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Im really enjoying your pedal videos. The weird old pc game vibe inserts are really nice. I like that you are pushing us to use our gear to it's fullest rather than just set it aside and buy something new. It's very wholesome and inspiring.
Thanks man. Part of the reason I made this video specifically was because I wanted to make up for the insanely pro-consumerist message of my videos about orange juice, not sure if you’ve made it there yet but you’ll see when you do.
Some of the perspectives you share are things I would teach if I were a music composition professor. You are really offering a great service. Also I love your record and enjoy the demos in these videos, largely because your sounds often remind me of a continuation of an album composed of toy sounds, Gizmodgery by Self, who didn't do any follow ups. Keep going, you're on to something special.
Love the style of your videos. Laid back and unconventional, but still concise and informative. Keep it up, you are criminally underviewed, your time will come!
Something crazy to do with pedals that have a stereo In as well as Out: make the sinal path go through the pedal twice. You can make some weird shit. In some rare cases like the boss 500 series you can even apply different effects to each stereo side and effectively have two pedals in one. BTW, I'm loving this channel, the visual presentation is amazing. 90s demoscene meets Donkey Kong Country. Keep it up!
@@alefty4463 If you run guitar > inputA > outputA > inputB > outputB > amp you are going through the pedal twice (the signal is coming out of the pedal and in again). BE CAREFUL: Depending on the pedal and settings this may cause uncontrollable feedback so proceed with caution! Make sure you have a way to kill the signal going in and out of the pedal just in case.
Great vid thanks 👍 my 50p worth, delay on shortest setting feedback max. Terrible feedback. Now make that the input for your board. It's like having an ocilator. Use delay time to adjust pitch or pitchshifter. Chorus. More slower delay. Trem. You got a synth 👍😃🤘😎
Imagine being this guys neighbor. Getting home from work or carrying groceries in hand, you can hear music playing muffled from behind a closed door. You stop for a moment to listen and connect with another's creative spirit. Neither knowing that one reached out while another was touched... The gems of humanity some never meet are the people you live around or see everyday.
Love your videos! Very much agree that an expression pedal can open up a lot of possibilities. I recently hit a goldmine by getting a used Boss DD-500 - the patching can get super deep, I've made settings that imitate the EHX Freeze, EQD Rainbow, even Chase Bliss type sounds, and others that are even weirder. One tip I'll add for the comments section is to use a DAW and plugins (free versions of Reaper and Melda plugin suite, for example) to figure out your sound before buying pedals. Better yet, you can discover new sounds in the process of trying to approximate your DAW productions via the gear you already possess.
This is great ! I actually love the boss 500 series since they have an lfo you can assign as expression pedal. I do it quite a bit for my dd-500 for pitch delay sounds. Also instructions unclear, bought 5 pedals while watching.
Great ideas. Not really a unique technique here, but experimenting with EQ at different points in your pedal chain can stretch the possibilities of the gear you already have-especially before or after overdrive, distortion and fuzz.
I'm glad TH-cam recommended your channel, I'm really enjoying your videos. There is very useful information, fun craziness, and I really like those strange bitty, ascii, action figure animations you put in... I've no idea how you make them and I like them a lot. Thanks.
having lots of fun with stereo pedal™ → delay on the left / delay on the right (wet only?) → another stereo pedal (tremolo, let's say). mono pedals are damn good for stereo setups if you use them right.
Pro tip 5 is right clever. I have a Boss CH-1 Super Chorus pedal but haven't given much though to it's stereo function, because of the wet effect, but using it a a clean stereo output everything before is very intriguing. In
Absolutely love your channel! Pro tip#2 is actually good and it was used a lot by Egor Letov from soviet band "Grazhdanskaya oborona"(Гражданская оборона). He created most unique sound textures by direct recording distortion without amps
Don't have too much to add other than all of these demos and ideas were really really cool. I dug watching you play and the lo-fi animation stuff too. Thanks!
