NAMM 2024 - Red Panda - Radius
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2024
- We met up with Curt from Red Panda at NAMM 2024 to talk about Radius, their brand new ring modulator and frequency shifter pedal. At low ranges Radius can give tremolo effects, while at hi speeds it crosses over into crazier clangerous ring mod. The pedal includes multiple LFO shapes including triangle, square and two flavours of sample and hold, one completely random, and one which can be tailored by the user. There is also an 8 step sequencer which can be programmed from the front panel to give rhythmic patterns. Finally there are two sweeping waveforms to produce slowly moving changes over the whole sound.
Radius Price: 349 USD
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It's cool seeing the effort he put into features to make this usable on a guitar even though 90% of people buying anything from Red Panda are only going to use it on synths. Or vocals, or a theremin, or an Otamatone ... just about anything except a guitar LOL.
I'm a bass player and I use Raster 2 a ton.. especially for ambient soundscapes.. Can't wait to get Radius for sci-fi tones..
Love the red panda for the guitar especially for the hold function for glitchy stutters and pitch shifting.
Been waiting for a demo on this pedal I'll be getting one soon and it's great to finally get a preview
Love their pedals.
My Radius arrived last week. This pedal is mind-blowing. I love it!
Lucky you..I'm in Europe and can't buy it anywhere 😔
Ring modulation is almost completly misunderstood so is often written off as wierd because the musician does not understand it.
A ring modulator is like the WHA WHA effect as used by guitarists like Jimi Hendrix. When Hendrix wanted a note to feedback he would move the pedal by fine degrees to specifically place the notch filter right on the same frequency as any note that he wanted to feedback.
Imagine if manufactures did not understand that the wha wha effect needs to be controled by a foot pedal such that you got hand controled knobs instead, the wha wha never would have taken hold.
The ring modulatores PRIMARY UTILITY is as a FOOT CONTROLED effect where the foot controles the CARRIER FREQUENCY, otherwise it sounds OUT OF TUNE.
As option you can plug an expression pedal into this ring modulator which may be assigned to control any chosen parameter including the carrier frequency, but most users will never think of this.
Its like offering a car with no steering wheel but you can set up an optional to have control over steering if you like, most people will fail to understand the product without built in steering so they will not buy the car.
All ring modulatores should be set up with a built in expression pedal so people get it that you have to use the pedal so the result will sound in tune much as for a WHAMMY PEDAL Here is an example of use of such a foot controled carrier frequency with a ring modulator and the harmony array mbira, but its just the same for any other instrument:
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Sounds sick! Love Red panda.
I see this more useful for synthesises than guitars 🤔
You can use them for both. A few 90s bands used ring mods back in the day. Good on drums too. Tunable/tracking mods are extra handy for guitar.
That was my first thought too. I'd be really interested to know if ajy guitarists use ring mods
@@SlaserX if you google "harmony central Songs with ring modulation" you'll see a forum post from 10 years ago showing a load of songs and albums with the effect in there somewhere.
Yeah screw guitars.
@@SlaserX I use a ring mod (a SubDecay Vitruvian mod) and a bit crusher.(WMD Geiger counter) on guitar a lot 🙂
so good!
Thank you for this demo! Reminds me how an Oberheim ring modulator was used by Don Ellis (trumpet) and The United States of America (vocals). Another great job, Curt and co. - Red Panda rocks!
Frequency shifting and ring modulation have been around for ages, and yet they can still sound zany, untamed, or like uncharted waters, to me.
This pedal is perfect for parallel processing
Would like to see this in Eurorack
I think doepfer has a frequency shifter. Not sure if it can also do ring mod
My guitar needs this 😅
Does it come with free classes in engineering to use it? It sounds like a DOD Gonkulator on some good LSD.
I love ring mod but to be honest this is the first one I've been wanting to buy since my DOD gonkulator reissue.
Better start saving I guess. xD
Is there a way to get rid of the detune effect of the modulation ?
Ring modulation is almost completly misunderstood so is often written off as wierd because the musician does not understand it.
A ring modulator is like the WHA WHA effect as used by guitarists like Jimi Hendrix. When Hendrix wanted a note to feedback he would move the pedal by fine degrees to specifically place the notch filter right on the same frequency as any note that he wanted to feedback.
Imagine if manufactures did not understand that the wha wha effect needs to be controled by a foot pedal such that you got hand controled knobs instead, the wha wha never would have taken hold.
The ring modulatores PRIMARY UTILITY is as a FOOT CONTROLED effect where the foot controles the CARRIER FREQUENCY, otherwise it sounds OUT OF TUNE.
As option you can plug an expression pedal into this ring modulator which may be assigned to control any chosen parameter including the carrier frequency, but most users will never think of this.
