Guitar Pedals for Ambient/Experimental Music: Part 1
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2024
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Pedals used:
Moog Minifooger Drive
Behringer Ultra Vibrato
Behringer Ultra Tremolo
Digitech Digidelay
EHX BIG MUFF
EHX Frequency Analyzer - Hudba
Tremolo pedal: Adds tremolo
Vibrato pedal: Adds vibrato
Delay pedal: I T ' S M O R P H I N T I M E
Go go delay pedal?
That is so cool.
The other day, I turned VLC player on my desktop PC and then kept hearing this strange ethereal feedback coming out of my speakers which kind of spooked me out. I then realised that I had left the webcam on and it's microphone was picking up the background sound from the PC's speakers via VLC and I worked out that using VLC's own sound adjustment levels I was able to crudely change the parameters of the feedback.
My favorite quote about pedals are that they are "Poor Man's Outboard Gear" and I really love them for that reason.
I was quite surprised in the end when you brought out the bass guitar and mentioned QOTSA, didn't know that you were a fan of the fuzz bass sound of stoner rock! Respect! Keep it up!
nice work. thank you for this channel , been enjoying it a lot since i found it recently. inspiring and relaxing at the same time....
WOWWW ! Absolutely killing me with the frequency analyzer demos !!!
I immediately fell in love with filter mode ! 😍
I've gigged with enough behringer pedals to know they won't break as long as you don't slam your foot on them like you're trying to smash a can or a gourd or something.
A trick you can use the digitech that I use is really, really short loops. Sub second loops. You get these wild stutters. I usually throw a modulation pedal after it, but it's great for snatching stuttery stuff. Highly recommend.
That is good feedback, thank you!
@@Hainbach thank you for your videos
@@Hainbach "good feedback" nice :)
@@khalylehagood3222 what do u mean by sub second loops ?
That Frequency Analyzer is a beast! I do love the frequency shifter in my Field Kit FX.
The first music I recorded back in the 90s was with a bass through a few pedals into a tape recorder. Think freestyle industrial noise. It was a lot of fun but everyone thought I was mad in the head when they heard it back.
Well, today you could fill Atonal with that!
Give it a few years and I could do a 30th anniversary comeback show!
you have made me rediscover my kalimba and my once forgotten stash of vintage lapel mics! thank you!! hooked them up this past weekend as well as my grandfather's old shortwave radio and messed around for a few hours... sounds horrible, but was fun!
I'm in love with that Digidelay! It sounds so nice when paired with a kalimba
Dude, I am in love with your channel! It is a gold mine!
17:36 bass+fuzz does that to you! :) Thank you for your videos and music, I'm so glad I found them!
I've been using that Digitech Delay for years and years, it wasn't that cheap when i got it new! Brilliant pedal.
Pedals have always been one of my favorite parts of playing electric guitar, and I'm very excited to work them into synth playing as I start experimenting with that. One of my favorites is the Ibanez Echo Shifter ES2 - it's an analog delay with very lo-fi repeats, meant to emulate a tape delay, and it's VERY playable. The delay time is anywhere from slapback fast to almost a second between repeats, it has built in modulation, and an oscillate switch that automatically makes it feed back on itself for infinite repeats and spaceship noises.
I also quite dig the Small Clone chorus for adding a little extra space to a sound, and the Swollen Pickle fuzz is SUPER tweakable.
I really want to mess with the EHX Frequency Analyzer and Electric Mistress though, especially given you can use both as manually sweepable filters
Very interesting! I personally love all the old EHX in that chunky format. It has something.
Super useful video, I didn’t know how badly I needed ring mod in my life till I saw this, thank you!
I love using pedals with my synths and stuff - as much as I enjoy using vst fx for getting tracks into their final shape, recording with something tasty on the original signal usually helps to push the sound into deeper/weirder sonic territory. Which is always a good thing, obviously.
I'm looking forward to the 2nd part. Keep up the excellent work.
Yeah, that best of both worlds process yields the nicest sound.
Excellent. Looking forward to part 2.
I second the Ibanez Echo Shifter, my favourite ever echo. I passed over the EHX Frequency Analyser in favour of the Way Huge Ring Worm ........... wow what a ring mod that is!
yas! in agreement throughout. also tremolo is so underrated.
those canadians NEED deep sub bass
We do indeed enjoy deep sub bass.
killervacuum I am Canadian and I agree deep sub mmmmmmm so nice
Deep bass and bacon !!!