Bro lol, I always use mix and wet at 100%. LOL especially at super weird reverbs and like crazy delays like space echo/volantes. And any of those multi head tape emulators I always put the warble or age way up too to get the cool ass warped vinyl sound.
@@CyberattackWorld OMG, almost a spoiler, but also relief from days of wondering what that funky enjoyably-cheesy Shalimar riff is going through my head.
@@CyberattackWorld I really gotta jump the hurdles of choosing some of my playing to show you (I'm not self-impressed...hence reaching out for lessons) & then videoing it and sending.
@@CyberattackWorld cool! I said that because of this: I was always more an acoustic guitar player (and just few years ago began playing electric guitar in a band), and thay's why pedals are not really my thing...my relation to pedals are a mixture of "they're not really my thing; I prefer (or more inclined) to explore harmony, rhythm, melodies, .and not really timber" and "it's something new so I'm not really familiar with it". I have a tuner, bad monkey distortion, blues driver, boss delay/reverb and joyo multi pedal effects...and since I have only these 5 pedals, I like your approach of trying to explore the most you can of what you have. So I'm curious to watch a video of you showing how to approach this minimalistic pedal set.
I know it's been a while but I meant to follow up and say I did make a video addressing your point specifically: th-cam.com/video/9MZhEteqTlg/w-d-xo.html
Great video! On the note of "Defeat the Purpose," I think this brings things like orchestration and arrangement into the picture which I always feel like a lot of musicians don't even consider when exploring their tone/sound. Finding sounds like your example or to go even more broad into something like Smashing Pumpkins 90s guitar sound, it's rarely 1 guitar part/track. IMHO realizing this is like moving from a tiny corner of a room, to realizing there's a whole house to explore.
i agree that solving problems at the level of arrangement, like be rewriting parts or altering the performance style or whatever, is often the most powerful solution
I don't really understand the stereo bit. You didn't mention anything about a second amp, but as far as I know, if you don't have a second amp, there's no second channel so it will just be a mono signal regardless. Maybe I'm missing something
I was primarily talking about recording in stereo, and getting the benefit of getting a stereo image there. For live use, yes you would need to bring a second amp into the picture.
In my view, #1 and #4 pretty much sum up your whole pedal ethos: Either make the pedal do things it wasn't intended to do, or make the pedal do "too much" of what it was intended to do. Between this video and that Knobs video you recently recommended, no further pedal videos need to be made, (though I'll continue to happily consume content from you both). Thanks for expanding my mind.
@@moritzlienhard273 yeah it was called FANTASTIC FLAWS or something like that, it had FLAWS in the title. If you find his channel and search it for Flaws you’ll find it.
Maybe a dumb question but, where do you send both sides of your stereo signals? Two differents amps? would it work if they were sent back to the same amp?
Not a dumb question. In my case, I often run my stereo signals directly into my recording interface (as two separate mono signals) and just record them from there. For most of my TH-cam stuff I use the Strymon Iridium as my amp anyway, so it's easy to take that, run into a stereo pedal like the Boss chorus, and then run that as a stereo signal into my recording stuff. Outside of recording world, yes taking your stereo signals to two different amps is a classic way to go. Sending it back into the same amp is probably not an option with most conventional amps, but maybe that's something modeling amps can do, like the crazy ones with a lot going on.
Best channel on the TH-cams! I esp love the idea of sticking a Strymon at the end of a mono pedal chain to make it stereo - brilliance! I am pretty experi(mental) and had thought of lots of these: so that was great face-palm / omg / why-didn't-I-think-of-that moment! Thank you for all of these great videos - super nerds unite!
you are my favorite channel on this site. aesthetics and tips and everything is emmaculate. thank you for all your hard work on these videos they are so fucking good
Is that Leonia, NJ? Literally 80% of my friends from college are from Leonia. I spent so much time with them that people from Leonia thought I went to high school there.
@@CyberattackWorld Literally the first time I’ve seen your videos/channel. I came from a TGP link, and this was the first thing I saw. Small world. Some good folks in Leonia. And some schmucks…. Must have been good to grow up ‘just over the bridge.’
