Geartome:Silent Oceans/Brendan Keeler
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Guitar
Electrics
Also see Geartome:Silent Oceans/Studio.
- 2007 Logan Custom Telecaster
- Built by Bob Logan. Mahogany wood body, black pickguard, gold hardware, custom Lollar pickups. Main live guitar.
- 2007 Fender Custom Shop Telecaster
- Natural rosewood body, black pickguard, two Custom Shop Telecaster pickups. Main backup live guitar.
- 2005 Warmoth Telecaster
- Black body, black pickguard, custom Lollar pickups, ZZ Guitar Works bridge/whammy arm, Sperzel tuners, Hipshot knobs, Bigsby bridge. Main live guitar 2005 - 2007, now used live tuned half a step down from standard.
- 2009 Fender Deluxe Nashville Power Tele
- Black body, tortoise pickguard, Tex-Mex single-coils. Used live with Fender/Fishman Piezo Power Tele Bridge for acoustic sounds.
- 1974 Fender Tele Deluxe
- Brown wood body, black pickguard, two Seymour Duncan Five-Twos. Main live guitar 1996 - 1999, now retired to studio.
- 1978 Fender Telecaster Deluxe
- Cream body, black pickguard, two Fender Wide Ranges. Main studio guitar.
- 1963 Supro Belmont
- Red res-o-glas body, white pickguard, stock pickups/hardware. Used live in various open tunings, usually for slide guitar.
- 1967 Epiphone Riviera 12-string
- Sunburst body, white pickguard, trapeze tailpiece, two Lollar mini humbuckers. Main live/studio 12-string.
- Eastwood Sidejack Baritone DLX
- Black body, white pickguard, gold Gotoh hardware, SD P90s. Main live baritone.
- Jerry Jones Original Single-Cutaway Baritone
- Black body/pickguard. Used live prior to acquiring the Eastwood Sidejack in 2008, then retired to the studio.
- 1999 Wen Dawson tenor guitar
- Dakota red finish, white pickguard, Gotoh tuners, Gibson Burstbucker #3 pickup. Les Paul DC Junior style. Live/studio tenor guitar used by the band. Tuned to CGDA.
- Eastwood Warren Ellis Tenor Guitar
- Cherry finish, black pickguard, Kluson tenors, single-coil blade pickup. Second live/studio tenor guitar used by the band. Usually tuned to either CEGC or GCEA.
Acoustic
Keeler usually sticks to the Nashville Power Tele for acoustic sounds. If he doesn't, he's using the band's acoustic rig.
Effects
All pedals modded for true bypass. In order of his typical pedal chain:
- Boss TU-2
- Tuner.
- Boss GE-7
- EQ pedal, for different tones for different songs. Noisy op-amp chips replaced with low-noise, higher-quality Burr Brown OPA2134PA opamps.
- Keeley 4-Knob Compressor
- Compressor.
- Fulltone Full-Drive 2 Mosfet
- Overdrive/distortion.
- Fulltone Soul-Bender
- First fuzz.
- '90s EHX Sovtek "Green Tank" Big Muff
- Second fuzz.
- Sitori Sonics Harem Fuzz
- Third fuzz. Also used as overdrive.
- Dunlop CryBaby
- Wah.
- Eventide Pitchfactor
- Used for musical purposes more often than Glover.
- Line 6 MM4
- Various mods (double presets, volume drop, expression knob). Preset order (as labeled under the footswitches): CHORUS/ROTARY - FLANGER/PHASER - TREMOLO/TREMOLO - PANNING/NOISE.
- Line 6 DL4
- Various mods (double presets, volume drop, expression knob). Preset order (as labeled under the footswitches): SPRING/DUB - EDGE/SWEEP - KARMA/SPACE - RHYTHMIC/DMM
- Malekko Chicklet
- For spring reverb (mostly).
- Line 6 Verbzilla
- For spacy/ambient/ridiculous reverb.
Amps
- two 2x12 Vox AC30H2s in stereo
- Current live rig.
Other
- GHS Boomers strings (10/13/17/30/44/52)
- Exclusively used on the Teles.
- Dean Markley strings (10/13/17/26/36/46)
- Used on other six-strings.
- D'Addario EXL150 Nickel XL 12-String strings (10/10/13/13/17/08/26/12/36/18/46/26)
- Used on 12-strings.
- D'Addario EXL158 XL Light Baritone strings (13/17/26/36/46/62)
- Used on baritones.
- D'Addario strings (13/17/30/42)
- Used on tenors.
- Dunlop Tortex .73mm picks
- George L's cables
- Dunlop steel slides
- G7th capos
Keyboards
Live
Stage right rig, used by Brendan:
- Nord Electro 3 (into an Eventide Pitchfactor and Line 6 DL4)
- Korg MicroSampler
- Musser M55 Pro-Vibe Vibraphone
- Moog Etherwave Theremin
