Tegan and Sara

From Geartome

circa 2007 - 2010

Contents 1 Tegan 2 Sara 3 Both 3.1 circa 2000 - 2004 3.2 circa 2005 - 2006 3.3 circa 2007 - 2008 3.4 circa 2009 - present 4 Ted Gowans 5 Shaun Huberts 6 Johnny "Five" Andrews 7 Other

Tegan

• Guitars: Gibson LP Special (black), Gretsch Duo Jet, Gibson Joan Jett Signature Melody Maker (white, w/ Zebra humbucker), vintage Gibson Melody Maker (natural mahogany), Gibson Blues King acoustic, Epiphone Coronet (possibly Walla's), Gibson LP Studio, Fender Jaguar, Gibson SG Jr., unidentified Yamaha and Seagull acoustics
• Pedals: Boss NS-2, Boss OD-3, Boss LS-2, Boss TU-2, Boss CE-2, Boss DD-5, Ibanez TS-9, MXR Micro Amp, Z.Vex Fuzz Factory (and previously, circa 2007/2008: Boss SD-1, Boss RV-5, Boss TR-2, Boss DD-3, two Boss TU-2s)
• Other: Gibson Masterbuilt Premium Phosphor Bronze Wound strings (circa 2007/2008), Dunlop Nylon .73mm/.6mm picks, Dunlop capos, Couch Black Byloos Victorian strap, Gibson Red Lightning Bolt strap, Ultra Feedback Buster (installed in acoustic in 2008)

Sara

• Guitars: Gretsch Malcolm Young Signature II, Gretsch Duo Jet, Fender Telecaster Thinline (black, w/ Wide Range humbuckers), Gibson Blues King, Gibson CJ165 Rosewood, Gibson SJ-300, Takamine EAN30C, Gibson ES-335, Epiphone Les Paul, Chris Walla's 2005 Gibson Everly Brothers J-180 acoustic
• Pedals: Boss OD-3, Boss CE-2, Boss RV-5, Boss DD-5, Boss TU-2, Boss output selector, Liele input selecter, Pro D2 stereo direct box. Also included are two DIs that allow her to have the Roland Juno-G workstation keyboard running through her pedals/amp. There is also a dry DI signal so FOH engineer Doug McKendrick can blend the two sounds.
• Other: Gibson Masterbuilt Premium Phosphor Bronze Wound strings (circa 2007/2008), D'Addario strings (circa 2010), Dunlop Tortex .6mm picks (circa 2006), Planet Waves Delrin .61mm picks (circa 2008), Dunlop capos, G7th 405 capo

Both

circa 2000 - 2004

• Guitars: Martin 000M acoustics (w/ pickups and Grover mini tuners)

circa 2005 - 2006

• Guitars: Yamaha APX-3M guitars (before the Gibsons)
• Amps: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amps
• Keyboards: Nord Electro 2 73, Roland Juno-G, Alesis Micron, Sequential Circuits 2
• Other Instruments: Angel AX-25N2 children's glockenspiel

circa 2007 - 2008

• Guitars: Art & Lutherie Ami acoustics
• Amps: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amps
• Keyboards: Nord Electro 2 73, Roland Juno-G, Alesis Micron, Sequential Circuits 2
• Other Instruments: Angel AX-25N2 children's glockenspiel, LP Shake-It Shakers, MalletKAT

circa 2009 - present

• Guitars: Art & Lutherie Ami acoustics
• Amps: Acme Lulu head into Dr. Z closed-back 1/12-inch cab (miked with Heil PR30) (Tegan and Sara's amp rigs are basically identical)
• Keyboards: Nord Electro 2 73, Roland Juno-G, Alesis Micron, Sequential Circuits 2, MicroKORGs (in place of the Rolands on the Honda Civic tour)

Ted Gowans

• Guitars: Fender Starcaster (main guitar), Sara's red Malcolm Young Gretsch, Gibson ES-335 (satin finish), Fender Jaguar, Martin acoustics, Fender American Deluxe Tele, G&L ASAT (The Con DVD)
• Amps: Acme Varsity head into Dr. Z cab (similar to Tegan and Sara's rigs); Vox AC30 (previously, before the Acme/Dr. Z)
• Pedals: (circa 2008) Fulltone Full-Drive 2 Mosfet (previously an Ibanez TS-9DX), Boss TU-2, Boss LS-2, MXR Dyna Comp, Ernie Ball volume, Line 6 DL4, Voodoo Lab Pedal Power (In 2010, his pedalboard included a Boss TU-2, Z.Vex Super Hard-On, Fulltone Full-Drive 2, Line 6 DL4, and "vintage chorus".)
• Other: EBow
• Keyboards: Nord Wave (main keyboard), MalletKAT

Shaun Huberts

• Basses: (circa 08/09) two Fender Jazz Basses (one with active pickups, natural finish, no pickguard, maple fretboard, and mother-of-pearl block inlays; other with sunburst finish, tortoise-shell pickguard, passive pickups, rosewood fretboard, and white dot inlays)
• Amps: (circa 2008) Eden World Tour 800 head into Eden 410XLT cab; (circa 2009/10) Ampeg SVT-CL head into SVT-810E cab

Johnny "Five" Andrews

• Drums: Yamaha kit
• Mics: Shure MS91 and Yamaha Subkick (bass), Shure Beta57 (snare top), Neumann KM184 (snare bottom/hi-hat), Shure Beta56 (rack tom), Shure Beta52 (floor tom), two Audio-Technica AT4033s (overhead)
• Other: dDrum triggers on the toms

Other

For the 2010 tour: FOH engineer Doug McKendrick used a Digidesign console (the consoles he's been using for the past five years), with the Crane Song Phoenix plug-in and a Sony Oxford EQ, and clocked with an Apogee Big Ben. For vocals, he used an McDSP MC4000 multiband compressor, and two Distressors for overall compression. Monitor engineer Chandy Kilburn mixed on a Digidesign VENUE SC48, and took advantage of the board’s onboard plug-ins, including the Fairchild 660s on vocals, acoustic guitars and bass. She also ran McDSP G console comp/EQs on the drum channels, as well as a bus compressor on the outputs of all the ears. She used Digidesign’s Revibe and Reverb Ones. All of her processing was done inside the console aside from the Dolby Lake controller for the monitor EQs. Kilburn also carried an IW1800 RF spectrum analyzer to ensure clean RF. Wedges were Adamson M-15s powered by Lab.gruppen PLM 10000s. Kilburn had four monitors on four mixes for Tegan Quin, three mixes for guitars and one mix for keyboards, as well as a vocal wedge in front of her and a stereo pair on the outside. The rest of the band were on in-ears: Sennheiser G2 transmitters with a Shure PA821 antenna combiner and a helical antenna; Tegan, Sara, Gowans and Huberts wore Westone ES2s; Andrews took Sensaphonics.