Pedals truly can be amazing magical collaborators. Hope you enjoyed this episode of Tonal Teamwork. If you did, then please consider leaving a like or a comment. You're also more than welcome to share the vid with your friends. Every action means more than you could possibly imagine. As always, thank you for being epically awesome!
There really is zero need to even listen to five seconds before giving Stefan's videos a thumbs up. There's never been a bad one, and most have been just awesome... This was no exception...
That is so kind of you. I'm just really stoked to hear you find some value and new insight in the videos I create. Keeps me motivated to keep creating ☺🙏
@@thepedalzone I'd be glad to send you our upcoming delay pedal, it's almost ready for production... It has the option to blend out the "dry" input, and output only the delayed signal, which would lend itself to this direction of sound sculpting! cheers joe / jdm pedals
I just started listening to "Music for Airports" while writing and I was like I want to figure out how to do this with pedals. I do a quick google search and, of course, Stefan pops up. No idea why I didn't simply search here first. This is exactly what I wanted. Thanks so much for doing this!
this is so inspiring i was wondering if stuff like this is possible with guitar and pedals. seeing olafur arnalds doing whole pieces with two self-playing pianos... and here we are. first step. already got ideas for this to evolve further with superego and pitchshifting algos by eventide. thank you!
I'm deeply in awe of and inspired by Ólafur Arnalds and the way he combines classic instruments and modern technology. And I'm completely humbled by the fact that you enjoyed this video and found inspiration in it. Thank you so much. Your EHX Superego is gonna crazy cool for something like this ☺👍
Really nice Stefan, you are a true Abienator....You are really good at this. Your passion and love of music always shows through no matter what the video! I know I've already commented but I have to do it again. Lol
Absolutely beautiful. Loved how you split the stereo into two different pedals and then combined them in the AR. I've always wanted to do something like that, but you seem to have perfected it!
Thank you so much! 😊🙏 And yeah, there’s so many cool possibilities when you start running split stereo signal with different effects in the left and right channel. Can really conjure some unique textures 😊🌊
I cannot thank you enough Stefan for sharing this. This was the link I was missing for my music. I have been using Bloom and other apps as well as similar pedals for sound generation, even recording and looping my own local sounds, but the lightbulb just lit up. You are doing amazing things by sharing, truly a wonderful time we live in, thank you.
I'm incredibly honored to hear that the video gave you some new inspiration and insight. Thank you so much for watching and commenting. Means the world to me 🙏
An absolutely beautiful example of what you can achieve with just a few pedals. I will certainly be looking into the apps you mention at the top of the video!
Exactly, I've split them, so the two sequences don't affect each other. If you don't run a stereo setup, then you can also use a signal splitter like the Old Blood Noise Signal Splitter or KMA Tyler to use them in parallel, so the two sequences won't confuse each other.
Being new to "generative music" this video has me thinking these and maybe other pedals are like creating a Eurorack synth. The Arpanoid is especially interesting, plus now i understand why Meris pedals were created. So i learned something here. Thank you.
This is why I'm subbed. Kick ass video man! When I get bored of playing guitar I use my Exit Index as a greasy drum machine to begin generative synthesis. Good for harsh industrial shit
For those who find Eno's "Music For Airports" a bit to sweet, or maybe hear this as something belonging to an age where being at an airport was actually relaxing and pleasant, I recommend the much darker "Music For Real Airports" by The Black Dog. You find it on Spotify and sometimes tracks from the album here on RUclips. This album contains titles like "Disinformation Desk", "Empty Seat Calculations" and "Strip Light Hate". Love what you do here Stefan. When you wrote Pure Zeen my dyslectic brain said Purr Zen, you know, what cat's do : )
This is so cool. I've been playing with making sounds via pedals from exactly the perspective you suggested. Thank you for sharing your approach and awesome sounds. Subscribed!
Stellar ... thanks for the inspiration, and for laying out the history, too. A longtime Eno fan, so really happy to see you explore his concepts in today's "guitar" pedal environment. This leaves me with a lot to think about (now where's that old mini Yamaha sequencer of mine...hmmm).
