Thanks. Yeah the blooper is more advanced and requires skill to use (skill that I don’t possess) but the mood just seems like endless afternoons of fun!
Hi Christian! To get the Moog Sirin so work as a filter you have to be triggering a note for any sound to pass through. Also the "Casioman" is Discman. They spelled Disc backwards. They are abusing early antiskip technology found in early portable cd players to get that sound. Finally do yourself a favor and check out the Gigrig pedal switcher. More loops, more flexible, made in England by one of the hosts of That Pedal Show. Great board and video. Thanks!
Matt watches video. Immediately runs to his guitar pedals board, grabs other pedals laying around and starts playing other instruments through them!!!! Great video. Very enjoyable. You should definitely link up with Dan and Mick of @That Pedal Show here on You Tube. Dan builds the "GigRig" switchers that are also midi enabled and he builds incredibly complex pedal boards. Including Ed Obrien's rig.
In the 60s I had an oscillator, ring modulator ( A transformer basically), a loudspeaker with a long spring from the back of a TV cathode ray tube attached to the cone. On the other end of the spring was an electric gramophone pick up with a sewing needle in it the output going to an amp. You could tap the spring for added effect. (Pre Star Wars). You youngsters have got it made. That was beautiful - I did stay to the end which included about 15mins of TH-cam ads. AND I didn't skip them. Spend it wisely!
Never thought of creating chains sorted by manufacturer. Ha! Thanks for sharing. Will make a Pladask Elektrisk (you should check them out) chain for some instant nordic noir.
Two takeaways: 1. I need a Mood. 2 . Christian has way better eyesight than I do. I could never see those pedals on the floor. I have to keep them on top of a rack just so I can see what’s what! Great video as always!
Your shallow water video was one of the main reasons I ended up getting one almost a year ago, and it's become probably my all time favorite pedal. Seeing you not only are still using it, but have gotten two for stereo is awesome. Also, those moogerfooger pedals sound incredible, I hope they get a re-issue -- can't justify spending $600+ on a single pedal lol
I don't have a moog, but I imagine you need to send it a continues midi note to open the gate for the audio input otherwise you won't hear the signal. It's similar with my Roland SE-02.
Thank you so much for all the knowledge you willingly share with everyone on this channel. It is always a pleasure watching your videos. You are a huge inspiration to me, even as a house music producer :)
re: signal path right to left: guitar output jack on your right, so that's where the cable lands on the floor. If signal path was left to right on stompboxes, you'd trip on the cable.
I was into industrial music back in the 80's. And one little secret that we discovered was that if you took the right guitar pedals (And gathered as many pedals as you could, it didn't even matter if they were broken. Sometimes, broken was even BETTER!), it would pretty much create a kind of chaotic, and cheap, modular synth. I can't tell you how many "Guitar Pedal Modular Synths" we used back then.
"Why does the signal path go from right to left in stop boxes?" Guessing here, but Ergonomics. If you want the pedals in front of you, as opposed to one side, having the inputs nearer to the guitar output prevents cable tangle. Much like why the eye piece on a camera (right dominant eye - which, being left eye dominant, is why my nose keeps activating the touch screen), or headphone cables (left cable to avoid your dominant right hand). I imagine, in the case of headphones, this is why HD25s were an industry standard for a while - because the right side placement of their cables suited studio operators better.
Thanks Christian really love it, the performance was great. This just reinforces what I've said for. a while FXs and pedals can be used with any instruments. that includes the human voice, after all isn't it just an audio signal? I don't have any hardware FXs or pedals, apart from a sustain pedal for my keyboard, so will have to try the plugins and pedal board in Logic. Best keep it quiet, but I play saxophone, as well as keyboards, and have used FXs when I've played live before, sounds interesting as I can hear both the original sound, and the sound with FXs at the same time. Take care everyone, stay safe, best wishes Terry
I've been doing a similar setup for the past 6 months, gone down the modular rabbit hole and been using all my pedals with it. I had a great chain of microfreak > mood > oceans 11> clouds and created some insane deep sea bioluminescent creature sounds. I honestly have never had so much fun and im coming at it from an in the box arturia softsynth user. It's making me give up in the box synths. Libraries are great, immediate, playable but tweaking a CS-80 with a screen and mouse just doesn't work out compared to having hardware in front of you. Big eye opener this way of working. Fantastic video and yes I stuck around at the end for the jam, loved it.