If you plan to ignore the advice in this video and buy more pedals, you can support this channel by shopping with Perfect Circuit. Click on this link, and I'll get a commission on whatever you end up putting in your shopping cart (pedals, cables, strings, whatever): bit.ly/3IsCN4n
2 mins in. enjoying it a lot. "I'm gonna be using like a normal good sound" perfect.
lol thank you
CBA, in da comments??! 😄
@@chiefbucknellthe relationship runs deep: th-cam.com/video/q4nxZMsZ6lk/w-d-xo.html
I like the dinky sound
Im really enjoying your pedal videos. The weird old pc game vibe inserts are really nice. I like that you are pushing us to use our gear to it's fullest rather than just set it aside and buy something new. It's very wholesome and inspiring.
Thanks man. Part of the reason I made this video specifically was because I wanted to make up for the insanely pro-consumerist message of my videos about orange juice, not sure if you’ve made it there yet but you’ll see when you do.
@@CyberattackWorld you bet I will, comrade! 💪
Some of the perspectives you share are things I would teach if I were a music composition professor. You are really offering a great service. Also I love your record and enjoy the demos in these videos, largely because your sounds often remind me of a continuation of an album composed of toy sounds, Gizmodgery by Self, who didn't do any follow ups. Keep going, you're on to something special.
Awesome, thank you for this and especially for checking out the record
#2 is fantastic, treating your pedals like modular parts of a synth and avoiding an amp all together
Love the style of your videos. Laid back and unconventional, but still concise and informative. Keep it up, you are criminally underviewed, your time will come!
thank you grinderman
Something crazy to do with pedals that have a stereo In as well as Out: make the sinal path go through the pedal twice. You can make some weird shit. In some rare cases like the boss 500 series you can even apply different effects to each stereo side and effectively have two pedals in one.
BTW, I'm loving this channel, the visual presentation is amazing. 90s demoscene meets Donkey Kong Country. Keep it up!
great idea and thanks for the comment
Can you elaborate a bit? How would one go about doing this? Instead of being stereo simply use the two stereo inputs to run the signal thru twice?
@@alefty4463 If you run guitar > inputA > outputA > inputB > outputB > amp you are going through the pedal twice (the signal is coming out of the pedal and in again). BE CAREFUL: Depending on the pedal and settings this may cause uncontrollable feedback so proceed with caution! Make sure you have a way to kill the signal going in and out of the pedal just in case.
Great vid thanks 👍 my 50p worth, delay on shortest setting feedback max. Terrible feedback. Now make that the input for your board. It's like having an ocilator. Use delay time to adjust pitch or pitchshifter. Chorus. More slower delay. Trem. You got a synth 👍😃🤘😎
yeah that's extremely good to do
*#100PERCENTWET*
Imagine being this guys neighbor. Getting home from work or carrying groceries in hand, you can hear music playing muffled from behind a closed door. You stop for a moment to listen and connect with another's creative spirit. Neither knowing that one reached out while another was touched... The gems of humanity some never meet are the people you live around or see everyday.
Please get your frozens inside without delay.
@@brutallyremastered4255 😂
My new favorite pedal channel. Can’t stop binging! I’ve learned more from these videos that all of the other pedal channels put together.
wizard. love the sounds man, really really creative stuff. more artists need to see your vids for inspiration!
That solo was amazing!
Love your videos! Very much agree that an expression pedal can open up a lot of possibilities. I recently hit a goldmine by getting a used Boss DD-500 - the patching can get super deep, I've made settings that imitate the EHX Freeze, EQD Rainbow, even Chase Bliss type sounds, and others that are even weirder.
One tip I'll add for the comments section is to use a DAW and plugins (free versions of Reaper and Melda plugin suite, for example) to figure out your sound before buying pedals. Better yet, you can discover new sounds in the process of trying to approximate your DAW productions via the gear you already possess.
