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A separate dry output for this is really helpful, so long as you have something to mix them back together later or two amps or whatever. The Behringer BSY600 (a clone of the BOSS SYB-5) has two outputs (wet and dry) as well as an EXP jack. Some good sounds in it, some very ugly sounds in it, tracks badly and if you feed it a drum machine it goes nuts! My personal favourite experiment involved putting in chords, letting the monophonic BSY600 try and pick a note out, and sending the dry signal to the EHX Attack/decay with a long attack of for a swelling chord into a big delay.
i forgot to thank you for the tips you're giving all the time. i started to approach pedals from your perspective, pushing them to the limit and finding glitches and the first pedal i tried it with was attack/decay. it blew my socks off. i managed to get many different pedals out of it. all types of swell and pluck, tremolo, bit crusher, different fuzzes and god knows what. what's great about the pedal is that it gives you 3 preset bank + the setup you dial on the physical knobs. and no bloody digital display, thank god. you really taught me how to explore. thank you!
The Attack Decay is my favourite pedal I've had. Appart from all you said about it it can also be used as a tremolo and is capable of producing usable glitchy sounds wich provide the most fun I've had with a pedal. Can't recommend it enough and for people to spend time with it
My favorite thing I’ve done with my rig was setting up a wet and dry rig. Then I got curious and added fuzz to my wet amp so now I’ve been playing with parallel fuzz tones. Both are pretty maxed out in gain and noise level so it’s a mega punch of distortion coming through.
"Money!" stinger present. My subscription is secured. By the way, can't wait to hear your new album. The snippets you've teased have been both right and good.
"Develop an ear for when a bullshis is going to be useable" - this is such a versatile advice, applicable to all things music. I've been doing similar thing where, while listening to music, I am trying to single out sounds or presets that would sound like bullshit, if taken out of the context of the song.
The attack decay, my go to source for an early 80’s Robert Fripp sound. Check out the industrialectric pedals like the rmn-1. Now I’ll go get my own shinebox
Very few things in modern life can lift an ordinary day quite like logging into TH-cam and discovering a new Cyberattack video has dropped. "Develop an ear for when the bullishit is gonna be usable bullshit.' Love it. Thanks again for your videos!
For no 3 you can also run the speed faster when holding it for whole bar and switch to slower whenever you wanna have some movement in it. The principle is the same as hammond organ with leslie rotary. Tbh i prefer using rotary effect with pad most of the times tho.
Great video! The attack decay is the most underrated pedal out there in my opinion. My secret sauce is using a delay in the fx Loop, set to totally oscillate with feedback - tame it with the blend and decay knob. Also try a pitch shifter or arpegiator into a fully wet reverb back into the return
I’m a huge fan of making your guitar sound like another instrument! I tend to use a wammy pedal with some octave. Thank you for this awesome video! Gained a sub with this one
Just wanted to say how much i appreciate your content, your knowledge of music and electronics is in a class of its own, and your tunes always leave me inspired to create.
You should get yourself a Behringer K-2 (It's a Korg Ms-20 clone). It's the world's bulkiest synth pedal. It turns the signal from your guitar into control voltage. It's actually pretty rad.
Superego plus has a good decay knob. The Attack/Decay sounds great in front of any synth pedal. Really opens up possibilities. Source Audio released the Neuro 3 app and it doesn't connect to Android so I lost connection with my C4. I'm not happy.
C4 tracks "too well" compared to other synth pedals I have, but sloppy playing seems to have less effect than harmonics. I just EQ out the highs and tracking is much better on things like the Data Corrupter, but you can definitely still make them glitch, and you can get a lot more unique sounds out of them, somewhat consistently, just by messing with the tracking rather than the settings. Only just picked up the C4, though, I have a lot more experimenting to do with that...
@@louismarinrenaud416 my fuzzes consist of an original black Russian Big Muff with knobs broken off in the positions that I always set them to anyway because I tripped on it and various cheap fuzzes that I've modified and upgraded myself with better components. I don't know how conventional that is but it sounds good to me. The HX Stomp models are so accurate for most effects that they're effectively stand-ins. I have an another Big Muff that I don't use anymore because the Line 6 model makes it redundant.
Does the C4 amp envelope (acting on the dry signal) cover the sounds of the monophonic mode on the Attack Decay? I'm wondering if the Attack Decay would be redundant if I'm not using the polyphonic mode.
