Processing Images Through Guitar Effects Pedals
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Expounding upon a video from a few days ago where i utilize a technique called SSTV, or Slow Scan TV, which allowed me to convert an image into audio data and decode the data back into an image. Then i figured i should add some effects to see how that would affect the resulting image. Here i utilize outboard effects like guitar pedals to augment the audio data to achieve similar results.
Audio is broken up into five sections:
1. Audio recorded directly into Tascam Model 12
2. Audio processed by MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay
3. Audio processed by Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water
4. Audio processed by Empress Reverb
5. Audio processed onto cassette tape while slighty adjusting tape speed while recording.
My girlfriend got some film developed recently and the image used here is a nice shot she got of her farm cat, Todd, who has since passed away. I fade in the processed images to create a smoother effect against the original.
RIP Todd
"Get off the phone, I'm trying to use the internet!"
“The song i was downloading only had five minutes left!”
That's a good comment.
"Goodbye" 😡
@@jamesmcn0000 How obnoxiously boomery of you
My first thought with that sound. Dial-up!
All that’s left is to go full circle and teach a cat how to play the guitar
VERY cool! Long live the circuit benders and senders of wrong signals through wrong things.
we are the dreamers of dreams
@@paxson2000’we are the music makers’
"Hey babe, look what came out of those photos I developed. Doesn't Todd look so cute yawning like that? I’m glad I have something so nice to remember him with."
“Wow babe, that really is a great photo. I know EXACTLY what to do with it.”
RIP Todd
this goes so hard actually, its also a very good way of visualizing the effects
I totally agree on the visualization aid. In fact i believe there is a lot of aliasing going on in the first clip because of my mixer/recorder’s sample rate and not using any kind of low pass filter. Makes me want to experiment with different sample rates
This has been one of the coolest things i seen being done with SSTV!
thank you kindly
1:31 He got transmogged into a rubber chicken
Yes, via a “transmogrifying circuit.” (Apologies to the poet who wrote of a transmogrifying Bee…)
It's what Todd would have wanted.
Skipping over it forwards made me think almost nothing is happening.
Skipping over backwards gave the weridest effects so i played it normally and with headphones it sounded like i summoned ghosts to my room. 10/10 most haunted vid on youtube.
@@TheKrokomaster thanks for getting haunted
The reason why it sounds a bit like a dial-up handshake (the sound it makes while establishing a connection) is probably because they're both forms of audio data.
I don't know much about the application of transmitting information through audio that's shown in the video, but I do know a bit about dial-up internet.
The reason why dial-up sounds like that is that because at the time, there wasn't much dedicated internet infrastructure, so they used phone lines to establish a connection.
This means that the data required to establish it needed to be audio data - essentially letting a computer talk over the phone to discuss things like protocol types.
I'm not an expert, and I may be misremembering, but it's interesting nonetheless.
@@rubydreamsuwu1095 that is interesting! Thanks for the awesome comment!
5 second in I thought I accidentally clicked on a new analog horror series or something. Cool experiment.
RIP Todd :(
@@trancadoemcasa thank you!
We're headed back to Scanimate! :D
Looking forward to seeing more like this; always wanted to try it, ever since running and recording my Dreamcast through an old low-end reel-to-reel.
Yoooo thanks, bout to fall down a Scanimate rabbit hole. And i’d love to watch someone play dreamcast on a reel-to-reel
this might be the greatest video ever uploaded to youtube
^this might be the greatest comment ever posted on the greatest video ever uploaded to youtube
Now through an Earthquaker Data Corrupter to make your TV explode.
dude that would be dope. Based on reading the description for that pedal i believe it would make it possible to create stacks of the same image based on the octave shifting capabilities. now i just need to get the pedal! thanks for watching
The data bender doesn’t always work with audio-visual things. SSTV is better than most formats; requires a bit of knob tweaking though
@@paxson2000 look into PedalPCB's clone PCB if you're good with a soldering iron & on a budget! Their clone of EQD's experimental stuff specifically is VERY much on-point copies of the originals (both in circuitry tracing & sound), as are most of their offerings from the past few years or more.
But as for the Data Cosrupter for this video synthesis stuff, I think the coolest part would be how the P.L.L.-part of the circuit would affect images, especially combined with its sub-octave generator. 🫠
oh man!!! can't wait until you're experimenting with spectrograms!!! hope to see more soon!!
Wow. Slow scan tv is super cool glad to see it in action I would have never thought of hooking up fx pedals. Fun fact: slow scan tv is how the moon landing in the 60s was transmitted back to earth for broadcast. Keep up the good work.
We landed on the moon?!! Thanks for watching and for the bit of trivia
Image feed? Because I don’t think there’s SSTV for video
@@SpheresVAbasically they took the images and converted them to broadcast standard. Oversimplified explanation like making a gif from stills. Huge drop in quality but works.
