Session 1 - Arturia Drumbrute + 11 FX Pedals - Techno Live Jam
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- This session took quite some time to set up. Each individual output of the Drumbrute (except the metronome) is connected to a different effect pedal. Lots of cables and power supplies were involved.
I had to dig up my old crackling Behringer mixer which is not optimal for this task because half of the inputs are stereo channels. So i had to mono the whole mix in the recording device because otherwise half of the instruments would be panned hard left or right. I wish i had a mixer with more channels but for now this had to do the job.
There is another reverb pedal under the table which is connected to the aux send of the mixer.
Pedals used:
Kick 1 - WMD Geiger Counter
Kick 2 - Electro-Harmonix Black Finger
Snare - Boss CS-3
Clap - Digitech Supernatural
Hihats - Electro-Harmonix Neo Mistress
Rim - Boss DD-7
Hi Tom - Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail
Lo Tom - Electro-Harmonix Memory Boy
Cymbal - Boss AW-3
Maracas - Mid-Fi Electronics Pitch Pirate
Zap - Red Panda Particle
Aux send - Hardwire RV-7
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Cheers, great demo/performance. This is why drum machines NEED individual outs.
Thanks a lot!
No. This is the exact reason Arturia needs to get rid of the individual outs. Jk. This is great. I just got my DB and I gotta tell ya. The Fuzz Factory in particular, loves this thing.
Get rid of the individual outs"? Why do you say that?
REALLY!
Was a bit "meh" about the Drumbrute before I saw this. Has to be the best drum machine demo I've ever seen. Club ready banger Is this lad. Lovely stuff!
Thank you very much!!!! That's a great comment man. I really appreciate it.
Pretty much a full tune using effects and one device.Hats off to you sir.A great example of why quality doesn't necessarily come from how much gear you have or in some cases,can afford.
Thanks a lot sir!
Yeah, i quite like the hihats too. I can see why some people dislike them but for me they work good together with the other sounds. Here they run through a phaser but even raw they sound cool to me.
Damn, it's the first time I hear a solo drum-machine based track that would sound so complete!
And now the DrumBrute sounds Brutish. Well done Sir - Nice.
:) Thank you Sir.
Exactly, the DB is made for processing. It's annoying when people knock the unprocessed, out of box sound. It isn't a box of ready-made samples like a digital drum machine.
A theoretically simple jam, made complex by the ridiculous routing
Its mad, and i love it!
Thank you! I'm glad you like it.
Audio magic brother, really nice! Thank you
Thank you very much man!
finally someone with a bold sense of sound designing skills... Great video
Thanks man!
Damn, this one really kicks ass!!! Great work!
Thanks man!
Oh my but I have a lot of catching up to do to discover your whole world !!
It's very great 😉
Super jam session, well done, just with the Drumbrute and pedals it's excellent ! This kick is huge
Just bought one of these and even though it sounds good on it's own those individual outs are the key to unleashing the true potential of this beast. Well done.
Marko Blanco Thanks! I agree, the individual outs are a very cool feature. I wish all drum machines had it.
Fantastic. This is exactly the kind of video i was looking for since this machine came out. I'd love to see you do more of these :)
Thank you! I'm working on the next one right now.
Thanks for sharing the routing. Nice job.
No problem. Thank you.
Awesome!!!! Best tune I've ever seen with just a drum machine!!!
Wow! Thank you very much.
Very very VERY good, kept me hooked through the whole session. It really shines with those external FX. Awesome sound design and session flow.
Thank you very much! I'm glad you dig it.
Amazing video. Have been searching for something like this for a while.
Will buy my drumbrute tomorrow, thanks for helping me to decide. Cheers from Brazil
Thank you man! I'm glad this video helped you. The drumbrute is very easy to operate. I wish all drum machines had a workflow like that.
I hope you have a lot of fun with it. Greetings from germany!