Lỡve all the b-roll in this vid! Lil dude walking thru the woods...
This kind of stuff? I love this. Tell me more weird things to do with noise boxes please.
it's a deal
Very cool, and entertaining
This is one of the most unique, interesting and coolest guitar channels on TH-cam. Nobody really does it quite the way you do
10:17 I put cute knobs on my waza fuzz, I appreciate this
Dude, I love the lofi 8bit aestethic of your channel. Super cool and really well executed!
great video
This is great ! I actually love the boss 500 series since they have an lfo you can assign as expression pedal. I do it quite a bit for my dd-500 for pitch delay sounds. Also instructions unclear, bought 5 pedals while watching.
your comment made me laugh, in real life i actually laughed. sorry for the unclear instructions
Great ideas. Not really a unique technique here, but experimenting with EQ at different points in your pedal chain can stretch the possibilities of the gear you already have-especially before or after overdrive, distortion and fuzz.
What a unique flavor your channel has. Kudos on that, as a fellow content creator I can bigly appreciate what you're laying down here.
Really like this channel!!!! Thanks for the great tips!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸
How dare you. I need more pedals damnit.
#4 is one of my favourite ways to use the El Capistan. Makes for a less noisy alternative to the Zvex lofi junky
oh yeah that's perfect
Great tips as always. The doubled guitar tune with the "crap" tone is cool.
thanks dude, and if that was your first time hearing that tune you may get a kick out of this: th-cam.com/video/etAIpkdhU9Q/w-d-xo.html
@@CyberattackWorld nice, cheers, it was, I know nothing about AC/DC!
@@frankvaleron oh man, i'm so glad i got to be the one to make this introduction. one of my favorite things i've ever done in my life probably
@@CyberattackWorld haha. The pleasures all mine!
Your style to preset the video and the concepts are awesome, congrats man! Amazing content 👏👏🔥🔥
Thank you for for all interesting video. 👍🏻
What’s the settings for the Boss Harmonist in the Protip# 2 ?
Always an inspired video. Thanks so much!
I'm glad TH-cam recommended your channel, I'm really enjoying your videos. There is very useful information, fun craziness, and I really like those strange bitty, ascii, action figure animations you put in... I've no idea how you make them and I like them a lot. Thanks.
Red, red wiiiiiine.
Your creative outlook is great, man. Big fan. Don't stop.
glad you caught that, I love that song so much. also thanks
having lots of fun with stereo pedal™ → delay on the left / delay on the right (wet only?) → another stereo pedal (tremolo, let's say). mono pedals are damn good for stereo setups if you use them right.
100%
I really have a bunch of pedals, so I'll follow your advice and (try) to stop this pedal frenzy 😂
Pro tip 5 is right clever. I have a Boss CH-1 Super Chorus pedal but haven't given much though to it's stereo function, because of the wet effect, but using it a a clean stereo output everything before is very intriguing. In
You have a unique approach to videos, I dig it. I love the recommendation of trying to use the pedal wrong.
Не ну такой умный, такой креативный, куда бы отнего деться
Absolutely love your channel!
Pro tip#2 is actually good and it was used a lot by Egor Letov from soviet band "Grazhdanskaya oborona"(Гражданская оборона). He created most unique sound textures by direct recording distortion without amps
thanks I gotta check that out
Homey needs more revenues subscribers. He wears the same hoodie every episode. 😂😂😂😂
Don't have too much to add other than all of these demos and ideas were really really cool. I dug watching you play and the lo-fi animation stuff too. Thanks!
Anyone just discover this channel is like, 🤯
Anyone just discover this channel is like, 🤯
Bro lol, I always use mix and wet at 100%. LOL especially at super weird reverbs and like crazy delays like space echo/volantes. And any of those multi head tape emulators I always put the warble or age way up too to get the cool ass warped vinyl sound.
Oh maaan! You made want to buy a Boss Harmonist!!!!
Your work is so great, Ivan. Thank you, man!
Where is my Dark Side?
