Devin Townsend - Building a Pedalboard
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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We met up with the inimitable Devin Townsend at winter NAMM 2019 to get his take on a compact yet comprehensive pedalboard.
Be sure to check out Devin's brand new album "Empath" - open.spotify.c...
Dev is desperately trying NOT to say "My Ocean Machine does all this and more in just one pedal!"
😆
Just,.finally got one. 😀
I like how Lars is just staring at those pedals, wanting to tweak the shit out of those knobs...
Its like Dev is standing over a fresh carcass, Lars is likely to get his fingers bit.
My dad takes the truss rod out of my guitars so we don't have to worry about it
You can see Lars itching to get his hands on the knobs and Dev giving him the side-eye saying "DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH ANYTHING!!"
„Tore you cut your hair!“ Sorry, but that was really funny! Devin is such funny and smart guy!
Monsieur Safari inside joke?
TC should release a "Don't tap my tempo!" T-Shirt with Flashback on it :D
I would wear it :)
Great idea!
@@tcelectronic And maybe, if there is more "material" like this quote (but i bet Devin has to be the most prolific at this) a whole series of t-shirts with different pedals and quotes from guitarists on TC videos like this and tone print creation ones :D
Devin is a legend. Hearing him explain his thought process as he arranged the pedals was fantastic. Pedal boards are such a personal thing and people rarely agree with the layout.
Could never ever get bored of Devin himself, or his playing! And that sweep at 21:28 wtf?!?!?!
Thank you to TC and Devin for providing us a chance to not only get a glimpse into the head space needed to creating tones like this, but also for us to have the gear to do it. Not all of us have the funds to pursue our dream tones so it goes a long way. All the best!
Meeting Devin in Tampa and getting to tell him he was the best musician in the entire club (I won’t name the other bands out of respect for them and their fans but SYL was one of the opening bands at that show) and him thanking me and talking to me as if he knew me like an old friend would was surreal and made me feel at ease and not awkward at all. Just being in the same club/room with him made me a better musician and talking to him very briefly just totally made my night.
@MorbidManMusic Definitely a fan, have been for nearly 20 years. I met a lot of musicians that were really nice though that would talk to you like an old friend such as Henry Rollins, Tim Yeung and Joey Z. but yeah I look up to Devin more than them as a musician. Devin is up there with Steven Wilson imo, too bad I didn't like Steven Wilson's newest album though.
@MorbidManMusic There's nothing wrong with being a fanboy when said fanboy is respectful and kind. Do you even listen to what Devin's albums are about?
I just added the Spark pedal to my setup and I love it, Gain all the way down, Volume all the way up and toggle switch on Clean. It gives a huge clean boost to all three channels on my 50 watt EVH 5150 III EL34 and it doesn’t color my tone at all and makes the clean channel sound so big and full. One of the best pedals I’ve ever bought. I never turn it off, without it my clean channel sounds thin to me now.
yeah!
I love creating and trying new sounds, combinations of effects, it's amazing
Great selection Devin! The brainwaves is amazing! You totally nailed it with those dirty sounds 😍
This is awesome. Devin is such a talent.
I swear Devin's pedalboard videos are the best. Always makes me laugh. Lmao
Damn, that's a sweet setup. Gets you a nice Devin sound :)
amazing playing and creativity
Sweet!! Devin is the man!
Very nice board !
He's actually ridiculous, love his sound
14:06 The part that you want to see. Another classic Devy and TC Electronics moment.
Oh how one can hope
First rule of Devin tech, don't touch the knobs man.
Loved that
This was really interesting.
Devin knows what's up! Good guy!
Fingers crossed for this one.
Daaaaang this was kinda awesome to watch
Can't wait to try out this pedalboard! :)
I love this and I need it :)
You're definitely not gonna wake the baby with volume levels set like you got there!
Awesome!
Love getting this full breakdown on Dev's setup!
Very nice pedalboard! Add one Vortex or Helix in there and get double fun!
wanted to try so many of these pedals for ages
Awesome stuff!
The bulk of my pedal board is TC Electronic, true bypass and toneprint technology makes them equal or superior to most boutique pedals at half the price or less. I have quite a few TC Electronic pedals but I still have a list of other TC Electronic pedals I want to add to my chain. The high end quality and amazing versatility of these pedals at a very reasonable price makes them my default choice for almost every effect. I had a pedal chain (by a very popular brand) before that quite frankly ruined my guitar tone and turned me off of pedals for awhile. Then discovering how transparent TC Electronic pedals are and don’t drain or color my tone whatsoever was like a revelation to me. TC Electronic restored my faith in effect pedals and now I’m addicted to collecting them and experimenting with them in my effects loop and in front of my amp. I never thought pedals could be so transparent after my initial bad experience with that popular brand. TC Electronic is the standard all pedals should be compared to. You’ll be hard pressed to find a pedal that can compete with the quality and price point of TC Electronic products, their pedals are the overall best value of any pedals I’ve ever encountered and that’s even including the G System if you want to just buy one big pedal system that has the all in one thing going for it.
