David is thinking totally off the page, and we need more of his genius in music. Some of us have been guilty of thinking the pedal industry is saturated, nothing new is happening, it's all been done before, etc. David Rainger is proof positive that a truly creative mind can inspire us and move us forward. Wow. Mind completely blown.
This might just have been the catalyst for pulling me out of a major depression. It’s just what my soul needed. Humanity at its absolute best. Thank you
This is INSANE! As a chemist I really love the idea of the minibar and I'm really thinking about buying one to even use it to teach chemistry at school! Btw: Salt increases the electrical conductivity of the liquid because it has free Ions, which increases the electrical conductivity. Sugar, as it's a molecular substance in general, doesn't contain free ions and don't ionize the liquid, so it conducts less electricity and thus has more gain. You can think about the liquids as a "gain drain", so, the better electrical conductor, the cleaner the signal because it's conducting the gain out of the pedal in a way.
Wow. There’s more creativity and uniqueness in just these 6 pedals from David than in the 1000s of pedals made by all the big name pedal companies for 30 years. So many shake your head and smile moments in this. What a star. Great stuff David.
Absolutely nothing in the world would make me happier than watching David Rainger sitting in a studio with Graham Coxon just having coffee, talking and playing with gear.
Loved the way Dan was completely silent at 42:10 then abruptly said "okay, sorry". I could tell he just had to experience the Drone Rainger because it was something completely new to him and he was internally going bonkers. What a pedal, but what a guy Dan is.
David reminds me of one of the pioneering lab-coated early producer / engineers of the mid 60’s who came up with all the classic effects we all know BUT at exactly the same time it’s like he’s from the future. What an inspiring dude
I hope his sales go through the roof for this. Truly innovative and original. I’d mount them on a board and let members of the audience have goes on them while I played.
They say that genius and madness are separated by a hair's width. I'm not quite sure what side of that line David's on, but I love his creativity. I can see myslf at my next open mike night "A pint of lager for myself and a port and brandy for the pedal please?"
Saw the episode, bought the pedal (MiniBar) and it is just awesomely bonkers … single malt is my favourite so far … big smile and laughing my head off as I try everything in the fridge … but it makes so much sense … playing blues … add whisky … pub rock … add beer … jazz … red wine ? Thanks you David, a creative legend
That ‘drone/delay’ is so beautiful, so therapeutic in a way. I want that. All for myself. Make my own little album and be calm and happy and mindfull. 😉
This is incredible! A whole new concept of pedal design, visually, internally and engineering process. Very intelligent human being. One of your best episodes ever. THANKS!
David is such a creative guy. A true mad scientist. A Carackticus Potts of the guitar world. His feet on the ground and his head in the clouds. A sound guy in every sense
I think the comment on why they're laughing is perfect. The entire episode I was giddy, but not because I was excited, it was because I could feel my flow state being inspired by the sheer creativity in these pedals. I want weirder pedals not because I want to be weird, but because it's what the future of music is
Inspiring. 1:06:10 'can you turn the jet plane off?' I love how effortlessly David invites us into his mindset :) This is frontier tone building, a-la early 60s, meted with 21st Century (TPS) pragmatism. Keep up your stella work gents.
"...If I have sake and soy sauce in there I think I play differently than when there's washing up liquid in there" - David Rainger, the Salvador Dali of pedals.
What a completely delightful person. Also the entire concept of "I'm interested in this, so I'm going to read books and just try until I know how to do the thing I want to do." is just brilliant. "Often, the way forward is to do the wrong thing." - Yeah, that's going into my journal. Great episode.
Please please find all the cool uk pedal builders and bring them in and do this (I know you’ve done thorpy and one or two other). This type of show is absolutely phenomenal and we need more.
David has a beautiful mind. What an original and innovative builder. Taking pedals in a new direction where the pedals themselves are unique instruments to be explored. Just wow. ❤
This might be one of the best TPS videos in a while! Also kudos to Rainger for making all these wild pedals. Even if I find it a bit tough to find a use for this stuff, I still hope others do and use them in musical ways because it's innovation like this that we need more in the pedal world.
Just Great TPS team (everyone!) I love pedals that inspire me by doing unusual things and I've not seen any better at capturing my imagination than these Rainger effects. You "play the pedal" as much as the guitar and the amp now. Maybe my favorite episode yet.
