I'll say Fairfield's products really seem to capture that old lo-fi radio feel. I've been watching the Shallow Water and the Maude pedals and I'm very impressed with the unique space they fill in these otherwise well traveled effects. Thanks Jorb :)
I’ve had to grab Meet Maude / Shallow Water / Randy’s Revenge & Roger That. Both together-ed and apart they can lay the ground for some very aesthetically pleasing places to play around in.
Gosh, that's beautiful. 6:30 ish took me back to the ways music and voice would distort in the car every time going under a bridge. And 7:35 ish took me back to every VHS tape with dodgy tracking, every time the VHS hifi track (which is an FM encoding) would pop in. Man, I hadn't realised how much I missed that weird fizz you'd get on poorly-tuned FM. I suppose this pedal concept being fairly new is similar to how there's that "Lossy" pedal from Chase Bliss now. At the time, 20 years ago, these were just annoyances when your radio wasn't working right or compromises to make MP3 players work. People didn't use them artistically, because they only thought of them as annoyances. You also maybe don't want to risk listeners thinking something went wrong with their equipment while it's still a common risk, but now we can safely write them off as artistic choices because digital stuff simply doesn't act like that when it goes wrong. I guess that tracks with deliberately exaggerated tape wobble, or vinyl clicks/pops, becoming an increasingly popular effect over the course of the 00s as well. Same philosophy, different nostalgic artefacts. Similar on the video side; the grainy picture of 8mm film was emulated everywhere in the 90s and 00s, while today VHS filters are super popular.
Came back to this video nine days later, apparently. This pedal really does sound amazing, sounds great on sampled drums. It is my distortion sound that I've been looking for. The bottom end is not just wet cardboard, the distortion is in the sizzle zone, my deaf azz sone. Love the sound of it. My regret only grows, my jelly only flows.
I bought this a few months ago, betting that it'd be amazing for drums even though I hadn't heard any demos of it on sources besides guitar and synths. I'm so glad I did, it's truly like nothing else for messing with drum breaks. Even just the basic dry drive sounds awesome as a saturator.
Remember one of my first studios, I'd get all kinds of FM radio just through my gear. Must have been a major FM radio station tower near my house. F'ed up sounds. BUT this pedal is for me, undoubtedly. Fully salivating. Everything that you consider problematic is like aces for me. Unfortunately, I'm disabled and now even food is becoming affordable, let alone boutique fsu guitar pedals. If I was a real person, I'd buy two of these in a snap, no questions asked! Damn, it sounds good. Great! Did I mention that I'm salivating all over the place? Skinner, I'm sure, would have something to say about this situation.
The only other device I've come across that operates in a similar manner is the interstellar radio module from Schlappi Engineering. Fantastic devices!
However, it is much more suited to someone who enjoys surprise and awful noises. Roger that appears to be much easier to find sweet spots on, but has fewer modulation options, and fewer i/o ports.
Great eye, just started using it again. Before I changed cameras I was using a cine bloom, and only just now got around to picking one up that's threaded for my gh5 lenses.
Great video, very interesting pedal. I assume the CV input could be manipulated with something like the Koma Elektronik Kommander? If you know that. that should be interesting… thanks for posting.
Way off topic: you mention your mixer, do you find the Model 16 has the channels you need? Or worth going to a 24 if within budget for 4 synths, 2 drum machines, a NumaX, plus guitar, plus mics? I’ve been eyeing up a Tascam Model (unsure of 16 or 24 I think because room to run stereo is important to me) but since you mentioned you’re using one I have faith it’s a worthwhile investment. Annoying it doesn’t have more inserts but the entirely onboard recording and mix-down is really neat. There are some neat pedals on my desk and the Shallow Water is one of them. Fairfield 🤘 Edit: to me Fairfield are like cinnamon. You don’t put it in everything, and maybe not even a lot when you do, but you get this empty feeling when it’s not there. It’s the subtle glue of familiar, cosy nostalgia in your apple pie. 🥧🎹
category of mu-sick not Music - the former doesn't mean 'sick' like the children use the word sick every other word after the F word. It's a literal definition . Richard D James mined this rock already notice how no one's making records anymore. Vanity, instagram, gear lust , soloism gets in the way.
I'll say Fairfield's products really seem to capture that old lo-fi radio feel. I've been watching the Shallow Water and the Maude pedals and I'm very impressed with the unique space they fill in these otherwise well traveled effects. Thanks Jorb :)
Well said, cheers
I’ve had to grab Meet Maude / Shallow Water / Randy’s Revenge & Roger That. Both together-ed and apart they can lay the ground for some very aesthetically pleasing places to play around in.
Gosh, that's beautiful.
6:30 ish took me back to the ways music and voice would distort in the car every time going under a bridge.
