Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently asked questions about us here at The Evangelist. We get a lot of these types of questions in real life from people at shows, our colleagues, family/friends, and just general weirdos. So at least this way we only have to answer these common questions in real life instead of on the Internet too.

"When are you guys playing a show in my city?"

Unfortunately both of us work full-time jobs, so a traditional cross-country touring schedule is out of the question for us (currently). We are from Sacramento and enjoy travelling as far as we can to play shows in small towns, so we play a lot of open mics and coffee shops in random middle-of-nowhere towns across the Northern California and Western Nevada area. If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, Reno/Sparks area, any town between Sacramento and Chico going north, any town between Sacramento and Stockton going south, we'll be playing some kind of shows. To keep up with when we're playing, follow us on Spotify and stay up to date on this website!

How can I book The Evangelist?

For booking inquiries, hit me up at my personal e-mail at nolanbaldone@gmail.com. I check it regularly so I will definitely get back to you. We will play anywhere in the previously mentioned towns for any price, and we will travel farther than that for the right price. We do not play house parties, but we will play house shows if we know the people hosting personally.

What equipment/software do you guys use?

NDX handles all of the music production (beatmaking as it were) for The Evangelist. dogbeg uses Garageband for her solo releases. Listed below is all of the gear and software I use for both my solo work and for The Evangelist.

Synthesizers/Keyboards: KORG Triton, KORG Monotron, KORG Volca Keys, Teenage Engineering PO-133, Stylophone Beat, Roland MC-303, Alesis Q49, Akai MPC 500 (retired)

Recording Hardware: Shure SM58, Focusrite Scarlett Solo (retired), Bomge BMG-22S

DJing: Numark TTX, Behringer DDM4000, Numark CC-1

Software (VST): FL Studio 21, Audacity (version varies but usually pre-2019), Garageband, KORG Triton, Nexus, aethereal, minitron, noisemo, ProtoPlasm, Roland Cloud (mainly XV-5080, Jupiter-8, and Jupiter-6)

Software (FX plugins): stock FL Studio plugins (Parametric EQ, Delay, Fast Distortion, etc.), TAL Dub Delay, MQ57, George Yohng's W1 Limiter, Maxwell Smart 3, Native Instruments Guitar Rig, DubStation, Tonmann Deesser, CamelCrusher, Kombinat Dva (most of Audio Damage's stuff is fantastic)
~ndx

Where did you learn how to write HTML?

On the back of a cereal box I taught myself, and I definitely have a lot to learn still. I used to want to do IT as a career but the whole AI thing and my tendency for procrastination killed any hope of that happening. Oh well.

Are you guys a couple?

Yup, we've been dating since 2022.

What sample did you use in [insert song here]?

So I used to be very pro-sharing samples back in the day, but since I want to take this whole music career thing more serious nowadays, and after reading about the horrors of sample clearance lawsuits, I unfortunately have to refuse to share the source of our samples. I really don't like the old school gatekeeping mentality in hip hop culture, but I understand it comes from a perspective of protecting one's revenue stream. If I see you in person and you ask me, I'll probably tell you. But I can't just put those things out on the Internet permanently forever like I used to. Hope you can understand.