Processing Images Through Guitar Effects Pedals
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Expounding upon a video from a few days ago where i utilize a technique called SSTV, or Slow Scan TV, which allowed me to convert an image into audio data and decode the data back into an image. Then i figured i should add some effects to see how that would affect the resulting image. Here i utilize outboard effects like guitar pedals to augment the audio data to achieve similar results.
Audio is broken up into five sections:
1. Audio recorded directly into Tascam Model 12
2. Audio processed by MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay
3. Audio processed by Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water
4. Audio processed by Empress Reverb
5. Audio processed onto cassette tape while slighty adjusting tape speed while recording.
My girlfriend got some film developed recently and the image used here is a nice shot she got of her farm cat, Todd, who has since passed away. I fade in the processed images to create a smoother effect against the original.
RIP Todd
"Get off the phone, I'm trying to use the internet!"
“The song i was downloading only had five minutes left!”
That's a good comment.
"Goodbye" 😡
@@jamesmcn0000 How obnoxiously boomery of you
My first thought with that sound. Dial-up!
Skipping over it forwards made me think almost nothing is happening.
Skipping over backwards gave the weridest effects so i played it normally and with headphones it sounded like i summoned ghosts to my room. 10/10 most haunted vid on youtube.
@@TheKrokomaster thanks for getting haunted
I know not why I am here, only that I find myself struck by this experiment. I am filled with formless inspiration that I wish to shape. Thank you, analog wizard.
@@TheTaciturnIX the opportunity of pleasure is all mine fellow traveler
I like how at first you don't realise anything's changing
@@skarloeyexpress4353 thanks! I faded in the effects to create smoother transitions and i like how it turned out as well
This video calms my soul. Thank you so muc
With Shallow Water the cat turns into a half-lit face
Whoa
This is fantastic!
Thank you!
Am I tripping or is anybody else seeing freddy fazbear's tophat, ears, muzzle/nose and the rest of his head at 00:34? Top right quadrant of the video
All that’s left is to go full circle and teach a cat how to play the guitar
Hip-Hop producers: “I only sample vinyl for my beats”
This guy:
Lol
this hasnt been true for like 20 years
@@bbyponkindeed its youtube to mp3 and fl studio now
if this was uploaded as a cryptic video from some mysterious channel it would become one of those one hour rabbit hole video essays
@@yellomauz1 damn i missed my chance at obscure relativity and now will have to settle for being relatively obscure
I want to see this video being a no context lore tape in a horror game.
That would be dope. If you make the game i’ll make the footage!
@paxson2000 I could see this being in a Remedy Game, Sam Lake loves this kind of stuff.
Y’all need to get on this haha
Analog Horror vibes!
Nobody like this comment it’s at 666
People are talking about agony & suffering, but yk what? Maybe that cat's just vibing.
I think people sometimes forget that existence=suffering=existence
Thanks for the positivity!
Yeah cats just _do this_ sometimes
That's just a tired little lad
@@julius879 he’s a wee bit sleepy
LOL@@WolfWalrus
I've heard of people doing this in Audacity by importing BMP files, applying effects, then re-exporting them as images, but to do it with analog is something else entirely. Mind-blowing.
How do you do this? Is there a video I can watch on it?
@@thehockeynerd3479 I would start by looking into hardware Video Synthesis & Eurorack VFX
@@thehockeynerd3479Google databending
@@thehockeynerd3479 Totally a guess, but that looks like an old style tube tv. If so, that would use the old style coax type cable which has 2 points of contact guitar effects cable also has two contact points. Strip to coax cable back removing the original connector, replace replace with a 1/4-inch (6.35mm) TS Jack and run the TV signal through that. Ma
@@thehockeynerd3479 the audio in this video literally is the image. It's a technology called SSTV, so it seems they've converted the image to an SSTV audio file, put effects on that file, then converted it back into an image.
This is how it looks when you stare at the same spot of the room without blink for too long.