Also a Canadian here, deep bass-y sounds are delicious
Canadian here, can confirm
Inspiring! I have SO many toys that have been patiently waiting to be thrown into the mix of a creative new approach to my recording. I bought my Kalimba in 1976 before I went to spend a year in the Indian Ocean - actually on an island in the Indian Ocean. Cool stuff!
Glad I watched this about piezo mic, already thinking of the uses.
I'm just getting into this kind of music making now, but I have a Electoharminix Stereo memory man w/ hazarai that i'll be using for extra looping/delay, etc. Really powerful pedal. Can't wait to get started.
I've had my behringer echo machine for 2 years, she's doing just fine and sounds great. No cracks
Great chorus/vibroto on the delays when set to analog, plus the crazy sounds you get with the time turned down on reverse
Loved these sounds!
thank you! looking forward to the video on your live pedal set up.
Excellent work as ever Hainbach, I use 2 banks of pedals (including one of my own designs), tape loops, 2 turntables (mainly for spoken word), my homebrewed drone synth and virtual dj (for my own edits and samples of classic ambient samples). I have recently bought a delay circuit board to box up, for a third feedback loop, I would love to buy a SE 20 but its out of my price range. Thanks to your video I have discovered the amazing Digitech Digital delay, that continuous delay loop effect is exactly what I'm after. I'm going to sell this new delay circuit on and buy one straight away, I am very grateful, keep up the good work, I can't wait till this evening to watch part 2.
My Digitech Delay arrived in the post, £49.99 from fleabay, these are discontinued now, glad I managed to get on at a good price, back in the studio tomorrow.
4:55 - 5:02 "Help! I've fallen to the center of the universe." . . . "It's dark down here."
Love the kalimba! Great video!
Damn that Ring modulator is huge and beautiful.
Thank you for sharing ! Frequency Analyzer was really cool, I totally understood what you mean as electric ! I like to use the Mood drive, it really fits with everything it touches. I couldn't have the chance to try it on many instruments but I've tired it with a sub37 and it sounded like they meant for each other. And I suprised when you said Queens of The Stone Age, I didn't expect you to listen to them :D maybe you not but you sound that you definitely enjoy those sounds ! Cheers !!
Your videos are always so inspiring. I find myself expanding on the ideas presented, jodding down notes on what to try next time I have the chance. Like now, I'm thinking about how an overdriven flute would sound through a ringmod and I'm so excited to get back home to compose! Thanks for making this video, as always. I'm super impressed how quick you did it too!
It will sound glorious! Maybe hack an expression pedal to the ring mod so you can tune as you play.
@@Hainbach Now I just need to find a fluteist! The Frequency Analyzer looks like a beast but I've been looking into the Outer Rings by Adventure Audio, they have a really nice tendency to be, well, adventurous!
Yours, sir, is one of my favourite channel on youtube.
Thank you for your work and research.
The weirdest inspiration. Love it!
What’s this?! An ambient/experimental list without Eventide Space Reverb or a Big sky? Really appreciate the video that isn’t just the same parroted gear.
Also for a pretty solid budget delay I love the Donner Yellow Fall. $39 on amazon but does its job pretty damn well. Love your content.
Loved loved loved it. Subscribed!
Reminiscent of original Forbidden Planet film atmospheres : 06:48 very good indeed ✊😊
sitting poking around in frutyloops over a techno track and receive email from your new vidosik with AmbiCom, as always, great sound< respect!!!
Thank you very much! Hit that Fruity Loops thing hard, as far as I heard its gotten so much better over its humble beginnings.
Great video. Based on this I just ordered the electro harmonix frequency analyzer. I do a lot of ring kid my grand piano and this may fit into that workflow. But I’m really eager to see what it sounds like with the lLyra -8 synth. Thanks for the inspiration.
Awesome. really digging it
The Boss PS-2 is my favourite guitar pedal. I use it a lot for prepared guitar and no-input mixing stuff, I've yet to see another pitchshifter work in a microtonal way like this one does (besides possibly the Digitech Whammy, but I don't think it can go from one octave down to one octave up like the PS-2 can. It's delay not only gets thinner with each repeat, but it also gets nice and bitcrushy when it self oscillates too which I've never seen any other delay pedal do. Truly a unique beast.