And 7:35 ish took me back to every VHS tape with dodgy tracking, every time the VHS hifi track (which is an FM encoding) would pop in.
Man, I hadn't realised how much I missed that weird fizz you'd get on poorly-tuned FM.
I suppose this pedal concept being fairly new is similar to how there's that "Lossy" pedal from Chase Bliss now. At the time, 20 years ago, these were just annoyances when your radio wasn't working right or compromises to make MP3 players work.
People didn't use them artistically, because they only thought of them as annoyances. You also maybe don't want to risk listeners thinking something went wrong with their equipment while it's still a common risk, but now we can safely write them off as artistic choices because digital stuff simply doesn't act like that when it goes wrong.
I guess that tracks with deliberately exaggerated tape wobble, or vinyl clicks/pops, becoming an increasingly popular effect over the course of the 00s as well. Same philosophy, different nostalgic artefacts. Similar on the video side; the grainy picture of 8mm film was emulated everywhere in the 90s and 00s, while today VHS filters are super popular.
Came back to this video nine days later, apparently. This pedal really does sound amazing, sounds great on sampled drums. It is my distortion sound that I've been looking for. The bottom end is not just wet cardboard, the distortion is in the sizzle zone, my deaf azz sone. Love the sound of it.
My regret only grows, my jelly only flows.
Jorb always inspires me to make music ❤
🙏🙏🙏
I bought this a few months ago, betting that it'd be amazing for drums even though I hadn't heard any demos of it on sources besides guitar and synths. I'm so glad I did, it's truly like nothing else for messing with drum breaks. Even just the basic dry drive sounds awesome as a saturator.
it makes me want to make a little one row drum processing board
Remember one of my first studios, I'd get all kinds of FM radio just through my gear. Must have been a major FM radio station tower near my house. F'ed up sounds.
BUT this pedal is for me, undoubtedly. Fully salivating. Everything that you consider problematic is like aces for me. Unfortunately, I'm disabled and now even food is becoming affordable, let alone boutique fsu guitar pedals. If I was a real person, I'd buy two of these in a snap, no questions asked! Damn, it sounds good. Great! Did I mention that I'm salivating all over the place? Skinner, I'm sure, would have something to say about this situation.
Thank you, friend. Finally after this video I understood where Roger That might be useful for me!
Roger That is an unruly textural wonderland! Great take!
Such a friggen cool pedal.
goddaamnnn this thing sounds insaneee on drums
it high key does, really surprised me
The only other device I've come across that operates in a similar manner is the interstellar radio module from Schlappi Engineering. Fantastic devices!
However, it is much more suited to someone who enjoys surprise and awful noises. Roger that appears to be much easier to find sweet spots on, but has fewer modulation options, and fewer i/o ports.
I need distortion pedal 😅 Thank you Jorb for another nice review with tin of examples!
OK... don't know why I never used the Rodger That on my drums. Going to go try it out w the Erica Synths LXR-02! I have a feeling this gonna b nuts!
That drum machine is sick!
You got a diffusion filter, looks good on the shots.
Great eye, just started using it again.
Before I changed cameras I was using a cine bloom, and only just now got around to picking one up that's threaded for my gh5 lenses.
Thanks for that good stuff 18:44
thanks @fairfield
Great video, very interesting pedal. I assume the CV input could be manipulated with something like the Koma Elektronik Kommander? If you know that. that should be interesting… thanks for posting.
Way off topic: you mention your mixer, do you find the Model 16 has the channels you need?
Or worth going to a 24 if within budget for 4 synths, 2 drum machines, a NumaX, plus guitar, plus mics? I’ve been eyeing up a Tascam Model (unsure of 16 or 24 I think because room to run stereo is important to me) but since you mentioned you’re using one I have faith it’s a worthwhile investment. Annoying it doesn’t have more inserts but the entirely onboard recording and mix-down is really neat.
There are some neat pedals on my desk and the Shallow Water is one of them. Fairfield 🤘
Edit: to me Fairfield are like cinnamon. You don’t put it in everything, and maybe not even a lot when you do, but you get this empty feeling when it’s not there. It’s the subtle glue of familiar, cosy nostalgia in your apple pie. 🥧🎹
model 16 is plenty for me, yeah. just be ready to use 2 mono channels as a stereo one occasionally.
This pedal sounds/feels like Archive 81 on Netflix
At this point, it's like you're doing it on purpose. You know what I mean
😭😭😭😭😭😭 I realized it after I uploaded, wasn't worth it to fix
category of mu-sick not Music - the former doesn't mean 'sick' like the children use the word sick every other word after the F word. It's a literal definition . Richard D James mined this rock already notice how no one's making records anymore. Vanity, instagram, gear lust , soloism gets in the way.
What the hell are you taking about
1 0ne 😂
Nice trim, ya millennial hippie hipster.