@@tonywagner6584 I bet that took a long time unless they used robot36 or something which would tank the quality
@@paxson2000 please tell me this is a joke
Oh now this shit is dangerously trippy right here.
RIP Todd
_This experiment was brought to you by LSD._
Great idea, jokes aside, this is phenomenal. Completely out of the box.
Thanks for posting.
@@dziany_forsacze thanks for watching! That’s very kind!!
I know not why I am here, only that I find myself struck by this experiment. I am filled with formless inspiration that I wish to shape. Thank you, analog wizard.
@@TheTaciturnIX the opportunity of pleasure is all mine fellow traveler
Love the window reflection
Rip Todd
@@trialbyicecream thanks Blaise
that cat really got that vibe
Some of the processed audio sounds like something that would be used in an old sci-fi movie for the sound effects of alien spacecraft flying around or communicating with their homeworld.
SSTV was (or still is?) used by amateur radio operators from all around the world to exchange mostly useless images over the HF frequencies (and sometimes sent from the ISS to ground on VHF/UHF frequencies). Some 20-30 years ago I used to randomly tune to the SSTV HF frequencies and record dozen of images. It was interesting to note the effects of the propagation artifacts (mostly fading and/or multipath). Analog effects would be a nice thing to try indeed :)
@@iz8dwf thanks for the info! Very interesting stuff
we’re getting a transmission
Analog tech was so much cooler than digital.
I like how at first you don't realise anything's changing
@@skarloeyexpress4353 thanks! I faded in the effects to create smoother transitions and i like how it turned out as well
Congratulations! You've just created Scanimate Lite!
I prefer the taste of Diet Scanimate
Alright, I need to figure out how to do this. I have this wicked idea for a harsh noise movie made with this technique.
"babe wake up, new analog horror just dropped"
Really amazing. Glad I found this.
No one asked for this but here we are…I’m watching this while hungover while I eat homemade bún thịt nướng while drinking 1877 mineral water and Texas sweet tea.
@@aregal sounds like a unique viewing experience. Now i’m hungry! Thanks for watching
That's so freaking cool!
(in Midwest accent) "ah, sweet demonically possessed images"
UA-cam sends me some odd stuff, but this is beyond something but i will never know what.
It lays beyond some things and beyond it lay even further things. Never hurts to reach out
I don’t understand the process but I love the result
I've reached a really weird corner of the internet and I don't even know how I got here.
UA-cam found out you’re a weirdo. Welcome
@@paxson2000 I think I've found my people. Thanks.
this + all the acid, shrooms, and dope you can carry.
@@ChaseThePinballWizard not trying to be an enabler… but that sounds pretty fun!!
@@paxson2000 nah id never drop acid to this id probably go blind, but weed does sound fun.
I wonder if you could do each frame of a video individual to get some crazy looking video. it would take a long time even for a 30fps video so probably just a 3 second loop would be a lot of work, but it would be cool.
Maybe it could be fully automated? I'd love to see it. This is really, really cool.
@@trulyinfamous hey i appreciate it. Yes that would be possibly tedious but i agree that the end result could be well worth the temporal cost of construction. It’s funny because i just threw this video together before work one day, didn’t know it was going to be seen by so many people! Thank you for watching
I guessed a little better than half the effects! The Shallow Water threw me a bit, I went for phaser. But the analog delay and reverb were correct, and I believe shallow water has a phase component in it.
This video calms my soul. Thank you so muc
Dude the carbon copy is awesome when you crank the regen all the way up it becomes a noise machine
Yessss. I made a fun dance track that has the eeriest vibe thanks for a super high pitched train-squealing-on-tracks whistle from that use of the CC
It's like travelling through a tesseract.
This is fantastic!
Thank you!
This is what my brain feels like
I'm extremely keen on this
Fun fact this is how every song was made before 1972
I quit the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
This would go crazy as a sample in a Death Grips track LOL.
This sounds a lot like the Metroid II soundtrack.
I love Metroidvania’s!
This rocks thank you
@@marcopivetta7796 you rock this, thanks
With Shallow Water the cat turns into a half-lit face
Whoa
didn’t know this was possible damn awesome rip cat tho
this is such a sick idea! I gotta try this some time!
Brilliant ❤❤❤
@@boonesboroughbeachboy9341 thank you
Really great idea and execution. Can i potentially sample some of the noise for a song?
Please do!! Would love to hear it
Damn, this is geniuos
Thanks for checking it out!! And appreciate that
That’s so fye. What else can you process through a guitar pedal? Can it cut my hair? Perhaps a.. monk style haircut? Hmmm
@@earlofnacho lol it has many applications!!
