Ambient Talk #1: 2 Loopers Technique (CBA Blooper & Mood MK2, Godin Nylon ACS Multiac)

00:00 Intro
01:04 The guitar I play today
01:45 Clean sound
03:21 The main idea
03:47 Let's start!
11:46 The conclusion
"Talk talk, it's only talk... Ambient talk"
Hi everybody!
This is the first time you hear me talking!
In this tutoriasl I will talk about a special looping technique - soundscaping with two loopers and modifiers.
Gear used:
Godin ACS-SA Nylon Multiac
Fishman Aura Spectrum DI
Strymon Riverside
DemonFX King of Drive
Chase Bliss Audio Blooper
Chase Bliss Audio Mood MK2
Strymon BigSky
Strymon Zuma
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[@phillipmeighen3215]

Thanks Mikhail. Some good ideas there for using Blooper and Mood together. Please make more videos! Your presentation is excellent and easy to follow despite English not being your native language.

[@ChrisGrayGuitar]

Very cool !! Love how you use these pedals, it’s such a beautiful art, each pedal is an “instrument”.

[@petrastellar3300]

YOU SPOKE FROM THE HEART MIKHAIL, thank you for sharing your process so eloquently

[@JoRoBu17]

Thank you for this video! I appreciate the format (with talking) - sometimes it’s easier to get a point across verbally, sometimes it’s easier to demonstrate. I like the mix of both.

[@paulchambers2403]

WOW! Loving your workflow with the mood / blooper;) I think I may have to upgrade my mk1 mood now😍🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@martingray4005]

Great presentation, love it

[@ProdAsh]

So helpful thank you

[@willswitchcraft]

wow......that MOOD is such an incredible ambient tool...............still drooling a bit when I hear one.......great upload, thanks.............the perfect mix between your ambient audio, live guitar, and your voice. . . . . . . & ....great playing - as always

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Thanks, Will!

[@jayvandenberghe4530]

Very cool to see a practical guide from someone who has been entertaining us with so much amazing soundscapes for years! Looking forward for more in-sight video's! Thanks very much for the time you put into this!!

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Thanks Jay!

[@ThePedalboardOrchestra]

Great tutorial, very inspiring 👍👍👏👏

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Thanks!

[@BassBusMusic]

Really interesting Mikhail and well presented. Lovely sounds too.

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Thanks!

[@wintermute101]

Beautiful sounds! Love the walk through the board too! 🔊👌🙏

[@johnduval482]

Brilliant. Thanks for taking the time to explain this aspect of your composing process. Love the sound of the nylon string guitar.

[@DocRossi]

That's great, Mikhail - thank you!

[@WailingRaven]

Buckethead got me interested on wanting to use Nylon strings guitar for ambient/atmospheric stuffs, and while I was searching for similar videos, I found your videos. Listened to 2 of your pieces quite some time ago but forgot to subscribe, glad I found you again. Nice to see a breakdown of what you do and how you do it, hope to see more. 😀

[@RickySweum]

Thank you! Beautiful sounds and fun technique for looping.

[@klauswhitedreamer]

Very nice, good job ! 😽♥️🙏

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Thank you!

[@jerrycharles66]

Great video! I'm sure I'm going to watch it several times to follow through all the steps. I'd love to see more like this if it's something you want to do! Really nice to see the interplay between the Blooper and the Mood Mk2.

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Thank you, Jerry! It's not an easy thing for me to speak in videos in general. Especially in English, but sometimes it's easier to speak than to type (even for me) when it comes to lengthy topics like creative approaches to making music.

[@JanFerwerda]

Great! Go on like this ... 👌🏻

[@maxcuthbert100]

Damn....if they needed to re-make any Russian science fiction ,you really should be doing the soundtrack ! Stunning. If I watch it all day I'm not sure quite how much I would absorb/learn. Intelligible(great English) and fascinating,yes,more please.

[@jbjb9691]

Yes! A remake of Solaris with Mikhail's music instead of Artemyev's! Just kidding ... Artemyev was a genius and his compositions are wonderful. He is really missed. ....

[@MikhailMedvedev]

It was a great duo: Atremyev / Tarkovsky. I guess a lot of magic in Solaris and Stalker was the resul of this collaboration.

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Much appreciated, Max!

[@jbjb9691]

@@MikhailMedvedev Yes indeed. Tarkovsky was a genius - I love Solaris, but Andrei Rublev was *just awesome*. And that cinematographic genius was very well complemented - and leveraged - by Artemyev. He truly captured the essential of Russian's love and excellence for long narratives (like you!),. A bit like if Tolstoy decided to write music instead of novels ;-)

[@dutchbassscapes2185]

Beautiful stuff. Keep them coming 😄!

[@egorm8952]

Ого, это точно первое такое у вас видео). Здорово на самом деле, очень интересно узнать про ваш процесс. И оборудование тоже интересно)

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Спасибо!

[@patrickr6505]

Awesome 👍

[@ArgentSmith]

Great job bro!

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Thanks, Pavel!

[@stefanopellegrini7094]

Lovely! I got the MOOD and was thinking on buying the Blooper just to make these kind of sounds

[@MikhailMedvedev]

They are definitely good for weird ambient stuff!

[@matogarfo]

Great video, thanks !

[@allendesomer]

I enjoyed this with my morning ☕️. 👍

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Glad to hear that, Allen!

