Also, a future version of Yeah with an "inverse" output for the envelope follower would be useful for creating a sidechain-like expression output. That would be very very cool, and not something I've seen in pedal form before.
After I saw this video, I ordered the Yeah and Lust. I got the Yeah yesterday and hooked it to my Afterneath and to the Boss SY1. If you use your own instrument signal, it can sound very cool and organic modulations. Then I ran a drum machine as the signal while my guitar was on the SY1 and it would very quickly cycle through the filter on whatever setting I had, but at the beat of the drum machine. It came out really really cool. I think I'll run it through the Pigtronix Mothership next! Thanks Simon! Such a cool idea!
Oh gosh that talkbox matrix looks amazing and highly fascinating to explore! Also congrats for all the other devices, they sound super fun to play with!
Your contact mic pedal can be used in really interesting ways. Contact mic pedal > envelope follower pedal > nasty > wet = Soma Labs Pipe competitor. You have all the building blocks ready to go
I couldn't find anything similar to the 'Yeah' pedal either so I tried to build my own using the (very basic) envelope follower circuit from Nicholas Collins - Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking and rigged it up to an LED/photoresistor optocouple thing. It worked and opened up some cool possibilities on my other pedals with EXP connections, but I didn't include a 'thru' path which I see you have put in that makes it way more practical! I found the sensitivity and range needed to be tweaked a lot to get good results on different pedals, so quite hard to set up for a live situation, interested to see more on this one if you've solved that in demos, or try it out myself if you're making more? Tip for anyone who got one or is DIYing it - a compressor in before the envelope generator helps in a lot of situations. Could also be a market for an envelope generator (rather than follower) with adjustable ADSR characteristics, maybe tying the attack time or sustain level to input level? Modular synth lot are probably all over this but not in pedal form.
I've been looking for a "Yeah"! There is nothing out there like it I can find. The closest thing that I know of is to create a custom ZOIA patch. I'm eagerly watching your store page waiting for the Yeah to show up 🙏 EDIT: Found that it's under "Misc" and not under "Pedals"
Ahh one day I need some of these. I got a steel tongue drum and a kalimba for my birthday :D One day I need a theremin! 10 mins later... I need to win the lottery. Imagine a wall full of pedals all ready tro be connected and tweaked. You could just live in that one room forever.
Dude, I have wanted a spring reverb tank pedal for years and I don't know why the hell nobody has done it before. I have no idea how much you're selling that for, it's likely too much for my poor pockets, but God damn yes man, I salute you. Also, idea for your feedback machine - put many little mics and speakers on sliders in their own tubes.
You should totally make an expression pedal based on Foam that is just a pressure to expression converter! Similar to how Yeah is just the envelope follower of Weird (I think). Congrats on all the new products, glad you're back 🥳
-Add a joystick/s to the tube feedback pedal with its function of controlling volumes of different feedback circuits on +x, +y, -x and -y axis. add on/off switches as alternative to buttons. You could morph/blend between the different droning feedback circuits. -add individual i/o for each circuit to add external effects.
Hitting Wet sounds like some sort of crazy gong/thunder effect. Imagine mounting one on a drum kit and playing it with sticks or mallets, or with a kick drum pedal.
9:23 - make all the tubes stationary because there’s only 1 speaker and give yourself the option to input on any tube with built in shut off for every tube as well. If you want it to be more steam punk-ish then use copper and if you want to be more tube-y use PEX 👍
Feedback Organ is the kind of thing I watch your channel for. The nozzle cap things could be silicone so you could stretch them and fit different plugs or sound funnels or make the whole thing easy to take out on either side; then..... that same idea you had could be explored in various, more echo-prone environments for feedback play.. like in a cave or something. Super cool man :)
Nasty is one of the coolest things I've seen on here, i really hope you release it and possibly a cv controllable version? That could be awesome as just a synth voice with more control.
with wet you could possibly have some sort of soft stick to hit it with as those noises are quite desirable :) would kind of hurt banging it after a while. such inventive gear i am al for them
Oh hey, Wet is similar to an idea I had for a reverb!! What a cool product. I wonder how Smooch would sound with a didgeridoo.... That could be lots of fun!
