@@williaml.6922 I like that 🙂 ...hmmm....hey Josh! How about a xylophone emulator pedal??? It'd be like a ring modulator, but one that people would actually use! Make it a Three Series please.
People are quick to trash this product, but if it ever gets used by a popular musician… it will suddenly become the next “must-have-best-kept-secret” pedal
As a synth guy, pedal hoarder and guitar player. I really like the layout! It’s basically a simple 2 voice layout. If you can get around a basic mono synth like an MS20 or Moog…it seems pretty explanatory. Tracking is pretty good, and all the extras are nice for syncing other instruments too. $499 is about the cost of a decent mono synth reissue. If you don’t want to bring the synth along to a live gig, pre record a backing, or as a studio pedal this is nice.
@@sherwoodsmallidge9186 agreed! But the amount of big bands that do play live, but have drum triggers for each song, as well as synth samples triggers to start songs is huge. Look at any video live of say Blink 182 recently…no doubt there are synth samples like the original songs playing root notes to double and sound big. Also I can tell he’s not playing every guitar part, way too big a sound and too many misses live to get it that perfect. The compare Guns N Roses or Foo Fighters, who have a dedicated synth player on stage, extra drummers to fill in all those parts for real live. It’s nice to see bands still do it all analog, and no backing like that. But 90% of live acts have a crazy amount of backing tracks, and drums they play over it’s just taken as the normal experience. Especially when you see a trio and it’s this massive album sound…Rage Against the Machine can pull it off live with none, because the songs are simple. But all these pop bands bring backing tracks along, with so many layers going on vs hiring other members for those parts. No way a trio playing an arena is getting 4-8 layered guitar sounds, and massive sub synths and bass without a backing track for sure…you can tell it in the same set every night, and no changes between song run time. Motley Crew is another as well that does it.
Hey Josh and crew. Love the shorts but your long form is my fav. You’ve really helped me through the pedal weeds over the years and made me lol. Keep on keepin on my dudes. 🎸🎤
I’m so happy you busted out the Kent bass for this. It looks so pristine. 😍 The synth pedal demands 60s Japanese gear for proper giant robot funk. The noise you made was beautifully horrific, but still could see the potential. I’m in a phase where I’m kind of obsessing over that 60s period of Teisco, Matsumoku, Guyatone, etc. especially the white label ones. Just finished restoring a Kent 12 string today and have a Conrad Bison baritone in pieces. It’s such a creative moment of guitar history. They’re dogged for being cheap, but I can say that they’re nicer than almost anything under $1500 new today. But they do require about a pint of Deoxit with all the knobs and switches when you find them with rusted strings at an estate sale 😂
This is a really cool feature episode! Red Witch is one of the first companies that I really fell in love with when I was sort of starting my dumb gear obsession. The Titan delay in particular was really fun to record with. I love this pedal. I think it would actually be great to use on overdub parts either with or without a little delay and reverb when you want a layer of something with a more unique texture and timbre. Kinda like the way Zep used clavinet on Custard Pie. It also has some obvious uses for the experimental indie crowd like Belle said about St. Vincent, or I'm thinking maybe Liars. It might sound weird all by itself like this, but if the right sound was dialed in, and it was mixed right, it could be used in a bunch of ways. Seriously, listen to the clavinet in Custard Pie, lol. So cool.
The problem(s) with guitar synths: - Soon as it kicks in, you no longer have a guitar, but instead a harder-to-use "synth" that nay play like it's half-broken. - The filter is a defining sound characteristic for each model of synth, but when applied to guitar it tends to sound lame(r), or at best like a novel wah or more often... _a flubber-y wibble._ - Bang for the buck. They throw the guitar's polyphony out the window, and many $500 monosynths can make 5-10x more useful sounds than any guitar synth can - partly because the synthesizer's UI is usually designed to enable the player to play the sounds _while editing them at the same time._ You can get around that some with a looper when on a guitar, but only _some._ - Not that any of this should stop you. Break the damn rules, it's what rock n roll is supposed to do.