PS-2 is an excellent pedal from what I remember. However the Whammy does go 1, 2, octaves up or down, and even dive-bombs lower. Models are built into my multieffects, several of them. Newer models are said to be even better, but I wouldn't know. Still, nothing like a good pitch shifter!
as always...amazing!
Really great stuff!
Great sound composing
I must be doing something right because I did the same for my CS-01. It's a single oscillator beautifully simple synth that sounds fantastic when you add some FX pedals.
playing the bass was great - would love to see some stuff around dictaphones and the pedal options there!
The vibrato is pretty sick, never owned the original VB-2 But from what I've heard and seen online it's pretty spot on. That digi delay has been blowing my mind lately too...i initially hated that series of pedals but there are a few worthy exceptions. The digi delay being one of them, specifically for these out there psychedelic experiments.
Man I cant thank you enough for your videos. I have been in a deep creative rute for sometime. I have been working "in the box" do YEARS, though I play several instruments. Im broke, and really though that a hardware synth was the way to go, but I had no money for it. Then I thought - hey - I have these old tape recorders I have been collecting - with some vauge nottion of hacking them at some point.... more pointedly LEARNING to hack them... as I only have the most basic of soldering skills. So I went online - looping for information about the tape looping... and I thats when I found your videos. I went immedatly, found the guitar pedals I had been refusing to let go of for.... 20 years... and then I found an old AMFM radio at the antique shop I work at - having the most fun making weird noises! I havent had this much fun since the 90s, when I got my first cracked copy of Acid Pro! Thank you!
Thank you Joshua for sharing that, it makes me so happy to hear!
"from dub to total destruction" the PiL story
love pedals:) going to buy a bigsky ne t year. i love reverb and delays... aaand putting a 303 into my boss bd2 is soo satisfying;)
I love it!!
Thank you very much!
This is beyond fantastic. Thank you so much. :-) :-) :-)
thank you for an other great video ... maybe helps me to get simpler setup
Brilliant!
Lieber Hainbach! Als treuer Abonnent und Daumenheber wollte ich Dir schon lange mal für Deine kompetenten aber auch unterhaltsamen "Seminare" danken. Ich fühle mich dabei immer gute 40 Jahre jünger, als ich am Konservatorium Freiburg und am Experimentalstudio des SWF modulare Klangerzeugung lernen durfte. Der SWF hatte damals das erste Moog-Modularsystem (Ausbaustufe "Emerson") Deutschlands bestellt. Und wer brachte es vorbei? Prof. Bob persönlich mit einem 2-tägigen Hardcore-Seminar. Welch ein Erlebnis! Heute arbeite ich auch als Schriftsteller und möchte Dir deshalb als Dank ein kleines Gedicht von mir widmen:
Ein Ton erklingt.
Es ist ein Sägezahn.
Steil steigt die Welle.
Senkrecht fällt sie wieder ab.
Ich frage mich, ob ich begriffen hab,
dass dieser Ton (es ist ein Sägezahn)
elektrisch ist von ein paar Volt erzeugt.
Und dieser Ton,
solang er tönen kann,
sich schmunzelnd nur
vor der Natur verbeugt /|...
In diesem Sinne: Weiter so und nochmals 1000 Dank!
Vielen lieben Dank, das hat mich sehr gefreut!
hi I'm Hainbach.. good to have you bach
But the subtitles always say he's Honda.
I need to know what that sound box is or more detail on how to find something similar!
I didn’t catch the name of the soundbox near the beginning - the speaker/spring/contact mic machine. What was it?
The EHX ring thing is the (newer) big brother of that ring mod and I believe it has a CV in.
Have you ever ever tired turning back the tone knob on the bass itself, with fuzz jacked up? I love playing with the tone with the bass.
nice to see you have the TR8S. i love that thing so much. the assignable LFO makes it so i can get a creepy tape-like warble to my beats.
I only had it as a loan for a few days - would have loved to explore it more. It felt like comfort food after the complex drummachines I use.
Enjoyed your video no one ever showed me anything had to figure things out I have a Korg synth modulator A sampler with many.sounds ring modulator reverse play bake etc. A Roland two occilator synth many effects pan etc.
That’s Behringer vibrato pedal is great for simulating tape warble
Don't sleep on the Empress Echosystem! Dual effects engines running in serial or parallel, plus presets. I run mine into a Boomerang Looper and I love it.