Now I'm trying to figure out what it actually was, um, so when you're at the talkbox and then cede into the springs I remembered. I'm not completely sure but I think it was that the signal got played into a kind of a chamber, twas an old barbecue half sphere and then 8 strings were strung through the space that also had a reverb plate. The hope was that all that various sound pressure, the speaker driving both the strings, with a pickup mounted, and the plate with piezos, could then be mixed with feedback applied as well. That was almost the last project before, it was quite a while ago, I finally got taken up by a art gallery and the painting and normal sculpture took off (for a few years)... then I went on holiday for ten years... but now I'm back! Anyway, I just thought that interactivity, physical, might be useful. Actually thing about it I should look into the sustainers, using coils to drive the strings themselves.
Copilot FX's Autodialer is an envelope expression pedal. Not super easy to get a hold of though and I don't know if it's technically the same thing or not
got my bit pirate v.2+ in the mail about a week ago. i'm now the proud owner of #34 from kansas, USA. i love the thing. feels so high quality, and i love the little easter egg on the pcb. fantastic pedal!! (the tap tempo mode blew my bandmates' minds lol) Edit: would this one be #34 of the entire bit pirate line? or just the bit pirate v.2 line? OR just the bit pirate v.2+ line??
man I wish shipping wasn't likely to be so much to New Zealand that it would double the price of the pedal or I'd love a couple of your creations. So the 6 OSC droney randomy thingo - slew on the S&H would be a nice addition? Also - instead of (as well as) random it's using the Turing Machine algorithm so if we like the pitch pattern we can have it repeat predictably? Just a thought. And another thought. I like this idea of checking out while you create then coming back to show what you did with the time. Maybe I should steal that idea, the internet is hellishly distracting! Nice to see you back and great to see how productive you've been!!
I have a pedal from a while ago called Clari(Not). It is a slap-back delay that has it's time controlled by the intensity of the input signal. It also had a built in fuzz. I modded it to give me an envelope out to hook to modular gear back when I was playing a lot. I think they used a vactrol inside to control it. I'm assuming it would work the same way if you hooked up the expression pedal to the Lust pedal. Would love to see.
I got an idea for a pedal that I think you are the only one capable of making into reality. (I have no idea how to make it work myself) It would be a type of delay pedal where the buffer would be effected by rolling a giant trackball from an arcade game, like Golden Tee. Rolling it on the X axis should do something and rolling on the Y axis should do something else. What? I don't know. Maybe delay time if you roll it forward/ away from you? Reverse if you roll backwards/ towards you? Right and Left? Glitch? Pitch? Feedback? It should only effect the audio when you roll the trackball so you could use short/quick rolls like a turntable. Or, roll it very hard to make it last as long as possible and get some aggression out. You use your imagination, I just want one of the pedals when you are finished.
"nasty" is like the sound of why I like the wasp put into a guitar pedal id pre-order that one if thats available i still love your disconoise even tho thats insane lol
I did a video on the disconoise on my channel by the way, gerbil hamster records! keep crushing it magpie! you rock and make super cool weird stuff someday i will own a beehive (or beehive adjacent) pedal but, i cant rationalize the purchase yet haha
Did "Wet" sell out already, or is it not available yet? I just hopped on the site to snag one, and it says "The quantity required exceeds the stock balance"
So many cool things. Love the design of your pedals as always. Super cool man.
p.s. Lust looks sooooo cool. I lust for it.
Okay wet also sounds awesome. They are all great.
i'm sorry, your work is so inspiring and i love everything that you do....BUT I CANT STOP STARING AT THAT PAPER
I can't stop looking at the paper
Now we need Magpie merch like "Stop Looking at this T-Shirt!" 🤣
THAT PAPER!!!
Also, a future version of Yeah with an "inverse" output for the envelope follower would be useful for creating a sidechain-like expression output. That would be very very cool, and not something I've seen in pedal form before.
After I saw this video, I ordered the Yeah and Lust. I got the Yeah yesterday and hooked it to my Afterneath and to the Boss SY1. If you use your own instrument signal, it can sound very cool and organic modulations. Then I ran a drum machine as the signal while my guitar was on the SY1 and it would very quickly cycle through the filter on whatever setting I had, but at the beat of the drum machine. It came out really really cool. I think I'll run it through the Pigtronix Mothership next! Thanks Simon! Such a cool idea!