There is also stuff you can do with guitar/bass synths that you can’t do with real synths, especially more natural bending of notes and the layout of the instrument is gonna lead to different melodic tendencies
Poor josh he just doesn't get the modular synth feel. I think this a really good pedal. Work it from left to right, set your voices, set your auto wah add chorus and sound like muse and radiohead had a baby who rebelled into the land of techno. Cool
It’s a very cool pedal, but for the price it’s not enough. You can get an EQD Data Corruptor which is also 3 voice with a ton of flexibility in the pitch relationships. It can get weird. There’s also EQD Bit commander which is 4 voice I believe. Only octaves but. You can get a meris enzo too which is incredibly flexible and sounds amazing. If it was $299 or $350 this would definitely be a strong contender.
There are synth similarities in sounds to the Pigtronix Mothership and the filters are similar to that in the Roger Linn Adrenalinn. That said the layout and chorus feature of the Red Witch Synthotron looks pretty great.
I use a DigiTech Bass Synth Wah Envelope Filter pedal. It’s fantastic with my Les Paul and some OD or Fuzz. I can totally get those sounds. $15 used @Guitar Center w/ power cable. I also use an Alesia Micron synth. It’s so damn freaky sounding !
I envision a disgruntled guitar player, who hates every overdrive pedal they've ever tried and stumbled upon this video and it changed their life forever. "That's the tone I've been looking for!" I am not that guitar player. But if my wife got me this for my birthday, I woudn't complain..inwould have a lot of fun with it.
@@foolsidolband the MojoHand Stylus is pretty awesome for vinyl emulation. Only drawback I’d mention is a bit of a volume boost. And there are also loads of LoFi stuff already: Strymon Deco, Chase Bliss GenLoss, etc.
And octave pedal with a filter/wah and chorus. Hey you have a Juno. Like all synths, the filter is the key. One you get that it is not hard to dial in a sound. It tracks pretty good as an octave pedal so that is a plus.
You have the world of B-Rate, '50's/'60's Horror and Sci-Fi in a box - what's not to like (with some contemporary supernatural/horror gaming sounds, thrown in) lovely!!
@@maurobelarde8527 Yes, I would love to buy about five, but I think that if just one more unsanctioned guitar related purchase were to find its way into the house, my wife would have me scheduled for chemical castration!! One does become entranced by the flame, though.
you should try to find some of those discontinued pedals if you don't already have them in your collection. The titan delay and medusa chorus are awesome, then there's the Zeus and Factotum bass pedals
Red Witch Effects Pedals are an amazing company with equally amazing products and it is a shame they haven't been mentioned in the past and deserve something special to showcase their work.
Something I think of every video I watch where Josh plays is that he has some really nice boutique guitars. The difficulty that gives me is that it is hard for me to relate how the pedals will sound on my strat or LP. I guess I will have to go to a guitar store to try out the pedals myself, or start my own youtube channel to try them out?
Synth sounds from monophonic analog based pedals has pretty much become my life since I discovered Janek Gwizdala and Tim Lefebvre a couple of years ago. This screams put that sound on your small board. Bass content suggestion for this type of monophonic octave based thing: all of us bass players really just want to know how the tracking is below the 5th fret of the A string on sustained notes. It is indeed boring content, but important to us. Signed, NPC #827373
Hi all. Have a record for you, Josh maybe you already know this one. It's been out of print for years, but someone has put it up on youtube. Charlie Pickett and the Eggs: Live at the Button (1982). Search it. Make a tape and bring it to your next outlaw biker keg party. They'll thank you for sure. Cheers
Should have two filters so you could engage both high and low, and an option to select band pass for either. Question…anyone know of a dual filter pedal?
Great to see y’all back on TH-cam. Hate the pedal, though. If I wanted those ridiculous tones (and I don’t) I’d buy a $70 Casio keyboard. Sometimes just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. PS. Finally got my “batch 3” Notaklon. Love it. Great job!
I have the Boss Synth S-1. I think it's called S-1. It will likely be the last synth pedal I ever buy. I need to work on it. I found it so hard to dial in something I enjoyed.
Fun pedal. This pedal seems similar to falling down a flight of stairs. There's a chance you will land on you feet at the bottom of the stairs and there is a chance you might make something musical with this pedal. Only way to find out is to take the tumble.
any calls to 'Burn the Witch' should be ignored, can't believe i didn't bail early. this would be a fun pedal if i was rich. points for 'auto wah' give that lady a subway sammich
I have used a Roland GR55 for over 10 years and still am experimenting with it happily. Polyphonic, built in sampler and tuner plus 4 individual voices ( 2 separate synth modules, COSM plus your guitar) and is way more usable in real world application. Sorry this just doesn't interest me to spend $599.
