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On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, the alternative hip-hop duo, Little Stranger, show off the gear that they use onstage, while on the Broken Hearted Boys Tour 2026 with Tropidelic. Little Stranger is currently supporting their newest album, Broken Hearted Boys Club.
PLAY THE SAME GEAR:
Roland SP-404 Sampler - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/0G7GZ3
TC-Helicon VoiceTone Vocal Effects Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/E0X0KX
Shure SM58 Dynamic Microphone Capsule - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/bkzkaB
Shure Axient Wireless Microphone System - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6k9keN
Melodica - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QYrYjY
Allen & Heath IP8 Remote Controller - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/9VPVLe
JH Audio Roxanne Custom In-Ear Monitors - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rE3EaG
BOSS RC-300 Loop Station - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jR3Ren
Focusrite Scarlett Solo USB Audio Interface - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/enMn1g
Alesis VI25 MIDI Keyboard Controller - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/aNmNOj
Apple Macbook Pro - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/WOaOy3
Electro-Harmonix Nano POG Polyphonic Octave Generator - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/0G7G93
Electro-Harmonix Nano Bassballs Twin Dynamic Envelope Filter Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/E0X0EX
Electro-Harmonix Nano Small Stone Phaser Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/n434Xx
Strymon blueSky Reverberator Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/bkzkOB
Electro-Harmonix Nano Holy Grail Reverb Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/OYQYeA
Strymon Iridium Amp & IR Cab Simulator Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/R0j0G7
Hologram Electronics Chroma Console Multi-Effects Pedal - https://www.hologramelectronics.com/products/chroma-console
BOSS TU-3 Chromatic Tuner Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NGDG9O
Martin 000C-16RGT Acoustic-Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/yZ3ZqD
Fender Jazzmaster Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/KBLB0a
Stringjoy Light Gauge Acoustic Guitar Strings (.012) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/7XrXa3
Stringjoy Electric Guitar Strings with Wound G - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/L0q00a
Dunlop Tortex Standard Guitar Picks (.73mm, Yellow) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QYrYYY
Porter & Davies BC2 Tactile Drum Monitor System - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/9VPVVe
VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - September 3, 2026
Location - Garcia's in Chicago, IL
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Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch
On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, the alternative hip-hop duo, Little Stranger, show off the gear that they use onstage, while on the Broken Hearted Boys Tour 2026 with Tropidelic. Little Stranger is currently supporting their newest album, Broken Hearted Boys Club.
PLAY THE SAME GEAR:
Roland SP-404 Sampler - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/0G7GZ3
TC-Helicon VoiceTone Vocal Effects Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/E0X0KX
Shure SM58 Dynamic Microphone Capsule - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/bkzkaB
Shure Axient Wireless Microphone System - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6k9keN
Melodica - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QYrYjY
Allen & Heath IP8 Remote Controller - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/9VPVLe
JH Audio Roxanne Custom In-Ear Monitors - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rE3EaG
BOSS RC-300 Loop Station - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jR3Ren
Focusrite Scarlett Solo USB Audio Interface - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/enMn1g
Alesis VI25 MIDI Keyboard Controller - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/aNmNOj
Apple Macbook Pro - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/WOaOy3
Electro-Harmonix Nano POG Polyphonic Octave Generator - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/0G7G93
Electro-Harmonix Nano Bassballs Twin Dynamic Envelope Filter Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/E0X0EX
Electro-Harmonix Nano Small Stone Phaser Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/n434Xx
Strymon blueSky Reverberator Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/bkzkOB
Electro-Harmonix Nano Holy Grail Reverb Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/OYQYeA
Strymon Iridium Amp & IR Cab Simulator Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/R0j0G7
Hologram Electronics Chroma Console Multi-Effects Pedal - https://www.hologramelectronics.com/products/chroma-console
BOSS TU-3 Chromatic Tuner Pedal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NGDG9O
Martin 000C-16RGT Acoustic-Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/yZ3ZqD
Fender Jazzmaster Electric Guitar - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/KBLB0a
Stringjoy Light Gauge Acoustic Guitar Strings (.012) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/7XrXa3
Stringjoy Electric Guitar Strings with Wound G - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/L0q00a
Dunlop Tortex Standard Guitar Picks (.73mm, Yellow) - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QYrYYY
Porter & Davies BC2 Tactile Drum Monitor System - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/9VPVVe
VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - September 3, 2026
Location - Garcia's in Chicago, IL
KEEP UP WITH LITTLE STRANGER:
Facebook - https://facebook.com/littlestrangermusic
Instagram - https://instagram.com/littlestrangermusic
TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@littlestrangermusic
Twitter - https://twitter.com/LittleStrng3r
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YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/
TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus
Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/
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00:00Batman's here.
