Afford-a Octaves & Bit Crushers from SONICAKE (taste it) -

[@mykhedelic6471]

Dark Doomy Cartoony Castle is a seriously underrated genre.

[@mondoseguendo6113]

Thank you 🙏

[@sunn_bass]

Bring back the Affordaboard. I love cheap pedals because they are fun to experiment with.

[@elemkay5104]

The Wavecrush seems the same as the Hotone Crush. I like the idea of it, but always find that the background frequency gets a bit irritating in practice. The Hotone Harmony Octaver does octave up, chorus (detune) and tracks chords/multiple notes, and I'd definitely recommend that if you can find one at a good price.

[@sirnatanielson]

I remember when the Crush came out. I was dying to get one but never got around to it. Now it's almost impossible to find. This might have to do in it's place!

[@caro_lam]

i like that you always keep us on our toes with the Two Princetons gag. sometimes you let the midi file run for thirty seconds, sometimes it's over in three seconds, you can never tell!

[@teknomanning]

Yessssss love it

[@HEMI_426]

I thoroughly enjoy your work bro never stop

[@RND_ADV_X]

To understand the bit crusher, imagine the frequency wave of your music being turned into a stepped bitmap looking shape, with bigger steps as you reduce bits? I have a ring mod and a dirt filter with a weird ring moddy thing to it, and I can definitely tell the difference between all three by ear 🌽

[@jowensguitar]

"God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, Man destroys God. Man crushes bits, bits crush Man...Woman inherits the earth." That's the line, right?

[@seansmodernlife9823]

underrated comment

[@Hesohi]

Ring Mod - Bit Crushers and PLL’s are like salty effects, you don’t really want too much ring mod. Use the BitCrusher AS the fuzz, try the bit crusher in front of the octaver.

[@noisetrust]

This, one of my favorite "fuzz" pedals is actually the ehx mainframe bitcrusher when it's dialed in good.

[@-jank-willson]

the bitcrusher by itself isn't loud enough to fulfill the fuzz roll, you have to have a clean boost in front of it slamming into it.

[@ck-ck]

Love the bit crusher, it’s really crazy and unique! it deserves place on the affordaboard i think😎😁 Now the affordaboard still needs an afforda-amp, otherwise what is the point if it still got an expensive amp connected to it…..🤔

[@cambriakilgannon12]

Gotta get a spamp+, decent little amp with a speaker for about 80 bux

[@fuckenps3]

My vote is for the Joyo Bantamp, great series of hybrid amps for good price.

[@pepuletrz]

wavecrush on vocals is nice...thats how i use thopse crushers anyway.

[@jamesmotiv8989]

If you kindly would, use that bit crusher on radio mode juiced up using a guitar that has really microphonic pickups and scream into it.

[@60CycleHumcast]

damn you, that does sound fun.

[@jamesmotiv8989]

@@60CycleHumcast you won't do it 😹

[@60CycleHumcast]

@@jamesmotiv8989 now I’m thinking about running a kazoo into it

[@jamesmotiv8989]

@@60CycleHumcast @60 Cycle Hum with all the enthusiasm in mine, and my daughters body, please do!!

[@driventone]

@@60CycleHumcast did you get a Kazoobie at NAMM? 😂

[@onerandombruh]

Yo Ryan you should bring more Sonicake to the Afford-A-Board series, they have many interesting pedals...

[@adamnevermind7013]

A minute in....want these simply because of the Sega voice 😂 Also....I love cake. Food and band.

[@theodorsloth2194]

Hi, the MXR Suboctave Machine is exactly this, Suboctaver into an Highoctave-Fuzz. I vote for taking them both on the board.

[@cvanhetkaar96]

Mmm you realy need an affordaboard extentionboard for the “special aforda-effects”

[@djay6651]

That Octaver turns the affordaboard into a doom board from space. It sounds duper fun. And I've always enjoyed the affordaboard series. I've bought 3 pedals featured on this series, the Azor Delay, Dolamo D-8 OD and Caline Snakebite.

[@dmitch1983]

The musiclily with the octave switch on makes me want to hear you playing spooky Halloween style music with that

[@incredifunk]

Have you tried the data corruptor by Earth quacker??? Saw you were looking for ideas for different pedals...