I’ve not watched much of the video yet. Just wanted to say thats one epic , no, legendary thumbnail! Anyway guitar pedals are definitely my kind of modular! Looking forward to this one!
Christian, I want to play with your filth box! Awesome stuff, and great choice of pedals (as a guitarist speaking). Loved the jam at the end, really helped me chill out at the end of a long week, although part of me wanted the Mastotron slapped on at the end to end in a big crescendo of fuzz and oscillation!
As if VSTs weren't a big enough rabbit hole for some, you add fancy guitar pedals to the equation! I'm not much of an experimenter, coming from a rock background I'm just into adding strings and keys to my guitars. However, I remember when I recorded demos into 4-track cassettes, i 'd have recorded my voice and drum machine through my Marshall combo for reverb (I had no outboard hear in the 90s).
23.... Alistair Crowley’s number for chaos😁... I expect you knew that! 😅 and..... The Overstayer!!.... been waiting all my life for this😅🤘🏼 insane, subtle, on so many levels..just ordered one. My studio..and output... will never be the same again!! Wicked video... you cut the jam.. more than once!😁 as a Gtr player I have a ton of peddles... and this I’ve done this before... but thanks to your vid and inspiration... things are about to get very messy under the console !!🤡
Glad to hear someone else is suffering from anxiety. Not only does the "situation" give me anxiety, but I have also flown internationally for work & I am now in my second work permit application in Germany. Every day could require me to travel again with another covid test. - the uncertainty is... terrible. There is no predictability to the world anymore.
Think someone has mentioned it but with the Moog Sirin, you will have to open the envelope to hear sound, Moog usually have VCA on mode within the editor which keeps the VCA fully open to pass audio through the filter
Wow! Great piece at the end - proper underscore. Totally get the point about gear making your approach different. Used to be a touring guitarist myself (mainly Boss stuff) can only think the input is something to do with most players being right-handed? Maybe not.
God I love your videos!!! Sooo inspiring. Also have you tried using the IO plugin in logic? It’s the same as the fx return you set up with the outputs except it’s in a plugin and you select the input and the output and it does delay compensation for you. Best way I’ve seen to do a hardware insert. 👍🏻
Love my mood pedal the walrus Mako series are awesome I have the D1 and now the R1 sitting in the box still.. (just moved... Nothing hooked up yet 😢) the smear or stretch setting on the mood is so great for atmospheres....
Great video as ever Mr Henson. I’m a lover of all things OTO and have the BAM, BIM and BOUM trilogy which bring me great joy when using with my keys. Interested to know which reverb type you are using in the BAM to give your ‘splosh meister no.1’ which, of course, is anything but standard. 👍
The output on a guitar is on the right hand side. If the signal path in pedals went from left to right, you would be tripping over your own cable. Cool video! If haven’t tried it yet, try distortion after reverb for some really haunting sounds. Even better if the distortion has a blend knob!
I actually prefer the tactile action of using guitar pedals with cinematic and ambient music. Been doing it for years. Works great with modular and VCV Rack too. I think I work faster this way frankly.
I spam half the videos I watch saying that VCV is the best FX system you can imagine, but I don't see many people using it this way. Not sure why but VCV seems to be mainly used for generative ambient stuff, which just sounds like random notes with too much reverb! I suppose people like the tactile benefit if pedals but I prefer using VCV and plugins because it's almost limitless.
@@VirtualModular VCV Rack is fantastic. I agree there's too much reverb on many patches but I'd say that maybe 65% of patches I see on Patchstorage aren't necessarily ambient/generative. I guess it depends on the particular creator and what they're sensibilities are. I use VCV for beats, effects or whatever I need it for at that moment really.