00:01Perfect.
00:03Have a huge sub note play.
00:06It gets borderline sexual.
00:35Shall we?
00:35Shall we?
00:36What's up, y'all?
00:37This is Little Stranger.
00:39We are currently week six of the Brokenhearted Boys Club tour with Trappadelic, Jarvin, Damn Skippy.
00:46We're promoting our new album, Brokenhearted Boys Club.
00:50And we're going to give you a rundown today on the gear that we use on stage and how we
00:54make this show happen.
00:55Yeah.
00:56Let's get weird.
00:57Okay.
00:57You go first, Kevin.
00:58I'm going first?
00:58Okay.
00:59Come on over.
01:01Welcome to Classic Kevin's World.
01:05Right now, I use a pretty limited setup and I like it that way.
01:10I don't like to have to do too much during the show.
01:12I let John handle all that.
01:14But my big thing is my 404.
01:17Now, 404, mainly, I'm using it just to set off intro tracks, things like that.
01:23But what I do that I think is a little different than some people is I use it to scratch.
01:32Let's turn that up a little bit.
01:38So we get a lot of cool sound effects and things like that going.
01:43I'm Batman.
01:44You know, Batman's here.
01:46Perfect.
01:46Perfect.
01:48Perfect.
01:50So we have that, the 404, my baby.
01:53Now, for vocals for me, I use the TC Helicon voice tone.
01:56It's just kind of a delay effects kind of thing.
01:59So I like to use it for emphasis when I rap.
02:01Like, yo, my name's Kevin, but they all call me classic.
02:07And it makes for big fun moments like that.
02:09This is a wireless microphone so that it ought to...
02:12Mike, what kind of microphone is this?
02:14This is our sound engineer.
02:16That is just a standard SM58 capsule on a Shure Axiant wireless unit.
02:22Let's go.
02:22Yeah, duh.
02:23That's what I was thinking.
02:24It's the top of the line.
02:25It's the top of the line.
02:28This is the bottom of the line.
02:29This is a melodica.
02:31Actually, it used to go for $23 on Amazon.
02:34They bumped it up to a hot 32 right now.
02:37I'm very upset.
02:38It's kind of crushing me monetarily, but I love this baby.
02:42And then the last piece I'll show you is the Book of Gumpisms.
02:48Wisdoms of Forrest Gump.
02:50This is a gift from Michael that he is taking back, but it is a gift for now.
02:55Life is like a rubber band.
02:56Harder you go forward, harder you snap back.
02:59So do not make slip ups.
03:02It's kind of sweet stuff like that, you know?
03:05So that's just how I control the levels of my in-ears.
03:08What's this called, Michael?
03:10It's called an Allen & Heath IPA.
03:12That one, Allen & Heath IPA.
03:15And it's been so helpful on this tour because normally we have to ask Mike to change all
03:20our levels and everything.
03:20Now I can change it all on my own while I'm here.
03:22We have the Jerry Harvey Audio JH.
03:25I got mine, I call them the Jokers because I got the purple and green combo there.
03:31But yeah.
03:32Yeah.
03:32I think that's it.
03:34Yeah.
03:34It's the Roxanne model.
03:36See?