Happy you enjoyed the vid, man! Arpanoid is a wild pedal. Most people get confused when they get it, because they expect a simple effect they can just engage, but Arpanoid truly is an instrument. It needs to be practised, played and honed like one. It's a killer textural tool.
Cheers, dude! I'm really happy you found the video enjoyable and helpful 😊You have any recordings of you using your pedals with trumpet and voice? Would love to hear it.
You've been such an inspiration when it comes to approaching pedal synergy. NOW the ask: I would LOVE it if you could get your hands on a Cooper FX or Chase Bliss/Cooper FX Generation Loss and make a demo... this is your wheelhouse, you'd crush it. Thanks and keep up the phenomenal work!!
Grazie per questo video, adoro la musica generativa e la roba random, ti sono molto grato per il video che hai fatto, facendomi scoprire un buon pedale random. Mi piace molto come suoni, hai delle belle idee, i pedali usati da te diventano magici, continua così, sei forte amico! :)
Thank god for Google Translate! Otherwise I would never have understood all the amazingly kind words you just wrote. Thank you so much! Really happy you liked the video so much, and that it introduced you to some fun new pedals. Generative Music is a ton of fun 😊
Outstanding! Thirty years ago I needed at least a half dozen Serge Modular panels to do this kind of stuff. Now You do it with a few pedals that can fit in a back pack. Awesome! 😂
Wow, this is awesome. I do and watch loads of generative stuff with synths but I've never really seen some with only pedals. Sounds great and flows in a neat and fluffy way! I'm slowly getting back into watching the videos that I skipped, can't wait to see more of this! :)
Absolutely blissful. I really hope you have future plans to release music! Was also curious about you’re post process on this - are the Polymoon’s outs just going into an interface and DAW, any post magic to bring it all together? Great video as always!
Thanks, man! Yeah, Polymoon is just going into my recorder. All I’ve done in post is bump up the volume a bit and added the slightest touch of compression, just to take care of possible spikes and peaks. But haven’t done anything to change the sound of the pedal chain. All of the sounds and effects you’re hearing are coming from those 5 pedals 😊👍
Another amazing video, simply thank you, i love ambient music and create it is something that i always wanted. Now i know what i need to make good music.
Excellent work Stefan. Clever and intelligent use of pedals to create awesome ambient music. Your channel is so inspiring and always pushes us to think about what we are doing to get more out of our gear rather than just trying to play faster/shred more or whatever. You've really opened my eyes to the possibility of using pedals more creatively and your words at the end of the video are very well said.
Stefan, I’ve only recently gotten into your channel, and I hate that I’m so late to the party. Beautiful work, my friend! Thank you for breaking down these ambient soundscapes in a way that isn’t bogged down with theory and super technical terms. I’ve already improved so much of the way I play just from the way you’ve broken down each element and effect. Thank you!
Completely blown away by your kindness. Thank you! I'm just so happy you find value and insight in my videos. Makes all the hours making them totally worth it.
When you realise that pedals sound better on their own than with you feeding them your guitar signal 😩 Amazing video Stefan, some true Brian Eno tones there !
Haha! Thanks, man 🙏 Some machines truly shine the less you tell them what to do. Sometimes they have stories to tell, and we need to get better at listening to them 😊
I absolutely love this! Stefan, have you ever tried pedals by the company 'Hungry Robot Pedals'? Not only do they make beautiful pedals that suits your style of playing, but they also have a complete range of modular 'guitar' pedals, something that has always been on the plate of keyboard players like Eno. Off course you can run anything through them, but with that range they really aim for adventurous guitarists like you (and many of us, your fans). I couldn't help but thinking about these Hungry Robot pedals (modular and non modular), for they deserve the attention from us for all they're doing.
Thank you so much! Well, maybe getting all of them at once is a bit intense, but you can always start with one of them. So which one are you getting? 😊😂
@@thepedalzoneI want to start with a better reverb and delay pedal for ambient guitar purposes (although I'm wondering if the Boss RV/DD 500 series are overkill...) But I'm super pumped to check out the Meris Enzo :)
So there's this new music tool called PlantWave that generates MIDI notes based on the electrical impulses on the surfaces of plants. It would be really cool to see if you could incorporate something like that into one of your compositions.
