Ryan "Fluff" Bruce

Recommended from personal experience in this September 18, 2017 FAQ Mondays episode at 3:51.

What are the best budget studio monitors?

I am asked this question a lot more than other questions. Constantly, despite me answering it many times. In my opinion, the best budget studio monitors are the JBL LSR series. Those are so good sounding for so little money and they're often going on sale, like, these crazy sales. The LSR305s, like, I've seen them for like $100 apiece, so 200 bucks'll get ya into some decent sounding monitors. I mean, I was mixing Rob Scallon's earlier stuff, like when we did "Metal in Inappropriate Places" and things like that, I mixed those on LSR305s. So, and it was only later that I upgraded to 308s but, initially I was mixing a lot of his nine-string stuff, Slayo [sic] banjo song, you know, all that stuff on JBL LSR305s and they served me really well. So, I highly, highly recommend you getting a hold of some of those. (...) The Yamahas or the JBLs always went out for me over just about any other brand because they're so consistent and just so damn good sounding.

In this video Fluff shows off the setup he uses for live streaming. For his voice, He uses a neumann tlm 102 mic

In the "String Guide 2021" video posted on Instagram by riffsandbeards, Ryan Bruce discusses using Ernie Ball Skinny Top Heavy Bottom Slinky Guitar Strings (10-52).

At 42 seconds, Fluff mentions the Rode NTG2 that he uses for videos such as his FAQ Mondays videos as well as his gear demos.

Fluff uses an OD808X in this video to compare how both a 1992 Mesa Boogie Revision E Dual Rectifier and a 2006 Mesa Boogie 3-Channel Dual Rectifier sound with a boost in front of them.

Fluff demos his Peavey 6534+ in this video.

At 4:44, he talks about his 2 SGs

At 6:58, he mentions the name of the guitar he's holding. According to him, that is Schecter ATX Blackjack Solo 6, and he says that is "the guitar that started it all".

Bass can be seen at 8:50. Also, this guitar has DiMarzio P+J Set pickups, and Fluff said that "that really woke up the bass", and he also said that this bass plays "unbelievably great".

At 9:41, he mentions the name of the guitar he's holding.

Behind Fluff, in this photo, the Mesa Boogie 2x12 Recto Horizontal Cabinet can be seen.

At 2:36 minute mark, Fluff shows the Panama Road Horizontal 2x12 cabinet.

In this photo, part of Fluff's setup is visible, which also shows the Fender MIM Telecaster, which is heavily modded by him.

At 5:48 minute mark, Bruce shows the Gibson SGJ Tobaccoburst anniversary model. This guitar has the MojoTone Sledgehammer pickup.

Second SGJ is shown at 6:00 minute mark. This guitar has a pickguard added to it, and this guitar has Fastback Beard Comber pickups.

The Hyperion is Ryan's Signature Guitar. He has several versions of the guitar. he has the guitar in colors such as sunburst, silverburst, seafoam green, and blue. Ryan loads all of his guitars with sets of fishman pickups.

“I am pretty minimal when it comes to effects,” he admits, “but from time to time I like a good delay. MXR’s Carbon Copy is fantastic, and I use that sometimes. I use a Maxon OD808 as a clean boost when things need to get really heavy, and an ISP Decimator to gate everything and keep the noise down. Other effects lying around are an [MXR] EVH Phase 90, Ernie Ball Wah and Grind Customs FX Chimaera overdrive.”

In the 2015 "Pedalboard Rundown" video by Riffs, Beards & Gear on YouTube, Ryan Bruce, also known as Fluff, features the MXR M135 Smart Gate as part of his pedalboard setup.

Fluff shows off his Balaguer Hyperion Standard. This is a version of his signature hyperion. This is a more afordable version of the guitar. this guitar has only one Balaguer branded pickup. The regular hyperion comes with either fishman or fast back pickups

Fluff uses a Balaguer Growler. He uses this guitar at times as a backup while on tour. Fluff had a pair of fishman pickups placed in it. He placed a Luigi sticker on the guitar. He named this guitar Luigi because of It's green color, and his love of the mario games. Green is the signature color of the character Luigi. Fluff is a Balaguer Artist

in this photo can be seen Fluff's thunderverb amp. fluff also announces that he is a orange artist in this post

In this video, Fluff is seen using a Line 6 Helix Control floorboard with the rackmount unit. He has switched from traditional pedals to the Helix for live preformaces. Fluff uses the helix so there is one less thing that can go wrong during a live preformance. With normal pedals, there are so many cables and such that can stop his rig from working properly

In this video FLuff demos the lace sensor RED, Silver, Blue pickup set. He Loaded this into his 90s Fender strat. He set this strat up to be similar to the guitar used by billy corgan

In the 2018 Studio Tour video by Riffs, Beards & Gear, Ryan Bruce, also known as Fluff, showcases his custom-made Dunable Yeti electric guitar.

Fluff has a hosa patch bay and patch cables in his studio. fluff is endorsed by hosa cables

Fluff has a randall c200 in his amp collection. This is "the dimebag amp"

Fluff uses a line 6 helix in combinmation with his amps. He uses the helix to switch effects when playing live. Fluff uses the helix rather than pedals just so there is one less thing that can go wrong in a live setting

In this post fluff shows off the new orange terror bass. Fluff states that he thinks the amp is "pretty sick". This is the new bass head from orange. It replaced the previous terror bass 500, and 1000 in the orange range. Fluff is an orange amps artist

In this pickup demo, fluff can be seen using a 2015 fender strat. As seen in this demo, He loaded a pair of fishman single width strat pickups.

In this photo fluff shows off his custom 64 audio in ear monitors. these are used for live preformances with his band rest repose. they have a custom fluff logo on them

IN this POst fluff shows that he put the fishman willie adler set into his balaguer thicket bb