03:36You should be talking to Mike.
03:37Uh.
03:3916 per side.
03:4016.
03:41Drivers per side.
03:42It's 12 or 16.
03:42Oh, yeah.
03:4316.
03:44Alright, come over to my room.
03:45And that's my cool setup.
03:46Yeah, go see John.
03:47Hey, come on.
03:49Alright.
03:52I'm trying to do this as succinctly as possible.
03:56The foundation of my setup, well I loop a lot.
04:00So I have the RC300 loop station.
04:02I bring it back up and actually last night we had to bust out the back up so it's always
04:07good to have two if you're able to.
04:12This is a stool from Target.
04:17That I kind of customized with some side and back and I put the shelf in which has become
04:23my whole world and the pedal board and everything.
04:27I've several times have tried to replace this with something that feels more professional
04:33and I am done with that.
04:36The stool is forever.
04:38So, I don't know if they still sell it anymore.
04:41But that's my setup.
04:42I have the Focusrite setup here.
04:45So basically the flow of how I'm making all my loops is I have a Logic Pro setup.
04:52But it's just pretty much an empty session except I have all my drum kits first.
05:04So, you know, they're all different sounds.
05:08And it's all built with one shots that I've used in the production of the songs.
05:13I've built the kits in here.
05:15And then I come down.
05:16For the first time ever too on this tour I color coded everything and I put them in alphabetical
05:21order.
05:21Which has helped a lot.
05:25So then I have my basses next.
05:27And then after that I have any like keyboard.
05:30I have some synth leads.
05:32Some organs.
05:36And then any tracks that I run that we just like play to the track are down here and I
05:40cue them from Logic.
05:42So then I have a MIDI keyboard.
05:44This is an Alesis VI25 which they stopped making this past year.
05:51So I've bought as many as I can because I'm so used to having this one.
05:56And they changed it so the pads aren't here anymore.
05:58Now they're like up here.
06:01Shout out a Alesis.
06:02And I called them.
06:04I called them.
06:06And they even in like the warehouse they don't have any.
06:10So I'm buying them off eBay, Reverb.com and they're selling for like three times the price
06:14that they used to be.
06:16So I have about six of these and hopefully they'll last as long as possible.
06:21But so I cue my beats from the MIDI controller pulling the sounds from Logic.
06:27Let's see.
06:28I can loop one real quick.
06:31And then my output goes out of just a Focusrite Scarlett Solo.
06:38And then I loop it all through the 300 so.
06:48Now I'll go to a bass.
07:01So that's kind of how I'm powering this side of things with making the beats.
07:05And then I have my guitar running through the pedal board that starts here.
07:14It goes down and goes through this section.
07:18Because we've added an electric guitar on this tour which is a first for us also.
07:22So I left it on the bus.
07:24That's okay.
07:27And yeah, it's a pretty simple pedal board really.
07:32I have a compressor that I use for a clean boost.
07:36I have an octave pedal.
07:37For just getting a deep bow.
07:42I have a dynamic filter that's like a little auto wah.
07:52I have, which is my favorite pedal here is the Smallstone Phaser.
07:59This gets that like underwater washy sound.
08:01Sounds good with the delay on too.
08:03Yeah.
08:05I have a Strymon reverb pedal for some nice.
08:11Can't really hear it all that much right now.
08:13But it's sexy.
08:17And then over here I run some, I have the Strymon Iridiums.
08:20I have two for different electric guitar settings.
08:24Got like a crunch.
08:30These things are pretty, pretty amazing to not, to replace having to bring an amp on tour.
08:36Bringing an amp on tour is rock and roll.
08:39But I'm mostly an acoustic guitar player anyway.
08:42So you avoid running into tube issues and all that.
08:47And for the most part, oh and then on the loop station.
08:50If I'm not building the loop from scratch.
08:54I have some preset ones where, let's see.
09:00Where, you know, if it's more like a break beat that I can't play super well on the pads.
