Go beyond Eurorack! Modular synth + Pedal & rack FX & instrument input // DPW Design Pedal Interface
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- I've always enjoyed integrating other gear beyond the realms of the Eurorack case. Synths and FX, guitar into modular, rack gear processing beats ... it's a great thing to explore, to find unique tones and new sounds.
The new Pedal Interface from DPW Design is a 4HP stereo or dual mono pedal/instrument input and output module. While it couldn't be simpler on the interface this was designed to address two issues and to improve working with the varied signals. DPW made sure to properly impedance balance so you're not sucking out the tone and brilliance in the signal and sought to address transient handling and add a tube inspired gain structure above the clean gain structure for adding tube like compression and saturation FX ... something we exploit for great distortion in the video!
Info, manual etc // dpw.se/product/p1-pedal-i-o
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OTHER DPW DEMOS //
MOG multiband distortion // • DPW Design MOG 4 Band ...
Zero 2 // • Tiny module HUGE patch...
*TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS*
INTRO
00:00 Hello & previews
00:56 What are we doing here?
01:38 Two improved design features with Dan from DPW
PATCHES
03:54 Simple pedal integration for characterful ambient FX
05:27 Handling transients with character (line level inputs)
06:28 #SockTone guitar & bass direct input
07:50 Patch it wrong for sonic treats! (Eurorack level saturation)
09:26 Integrating rack gear for parallel processing
11:16 Using pedals at the start of the signal chain (oscillator processing)
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love seeing the neon egg in there!
came for the new div-vid, stayed to realize i need to try vco direct to fx processing!
thanks for coming regardless and yeah definitely go oscillators straight into FX then continue the synth voice as is. Works great!
Nice to see some more of the HARD SYNC studio in this video
well a lot of the carpet and rug! haha. Thanks.
Hard sync! Sock it to me, baby! Great video Ben. I too love integrating pedals with my rack, I’ve been using the pedal io from Addac, I’ll have to look into this one and see if it plays nicer with my guitar and bass setup. Awesome stuff!
I haven't tried the ADDAC, I'm sure it's good too though.
Darn, it's not like you to leave out important details about a piece of gear. Can you please clarify, what fabric, texture, and thickness is the sock?
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Awesome Video! I was looking for something just like this as I'm about to make the dive into Modular and Eurorack! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, hope it goes well getting into it all.
@@DivKid Thanks!
this is nice. i was looking for something like this. thanks.
happy to help, thanks!
Your always inspiring! Love you man
ah thanks, I appreciate that.
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Great module. Really a necessity with stereo Chase Bliss pedals!
I only have the Blooper from Chase Bliss but it's great! I'd certainly like to explore some more of them.
@@DivKid lossy is very interesting
Yeah absolutely that, habit, plenty of the old stuff ... it's a rabbit hole I could get lost in.
HARD SYNC
The obvious use case here would be those handful of boutique pedals that have CV inputs included.
got any favourites with CV on them I should take a look at? My monthly Pedals & Patches thing has plenty of open space at the minute.
@@DivKid Don’t have any but the mod series pedals that are supposed to be coming out from gamechanger look awesome
Good job div and dan
Div & Dan sounds like two kids cartoon characters. I'm not sure if they're monster crime fighters or what :) haha
thanks!
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Thanks for this video! I'm a guitarist with a gigantic pile of pedals who suddenly find myself sucked right into the world of eurorack and realise I've become a little kid in a candy store, kind of wanting everything without knowing anything and where to start. So basically, I'm standing with the guitar-cable in my hand wondering how to best plug it with my very modest eurorack-setup (for now). Came across your video, and I wonder if you have an opinion about Boredbrain's Injector vs this DPW pedal-input? I'm kind of confused on which is the better option? Thanks!
I haven't tried the Boredbrain so I can't comment on it. But they do good work. That have an envelope follower and gate extraction circuit so that you can use your guitar input to modulate and control the modular patch. The DPW is less HP (smaller) with no controls just the inputs and outputs at about half the price I think.
@@DivKid Thanks for your super-fast response! May be that this from DPW is just what I need, as it being perhaps “simpler”, and I don’t mean that in a negative way, just that it is more straight forward. And I guess an envelop follower can be added later. Things to consider! Thanks again! :)
totally get you, simpler is the right word as you say with no negativity. It's just the basics done really nicely.
Hasn’t this already been available for sometime now with Strymon’s module which does exactly this
you could extend to say "hasn't a Moog style filter been made before" and then no one would make anything. No where did I say this was new, unique and never done before.
What this has that the Strrymon doesn't is a lack of TRS jacks and more importantly (technically and musically nice) is the tube inspired secondary gain stage that uses several knees (think compression knees) of soft clip limiting for handling and protecting transients to and from the modular and for musical colour.
I think having options with varying features is useful.
This sounds great, and having that beautiful clipping as an extra is amazing! I've been thinking about pedals in the context of a Eurorack system. A few days ago I started running stuff through pedals by doing it the dirty way at the end of chain, an attenuator straight into pedals into a DI going to my audio interface and I haven't heard anything obviously wrong. I've heard bad things about the sound of the Doepfer A-138D, and that's only one channel of mono send/return
Just saw the Rides In The Storm CON seems to be a direct competitor that's well reviewed and that's very affordable. Do you have experience with other products to do that kind of stuff?
if it's working and sounds good then it's working and sounds good. Go for it! :)
I don't know the Rides In The Storm one but he makes good stuff too. I don't have any but was impressed with his work at some events I met him at.
I can't remember with the Doepfer if it was that and the A-119 instrument input that has the chip swap option people DIY to improve things. The A-119 does but can't remember if the same applied to the A-138d. What that does have in the mix control which is nice. But you can make up a mix or CV control easily with other modules.
So what makes this different than any of the other pedal interface modules that are already out, like the ADDAC200PI?
Dan speaks about this in the video, wanting to have the right impedance to not suck tone and 'brilliance' from the sound and also to handle transients better and to introduce some tube style colour to higher level inputs.
That's not to say every other interface is the wrong impedance, these were things he noticed and wanted to do better with what he'd tried before.
In use, it's going to be similar. You could say "what makes this different?" about a lot of things.