[@uvulapie]

Smooth box grab!

[@60CycleHumcast]

I’m glad someone noticed!

[@uvulapie]

@@60CycleHumcast I'm the dork that accosted you, Steve and Phillip McKnight while you were having lunch at Sweetwater a few weeks back. Thanks again for making enjoyable guitar content that I can watch with my kids around.

[@ghalsor]

You should plug the gramophone setting into your computer and see if you can connect to AOL.

[@cugir321]

Why no acoustic examples of an octave pedal

[@zAvAvAz]

kooL hey i like your aqua blue amplifier in the background, its kooL. great demo thank you. 🙂 salutation, i am that i am, and bye.

[@mykhedelic6471]

Affordaboard, I have missed you! Can't go wrong with Cuvave or Musiclily. I've had some times with that Musiclily-- totally rips space.

[@hotrod54chevy]

I bought an "8 Bit Crusher" pedal that sounds a lot like this one. All kinds of video game sounds outta that little thing 🥰

[@id.unknown1283]

Thanks for this video I just ordered the wave crusher pedal for my synth set up! I still haven't gotten back to playing the guitar because I'm learning how to use all of my electronic instruments (synths, samplers, and drum machines). I'm planning one the whole one man band sort of affair (mostly just for recording outside of a computer as I'm old fashioned that way)

[@kebab_boi]

I’d love to do that as well but it’s so expensive. The upside is that it’s a whole new realm of music making, I’m sure it’ll spark my love for music production back to where it was when I was learning how the basics work on a DAW.

[@id.unknown1283]

@@kebab_boi I have a limit for the amount of money I will pay for anything. I'm going for a lo-fi shoegaze that is going to be heavily using industrial, ambient, and noise elements.If I pull it off I was thinking of calling the genre dark shoegaze. It'll most likely just end up being experimental music of some flavor. Oh right point being you can find deals and try to buy one thing a month that helps you get to your musical vision.

[@kebab_boi]

@@id.unknown1283 that sounds amazing, I’d love to check it out. Leave a reply here once it’s done! I’m currently working on my debut album, already got 2 singles out! One of them being shoegaze with slowcore in fact. Check out “The Industrial Revolution” by Ice Blossom, (if you want ofc)

[@noisetrust]

I've stacked low octave into high octave fuzz before, it's glorious. Actually my current board is capable of it. I have a Boss PS-5 in front of my Univox Super-Fuzz.

[@60CycleHumcast]

I KNEW I WASN’T THE FIRST!

[@noisetrust]

@@60CycleHumcast Gotta say the budget pedals did an amazing job for sure.

[@rdking58]

Getting back to playing again after a long absence. Will your current affordable board work for the surf sound to start out with.

[@KENNA25]

I got my pedal board with fuzz ovator 5th demo. Compressor eq, noise gate it sounds like robots talking, I'm getting the wah next than the ambient.haha mad pedal scientist

[@lucasvieira1805]

Always cool to see companys diving into cheap eletronic music.

[@RulgertGhostalker]

go light bit crush gramophone into the green fuzz into the tube pilot Or G3 ... i would call that done for the dirt section of the aford-a-boad, i would toss the minus octave, or mix it in very sparingly,.( that's what a bass is for )

[@revnichols1]

Wave crush on drums? Maybe?

[@lukeyduke79]

should do afford a board look at fly rig style pedals, like the valeton indie dapper (super awesome especially for stoner, ambient and gaze style music) or the mosky sol918.

[@spark300c]

you can get good tone using fuzz before the bit crusher. The fuzz needs to be a low gain fuzz or set on mid to low. then bit rate has to be on 16 bit or higher. So for petal just have bit rate on max setting. then just play power chords and start with sample rate on high and then turn it down until you hit sweet spot. You get brighter and more metallic guitar tone. You can just listen to my chip punk songs for guitar tone using a bitcrusher.

[@duotonguitars]

The shirt matches the pedals. I wonder how many of you noticed that

[@Rock_Bottom_Denizen]

i hve a op amp muff i love, if i wanted to add a multi octive aspect to my signal with the muff and im am not rich, ehx's are the most expensize i have, was thinking about a POG but thats not quite what i want i think, for ading to the fuzz for a muti octive fuz pedal

[@max_eesai]

Have the octaver , it punches above its price

[@tm12333]

That shirt. Where did you get it?