Its like offering a car with no steering wheel but you can set up an optional to have control over steering if you like, most people will fail to understand the product without built in steering so they will not buy the car.
All ring modulatores should be set up with a built in expression pedal so people get it that you have to use the pedal so the result will sound in tune much as for a WHAMMY PEDAL Here is an example of use of such a foot controled carrier frequency with a ring modulator and the harmony array mbira, but its just the same for any other instrument:
ua-cam.com/video/ZOATeVaY1EQ/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/XYRsZzIjUbY/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/hzmqyvwak4c/v-deo.html
Is that Nick's son at the end of the video?
This is perfect for live use, just put it on when you want everyone to leave and go home 😂
I still prefer the Bitmap, seems easier to get an interesting and useful tone from that.
Funny that,cos I get plenty of interesting and useful tones from my Radius..
Rely on guitar players to have horrified reactions to anything that doesn't sound decades old. The inability to hear the different between a demonstration of possibility and what one would actually do with a piece of gear is unfortunate to see in creative people. But then, that's what a large percentage of the guitar-player community is like. Most synth players hate all new synths until they buy one, at which point that one somehow becomes good. Guitar players just recoil from anything that sounds kind of new.
Speaking generally, of course - which is not at all to say this was a great demo (random noodling over a feature introduction), but the pedal can clearly do some interesting and, in the right hands, compelling things.
In my opinion the ring modulator is the best and most versatile effect that there is, but the user must have immediate control over the carrier frequency or it sounds out of tune.
Manufacturers have always thought of it in terms of its early use in electronic music where the carrier was nearly always at some chosen fixed frequency and the intent was to make weird sounds for science fiction productions.
For musicians the pedal should NEVER be offered without a foot control over the carrier otherwise people will not understand it, making the foot pedal optional is like making a steering wheel an option on a car, who wants such a car?
With foot control over the carrier included a ring modulator can act like a whammy pedal, a synth pedal, an octave pedal, a harmony pedal a distortion pedal and a filter bank pedal all in one.
The below linked pieces are not from a guitar (all these pieces are played on the array mbira) Each composition features a ring modulator (the "Ring Thing") with carrier frequency controlled by foot activated expression pedal.
I'm convinced that if manufacturers did as I suggest and included the pedal built in as for a whammy or a wha wha the ring modulation effect would become a HUGE HIT instead of a pariah.
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Oh no not another one😮😢😂
this has to be one of the most horrid sounding pedals i've ever heard tbh. i'm into experimental music, ring mod can be great in the right contexts etc., but my god every single sound in this video was just terrible, and not in a good/extreme/noise/tonally interesting way. they really should be using a synth or drum machine or something through that pedal, it just sound like trash with a guitar.
It looks like a very deep pedal,as are all Red Pandas,I should know,I have the Raster 2.. I'm thinking the goal of this pedal is chaotic soundscapes akin to sci-fi vibes etc..Its hardly aimed at the blues boss brigade..But I'm Hella sure there are sounds or textures in there that can be "musical"..they were rushing everything to display all the features..This on Synths and delay and reverb thrown in will be amazing..
The sound quality on this demo are much better..
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Ha you're def not into it experimental music
@@Keysounds0 🤘😄
@@DocTaTech Actually he's Curt,The founder, creator,and owner of Red Panda..
Ring modulation is almost completly misunderstood so is often written off as wierd because the musician does not understand it.
A ring modulator is like the WHA WHA effect as used by guitarists like Jimi Hendrix. When Hendrix wanted a note to feedback he would move the pedal by fine degrees to specifically place the notch filter right on the same frequency as any note that he wanted to feedback.
Imagine if manufactures did not understand that the wha wha effect needs to be controled by a foot pedal such that you got hand controled knobs instead, the wha wha never would have taken hold.
The ring modulatores PRIMARY UTILITY is as a FOOT CONTROLED effect where the foot controles the CARRIER FREQUENCY, otherwise it sounds OUT OF TUNE.
As option you can plug an expression pedal into this ring modulator which may be assigned to control any chosen parameter including the carrier frequency, but most users will never think of this.
Its like offering a car with no steering wheel but you can set up an optional to have control over steering if you like, most people will fail to understand the product without built in steering so they will not buy the car.
All ring modulatores should be set up with a built in expression pedal so people get it that you have to use the pedal so the result will sound in tune much as for a WHAMMY PEDAL Here is an example of use of such a foot controled carrier frequency with a ring modulator and the harmony array mbira, but its just the same for any other instrument:
ua-cam.com/video/ZOATeVaY1EQ/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/XYRsZzIjUbY/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/hzmqyvwak4c/v-deo.html