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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
"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.
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.
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 !!🤡
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....
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
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 :)
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.
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. 👍🏻
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).
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!
Strymon pedal power doesn't have the adapter for 9V battery? I have Voodoo Labs pedal power and it has an adapter to power 9V pedals and you can even adjust the juice it gets so you can make dying battery sounds.
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!
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.
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 don't know if that's the right answer to signal path question, but I have a theory. If you're standing with a guitar in hands in front of a stomp box and it has input on the left, it means that the cable, going from guitar to the input, crosses your way. It wouldn't be so much of a trouble in case of one stomp box, but if you have a row of 3 or 5 it might be
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!
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) 🎛🎶😅
Moog Sirin idea: I wonder if the problem you encountered is that the VCA is closed, and for this reason, despite going through the external input, your signal isn't making it out the output. A solution already at hand on "the Filth Box": Moogerfooger pedals typically supply +5V DC on the ring of all their control inputs, with the idea that you can wire an insert cable to a volume pedal and return the attenuated voltage on the tip, giving you treadle control of a knob. A cleverly- rewired TRS cable (or even the ring [send] half of a Y-cable or insert) could be used to send that static voltage to the Sirin's gate (or VCA input, if available), propping it open in a kind of "drone mode" allowing your signal to run through the filter and VCA and to the output. Hope this wasn't a pedantic recitation of a solution you already tried. Thanks for keeping the content coming!
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
Awesome! Christian or others could you please suggest how/if I can use my old little used Boss GT-6B bass pedal/board like that with Cubase? I tried before and when turning it on/off had loud scary pops in the speakers so haven’t tried since. Such a shame as I only really used it for a preset or two at a couple of gigs years ago. 😕
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 :))
Be honest. The only reason you made this video was to flex your pedalboard 😎
i did not tiptoe away, but rather focused intently on the end performance. really well done, and thank you for this!
I just love doing this! Also amp sims are really fun on synths.
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!
Being a guitarist, it is definitely true that pedals change the way you write = instant inspiration
This was a joy to watch! Especially the performance at the end. Thank you
You're so cool man! Absolutely brilliant! Looks like so much fun!
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!
Every time you say ”splosh” instead of ”reverb” a star goes dark.
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!
This is absolutely beautiful music! What an amazing piece of equipment! Great work!
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.
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.
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.
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
TH-camrs : I know how to make the most expressive faces in my thumbnails
Christian Henson : Hold my modular synthesized beer.
Very good tutorial and thanks for the new Input, that you are given us out of the rim.Well done.
Great perfomance and as usual a wonderfull video.
You're right. The Moog Ringmodulator sounds really great. It reminds me of the Yamaha CS-80 Ringmod.
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
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.
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! ;)
Brilliant! Love the performance, beautiful!
Omg. Pedal envy. I would love to hear a guitar through this beauty 🎸
Oh I love watching this Christian! Playing with pedals and wound coils and transformers right now.
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!
I really loved the performance at the end!
That's a nice lot of kit. I like this kind of modular.
I think in time, you should have a slanted desk for your pedals & a chair, for the sake of your knees & back, & ergonomics.
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.
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.
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
Bonus time yes . Yay wow lovely gear
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.
Love the BOSS ES-8 I've got one and love it. Building a similar setup for my home studio. Stereo Wet/Dry Split.
"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.
Most amazing and very inspiring video, thank you! Beautiful jam, too.
Love this video. Spent a lot of time researching pedals on Reverb after watching this. 😂
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.
Here I am, sitting with my only pedal, A Zoom multistomp.
It's all you need!
nice to see the Chase Bliss stuff.. Joel's a cool guy doing cool things.. and ZVex, another Minneapolis Co.
I adore your sense of humor.
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 !!🤡
Wow, you have an Industrialelectric 4606M? Have you heard anything about the System-46? Is it worth the squeeze?
