Thanks everyone for watching this! I apologize it is a little long, next time I'll need to plan more. I uploaded the sound examples as a separate unlisted video you can find at the end screen or here: ua-cam.com/video/3aVQDkO5Lp4/v-deo.html I also cut a section that talked through the order of the chain because it got to be too long. Here's the final order Polytune -> Trigonaut -> Ugly Twin -> DRV -> Buzzz -> Tensor -> In Limbo III -> Slowly Melting -> Art Van Delay -> Fathom -> Longsword V3
What a great vid! There is a lot about putting the physical pedalboard together, but hardly any about how to choose the pedals that go on your board. You should do more of that. Cool music too! Cheers
@@collectoremitter you could start with shoegaze, then go with noise/punk rock, maybe then to something for synths (the basics one, then to something like Animal Collective for example)
This was a really great video, man! I don't think it's too long, quite the opposite! I appreciate the fact, that you took your time explaining every step!
Thanks for doing this. Was fun to watch. I was curious though about some of the placement choices, in particular the Tensor. Any chance of an addendum video with some additional insights? I never like to copy what others are doing, but I’m always interested in different angles of thinking. Thanks again.
Thank you dude! I’m glad you enjoyed it. I ended up cutting the part where I explained the placement because it dragged on for a while and ultimately the board is simple (dirt -> delay -> reverb -> Longsword) when you take out the Tensor and Slowly Melting. The Slowly Melting I put wherever made the cabling easiest because it’s mostly for noise, and kinda the same with the Tensor. I like a delay before the Tensor but also like delay and reverb after it. Ideally I’d have it between the two delays, but for this band I’m mostly doing stutter sounds with the momentary loop (rec mode), so placement wasn’t a huge deal. Maybe I’ll make a video with the Tensor in different spots in a chain - before dirt, after reverb, after modulation, etc to compare how it could be used
collector//emitter that would be awesome if you did a video on the Tensor and it’s placement. I have mine running before delay, reverb, and tremolo now, but up to a few days ago it was dead last. I was even talking to someone at Red Panda who wasn’t sure whether he liked it before or after reverb. It’s an interesting pedal with so many possibilities that it makes it hard to nail down the “right” spot for it. Pedal placement can be so much fun (at times. Haha).
I agree. I would like to see some Tensor exploration. Mine is first in the chain at the moment. I didn’t think dirt going into the Tensor was working well.
Start with a compressor end with a pre amp or amp sim, Octaver or filter before everything then EQ then fuz or distortion before modulation, modulation before delay, add boosts wherever you want and then reverb but you can change most the rules.
Haha, I know it would take a long time, but I'm so curious to know what you're saying about each one and it's placement each time you point to them during the sped up part.
Haha, I thought someone might notice that! I sped it up because I really wasn’t saying much that was helpful, but if I do this again with a smaller board I can get more into that
this is seriously my favorite video you’ve posted and i watch all your stuff probably watched it like 10 times. would love to see more of this currently :)
Would totally watch videos like this. You've got an awesome, super soothing voice btw. I'd like to see something like a budget-friendly mini board. Maybe something with pedals that can't be more than 100-150 bucks.
Old video, but great! Suggestion (if this is still optional): what about a mini pedalboard where you can add some synth-like Nick Cave vibes, combined with the cold reverb Sigur Ros style, and a little hardcore fuzz kinda like the band Low?
Would love to see miniboard builds. Don’t know about genre, because it could be hard to not make it cliché. Maybe show off interesting combinations to achieve specific sounds? Sth like lofi Ambient (modulated delay, grainy reverb, etc), stacking overdrives, ampless setup, stereo wet/dry ... just some ideas.
It's almost left to right on the bottom row then left to right on the top, with the exception of the tuner and Triognaut being at the very beginning. Here's the whole chain: Polytune -> Trigonaut -> Ugly Twin -> DRV -> Buzzz -> Tensor -> In Limbo III -> Slowly Melting -> Art Van Delay -> Fathom -> Longsword V3
It is wild to me that some people play without a compressor. Honestly mad props to you for that. I've come to crutch them more than I should lol. Loved this walkthrough of your thought process!
I’d like to see you make a mini board with. 4-5 pedals, that will work well on its own for the basics, but will also plug into a larger board with 10 or so more pedals on it. Little board for grab and go, then the big two part mothership for sonic exploration / wackiness
Yep, more of this please. Really interesting to see how others put their boards together, how they stack things, running order, different combos, power supplies, etc. Love all your videos man. Thank you for sharing.
Yo. I freakin' loved this! Please, please do more. I loved listening to you explain each and every step. Beginner to more advanced, it doesn't matter, you had something for everyone in the video.