It is not that pedals with lots of knobs are wrong. I reckon if there ever was a pedal with a lot of knobs it was a synth pedal. It's that unless your band is called Radiohead a pedal with a simple basic function, like a phaser or a tremelo, needs to have as little knobs as possible.
Try the original Flubber film. My mam took us to see it. I thought it was very funny but I wax only 6. This is how I am with stomp boxes: fiddling about for well over an hour really doing nothing but dive down the rabbit hole
![แข่งแลกของ 1 วัน!! ของใครแพงสุดชนะ!! [Ver.2024]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/joRT59ilPHg/mqdefault.jpg)
Some of those jams sounded like they should be on one of those albums recorded to get out of a record contract 😂😂
I am a fan of comments that could as easily be a compliment as well as a criticism ;)
Belle’s “It looks like the inside of my brain and I don’t know how to operate that either,” is brilliant.
When I look at it, I think. "$599".
Then I pretty much stop thinking about it.
Yeah, it's pretty cool, but it's not 600 bones cool
@ravenslaves: When I saw the thumbnail for this Synthotron pedal, I immediately thought of a toy xylophone for small children.
@@williaml.6922 I like that 🙂
...hmmm....hey Josh! How about a xylophone emulator pedal???
It'd be like a ring modulator, but one that people would actually use!
Make it a Three Series please.
Yeah I’m not paying 600 for the opportunity to make some of the most annoying music known to man.
People are quick to trash this product, but if it ever gets used by a popular musician… it will suddenly become the next “must-have-best-kept-secret” pedal
As a synth guy, pedal hoarder and guitar player. I really like the layout! It’s basically a simple 2 voice layout. If you can get around a basic mono synth like an MS20 or Moog…it seems pretty explanatory. Tracking is pretty good, and all the extras are nice for syncing other instruments too. $499 is about the cost of a decent mono synth reissue. If you don’t want to bring the synth along to a live gig, pre record a backing, or as a studio pedal this is nice.
Honestly the tracking is VERY impressive when you consider those bends and stuff. As good or better than most guitar synths!
No musician should ever ever use prerecorded material that’s for lame digi djs
@@sherwoodsmallidge9186 agreed! But the amount of big bands that do play live, but have drum triggers for each song, as well as synth samples triggers to start songs is huge. Look at any video live of say Blink 182 recently…no doubt there are synth samples like the original songs playing root notes to double and sound big. Also I can tell he’s not playing every guitar part, way too big a sound and too many misses live to get it that perfect.
The compare Guns N Roses or Foo Fighters, who have a dedicated synth player on stage, extra drummers to fill in all those parts for real live. It’s nice to see bands still do it all analog, and no backing like that. But 90% of live acts have a crazy amount of backing tracks, and drums they play over it’s just taken as the normal experience. Especially when you see a trio and it’s this massive album sound…Rage Against the Machine can pull it off live with none, because the songs are simple. But all these pop bands bring backing tracks along, with so many layers going on vs hiring other members for those parts.
No way a trio playing an arena is getting 4-8 layered guitar sounds, and massive sub synths and bass without a backing track for sure…you can tell it in the same set every night, and no changes between song run time. Motley Crew is another as well that does it.
What pedal do you recommend for someone who just wants to do mono single note lines (with good tracking)
Hey Josh and crew. Love the shorts but your long form is my fav. You’ve really helped me through the pedal weeds over the years and made me lol. Keep on keepin on my dudes. 🎸🎤
Im here just enjoying Drunk Morello 💪🏽
If my song ever needs to have a noise rock psychedelic freakout instrumental interlude breakdown, this pedal will be my first choice.
Belle's face at 23:10 is great. Holding a lot back.
I’m so happy you busted out the Kent bass for this. It looks so pristine. 😍 The synth pedal demands 60s Japanese gear for proper giant robot funk. The noise you made was beautifully horrific, but still could see the potential.