Ha! That sounds rad! I really suck at keeping plants though. The MIDI notes transmitted from my plants would probably just be SOS patterns and cries for help 😂
Hey guys. There's a synth kit that's well worth getting. The Korg NTS-1. The effects section has some very interesting atmospheric effects and modulations. For the $100 dollar price, the effects are outstanding and can easily be used with guitar pedals. My choice is Experience Pedal into Swollen Pickle into Plumes into Eccos into NTS-1 into Mackie 1202 out to phones or monitors.
Haha! Far from witchcraft. Just me getting bored with playing guitar, and wanted something else to do the music making for me. Laziness can be a good thing at times 😂 Happy you enjoyed the video. Means a lot 🙏
Ive been curious about the meris enzo and its tracking/processing from an octave pedal before it. Thinking about the POG I have preceding it rather than after it. Thoughts, Stefan?
It could work as long as you don't send too much complex information into it. I would stick to monophonic use to get the best possible tracking in that situation. If you want to feed Enzo polyphonic information, then I think it would be best to place the POG after it. But hey, there's only one way to find out. Try both setups and see what works best for your use case and context :)
Damn I need to get an Enzo... This is awesome though, had a lot of success doing this sorta semi-generative stuff using a Red Panda Tensor to record a small high pitched ~4 second loop then stretch it out into 2 mins or so, and run it through pitch shifter/delay/reverb down the chain to give parameters you can tweak.
Now that's some quality content there! Thanks, Stefan! I wonder if there's a pedal to create generative music?! So you don't have to hook up your phone in the chain.
Thanks! I’m not using my phone in this video. Just sending a looped drone in D into my pedals. That’s it. But if you want one single pedal to creat me generative music, then you need something like the Empress Zoia
the Arpanoid is the last pedal I bought after renting it for a while. I'm obsessed with putting it on random modes, followed by a ton of Avalanche Run and Specular Tempus reverb. Guess I'll have to put some Hypnotised through it now.
Happy you're diggin' the Arpanoid. It's a wild pedal, but once you understand that it's actually more of an instrument than a classic effect, then entire new worlds open up for you ☺
I don't do lessons/clinics. I have nothing to teach. I'm just a pedal nerd aimlessly messing around with stuff until I stumble on something that inspires me. There's no reason or rhyme to it all, hence not something I could quantifiably, concisely or professionally pass on to anyone. But definitely dive into the world of generative music. There's a ton of great resources out there on the world wide web 😊
Hey Stefan, I’ve been thinking about something for the past few days and it was inspired by this segment. OK, I strongly feel you should do a Vid on Generative Apps, maybe you have already and I missed it. You are the ambient guitarist on RUclips, so it’s a a logical that you cover Generative Apps. Thanks you Rock!
Happy to hear the video gave you some new insight. I got the t-shirt from Chase Bliss Audio at NAMM. Don’t know if they have more, but that’s the place to ask, if you need one.
Haha! Cheers, man. Still used a guitar though to create the simple drone that feeds into the pedals, but you could use any simple tone generator or oscillator to get those pedals to start working their magic. Happy you enjoyed it 😊
Hehe. It could be fun, but pedals are a big enough rabbit hole for me at the moment. Maybe someday, but definitely no current plans to destroy my economy with yet another crazy addictive hobby 😂
Quick question. How do you run two Meris pedals together and use them both in stereo? More specifically how did you run both the avalanche run polymoon next to each other in stereo?
Any suggestions for generative music apps for Android? All of the apps you use are iOS only. I found that there is a version of Bloom called "Bloom: 10 Worlds", but it is apparently incompatible with my devices :(
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Pedals truly can be amazing magical collaborators. Hope you enjoyed this episode of Tonal Teamwork. If you did, then please consider leaving a like or a comment. You're also more than welcome to share the vid with your friends. Every action means more than you could possibly imagine. As always, thank you for being epically awesome!
There really is zero need to even listen to five seconds before giving Stefan's videos a thumbs up. There's never been a bad one, and most have been just awesome... This was no exception...
That is really really really REALLY kind of you, man. Wow! Thank you for the support. Means the world to me ❤️🙏
So true, Stefan is really an artist who does a RUclips channel. Brilliant stuff for sure
More than just guiding me to buy amazing pedals, you have really been an ambient music teacher for me.