Oh gosh that talkbox matrix looks amazing and highly fascinating to explore! Also congrats for all the other devices, they sound super fun to play with!
Imagine multiple people singing into the different tubes
Your contact mic pedal can be used in really interesting ways. Contact mic pedal > envelope follower pedal > nasty > wet = Soma Labs Pipe competitor. You have all the building blocks ready to go
We need a Magpie album of noisy textures and landscapes. Pure experimental madness
With special guest Duncan Trussel 🎉
CALIBRATION TAPES
I love how they look both cartoonish and very brutal at the same time
Combining contrasts is creativity condensed.
Thats noise music for ya lmao
I couldn't find anything similar to the 'Yeah' pedal either so I tried to build my own using the (very basic) envelope follower circuit from Nicholas Collins - Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking and rigged it up to an LED/photoresistor optocouple thing. It worked and opened up some cool possibilities on my other pedals with EXP connections, but I didn't include a 'thru' path which I see you have put in that makes it way more practical! I found the sensitivity and range needed to be tweaked a lot to get good results on different pedals, so quite hard to set up for a live situation, interested to see more on this one if you've solved that in demos, or try it out myself if you're making more? Tip for anyone who got one or is DIYing it - a compressor in before the envelope generator helps in a lot of situations.
Could also be a market for an envelope generator (rather than follower) with adjustable ADSR characteristics, maybe tying the attack time or sustain level to input level? Modular synth lot are probably all over this but not in pedal form.
Just ordered Yeah and Lust! Thanks man! Can't wait to make some noise with these!
I've been looking for a "Yeah"! There is nothing out there like it I can find. The closest thing that I know of is to create a custom ZOIA patch.
I'm eagerly watching your store page waiting for the Yeah to show up 🙏
EDIT: Found that it's under "Misc" and not under "Pedals"
Love em all. Especially the pressure sensor ones, Foam 2(?) .
Ahh one day I need some of these. I got a steel tongue drum and a kalimba for my birthday :D One day I need a theremin!
10 mins later... I need to win the lottery. Imagine a wall full of pedals all ready tro be connected and tweaked. You could just live in that one room forever.
So much cool stuff, so little disposable income.
Idea for the feedback organ…rubber caps for the speaker and the microphones. Or corks on strings?
Dude, I have wanted a spring reverb tank pedal for years and I don't know why the hell nobody has done it before. I have no idea how much you're selling that for, it's likely too much for my poor pockets, but God damn yes man, I salute you. Also, idea for your feedback machine - put many little mics and speakers on sliders in their own tubes.
You should totally make an expression pedal based on Foam that is just a pressure to expression converter! Similar to how Yeah is just the envelope follower of Weird (I think). Congrats on all the new products, glad you're back 🥳
-Add a joystick/s to the tube feedback pedal with its function of controlling volumes of different feedback circuits on +x, +y, -x and -y axis. add on/off switches as alternative to buttons. You could morph/blend between the different droning feedback circuits.
-add individual i/o for each circuit to add external effects.
Wow Simon, this new direction you have taken is bearing a lot of fruit. New stuff looks super-amazing. Love it. The talkbox thing is truly unique.
great video, loved the pedals! the drone oscillator looks fun haha
17:26 So this is the Crazy Bus Soundtrack in a box. Bold choice for your lineup
Hitting Wet sounds like some sort of crazy gong/thunder effect. Imagine mounting one on a drum kit and playing it with sticks or mallets, or with a kick drum pedal.
9:23 - make all the tubes stationary because there’s only 1 speaker and give yourself the option to input on any tube with built in shut off for every tube as well. If you want it to be more steam punk-ish then use copper and if you want to be more tube-y use PEX 👍
good to have ya back! the new pedals sound fantastic ^^
I love how you demo the stuff and are just in awe of the nonsense coming out. Really cool creations man
Its beautiful to see you having so much fun, just giggleing at your ideas & their results, as they overflow.
Immediately bought a Wet pedal. One of the coolest pedals I've ever seen or heard. I wish I could afford to buy all of your work!