The world is a better place for having David Rainger in it. If your creativity wants to go all cosmik, or destructiv or just somewhere no one has been, here is how you do it. Invent a journey and fuck with the soundtrack. Never forget to press record.
As a dork, I want to say this: vegetable oils in *general* are pretty poor electrical conductors, and olive oil is particularly electrically insulating. So no surprise it makes no noise in the Minibar :D As an honorary Scot I want to say this: watching Mick down the leftover whisky rather than throwing it down the sink was the right choice.
Absolutely brilliant! One of the things I love most is hearing players who use effects outside of their usual parameters, though I have noticed it doesn't always resonate with the majority of other musicians in an audience. In a way David makes creating soundscapes easier for those of us with more limited imaginations --- he's combined many of the tools already rather than having to work out that what to use ourselves. And in checking That Pedal Shop, the Rainger FX prices are not at all expensive. Kind of under the radar. Wildly creative designs, certainly not for everyone though they can fulfill the standard functions of similar effects while offering a literally mind boggling scope for interpretation and experimentation. A stunningly outside the box approach to sonic manipulation is how I'd describe the Rainger FX gift to creators of sound.
Daivd Rainger is a genius. Much needed diversity in a world of digital reverb and delay units. In a market full of OD and Distortion. Almost all copies of copies of copied circuits. Rainger pedals are so incredibly unique and creative. They make you reframe your perspective on music and sound.
i'm in full agreement with you. I've lived with the Drone Rainger on my desk for a couple of years now, and i can tell you, with complete honesty, that having something like this tech at my fingertips has absolutely changed the way that i approach both sound design exploration and recording. having the ability to send an instant, pitched analog oscillation through whatever effect that i'm actively working on learning is ...well, orders of magnitude above whatever i was doing previously. Today's Drone Rainger signal chain: DR > MXR 10 > Tera Echo > SL2 > RT20. whoa
OH MY GOD!!! Please god more of this content. TPS leading the way in contrast to the millions of pedal reviews of the “newest” tube screamer/Klon/. Bloody marvellous stuff lads! Well done!
What an amazing dude , so creative , eloquent and mad but educated and self taught . Great Britain needs more of this . A very 1960s attitude . Love the pedals 🙌
This is the best thing on the Internet ever. I can totally see radiohead making great use of all these things. Just wow, kudos to dave, you just wiped the floor with several multimillion dollar empires in terms of creativity. This is innovation at its finest
What an absolute pleasure that was to watch. For me this has been the best pedal vid I’ve ever seen. Made want to get my credit card out. Incomparable to anything I’ve seen. The gentrification of the circuit board left me speechless. 😂😂😂What an artist David is. Incredible.
The most amazing pedal review I have ever seen on the internet. Each of these pedals was blowing me away. Thank you Dan and Mick. And hat off for Mr Granger.
This was simply terrific. The joy and awe from you guys as we heard the sounds brought me joy as well. I don't think Rainger pedals have made more sense than they have here. Having the man himself explain his inspiration and hearing it come to life was just awesome 😁
I wasn't sure what to expect because, in all honesty, I didn't really "like" any of the Rainger pedals from demos before. This is one of your best videos ever, especially featuring a pedal builder. David is truly inspiring, his ideas are incredibly creative, and NOW his pedals make sense to me. Very very cool
"It makes you think about your sound in a different way.." Never a truer word spoken, bravo David! 👏👏👏 What a great episode, a what a fantastic range of pedals - truly inspiring!
Possibly the best episode ever - Dave R explained his left field inventions in a way that was understandable by idiots like me ( and Mick n Dan) - before this they were 'mad crap' which made no sense. Now I want. Obviously not for your average pub gig - the land where mediocrity rules - but when you want to play something new this is a wonderful place. Next stop - fly in Fairfield Circuitry to explain their DIY ethic and bonkers sounds. C'mon FC we need to know what makes you tick.
David, you are such an inspiration and such a joy to watch and listen to! What a wonderful thing to see your personality and enthusiasm transported into your pedals. I’ve never met you in person, but I get the overwhelming sense you are the kind of man I wish I had known since childhood and would still be friends with in adulthood. Keep on, keeping on.
