Pedalboards are kinda dumb...
Вставка
- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- For an explanation how this video came to be check out: • I did a little experim...
This video does not represent my full opinion on the topic. I deliberately uploaded my opinion in two polarized videos to see how they'd do on UA-cam. Seems like negativity generates a lot more reach than positivity.
Halfway through this…I realized…”why the FAHQ am I watching this crap?!?” To each their own, use whatever inspires you. People play music for all sorts of reasons- not only to play shows/make records/live THAT life. I used to and now I make music pretty much solely for mental health reasons and pedals are the shit for that.
social media is generally crappy and we are addicted avoiding making music. go back to the early days or rock and we didnt have a DAW or pedals just an amp and speaker and a tape machine to make your music. so much more simpler and less distracting
Seems like you watched the wrong video. I have a video about how amazing pedals are as well. It's linked at the start of the video.
This video series is an experiment to see if negative or positive content gathers more attention. I made two videos in parallel, released within the same minute, covering an extremely polarized side of the gear debate.
Not to my surprise at all the negative video is gathering momentum 😶
As a person with a fully analog pedalboard, and also an multi fx unit, you are absolutely right. For sessions and jamming, pedals are almost better anytime for quickly curating sounds. But for gigs, multifx for reliability!
All that is required these days is a Macbook with a decent amp sim (i.e. Neural DSP plugin) and a wireless MIDI footswitcher.
Sounds like someone who’s never gigged before. Like ever.
Only as a drummer. But I've experienced the issues second hand.
I do see your point, but I think it would be better recepted if you talked about it/even if you retitled it as “Reasons why you may not want to use pedals” If you love something (which you surely love pedals if youve bought so many) its not stupid. Find a pedal order and settings that work, get some George L cables so you can ensure connection points yourself, isolated power supply etc. I mean if you trust and know your gear, you shouldn’t have any issues. Understand pedal response to changes or just lock in settings with duct tape or peacepoti knobs. Idk man I think theres workarounds for all of these issues. Theres something special about each individual pedals character, and the ability to inspire yourself and shape your tone cannot be replaced.
Sorry, this is a pretty poorly thought out video and does't seem to be based on experience or logic.
Pedalboards exist to organise a signal chain of pedals that the player requires that allows for faster setup & teardown at gigs. It's very easy to set levels and EQ, the knobs are there in front of you and it's also why soundcheck exists. It seems like you've never paid a gig, even a small venue does them. It makes no difference to any decent FOH engineer what you use, plus a multi-effects doesn't automatically solve any level & EQ issues, they can actually be worse with presets.
The vast majority of gigging musicians are not buying pedals to impress people, it's for the sounds they require for their gigs. You don't invest in a pedalboard, you're investing in the pedals. The size of your pedalboard has no correlation with the success of your band.
Regarding technical issues, individual pedals are easy to swap out and the show goes on, if a multi-effects goes and that your only device for your sounds, that's the show down the drain. You need backups regardless of what gear you use.
More complexity requires more practise, simple as that. So if somebody is using a switching system, there'll be a reason for that and they'll know what they are doing with it, they aren't turning up to a gig whilst reading the manual.
Don't repeat what you read on forums as fact, get out there and experience it for yourself.
fingers arent gonna fix ur tone if ur playing thru a shit speaker