It’s possible you could painstakingly get the C4 to do what the Attack Decay does, but I’m not sure you can, and in any case the Attack Decay is a million times easier to deal with
thanks for the comment but I didn't really write those songs, I was re-creating these: th-cam.com/video/1AyVXGHxHec/w-d-xo.htmlsi=svSQiSZtElURo0cw th-cam.com/video/bUqloXToFXU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1M9AgdKlHwLY3V_G
Just grabbed an attack decay last night.. bullshit floweth from that awesome pedal🤟🏻. Alot of It super useable Curious what knob settings you were running in the attack decay protip? I know u have included some in video on pedal centric vids.. my bad if its up somewhere and i missed It Appreciate your approach
Hell yes! Really appreciate It!!! Will 1000% mess with this when I get home later.. Still fairly new to discovering your channel.. but my board has gotten way cooler thanks to the knowledge you’ve shared!! C4 synth has been my favorite pedal since they day I got It.. (& Nemesis, ventris, ultrawave) but just ive recently added a syntax error and now the attack decay.. plus an obne expression ramper (not quite a sidestep, but still rad) all thanks to your examples.. Ive never been one to shy away from the weird side of things.. but i gotta say, your blueprints for expoloration have made me more way efficient/educated on investigating the inner workings of my pedals Now that I sorta know what im messin around with, i just need a fairfield hors derve and a long life and ill be set lol Appreciate ya!
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Amp sims can also add distortion and change the way your notes bloom into the distortion, and also affect onset of your notes and the onset of different frequencies within your notes
I ❤ Usable Bullshit! Thanks for this. Do you have a system for documenting your signal chain and settings? Im running into an issue where I go back and listen to sketches that I create, and have no idea how I got there. Like most things, I have a feeling this comes down to discipline and good work habits. I think i just answered my own question…
The C4 is the most powerful, but using it is not easy-there's a whole software component, and I found it intimidating at first. But you can download settings (including mine) if you just want to get going and not tweak. The Attack Decay is much more straightforward and easy to use. It can't do everything, but the things it can do all sound very good. It and the C4 are my two favorites of the 5 pedals in this video.
I got away from using synth pedals because I found none of them could generate the low end of a real synth. The EHX bass microsynth is the only one I keep
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I have absolutely no interest in synth pedals, I just love listening to this guy talk.
@StraightRocketFuel same, takes me back to growing up in queens, gotta have Warren Cucurrullo on
Same
We may not have come for the voice, but it’s why we stay. 🎉
Would loooove a How to be Advanced on the Attack Decay itself!
Yeah, definitely need a whole episode. Sounds great in front of a synth pedal. Really opens up possibilities.
The Attacks Decay is a total sleeper, one of my favorite ones, bonus on the send / receive.
Dude that last jam HAS to become a full song that's such a cool sound.
i love the sound too but the song itself has already been written: th-cam.com/video/bUqloXToFXU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ZwA92NGHQQhlJDpN
Closing tracks are always lovely.
thanks, I try to make something cool for the people who watch the whole video
Using multiple synth pedals in a couple parallel chains would probably be really cool. Basically makes your guitar into a two oscillator synth.
yes that would be bananas. but it's worth noting that the C4 synth can already do this by itself, with the multiple-voices feature.
A separate dry output for this is really helpful, so long as you have something to mix them back together later or two amps or whatever. The Behringer BSY600 (a clone of the BOSS SYB-5) has two outputs (wet and dry) as well as an EXP jack. Some good sounds in it, some very ugly sounds in it, tracks badly and if you feed it a drum machine it goes nuts! My personal favourite experiment involved putting in chords, letting the monophonic BSY600 try and pick a note out, and sending the dry signal to the EHX Attack/decay with a long attack of for a swelling chord into a big delay.
Pad into tremolo is genius. Can't believe I didn't think of it. Thank you.
It's Friday AND Cyberattack posted a new video?? I'm buying a lotto ticket STAT. Rock on, brother!
I love this new focus on using types of pedals vs specific pedals. It’s even more inspiring!
I like your approach. There’s no bad sounds, you just have to put it in context. Which you do remarkably well. Thanks mate
Just made a similar comment, you are soo right.