The phrase "mind blowing" has been used a lot here and for good reason. Just looking at the wall behind Mick & Dan, in every video, you get a glimpse of just how many guitar pedals are out there. And most fall into pretty well defined categories. David has turned up with not one, but six(!!!) completely unique & extraordinary pedals. And as bonkers as the concepts are, they sound great and seem to be fairly intuitive to use. Not to mention the striking looks. He is literally nailing it from every angle. (I studied chemistry at uni and I just love how the mini bar effectively uses a science experiment as the tone/gain control.)
This man is just crazy. In the best kind of way. He never got the note "you can't do that" so he just did it. Even if you don't have a need for any of his pedals, you can't go "that's stupid, it doesn't have any value". It makes you imagine all the possibilities just by seeing and hearing it. Those old oil can tremolos worked with the liquid floating from side to side and either blocking or unblocking the sensor.
Just wow I could listen to him talk all day!! I love David’s thinking… what a total genius I want them all then lock myself away with everything on 10 🤘😎🤘
Sean Lock’s crazy inventor son. Brilliant episode! What an inspiring bloke. Glad to see Mick didn’t waste any whiskey. Great stuff, many thanks from here in Oz. Also, Mick you are looking increasingly more comfortable with that SG.
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You need to get David Rainger, Graham Coxon, and Ed O'Brian on the show together. I think it would be the best 15 hours of guitar craziness ever!
Now that's some logistics to organise
Sweet Mercy. There wouldn't be a dry eye in the house.
and Greg Koch
Make it happen!
Not sure you've had a cooler dude on the show ever. What an absolute legend of a man. Genius
💯
David is thinking totally off the page, and we need more of his genius in music. Some of us have been guilty of thinking the pedal industry is saturated, nothing new is happening, it's all been done before, etc. David Rainger is proof positive that a truly creative mind can inspire us and move us forward. Wow. Mind completely blown.
This might just have been the catalyst for pulling me out of a major depression. It’s just what my soul needed. Humanity at its absolute best. Thank you
It was so great to see Dan's and Mick's minds genuinely been blown ... to another dimension.
This is INSANE! As a chemist I really love the idea of the minibar and I'm really thinking about buying one to even use it to teach chemistry at school!
Btw: Salt increases the electrical conductivity of the liquid because it has free Ions, which increases the electrical conductivity. Sugar, as it's a molecular substance in general, doesn't contain free ions and don't ionize the liquid, so it conducts less electricity and thus has more gain. You can think about the liquids as a "gain drain", so, the better electrical conductor, the cleaner the signal because it's conducting the gain out of the pedal in a way.
Love this, thank you!
So, what you're saying is, you could write a song for a 40% saline solution, a 45%, etc. :P
When I was a little kid this is exactly what I wanted pedals to be. This is still what I want pedals to be. I'm genuinely blown away.
The world needs more of everything this episode is about. Fantastic.
Wow. There’s more creativity and uniqueness in just these 6 pedals from David than in the 1000s of pedals made by all the big name pedal companies for 30 years. So many shake your head and smile moments in this. What a star. Great stuff David.
Had the pleasure of meeting David when I worked on Denmark St a few years ago. Lovely guy and undoubtedly a genius!
Gawd bless and sustain the great British eccentric - what a joy to have this man and his pedals in the world.
Dan nailed it, “It’s thinking about sound in a different way.” Absolutely! Really cool.
Absolutely nothing in the world would make me happier than watching David Rainger sitting in a studio with Graham Coxon just having coffee, talking and playing with gear.
Loved the way Dan was completely silent at 42:10 then abruptly said "okay, sorry". I could tell he just had to experience the Drone Rainger because it was something completely new to him and he was internally going bonkers. What a pedal, but what a guy Dan is.
I loved that moment where they were both holding their heads, speechless and David goes: "Is everyone ok?"
David reminds me of one of the pioneering lab-coated early producer / engineers of the mid 60’s who came up with all the classic effects we all know BUT at exactly the same time it’s like he’s from the future. What an inspiring dude
One of the most interesting conversations on here. Great job all around.
This guy is a legend. I don't own any of his yet, but I'm super fascinated with his entire ethos
I hope his sales go through the roof for this. Truly innovative and original. I’d mount them on a board and let members of the audience have goes on them while I played.
