 Hello, my name is Shelby Benson and I'm from the band Crimson Apple. I picked up the guitar because I just really liked rock music. I was really into bands like Paramore, Panic of the Disco when I was in high school. Growing up I was really into the arts and theater. My parents got me into piano and I literally hated it. I thought it was so uncool, no offense to piano players but I just wanted to play the guitar so I like begged my parents. They finally got me a little squire electric guitar and from there I just loved it. I learned all my favorite rock music, alternative music and here I am. My biggest influences are TK from a Japanese rock band called Ling Toast de Segure. And I like this really cool musician, I actually found him on Instagram. His name is Radbud Withar. Some of my favorite features about the HD20 Mark II are just kind of the tone I can get. Different settings I can use. I'm able to just do a really strong clean, a really rockin' gain distortion. The sound that I can get out of this amp is just vast. There's a lot of variety that I can have there. Another thing that I really like is the effects loop in this amp really takes well to the pedals that I use. I'm super into ambient tones, a lot of reverb, really washy and this amp takes all of that but delivers a really nice clarity which I haven't really had with another amp. For my sounds, I really like to rely on the amp tone itself and then kind of compliment with pedals. What I've got right now is I've got my guitar running into just a couple of basic volume pedals. I've got an Ibanez Tube Screamer and that runs straight into the amp and then through the effects loop I've got my delays and then I use an Eventide H9 just to kind of fill things out. The effects loop makes those pedals sound really amazing. It gives it a really good separation and clarity from my normal tone and yeah, that's kind of my setup. When writing a song, I really like, I want the guitars to sound really big and really emotional. What I'll do is I'll sit down kind of with an idea or if I'm working with my bands, something that we've been working on and I like to just run through all the different possible scenarios I could have and I just go from there, oh I like the way this felt, this made me feel something and I'll just work through that. I really like big wide open chords, I try to incorporate that and basically almost every song I just think it sounds really cool and you know, it gives music a very emotional feel I think, so that's kind of my process going through. I just go with what feels really good, what makes me feel something. Once again, I'm Shelby from Crimson Apple. If you guys want to stay up to date with Crimson Apple, you can find us on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, basically anywhere there's a social media platform, we're probably on it. Thank you guys so much for watching. Bye.