Are you sure your real name isn’t Thomas Christian Electronic? (I jest)
@@tompoynton I'd take that name for a sponsorship and free pedals!!
Sounds fantastic
Devin is hilarious. I’ve also never thought to put my trem before the gain stages.
Yes!
What a great board!
Awesome video!
Thanks guys
LET'S ROCK
Perfect board
"more a wobbly effect than a stutter" lol I love DT
Wish I may, wish I might, when I wish upon a...guitar tonight!!! Or that badass pedal board!!!
21:25 Holy shit A440T makes Dev's arpeggios sound amazing!!
This pedalboard is sweet!!!
Competition entered!
And thus the scissor saga was born
Good video!
This is very cool! Emailed ...let awesome things happen!
Oh my... what pedalboard!
There were 2 interesting choices made if you look at the pedal order.
first: Boost into drive as a solo boost. This leads just to more gain which is a bit of tweaking to get not too much gain.
second: Tremolo into compressor. The Trem makes the signal louder and wuieter in a periodic way. The compressor is trying to even out the signal. so i would've thought the comp is eliminating the trm effect to some degree and is producing a bit more noise when making the quieter parts louder. It seems to work but its soth i woul have never tried myself
Nice!!
Nifty bit of learning to be had here
Really love that new pitch shifter pedal. It sounds absolutely stupid yet it can create both Steve Vai and Devin's Ziltoid things and sound professional doing them.
Somehow TC has the ability to bring out silly effects and make them sound musical and professional.
Heres hoping a get a new pedal board bois
Very nice!
Empath 2: Devy tries out a pitch pedal.
SWEET !!!!
oh yop interview guy touching the knobs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cool stuff! :D
Done!
oh shit another episode with devin hahaha yes.
My only question is: Won't compression after the trem will lessen the tremelo effect?
Great video!
Compression affects the overall volume. So as long as the trem doesn't go over the threshold it won't be affected
yes it will, in a good way if you set it right. dude below has no idea how compression works. compression reduces the peak to average ratio of a signal and its makeup gain brings it back up. the trem is amplitude modulation with an LFO, which has a certain dynamic range. the dynamic range is reduced by compressing the AM'd signal.
tldr; compressing a tremolo signal will affect its depth
Awesome
awesome!
OK. I am in! :)
Alright! Entered!
I’m in. A board that is something different than all other boards you see people using
Love TC pedals, specially my Mojo Mojo 😍
Trem before compressor. Wow. Would need a major rewrite of my board to do that... interesting.
Interesting!
Devy's in standard 0_o and sounding lush
I know!! I've never heard him in standard and he says he can't play that way! I only wish I could play in standard as "badly" as he does! He makes the guitar sing just by looking at it 😂
Nice!
Complex...gotta record this shit
"Dot tap my tempo"
Yass
This pedal board is ridiculous and looks like a creator of joy. WANT
Tc really needs to release some better distortions pedals.
Devin ftw
Nice
Tasty board 👍🏻
Nice...
Excellent pedalboard @tcelectronic and @devintownsend
18:34 is what you came for!
Close but I really was expecting them to simultaneously try fitting into a single pair of pants. Maybe next time :(
nice!
Ooooooweeeee!
wow
Harley Benton board...:’D
Right!? Everyone knows the tone is in the board
i'm yet to hear the mojomojo and think wow
Yewww
Honestly the tc guy is not a good host! He makes me nervous, cant imagine workin with this guy for a such thing ..
Dev is great as usual 🤘🏼❤️
I love how at 14:25 he goes full Ziltoid...
I already have Devin's haircut, why not his pedal board?
😄
Nice to see a guitar tone demo without someone playing jazz licks. ;-)
YESsssssssssss
Not bad, but is there any chance TC is going to get back into making high-end rack gear? I swear by the G-System in my rig, and the G-Force and G-Major units are legendary, but they are getting old and somewhat impractical. I'd love to see a modern take on a high-end rack multi-fx from TC!
Maybe!
@@tcelectronic I'm crossing my fingers!
Sorry bro, you'll never be working with Devy again.
I think we all know that this would never really work for Dev except maybe a clinic or something.