They say that genius and madness are separated by a hair's width. I'm not quite sure what side of that line David's on, but I love his creativity.
I can see myslf at my next open mike night "A pint of lager for myself and a port and brandy for the pedal please?"
Saw the episode, bought the pedal (MiniBar) and it is just awesomely bonkers … single malt is my favourite so far … big smile and laughing my head off as I try everything in the fridge … but it makes so much sense … playing blues … add whisky … pub rock … add beer … jazz … red wine ? Thanks you David, a creative legend
Ha! Awesome, nice one Sean! We reckon access to that different headspace is truly priceless!
Frost Blue Metallic S2 Studio ❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥
1:02:58. That look says it all. Rarely are both of you totally silent.
One of the best episodes yet. Keep up the great stuff D&M!
That ‘drone/delay’ is so beautiful, so therapeutic in a way. I want that. All for myself. Make my own little album and be calm and happy and mindfull. 😉
Pedals that sound great yet different at whatever settings is much more inspirational than set-and-forget single good sound setting pedals.
This is incredible! A whole new concept of pedal design, visually, internally and engineering process. Very intelligent human being. One of your best episodes ever. THANKS!
David is such a creative guy. A true mad scientist. A Carackticus Potts of the guitar world. His feet on the ground and his head in the clouds. A sound guy in every sense
I think the comment on why they're laughing is perfect. The entire episode I was giddy, but not because I was excited, it was because I could feel my flow state being inspired by the sheer creativity in these pedals. I want weirder pedals not because I want to be weird, but because it's what the future of music is
Some F’d up great creations. Protect him at all costs
Video needs a Love button. Like isn't quite enough.
What a lovely bloke, and what a mind. Funny too - you could drop him straight into Spinal Tap or Wayne's World. He's like Sean Lock's happier brother.
This is the most fun I’ve had watching this show in a LONG time. I laughed and wished I was talented enough to make this work.
The flanger x on the rocket setting is one of those subtle “always on pedals” in my opinion
Hahahahha!
His enthusiasm is infectious. A brilliant mad genius.
@BUNFIGHT SPECIALIST 👃 👃 I smell frustrated troll
What an absolute breath of fresh air. Thank you, David.
Inspiring. 1:06:10 'can you turn the jet plane off?' I love how effortlessly David invites us into his mindset :) This is frontier tone building, a-la early 60s, meted with 21st Century (TPS) pragmatism. Keep up your stella work gents.
I click the like button just after Micks comment about having a Rhythm pedal on the board. Fun Fun Fun. Love TPS got weird with Rainger Fx.
"...If I have sake and soy sauce in there I think I play differently than when there's washing up liquid in there" - David Rainger, the Salvador Dali of pedals.
What a completely delightful person.
Also the entire concept of "I'm interested in this, so I'm going to read books and just try until I know how to do the thing I want to do." is just brilliant.
"Often, the way forward is to do the wrong thing." - Yeah, that's going into my journal.
Great episode.
David Rainger’s the shot in the arm this show’s been needing! I wrote about the FREAKENSTEIN pedal as exhibited in Pedal Culture.
Holy amazing Flanger!!! That was so cool.
Every other guitar gear channel - 'ToneX vs Kemper'
That Pedal Show - 'Hold my beer. Here's something different.'
Please please find all the cool uk pedal builders and bring them in and do this (I know you’ve done thorpy and one or two other). This type of show is absolutely phenomenal and we need more.
David has a beautiful mind. What an original and innovative builder. Taking pedals in a new direction where the pedals themselves are unique instruments to be explored. Just wow. ❤
whoa! thank you! DRainger and crew are amazing!
That’s the best Flanger I’ve ever heard. Buying one. What a great episode!!!!
This might be one of the best TPS videos in a while! Also kudos to Rainger for making all these wild pedals. Even if I find it a bit tough to find a use for this stuff, I still hope others do and use them in musical ways because it's innovation like this that we need more in the pedal world.
The idea that you could actually hear the tone of blood sweat and tears with the mini bar is crazy
This is 100 percent my favorite episode of tps
This was great. I can't even conceive of an imagination anywhere near to David's.