Here where I live it is really hard to see/hear those machines on stores, so we rely on videos. A friend of mine is sponsored by Arturia and said lovely things about the machine, but I wanted to hear another opinion and your video is the first one that really shows DB potential.
I used to be a guitar player, so pedals will not be a problem. Thank you very much again!
Even though there's a music store around the corner demos also help me a lot.
Cool that you already have some fx. Since i started getting into pedals i rarely use a machine without fx. The drumbrute is made for pedals imo.
Nice sound, nice fx, fucking nice !
Thanks man! I saw you used the Catalinbread Bicycle delay pedal on the volca fm. Can you tell me what makes it special? I love delay pedals and i'm always interested in finding special ones. Cool videos by the way.
It's an expérimental Delay and no harmonic !
SOUNDS BRILLIANT! love the delay effex, minimal beauty.
Finally a proper 4 by 4 demo. I'm tired of all the glitchy 100 bpm demos!! I'm getting one fore sure!
GLAM EVENT STYLIST :) Thanks man! Glad you like it. The raw drumbrute sound is not for everyone. It shines with fx.
This is seriously good! Nicely done!
Thanks a lot. You made some cool videos man!
Good work. Best Drum Brute set I've found so far. I'm working very similar way. Got me a Walrus Audio Phoenix power unit to save on having a ton of cables for all my guitar pedals.
Thanks man!
How many pedals can you hook up to it? Is it really less noisy then having different power supplies?
4 x 9v 300mA, 8 x 9v 100mA, 1x 18v/9v 100mA switchable & 2 x 12v/9v 100ma switchable. Yeah its clean sound. Much better than daisy chain. Powered by a standard kettle lead.
Most excellent!!!
Thank you very much.
Damn, this is great! Loving the vibe!
Thank you very much!
You know it's good when Timecop leaves a comment.
great work! Impressive how you create sounds that go far beyond a drum machine
Thank you man. I like your videos!
that's nice, thx!
Excellent.
Cool setup and result
Thank you!
Awesome stuff dude! You are ready for live performances with audience!
Thank you very much man! Still working on a longer live set.
this is wicked. what a great idea and sounds banging to boot
Thanks a lot! I wish all new drum machines had individual outs.
deep and nice! love geigercounter and red panda)
Thank you!
Oh man this is awesome
Pedal envy and of course your amazing talent buddy 💪
Fire🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks a lot man!
love this clap, and i like hypnotic techno like this
Thanks! I think the clap is the best sound on the Drumbrute.
Really good
Thanx!
lovely lovely!
absolutely awesome!!!!
i don`t know, how it worx exactly, but i can feel, that there`s much knowhow behind these soundz and much more effort.
i heard in the last 27 yearz much soundz in that genre, but this is really really great because of the dark and awesome weird shadows in there....!
love it really! (y)
Thank you so much man! This means a lot to me. It took some time to choose fitting fx for each sound and some practicing to mix a flowing session. So yes, i put some work in it. Glad you like it.
Much love!
if i understand it correctly: from each individual output u cabled the soundz into each single fx pedal and from there into a mixer.
the drumbrute is playing the "song" and it`s single elements are changed into different soundscapez by yourself. so: every new element is then brought into the behringer, where it comes into the great summary we can listen to, right?
if so: WOW!!!!!
in this f.......g digital world you went your own way analoque.....how great is that!
*CHAPEAUX CLAQUE!*
would be the BEHRINGER Xenyx UFX 1604 the right gear to fix all these single elementz in a perfect way?
Absolutely correct. Thanks for your kind words. Can't thank you enough. Comments like this keep me motivated.
I don't know all the features of the Xenyx UFX 1604. You probably can't use 11 different internal fx at once on each channel so you'd still need the fx pedals to effect every sound of the drumbrute. But as a mixer and soundcard it would definitely work.
awesome 👍
Excellent my friend! 👍😃 I suscribed! 👍
This video gave me a idé to use the outputs from my dB and use ableton instead of fx boxes and play around with my presonus 24.4.2 mixer. Thank you 😊
Very very very nice !!!!