I’m in a phase where I’m kind of obsessing over that 60s period of Teisco, Matsumoku, Guyatone, etc. especially the white label ones. Just finished restoring a Kent 12 string today and have a Conrad Bison baritone in pieces. It’s such a creative moment of guitar history. They’re dogged for being cheap, but I can say that they’re nicer than almost anything under $1500 new today. But they do require about a pint of Deoxit with all the knobs and switches when you find them with rusted strings at an estate sale 😂
Josh!?? Is it really you!? I thought you were dead.
YEAH!!! 🥳🥳🥳
That's not Josh that's a clone
@@SeniorFelizthat’s not a clone, it’s a Klon.
It's definitely notaklön@@1-derfulpiece
@@1-derfulpiece. No, it’s a Klone! 😮
@@1-derfulpiece That's not a Klon, it's a Notaklön.
This thing looks like the periodic table of effects. Beautiful layout. Sounds like my kind of pedal too!!
This is a really cool feature episode! Red Witch is one of the first companies that I really fell in love with when I was sort of starting my dumb gear obsession. The Titan delay in particular was really fun to record with. I love this pedal. I think it would actually be great to use on overdub parts either with or without a little delay and reverb when you want a layer of something with a more unique texture and timbre. Kinda like the way Zep used clavinet on Custard Pie. It also has some obvious uses for the experimental indie crowd like Belle said about St. Vincent, or I'm thinking maybe Liars. It might sound weird all by itself like this, but if the right sound was dialed in, and it was mixed right, it could be used in a bunch of ways. Seriously, listen to the clavinet in Custard Pie, lol. So cool.
The problem(s) with guitar synths:
- Soon as it kicks in, you no longer have a guitar, but instead a harder-to-use "synth" that nay play like it's half-broken.
- The filter is a defining sound characteristic for each model of synth, but when applied to guitar it tends to sound lame(r), or at best like a novel wah or more often... _a flubber-y wibble._
- Bang for the buck. They throw the guitar's polyphony out the window, and many $500 monosynths can make 5-10x more useful sounds than any guitar synth can - partly because the synthesizer's UI is usually designed to enable the player to play the sounds _while editing them at the same time._ You can get around that some with a looper when on a guitar, but only _some._
- Not that any of this should stop you. Break the damn rules, it's what rock n roll is supposed to do.
There is also stuff you can do with guitar/bass synths that you can’t do with real synths, especially more natural bending of notes and the layout of the instrument is gonna lead to different melodic tendencies
Poor josh he just doesn't get the modular synth feel. I think this a really good pedal. Work it from left to right, set your voices, set your auto wah add chorus and sound like muse and radiohead had a baby who rebelled into the land of techno. Cool
It’s a very cool pedal, but for the price it’s not enough.
You can get an EQD Data Corruptor which is also 3 voice with a ton of flexibility in the pitch relationships. It can get weird.
There’s also EQD Bit commander which is 4 voice I believe. Only octaves but.
You can get a meris enzo too which is incredibly flexible and sounds amazing.
If it was $299 or $350 this would definitely be a strong contender.
There are synth similarities in sounds to the Pigtronix Mothership and the filters are similar to that in the Roger Linn Adrenalinn. That said the layout and chorus feature of the Red Witch Synthotron looks pretty great.
I use a DigiTech Bass Synth Wah Envelope Filter pedal. It’s fantastic with my Les Paul and some OD or Fuzz. I can totally get those sounds. $15 used @Guitar Center w/ power cable. I also use an Alesia Micron synth. It’s so damn freaky sounding !
Great pedal! I had to put a little nail polish on the knob indicator slots so I could see where they were set
I love that thing. I want one!
I envision a disgruntled guitar player, who hates every overdrive pedal they've ever tried and stumbled upon this video and it changed their life forever.
"That's the tone I've been looking for!"
I am not that guitar player. But if my wife got me this for my birthday, I woudn't complain..inwould have a lot of fun with it.
Whoa, that filter....
Kent Bass! I love that brand. I've got a 561 Americana guitar and two electric mandolas, the 744 and 836.
Love that first sound. Reminds me to the Dedalo Byte, an Argentinian pedal i own.
JHS please make a lofi pedal 🙏🙏
This needs to happen...Chroma Console was a disappointment...
Watch the EQ pedal episode....