I run my boss sy-1 in to my slicer and that is magic right there!
i bet
I’d love a whole video on the Attack Decay
that pedal rules but i'm moving away from vids that only talk about one pedal, they tend to underperform
i forgot to thank you for the tips you're giving all the time. i started to approach pedals from your perspective, pushing them to the limit and finding glitches and the first pedal i tried it with was attack/decay. it blew my socks off. i managed to get many different pedals out of it. all types of swell and pluck, tremolo, bit crusher, different fuzzes and god knows what. what's great about the pedal is that it gives you 3 preset bank + the setup you dial on the physical knobs. and no bloody digital display, thank god. you really taught me how to explore. thank you!
Thanks for the comment, really appreciate it
I love your philosophy and mission statement of "usable bullshit" - keep thinking outside of the box!
epic
This channel needs some more attention. I can't stop watching. My new favorite guitar related channel...by far.
Dude everything about these videos - magic 🔥
The sounds, the song choices, the solos!
Thanks man
Liking before watching, cause there’s no way you put out a video that is not awesome.
This
Same
Yup
Spoiler: it was awesome.
07:52 i really dig that kraftwerk to Daft Punk transition...
That tracking error solo was masterful. Can’t wait to try that.
You can slap wah after reverb whenever you wanted the audience to turn their head.
You can also slap distortion after synth
One of the greatest guitar solos...in the history of guitar solos.
i'll take it
loving that yamaha cp30 in the background
Glad you caught that, it needs its own vid at some point
Thanks for the Attack/Decay tips I love that pedal so much
It’s a standout
@johnplayer420 #attackdecaygang
Through a DigiTech whamy in the mix its pure gold.
The Attack Decay is my favourite pedal I've had. Appart from all you said about it it can also be used as a tremolo and is capable of producing usable glitchy sounds wich provide the most fun I've had with a pedal. Can't recommend it enough and for people to spend time with it
My favorite thing I’ve done with my rig was setting up a wet and dry rig. Then I got curious and added fuzz to my wet amp so now I’ve been playing with parallel fuzz tones. Both are pretty maxed out in gain and noise level so it’s a mega punch of distortion coming through.
Thanks for the inspiration to mess with the synth more in Archetype Rabea!
Really awesome video! You're very creative.
Timely! I've just recently been thinking about getting an sy1 or sy200 the past few days
"Money!" stinger present. My subscription is secured.
By the way, can't wait to hear your new album. The snippets you've teased have been both right and good.
that's awesome thank you
@@CyberattackWorld I seem to be one of the few people who use TH-cam Music. I think most of the plays on there are me!
Nice Video 😊
"Develop an ear for when a bullshis is going to be useable" - this is such a versatile advice, applicable to all things music. I've been doing similar thing where, while listening to music, I am trying to single out sounds or presets that would sound like bullshit, if taken out of the context of the song.
Great video, sounds, jams, and graphics! You should do a part 2 of this.
Part 2 vids always get bad numbers but if I can think of a different angle I’d love to do more with this gear
The attack decay, my go to source for an early 80’s Robert Fripp sound. Check out the industrialectric pedals like the rmn-1. Now I’ll go get my own shinebox
will do thanks for the comment NOW GO HOME AND GET YOUR FUCKEN SHINEBOX
@CyberattackWorld ._.,
9:50 truck horn sound
agree
I was thinking trombone lol
Very few things in modern life can lift an ordinary day quite like logging into TH-cam and discovering a new Cyberattack video has dropped.
"Develop an ear for when the bullishit is gonna be usable bullshit.' Love it. Thanks again for your videos!
For no 3 you can also run the speed faster when holding it for whole bar and switch to slower whenever you wanna have some movement in it.
The principle is the same as hammond organ with leslie rotary.
Tbh i prefer using rotary effect with pad most of the times tho.
Great video! The attack decay is the most underrated pedal out there in my opinion. My secret sauce is using a delay in the fx Loop, set to totally oscillate with feedback - tame it with the blend and decay knob. Also try a pitch shifter or arpegiator into a fully wet reverb back into the return
The way you transform '60s pop tunes into these glitchy, sorta candy-coated pseudo-chiptunes is really cool.
Thank you for recognizing
You are right up there with Tom Morello on how to make a guitar not sound like a guitar but sound cool even though it doesn’t sound like a guitar!!
I literally just got the sy200 and then this comes up, let's go!
So many great sounds on there.
I have the SY-1, after debating getting the 200, for awhile.
I dig the SY-1, but I wish I’d waited, and got the 200.
200 is the best!
I like how you moved your set into the middle of an aircraft hangar so it looks the same as always but there’s more ‘verb.