Zikrea Productions Thank you very much!
I'm from France, are you accept booking ? If yes have you a manager ?
And do you have a soundclond or other audio stremaing with your own production ?
I'm working on a live show and new songs right now. I sent a message to you on fb.
seriously good!
I seriously thank you! :)
FUNstastic!!! Thank you, sir!!!!
I will get DB Impact one... : P
Thank YOU! Yeah the drumbrute impact tops this one i think. Have fun with it!
Amazing video, superb talent! I don't know why anyone would ever give this video a thumbs down.. this really should only get thumbs up. Cheers man :D
Thank you very much for the kind words! I really appreciate it.
soooooo good!!!
Thank you soooooo much!
This is Awesome!
Thank you!
Glove love.
nice work
nice comment. :) thank you.
Love the fuzz!
kinda dubby, kinda cool - finally someone who is pushing the limits with the Drumbrute like i do - showing that this thing is indeed worth it when you use it right ;-) Well done!
Thank you man! You did some cool jams as well. Brothers in mind. :)
yeah, in a way xD Lets continue to deliver ... ;-)
this is fucking excellent!
Thank you very much!
I realize there is a lot of good options ready!
I love it!
Enorme ! :)
Merci beaucoup!
Love it!!
Thank you!
Great industrial noize :)
Thank you Démoce!
Would it be advantageous to say run each out into a channel mixer and then just have the effects Bus or Aux into each individual channel needed?
I try to wrap my around what’s most optimal. I too have an entire effect rack I made and figure just plugging them into the Aux and then bussing those to the channels I want is efficient.
But also.. seeing how you isolate say a good reverb to the Tom’s, some delay pedals to the hats and another reverb and “misc” pedal from the kick out’s can work. Assuming you have all the effects xD
I loved watching this. The sounds are immaculate and show how effect pedals truly enhance the experience :)
But I’m torn on which path. All effects into the Aux and bus them to the channels needed. Or just have the individual outs of say the Brute into the individual effect pedals to then mixer, etc.
TIIIIIGHT!
that claps
You like them? :)
kAbLeHeAd yea i like them. The reverb gives an amazing sound to the claps
i like long reverb on claps and snares. i think the claps of the drumbrute are really good. perfect for processing.
yes , thats true, im very agree.
I just got one. Gonna need to start making cables.
You make them yourself? Nice. Have fun exploring the drumbrute!
The snare thru the geiger counter is my favourite so for. Sent hats thru flanger too. Lots of cabling stuff to consider. Too expensive to buy the patch cables i want. I'll make em for now.
Cables are way too expensive imo. That's why i use cheap adapters for the drumbrute. Not a good option for a live set but works at home.
Kable head, is King
:) Thanks man! Feeling very honered.
Ha! "Lots of cables and power supplies were involved"... I'm just not sure what level of funny and sarcastic.. like some kind of disclaimer... but nice video! I have a drumbrute, a boatload of pedals, and just a few more cables short of a good time it looks like! Cheers man
Yeah, it's a shitload of cables. It can be a mess sonetimes. But you should get more cables to hook up some more channels of the drumbrute. It's worth the money and the work.
Kablehead oh for sure, I was already planning on it! (And one solid reason I chose the drumbrute - it's like adding 18 voicable instruments! - 12 at a time!).. but if you've ever hooked even 3-4 pedals up, then you realize what a damn chore it can be come just to deal with the cables nevermind the routing, you know?! (Hence my detection of sarcasm like oh boy the fun!)
I definitely have a love/hate relationship with cables.
Haven't done a session like this for a while.
Fortunately most of the time it's enough for me to hook up 2-3 pedals for a session.
Cheers... ;)))
Thanks man!!!
muy bueno! saludos desde argentina!
BANG .... IN :-)
THANX!
Sick! nice job =)
Thanks a lot!
sickness, you madman! acid even tho its not haha hails
:D Thank you man!
Heftig )
:) Danke!
Buzz!