That is so kind of you. I'm just really stoked to hear you find some value and new insight in the videos I create. Keeps me motivated to keep creating ☺🙏
Very cool stuff brother - playing the pedals as instruments in themselves is a whole new dimension! Kudos
Thank you so much! That's my favorite thing to do with pedals. Seeking to discover their own voice and ability to act as an instrument
@@thepedalzone I'd be glad to send you our upcoming delay pedal, it's almost ready for production... It has the option to blend out the "dry" input, and output only the delayed signal, which would lend itself to this direction of sound sculpting! cheers joe / jdm pedals
I just started listening to "Music for Airports" while writing and I was like I want to figure out how to do this with pedals. I do a quick google search and, of course, Stefan pops up. No idea why I didn't simply search here first. This is exactly what I wanted. Thanks so much for doing this!
Been doing this unconsciously, good to know it is a genre in itself.
It's also a genre best practiced on a different level of consciousness 😊
ThePedalZone True
Bro, this sounds so cool. You've totally opened my mind up to the world of ambient music, thanks for the awesome videos.
Oh, man! I'm super honored to hear that! Thank you 🙏
this is so inspiring i was wondering if stuff like this is possible with guitar and pedals. seeing olafur arnalds doing whole pieces with two self-playing pianos... and here we are. first step. already got ideas for this to evolve further with superego and pitchshifting algos by eventide. thank you!
I'm deeply in awe of and inspired by Ólafur Arnalds and the way he combines classic instruments and modern technology. And I'm completely humbled by the fact that you enjoyed this video and found inspiration in it. Thank you so much. Your EHX Superego is gonna crazy cool for something like this ☺👍
@@thepedalzone just saw him live last tuesday. it was the best concert i've been to in a long time!
@@thepedalzone i made a first attempt with arpanoid. check it out on my channel and leave a comment.
Really nice Stefan, you are a true Abienator....You are really good at this.
Your passion and love of music always shows through no matter what the video!
I know I've already commented but I have to do it again. Lol
Absolutely beautiful. Loved how you split the stereo into two different pedals and then combined them in the AR. I've always wanted to do something like that, but you seem to have perfected it!
Thank you so much! 😊🙏 And yeah, there’s so many cool possibilities when you start running split stereo signal with different effects in the left and right channel. Can really conjure some unique textures 😊🌊
I cannot thank you enough Stefan for sharing this. This was the link I was missing for my music. I have been using Bloom and other apps as well as similar pedals for sound generation, even recording and looping my own local sounds, but the lightbulb just lit up. You are doing amazing things by sharing, truly a wonderful time we live in, thank you.
I'm incredibly honored to hear that the video gave you some new inspiration and insight. Thank you so much for watching and commenting. Means the world to me 🙏
An absolutely beautiful example of what you can achieve with just a few pedals. I will certainly be looking into the apps you mention at the top of the video!
Cheers, man! Really happy you liked the video 😊
Holy cow! I loved it! Thanks for sharing this amazing stuff, I just wanna cry of happiness.
Awwwww. I'm so happy you liked it. Thank you for watching and for writing such a nice comment. Means a lot 🙏❤
Oh, you've got the Arpanoid on one side and the Enzo on the other! That's such an good idea, I thought they might clash of run into eachother
Exactly, I've split them, so the two sequences don't affect each other. If you don't run a stereo setup, then you can also use a signal splitter like the Old Blood Noise Signal Splitter or KMA Tyler to use them in parallel, so the two sequences won't confuse each other.
Being new to "generative music" this video has me thinking these and maybe other pedals are like creating a Eurorack synth. The Arpanoid is especially interesting, plus now i understand why Meris pedals were created. So i learned something here. Thank you.
You should market and sell this to put kids to sleep...just soothing af man. Love it!!!
-Aaron
Haha! Not a bad idea 😂👍
Very freakin cool man, thanks so much!
This is why I'm subbed. Kick ass video man! When I get bored of playing guitar I use my Exit Index as a greasy drum machine to begin generative synthesis. Good for harsh industrial shit
Cheers, dude! Happy you enjoyed the video. Always wanted an Exit Index. Seems like a really cool pedal.