Nice to see someone exploring out there pedals in other genres other than shoegaze or ambient
I’m a huge fan of making your guitar sound like another instrument! I tend to use a wammy pedal with some octave. Thank you for this awesome video! Gained a sub with this one
Your approach to pedals is refreshing and most importantly creative! My favourite music channel
Just wanted to say how much i appreciate your content, your knowledge of music and electronics is in a class of its own, and your tunes always leave me inspired to create.
Been playing around with the Minifreak a lot, so this was sick to watch. That first solo was 🤯
Hellllll yes. Such useful ideas as usual. Nobody thinks like cyberattack
I love playing guitar, but man is it fun using synth pedals. It’s a whole world within world of enjoyment. Also Meris Enzo is pretty clever with ADSR
Currently my fav channel on TH-cam.. keep it up. Super useful and relatable content and I appreciate it. Thanks!
You sound incredible and you would really enjoy the Subdecay synth pedals like the octa synth or the m3 among others. They can be simple or cray cray
That beach boys jam was so good
Just what I needed, you are quickly becoming my favorite creator
You should get yourself a Behringer K-2 (It's a Korg Ms-20 clone). It's the world's bulkiest synth pedal. It turns the signal from your guitar into control voltage. It's actually pretty rad.
oh yeah that looks cool
I love this channel so much, I get so happy whenever you upload a new video
Thanks for the tips! Love your channel! :)
You are the mangle master!
I’ve played around with the poly blue for hours but never plugged it straight into the board, that sounds sick as all hell
Running the SY-1 into the Attack Decay gets some cool results. Both are staples on my board
Superego plus has a good decay knob. The Attack/Decay sounds great in front of any synth pedal. Really opens up possibilities. Source Audio released the Neuro 3 app and it doesn't connect to Android so I lost connection with my C4. I'm not happy.
Good call with superego though
7:52 Impossible to talk about synth pedals without brushing shoulders with Daft Punk. Love me Da Funk.
Sickkk... just discovered this channel. And your gig is dope bro! Do it better than most
Instant subscribe. I’m really glad that universe sugested me your channel 🤯😎
Touch of Eventide Blackhole for verby glue maybe
C4 tracks "too well" compared to other synth pedals I have, but sloppy playing seems to have less effect than harmonics. I just EQ out the highs and tracking is much better on things like the Data Corrupter, but you can definitely still make them glitch, and you can get a lot more unique sounds out of them, somewhat consistently, just by messing with the tracking rather than the settings. Only just picked up the C4, though, I have a lot more experimenting to do with that...
Ivan the GOAT 🔥🐐
been thinking about one of these pedals for bass, and you post this.
Awesome as always
Please do a hardcore video on the EHX tri-parallel mixer! Please, please ,please!
Was hoping to hear those 5 synth pedals in parallel!
Conventional fuzz sound=Zvex Fuzz Factory.
That's why I like these videos.
lol yes good point
The Mastotron is even more conventional
@@louismarinrenaud416 my fuzzes consist of an original black Russian Big Muff with knobs broken off in the positions that I always set them to anyway because I tripped on it and various cheap fuzzes that I've modified and upgraded myself with better components. I don't know how conventional that is but it sounds good to me. The HX Stomp models are so accurate for most effects that they're effectively stand-ins. I have an another Big Muff that I don't use anymore because the Line 6 model makes it redundant.
Does the C4 amp envelope (acting on the dry signal) cover the sounds of the monophonic mode on the Attack Decay? I'm wondering if the Attack Decay would be redundant if I'm not using the polyphonic mode.
It’s possible you could painstakingly get the C4 to do what the Attack Decay does, but I’m not sure you can, and in any case the Attack Decay is a million times easier to deal with
“Pro Tip: Don’t be a wuss” Then writes a whole damn song to prove that point. Excellent stuff
thanks for the comment but I didn't really write those songs, I was re-creating these:
th-cam.com/video/1AyVXGHxHec/w-d-xo.htmlsi=svSQiSZtElURo0cw
th-cam.com/video/bUqloXToFXU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1M9AgdKlHwLY3V_G
@@CyberattackWorld I caught the RATM but ashamed I didn’t recognize the Hendrix. You did a sick version
@@ericp7892 thanks man you might get a kick out of this also: bit.ly/3vZ0yft
Two songs I know from a K-Tel compilation called "Here Comes Summer"--coincidence? Probably.
About the tracking errors, you should try with a bass. Errors everywhere.