[@emmitttrill4039]

I love this

[@errilonghin7872]

Great work!! Your ""music"" Is always amazing! Waiting more, all the best to you fm Milano. Erri

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Thanks Erri! All the best!

[@nickreesyt]

awesome to see you talking here Mikhail. I've watched your channel for years back then I wasn't really uploading even, and great to see how you are growing as I now post regularly and grow at the same time ]

[@MikhailMedvedev]

I've watched some of your Mood MK2 and TapeScape videos recently. Glad to see you here!

[@nickreesyt]

@@MikhailMedvedev been here on and off for maybe 4/5 years Mikhail. I used to do a lot of ambient looping playing back in the day and have always enjoyed watching your compositions

[@jerryoswald]

Bravo for your English and good content too. Thumbs up!

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Thanks, Jerry! It was a real challenge for me)))

[@mrthingamabob8117]

Thanks a lot ! Beautiful and inspiring ! Keep them coming please !

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Thanks! It's a bit difficult for me to speak English in real time, but I do my best)

[@YasirAlani]

That was really helpful. Thank you

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Thank you!

[@haitchmusic]

Love it, liked and subscribed. Thanks for showing us your setup. Can't wait to save up for something like this and try on wooden flutes and other breath instruments!

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Thanks! Would love to see how far you go with these ideas!

[@joeymc5272]

Your mixing skills are fire man. Wish i knew your secrets

[@jbjb9691]

nice to hear your voice :-) ! And a most useful (and pleasant) video, spassiba! A question for you: could you have done that with the MOOD MKI or is there something in your video that you absolutely need the MK II for?

[@MikhailMedvedev]

Thanks! I didn't try MK I, but the biggest limitation for me there is the lack of stereo! Some noise with lower Clock settings might be too much noisy for loops that last minutes, but on the other hand that's the matter of taste. Not sure about the length of micro-loops... I guess they were two times shorter... That might not be enough to create a smooth drony loop when you first overdub it with high settings of the modifier in Tape mode and then press play and crank the modifier to nearly noon position (that's when it starts to drone)... If I had one around I would try, but everyone just bought mk2)

[@jbjb9691]

@@MikhailMedvedev thank you for the clarifications 👍

[@jbjb9691]

@@MikhailMedvedev last question: is there a "random" control on the Mood II like there is on the Red Panda Tensor or on the Hologram? I find this to be really useful. Thanks!

[@MikhailMedvedev]

not quite like in those pedals, but there is that option with the use of a plank of dip-switches when you activate Ramping + you can change the form of this Ramping (in hidden options) to Random or Smooth Random - didn't try it yet, but think of trying it because Random Ramping in the Blooper is a very powerful thing!

[@silvansky]

Круть! Нейлоновые струны то что надо для такой техники, ИМХО. ) Аж захотелось снова гитару с нейлоном завести. А в конце получилось что-то похожее на Power To Believe Кримзонов.

[@MikhailMedvedev]

да, неожиданно для себя отметил, что не уже третью неделю, если не больше, играю на нейлоне и не надоедает)... именно в эмбиентном контексте, имею в виду... короче мой вердикт такой: если педальки позволяют творить космос, то нейлон очень даже зашибись - у него, с тембральной точки зрения, редко бывает противный писклявый звук, который может просверлить мой мозг, а в случае со стальными струнами в ходе манипуляций со звуком какие-то определенные обертона и частоты стальных струн могут уйти в этот противный спектр частот... ну и долгий сустейн, точнее его отсутствие, вносит свою лепту... обычно в гитаре мы боремся за него, но парадоксальным образом иногда можно и без этого сустейна обходиться - педальки сами этим с этим прекрасно справляются и получается меньше каши

[@silvansky]

@@MikhailMedvedev Ну нейлон местами звучит как электропианино при таких манипуляциях, очень классно. ) Я себе тут безладовую гитару делаю, на неё поставлю нейлон обязательно. Пока что там леска для белья натянута, тоже нейлоновая, звучит интересно. С нормальным нейлоном должно зазвучать.

[@MikhailMedvedev]

youtube.com/@studioundo - Бог безладового нейлона! Например: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqKlmZWHqNqKgdk

[@silvansky]

@@MikhailMedvedev как же, подписан уже давно. =) Собственно, из-за него я и решил нейлон, а не стальные струны на безлад ставить. ) Хотя под стальные я потом тоже, возможно, электрогитару обезлажу, но это уже не самостоятельно и пока под вопросом. Хочу распробовать безлад, чтобы понять, надо ли оно мне, а тут как раз валялась старая детская гитара 3/4, начал её препарировать наконец-то этим летом. И даже уже успел удивиться, что получается даже что-то осмысленное без ладов играть. )

[@MikhailMedvedev]

есть смутное подозрение, что чем короче гриф, тем взрослому человеку будет сложнее интонировать)))... палцы толстыя, криф кортокий и всё такое прочее... я как-то пробовал безладовый инструмент, ужаснулся и убрал подальше, чтобы не обрушивать дальше самооценку... но глядя на Ченка Эрдогана думаешь: "Ха, да это ж просто!"

[@juanandresgomez2731]

Amazing! Can you share which settings you used for the Mood MK2?

[@MikhailMedvedev]

I used dip switches: miso, spread, trails, latch. Reverb to maximum, Tape maximum length. Clock 8 k.

[@juanandresgomez2731]

@@MikhailMedvedev thanks! I would like to see more videos like this :) My advice would be to keep the top camera the whole video

[@MikhailMedvedev]

I did, but the camera battery died))))