Thank you so much! 😄 I really want to do more videos like this but I got swamped with awesome pedals to demo. Hopefully I’ll have something similar ready soon
This is something I’d love to do! I need to ask around and see if any of my friends have amps they can lend me. It could be cool to do a video comparing pedals into a Fender, Marshall, Orange, and maybe something else
Liked, subbed, want to see more. My suggestion: True Bypass Loop Switchers, SIS cables, power supplies and (this is perhaps relevant for a small board) - a couple of pedals with MIDI capabilities, with a small controller unlocking many different sounds (eg: Line 6 M5, Source Audio One Series pedals+Neuro Hub, etc). Thanks. I'm a 'two fuzz, two delay" kinda guy myself. Like you, I also love all my children and find it hard to choose. For lush modded reverb, I either use my Pedal Projects Marbleverb with a NU>X Mod Core in the pedal's FX loop, or my mighty Specular Tempus 3. If I wanna get crazy, I add a Boss Tera Echo to either of those setups.
Ooh, an all MIDI board is something I’ve been wanting to do! I’ll save that for another video like this. And I’ve heard great things about the Marbleverb, but I never realized it had an fx loop. I’ll probably have to get one now!
It is after all the dirt and before the delay/reverb/slowly melting/longsword. I actually recorded the process of figuring out the order and it would’ve pushed this video to almost 30 minutes so I decided to cut it.
Shoegaze is a great idea! And good tip about the music. I didn’t really think about that part until I was editing and probably could’ve put more thought into it or made a new track for it
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Thanks everyone for watching this! I apologize it is a little long, next time I'll need to plan more. I uploaded the sound examples as a separate unlisted video you can find at the end screen or here: ua-cam.com/video/3aVQDkO5Lp4/v-deo.html
I also cut a section that talked through the order of the chain because it got to be too long. Here's the final order
Polytune -> Trigonaut -> Ugly Twin -> DRV -> Buzzz -> Tensor -> In Limbo III -> Slowly Melting -> Art Van Delay -> Fathom -> Longsword V3
What a great vid! There is a lot about putting the physical pedalboard together, but hardly any about how to choose the pedals that go on your board. You should do more of that. Cool music too! Cheers
DUDE, REALLY, AFTER ALL THAT TIME PUTTING IT TOGETHER YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PLAY IT FOR US! :/
The longer the better!
That "genre miniboard" could be so useful, Ian, please!!!!
What genre do you think? so far people have suggested ambient and shoegaze
collector//emitter honestly any genre would be cool. I’m more interested in the process than the end result personally.
@@collectoremitter you could start with shoegaze, then go with noise/punk rock, maybe then to something for synths (the basics one, then to something like Animal Collective for example)
Post-Punk mini board? >:^))
This is a great idea!
that would be amazing!
This was a really great video, man! I don't think it's too long, quite the opposite! I appreciate the fact, that you took your time explaining every step!
I really appreciate it! I’m glad people are getting something out of this 😄
Thanks for sharing this with us! Nice to see your process. I have an 11-pedal board at moment.
We need more of similar content! Maybe small board for experimental creative process
Can we get another video like this soon please?
Everyone always asks for me to do another of these, I'll try to soon!
Besides, I needed this video too, man, thank you. Is all clear now to me
I’m really glad you liked it man!
Thanks for doing this. Was fun to watch. I was curious though about some of the placement choices, in particular the Tensor. Any chance of an addendum video with some additional insights? I never like to copy what others are doing, but I’m always interested in different angles of thinking. Thanks again.
Thank you dude! I’m glad you enjoyed it. I ended up cutting the part where I explained the placement because it dragged on for a while and ultimately the board is simple (dirt -> delay -> reverb -> Longsword) when you take out the Tensor and Slowly Melting. The Slowly Melting I put wherever made the cabling easiest because it’s mostly for noise, and kinda the same with the Tensor. I like a delay before the Tensor but also like delay and reverb after it. Ideally I’d have it between the two delays, but for this band I’m mostly doing stutter sounds with the momentary loop (rec mode), so placement wasn’t a huge deal. Maybe I’ll make a video with the Tensor in different spots in a chain - before dirt, after reverb, after modulation, etc to compare how it could be used
collector//emitter that would be awesome if you did a video on the Tensor and it’s placement. I have mine running before delay, reverb, and tremolo now, but up to a few days ago it was dead last. I was even talking to someone at Red Panda who wasn’t sure whether he liked it before or after reverb. It’s an interesting pedal with so many possibilities that it makes it hard to nail down the “right” spot for it. Pedal placement can be so much fun (at times. Haha).
I agree. I would like to see some Tensor exploration. Mine is first in the chain at the moment. I didn’t think dirt going into the Tensor was working well.
Start with a compressor end with a pre amp or amp sim, Octaver or filter before everything then EQ then fuz or distortion before modulation, modulation before delay, add boosts wherever you want and then reverb but you can change most the rules.
Haha, I know it would take a long time, but I'm so curious to know what you're saying about each one and it's placement each time you point to them during the sped up part.
Haha, I thought someone might notice that! I sped it up because I really wasn’t saying much that was helpful, but if I do this again with a smaller board I can get more into that
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Excellent video. What's the soundtrack sound made of (pedals, signal chain)?
wow i loved this video
Thank you 🥰
Is your band on Spotify
Not yet - we’re currently finishing up our first ep and should be up on Spotify in a few months
What is your band call,ed
We’re called Bot Garden
I was going to make a joke, but then you almost put an El Cap on there,,,
HARSH NOISE MINI BOARDD!