Goddammit! 😂
discovered the channel last night and I already love it, love this kind of approach and attitude towards music/ tones
you are so great. your tips and your creativity is one of a kind . thank you for that.
thanks, glad you're enjoying it
Some sick tips here! Thank you as always!
I only have “not a pitch shifter pedals”, dang it
BTW, your channel is cool
Great tips and lovely sounds!
I don't use my pedal hoard on guitar. I use them for soundscapes,experimental noises. Your approach is great. Inspired.
Universal pro tip: play a Slayer riff on any pedal.
6. Get an Critter and Guitari Organelle
Honestly a great video
Your videos are always very inspiring. I also just really, really like your original music!
That’s awesome thank you so much
ZZ Top from the first peddle
lol redredwhine - i like trying to spot tunes in your demos. I really love your vids.
Thanks, I’m glad you caught that. If you want all the spoilers ever, they’re here: bit.ly/3vZ0yft
@@CyberattackWorld OMG, almost a spoiler, but also relief from days of wondering what that funky enjoyably-cheesy Shalimar riff is going through my head.
@@CyberattackWorld I really gotta jump the hurdles of choosing some of my playing to show you (I'm not self-impressed...hence reaching out for lessons) & then videoing it and sending.
hopefully "this will be our year"
instant sub when I hit 2:44
Loved hearing the early demo of Invincible
Always a treat going back to these oldies
Thanks man
Great video and great ideas. Def gave me a different perspective on my existing pedals!
So you put the chorus after the delay on purpose to get more of a crunch at the end? That was my favorite tone.
I put it after, but not for crunch, just for creating the stereo effect
Step 1: ZOIA
Step 2:
Z O I A
(Does not work for distortion)
ZOIA is like, how to *not* be advanced
Man that timeline really looks like a nightsky 🤫
every pedal is the same as every other pedal
Love it. Sort of philosophical. :-) love the channel.
goated individual
Man you are a genius 😦
great video! but I have to say it: "how to never buy pedals again already having a bunch of them". anyway, fantastic video and channel
It’s a fair point. I plan to make a Part 2 of this video and address this directly. Thanks for checking it out.
@@CyberattackWorld cool! I said that because of this: I was always more an acoustic guitar player (and just few years ago began playing electric guitar in a band), and thay's why pedals are not really my thing...my relation to pedals are a mixture of "they're not really my thing; I prefer (or more inclined) to explore harmony, rhythm, melodies, .and not really timber" and "it's something new so I'm not really familiar with it".
I have a tuner, bad monkey distortion, blues driver, boss delay/reverb and joyo multi pedal effects...and since I have only these 5 pedals, I like your approach of trying to explore the most you can of what you have. So I'm curious to watch a video of you showing how to approach this minimalistic pedal set.
I know it's been a while but I meant to follow up and say I did make a video addressing your point specifically: th-cam.com/video/9MZhEteqTlg/w-d-xo.html
I think that this channel is THE best channel.
thank you for getting it
I just bought 3 pedals in 3 days. I needed this.
you're safe now, i've got you
i appreciate your method of exploring interesting and "bad" sounds with pedals. Great learning process. I subscribed
Me watching this already on my 12th pedal:
That’s not a lot in my opinion 😅 Maybe I’m just sick
Great video! On the note of "Defeat the Purpose," I think this brings things like orchestration and arrangement into the picture which I always feel like a lot of musicians don't even consider when exploring their tone/sound. Finding sounds like your example or to go even more broad into something like Smashing Pumpkins 90s guitar sound, it's rarely 1 guitar part/track. IMHO realizing this is like moving from a tiny corner of a room, to realizing there's a whole house to explore.
i agree that solving problems at the level of arrangement, like be rewriting parts or altering the performance style or whatever, is often the most powerful solution
This is epic
I thought this was gonna be about admitting you have a problem and turning you life over to god or some shit.