For those who find Eno's "Music For Airports" a bit to sweet, or maybe hear this as something belonging to an age where being at an airport was actually relaxing and pleasant, I recommend the much darker "Music For Real Airports" by The Black Dog. You find it on Spotify and sometimes tracks from the album here on RUclips. This album contains titles like "Disinformation Desk", "Empty Seat Calculations" and "Strip Light Hate".
Love what you do here Stefan. When you wrote Pure Zeen my dyslectic brain said Purr Zen, you know, what cat's do : )
This is so cool. I've been playing with making sounds via pedals from exactly the perspective you suggested. Thank you for sharing your approach and awesome sounds. Subscribed!
Dude. This is beautiful. Great video!
Thank you so much, man! 🙏
Stellar ... thanks for the inspiration, and for laying out the history, too. A longtime Eno fan, so really happy to see you explore his concepts in today's "guitar" pedal environment. This leaves me with a lot to think about (now where's that old mini Yamaha sequencer of mine...hmmm).
Oh, man! Thank you so much for your kindness. I'm totally blown away ❤
It never occurred to me that you could make ambient music with just pedals. Very cool!
I love Enos Ambient series...and Music for Airports is probably my favourite...awesome video as always Stefan!!
And I thought I couldn’t possibly love you more... Well, here we are. Here we are. My ambient heart is overflowing with feelings ❤️❤️❤️
I've been tempted but sceptical about the Arpanoid for quite a while, would love to hear you do more it with it. Thanks for the great video!
Happy you enjoyed the vid, man! Arpanoid is a wild pedal. Most people get confused when they get it, because they expect a simple effect they can just engage, but Arpanoid truly is an instrument. It needs to be practised, played and honed like one. It's a killer textural tool.
Incredible video. Really brilliant!
Thank you! Really means a lot to me 🙏
I love the way it builds up into this blissful bed of sound! Amazing!
Thank you! Really happy you liked it 🙏
This was EXACTLY was I wanted to see. I use my guitar pedals with my voice and trumpet, so this is perfect. Thanks, man. Your channel is gold.
Cheers, dude! I'm really happy you found the video enjoyable and helpful 😊You have any recordings of you using your pedals with trumpet and voice? Would love to hear it.
You've been such an inspiration when it comes to approaching pedal synergy. NOW the ask: I would LOVE it if you could get your hands on a Cooper FX or Chase Bliss/Cooper FX Generation Loss and make a demo... this is your wheelhouse, you'd crush it. Thanks and keep up the phenomenal work!!
Very kind of you! Thanks! Would love to check out a Cooper FX Generation Loss someday.
Wow. Mind blown. Stellar music and lesson. I feel very inspired.
Dude! So awesome to hear you found new inspiration in this video 😊🙏
Beautiful as always, my friend. Many thanks for putting these together - so inspiring!
I’m really happy you find zen and inspiration in my videos. Thank you for watching. Means so much ❤️🙏
Grazie per questo video, adoro la musica generativa e la roba random, ti sono molto grato per il video che hai fatto, facendomi scoprire un buon pedale random. Mi piace molto come suoni, hai delle belle idee, i pedali usati da te diventano magici, continua così, sei forte amico! :)
Thank god for Google Translate! Otherwise I would never have understood all the amazingly kind words you just wrote. Thank you so much! Really happy you liked the video so much, and that it introduced you to some fun new pedals. Generative Music is a ton of fun 😊
Amazing soundscapes, keep up the stellar work!
Extremely kind of you. Thank you! 🙏
Outstanding! Thirty years ago I needed at least a half dozen Serge Modular panels to do this kind of stuff. Now You do it with a few pedals that can fit in a back pack. Awesome! 😂
Awwww, thanks! Yeah, technology has come a long way 😊
Just spectacular. You are the best out there.
Oh wow! Thank you kindly 🙏
Thank you so much for this one, Stephan. So inspiring!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I never thought of pedals as instruments or generative expression! Thank you!!
I’m stoked the video was able to give you a new perspective on your pedals 😊
Excellent sound! Very imaginative use of those pedals.
Thank you so much 😊🙏
Wow, this is awesome. I do and watch loads of generative stuff with synths but I've never really seen some with only pedals. Sounds great and flows in a neat and fluffy way!