[@60CycleHumcast]

Old navy I think. I’ve had it a few years.

[@rocklandsally]

EDIT: Should have watched till the end... Donner Dark Horizon.. where did that come from ?????? Dolamo Overdrive I thought was the lastest... *** so the newest affordaboard has: fuzz (music lilly or Cuvave) then Iset flanger, then ????, then AmazonBasics distortion, Moski reverb, Donner Island Delay and the phoenix Wings Wave tremolo... whats pedal is before the distortion now ???? what did I miss ???*** cheers

[@kirkc3049]

Mark: regarding overdrive, you are a little behind ;) If I'm tracking correctly, he replaced Dolamo with Caline Sundance, which he replaced with Caline Stack Attack, which he replaced with Donner Dark Horizon. :)

[@rocklandsally]

@@kirkc3049 I need to see those videos.. cant find them ... bahhhh

[@kirkc3049]

@@rocklandsally Since I have nothing better to do... LOL. Not time stamped but you can find the right pieces: 1) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoWoiWCeZ6qpnNU at 52.53 Caline Stack Attack, at 1.03.36 Caline Sundance, at 1.19.33 Sundance goes on the Affordaboard; 2) kzbin.info/www/bejne/laPWgnWNgLWDmqM at 13.30 Donner Dark Horizon, at 36.33 Dark Horizon shootout vs Stack Attack - not sure where the Sundance disappeared off to. Hope that helps! Cheers

[@rocklandsally]

@@kirkc3049 dude !!!! above and beyond !!! thanks !!!!!

[@coastercook]

Thanks, Ryan. Been considering getting a new octave pedal. Would you please consider doing a demo of the MXR Poly Blue Octave pedal?

[@KingLoopie1]

There are 2 pedals I don't need... I don't even want them... 🤔 The grammophone was kinda cool though! 😎

[@rindred]

That bit crusher pedal - you really have to work hard to find usable tones out of it, but you did find a few. I'm not sure I'd want one in my chain just because I'm lazy and wouldn't want to have to fiddle around to find the tones; I'm more a set-and-forget guy. The octave pedal would be more useful, especially if you're a bass player and want to double-up your sound. That's a lot more practical, especially if you're a Bass VI player; you can nail those classic country and rockabilly lines by letting the pedal be the upright bass sound while you tic-tac away.

[@castiel136loxx]

I use a TC Sub n Up, 2 octave down, 1 octave down, 1 octave up, into my MXR green OD, into a high gain pedal. Glorious sound if you put a reverb at the end of the chain.

[@lw1391]

Just bought the Sub n Up. May have to try this. Thanks for sharing the idea.

[@kevingriffin8854]

I dont know if youve ever thought about it Ryan, but you can change the jewel light on your fender Princetons really easy. I did on my custom vibrolux reverb. I went with purple and its semi black lighty. Im not even a purple kinda guy. I hate grape soda. but lately. Sorta purple is cool. Just an idea for a video. 2 princetons makeover. Jewel light swap. Maybe speaker swap. Limitless ideas.

[@thalesb1324]

Hey Ryan, just a nerdy info, that musiclily fuzz seems to be a copy of a behringer super fuzz/boss hyper fuzz which are a copy of the highly regarded honey/shin-ei/univox super fuzz. They have this two modes, one being a octave fuzz and another a high mid fuzz.

[@stuartchapman5171]

Some folk aren't going to like this. But of all the versions, including the Boss and JHS clones of the Superfuzz, the best is the Behringer? It has the three position tone switch giving a great boost setting.

[@thalesb1324]

@@stuartchapman5171 I totally agree, i have one and taking the plastic enclosure aside, i think it does the job very well.

[@60CycleHumcast]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioWvfouMdrZ7mrc

[@incredifunk]

Black Ash Fuzz 🖤

[@joellebrodeur1015]

I have some of these same effects on my super old Zoom PS02. I have zero use for tones like that since it sucks for chording. I only have one riff I did 20 years ago using the Octave effect. Never used it again for anything else. My Ric gets bass heavy since it's a short scale. If I switch to the bass side of the Octave effect, it sounds just like a Ric bass.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Since you ask, Coolmusic has some really cool stuff that's affordable. I don't believe you've done them yet.

