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Hey I'm Davey. I'm Dobby. And we're Yip Deceiver. We've toured with Turquoise Jeep, The Wild
Moccasins, and we're about to go on tour with Electric Six and all in support of our new
album Medallius. We kind of play a mixture of like indie, pop, R&B, punk, fun, dance
music. Electronic without being electronic and punk without being punk. Well we opt for
hardware over laptops and VSTs and stuff like that. We use the analog synthesizers and the
hardware sequencers and everything and it's uh. It's a crutch but we love it. You know
we get to talk about it a lot to everybody that sees it and they go, "Why are you doing
that," and we're like, "Well it's because that's the fun stuff." Our choice of gear
does influence us a lot simply because of the limitations. We work with things that
you can't do an infinite amount of things with. Like you don't have every option available
to you. You can't just be like, "Well I kind of like how it sounds right now but what if
it sounded like this completely other totally different synth that I don't own?" It's like,
nope that doesn't work. If you can't get it out of that one then don't get it basically
and it makes us have to work for it a little bit more. We get flack because people call
us an electronic project but it's like we're really just a band. Since we don't use the
VSTs and stuff we don't have the infinite options of things so we get people going like,
"So it sounds like they only have like four synts." And if you look, we only have four
synths. It's our palette, that's what we work with and we're ok with it. I grew up listening
to a lot of punk music and then forayed into smoother R&B. Teddy Riley, Jimmy Jam, Terry
Lewis sort of stuff. Yeah what did you like when you were a child. Madonna, Prince, UTFO.
UTFO? Really? Yeah. Nice that's good. I like UTFO. This is the best PA you could ever hope
to buy. It will not feedback. I mean no matter the volume. Like turn it up for me. Turn it
up. Nothing. No feedback. That's one selling point. Dobby what's another one? Pocket PA.
Pocket PA. Just roll it in and pull it out of your pocket. I don't know if they trademarked
the pocket PA name yet. I think it sounded great. We have an issue being an electronic
band where low end is an obvious issue with our performance. Something this size that
you can wheel into a club, it's basically what we have been looking for the whole time.
I mean there is literally wheels on the back of it. I know that sounds weird but that's
a big selling point for me because I hate carrying things. It's surprisingly powerful
and loud for the size of it. You wouldn't expect something like this to be able to actually
move air like it does. I mean nothing against the house systems of many of the clubs of
the United States and beyond, but some reinforcement can be helpful sometimes. For one, coming
from the background of having a drummer and playing in bigger bands and then being a two
piece now. Having something behind us that can push low end is a really nice thing and
then in some clubs that just don't have a sound system, we can do our own thing. We
do tour a lot and we have very limited space because we tour in a very small vehicle and
it is actually impressively small for what it is. Anyone who's ever carried power amps
around in racks or whatever, it can be a nightmare. So having integrated power in this size is
tremendous for what we do. We are Yip Deceiver. This is the QSC K-Series and you are watching
UniqueSquared.com.