Stop.suggesting.awesome.pedals. I have a family to feed! 😉
@@Hainbach Haha sorry! The Timeline is similar, so having both would be overkill anyway.
so cool. very Quay Brothers-esque.
is there a difference between the Electro Harmonix EH-5000 RING MODULATOR EHX and the newer ring modulator?
SUPER COOL
Do you think the new Frequency Analyzer from EHX is the same as the vintage unit? It sounds amazing.
man I enjoyed this one
Me too! It was so much fun to bring out so many things instead of focusing on one thing.
I just bought one of those Behringer vibrato pedals the other day. It honestly sounds fantastic for the price. I might try to rehouse it in an aluminum enclosure eventually.
I got the Vibrato on a tipp from a very good guitarist who sold his original Boss unit that this clones for the copy.
What camera do you use for filming these videos?
Where to buy thump-piano with built in mic?
What is that blue electric piano called?
What is the name of the soundbox? I didn’t get it :/
The frequency analyzer reminds me of the opening track to Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
What’s the name of the wood box
I love the content on the channel, simply excellent. I have a question about pedals and reamp boxes though. I've been running sound out of Ableton through my interface and into a number of pedals (Syntax Error & Wampler Tape Echo) and running back again into Ableton.. but I've read I need a reamp box to do this properly, although others say its not needed. Have you any experience with this particular application? I actually think it's degrading the sound a little and perhaps a reamp box is in fact needed?
A reamp box is not necessary with pedals. If you run it through an amp it willsolve the impedance mismatch and avoid buzz and ground loops.
What's the name of the soundbox?
"The big muff however, is a bit more rough, and I like it..." Thought you were gonna say "rough"
Hi! I do enjoy the way you connect together such various generations of devices, and find out the best of their possibilities. These combinations of pedals are truly expressive: thanks a lot for sharing your discoveries! I am also very curious about the « Macumbista Soundbox ». Is there a link to find the schematics of the inner circuit? All the best!
macumbista.net/?page_id=4372
I had that synth! Sold it, like a fool.
IT NEVER BLINKS.
Sagenhaft auf was für du Ideen du mich bringst! Danke!
Interesting! Thanks :)
I'm curious on your take on the murf, i have always been unsure about committing to purchasing one. I have never seen it as something that i would use.
Murf part is already recorded, will come out next week. You can hear it here in the intro/outright track and the arps in the last talking bits.
Can you do a video on mixing and routing?
I just had a similar request in the subreddit - check it out and add what you would like to hear about: www.reddit.com/r/Hainbach/comments/9ucn93/the_video_request_thread/
Hi Hainbach, great video as always! I was wondering if you’d ever worked with the “no input mixer” technique, id love to hear what you could create!
Its been 20 years, but I want to revive it soon.
HAINBACH I’ll look forward to seeing it in the future then! :)
I've become obsessed with it and it's broken sibling passive matrix mixers paired with pedals. Tip, you NEED some gain stage pedals (fuzz/dist/overdrive) then you need a compressor pedal to protect your ears cans speakers.
I was wondering if you feedback looped. I have been experimenting running pedals in parallel recently, I like it a lot. I have never seen a CS01, I have a CS5 and love it.
I have a matrix mixer I like to abuse pedals with. Probably might make that a short episode later in this series.
Running pedals in parallel...that sounds interesting, what that all about? and what do you like about it?
@@Hainbach that would be awesome! I have been wanting one for a while. May get the Patchulator 8000 instead.
@@j3ffn4v4rr0 It's something I took from DAW land. I have a Saturnworks 1 to 2 mixer pedal, also use Y cables. There are a lot of different ways you can use it. I like to run distortions and fuzzes in parallel to a lot of things, because they generally don't have dry wet knobs. You can mix it in subtly while keeping your original signal pure. Then you can split that signal send it to a delay/reverb,etc. I think I like it because you can make one instrument sound like multiples.
@@Hainbach I'd love to see you feature a matrix mixer. I have one and enjoy it, but there is very little info online about matrix mixers, and I'm interested to see how other people use theirs
Hey, mal wieder sehr schöne Sounds! Sag mal, hat das Digitech einen Ping-Pong Mode, bzw. ist das in den Presets im Stereomudos voreingestellt?
Oh ich erinner mich nicht mehr. Leider ging meins vor zwei Jahren kaputt.