Setting up my pedal board , I set the Keeley Syn-1 fourth on the board >.> …… exactly
Just grabbed an attack decay last night.. bullshit floweth from that awesome pedal🤟🏻. Alot of It super useable
Curious what knob settings you were running in the attack decay protip?
I know u have included some in video on pedal centric vids.. my bad if its up somewhere and i missed It
Appreciate your approach
Harmonix on, Tone way up, Harmonix a little above minimum. Blend maximum, Attack minimum, Decay 10 o’clock, Sensitivity 3 o’clock.
Hell yes! Really appreciate It!!!
Will 1000% mess with this when I get home later..
Still fairly new to discovering your channel.. but my board has gotten way cooler thanks to the knowledge you’ve shared!!
C4 synth has been my favorite pedal since they day I got It.. (& Nemesis, ventris, ultrawave) but just ive recently added a syntax error and now the attack decay.. plus an obne expression ramper (not quite a sidestep, but still rad) all thanks to your examples..
Ive never been one to shy away from the weird side of things.. but i gotta say, your blueprints for expoloration have made me more way efficient/educated on investigating the inner workings of my pedals
Now that I sorta know what im messin around with, i just need a fairfield hors derve and a long life and ill be set lol
Appreciate ya!
This content rules🙌 You learn about synths and then hear a coin sound in the Freedom riff.
thanks for noticing
“I’m an Oreo”
Just what I look for in bass guitar, yoh
Ya know that feeling i got as a kid for special saturday morning cartoons,…yeah i saw this vid come up and i’m eating breakfast, and watching happily…
This is what the experience is supposed to feel like
@@CyberattackWorldthat was really fun…laughed at the whole ‘usable bullshit’ part..which totally makes sense to me..thats where i go lol
Dude, you're amazing!
thanks man
@RafaelBalboa we use boss
the animations are hilarious lol
@6:00 sounds like Baba O'Riley!
I thought the GTA: Vice City theme
hell yeah, brother
Cool video. How was the latency on that synth pedal board? Must be quite hard to play.
I didn’t really notice an issue when I was recording the song for that segment
Great vid
You, Sir, are criminally under-subbed.
C'mon people! Whomever is watching these videos and has not subscribed, DO IT!! It's more awesome content like this on and on and on. Today is the day you click that scary "Subscribe" button. I believe in you.
"Don't be a wuss." Brilliant.
I think the don't be a wuss sound is my favorite one 🧐👌
Plugging pedals directly into interface works for me..but what am I missing here? Are amp sims just eq and reverb? what else are they doing?
Amp sims can also add distortion and change the way your notes bloom into the distortion, and also affect onset of your notes and the onset of different frequencies within your notes
I ❤ Usable Bullshit!
Thanks for this.
Do you have a system for documenting your signal chain and settings?
Im running into an issue where I go back and listen to sketches that I create, and have no idea how I got there.
Like most things, I have a feeling this comes down to discipline and good work habits. I think i just answered my own question…
i try to remember to take pictures with my phone, that can be a lifesaver
Not enough, sometimes you neeed the right notes, in the right neck spot, with the right guitar....modular guys have it sooo easy.
12:15 A Summer Song - Chad and Jeremy
Dude! Thanks, that was gonna haunt me with the, "I know that! What is it??"
FYI there's always this: bit.ly/3vZ0yft
have you tried the meris enzo?
i've played it at some guitar stores but that's it
Synths into synth pedals is also fun and full of errors, td-3 into mothership is a goldmine
also the tracking errors in the poly mode of the attack decay are so weird and unique.
If u could recommend one synth pedal which would it be?
The C4 is the most powerful, but using it is not easy-there's a whole software component, and I found it intimidating at first. But you can download settings (including mine) if you just want to get going and not tweak.
The Attack Decay is much more straightforward and easy to use. It can't do everything, but the things it can do all sound very good. It and the C4 are my two favorites of the 5 pedals in this video.
I got away from using synth pedals because I found none of them could generate the low end of a real synth. The EHX bass microsynth is the only one I keep
00:08:39 yo, thats a good song!
thanks it's this: th-cam.com/video/d7woYjGWs6k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=jjjChN48CBWEcGbT
@CyberattackWorld th-cam.com/video/mmi60Bd4jSs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EmeVlrmrdKkbV4-o 00:00:55
7:53 da funk is still the best daft punk song
It can make u round round get around. I get around 😊
Thanks ben affleck