Can you try a looper and maybe stack different segments of the image over itself
A very most excellent idea. My reverb has looping functionality but i need to buy an SD card. But will definitely try that out in the future!
Important Video.
Fascinating!
Does the SSTV scan have any variable parameters?
If so, you could get different results from the same set of effects
@@347Jimmy there are different parameters such as ‘skew’ and ‘center’ so yeah you could!! Thank you
@@paxson2000 seems like a lot of fun 👍
@@347Jimmy it is!
Trippy. Didnt know you could do this. Thanks for sharing
I want to see this video being a no context lore tape in a horror game.
That would be dope. If you make the game i’ll make the footage!
@paxson2000 I could see this being in a Remedy Game, Sam Lake loves this kind of stuff.
Y’all need to get on this haha
Analog Horror vibes!
Nobody like this comment it’s at 666
RIP Todd
@@nairocamilo thank you
if this was uploaded as a cryptic video from some mysterious channel it would become one of those one hour rabbit hole video essays
@@yellomauz1 damn i missed my chance at obscure relativity and now will have to settle for being relatively obscure
People are talking about agony & suffering, but yk what? Maybe that cat's just vibing.
I think people sometimes forget that existence=suffering=existence
Thanks for the positivity!
Yeah cats just _do this_ sometimes
That's just a tired little lad
@@julius879 he’s a wee bit sleepy
LOL@@WolfWalrus
Hip-Hop producers: “I only sample vinyl for my beats”
This guy:
Lol
this hasnt been true for like 20 years
@@bbyponkindeed its youtube to mp3 and fl studio now
I've heard of people doing this in Audacity by importing BMP files, applying effects, then re-exporting them as images, but to do it with analog is something else entirely. Mind-blowing.
How do you do this? Is there a video I can watch on it?
@@thehockeynerd3479 I would start by looking into hardware Video Synthesis & Eurorack VFX
@@thehockeynerd3479Google databending
@@thehockeynerd3479 Totally a guess, but that looks like an old style tube tv. If so, that would use the old style coax type cable which has 2 points of contact guitar effects cable also has two contact points. Strip to coax cable back removing the original connector, replace replace with a 1/4-inch (6.35mm) TS Jack and run the TV signal through that. Ma
@@thehockeynerd3479 the audio in this video literally is the image. It's a technology called SSTV, so it seems they've converted the image to an SSTV audio file, put effects on that file, then converted it back into an image.
its sad that so many musicians have to go through this... truly heartbreaking
very devastating stuff people
you mean an analog VFX phase?
as a musician myself, i found it very difficult to use guitar pedals, this would happen to me, but i learnt to get used to it to achieve *tone*
@@ScratchdHelp welcome to the chat Tone Ranger
Now do big muff
This is how it looks when you stare at the same spot of the room without blink for too long.
@@macario1885 i used to do that when i was a kid. Would stare a spot in the room until the rest of my vision started to brown-out. For some reason always had to move my eyes before too long.
did the same thing but with popcorn ceilings. peripheral vision darkens into static
Toki ?
Ah yeah i do this so often, with bathroom tiles and stuff it's like getting high but without the drugs?
Lol
Whilst having a bad vibe on 2CI
Should not have clicked on this halfway through an acid trip
Hope you learned a lot
Correct, you should have done it at the start 🤣
Same boat, clicked on this in the middle of a shroom trip lol
good stuff tho
It was meant to happen
Life been feeling like this for about 2 years
@@aLtee sometimes that’s life. Hope it gets better
Same, but longer
Yeah fr
more like since Rome fell
Interesting results. I also found out you can run video composite signals through (for some reason only) digital multi-fx pedals and it'll affect the video too. Vibrato makes the image wiggle, downsampling broke the video down into squares, delay made horizontal copies. It was really neat. Then the Atari classic I was using for the video signal caught fire (accidentally gave it AC power)
Dude that sounds immense. Would love to see footage
this sounds like an unholy demon got trapped within a tv and took on the form of a cat, sentenced to eternal damnation
more like eternal jam station my guy
correction, cats are already demons
yea it just sounds like a modem or fax machine
@@ShadowZero27 and clouds just look like clouds
@paxson2000 then what's that cloud i saw one time that looked like a slug jumping over a baguette?
this new analogue horror channel is great
turning images into sstv signals then processing them through guitar effect modules is GENIUS!!!
@@danielodors i was having such an awesome time experimenting with it. Thanks for the nice comment! Will try and keep up making creative content
This does a better job at being uncanny and uncomfortable than any horror webseries ive seen this year.
@@donutholebandit6212 yo thank you. I was just having a fun experiment, but i’m glad it’s being appreciated by horror fans. Thanks for watching
Bro, this rips. Fun effects and unholy screams upon the cat.
that is utmost praise. thanks for watching traveller
You can hear the sounds of this cat screaming in agony, distorted and stuck in time, bound to be replayed over and over. One can only imagine the transgressions made to get him there...