Me too, it's just so beautiful
At least the moog matriarch includes a synth when you buy their spring reverb 😂
amazing work mate, absolute genius idiocy and ideas ;) they all look proper! .
This stuff is so cool, great work Simon.
7:41 That's the best reason to invent something 😁👍
Some kind of trombone like variable tube length in the feedbacker... love you, so glad you exist, super cool
Feedback Organ is the kind of thing I watch your channel for. The nozzle cap things could be silicone so you could stretch them and fit different plugs or sound funnels or make the whole thing easy to take out on either side; then..... that same idea you had could be explored in various, more echo-prone environments for feedback play.. like in a cave or something. Super cool man :)
Yeah bro you're freaking amazing. Very cool and inspiring stuff here. I hope you go on to become a music gadget guru.
I really like the "nasty' pedal.
id love to learn more about the foam one
not sure what it did but i like it 🤣
Nasty is one of the coolest things I've seen on here, i really hope you release it and possibly a cv controllable version? That could be awesome as just a synth voice with more control.
with wet you could possibly have some sort of soft stick to hit it with as those noises are quite desirable :) would kind of hurt banging it after a while. such inventive gear i am al for them
Wow ... congrats!!
You should make it possible to phaseswap each microphone on the feedback organ so you can play with sounddistance and cancellation around that
Oh hey, Wet is similar to an idea I had for a reverb!! What a cool product. I wonder how Smooch would sound with a didgeridoo.... That could be lots of fun!
Now I'm trying to figure out what it actually was, um, so when you're at the talkbox and then cede into the springs I remembered. I'm not completely sure but I think it was that the signal got played into a kind of a chamber, twas an old barbecue half sphere and then 8 strings were strung through the space that also had a reverb plate. The hope was that all that various sound pressure, the speaker driving both the strings, with a pickup mounted, and the plate with piezos, could then be mixed with feedback applied as well. That was almost the last project before, it was quite a while ago, I finally got taken up by a art gallery and the painting and normal sculpture took off (for a few years)... then I went on holiday for ten years... but now I'm back! Anyway, I just thought that interactivity, physical, might be useful. Actually thing about it I should look into the sustainers, using coils to drive the strings themselves.
Still waiting for magpie drum machine 🤖👌hop someday gonna happen
make it an accoustic 808!!
Very cool stuff thanks for making so much amazing gear
Let him cook, what a sick bunch of gear.
The feedback organ is truly shocking lmao
Damn the crazynator, it brings so many memories back !
same 😌
Killer, brother. I’m very happy to see all of this INSANE progress of yours! I am excited for you, mang!
_"Lets play back that kill-cam real quick; ... now, right here you can see my 'Yeah'-pedal-plans, just moments after it spawns..."_
Copilot FX's Autodialer is an envelope expression pedal. Not super easy to get a hold of though and I don't know if it's technically the same thing or not
Wet is lovely. I've built a small tank reverb for my modular, and it slaps
got my bit pirate v.2+ in the mail about a week ago. i'm now the proud owner of #34 from kansas, USA. i love the thing. feels so high quality, and i love the little easter egg on the pcb. fantastic pedal!! (the tap tempo mode blew my bandmates' minds lol)
Edit:
would this one be #34 of the entire bit pirate line?
or just the bit pirate v.2 line?
OR just the bit pirate v.2+ line??
Also, that Smootch demo sounds like leaked, mundane Operations-comms of Astronauts out on a maintenance float.
Holy shit ive been looking for an audio to expression signal converter forever!!!
I don't see in your website that 41-06 ?I'm interested I need that monster
I've wanted someone to make an envelope expression for so long thank youuuu
man I wish shipping wasn't likely to be so much to New Zealand that it would double the price of the pedal or I'd love a couple of your creations. So the 6 OSC droney randomy thingo - slew on the S&H would be a nice addition? Also - instead of (as well as) random it's using the Turing Machine algorithm so if we like the pitch pattern we can have it repeat predictably? Just a thought. And another thought.
I like this idea of checking out while you create then coming back to show what you did with the time. Maybe I should steal that idea, the internet is hellishly distracting! Nice to see you back and great to see how productive you've been!!
Shipping is included in Magpie Pedal purchases :)
@@NicStagewaiiiiiiit wut? woohoo! really?