Voice reveal?
And handwriting reveal?
This is like an ASMR pedalboard video. So relaxing.
Thanks man, I really appreciate it!
My exact thoughts.
I want to see more videos like this can you do a basic/beginners ambient board what essential fx you will have
This is an awesome idea! Thanks 😄
this is seriously my favorite video you’ve posted and i watch all your stuff probably watched it like 10 times. would love to see more of this currently :)
Would totally watch videos like this. You've got an awesome, super soothing voice btw. I'd like to see something like a budget-friendly mini board. Maybe something with pedals that can't be more than 100-150 bucks.
Thank you! A budget board is a great idea! I’m already thinking of what the best setup could be.
lol. "budget"
Old video, but great! Suggestion (if this is still optional): what about a mini pedalboard where you can add some synth-like Nick Cave vibes, combined with the cold reverb Sigur Ros style, and a little hardcore fuzz kinda like the band Low?
Would love to see miniboard builds. Don’t know about genre, because it could be hard to not make it cliché. Maybe show off interesting combinations to achieve specific sounds? Sth like lofi Ambient (modulated delay, grainy reverb, etc), stacking overdrives, ampless setup, stereo wet/dry ... just some ideas.
Nice video and lesson.
Could you update It ?
Thx.
You write on grid squares. I like you already…
you should do the is again!!!
please do more boards ! awesome vid
Please do more
What's your signal chain here? Does it just go right to left?
It's almost left to right on the bottom row then left to right on the top, with the exception of the tuner and Triognaut being at the very beginning. Here's the whole chain: Polytune -> Trigonaut -> Ugly Twin -> DRV -> Buzzz -> Tensor -> In Limbo III -> Slowly Melting -> Art Van Delay -> Fathom -> Longsword V3
It is wild to me that some people play without a compressor. Honestly mad props to you for that. I've come to crutch them more than I should lol. Loved this walkthrough of your thought process!
I’d like to see you make a mini board with. 4-5 pedals, that will work well on its own for the basics, but will also plug into a larger board with 10 or so more pedals on it. Little board for grab and go, then the big two part mothership for sonic exploration / wackiness
Yep, more of this please. Really interesting to see how others put their boards together, how they stack things, running order, different combos, power supplies, etc. Love all your videos man. Thank you for sharing.
Whenever I'm feeling overwhelmed, I just come back to this video and unrustle my jimmies.
this video brings me an indescribable comfort and i return to it often
Yo. I freakin' loved this! Please, please do more. I loved listening to you explain each and every step. Beginner to more advanced, it doesn't matter, you had something for everyone in the video.
Thank you so much! 😄 I really want to do more videos like this but I got swamped with awesome pedals to demo. Hopefully I’ll have something similar ready soon
Merry Christmas forever
Hot damn that's a great board! I really want to try out a longsword in person at some point.
Thanks! And the Longsword is incredible, hopefully you get a chance to try one at some point
You should try different tube amps and see how it changes things
This is something I’d love to do! I need to ask around and see if any of my friends have amps they can lend me. It could be cool to do a video comparing pedals into a Fender, Marshall, Orange, and maybe something else
Liked, subbed, want to see more.
My suggestion: True Bypass Loop Switchers, SIS cables, power supplies and (this is perhaps relevant for a small board) - a couple of pedals with MIDI capabilities, with a small controller unlocking many different sounds (eg: Line 6 M5, Source Audio One Series pedals+Neuro Hub, etc).
Thanks. I'm a 'two fuzz, two delay" kinda guy myself.
Like you, I also love all my children and find it hard to choose. For lush modded reverb, I either use my Pedal Projects Marbleverb with a NU>X Mod Core in the pedal's FX loop, or my mighty Specular Tempus 3. If I wanna get crazy, I add a Boss Tera Echo to either of those setups.
Ooh, an all MIDI board is something I’ve been wanting to do! I’ll save that for another video like this. And I’ve heard great things about the Marbleverb, but I never realized it had an fx loop. I’ll probably have to get one now!
@@collectoremitter It's great!
Where did you put the Tensor in the chain dude ?
It is after all the dirt and before the delay/reverb/slowly melting/longsword. I actually recorded the process of figuring out the order and it would’ve pushed this video to almost 30 minutes so I decided to cut it.
Liked before the ad even ended.
You’re a true hero
Definitely share more of those thought process videos! Great!
Thanks! I’m really glad you liked it :)
Any suggestions for a theme or genre for a mini board for the next video like this?
I‘m into shoegaze stuff... so what about that?
You have a great voice! Maybe consider to use a little less relaxing background music next time?! 😉
Shoegaze is a great idea! And good tip about the music. I didn’t really think about that part until I was editing and probably could’ve put more thought into it or made a new track for it
You have a ton of pedals. I have a ton of pedals. I like your music. And yet I don't have a single pedal seen in this video.