This video was his consecration. He has been able to finally transcend this mortal plane
"I still have nightmares about that cat."
"What cat?"
@@sockthustra8749 Thank you for the Half-Life reference.
awesome concept for getting varying levels of distortion in digital artworks or maybe as a rendering shader for games. I love the reverb and shallow water results
Yeah it is a cool concept and also really fun way to experiment with image processing. I appreciate you watching and the comment!
You can do something sort of similar by forcing Audacity to open images and applying effects. Obviously you don't get the immediate feedback, having to export and open the image to see the alteration, but it's easy and free.
Very cool. Around I decade ago, I played around with something kinda similar. I have a VisiTel. It's a little device that lets you send still pictures over a phone line. I used to record the signal to tape, and alter the tape speed and volume to mess with skewing and contrast. I think maybe I ran it through a delay pedal once. It was only black and white though, and very low resolution.
I've always been fascinated with SSTV. I hope to play around with it at some point.
That sounds like a beautiful technique. And it sounds like VisiTel works in a similar way to SSTV, did the pictures load from the top down?
There are greats apps for experimenting with SSTV, i downloaded a $4 one called CQ SSTV and that’s what i used to create these images
guys chill tf out
No.
Well this is just cool as hell
now we just gotta figure out how to combine it with feedback loops!
Literally what I just said to myself (:
So ...not very cool at all..?
It reminds me of datamoshing using audacity execpt your using analog digital equipment rather than a software to do all this! Its incredible to see, now the question is... What would happen if you recorded a video and put it through a guitar pedal? Still a really cool thing to see how this works!
@adehanft actually has a video showing how to create animations with a similar process! So yeah, possible in a way!!
People: AI Cant have dreams
AI dreams:
🤘Todd rules.
He’s a great dude
Gotta love a cat with a people name. My cat’s name is Tiffany. He’s also a great dude.
reminds me of that growing little cricket sound that you hear or feel when you are "entering" on an aya trip. It's so fast it feels like a little motor spinning inside your head. The fastest you hear the craziest you see.
@@Will-li7ux must be the ancient spirits trying to communicate through SSTV!!
Her: What sort of music do you listen to?
Me: Processing Images Through Guitar Effects Pedals
@@jpeg1991 Now That’s What (italicized)I Call Music
If you like these kinds of sounds maybe get into shortwave radio, you'll hear lots more and who knows maybe you can crack the code? (its likely just some monitoring station for a city owned water pump tho)
As a ham radio operator and synth enthusiast, you have made my day.
Wow this is awesome in so many ways..!
I tried data sonification in Audacity but your results are much better!
I'd just love a tutorial so much..!
Thanks for sharing this great experiment!
Thanks for the high praise! And i will try and get a tutorial up soon.
@@paxson2000 Pretty please! A tutorial would be amazing! I subscribed to get notified whenever it comes out.
Heeey that’s what I was going to say. I’ve made a lot of pics and a couple videos using Audacity, but this is like an even better analog version.
@@aldo_pinheiro thanks for subscribing! excited to make a how to video. Will try and get that done on my next day off of work
@@scottishcheese13 thanks for checking out the video! I’ve never messed around with data sonification in Audacity before
Todd yawning into oblivion is an interesting thing to witness.
rip Todd
This made me so uneasy. I was half-specting a screamer at the end and I got startled by that wobbly thing
Dang i should do a jump scare video. Sorry leaving you hanging without a screamer at the end
@@paxson2000 No no, that's not what I meant. I don't like being jumpscared, it feels awful. It would be so mean if you actually did that.
@@paxson2000 you should
@@paxson2000if you do that I'm reporting your channel for promoting terrorism.
Such an interesting idea. Excellent work.
Thank you Engine Demon
I've been waiting for someone to do this for so long. Thanks
the prophecy has been foretold!
🙏🙏🙏
idk why i was recommended this but this is so sick
glad the algorithm got you here. and thank you dude
0:54 a male face 😨
Real
Now I'm slightly curious if something similar could be done with a standard NTSC/PAL signal
the cat gets more scary the more I look at it. awesome
😸
This is just incredibly good! What an amazing concept - the results are pretty special too
It was mind blowing to discover i could turn pictures into audio. And once i loaded into my DAW and threw some effects on it and saw the results i was stoked on the results. That made me want to run them through guitar pedals. If you have any eurorack modules that process sound in cool ways you should try it!!!
@@paxson2000i’m super excited to try this with my eurorack setup, gonna try and do research on my own but the tutorial would be amazing if you get around to it!!
@@paxson2000did you not have any problems with the files header?
@@clef-is-futile most definitely. Will try and get that done on my next day off work. Looking forward to whatever you cook up!