Pat McCrory’s Gretsch Duo Jet and Kemper on Glow On, Franz Lyons’ P Basses, Daniel Fang’s Ludwig kit and the rest of the gear behind Baltimore’s hardcore crossover heroes.
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory joined Turnstile in 2016 from fellow Baltimore band Angel Du$t, and by the time the band made Glow On with producer Mike Elizondo, his studio setup had moved a long way from the usual hardcore stack. His main guitar for much of the record was a Gretsch Duo Jet, chosen for its high-end build and a vibrato feel that seemed a long way from metal, and he ran it through a Kemper profiling a Marshall JCM800 to take the 5150 out of the spotlight. Elizondo, who had grown up playing in thrash bands, blended a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier with a 5150 for the rhythm guitars and repurposed an old tape machine as a delay for the record’s airier moments.
On the road around Glow On, McCrory played a 2015 Gibson Les Paul Classic through an Orange Rockerverb MkIII, with a Gibson Firebird as backup and a simple board built around an MXR Carbon Copy delay, two Fulltone OCDs for boosting different sections of songs and a noise suppressor. After co-founding guitarist Brady Ebert left in 2022, the rig changed again. Through 2023 McCrory was seen with a white Jackson American Series Soloist SL3 and an Ice Blue Metallic Jackson MJ Series Dinky running into an EVH 5150III 100-watt head, with an Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Deluxe compressor, a DigiTech Whammy Ricochet, a Boss CH-1 Super Chorus and an ISP Decimator II noise gate on his board.
McCrory was the only guitarist on Never Enough, and the latest era has brought Marshalls into the picture. In Marshall’s artist spotlight he walks through a JCM 900 Model 2100 head and a 1960BV 4×12, and Fender’s video of “Look Out for Me” has him playing an American Professional Classic Stratocaster HSS. He also singled out an American Ultra Stratocaster back in 2022.
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Meg Mills
Meg Mills came into the fold as a touring guitarist in 2023 after stints in UK bands Big Cheese and Chubby and the Gang, and was confirmed as a full member in 2025. Her main guitar is a Jackson American Series Soloist SL3 that she painted pink herself. At Glastonbury 2025 she played it through a Peavey 6505 II, which keeps a Turnstile tradition going, since the 6505 is the 5150 that Peavey renamed after its partnership with Eddie Van Halen ended.
Franz Lyons
Franz Lyons is a P Bass player at heart. “I love the simplicity of the P Bass,” he said in a Fender post featuring his Player Precision Bass. His main bass is a Fender Custom Shop Precision built for him, fitted with a tug bar and a single-coil bridge pickup, and at Glastonbury 2025 his main PJ was wearing a Fender HiMass bridge. He’s also been photographed with a Starry Night Music Man StingRay HH, and he has called his Mustang Red Music Man Sabre his favourite. A blue Fender American Performer Precision PJ shows up in the “Birds” video, and a Shell Pink Flea Signature Jazz Bass appeared at a 2019 show.
His gigging head is a Fender Super Bassman Pro 300, paired with a lightly customised Ampeg SVT-810E, while the band’s NPR Tiny Desk (Home) concert had a vintage Ampeg Portaflex B-15N behind him. A Darkglass Microtubes B7K Ultra provides the grind and a Boss TU-3 keeps him in tune. He plays with 0.60mm Dunlop Tortex picks and holds it all together with DiMarzio ClipLock straps.
Daniel Fang
Daniel Fang is a Ludwig artist, and his Modern Drummer tour kit rundown shows a natural Classic Maple kit with a 24″ kick, a 12″ rack tom and a 16″ floor tom. His snare is a 6.5×14 Copperphonic, topped with a Remo Controlled Sound Coated Reverse Black Dot after he switched from a Vintage Emperor. He’s also used a Black Beauty and a White Marine Classic Oak kit.
His cymbals are Zildjian Ks. He uses 15″ K Fat Hats live and 14″ Fat Hats in the studio, with a 19″ K Custom Dark Crash, a 20″ K Constantinople Medium Thin High ride, a 23″ K Sweet Ride and a 10″ Trashformer for the trashier accents. Beside them are an LP Giovanni Hidalgo cowbell and a Roland SPD-SX Pro sampling pad, and his hi-hats sit on a DW 9000 stand. A Porter & Davies BC2 tactile monitor lets him feel the kick through the throne. His sticks are Vic Firth American Classic 5Bs with his name printed on them.
Brendan Yates
Brendan Yates produced Never Enough and co-directed its accompanying visual album with McCrory, but onstage his setup is pared right back. He sang into a Shure SM58 at the Glow On record release show, and he played a Fender Rhodes Mark I Stage 73 at the Tiny Desk, picking up a Meinl Luis Conte shaker for songs like “Don’t Play”. At Primavera Sound in 2023 he added an Akai MPK225 MIDI controller, which he used to kick off the set.
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