Phantogram's Josh Carter & Sarah Barthel

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/phantogram Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Along with contemporaries like MGMT and Passion Pit, Greenwich, New York, duo Phantogram’s experiments crosspollinating hip-hop, indie, and punk rock helped cement and elevate a new era of electronic-influenced alt-rock and indie music. At the start of the 2010s, you’d be hard-pressed to find a college radio station or dorm-room playlist that didn’t include a Phantogram hit. Sixteen years after the release of their debut record, band leaders Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel, who started Phantogram in a town of just a few thousand people, are touring behind their latest full-length, 2024’s Memory of a Day. The tour included a sold-out stop at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium—a different sort of barn than the kind they used to perform in back in Greenwich—where PG’s John Bohlinger caught up with Carter and Barthel. Courtesy of some help from their tech, the duo showed us how they’re pulling off their theatrical live experience. Shop Phantogram's Gear: Neural DSP Quad Cortex - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/5gmox9 Ernie Ball Music Man Cutlass - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/YRnd3K Seymour Duncan single-coil-sized humbucker - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/yqbrQB Custom Fender bass - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vPj2qW Fender Jazzmaster - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/OeK13K Fender Bassman - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/XYB1rG Ernie Ball Paradigm Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/AWL1B1 Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/phantogram Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Win Guitar Gear: https://bit.ly/GiveawaysPG Don't Miss a Rundown: http://bit.ly/RIgRundownENL Merch & Magazines: https://shop.premierguitar.com PG's Facebook: https://facebook.com/premierguitar PG's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/premierguitar/ PG's Twitter: https://twitter.com/premierguitar PG's Threads: https://threads.net/@premierguitar PG's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@premierguitar 0:00 - XPND Pedal Power Battery Kit 0:15 - Phantogram Josh Carter Playing Intro 0:32 - John Bohlinger Intro 0:43 - Josh Carter's Ernie Ball Music Man Cutlass Guitars 4:44 - Josh Carter's Move From Pedals to Neural DSP Quad Cortex 9:25 - Josh Carter's "Run Run Blood" Tones 13:14 - Josh Carter's "Black Out Days" Tones 16:00 - Controlling & Choreographing Quad Cortex 17:58 - Pedals Used on Memory of a Day Album 18:55 - Josh Carter's Amps Modeled in Quad Cortex 20:30 - XPND Adjustable Daisy Chain 21:01 - Phantogram's History 22:53 - Sarah Barthel Intro 23:04 - Sarah Barthel's Fender Mustang Bass 24:07 - Sarah Barthel Adding Bass Guitar to Phantogram 25:23 - Sarah Barthel's Synth Bass Sounds 26:25 - Sarah Barthel's "Feedback" Tones 28:04 - Sarah Barthel on Using a Pick with Bass While Singing 28:32 - Sarah Barthel's "Attaway" Tones 29:54 - Sarah Barthel's Fender Jazzmaster 31:08 - Sarah Barthel's "Happy Again" Tones 32:18 - Sarah Barthel Reconnecting with Josh Carter to Form Phantogram 34:10 - Creating the Phantogram Show Aesthetic 35:44 - Early Phantogram DIY Shows 37:36 - XPND Isolator [Brought to you by XPND - Pedal Power Battery Kit: https://ddar.io/power-rr / XPND - Adjustable Daisy Chain: https://ddar.io/daisychain-rr / XPND - Isolator: https://ddar.io/isolator-rr] © Copyright Gearhead Communications LLC, 2025