@@macario1885 i used to do that when i was a kid. Would stare a spot in the room until the rest of my vision started to brown-out. For some reason always had to move my eyes before too long.
did the same thing but with popcorn ceilings. peripheral vision darkens into static
Toki ?
Ah yeah i do this so often, with bathroom tiles and stuff it's like getting high but without the drugs?
Lol
Whilst having a bad vibe on 2CI
Should not have clicked on this halfway through an acid trip
Hope you learned a lot
Correct, you should have done it at the start 🤣
Same boat, clicked on this in the middle of a shroom trip lol
good stuff tho
It was meant to happen
its sad that so many musicians have to go through this... truly heartbreaking
very devastating stuff people
you mean an analog VFX phase?
as a musician myself, i found it very difficult to use guitar pedals, this would happen to me, but i learnt to get used to it to achieve *tone*
@@ScratchdHelp welcome to the chat Tone Ranger
Now do big muff
Life been feeling like this for about 2 years
@@aLtee sometimes that’s life. Hope it gets better
Same, but longer
Yeah fr
more like since Rome fell
Interesting results. I also found out you can run video composite signals through (for some reason only) digital multi-fx pedals and it'll affect the video too. Vibrato makes the image wiggle, downsampling broke the video down into squares, delay made horizontal copies. It was really neat. Then the Atari classic I was using for the video signal caught fire (accidentally gave it AC power)
Dude that sounds immense. Would love to see footage
VERY cool! Long live the circuit benders and senders of wrong signals through wrong things.
we are the dreamers of dreams
@@paxson2000’we are the music makers’
this new analogue horror channel is great
this sounds like an unholy demon got trapped within a tv and took on the form of a cat, sentenced to eternal damnation
more like eternal jam station my guy
correction, cats are already demons
yea it just sounds like a modem or fax machine
@@ShadowZero27 and clouds just look like clouds
@paxson2000 then what's that cloud i saw one time that looked like a slug jumping over a baguette?
turning images into sstv signals then processing them through guitar effect modules is GENIUS!!!
@@danielodors i was having such an awesome time experimenting with it. Thanks for the nice comment! Will try and keep up making creative content
This does a better job at being uncanny and uncomfortable than any horror webseries ive seen this year.
@@donutholebandit6212 yo thank you. I was just having a fun experiment, but i’m glad it’s being appreciated by horror fans. Thanks for watching
Bro, this rips. Fun effects and unholy screams upon the cat.
that is utmost praise. thanks for watching traveller
You can hear the sounds of this cat screaming in agony, distorted and stuck in time, bound to be replayed over and over. One can only imagine the transgressions made to get him there...
This video was his consecration. He has been able to finally transcend this mortal plane
"I still have nightmares about that cat."
"What cat?"
@@sockthustra8749 Thank you for the Half-Life reference.
"Hey babe, look what came out of those photos I developed. Doesn't Todd look so cute yawning like that? I’m glad I have something so nice to remember him with."
“Wow babe, that really is a great photo. I know EXACTLY what to do with it.”
RIP Todd
awesome concept for getting varying levels of distortion in digital artworks or maybe as a rendering shader for games. I love the reverb and shallow water results
Yeah it is a cool concept and also really fun way to experiment with image processing. I appreciate you watching and the comment!
You can do something sort of similar by forcing Audacity to open images and applying effects. Obviously you don't get the immediate feedback, having to export and open the image to see the alteration, but it's easy and free.
guys chill tf out
No.
Well this is just cool as hell
now we just gotta figure out how to combine it with feedback loops!
Literally what I just said to myself (:
So ...not very cool at all..?
Her: What sort of music do you listen to?