Welcome Back!
I have a pedal from a while ago called Clari(Not). It is a slap-back delay that has it's time controlled by the intensity of the input signal. It also had a built in fuzz. I modded it to give me an envelope out to hook to modular gear back when I was playing a lot. I think they used a vactrol inside to control it. I'm assuming it would work the same way if you hooked up the expression pedal to the Lust pedal. Would love to see.
I’d use the feedback organ in drone n ambient projects. Please keep on developing this amazing concept.
I think I'll build a spring reverb of my own, with springs three or four feet long.
I got an idea for a pedal that I think you are the only one capable of making into reality. (I have no idea how to make it work myself) It would be a type of delay pedal where the buffer would be effected by rolling a giant trackball from an arcade game, like Golden Tee. Rolling it on the X axis should do something and rolling on the Y axis should do something else. What? I don't know. Maybe delay time if you roll it forward/ away from you? Reverse if you roll backwards/ towards you? Right and Left? Glitch? Pitch? Feedback? It should only effect the audio when you roll the trackball so you could use short/quick rolls like a turntable. Or, roll it very hard to make it last as long as possible and get some aggression out. You use your imagination, I just want one of the pedals when you are finished.
8:20 you should build Eurorack module versions of your pedals!
I can't wait to hear more about the Feedback Organ. Such a neat idea and a creative spin compared to a traditional Talkbox!
Would love to hear a demo of Bit Pirate V.2+ on guitar/bass!
Bummer that I missed out on Wet. Stoked to see what I can do with the Bit Pirate tho.
Hey, it looks like you just have mono in / out on the lust v2, so how is it you were able to get stereo sound? Does it have TRS in / out jacks?
fuckin great to have you back !
tube talkbox feedback matrix is bonkers.
I love the feedback organ its great sounding
"nasty" is like the sound of why I like the wasp put into a guitar pedal
id pre-order that one if thats available
i still love your disconoise even tho thats insane lol
yeah and the "crazinator" haha i need that! haha
I did a video on the disconoise on my channel by the way, gerbil hamster records! keep crushing it magpie! you rock and make super cool weird stuff
someday i will own a beehive (or beehive adjacent) pedal but, i cant rationalize the purchase yet haha
Cool stuff man!
Hey Magpie! I’m loving Kind of a One, is there a cd I can buy, or just download?
So you got so into the no input feedback stuff that you designed a pedal out of it? :D
It seems like you and Hainbach should collaborate!
this put me in such a good mood. these are all so fun!!!! I think i need a smootch 😘
don't forget to do a demo of the nasty w/ guitar please thanks please! i am hunting around but don't think you have yet at least
Seven seconds. Seven seconds before I noticed the paper. F you all. I’m taking you down with me. Awesome video man, new subscriber ✌🏻
i hard STARED at that paper the entire episode.
where do you get these massive enclosures
It seems the envelope follower expression pedal isn't on the website
awesome ! epic work dood !!
Yooo wet is super cool! It's like I dunno, super cool to use with modulat
I've never seen such envelope-cc converter, is mind-blowing
Gr8 design ideas...run smooch thru the tube organ..then regen it thru......
Did "Wet" sell out already, or is it not available yet? I just hopped on the site to snag one, and it says "The quantity required exceeds the stock balance"
Just saw this. No more Expression Yeah. Please make more!!!!!
epic as always magpie
😮😮😮 fantastic dude !!!
I loved the crazynator! I made one. But, didn't you take that video down or put it behind a pay wall?
Damn! Way too cool! All of it! Now I need to find some money!
Im glad beehives are still interesting and doing more weird
Since some of these are guitar pedals, it would be great if you could put guitar signal through them
I want one of those vests that he is wearing.
I want one NOW!!!
I really want the Nasty!
want them all...
Is the crazynator based on Holtek HT8950?
Damn I want them all!
Telex Copyette converted into a tape delay?....just thinking aloud.
Drums through nasty demo plz!
Are you planning on selling any?
I'll recommend this Video to some HighEnd Audio Freaks as Speaker Test "Material" ✊🔊🔊🕴
And I need at least one of those boxes 👀
SeeYa
Make a smaller version of Wet with one spring and call it Moist?