Especially when he played at the end! My God.
I’m so happy. Thank you for this
Just Great TPS team (everyone!) I love pedals that inspire me by doing unusual things and I've not seen any better at capturing my imagination than these Rainger effects. You "play the pedal" as much as the guitar and the amp now. Maybe my favorite episode yet.
The world is a better place for having David Rainger in it. If your creativity wants to go all cosmik, or destructiv or just somewhere no one has been, here is how you do it. Invent a journey and fuck with the soundtrack. Never forget to press record.
I have never smiled so much in my life. Wonderful show! Thank you!
As a dork, I want to say this: vegetable oils in *general* are pretty poor electrical conductors, and olive oil is particularly electrically insulating. So no surprise it makes no noise in the Minibar :D
As an honorary Scot I want to say this: watching Mick down the leftover whisky rather than throwing it down the sink was the right choice.
Absolutely brilliant!
One of the things I love most is hearing players who use effects outside of their usual parameters, though I have noticed it doesn't always resonate with the majority of other musicians in an audience.
In a way David makes creating soundscapes easier for those of us with more limited imaginations --- he's combined many of the tools already rather than having to work out that what to use ourselves.
And in checking That Pedal Shop, the Rainger FX prices are not at all expensive. Kind of under the radar.
Wildly creative designs, certainly not for everyone though they can fulfill the standard functions of similar effects while offering a literally mind boggling scope for interpretation and experimentation.
A stunningly outside the box approach to sonic manipulation is how I'd describe the Rainger FX gift to creators of sound.
Daivd Rainger is a genius. Much needed diversity in a world of digital reverb and delay units. In a market full of OD and Distortion. Almost all copies of copies of copied circuits.
Rainger pedals are so incredibly unique and creative. They make you reframe your perspective on music and sound.
i'm in full agreement with you. I've lived with the Drone Rainger on my desk for a couple of years now, and i can tell you, with complete honesty, that having something like this tech at my fingertips has absolutely changed the way that i approach both sound design exploration and recording. having the ability to send an instant, pitched analog oscillation through whatever effect that i'm actively working on learning is ...well, orders of magnitude above whatever i was doing previously.
Today's Drone Rainger signal chain: DR > MXR 10 > Tera Echo > SL2 > RT20. whoa
OH MY GOD!!! Please god more of this content. TPS leading the way in contrast to the millions of pedal reviews of the “newest” tube screamer/Klon/. Bloody marvellous stuff lads! Well done!
What a cool dude! Thinking inside and outside of the rhomboid shaped box!
What an amazing dude , so creative , eloquent and mad but educated and self taught . Great Britain needs more of this . A very 1960s attitude . Love the pedals 🙌
All your recent episodes have been much fun, but this one made me smile and laugh the whole time. Thanks, Dan and Mick and David.
It’s not another tubescreamer. Thank goodness for that! Oh how the world is improved by the likes of Mr Grainger.
This is the best thing on the Internet ever. I can totally see radiohead making great use of all these things. Just wow, kudos to dave, you just wiped the floor with several multimillion dollar empires in terms of creativity. This is innovation at its finest
What an absolute pleasure that was to watch. For me this has been the best pedal vid I’ve ever seen. Made want to get my credit card out. Incomparable to anything I’ve seen. The gentrification of the circuit board left me speechless. 😂😂😂What an artist David is. Incredible.
The most amazing pedal review I have ever seen on the internet. Each of these pedals was blowing me away. Thank you Dan and Mick. And hat off for Mr Granger.
At the risk of repeating other’s’ comments, mind blown. Wonderful tones and flexibility!
David Rainger is the sort of human we should all aspire to. What an awesome person!!!
This was simply terrific. The joy and awe from you guys as we heard the sounds brought me joy as well. I don't think Rainger pedals have made more sense than they have here. Having the man himself explain his inspiration and hearing it come to life was just awesome 😁
Highlight of my weekend RIGHT HERE!!!! So, soooo good.
Truly "Way out and toilets" moments. Fantastic creative sounds. Great inspirational show. Far out.
I wasn't sure what to expect because, in all honesty, I didn't really "like" any of the Rainger pedals from demos before.