Me: Processing Images Through Guitar Effects Pedals
@@jpeg1991 Now That’s What (italicized)I Call Music
If you like these kinds of sounds maybe get into shortwave radio, you'll hear lots more and who knows maybe you can crack the code? (its likely just some monitoring station for a city owned water pump tho)
1:31 He got transmogged into a rubber chicken
Yes, via a “transmogrifying circuit.” (Apologies to the poet who wrote of a transmogrifying Bee…)
Very cool. Around I decade ago, I played around with something kinda similar. I have a VisiTel. It's a little device that lets you send still pictures over a phone line. I used to record the signal to tape, and alter the tape speed and volume to mess with skewing and contrast. I think maybe I ran it through a delay pedal once. It was only black and white though, and very low resolution.
I've always been fascinated with SSTV. I hope to play around with it at some point.
That sounds like a beautiful technique. And it sounds like VisiTel works in a similar way to SSTV, did the pictures load from the top down?
There are greats apps for experimenting with SSTV, i downloaded a $4 one called CQ SSTV and that’s what i used to create these images
It reminds me of datamoshing using audacity execpt your using analog digital equipment rather than a software to do all this! Its incredible to see, now the question is... What would happen if you recorded a video and put it through a guitar pedal? Still a really cool thing to see how this works!
@adehanft actually has a video showing how to create animations with a similar process! So yeah, possible in a way!!
Now through an Earthquaker Data Corrupter to make your TV explode.
dude that would be dope. Based on reading the description for that pedal i believe it would make it possible to create stacks of the same image based on the octave shifting capabilities. now i just need to get the pedal! thanks for watching
The data bender doesn’t always work with audio-visual things. SSTV is better than most formats; requires a bit of knob tweaking though
@@paxson2000 look into PedalPCB's clone PCB if you're good with a soldering iron & on a budget! Their clone of EQD's experimental stuff specifically is VERY much on-point copies of the originals (both in circuitry tracing & sound), as are most of their offerings from the past few years or more.
But as for the Data Cosrupter for this video synthesis stuff, I think the coolest part would be how the P.L.L.-part of the circuit would affect images, especially combined with its sub-octave generator. 🫠
this goes so hard actually, its also a very good way of visualizing the effects
I totally agree on the visualization aid. In fact i believe there is a lot of aliasing going on in the first clip because of my mixer/recorder’s sample rate and not using any kind of low pass filter. Makes me want to experiment with different sample rates
It's what Todd would have wanted.
🤘Todd rules.
He’s a great dude
Gotta love a cat with a people name. My cat’s name is Tiffany. He’s also a great dude.
As a ham radio operator and synth enthusiast, you have made my day.
reminds me of that growing little cricket sound that you hear or feel when you are "entering" on an aya trip. It's so fast it feels like a little motor spinning inside your head. The fastest you hear the craziest you see.
@@Will-li7ux must be the ancient spirits trying to communicate through SSTV!!
People: AI Cant have dreams
AI dreams:
This made me so uneasy. I was half-specting a screamer at the end and I got startled by that wobbly thing
Dang i should do a jump scare video. Sorry leaving you hanging without a screamer at the end
@@paxson2000 No no, that's not what I meant. I don't like being jumpscared, it feels awful. It would be so mean if you actually did that.
@@paxson2000 you should
@@paxson2000if you do that I'm reporting your channel for promoting terrorism.
Wow this is awesome in so many ways..!
I tried data sonification in Audacity but your results are much better!
I'd just love a tutorial so much..!
Thanks for sharing this great experiment!
Thanks for the high praise! And i will try and get a tutorial up soon.
@@paxson2000 Pretty please! A tutorial would be amazing! I subscribed to get notified whenever it comes out.
Heeey that’s what I was going to say. I’ve made a lot of pics and a couple videos using Audacity, but this is like an even better analog version.
@@aldo_pinheiro thanks for subscribing! excited to make a how to video. Will try and get that done on my next day off of work
@@scottishcheese13 thanks for checking out the video! I’ve never messed around with data sonification in Audacity before
Todd yawning into oblivion is an interesting thing to witness.
rip Todd
5 second in I thought I accidentally clicked on a new analog horror series or something. Cool experiment.
RIP Todd :(
@@trancadoemcasa thank you!