I'm slowly getting back into watching the videos that I skipped, can't wait to see more of this! :)
Thank you so much! Means a lot coming from someone who's really into generative music 😊
Absolutely blissful. I really hope you have future plans to release music! Was also curious about you’re post process on this - are the Polymoon’s outs just going into an interface and DAW, any post magic to bring it all together? Great video as always!
Thanks, man! Yeah, Polymoon is just going into my recorder. All I’ve done in post is bump up the volume a bit and added the slightest touch of compression, just to take care of possible spikes and peaks. But haven’t done anything to change the sound of the pedal chain. All of the sounds and effects you’re hearing are coming from those 5 pedals 😊👍
Thank you so much Stefan for all your videos. This is awesome work.
Thank you so much, man! I’m really happy you enjoyed it. It was fun to make 😊
Very eye opening video into a kind of music I was previously unaware of existing. Thank you very much for this gift! It is beautiful
I’m happy the video gave you some new musical insight 😊🙌
Lovely tones! I do ambient music and didn't know this documentary, thank you for that, ill check that out right now!
:)
Cheers, dude! Happy you enjoyed it 😊
Another amazing video, simply thank you, i love ambient music and create it is something that i always wanted. Now i know what i need to make good music.
I'm thrilled to hear you found some inspiration in the video. Makes it all worth it. Thanks for watching and commenting ❤🙏
Amazing video, thanks so much for sharing this!
Really kind of you 🙏 Thank you so much for watching and commenting. Means a lot ❤️
Excellent work Stefan. Clever and intelligent use of pedals to create awesome ambient music. Your channel is so inspiring and always pushes us to think about what we are doing to get more out of our gear rather than just trying to play faster/shred more or whatever. You've really opened my eyes to the possibility of using pedals more creatively and your words at the end of the video are very well said.
Completely humbled by your kind words. Thank you so much ❤
Hi Stefan, your videos are always very good and inspiring. This video gave me a whole new idea about using pedals.
That’s so cool to hear, man. Really happy you liked the video and that it gave you some new inspiration 😊🙏
What's the word again ? Oh yeah.... GENIUS !!!! Great vid Stefan, makes me want to dive into the genre.
You’re way too kind, man! Thank you ❤️🙏 So cool the video has made you want to explore the genre some more.
Love it 🙌
Thank you so much, my friend ❤️❤️❤️
Stefan, I’ve only recently gotten into your channel, and I hate that I’m so late to the party. Beautiful work, my friend! Thank you for breaking down these ambient soundscapes in a way that isn’t bogged down with theory and super technical terms. I’ve already improved so much of the way I play just from the way you’ve broken down each element and effect. Thank you!
Completely blown away by your kindness. Thank you! I'm just so happy you find value and insight in my videos. Makes all the hours making them totally worth it.
Great job man - do more of these space journeys! I loved the sit back and relax vibe. Make some longer spacescapes for us to go exploring in!
Thanks, man! Happy you enjoyed the sounds 😊
Sounds truly stunning, what a beautiful ambient soundscape. Your demos never fail to impress and inspire new levels of creativity ! Awesome !
This video was a HUGE inspiration!!!
Oh wow! That’s amazing ❤️🙏
Beautiful video my friend
Thank you so much 🙏
Blown away, amazing!!!
Thank you SO MUCH!
Yes Stefan, you nailed it! Brian Eno would be proud if he saw this
That is super kind of you. Thank you ❤️🙏
Fascinating and beautiful.
Thank you! Happy you enjoyed it 😊
this is so great, thank you Stef !
Thank you very very much!
Truly inspiring ! Thank you for this video !!!
I’m really happy to hear you found it inspiring. Thank you 🙏❤️
This sounds so good, so lush - happy in dreams.
Thank you so much, my friend!
so beautiful
Thank you very much!
Okay I have to try this now!
Happy to hear you found some new inspiration in this video
When you realise that pedals sound better on their own than with you feeding them your guitar signal 😩
Amazing video Stefan, some true Brian Eno tones there !
Haha! Thanks, man 🙏 Some machines truly shine the less you tell them what to do. Sometimes they have stories to tell, and we need to get better at listening to them 😊
very inspiring! thank you for the video :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Incredible sounds, man! I love this!