09:08If it's like hi-hat heavy, I'll start the loop with that on there.
09:12And then I loop the bass and guitar on top of it.
09:16Which also kind of can help streamline the show a bit.
09:19Instead of every single song having to start with the building of the loop.
09:24So I mix it up between those two kind of things.
09:27And for the most part, that's it.
09:29This is a, Mike, what kind of microphone is this?
09:32This is a Shure SM58 on a Shure Accent wireless system.
09:36Top of the line.
09:37Top of the line.
09:38Top of the line.
09:38Top of the line.
09:39Okay, this is a Martin Triple O C16 RGTE.
09:45This is actually started as my backup.
09:47I got the same model.
09:49I originally got my first one in 2008.
09:51It was a gift from my dad when I graduated high school.
09:56And I love this guitar.
09:58I think they stopped making it.
09:59What's very cool about this, on this tour, our man Mike had these custom inlays put on the frets.
10:08It's hard to see in the light, but they glow blue.
10:11So when there's a blackout on stage, I can still find the frets.
10:16And they're all little hearts.
10:18And they're very, very cool.
10:20The strings are String Joy, light gauge.
10:24I think, what are they?
10:25They're like 12s.
10:2612s.
10:27And actually, I used D'Addario strings forever until about a year ago.
10:32Mike recommended the String Joys.
10:33I've been really liking them.
10:34I think these are like on day show three now.
10:38And that's kind of where I like them.
10:41Sometimes brand new guitar strings are a little spanky for my taste.
10:45On the electric, we just started using the String Joys with the Welm G,
10:49which has kind of been a game changer.
10:51Yeah, yeah, because I'm an acoustic player, really.
10:53So when I play electric, I tend to dig in a little too hard sometimes.
10:58Having the Welm G is nice.
11:00It feels more like the acoustic for me.
11:02I'm using a Fender Jazzmaster that I just got about a year and a half ago.
11:11I'm not much of a shredder, though.
11:13I can't really do much lead stuff.
11:14So I just use it more actually for like kind of ambient acoustic sounding stuff.
11:20Standard tuning.
11:21Picks, I use the Dunlop, the Tortex, always the yellow for me.
11:26I used to use the orange one, which is a little bit more bendy.
11:29And I've gone to the yellow and this is forever my favorite pick.
11:33Oh, this is a fun one.
11:35Oh, yeah.
11:36This is a new addition on this tour.
11:39It is, what is it officially called?
11:42This is the Porter and Davies BC2.
11:45And what it is, this is the amp module that connects.
11:48We have a cable coming out of it and it connects to his throne.
11:51And so I've got it set up so basically anytime he has like a bass hit or something low,
11:57he can feel it up his spine.
11:59Oh, and it's such a game changer.
12:00So any, yeah, anytime I have like a bass or a kick hit, it rumbles my booty.
12:08Which is nice because they're on in-ears.
12:09So it helps like get more of the feel of a like live monitor, you know?
12:15Yeah.
12:16But it doesn't have more sound on stage.
12:18Absolute game changer.
12:19Highly recommend.
12:20And if you just like have a huge sub note play, it gets borderline sexual.
12:30Well, guys, that's been the rig rundown.
12:33I hope you enjoyed all of our gear.
12:35I hope we were smart enough.
12:37Probably weren't, but we tried our best.
12:39Ain't that right, John?
12:40Thank God for Mike.
12:41Yeah.
12:41What would we do without him?
12:43Yes, we are finishing this tour up, Broken Hearted Boys Club tour.
12:46If you want to find our music, we're all over every platform, littlestrangermusic.com.
12:52We'll have future tour dates on there.
12:55We got some cool festivals and shows coming up to end the year up.
12:59And yeah, this has been a blast.
13:00Thank you very much for having us.
13:01I hope you guys enjoyed it.
13:03I hope it was informative.
13:04Woo!
13:18Bye.
13:19We'll have fun.
13:19Yeah.
13:35Bye.