This has been one of the coolest things i seen being done with SSTV!
thank you kindly
We're headed back to Scanimate! :D
Looking forward to seeing more like this; always wanted to try it, ever since running and recording my Dreamcast through an old low-end reel-to-reel.
Yoooo thanks, bout to fall down a Scanimate rabbit hole. And i’d love to watch someone play dreamcast on a reel-to-reel
Now I'm slightly curious if something similar could be done with a standard NTSC/PAL signal
Such an interesting idea. Excellent work.
Thank you Engine Demon
this is a really cool way to get interesting effects, gosh dang :o
I miss analogue signals that you could just plug into things to do things to, and then plug that into other things just to see what it does
idk why i was recommended this but this is so sick
glad the algorithm got you here. and thank you dude
the cat gets more scary the more I look at it. awesome
😸
I've been waiting for someone to do this for so long. Thanks
the prophecy has been foretold!
🙏🙏🙏
Whoa, this is really dope!
0:54 a male face 😨
Real
I hate the face made in the wall behind
Wow. Slow scan tv is super cool glad to see it in action I would have never thought of hooking up fx pedals. Fun fact: slow scan tv is how the moon landing in the 60s was transmitted back to earth for broadcast. Keep up the good work.
We landed on the moon?!! Thanks for watching and for the bit of trivia
Image feed? Because I don’t think there’s SSTV for video
@@SpheresVAbasically they took the images and converted them to broadcast standard. Oversimplified explanation like making a gif from stills. Huge drop in quality but works.
@@tonywagner6584 I bet that took a long time unless they used robot36 or something which would tank the quality
@@paxson2000 please tell me this is a joke
Best part @ 1:10.
It's like dialup modem connecting to matrix of psychedelic meow cat.
That’s so very cool! 😮
Thanks! 😊
The first attempts at living matter teleportation. Cat pee smells...
Might be onto something
well this is one way to pay respects to Todd
David Lynch tiene ya una copia de esto en su archivo personal. Seguro. Lo está estudiando.
Amazing the variation you got! Glad u put the specifics in the description.😊
Thank you! Try it for yourself, would love to see your results
Oh this is rad
This is just incredibly good! What an amazing concept - the results are pretty special too
It was mind blowing to discover i could turn pictures into audio. And once i loaded into my DAW and threw some effects on it and saw the results i was stoked on the results. That made me want to run them through guitar pedals. If you have any eurorack modules that process sound in cool ways you should try it!!!
@@paxson2000i’m super excited to try this with my eurorack setup, gonna try and do research on my own but the tutorial would be amazing if you get around to it!!
@@paxson2000did you not have any problems with the files header?
@@clef-is-futile most definitely. Will try and get that done on my next day off work. Looking forward to whatever you cook up!
These comments are lame
This is deeply unsettling, but also fascinating
@@TheOneRiv happy to entice such a varied response from your emotional palette
Wonderful tribute to Todd
Thank you for sharing :)
I have no idea why this was recommended to me, but I'm glad it was
@@stopmikeandjim3196 glad to hear it, thanks for watching
Ghosts in the Melodies
Oh your entire channel is an audio goldmine! Excited to examine these goodsss
Yo. That means a lot. I really enjoy making videos but music is where i started. And i’m not afraid to put up some weird shit that’s very lofi. I hope you enjoy
Process resultant through a Whammy pedal to lower octaves; employ panner and filters to add 3D depth. Rob Zombie know about this?
this combines both of my passions
Dope! Thanks for watching
Cats and colour TVs?
But... how did you capture so vivid a replication of my acid trip in the summer of 1997?
There's something weirdly beautiful about a silly picture of a cat yawning slowly decomposing into colorful noise and reforming again and again. It reminds me of when I run for a really long time or I exert myself physically a lot in the hot sun I go color blind for a while (I have to walk 2 miles to the beach to get sand for my cat's kitty litter)
@@orbitaloutcast9878 beautifully phrased. also genius level cat parenting. now i want to move to the beach, save a little money on cat litter. Thanks for stopping by
@@paxson2000 A word of advice: Wood shavings/wood chips are better, and if you still want to use sand you can use baking soda, regularly remove the poo regularly.