Hope you all are well! 🥰
I didn't come here for the insights into insomnia, but it's exactly what I needed to hear right now. Thank you.
Love this Christian! This is inspiring me to finally build a proper studio board.
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....
Brilliant!! Loved that!
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
19:55, that's why I subscribed to this channel!
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 :)
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.
As a collector of guitar pedals this video is super inspiring
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!
Zvex makes a backplate that makes it possible to use power supply instead of battery. You can use that with your pedal :)
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. 👍🏻
"None of my distortions are... ordinary!" Love it
Chase Bliss Mood is such a fun little beast. It's so unpredictable.
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).
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!
I have no idea why it goes from right to left, but do i sense a new Spitfire samplepack at the end? :)
Strymon pedal power doesn't have the adapter for 9V battery? I have Voodoo Labs pedal power and it has an adapter to power 9V pedals and you can even adjust the juice it gets so you can make dying battery sounds.
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!
The hair on the crown is still looking good Christian. As well as the quality of your youtube output. Great watch!
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.
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 don't know if that's the right answer to signal path question, but I have a theory.
If you're standing with a guitar in hands in front of a stomp box and it has input on the left, it means that the cable, going from guitar to the input, crosses your way.
It wouldn't be so much of a trouble in case of one stomp box, but if you have a row of 3 or 5 it might be
Damn, i was conceptualizing something similar, early stage though. Even our pedal choices are a bit similar.
This was very informational, thank you!
lovely stuff Christian!
One of your best videos. I would request more performances. 🎶🎹🎶
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. 👍
I almost thought you'd mic up the 2 output through vintage guitar tube amps for the full-on stereo effect.
Good to have my modular Mondays on a Thursday
I think you would love the Vongon Effects Ultrasheer, I’m in love
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!
So many toys to make crazy sounds!!
Fantastic performance piece. I miss live performance. Ta
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) 🎛🎶😅
Fun one today, sir. Praying for your country.
An amazing project. The distortion and filtering sounds very vintage.
I must confess to not liking granular processes and shimmers.
Hi Christian, very interesting video. Can you recommend a more affordable alternative for the Radial Reamps you are using?
Bout effin time MM returned! :)
8:55 The Sirin’s amp env has to be triggered by midi or the gate input.
I see, _modular thursday_ doesn’t have the same ring to it
great video!! 6:48...it´s the Discman :-)
The overstayer madular channel its a beast. Going to get one, the mic pre version.
Moog Sirin idea: I wonder if the problem you encountered is that the VCA is closed, and for this reason, despite going through the external input, your signal isn't making it out the output. A solution already at hand on "the Filth Box": Moogerfooger pedals typically supply +5V DC on the ring of all their control inputs, with the idea that you can wire an insert cable to a volume pedal and return the attenuated voltage on the tip, giving you treadle control of a knob. A cleverly- rewired TRS cable (or even the ring [send] half of a Y-cable or insert) could be used to send that static voltage to the Sirin's gate (or VCA input, if available), propping it open in a kind of "drone mode" allowing your signal to run through the filter and VCA and to the output. Hope this wasn't a pedantic recitation of a solution you already tried. Thanks for keeping the content coming!
So inspiring :) ! 🙏🏻🎵
What's the reverb? That's incredible. So lush
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
Think the moog needs a sustained note on signal from a midi input for use in this setup. it would be so you can use the EG
Great, now I want 5 new pedals 😅
Stunning setup!
So this means there will be a Christian Henson / That Pedal Show mash up now right?
Well, as a guitarist with what I thought was a reasonably well stocked pedal board, I'm now feeling a little bit less stallion- like....
Awesome! Christian or others could you please suggest how/if I can use my old little used Boss GT-6B bass pedal/board like that with Cubase? I tried before and when turning it on/off had loud scary pops in the speakers so haven’t tried since. Such a shame as I only really used it for a preset or two at a couple of gigs years ago. 😕