So sick! Your videos are inspiring, and excellent use of effects as always. Do you still have the TR-8? That's what I wanted to go with my TB-3 but the Drumbrute seems like a great choice as well.
Thank you man! Yes, i still have the TR-8 and i still like it a lot. I wish it had all the functions the Drumbrute has. Unquantised recording and randomness function made me get the Drumbrute. And off course the individual outs as i have a lot of fx pedals. But i also enjoy the sound of the TR-8. Two different beasts that both are very hands-on and fun to play.
@@Kableheaddo you ever just have all the effects bus into the individual channels? Or do you have every out of the brute going into it’s own effect pedal and then to mixer?
@@souliseum5437 I don't have a drumbrute anymore but i would go from every out of the brute into it’s own effect pedal and then to mixer.
Really nice ! I was wondering what kind of cable do you use to connect each individual out to pedals ? Stereo or mono cables ? Thanks !
Music Granted Thank you. I'm using mono cables.
Thanks for your reply !
I used to LOVE that BLACKFINGER comp too... If you put a fuzz face in front of of with your volume below 10 it gives the best sounding bite and dynamics... Hope I didn't sell mine to you.. cause if so, I WANT IT BACK lol..
:) I got a new one so somebody else must have it. On what did you use it? Synths or guitars?
Kablehead good question! I only used it with my 2001 maple neck ash body deluxe strat and split it between a Marshall jcm2000 with the crunch set to slight gristle, and a fender deville 2×12 clean, but was used for more treble and reverb.. I had REALLY stellar success then adding a 90s era big box deluxe mistress in true stereo (modular side going into the darker bassier Marshall, though)..
& I just purchased my 1st 2 serious synths (in addition to the arturia minilab) the Novation Ultranova, and the Waldorf Blofeld - desktop.. it's going to be fun to try to use the drumbrute triggering a synth!!!.. and I'm more into a floyd like layering with a synth, but I'm not against contrast with using edgier sounds too.. maybe combine some rock blues funk synthesized with a little electronica (drum machine to more refined dance or hip hop synth lines in there and make it poppy enough that maybe you could get away with that kinda synthesis? Wish it was all as easy as thinking it up though haha!
And I just loved this demo.. that Geiger counter stood out very much too! (I have the WMD Super FatMan and pigtronix EP-2 i just realized that ill be able to hook up!)
Sounds like good plans you have. The Blofeld is a crazy one. I love mine especially for the weird randomized patches.
The geiger counter is great too but i sold it to get an oto biscuit. Had a fatman too but needed money and had too many filter boxes. WMD makes some cool pedals. I'm glad i'm over the pedal addiction. Or one could say i have enough of them to stay high forever. :)
Kablehead yeah haha I'm glad I'm out of that pedal addicting stage too.. I got hooked from the 1st demos from PGS.. I'm definitely glad I'm out of it ahead of everyone else (everybody's board is HUUUGE these days lol!)
Vaaaaaary fckin niiiiicccee.
:D Thank you veeeeeeeerry much!!
This is the best drumbrute video I've seen. Thanks!! I was wondering how to make it sound with distorsion 😁
I have a lot of guitar pedals. I was wondering if a compressor or a tube screamer would work fine? Or fuzz , univibe, octavio?
Thank you very much!
I think it depends on the instrument. The kick works well with pedals that don't cut bass frequencies which most of them do. Hihats work well with phasers and flangers. Etc... But in the end it's just trial and error. Delays and Reverbs always work well.
i like your style man! and can you tell me what is that instrument on right up side? that writes "kick 4 kick 2 snare clap etc."..
Thank you. It's an old mixer from Behringer. One fx pedal is sitting under the table and is connected to the mixer so i can mix in some reverb on different channels.
This is really nicely done. How are you powering all the pedals?
[we sell boxes] thank you! i use two stronger power supplies with a daisy chain on each. I can connect all the normal 9V pedals. the other pedals have their own power supplies.
Thanks, what particular brand and would you recommend it?