I started the video whilst working, just listening, then had a look at 2.39 when CH starts going over the pedals. "What the fuck!" I whispered to myself when I saw the...array. 'King hell, man.
RE right to left signal path of pedals - I often wondered the same and read somewhere that it's because (on a right handed guitar) the instrument cable comes out the right side of the instrument. If you had to go into the left side of a pedalboard your cable would need to cross from right to left and it'd be a trip hazard.
What I learn't from this video is I need to get a reverb and delay. It's nice to randomise the left and right stereo signals to give width and interesting texture to sounds, and I don't need the other 21 pedals, I can emulate them in software.
26:18 The Sirin needs a gate trigger to pass the audio through. Plug in a midi keyboard, tape any random note down, and mute both oscillators. Problem solved!
Sweet pedal board! You could run that through a Morphagene or Instruo Arbhar and granularize it for your modular album. (Your earlier Modular Mondays have led me down the deep Modular Rabbit Hole) 🎛🎶😅
Hey Christian, if you want to permanently wire in your Seek Wah grab a 9v battery snap cable from Voodoo Labs. I got one included with my Pedal Power 2 Plus power brick and it’s super useful for pedals that still think it’s the 80’s
if i might a gigrig 3 switcher would be a real upgrade compare to the boss es8 (from an audio point a view) (i must confess that i am a guitar player oryginaly so i might see this from a different perspective )and by the way i love this channel !
Also, I do not have Manny effect pedals, but, I have a night sky, metal zone, and demora. I am going to make a tape loop and just start experimenting with them
I’ve found the larger my board gets, the more i tend to use it like a modular system. Pedals are such an awesome wormhole 😎
Cabling goes right to left because if you play a right handed guitar the cable drops off to your right side.
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Nice...
Yes, and as a left handed guitarist I hate that haha :P
@@JamieK_89 same
Flip your pedals upside down :))
i did not tiptoe away, but rather focused intently on the end performance. really well done, and thank you for this!
Be honest. The only reason you made this video was to flex your pedalboard 😎
Oh my god. That Chase Bliss Audio Mood is just incredible.
Great stuff :D
Thanks. Yeah the blooper is more advanced and requires skill to use (skill that I don’t possess) but the mood just seems like endless afternoons of fun!
Hi Christian! To get the Moog Sirin so work as a filter you have to be triggering a note for any sound to pass through. Also the "Casioman" is Discman. They spelled Disc backwards. They are abusing early antiskip technology found in early portable cd players to get that sound. Finally do yourself a favor and check out the Gigrig pedal switcher. More loops, more flexible, made in England by one of the hosts of That Pedal Show. Great board and video. Thanks!
This was a joy to watch! Especially the performance at the end. Thank you
This is absolutely beautiful music! What an amazing piece of equipment! Great work!
You're so cool man! Absolutely brilliant! Looks like so much fun!
I just love doing this! Also amp sims are really fun on synths.
Matt watches video. Immediately runs to his guitar pedals board, grabs other pedals laying around and starts playing other instruments through them!!!! Great video. Very enjoyable. You should definitely link up with Dan and Mick of @That Pedal Show here on You Tube. Dan builds the "GigRig" switchers that are also midi enabled and he builds incredibly complex pedal boards. Including Ed Obrien's rig.
PS also grabs his looping pedals! ;)
In the 60s I had an oscillator, ring modulator ( A transformer basically), a loudspeaker with a long spring from the back of a TV cathode ray tube attached to the cone. On the other end of the spring was an electric gramophone pick up with a sewing needle in it the output going to an amp. You could tap the spring for added effect. (Pre Star Wars). You youngsters have got it made. That was beautiful - I did stay to the end which included about 15mins of TH-cam ads. AND I didn't skip them. Spend it wisely!
Very good tutorial and thanks for the new Input, that you are given us out of the rim.Well done.
Never thought of creating chains sorted by manufacturer. Ha! Thanks for sharing. Will make a Pladask Elektrisk (you should check them out) chain for some instant nordic noir.
Brilliant! Love the performance, beautiful!
You're right. The Moog Ringmodulator sounds really great. It reminds me of the Yamaha CS-80 Ringmod.