Super happy to hear that, my friend. Thank you 😊🙏
Awesome man, starting in to get into doing similar things with pedals
Cheers! Have fun with your Generative Music making. It's a lot of fun 😊
I absolutely love this!
Stefan, have you ever tried pedals by the company 'Hungry Robot Pedals'? Not only do they make beautiful pedals that suits your style of playing, but they also have a complete range of modular 'guitar' pedals, something that has always been on the plate of keyboard players like Eno. Off course you can run anything through them, but with that range they really aim for adventurous guitarists like you (and many of us, your fans). I couldn't help but thinking about these Hungry Robot pedals (modular and non modular), for they deserve the attention from us for all they're doing.
Thanks, man! No, haven't tried any Hungry Robot pedals, but I'm well aware of them. Looks like good stuff.
This was fantastic. Wish I was able to get my hands on all these 😍
Thank you so much! Well, maybe getting all of them at once is a bit intense, but you can always start with one of them. So which one are you getting? 😊😂
@@thepedalzoneI want to start with a better reverb and delay pedal for ambient guitar purposes (although I'm wondering if the Boss RV/DD 500 series are overkill...) But I'm super pumped to check out the Meris Enzo :)
So there's this new music tool called PlantWave that generates MIDI notes based on the electrical impulses on the surfaces of plants. It would be really cool to see if you could incorporate something like that into one of your compositions.
Ha! That sounds rad! I really suck at keeping plants though. The MIDI notes transmitted from my plants would probably just be SOS patterns and cries for help 😂
@@thepedalzone if it helps, you can also attach the sensors on the device to yourself and achieve the same effect.
Hey guys. There's a synth kit that's well worth getting. The Korg NTS-1. The effects section has some very interesting atmospheric effects and modulations. For the $100 dollar price, the effects are outstanding and can easily be used with guitar pedals. My choice is Experience Pedal into Swollen Pickle into Plumes into Eccos into NTS-1 into Mackie 1202 out to phones or monitors.
Love this one!!
Thank you! Means a lot 🙏
Awesome!
Thank you 😊🙏
Best pedal channel on RUclips ^^
Oh wow! Thank you SO MUCH! ❤
Yeaah
wow damn, this is so relaxing and otherwordly, I LOVE IT !
Awwww, man! Thank you. Happy it gave you a moment of zen ❤️🙏
Lovely stuff man!
Thank you! 😊🙏
So inspiring
Awesome to hear 🙏
That seems kinda witchcraft!!! Thanks for making these amazing videos! Sounds magical.
Haha! Far from witchcraft. Just me getting bored with playing guitar, and wanted something else to do the music making for me. Laziness can be a good thing at times 😂 Happy you enjoyed the video. Means a lot 🙏
Want all those pedals right now!!!!!
Go for it! 😊
This was really awesome!
Super happy to hear you enjoyed it 😊🙏
Hey Stefan...what connection are you using to go from I phone to pedals ?
Mini-jack to 1/4”.... Have you seen my video on how to use your phone with pedals? It explains it all 😊
ThePedalZone great...thanks Stefan 👍🤘
really awesome man!
Thank you kindly 🙏 Happy you enjoyed the video
Ive been curious about the meris enzo and its tracking/processing from an octave pedal before it. Thinking about the POG I have preceding it rather than after it. Thoughts, Stefan?
It could work as long as you don't send too much complex information into it. I would stick to monophonic use to get the best possible tracking in that situation. If you want to feed Enzo polyphonic information, then I think it would be best to place the POG after it. But hey, there's only one way to find out. Try both setups and see what works best for your use case and context :)
Damn I need to get an Enzo... This is awesome though, had a lot of success doing this sorta semi-generative stuff using a Red Panda Tensor to record a small high pitched ~4 second loop then stretch it out into 2 mins or so, and run it through pitch shifter/delay/reverb down the chain to give parameters you can tweak.
Now that's some quality content there! Thanks, Stefan!
I wonder if there's a pedal to create generative music?! So you don't have to hook up your phone in the chain.
