Rig Rundown – The Dear Hunter
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Premier Guitar’s Chris Kies swooped into Nashville’s Cannery Ballroom right after soundcheck to see how Casey Crescenzo, Rob Parr, and Maxwell Tousseau reproduce their epic concept albums that will tell a narrative over six albums (five have been released this far).
Casey Crescenzo, the former member of The Receiving End of Sirens and current leader/guitarist of The Dear Hunter, is a part-time luthier when he’s not rocking onstage or locked in the studio. His fascination with building guitars can be drawn back to two things: his reluctance to cave on his ideas while collaborating with guitar companies (plus not wanting to pay over $4k) and his love for 3D CAD design work. He bought a few Fender Starcaster reissues (his preferred body shape) to reverse engineer the instrument and to further understand the finishing process. And his brand Cave and Canary was born.
Above is a Cave and Canary Solaris semi-hollow—his only touring guitar for this run and it’s the first body style that he drew. While he is a builder, two weeks before this tour he realized he didn’t currently have a guitar to play onstage, so this particular Solaris is a “parts” guitar from all the items laying around his shop. Some appointments include a Fender-style scale length, Mastery bridge and tailpiece, OX4 Humbuckers (PAF-style), and ’70s-style Schaller tuners.
Guitarist Rob Parr is an active user on the Offset Guitars forum and worked with another member and co-designed this contoured Jag-Stang offshoot that has come to be a Cave and Canary Auriga model. (Parr has said on the record—and in the video—that The Dear Hunter leader, Casey Crescenzo, did not make it mandatory for him to play a Cave and Canary instrument.) It has a short scale (24”), Mastery bridge and tailpiece, and is outfitted with custom-voiced McNelly Pickups that’s base point was the company’s gold-foil set. And from all his time spent playing on Jazzmasters, he incorporated those familiar switches—the knobs are master tone and volume. One of the knobs is a 3-way pickup selector and the other rocks between standard, mute, and a low-pass filter used for more rounded sounds. He strings up this bad boy with Ernie Ball Power Slinkys gauged .011–.054 and plays with Dunlop Tortex .73 mm picks.
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Originally posted by UC5J-hZ4wNf7OlkzIn49LHoQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG5ccV8eTDo
I hate that they used a movie title as their band name. Gauche
casey
0:00 – intro / making his own guitars
8:35 – specifics of the guitar he's holding
11:00 – the Z amp
13:35 – pedalboard – the old haunt
18:40 – pedalboard – wait
21:00 – pedal with the logo off (quiet theory prelude / delay reverb)
22:00 – cursed
rob
26:00 – rob's guitar
i'll get the rest later
one of my favorite bands. damn theyre soo good
One of the best bands of all time.
I got to play trumpet on their first EP in Casey's basement studio and they remain one of my favorite bands to this day, idk how I missed this when it came out but holy hell I love this band.
i love how he makes the pain staking effort to build his own guitar, shave his binding, select pickups for their tonality, then when it comes to live performance and getting the job done, it all devolves into "….i just turn all of my distortions on… " lol. SO relatable
Just now seeing this im super upset that guitar isn't made anymore. I really would love that.
LOL First time I've heard Casey mention my sister in a video
Yo where can I buy one of his guitars??????????
Of course, he's a F'ng genius!
I will always wonder why treos didn't make one last baby?
I'll buy that guitar.
I’m surprised he doesn’t like amp modelling, I coulda sworn TREOS were using pod’s or something like that, at least some kind of amp similation, guess I was wrong
What can't this guy do?
Not to be confused with Deerhunter
"it's the greed of wanting 100 guitars" – I get it. I totally get it.
For the non luthiers I have a Jennings Catalina hollow body that is a superbly crafted top quality components and…it’s just beautiful too.
love this guy, and the band
great rundown and band
48:30 Rich Evans makes an appearance
Amazing video. I was always curious about what they use.
The "Jag-Stang Done Right" looks awesome, I want to make a reverse version 🙂
4:00
"A nice MIDDLE GROUND" AYE?! : https://youtu.be/OYGK2nC3R8Y
If anyone is curious about the guitar pedal demo youtube channel Casey is referencing to but couldn't remember the name of, i believe it's "Knobs."
“Learning how to slow down”. Wise Words i think
Lame they cut Max off. No nick feature?
Otherwise epic.
That blue guitar is really beautiful
Finally, a break from the usual fender/gibson rundowns
So lame they are trying to pull off this name. Stoops
Hey guys, any chance of a new Samantha Fish rig rundown? Her gear lineup is almost entirely changed since the last rundown you did on her. She is playing a SG now.
Chris' rig rundowns are getting better and better. He's so relaxed and relevant in his interviews nowadays!
At 7:53, when Chris said "it's like popping a zit" I literally popped a zit 5 seconds before that. Really threw me off hahahahaha
It's not "just" the Mark 5 25w model … it IS THE Mark 5 25w model …
Small amps can sound huge / best in the right circumstances – don't 'apologise' for being smart enough to use the right tool for the job! 🙂
This band's name is playing hell with my ocd perfectionism … :/
21:10 Casey just offhandedly mentions they're working on a new album. Nice!
How tall is Casey? He always looks like a giant
so let me get this straight. You had a mesa boogie that did everything great. so you decided to get rid of that amp and buy a Dr. Z amp that only does one thing AND a brand that has an amp that cant even turn on without busting de valves up. ok haha good decision making
28:45the shape of that blue guitar is killer! in fact that whole guitar looks killer i want one in surf green or maybe coral pink?
MESA BOOGIE TRANSATLANTIC TA 30 JACK OF ALL TRADES! MASTER OF NONE!.i don't think i will be seeing this slogan any time soon!
WOW CHRIS'S FACE IS REALLY SUNBURNT! i think he must have been wearing a hat because his head is not.be careful chris melanoma [ skin cancer ] kills alot of people every day. SUNSCREEN UP NEXT TIME MAN!
No bass.
These guys are rad. The guitars look great and it's nice to see non-metal folks using the Helix. Checked out their album on Spotify and then immediately ordered it from my store. Good job PG!
if the dr z maz 38 sr reverb mk2 is that good , $2600 seems reasonable
Exactly what the world needed. Another stupid guitar made by a " luthier" who just found out about Fender Starcaster. Read a book before you wanna become a writer! God damn!!!
This guy is truly guitarded! He balanced the woods? One wood has more of a snappy tone? Snappy is not a tone! The snappiness does not come from woods comes from the set up man. Wtf? He is a luthier my as!!!
I've been waiting for this for sooooooo long. It finally happened
Poor Max. Didn’t even get to give us a sample of his tone.
Was NOT prepared for how good this was :0
Rob Parr is pure class over and over.
no bass 🙁
Was this the guy from Receiving End of Sirens?