Two takeaways: 1. I need a Mood. 2 . Christian has way better eyesight than I do. I could never see those pedals on the floor. I have to keep them on top of a rack just so I can see what’s what! Great video as always!
Omg. Pedal envy. I would love to hear a guitar through this beauty 🎸
Loved the jam at the end. Very hypnotic :)
they're making a stereo EXTC now so you might be able to squeeze one more pedal on the board
I have been inspired by this channel to patch all of my pedals and my dusty 4 track cassette into Logic as a send/return. So much fun.
Your shallow water video was one of the main reasons I ended up getting one almost a year ago, and it's become probably my all time favorite pedal. Seeing you not only are still using it, but have gotten two for stereo is awesome. Also, those moogerfooger pedals sound incredible, I hope they get a re-issue -- can't justify spending $600+ on a single pedal lol
Oh I love watching this Christian! Playing with pedals and wound coils and transformers right now.
Fantastic! In case you haven't tried...you need to send Sirin a MIDI note ON message, or +5V to the Gate, to use the filter from an external input.
Thanks!
@@TheCrowHillCo Thank you for your beautiful music, this channel, spitfire and all you do! I have learned so much. Gratitude and respect.
Great perfomance and as usual a wonderfull video.
I really loved the performance at the end!
That's a nice lot of kit. I like this kind of modular.
Here I am, sitting with my only pedal, A Zoom multistomp.
It's all you need!
I don't have a moog, but I imagine you need to send it a continues midi note to open the gate for the audio input otherwise you won't hear the signal. It's similar with my Roland SE-02.
Most amazing and very inspiring video, thank you! Beautiful jam, too.
Love this Christian! This is inspiring me to finally build a proper studio board.
Thank you so much for all the knowledge you willingly share with everyone on this channel. It is always a pleasure watching your videos. You are a huge inspiration to me, even as a house music producer :)
I think in time, you should have a slanted desk for your pedals & a chair, for the sake of your knees & back, & ergonomics.
Being a guitarist, it is definitely true that pedals change the way you write = instant inspiration
One of your best videos. I would request more performances. 🎶🎹🎶
Bonus time yes . Yay wow lovely gear
Love the BOSS ES-8 I've got one and love it. Building a similar setup for my home studio. Stereo Wet/Dry Split.
re: signal path right to left: guitar output jack on your right, so that's where the cable lands on the floor. If signal path was left to right on stompboxes, you'd trip on the cable.
I was into industrial music back in the 80's. And one little secret that we discovered was that if you took the right guitar pedals (And gathered as many pedals as you could, it didn't even matter if they were broken. Sometimes, broken was even BETTER!), it would pretty much create a kind of chaotic, and cheap, modular synth. I can't tell you how many "Guitar Pedal Modular Synths" we used back then.
Love this video. Spent a lot of time researching pedals on Reverb after watching this. 😂
"Why does the signal path go from right to left in stop boxes?"
Guessing here, but Ergonomics. If you want the pedals in front of you, as opposed to one side, having the inputs nearer to the guitar output prevents cable tangle. Much like why the eye piece on a camera (right dominant eye - which, being left eye dominant, is why my nose keeps activating the touch screen), or headphone cables (left cable to avoid your dominant right hand). I imagine, in the case of headphones, this is why HD25s were an industry standard for a while - because the right side placement of their cables suited studio operators better.
Damn, i was conceptualizing something similar, early stage though. Even our pedal choices are a bit similar.
This was very informational, thank you!
I didn't come here for the insights into insomnia, but it's exactly what I needed to hear right now. Thank you.