Absolutely not
I hope you make a song out of the last example Bc I have hard feelings for it :/
first of all, amazing comment, thank you. second of all, yes that song is gonna be on Cyberattack album #2 and it's called "Excruciating."
Do you use the iridium last in your chain or before delay, reverb and etc.
it varies, but reverb specifically usually goes after the Iridium
Leonia?! Are you a Bergen County constituent?
Yeah that’s my hometown
You spill the BLOOOOOOD
i have been WAITING for someone to catch that, man you made my day
I don't really understand the stereo bit. You didn't mention anything about a second amp, but as far as I know, if you don't have a second amp, there's no second channel so it will just be a mono signal regardless. Maybe I'm missing something
I was primarily talking about recording in stereo, and getting the benefit of getting a stereo image there. For live use, yes you would need to bring a second amp into the picture.
@@CyberattackWorldthanks for clarifying! That makes way more sense, I thought I had overlooked something obvious
😂😂😂
Just wanted to say that you’ve become my favorite guitar / gear channel. Love the animations, love the tips, love the vibe. Thank you!
Excellent video and solid advice! I'm always happy to see new stuff from you :)
thank you, so glad
In my view, #1 and #4 pretty much sum up your whole pedal ethos: Either make the pedal do things it wasn't intended to do, or make the pedal do "too much" of what it was intended to do. Between this video and that Knobs video you recently recommended, no further pedal videos need to be made, (though I'll continue to happily consume content from you both). Thanks for expanding my mind.
You make a great point
do you remember the knobs video? :)
@@moritzlienhard273 yeah it was called FANTASTIC FLAWS or something like that, it had FLAWS in the title. If you find his channel and search it for Flaws you’ll find it.
NEXT LEVEL PLAYING on this video. thanks as always for some of the best content on the yoots.
You, sir, are the Grand Fuckin Poobah of Pedal Talk; "Do dat!"
Maybe a dumb question but, where do you send both sides of your stereo signals? Two differents amps? would it work if they were sent back to the same amp?
Not a dumb question. In my case, I often run my stereo signals directly into my recording interface (as two separate mono signals) and just record them from there. For most of my TH-cam stuff I use the Strymon Iridium as my amp anyway, so it's easy to take that, run into a stereo pedal like the Boss chorus, and then run that as a stereo signal into my recording stuff.
Outside of recording world, yes taking your stereo signals to two different amps is a classic way to go. Sending it back into the same amp is probably not an option with most conventional amps, but maybe that's something modeling amps can do, like the crazy ones with a lot going on.
@@CyberattackWorld thank you for your answer!
I love the outro track so much ❤
thanks, a version of that is gonna be on my next album as a song called "Excruciating"
A Cyberattack of Pure Inspiration. I leave every video of your with a sense of musical dominance!! Haha.
That tip about putting any stereo pedal at the end is genius, amazing. Thanks.
Best channel on the TH-cams! I esp love the idea of sticking a Strymon at the end of a mono pedal chain to make it stereo - brilliance! I am pretty experi(mental) and had thought of lots of these: so that was great face-palm / omg / why-didn't-I-think-of-that moment! Thank you for all of these great videos - super nerds unite!
you are my favorite channel on this site. aesthetics and tips and everything is emmaculate. thank you for all your hard work on these videos they are so fucking good
you're super cool, thanks for sharing!!
this is exactly why i own a few ds1's and 2 super feedback distortions.
Is that Leonia, NJ? Literally 80% of my friends from college are from Leonia. I spent so much time with them that people from Leonia thought I went to high school there.
Yeah it’s Leonia, that’s incredible
@@CyberattackWorld Literally the first time I’ve seen your videos/channel. I came from a TGP link, and this was the first thing I saw. Small world.
Some good folks in Leonia. And some schmucks…. Must have been good to grow up ‘just over the bridge.’
that's awesome/hysterical
Love your content dude. Sick variety of tones/techniques.
Your videos are amazing :) keep going
thank you
damn, everything you say/post is simply genius, thanks a lot!
Absolutely brilliant vid. Thank you