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On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Jonathan Crandall, keyboardist of the indie rock band, Glom, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on the “as above, so below” us tour 2026. Glom is currently supporting their newest single, Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely.

PLAY THE SAME GEAR:
Sequential Prophet-6 - 6-voice Analog Synthesizer - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4aBL2L
Nord Stage 3 88-Key Stage Keyboard - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/dyqDe3
Roland SP-404MKII Creative Sampler and Effector - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NGYeXP
Radial Key-Largo 4-Channel Keyboard Mixer - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/yZxOWB
Hologram Electronics Chroma Console Multi-Effect Pedal - https://www.hologramelectronics.com/products/chroma-console
Casio SP-20 Sustain Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jRj5Vb
Tambourine - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/PzqABM

VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - May 29, 2026
Location - Schubas in Chicago, IL

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VIDEO SUMMARY:
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Skip Intro
00:44 Keyboard & Synthesizer
02:46 Sampler Pad
03:06 Pedalboard

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Transcript
00:00Tambo, very important part of the set.
00:02Arguably the most important part of the whole rig.
00:04People like to hear the familiarity of the actual sounds that are on the album.
00:34Hey, what's up? This is John from the band Glom.
00:37I play keyboards and sampler and tambourine.
00:41And this is my rig rundown.
00:43Start with my favorite part of the rig.
00:45This is the Prophet 6.
00:47It's modeled after the Prophet 5, which I believe was the first polyphonic memory synth.
00:53So you can play multiple notes at once and you can save your sounds.
00:58Because a lot of synthesizers, wherever you put the knobs, is what the sound is.
01:02And you can't save it.
01:03So it really comes in handy.
01:06Got about 9, 10 patches for Glom.
01:09So we have a few main sounds that I use for Glom.
01:13One is a classic synth.
01:14The speakers aren't on right now, but it's probably the most common type of synth sound you've heard.
01:20And I have a, we can talk about this later, but I have a foot switch for the filter.
01:24So I'm working the filter sometimes during the set.
01:26The other main tone is a lead tone.
01:30It's a, sounds like a sine wave.
01:33And there is always a filter on that one at about 12 o'clock.
01:39And I also have distortion running on the lead tone.
01:43It makes it louder and more prominent.
01:46The volume always stays the same.
01:48So on some of the patches, I use things like distortion to boost it when it's a lead tone.
01:54And then all the other ones, there's no distortion when it's blending with the guitar and the rest of the
01:58band.
01:59Okay. The next keyboard here is the Nord.
02:01This is for all of the other sounds, mainly piano and Mellotron.
02:07And one synth sound I use just when I have to have this one on a certain patch and play
02:12them at the same time.
02:13But other than that, all of the same, all of the synths are on the actual synth here. Analog synth.
02:19I would say this is about 75% of the sounds on the actual synth.
02:23I love this thing. It's got the analog sound very, very true to hearing an actual synth.
02:30So you're hearing the actual electricity going through versus a sample of a synth.
02:34And then this one, it does a really, really good job of emulating pretty much every classic keyboard.
02:40And like I was saying, mainly Mellotron and piano for this one.
02:45This is the sampler. We use this to run a lot of the intros of the songs.
02:50That way, you know, people like to hear the familiarity of the actual sounds that are on the album
02:57to kind of get into the song. And then the drums bust in pretty shortly after.
03:01This is called a SP-404. It's the best sampler there is.
03:05So basically, I have both keyboards running into this Key Largo by Radial here.
03:11I love this thing.
03:13All of the sound goes out of this stereo effects loop here.
03:19It goes into this chroma console.
03:21I have a compressor, a doubler, and a cassette emulator on this thing.
03:29Every set I tend to, maybe not every set, but as I go along, I try to kick this thing
03:36up a little bit more
03:37because I really like making it wonky, if that makes sense.
03:41So it goes, all the keyboards go out of this into here and then back into the mixer on channel
03:483.
03:48So basically, what you're hearing is the dry signal and the affected signal at the same time.
03:54It sounds really good, in my opinion.
03:58And then we have the low-pass filter pedal here and the sustain pedal.
04:03And that's pretty much it. A pretty simple pedal board.
04:05We're missing one thing. The Tambo.
04:08So a couple shakes, maybe some of this, and then some of this.
04:15So that's the Tambo. Very important part of the set.
04:18Arguably the most important part of the whole rig, so there you go.
04:21Definitely check out New York Glom on all social media platforms.
04:24We have a lot of shows coming up, releasing a lot of music.
04:28Definitely check it out.
04:56Outro Music
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