Thanks Christian really love it, the performance was great. This just reinforces what I've said for. a while FXs and pedals can be used with any instruments. that includes the human voice, after all isn't it just an audio signal? I don't have any hardware FXs or pedals, apart from a sustain pedal for my keyboard, so will have to try the plugins and pedal board in Logic. Best keep it quiet, but I play saxophone, as well as keyboards, and have used FXs when I've played live before, sounds interesting as I can hear both the original sound, and the sound with FXs at the same time. Take care everyone, stay safe, best wishes Terry
I've been doing a similar setup for the past 6 months, gone down the modular rabbit hole and been using all my pedals with it. I had a great chain of microfreak > mood > oceans 11> clouds and created some insane deep sea bioluminescent creature sounds. I honestly have never had so much fun and im coming at it from an in the box arturia softsynth user. It's making me give up in the box synths. Libraries are great, immediate, playable but tweaking a CS-80 with a screen and mouse just doesn't work out compared to having hardware in front of you.
Big eye opener this way of working.
Fantastic video and yes I stuck around at the end for the jam, loved it.
I adore your sense of humor.
nice to see the Chase Bliss stuff.. Joel's a cool guy doing cool things.. and ZVex, another Minneapolis Co.
Brilliant!! Loved that!
I’ve not watched much of the video yet. Just wanted to say thats one epic , no, legendary thumbnail! Anyway guitar pedals are definitely my kind of modular! Looking forward to this one!
Christian, I want to play with your filth box! Awesome stuff, and great choice of pedals (as a guitarist speaking). Loved the jam at the end, really helped me chill out at the end of a long week, although part of me wanted the Mastotron slapped on at the end to end in a big crescendo of fuzz and oscillation!
As if VSTs weren't a big enough rabbit hole for some, you add fancy guitar pedals to the equation!
I'm not much of an experimenter, coming from a rock background I'm just into adding strings and keys to my guitars. However, I remember when I recorded demos into 4-track cassettes, i 'd have recorded my voice and drum machine through my Marshall combo for reverb (I had no outboard hear in the 90s).
23.... Alistair Crowley’s number for chaos😁... I expect you knew that! 😅 and..... The Overstayer!!.... been waiting all my life for this😅🤘🏼 insane, subtle, on so many levels..just ordered one. My studio..and output... will never be the same again!! Wicked video... you cut the jam.. more than once!😁 as a Gtr player I have a ton of peddles... and this I’ve done this before... but thanks to your vid and inspiration... things are about to get very messy under the console !!🤡
I think you would love the Vongon Effects Ultrasheer, I’m in love
The hair on the crown is still looking good Christian. As well as the quality of your youtube output. Great watch!
Glad to hear someone else is suffering from anxiety. Not only does the "situation" give me anxiety, but I have also flown internationally for work & I am now in my second work permit application in Germany. Every day could require me to travel again with another covid test. - the uncertainty is... terrible. There is no predictability to the world anymore.
Think someone has mentioned it but with the Moog Sirin, you will have to open the envelope to hear sound, Moog usually have VCA on mode within the editor which keeps the VCA fully open to pass audio through the filter
Hope you all are well! 🥰
An amazing project. The distortion and filtering sounds very vintage.
I must confess to not liking granular processes and shimmers.
lovely stuff Christian!
Wow! Great piece at the end - proper underscore. Totally get the point about gear making your approach different. Used to be a touring guitarist myself (mainly Boss stuff) can only think the input is something to do with most players being right-handed? Maybe not.
God I love your videos!!! Sooo inspiring.
Also have you tried using the IO plugin in logic? It’s the same as the fx return you set up with the outputs except it’s in a plugin and you select the input and the output and it does delay compensation for you. Best way I’ve seen to do a hardware insert. 👍🏻
Love my mood pedal the walrus Mako series are awesome I have the D1 and now the R1 sitting in the box still.. (just moved... Nothing hooked up yet 😢) the smear or stretch setting on the mood is so great for atmospheres....
TH-camrs : I know how to make the most expressive faces in my thumbnails
Christian Henson : Hold my modular synthesized beer.
So inspiring :) ! 🙏🏻🎵
Chase Bliss Mood is such a fun little beast. It's so unpredictable.
Good to have my modular Mondays on a Thursday
So many toys to make crazy sounds!!
As a collector of guitar pedals this video is super inspiring
I see, _modular thursday_ doesn’t have the same ring to it
Fun one today, sir. Praying for your country.