@@rhymeswfamous I’m talking about something like the tefi golden era, adding tape saturation and vinyl simulation
@@foolsidolband the MojoHand Stylus is pretty awesome for vinyl emulation. Only drawback I’d mention is a bit of a volume boost. And there are also loads of LoFi stuff already: Strymon Deco, Chase Bliss GenLoss, etc.
And octave pedal with a filter/wah and chorus. Hey you have a Juno. Like all synths, the filter is the key. One you get that it is not hard to dial in a sound. It tracks pretty good as an octave pedal so that is a plus.
I love that you kept going however
Cool pedal!😊
I need this for my bass.
You have the world of B-Rate, '50's/'60's Horror and Sci-Fi in a box - what's not to like (with some contemporary supernatural/horror gaming sounds, thrown in) lovely!!
Really? I have not seen the video yet. But if it sounds like you describe it, I need one. 🔥🔥🔥
@@maurobelarde8527 Yes, I would love to buy about five, but I think that if just one more unsanctioned guitar related purchase were to find its way into the house, my wife would have me scheduled for chemical castration!!
One does become entranced by the flame, though.
sounds perfect for late 70s synth-funk
Check out Roger Linn 's Adrenalin.
That filter sound is SOOOO GOOOD!!!
you should try to find some of those discontinued pedals if you don't already have them in your collection. The titan delay and medusa chorus are awesome, then there's the Zeus and Factotum bass pedals
Ohhh just take my money already!
Attack/fade would be most helpful to tame and blend with "dry guitar" (whatever that might be...)
Autowah. Capital of Canada?
7:30 you just scared my dog. He’s actually crying now.
Video and pedal are both awesome.
Red Witch Effects Pedals are an amazing company with equally amazing products and it is a shame they haven't been mentioned in the past and deserve something special to showcase their work.
Really cool pedal!
Ben designs awesome stuff. His pedals are way underrated. You should do a show on his pedals.
underrated but not underpriced ; )
Made in New Zealand by Hobbits
At least Australia hasn't claimed it as their own.
No sub functions + no menu diving = great synthesizer and a great pedal
17:12 well when this played I had to quickly skip it so people didn’t think I was watching something else 😂
Something I think of every video I watch where Josh plays is that he has some really nice boutique guitars. The difficulty that gives me is that it is hard for me to relate how the pedals will sound on my strat or LP. I guess I will have to go to a guitar store to try out the pedals myself, or start my own youtube channel to try them out?
Synth sounds from monophonic analog based pedals has pretty much become my life since I discovered Janek Gwizdala and Tim Lefebvre a couple of years ago. This screams put that sound on your small board. Bass content suggestion for this type of monophonic octave based thing: all of us bass players really just want to know how the tracking is below the 5th fret of the A string on sustained notes. It is indeed boring content, but important to us.
Signed,
NPC #827373
Why are you voices so low, couldn't hear any of the explanation
Hi all. Have a record for you, Josh maybe you already know this one. It's been out of print for years, but someone has put it up on youtube. Charlie Pickett and the Eggs: Live at the Button (1982). Search it. Make a tape and bring it to your next outlaw biker keg party. They'll thank you for sure. Cheers
Could we have an episode a out putting reverb before overdrive/distortion maybe shoegaze style?
Does that thing have a squelch knob on it?
Envelope filter + red witch = psychedelic funk (Buckethead)
The first jam made me giggle. Sounded like robot epilepsy when the guitar came in.
This thing fascinates me and how the algorithm didn’t know I’d wanna see this sooner is beyond me.
@ 24.10 there's a Tyler Durden flash. Would love to know what that's about.
Sounds like Zooropa and that was one of Flood’s huge modular rig. Needs a cv gate tremolo and ring mod though
Wait, what was that Electro Harmonix mini synth thing? I tried searching for it but can't find the one with keys.
I had a really bad experience with Red Witch (10+ years ago) pedals - the Zeuss was half-priced but it arrived broken - and that was all that happened
See if you can get your hands on an EMS Synthi Hi-Fli.
DEFX cloned the boards. The one I built is awesome. They truly are wonderful
The mystery noises of contractors working next door pedal.
Red witch flanger is the flanger sound I’ve been wanting, but can’t afford. 😔 (I just have the JHS $99 Flanger, shameless plug)
I hope you take this in a positive way... that bass/guitar jam may have been the best thing I've heard on this show! 🤣😂😆😁🤘
This is the perfect pedal for a new guitarist, especially a kid who loves their parents....