Thanks! I’m not using my phone in this video. Just sending a looped drone in D into my pedals. That’s it. But if you want one single pedal to creat me generative music, then you need something like the Empress Zoia
@@thepedalzone Right! I forgot about the Zoia. Thanks, buddy!
the Arpanoid is the last pedal I bought after renting it for a while. I'm obsessed with putting it on random modes, followed by a ton of Avalanche Run and Specular Tempus reverb. Guess I'll have to put some Hypnotised through it now.
Happy you're diggin' the Arpanoid. It's a wild pedal, but once you understand that it's actually more of an instrument than a classic effect, then entire new worlds open up for you ☺
Are you doing any shows/clinics in person? Would love to do a lesson or something. Love your videos. Generative music is calling to me. :)
I don't do lessons/clinics. I have nothing to teach. I'm just a pedal nerd aimlessly messing around with stuff until I stumble on something that inspires me. There's no reason or rhyme to it all, hence not something I could quantifiably, concisely or professionally pass on to anyone. But definitely dive into the world of generative music. There's a ton of great resources out there on the world wide web 😊
ThePedalZone Thanks for the reply. I’ve been messing around with some generative ideas for a while. Really like your sounds. Wish you had an album!
Great stuff. Question. What pedal is behind you to the left of the Lysis? The one with all the knobs. I like my knobs in abundance.
Thanks, man! That's the Old Blood Noise Endeavors MAW next to the Lysis.
Hey Stefan, I’ve been thinking about something for the past few days and it was inspired by this segment. OK, I strongly feel you should do a Vid on Generative Apps, maybe you have already and I missed it. You are the ambient guitarist on RUclips, so it’s a a logical that you cover Generative Apps. Thanks you Rock!
I’ve done a video on my favorite music apps to use with pedals. A lot of generative ones in that vid.
@@thepedalzone Thanks Stefan, I’ll check it out. That makes sense, that you’ve covered this already...I feel a bit silly Lol. Thanks again
A fascinating look into a world I didn't know existed! But I really gotta ask, where can I get that T-shirt???
Happy to hear the video gave you some new insight. I got the t-shirt from Chase Bliss Audio at NAMM. Don’t know if they have more, but that’s the place to ask, if you need one.
Stefan is a sonic wizard!
Too kind of you 🙏
Thanks for the vid! What's the best way you've found to connect your phone to your pedalboard?
🌊 beautiful
Thank you very much ❤️🙏
The pedal wizard has transcended guitars. He creates with only pedals.
Haha! Cheers, man. Still used a guitar though to create the simple drone that feeds into the pedals, but you could use any simple tone generator or oscillator to get those pedals to start working their magic. Happy you enjoyed it 😊
very cool
Thanks! Happy you liked the video 😊👌
Have you ever thought about diving into modular syths ? Seems like you would have lot of fun, you basically use pedals the way modular syths are used.
I guess it may even be possible to mismatch modular synths and pedals, use modalar syth with guitar, etc. endless possibilities...
Hehe. It could be fun, but pedals are a big enough rabbit hole for me at the moment. Maybe someday, but definitely no current plans to destroy my economy with yet another crazy addictive hobby 😂
really nice!!!
Thank you 😊🙏
Quick question. How do you run two Meris pedals together and use them both in stereo? More specifically how did you run both the avalanche run polymoon next to each other in stereo?
I use a stereo splitter cable that goes from TRS to two mono outputs. HOSA makes a great one, which is the one I'm using.
Thank you for this.
My pleasure. Happy you enjoyed it 🙏
@@thepedalzone wanted to ask. Have you used or done anything with eventide h9?
This is wonderful. Is the Avalanche Run in true bypass or tails mode please?
Thank you very much! Can't remember what I had it set to in this video. Probably true bypass. But you can choose whatever you want.
Any suggestions for generative music apps for Android? All of the apps you use are iOS only. I found that there is a version of Bloom called "Bloom: 10 Worlds", but it is apparently incompatible with my devices :(
I'm pretty sure Coldplay: Hypnotised works for Android as well. It did at some point.
Otherwise check out Wotja. It's a bit more complex, but it's super cool :)
@@thepedalzone Awesome! I'll give those a shot. Thanks! :D
Infinite Pads, Etherpad and QiBrd are also worth checking out :)
@@ForeverChillMan Cool! Thanks :)