Evan Mann, who's like an amazing
luthier.
Okay, he builds [C] classical guitars actually,
[B] okay, and just [Bb] incredible detail.
Just gave it to him.
[Gb] Just said, do what you do whatever you want with it.
[Eb] So he
basically stripped stripped everything off.
_ [Gb] _ _ Change the
little pot [E] here because it usually comes [Gb] with like a silly
little common mod.
Yeah.
So just [B] stops things from the cup
actually like [Eb] is just held in there with the actual route.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And it messes up all the time.
It just Yeah.
[Bb] So
he changed that.
But [E] most importantly, took the whole
body off [Ab] all the pickups all the wiring everything.
So it's just
the bare wood.
And [B] he blow torched it.
[Bm] Okay, so yeah, the
[Gb] color.
[Ab] This black color is actually [Bb] just like carbonated wood.
I don't know how well we're gonna see it on camera.
But
there's like it's sort [Gb] of like different loads of different
shades where it's obviously [Ab] like a different amount of like
flame applied to it.
It looks [C] awesome.
It's like, yeah, it's
so easy when [D] someone says [Gb] I can relic a guitar or you know, kind
of make a guitar look old or do something like that to it look
[E] like really bad, but that [Db] looks like so genuine and like, yeah,
it's like natural as well where the kind of [Bb] the where the joints
of the woods are, you can kind of see like, it's [E] getting like
brown, a bit brown.
And that's what I like about this [Bbm] guitar is
like, the older it gets, the more [Gb] worn down it's going to be
in just the more colors are just going to like, [Eb] slowly, the more
you play.
Yeah, the more Yeah.
So we were saying earlier, you've
just had a [Dbm] repressive one of your [Bb] records, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So our first album we released last year, and it sold out like
before he was even a year old, which is like, [Ab] amazing.
Yeah, we
weren't really expecting it.
And so yeah, we just say is this all
the same all the same gear on the record?
Yeah, all the same
gear.
[Abm] _ But [Db] this delay, I had a different delay before.
Okay,
one of the small like Mua.
[Gb] Did you kind of leave that?
Did you
just have that board ready to go from kind of rehearsals and
writing [C] the songs and just took that into the studio?
[Ab] Yeah,
pretty much pretty much.
Well, when when recording, usually, I
minimize the setup.
So not to only use [N] exactly what you're
using, just so there's less like, it's quite easy to kind of
like grab a load of cool stuff that's in the studio and be
like, Oh, yeah, I want to use that.
And then like, when it
comes to using it live, you're like, I can't recreate.
Yeah,
[G] _ _ exactly.
Cool, [Gb] man.
So whereabouts can people find you?
Where can people hear the pedal board listen to your music?
So
_ on Facebook, Delta Sleep on [Bb] Bandcamp, we've got all our all
our stuff up there.
You can buy our vinyl from our label Big
Scary Monsters.
_ Yeah, awesome, man.
Well, definitely.
Everyone
[E] should definitely check it out.
There's some [D] awesome pedal
boards.
So yeah, awesome sounds to check it [E] out.
So that's Matt
at Octangent.
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