[we sell boxes] It's called Godlyke Power-All and it has 2A. For what i do it's good enough. Could be that one big power device with different voltages would be better. But i don't care too much about a little background noise.
That's great, thanks. There's loads of nicely priced pedals for sale in my area, I guess guitarists get bored easier. I've just been interchanging them until I saw your video.
I thought I owned too many pedals, you've just made me realize I might have too few.
Hi is there a possibility to run Drum brute and its outputs through a eurorack's fx system?
It should be possible but i don't have any eurorack stuff and can't tell you what to look for.
Well that’s just about every delay and reverb pedal ever made on your desk :) Very nice. Do you use a Zoom q series to record the video? How do you get that great overhead camera angle. I waste more time trying to get a decent shot than I do setting up and practicing when I record my jams
:) Thanks man! I'm using a Rollei Actioncam and record the audio from the mixer into my soundcard. I use a mic stand to hold the camera over the table. All very lofi. And yeah, it's definitely more work to set up these sessions than to play around and record them. Sometimes i really hate it. :) Especially if i watch the video afterwards and notice that the camera angle or the lighting was not too great.
Kablehead Cool man. Thanks for the reply. I hear ya. The ActionCam picture looks good, I like the mic boom idea
Grate video!! I own a drumbrute and my question is about the connections. You conect each individual outs from de drumbrute to each individual channel of the mixer and then to a pedal? Or simply from the outs to a pedal?
Thank you! From the outs of the drumbrute into the pedals and then into the mixer.
I want to get one, the drums sound crunchy , im hesitant though as they seem to have no synth or bass sound banks available, just straight forward percussion groove drum machine
Gerry Dellaquila Yeah, with the Drumbrute you're limited to these sounds. I wouldn't want to use it as my only drum source but it has cool sequencing functions.
Oh and you might know this already but the crunchiness of the sounds in this session comes mostly from the fx pedals.
yes for sure your 11 pedal set up gives it a more compressed crunch dynamic, but I was referring to the natural crunch drumbrute sounds, specially noticeable on the claps, it sounds like mixed 808/909/ clap with bit of over drive or punch fx. do u have or used the boss terra echo delay ?also I like how u assigned one pedal per drum part, nice way to do external fx... I do a similar thing with the insert FX on the korg electribes, though they don't sounds as good a stand alone boss, digitech or electro harmonix
Gerry Dellaquila That's true, some sounds are crunchy even without fx Haven't tried the Tera Echo but heard good demos with it. Cool pedal i guess..
At 3:33 What is that synth like sound? What effects are on it? Thanks for your help
Hard to say which sound you mean. At 3:33 i mostly hear the oscillating echo of the memory boy analog delay on the low tom. The feedback was set quite high to send the delay into self oscillation.
Thanks. Thats probably the effect
How do you keep the noise down? I hear a lot of hiss usually going out of Drumbrute.
I think there's a bit background noise going on. But yeah i was surprised it wasn't more. Didn't do anything to keep it low.
Yeah, DB is noisy as shit. At least in the headphones. I tried DB out through DS-1 (which is notoriously noisy pedal) - forget about it. The sound is nice, but you ave to jump through hoops to get the noise down.
Most of the time i like the noise and hiss but sometimes it can indeed be too much.
Awesome video great sound !!! I absolutely love it. I am just crossing over from dj'ing to doing some love work. I have a tr-8 and the tb-03 to start. Looking for an acid/industrial feel. Can you suggest a pedal or 2 to start with? Thank you
Thank you very much! You should check out some of my older videos with TR-8 and TB-3 through different fx pedals. Maybe you'll hear some you like.
On the cheap side i like the DS-1 or bass big muff for 303 lines. For drums a pedal with dry/wet control is nice because most pedals cut some low freqs. And if you mix in just a bit of drive you still keep the bass intact. Or a mixer with aux sends. Generally i learned that it's worth to buy a few better pedals instead of a lot of cheap ones.