Amazing Work ✌️
Fantastic performance piece. I miss live performance. Ta
Seriously. At 13:35, there's your ambient album. Just loop it and leave it for 10-20 minutes and you're done. Utterly beautiful!
Great video as ever Mr Henson. I’m a lover of all things OTO and have the BAM, BIM and BOUM trilogy which bring me great joy when using with my keys. Interested to know which reverb type you are using in the BAM to give your ‘splosh meister no.1’ which, of course, is anything but standard. 👍
"None of my distortions are... ordinary!" Love it
The output on a guitar is on the right hand side. If the signal path in pedals went from left to right, you would be tripping over your own cable. Cool video! If haven’t tried it yet, try distortion after reverb for some really haunting sounds. Even better if the distortion has a blend knob!
Brilliant
Zvex makes a backplate that makes it possible to use power supply instead of battery. You can use that with your pedal :)
great video!! 6:48...it´s the Discman :-)
I actually prefer the tactile action of using guitar pedals with cinematic and ambient music. Been doing it for years. Works great with modular and VCV Rack too. I think I work faster this way frankly.
I spam half the videos I watch saying that VCV is the best FX system you can imagine, but I don't see many people using it this way. Not sure why but VCV seems to be mainly used for generative ambient stuff, which just sounds like random notes with too much reverb! I suppose people like the tactile benefit if pedals but I prefer using VCV and plugins because it's almost limitless.
@@VirtualModular VCV Rack is fantastic. I agree there's too much reverb on many patches but I'd say that maybe 65% of patches I see on Patchstorage aren't necessarily ambient/generative. I guess it depends on the particular creator and what they're sensibilities are. I use VCV for beats, effects or whatever I need it for at that moment really.
Lovly pedalboard!!!
Great, now I want 5 new pedals 😅
Stunning setup!
Well that was fucking wonderful. Bravo.
I started the video whilst working, just listening, then had a look at 2.39 when CH starts going over the pedals. "What the fuck!" I whispered to myself when I saw the...array. 'King hell, man.
RE right to left signal path of pedals - I often wondered the same and read somewhere that it's because (on a right handed guitar) the instrument cable comes out the right side of the instrument. If you had to go into the left side of a pedalboard your cable would need to cross from right to left and it'd be a trip hazard.
I have no idea why it goes from right to left, but do i sense a new Spitfire samplepack at the end? :)
Modular guitar effects.......FANTASTIC. EVEN STEVE VAI WOULD BE ENVIOUS !
The overstayer madular channel its a beast. Going to get one, the mic pre version.
I almost thought you'd mic up the 2 output through vintage guitar tube amps for the full-on stereo effect.
I use Line6 Helix both as floorboard and the VST. Some kind of more compact👍😊
What I learn't from this video is I need to get a reverb and delay. It's nice to randomise the left and right stereo signals to give width and interesting texture to sounds, and I don't need the other 21 pedals, I can emulate them in software.
26:18 The Sirin needs a gate trigger to pass the audio through. Plug in a midi keyboard, tape any random note down, and mute both oscillators. Problem solved!
It is a great setup!
Every time you say ”splosh” instead of ”reverb” a star goes dark.
Bout effin time MM returned! :)
Sweet pedal board! You could run that through a Morphagene or Instruo Arbhar and granularize it for your modular album. (Your earlier Modular Mondays have led me down the deep Modular Rabbit Hole) 🎛🎶😅
Hey Christian, if you want to permanently wire in your Seek Wah grab a 9v battery snap cable from Voodoo Labs. I got one included with my Pedal Power 2 Plus power brick and it’s super useful for pedals that still think it’s the 80’s
Looking forward to the output from that monster pedal board soon 😀
if i might a gigrig 3 switcher would be a real upgrade compare to the boss es8 (from an audio point a view) (i must confess that i am a guitar player oryginaly so i might see this from a different perspective )and by the way i love this channel !
Also, I do not have Manny effect pedals, but, I have a night sky, metal zone, and demora. I am going to make a tape loop and just start experimenting with them
Christian's expression in the thumbnail reminds me of Al Yankovic spoofing Rambo in "UHF".