@@Hainbach haha, schade..ich versuche es grad noch weiter rauszufinden, aber Danke und Gruß von nem Theatermusikkollegen (falls du sowas noch machst)
Wow I really liked what you did with the drum machine. Can you do more stuff on exploring lo-fi drum machine tones? I have the same drum machine and I am looking for ways to improve the tone.
You didn't use the Boss PS-2 and that's precisely what I was waiting for, just to take the opportunity to ask you about your opinion on early digital pedals... But I'm doing it anyway! I'm thinking on getting one of those (I just got a RV-2 and I thought it would be the perfect companion), but there's something that holds me back. Looking at its specs (or the specs of any other digital effect from that era) makes me think not only if it's worth investing more money in something that's been vastly improved, but also if their sound quality is somehow acceptable in terms of sample rates and bit depths.
PS-2 is amazing. Still use it a lot.
I’ve had the regular Moog Murf since it’s release, it’s still a mystery to me...
Really cool man, thanks! guitar pedals are truely wonderful but little big tone shapers.
Really enjoyed your Rocking side, we know you're an ambient wizard but who knew you were a rock god? Lol....love the fuzz bass....just for fun
Yeah, I loved Kyuss "...and the Circus left Town" and the first QOTSA album - the sound was so different to me. And always fuzz bass.
I will check out this music/bands you have shared, I'm a bit older so fuzz bass for me comes from Cream, Black Sabbath and prog rock like yes. Anyway, love your youtube stuff, always inspiring
Great video and pedal combo showcase. I connected drum machine to infinite jets, the sound was so weird that i left it working for 1 hour on repeat. Still want to figure out how to tune fm synth to make it sound interesting with this pedal. Do you have any weird pedals in your shortlist that you want to try ?
Infinite Jets is high on my list, as are all Chase Bliss Pedals. Also Particle Delay and cooper fx generation loss. And I would love an original 16s EHX Delay.
@@Hainbach infinite jets will make great combo with your kalimba, i suppose it is easier to get interesting effects with plucky instruments and samples played through IJ. I personally want to add few pedals from Eathquaker Devices to my gear, I heard they make wacky pedals. I need wacky pedals in my life
Oh yeah, I had the rainbow Machine. Very beautiful, but I got tired of the sound fast. I kind of wish I still had it.
Really impressive and cool! Inspiring even! I am going to keep it simple for myself currently, but would you mind if I sample some of these sounds? Have you ever made any sample packs for OP 1 or OP Z?
ps .... I had English closed captioning on from a previous video, and it is pretty funny what that think you are saying. You communicated eloquently. Thank you for posting!
Hi Joseph! I can't stop anyone from sampling. Attribute if you release, and cut me in if it's a chart topper. I have a a rather good amount of OP1 packs and more on Patreon.com/Hainbach.
HAINBACH cool I will check it out sometime. Just got an OP Z and need to explore it for a bit. I look forward to checking out more of what you do!
My monthly budget is currently maxed out, but I am working on that. I will stay tuned and support when and how I am able. Do you have any Merch? Perhaps I could help you by providing images and vector art that you want on t-shirts ... or just buy a shirt. Are your OP 1 Pack’s available for download anywhere other than patreon? It is easier for me to make an impulse buy rather than a monthly commitment, and impulse buys are part of my budgeting. I think you could do decent with Merch. I mean, who doesn’t want a Hainbach t-shirt?!
what is that soundbox you used in the beginning of the video with the pietzo microphone? looks awesome
Macumbista Soundbox. I have five, love them to bits. Should make a video on them soon.
HAINBACH the Macumbista boxes are electro acoustic if I’m not mistaken - I’m guessing they won’t work well in a loud environment ?
I guess they would work somehow but DIFFERENT in a loud enviroment. Of cause feedback is always a bit shakey to work with, especially when microphones are involved. I'm quite interested in learning more about these boxes though, it looks like they could be DIYed with scrap components and without too much skills. Also more complex feedback patches could be possible. A video on them would be very cool!
@@stefan1024 a video on how to build our own DIY boxes like this would be so great
so coool, how you modify the kalimba? I have an Hokema, is it possible for that?
This is an eKalimba from patch point Berlin. You can slap a piezo on yours and it will be fun, but the bridge of the eKalimba is specially designed for it's pickup. Sounds extremely good.
@@Hainbach thank you i'll try
Hi, that wooden box with a speaker you done it yourself?
Macumbista Sound Box