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Guitarist Teppei Teranishi has played some high-quality instruments, including vintage Les Pauls and custom, handmade Teles. He generally opts for a custom set of Ernie Ball Slinkys (.011 –.058), and the 6-string rides in either D-standard or drop-C tuning. (Kensrue has shifted towards an all-Line 6 Helix setup for this purpose, but more on that in a minute.) The tonewood recipe includes an African mahogany body, a maple neck, and a rosewood fretboard. When pushed out, it taps each pickup individually and sends the signals to a stereo output for playing through two amps or a digital modeler. When that button is pushed down, the model is a normal passive guitar. Its secret weapon is a small black button near the pickup selector. On its surface, the Ernie Ball Music Man Dustin Kensrue StingRay ( reviewed here) has minor tweaks from its predecessors: a single-coil in the neck, a lower-bout pickup selector, and a concentric volume/tone control. Since our last Thrice Rig Rundown in 2016, Dustin Kensrue has retired his two previous offsets (Nash and Cave and Canary models) and designed his own offset signature with Ernie Ball Music Man. Teranishi chronicles how the pandemic-created time void sent him down the lutherie rabbit hole and resulted in a familiar-looking-but-original build. Kensrue explains why he's shifted his live tone (and Horizons/East recordings) to be fully dependent on the Line 6 Helix, and how that impacted the design of his signature Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay. Prior to headlining Nashville's Mercy Lounge in support of the just-released Horizons/East, Kensrue and Teranishi spoke with PG's Perry Bean about the changes (and reductions) in their symbiotic setups. And even after all those years, all those albums, and all their discovered sounds, the Pixies and Metallica continue to be musical planets they orbit while exploring the outer realms of the sonic solar system.
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I-IV), and an amalgamation of it all ( To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere and Horizons/East). Over the course of 11 studio albums-with the help of brothers Eddie (bass) and Riley (drums) Breckenridge-Thrice has explored odd-timing metal ( Identity Crisis and The Illusion of Safety), thrashy screamo ( The Artist in the Ambulance), maturing post-hardcore ( Vheissu and Palms), all-encompassing prog-rock with ethereal escapes and mammoth, surly riffs ( The Alchemy Index: Vols.