thx ☺ Yep, I’m using reverb (I think plate verb from the M5, but not sure I remember correctly) into the Kingsley tube overdrive, and then into more reverb. I think Jónsi uses reverb into dirt on the original, too; possibly just a reverb into an overdriven Marshall. By “that one sample“ you mean the sonar ping thing? Not sure with which device Sigur Rós created it, but you can get close with any analogue or VA synth that has a noise generator and a self-oscillating filter; in this case, digital noise generator of the Analog RYTM into its analogue filter.

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion yeah that’s exactly what I was talking about, the sonar ping thingie. Your recreation of it sounds spot on. I’ll try that noise generator with the filter today. That’s sounds like it’d be a good time. I haven’t tried to recreate many sounds on synths like I can with guitar.

thx

same here 🙂

Noise floor is low enough for my purposes. I bought the SK20 2nd hand, it had a few issues (not uncommon for a 43 years old electronic device), like two of the switches didn’t work properly, and the middle C key often failed to produce sound. Mr. Kristkeitz, a repair guy here in Cologne/Germany, cleaned the synth and fixed the issues for me at a very reasonable price. Yamaha had their own ICs, I guess many of the parts would be hard to source. Mr. Kristkeitz internally swapped parts of the keyboard, so that the more-often played middle keys, that were been a bit worn-out, and the outer keys swapped positions; he told me this would extend the overall lifetime of the keyboard, and so far, it works perfectly.

PS: Used the SK-20 recently as backing for a guitar pedal demo, kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6iVm6KGmL2Gg6M

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion thanks bud 🙂

Thanks! The yellow switcher was custom built by Dirk Meyer from www.dimehead.de/ ... it’s not MIDI, just A. a true bypass switcher (middle footswich) which I use to bypass the whole board, mainly for testing and for emergencies on stage; B. a relais-based A/B switch which can be remote controlled via a TS jack, which I control from my ES-5, and C. a set of 4 regular momentary footswitches, 2 of which go to the ES-5 as external footswitches, while the 2 other control preset up/down on the Voluum via a special cable (built to the specifications from the Voluum user manual).

thx ... in a vid with mostly clean sounds, at least the guitar itself need to be dirty ;-D Check my dedicated Voluum vid: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWWZiX-EhqZod6s

Thanks 😊 About the tones in my “House of Cards” version: For the rhythm part, it's mainly the Kingsley overdrive at low gain into Timeline on tape delay emulation, with some VCA compression from the Sonuus Voluum; Club King on Neck PU. Bass part is Voluum doing compression into M5 on “Bass Octaver” model. Lead is similar as rhythm, but with Club King on Bridge PU, ProStage Remote Wah (mounted under the board) used as a clean boost to push the Kingsley further into overdrive, and Timeline on same preset, but with delay mix and repeats turned up quite a bit.

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion Awesome! Thank you for taking the time to respond and lay that out so clearly! ☺️👍

Thx :-) Each of the 12 AR tracks + the FX track can send MIDI notes on individual channels. Those tracks are basically monophonic, but you can get up to 3 notes playing at (almost) the same time from a single track, and even more polyphony through overlapping notes. Check my vid kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqLGmoOiopdqraM 😎

thx :-) Bottom left are the mini expression knob and dual footswitch controlling the Pirate MIDI Bridge4 controller. The dual footswitch goes up/down through 5 banks on the Bridge4. The mini expression knob has different functionality on each of those banks (looper level, reverb mix, delay mix, tremolo depth, volume adjust +/- 6 dB)

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion that sounds like a brilliant setup. If you were starting today, would you still use the Bridge4 with accessory switches? I’ve been looking at bridge6, Morningstar 6 pro, etc. Maybe a smaller unit with accessory switches is the way to go instead.

@@armandosinger For my setup, the Bridge4 made more sense: I like my pedalboards compact, with the best use of space (i.e. Tetris). Bridge6 wouldn't fit that well. And since I use that external dual switch only for paging up/down, I don't need LEDs on those switches. So a Bridge6 would not have an advantage over Bridge4+external dual switch. But that is only for my board size and use case 🙂

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion makes sense!

thx :-) in any drumpad mode, you can hold the PERF button and meanwhile select which of the pads should be active

not bad, but: no ☺️

it’s an eBow; a device that will make a guitar string vibrate by creating an electromagnetic field. Jónsi of Sigur Rós uses an actual Cello bow to play this guitar part (as he does on most Sigur Rós tracks). I neither have an actual bow, nor any skills to operate it, so the eBow had to do the job 😀

thanks 😊

cool, always good to have spare parts 🎹

Thx! About “air”: I guess this is somewhat subjective. I had a Gibson ES-135 Ltd. before, and I would say it’s comparable on both, both sound more like a solid body than like a full-hollow guitar.

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion appreciate the reply! Play on 👍

thx ☺️

thanks

Hi Louis, thanks! Unfortunately, the AR cannot send CCs. Those Elektron machines sometimes have strange weaknesses: I do get that they sometimes have the approach “limitations can ignite creativity”, and also, “let’s give our various machines distinct profiles, so that people will buy more different Elektron boxes”. But stuff like “AR can do parameter slides, but no MIDI CC output; while DN can do MIDI CC output, but no parameter slides; so NEITHER can sequence fluid CC changes” kinda bugs me.

@@TheGuacamoleXplosion lol. yeah it's crazy, especially considering the price tag. if they want us to buy more elektron they could work on the connectivity/link between their own machines, instead of limiting basic functionality. if something has an encoder then it can send the value. In any case I was prepared for that and will have to grab my pyramid live as well, no problem. Thank you so much for your answer !

thx ☺it was also a lot of fun

If you want to use it for the Stomp/Stomp XL, too, I would suggest to download my config. If you open two browser windows, each one running the Bridge editor software, you can easily copy/paste a full bank, or a footswitch with all its commands, from one window to the other. So if you just want my looper control bank, copy/paste it. If you just want the REC, PLAY and STOP switches (without the Undo/Reverse one), copy those 3; but make sure to stick with same footswitch numbers, since I use SmartMessages directed at specific FS numbers. The thing is: If you want REC and PLAY to work *on press* rather than *on release*, those two footswitches cannot be sequential; since currently, sequential mode will allways switch on release. So you need the STOP footswitch to be sequential, and carry the sequencer status / LED colours. PLAY then has a SmartMessage in the PRESS stack sending STOP to the sequential step with green LED and PLAY command. I want REC to go rec=>dub=>play=>dub=>play etc., as on most loopers. For this to work on a Stop switch, I need sequential steps to be 1. nothing (just label "Stop", LED black) 2. jump back to Step 1 3. Record (red) 4. Stop, and jump back to Step 1. 5. Overdub (LED orange) 6. Stop, and jump back to Step 1. 7. Play (LED green) 8. Stop, and jump back to Step 1. 9. jump back to Step 5. So whenever I hit STOP, looper will stop. PLAY will send the STOP footswitch to step 7. REC is the complicated one: It will first "Queue next sequential step" (i.e. go up 1 step without triggering its message), then "increase sequential step" (i.e. go up 1 more step, this time triggering the message), on the STOP footswitch. Took me a while and some amount of testing to figure this out, but now it works pefectly 🙂