Oh, and the Dreadbox Epsilon is pretty cool for industrial filter stuff. But it's not cheap. Hope that helps at least a bit. :)
Kablehead it does . thank you the explanation with your answer. It helps man. Thanks
If you have more questions we can also chat on fb.
I love talking about nerdy music gear stuff. :)
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Can I borrow some patch cables? I'm a guitar player who builds pedals and I still don't have enough to do this. I do have a bunch of modular cables, so maybe I just need to get a bunch of adapters.
Damn this is good!
Thanks man! I used adapters too because the right cables would have been more expensive.
I'd love to be able to build my own pedals. What kind of pedals do you build?
Mostly distortion/overdrive circuits. Check out a company called Build Your Own Clone. Get a soldering iron and get going. That's an easy wey to get started. It's actually cheaper to build your own from scratch. Using perf board, sourcing parts. There are tons of layouts freely available out there. There are also companies who sell printed circuit boards and you supply the rest. There are some really cool and strange noisy distortions out there. Lots of interesting takes on classic circuits and perversions of "normal" effects. Check out the PWM distortion pedal. I'll bet it would be great on drums. I'm probably crazy to even try, but I'm going to try and build a Schumann PLL clone.
Btw- there are pcbs and kits for every kind of pedal from treble boosters to delays and choruses etc.
Wow! A pwm distortion pedal? That sounds delicious. :) Thanks for the info! Maybe i should give it a try at some time.
hey Kablehead!
would you recommend the drumbrute or the tr 8 for a beginner to purchase as a drum machine?
Dharam Intwala The Interface of both machines is very simple and easy to learn. The sequencer of the Drumbrute is more versatile with different swing, randomize and step lenghth settings for each channel. You can also shift a sound a little bit back or forth and record without quantization. So rhythmically the drumbrute has a lot more to explore.
The TR-8 has more punchy sounds and has the typical 808/909 samples on board which might be more useful for you depending on what drums you need in your tracks. The big faders are good for live mixing.
I hope that helps a little for you to decide. Both are very cool machines imo.
Kablehead I want something that is intuitive and sounds full. you know what I mean? like I'd want the drum machine to give me amazing sound right out of the box without me having to process it. something sonically amazing.
look I have around 500 USD to spend on a drum machine. based what I just typed what would you recommend?
For me the TR-8 isn't sonically amazing. But it has solid and banging drums. So i'd recommend the TR-8.
Okay. Gonna get the drumbrute.
This is just great!!! i've got a drumbrute and lots of effects too, but just can't get a stereo output, how do you connect your fx?
Thank you very much! The sounds are all mono and only the reverb might be stereo.
From the Drumbrute outputs the signal goes into the pedals and each pedal goes into a seperate mono input from the mixer.
One reverb pedal is connected via aux send so i can add it to each of the channels.
thank you man! I can still hear only the left output but i'll find a way, beautiful performance again!
That's strange. How's your setup? Do you use a mixer? And thanks again.
It was the fkn mini jack adapter... thank you for your time, i learnt a lot with your vids!
These damn cables freak me out sometimes. :) Cool that you solved the problem. Cheers!
This is Cool as fuck dude ✌️
Thanks yo!
Pretty cool, a bit boring but it sounds good.
So, it takes 11 pedals to get the Drumbrute sound good.
Actually there's another pedal under the table. So it took 12 pedals to get this sound out of the drumbrute. :)
I have DrumBrute, my experience is it takes zero pedals sound good. It doesn't need much even with a little Glue Compression and Reverb in Live, it's already sounding great. With fx pedals it can sound next level. Cool demo.
Thanks. I agree with you. I like the raw sound of the drumbrute too. But tastes are different.
kAbLe HeAd I think they did such a good job with it, I'm often surprised that it's getting a small degree of hate on YT. At this price point, I don't think there is anything that touches it. I like that it has an 808 vibe with the snare and kick 2, but that it's not a clone. Great job.
da nickt grinsende schaedel.