This is one of your best videos ever, especially featuring a pedal builder. David is truly inspiring, his ideas are incredibly creative, and NOW his pedals make sense to me.
Very very cool
Top Five episode. Going to watch it a second time. Awesome!
Not bored by pedals anymore! This is brilliant, and so creative! David you are a genious, and thank you That Pedal Show for the discovery!
45:43 YES! In the Light is exactly what I thought of as soon as David began demoing the pedal! Nailed that feel!
I love my Rainger FX pedals if anything because they look badass. Who else has so much fun making pedals !
Nice work lads, labelling the 11min time snap in tribute to the mighty Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Those who know, know that "The blues is number 1"
Take a whiff of my pant leg baby!
What an inspiring episode, not just sonically but also David's attitude and outlook. I loved this episode what a ride :)
This is indeed one of the best TPS videos ever!!! Truly amazing!
"It makes you think about your sound in a different way.." Never a truer word spoken, bravo David! 👏👏👏 What a great episode, a what a fantastic range of pedals - truly inspiring!
Utterly bonkers ideas that actually work. I'm amazed.
This content was so much fun! Well done gentlemen!!
Love to have my boundaries expanded by the creative genius of people like David!
Possibly the best episode ever - Dave R explained his left field inventions in a way that was understandable by idiots like me ( and Mick n Dan) - before this they were 'mad crap' which made no sense. Now I want.
Obviously not for your average pub gig - the land where mediocrity rules - but when you want to play something new this is a wonderful place.
Next stop - fly in Fairfield Circuitry to explain their DIY ethic and bonkers sounds. C'mon FC we need to know what makes you tick.
Never been a fan of weird effects - this episode was so much more enjoyable than I expected. The jam at the end was fantastic.
In tonights show,
Mick has a whisky and coke,
Dan becomes a DJ,
And a mad man brings in some pedals!
David, you are such an inspiration and such a joy to watch and listen to! What a wonderful thing to see your personality and enthusiasm transported into your pedals. I’ve never met you in person, but I get the overwhelming sense you are the kind of man I wish I had known since childhood and would still be friends with in adulthood. Keep on, keeping on.
I could listen to David talk all day. What a character and what brilliant pedals! Great show guys👌
The phrase "mind blowing" has been used a lot here and for good reason. Just looking at the wall behind Mick & Dan, in every video, you get a glimpse of just how many guitar pedals are out there. And most fall into pretty well defined categories.
David has turned up with not one, but six(!!!) completely unique & extraordinary pedals. And as bonkers as the concepts are, they sound great and seem to be fairly intuitive to use. Not to mention the striking looks. He is literally nailing it from every angle.
(I studied chemistry at uni and I just love how the mini bar effectively uses a science experiment as the tone/gain control.)
I LOVE THIS GUY! Insane creativity! Not sure if any of these pedals are for me but Im still blown away!
This man is just crazy. In the best kind of way. He never got the note "you can't do that" so he just did it. Even if you don't have a need for any of his pedals, you can't go "that's stupid, it doesn't have any value". It makes you imagine all the possibilities just by seeing and hearing it.
Those old oil can tremolos worked with the liquid floating from side to side and either blocking or unblocking the sensor.
This was the most fun I have ever had watching a pedal review in my whole life. What a blast. Thanks you guys!
When the 'mad professor' makes pedals and you get joyous results....!
OMG!....flabbergasted....and to see Dan & Mick so incredulous is really going some....this was just so much fun!....unbelievably creative....
David Rainger is, without doubt, a genius .
One of the most interesting/inspirational episodes , bravo 👏
Just wow I could listen to him talk all day!! I love David’s thinking… what a total genius I want them all then lock myself away with everything on 10 🤘😎🤘
I’ve never seen Dan this giddy, and I’m right there with him.
Holy hell lads that was an epic show 😳😱🤯 David is a freaking genius 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🎛️
David is the most humble, mad scientist ever! Great show!
Favorite guest ever his creativity is incredible
Sean Lock’s crazy inventor son. Brilliant episode! What an inspiring bloke. Glad to see Mick didn’t waste any whiskey. Great stuff, many thanks from here in Oz. Also, Mick you are looking increasingly more comfortable with that SG.
I've been waiting for this! David Rainger is a genius. His creations are the most inspiring pedals every made.