this is an excellent idea for a pedal, awesome mix of quality conventional function and next level creative control. haven't come across a pedal that made me really want to check it out in a while, cool!
You had my attention as soon as you said "wavefolder". There are not nearly enough wavefolder pedals in the world. It is a really interesting effect and desperately under-explored.
Love how you did both guitar and synth/drum machine demos with these, and love that you used Rogan knobs - I've been saying these are the best for years. Great pedal designs!
Im just saying it would’ve been nice to turn one on then the other so you could hear each’s contribution to the resulting sound. But i guess you just writing it works 🤷♂️
I wanna hear that internal synth!! wait!! holy crap!! that's it at 5:15 I love it!! update: ALL of the synths in this vid are the SID chip!! sweet baby jesus!!
How does Sparks create harmonic tremolo? Is that a combination of other built in effects or an actual setting you can select? And does Sparks do classic amplitude tremolo as well?
To get a harmonic tremolo on Sparks you map the LFO to the filter mode. This will modulate the filter between high pass, band pass, and low pass. To get a normal tremolo, you map the LFO to the LEVEL control. The LFO has different waveforms so you can do smooth tremolo, hard chop, or other interesting shapes.
Thanks for the feedback! We’ll work on putting together some more clips of it on its own. 🙂 The guitar used for this clip was a telecaster with humbucker neck and single coil bridge.
It’s a capacitive touch keyboard prototype from us. In this video it’s just being used as a MIDI keyboard but it will have many other features. You can join our forum if you’d like to be the first to know about it!
It's it an MPE style keyboard? That would be fun with the Spark. Can you simultaneously play the Osc and route audio through it. That could be some glitchy fun with something like a Jamstick.
Thanks! At first I was like 😮 but then I remembered the frickin 4 voice polysynth onboard and the fact that this pedal could be my new favorite tremolo, on top of the filters (including envelope filter) wavefolding and of course many flavors of dirt. That's a lot of value in a compact package!
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this is an excellent idea for a pedal, awesome mix of quality conventional function and next level creative control. haven't come across a pedal that made me really want to check it out in a while, cool!
I still can't get over the fact this is so many pedals at once... AND A FULL SYNTH.
Both the Sparks and the Ribbons look great! Hope to get my hands on both some day.
Super! I found this by searching what stereo pedal retains stereo image in bypass. I didn't expect such a wild filtery pedal. Subscribed.
More ribbns please i’m not gonna pay $800 for one on Reverb lol. The world needs more please.
They’re on the way! Make a forum account if you want to be notified when the next batch is available.
You had my attention as soon as you said "wavefolder". There are not nearly enough wavefolder pedals in the world. It is a really interesting effect and desperately under-explored.
I love a unique multi-tool w/ a voice of its own (literally)!
Looks super cool.
stephen likey!!
yip-yip yay-yaaaay!!
Love how you did both guitar and synth/drum machine demos with these, and love that you used Rogan knobs - I've been saying these are the best for years. Great pedal designs!
The examples that have the Ribbons make it hard to know what is doing what
We explain how we made each track in the video description. :)
Im just saying it would’ve been nice to turn one on then the other so you could hear each’s contribution to the resulting sound. But i guess you just writing it works 🤷♂️
If you can't showcase it on its own at this stage, turn off time.
Agreed. Even when explained, the audio demo isn’t clear when hearing both pedals combined
I can hear it fine, but I've been an audio engineer since the 1900s 😂
I wanna hear that internal synth!! wait!! holy crap!! that's it at 5:15 I love it!! update: ALL of the synths in this vid are the SID chip!! sweet baby jesus!!
Flippin' lovely and I want one.
Your pedals intrigue me but at the same time confuse me because I'm dumb
You have somehow managed to create a pedal that is a solution for at least 3 to 42 of my musical and non-musical desires/problems 🫶🏼
>Stereo Distortion with a Blend Control and MIDI
Well, guess I'm buying this.
The sound at 4:04 is just amazing.
Never heard ring modulation used to such great effect.
@@bcmhayesthat is some remarkably musical ring mod.