[@synthmalicious7541]

Hey Ryan, very curious if you know about any(more) Afford-A-Board pedal centered around glitches? Been looking for stuff recently, seems rare to find or just non-existent, but I feel like you’d know something about one. Edit: also if anyone knows a pedal that can recreate that sound at 18:00 that isn’t this one I’d appreciate that

[@jasonwelch6306]

This is a good video. 56/56 just for using the Musiclily Fuzz, and 37/37 over all.

[@lightofday.dayofdarkness]

"This sounds normal with the knobs all the way down. This sounds bad with the knobs all the way up. Welp."

[@clarkeblacker]

I'd love to have the bitcrusher pedal if you don't want it!

[@leob4403]

So he gets all these pedals for free and then can just resell them as he pleases? Man that is great business model not gonna lie

[@Mr.Monster1313]

Could we see a steve bass affordaboard also ?

[@nonservitium]

Helios Creed was sounding like this 35 years ago

[@wesmitchem825]

All your guitars are gone!did you sell em or give em away or something? So many pretty guitars gone

[@60CycleHumcast]

I moved them to another wall, i was tired of the cluttered look behind me.

[@leob4403]

​@@60CycleHumcastthat blue wall color is godlike though not gonna lie

[@mikeh892]

But does it have blast processing?

[@hennydarmse]

YAY! Affordaboard!!

[@cagkan87]

They should have named 56k modem instead of gramophone. 🤣🤣🤣

[@HighSideYT]

Wavecrush made me uncomfortable lol. that octaver with fuzz is so so sweet though.

[@LiquorWitch123]

fucking love sonicake

[@onefatstratcat]

But will they djent? :)

[@griffithmorgan4966]

Been a serious addict of your show for years now. Curious to see how this Bit Crusher works as I am in the market for another bit crusher. I have the Hotone Skyline one which is amazing. Sadly, it seems to be out of production. I could use 3! After listening I think both pedals are very interesting for the price point. Curious about Octave pedals, are they simply a low pass filter? The crush circuit is likely the same as other low cost bit crushers. A lot of these pedals are simply OEM being produced in different cases and colors by one factory in china for different companies. Guess I am off to purchase a bit crusher.

[@musicisjustwigglyair4208]

Yes yes yeeeeesssss

[@terryenglish7132]

So how are bit crushers being used ? Parts of a song here and there, or is there some new Metal genre where its mandatory ?

[@ymishaus2266]

The future is now, old man

[@wharman1]

Maybe time to retire Cuvave to the Wall of Flame!! Chairman of the Board?

[@snoooozer]

Very upset that we cut off the 2 princes intro short. smh.

[@pedalscapes]

Awesome sounds!

[@ivarvanderheijden]

I can recommend the Rowin Octpus, as a budget poly octave pedal, doing both 2 octaves down, 2 up, or 1 down and 1 up simultaneously, with a dry blend. By the way, cool shirt!

[@murph1017]

Two Princetons...too short. I'm left feeling unsatisfied.

[@diodesDankessAndDives]

#fuzzImp is a great company 👌 👍

[@DoctorGeek1]

SEGA!! 👾🕹🤣

[@flyguyty33]

Jack white vibes

[@ErnieLeblanc]

32:32

[@muddymike10]

You had the perfect "radio-tone" setting, but then you jumped to the gramophone setting 😐....

[@mycosys]

Wow, well that was the worst demo of a bitcrusher i have ever seen. try setting the bit and crush to 1/4 to 1/3rd - about 7-12 bits and 8-32kHz would be the goal. you spent almost the entire time at 5-6 bits and/or under 1kHz

[@60CycleHumcast]

Thanks for the hot tip, next time try telling me that BEFORE I FILM THE VIDEO! sheesh. You really let me down this time.

[@incredifunk]

I swear i saw the guild"surf casters" lowwere on sale for $250 the last couple weeks. Think it was on an Amazon advertisement, if I remember correctly.. Go to possibly been a different model