Genre-blenders Khruangbin had a stratospheric rise from cover band to festival headliners. Way before their Grammy nominee days, guitarist Mark Speer found a guitar “trick” that would encourage even the most hesitant audiences to clap – with a little help from his Boss DS-1 Distortion and his then go-to delay, the Strymon El Capistan.
“When we first started playing, I didn't really know how audiences were going to react to what we were doing,” Speer tells Premier Guitar. “And I was trying toapproximate the sound of applause. Because when people hear applause, they'll tend to clap along.