At last, we have everything we need to make the first platinum NES soundtrack.
“At last”…? Casio has been doing that since the 80’s 🤦♂️ 🤣
I feel like this device could determine whether or not we are data calculations in a simulation or monkeys out of our tree. Big ups
At -16:05 sounds like a duck hunt gone wrong. At -8:30 nice sounds. I heard some OK Computer tones from the filter stuff. Also Stevie Wonder.
Should have two filters so you could engage both high and low, and an option to select band pass for either. Question…anyone know of a dual filter pedal?
Great to see y’all back on TH-cam. Hate the pedal, though. If I wanted those ridiculous tones (and I don’t) I’d buy a $70 Casio keyboard. Sometimes just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
PS. Finally got my “batch 3” Notaklon. Love it. Great job!
‘Josh makes a modular synth ambient album’
I use my synthotron I&II on pretty much everything but guitar 🤣
The other day i spent like 15 minutes just playing with feedback noises so i appreciate this weird video
That Was FUNK FROM THE 7TH LEVEL OF HECC!!!!!
I really loved the sample & hold filter effect but I thought the synth-like voices sounded very cheesy.
I have the Boss Synth S-1. I think it's called S-1. It will likely be the last synth pedal I ever buy. I need to work on it. I found it so hard to dial in something I enjoyed.
SY-1! I have the SY-200 and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I like my Enzo a lot better but the SY-200 is easier to use, just less flexible.
paired with a re-issue attack/decay pedal ...
Fun pedal. This pedal seems similar to falling down a flight of stairs. There's a chance you will land on you feet at the bottom of the stairs and there is a chance you might make something musical with this pedal. Only way to find out is to take the tumble.
What drum machine are you using?
When they JHS did that LIZARD QUEEN promo, it could now be swapped with SYNTHOTRON!!!!
With the slide it sounds like the speaking sounds on Banjo-Kazooie 😂
Sounds like the ambient music at Roky Erickson's house.
any calls to 'Burn the Witch' should be ignored, can't believe i didn't bail early. this would be a fun pedal if i was rich. points for 'auto wah' give that lady a subway sammich
Whenever I see a guitar synth pedal review, you can bet your bottom buck there will be blues riffs played through it.. this review is no exception.
What’s up with that JHS & Wilco sticker? I want one!
16 knobs and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt!
St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go,
I owe my soul to the music store!
same
I have used a Roland GR55 for over 10 years and still am experimenting with it happily. Polyphonic, built in sampler and tuner plus 4 individual voices ( 2 separate synth modules, COSM plus your guitar) and is way more usable in real world application. Sorry this just doesn't interest me to spend $599.
The pedal reminds me a fisher price xylophone
2:10 "what does it looks like?"
Well it looks like a miniature of a very early Moog synth with the panel for the cables placed over the keys.
Looks like a Sonic 6 …. With some colours added!
Your making my dog freak out
Hip synth (grownup) kid here!
0:42 Starts
Has Emily harpist used this yet? She could certainly help with music for KSP2 with this...
How is every JHS video my new favorite JHS video?
Watching Josh totally failing at trying to synch the arpeggiator with the drum machine made me laugh and feel totally awkward at the same time …😂😅
😅
The pedal Cartman used to play the brown noise.
It is indeed, sick, ill, poorly, diseased, infirmed and quite possibly insanely beautiful!
It is not that pedals with lots of knobs are wrong. I reckon if there ever was a pedal with a lot of knobs it was a synth pedal. It's that unless your band is called Radiohead a pedal with a simple basic function, like a phaser or a tremelo, needs to have as little knobs as possible.
This feels like music frogs would make
what is that JHS Wilco sticker on her mug?
Does this pedal work for bassguitar?
Seems like it suffers from some pitch and tracking issues if it goes too low, similar to the OC-2. Josh plays it in 9:14
Ah yes finally, a "Donald Duck going berserk" modelling pedal!
Why is the volume level set to inaudible?
Try the original Flubber film. My mam took us to see it. I thought it was very funny but I wax only 6.
This is how I am with stomp boxes: fiddling about for well over an hour really doing nothing but dive down the rabbit hole
Since you are already insane, what is this then? And why does it sound good?