I use a lot of cheap pedals and secondhand multi-effects from the 80s and 90s (I don't usually pay more than £15 for them) with cheap tablehooter type keys, synths and other sound sources not least as I have little spare money and I actually like the limitations that imposes, it forces one to be much more creative. I really liked the Tera Echo but could not afford it but I found that secondhand Boss GT 001 can be got on Ebay for around £100 pounds and has most of the classic Boss pedals in it along with the newer ones like the Tera Echo; the Boss Multi Overtone etc. an absolute steal! But can I suggest a follow up video as you have barely scrapped the surface of this subject as you have used the pedals like most guitarists ie. serially. There is so much more complex audio ground to cover when you start stacking pedals both in series and in parallel, A/BY pedals are really useful with this and can also give you stereo effects from mono sources.
You should look into the Empress ZOIA! I use that as a send effect on all my hardware synths and it's insanely versatile for building complex ambient sounds.
I second the Zoia, although with a caveat that it's basically a modular synth in a box so it can be odd to fit into a chain rather than being an instrument itself.
Been looking in to getting the Levitate for my microfreak, every vid I was pulling up was with guitars of course. Decided to search “Sonicake Levitate Synth” and your vid was first on the results, open it up and here you are with your MF. Thanks for this.
Haha perfect coincidence! As I was going to make a video with pedal effect, I thought the microfreak was the perfect choice. It's an amazing synth, but has zero effect, so it combines really well.
I love using effect pedals with synths. 🙂 Boss Space Echo is really fun - tape delay and spring reverb. As a utiliitarian point on noise: different pedals are different levels of noisy, and you do need to optimize for that. I'm not familiar with Donner, but I've had good luck with Empress effects (including the Zoia), Strymon, and Boss for maintaining a low noise floor. Noise clamps/gates can automate the process of killing signal between pedals when nothing is playing, too. Last, just a plug for my personal favorite gizmo in ages, the DF Audio Minibay lets you reorganize pedals and other gear with eurorack patch cables, it's made figuring out the noise issue and finding interesting combinations a delightful exercise. I actually ended up getting 3 of them and running my entire studio through them.
Thanks for the recommendations :o I have to look up the zoia as everybody seem to recommend it. I wish I had a noise gate as well. I was suppose to receive one, but the delivery got stolen...
I use a lot of cheap pedals and secondhand multi-effects from the 80s and 90s (I don't usually pay more than £15 for them) with cheap tablehooter type keys, synths and other sound sources not least as I have little spare money and I actually like the limitations that imposes, it forces one to be much more creative. I really liked the Tera Echo but could not afford it but I found that secondhand Boss GT 001 can be got on Ebay for around £100 pounds and has most of the classic Boss pedals in it along with the newer ones like the Tera Echo; the Boss Multi Overtone etc. an absolute steal!
But can I suggest a follow up video as you have barely scrapped the surface of this subject as you have used the pedals like most guitarists ie. serially. There is so much more complex audio ground to cover when you start stacking pedals both in series and in parallel, A/BY pedals are really useful with this and can also give you stereo effects from mono sources.
You should look into the Empress ZOIA! I use that as a send effect on all my hardware synths and it's insanely versatile for building complex ambient sounds.
I second the Zoia, although with a caveat that it's basically a modular synth in a box so it can be odd to fit into a chain rather than being an instrument itself.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check it out :)
5:42 sounds like something out of a 2003 TMNT episode...
Now that you said it... x)
Been looking in to getting the Levitate for my microfreak, every vid I was pulling up was with guitars of course. Decided to search “Sonicake Levitate Synth” and your vid was first on the results, open it up and here you are with your MF. Thanks for this.
Haha perfect coincidence! As I was going to make a video with pedal effect, I thought the microfreak was the perfect choice. It's an amazing synth, but has zero effect, so it combines really well.
What are you using to split the signal into the two chains?
This is made with the ABY pedal (the first pedal of the chain)
That's cool
I love using effect pedals with synths. 🙂 Boss Space Echo is really fun - tape delay and spring reverb.
As a utiliitarian point on noise: different pedals are different levels of noisy, and you do need to optimize for that. I'm not familiar with Donner, but I've had good luck with Empress effects (including the Zoia), Strymon, and Boss for maintaining a low noise floor. Noise clamps/gates can automate the process of killing signal between pedals when nothing is playing, too.
Last, just a plug for my personal favorite gizmo in ages, the DF Audio Minibay lets you reorganize pedals and other gear with eurorack patch cables, it's made figuring out the noise issue and finding interesting combinations a delightful exercise. I actually ended up getting 3 of them and running my entire studio through them.
Thanks for the recommendations :o I have to look up the zoia as everybody seem to recommend it.
I wish I had a noise gate as well. I was suppose to receive one, but the delivery got stolen...
Microfreak for the Win 👍
Brilliant
TOP !
This my favourite way to roll
This was really fun to have all these knobs to turn :p
the noise level could be fixed by a noise gate, it works for my synth
I was supposed to have a noise gate and an octaver pedal to add to the chain, but it got stolen in the mail