A bucket of sand should be enough to last 2 weeks to a month if you have 1 or 2 cats.
Can you try a looper and maybe stack different segments of the image over itself
A very most excellent idea. My reverb has looping functionality but i need to buy an SD card. But will definitely try that out in the future!
Ah, the portal radio recieving a transmission. That's where I've heard it before.
Ok, enough internet for today.
"babe wake up, new analog horror just dropped"
Cmon man put timestamps or subtitles. You were already editing.
I've tried converting BMP to 3-channel WAV on Audacity before. (Takes minimal amount of hex editing to add/remove BMP header.)
The effect kinda looks more like faulty VGA signal rather than faulty NTSC signal your SSTV approach has, and is generally cleaner, but has the disadvantage of often failing due to the image by nature has a lot of DC components that can easily be cancelled out or amplified. I had to output a lowpass signal and a highpass then filtered signal separately and combine them in image editor, which I don't think SSTV signal needs because there's no DC component to begin with.
Cut out the transitions and you have yourself some basic analog horror...
How the heck did you do this?? Oh ok i read the description. SO COOL
Thank you!!
8 seconds in I felt sick like I was possessed by the cat. Great video and experiments!!
I wonder if you could do each frame of a video individual to get some crazy looking video. it would take a long time even for a 30fps video so probably just a 3 second loop would be a lot of work, but it would be cool.
Maybe it could be fully automated? I'd love to see it. This is really, really cool.
@@trulyinfamous hey i appreciate it. Yes that would be possibly tedious but i agree that the end result could be well worth the temporal cost of construction. It’s funny because i just threw this video together before work one day, didn’t know it was going to be seen by so many people! Thank you for watching
I’m pretty sure this is the fault of some Star Trek alien.
@@storminmormin14 funny you mention it i was just recording over a Star Trek VHS
The reason why it sounds a bit like a dial-up handshake (the sound it makes while establishing a connection) is probably because they're both forms of audio data.
I don't know much about the application of transmitting information through audio that's shown in the video, but I do know a bit about dial-up internet.
The reason why dial-up sounds like that is that because at the time, there wasn't much dedicated internet infrastructure, so they used phone lines to establish a connection.
This means that the data required to establish it needed to be audio data - essentially letting a computer talk over the phone to discuss things like protocol types.
I'm not an expert, and I may be misremembering, but it's interesting nonetheless.
@@rubydreamsuwu1095 that is interesting! Thanks for the awesome comment!
now do processing audio through image filters
I’m not even on anything but makes me feel like I’m on hallucinogens
Me when I drink McDonald’s sprite
I would like this to be playing on a permanent loop in my office
@@empresseffects yo Empress, i would love to make a series for you all! Used y’all’s reverb pedal for one iteration of this experiment
I need the original image, I NEED IT
@@glowingpiranha1894 i love your zest! Maybe i’ll upload it one day
this is fucking amazing
0:22 on it becomes pure horror
This looks like a tech demo as well as an 80s horror movie where someone or something transformers.
Holy scanlines Batman!
Nice, I had to google NTSC frequency, which is 15kHZ right around audio range 😂 most audio gear has high frequency filters
I did.a project back in college that did this to digital video. The best was a flanger. Being a simulated effect helped in this case. The project took all the horizontal lines and turning them into audio streams and then back again. So one audio file was line one for all frames. I also had a version that did it per pixel. I didn't much like how that version looked. Moving that much data around was a struggle. ruclips.net/video/qg2mFeV7Ahk/видео.htmlsi=rvaK7HDr-nsjQsDN
curious about the effect of a distortion, or maybe a wah pedal
When you open an image in notepad and change some characters
@@Boydar love that idea
Captain, we're picking up a strange transmission, attempting to boost the signal now...
finally some real psychedelic art