Could you please upload bass demos?
Will Ribbons be available again???
Yep! We’ll keep making them.
@@kinotone RIBBONS! RIBBONS! WE NEED RIBBONS! )))
@@kinotone cool, can't wait
Very very very neat 😊
I want to see how it is controlled with those knobs and fucntions. :)
Great work, very creative.
Hell yeah love the Deerhoof, it would be interesting to see what Ed Rodriguez could cook up with this
Ed was not in Deerfhoof for the Runners Four album. That’s John Dieterich.
You had me at "sync to midi clock"
0:57 campfire headphase zone
exactly what I thought
fucking dayvan cowboy
Please do a more in depth how-to video. Kind of hard to tell what the pedal is doing vs what the source audio is doing on this vid
We will! Should be out in the next couple weeks. 🙂
Finally an interesting pedal, and you aren't playing generic blues rock licks.
you ever seen knobs' channel...?!?
Sweet, sounds kinda like an analog version of the Ultrawave
0:57 My Boards Of Bloody Valentine 🤩
Oof. That’s bloomin’ lovely
man thats insane!!!!!!!!!
Great pedal✌🏻
Definitely getting into synth territory here.
Lovely sounds. I don’t play guitar but I haven’t heard a pedal before that sounds quite like this one
I was thinking something similar. this is a bit more guitar-centric than what I'm usually interested in. but I'm REALLY interested in this one!!
The “This American Life” of pedals
Amazing!
SID chip? like C64?
yarr!! 🎉
Is that your riff at 2:28?
It's called 'wrong time capsule' by deerhoof
Wow what a great effect unit!😮
Do you have delays too?
CONGRATS ♥♥♥
Eh eh when the eurorack module? 😂
How does Sparks create harmonic tremolo? Is that a combination of other built in effects or an actual setting you can select? And does Sparks do classic amplitude tremolo as well?
To get a harmonic tremolo on Sparks you map the LFO to the filter mode. This will modulate the filter between high pass, band pass, and low pass.
To get a normal tremolo, you map the LFO to the LEVEL control.
The LFO has different waveforms so you can do smooth tremolo, hard chop, or other interesting shapes.
Awesome, thanks for the response! This is such a cool combination of end of chain or even all-in-one effects. 😃
@@kinotoneI love that y'all reply like you do. glob bless you, kinotone!! & the horse you rode in on!!
Love the gnarly guitar sounds, but - who can tell what the pedal does on its own..
BTW, what’s the guitar? Sounds like a Jaguar.
Thanks for the feedback! We’ll work on putting together some more clips of it on its own. 🙂
The guitar used for this clip was a telecaster with humbucker neck and single coil bridge.
What is this keyboard (buchla style)?
It’s a capacitive touch keyboard prototype from us. In this video it’s just being used as a MIDI keyboard but it will have many other features. You can join our forum if you’d like to be the first to know about it!
It's it an MPE style keyboard? That would be fun with the Spark.
Can you simultaneously play the Osc and route audio through it. That could be some glitchy fun with something like a Jamstick.
@@jquanmusic yes on Sparks you can run audio through the input while simultaneously using the synth 🙂
@@kinotonewow!! very excited about this!!
Yesssss
🤘👏👏👏
Music has the Right to Children. Children playing Deerhoof riffs.
Ah, these knobs remind me of MI…
This thing is basically how they advertised Fakeblock in Arrested development
$400
Thanks! At first I was like 😮 but then I remembered the frickin 4 voice polysynth onboard and the fact that this pedal could be my new favorite tremolo, on top of the filters (including envelope filter) wavefolding and of course many flavors of dirt. That's a lot of value in a compact package!
bruh
Very cool, but pretty much unattainable
Don’t know what is doing what. Very poor demo.
check the description. there's a very clear & thorough breakdown at each timestamp.
Potentials there.but stop making a synthesizer from a guitar...
It's a pedal that passes and effects audio. You can plug anything into it.
NO!! don't stop!!
1:15 great :) Ulrich Schnauss vibes :)