Can CHEAP pedals sound good with synthesizers?

[@breitbanddesign]

First time i came here for the pedals but i am frequently returning for your awesomely fantastic music! You two are rockin‘ it!! Unbelievable how good your music is. just sayin‘ because too often great quality remains unmentioned. 🤘🤘🤘

[@Mathmatrix1]

That chorus is meant to be played in stereo and for pads or long notes, on out B it's the dry signal, and it makes a nice phasing effect between the two channels.

[@TeftyMeems]

Thanks for the heads up! I should do more experimenting with it.

[@baramundi__88__]

This is great. I like that the music you test with acctully sounds like something I would listen to, unlike other tubers

[@ComedyinSIN]

EXACTLY the video i was looking for right now, thanks for posting!

[@t55a2]

A very comprehensive video, thanks for uploading

[@tomblaze2]

Great demos and advice

[@stereo2356]

I don't know why but I'm using this video as an ASMR video mixed up with some ambient sound. Video has some good vibes.

[@coinhawk]

Yo, I listened to the jam session like a hit song..... Voice is amazing.... Ur mixing skills are also on point

[@TeftyMeems]

Thank you! We appreciate the kind words 🙏❤

[@thehangoverlounge1439]

I liked the Chorus! Different strokes n all that. Great video!

[@DauvitAlexander]

I use the TO800 with the Pulsar-23 drum machine: amazing! The other one of their pedals that I love is the unfortunately-coded VD400 Vintage Delay, which is absolutely lovely.

[@ralphhathaway-coley5460]

One of the best things about a lot of the Behringer pedals is that they have an effected out and a direct out by using the mix knob you can parallel process and apply effects to purely the effected sound and leave the direct sound for no/different sound processing. The vintage delay is one of the few cheap delays that has that option which is why I have a couple. 😊

[@dictabeat]

i have a few oexpensive pedals, but also behringers, and odonner pedals. the downside from the donners is that they are too small to take a battery and you need to bring power supply or pedal board. The Behringers being plastic has had zero influence on my experience. I dropped these several times. Pedals are fine. I stomp on them but in no way as hard as to break them. I'm not an elephant and understand I paid money for these. and the expensive models seem to bring the added value of small enough case, metal enclosure, battery power and thus no need for a rack. but having said that, the Behringers do a pretty good job for what I need on my synths.

[@ralphhathaway-coley5460]

Some of the cheap reverbs can be interesting if you think of them as some other effect rather than as reverb, often filtering or some other audio mangling 'thing' which can be interesting eg. the Ocean reverb by Amuzik on the 'shimmer' setting does an interesting sort of ring mod-verb thing to the sound, and they usually add a lo-fi vibe to the sound too. Great for tablehooters etc but less so for top end synths I feel. Most guitarists use pedals very simplistically ie. in series in front of the amp, I tend to think of them as individual modules in a modular synth and as such you can connect them in parallel etc and be much more creative, A/BY pedals help a lot here too.

[@modgrip805]

Behringer have absolutely nailed it with their products.

[@snekoyl]

Subscribed, this totally sold me on your channel

[@AkeArnouts]

I was waiting for a video like this, thanks!

[@billyjeckel407]

I would love to see more pedal videos on this channel. Though what I would really like to see is you thoughts on a beginner electronic music setup

[@TeftyMeems]

Hi Billy! Noted 👍

[@maarzt]

greetings from a fellow NorCal resident. Really digging your content, music, tutorials, and definitely love the couple vibe, makes me wistful and maybe a tad bit envious.

[@maarzt]

oh yea, a pretty new Elektronaut mysefl having the best of times exploring my musicality and the musicality of others.

[@TeftyMeems]

Hi Arzt! Hope you’re staying safe from the fires and poor air quality 🙏

[@maarzt]

@@TeftyMeems thanks thats kind of you. short of holding my breath, Im doing well enough I guess. working on my rig.... :)

[@leonline3424]

the chorus goes after any distortion and overdrive

[@-STONECYPHER-]

To avoid the noisy signal you can add a noise gate pedal.

[@GTChris]

Exactly the video I was searching for. In the end I loved the fuzz best.

[@TeftyMeems]

Thanks for watching! 🙏

[@SupaMarioJCS]

This fire 🔥 !!!

[@syntheffects]

The amp pedals and Tubescreamer clones like the TO800 are hard to use on synths because of their EQ midhump which drives synths into harsh resonant territory. The best choices tend to be bass overdrives and OCD clones.

[@lundsweden]

Vintage Tube Screamer is great!

[@cuzsleepisthecousinofdeath]

Chorus pedal (pls do correct me if i'm wrong here) Maybe you needed to re-amp the synth signal before it went into chorus pedal? I suppose the circuit is designed to work with guitar signal and typical guitar freq range.

[@ndguardian]

Have to say, I dig this video. Admittedly, I was not a fan of the distortion effects on the soft pad-like patch on the Minilogue, but many of them did sound nice on the bass patch you had going. I was looking at those KMISE pedals, and the analog chorus one seems particularly intriguing. Would love to see how that sounds with those patches. I personally am pretty well set on Chorus with my Zoom MS70-CDR though. Might want to look into some of those distortion pedals though, unless I want to get its sister pedal. Thanks for the video! Very interesting.

[@TeftyMeems]

Hi Derik, I’ve heard a lot of good things about the Zoom pedal. Gonna have to scoop it at some point. I was surprised from the KMISE pedals, that chorus could be solid. And for $20 it’s super affordable. Cheers 🍻

[@MaZe6K]

Great video and great music! Good to hear a full loop with drums on the pedals... I'm looking for a distortion mainly for my drumsynth and it seems the BOD400 is a clear winner for me.

[@tommyk88888]

Interesting content. However I would be really interested to hear how subtle you can make changes to your sound. With distortion units people tend to automatically go crazy. Taming it would be much more usable I think.

[@markslandingsandaviationvi3123]

How do I connect a amp to a mixer? Also what amp do you have under the Pedal Power?

[@lyall01]

Hi I raley like the music at the end of your video. I could listen to it for hours on repeat. Please what is it called

[@brodyashton4044]

Great video, sometimes it’s tough, once you hear the strymon delays and verbs it’s hard to use the cheaper options. Keep up the great work!

[@TeftyMeems]

Thanks Brody! Yeah we’ve got the Timeline and Big Sky for guitar setups and they just hit the mark every time. 🍻

[@benjaminbrodie9801]

Another awesome video!!! Tefty & Meems have done it again. Thanks for the awesome review of synth pedals. I just purchased the Chase Bliss Mood. Still trying to figure that mind boggling time warping device out. Here's a drink to world peace!

[@TeftyMeems]

Thank you Ben! We haven't got any Chase Bliss pedals, but they look tasty 😋

[@andrewverran3498]

Absolutely BRILLIANT guys , I have started collecting the Behringer pedal for my synths and drum machines. Have 8 so far. The DR600 and Vd400 are decent.why not Woukd love to know more about the DI BOX ?? PeaceFromOZ

[@horsthansen6959]

me too

[@Brokeninc]

Not sure if this has been mentioned but the Wet Dreams is a nice cheap chorus.

[@oldasrocks9121]

The Bass Distortion pedal is (happily) a bit tricky, as such it gets panned often (dis'd.) First, you can affect the distortion with the source volume control quite dramatically. It also stacks well, b4 or after the B. Tube Screamer, b4 or after a colorful boost pedal (try the boost setting on the B. Super Fuzz) and if you can stand the noise throw it in front of that amp modeler. The other pedal to try is the B. Bass eq, it has a surprising amount of gain.

[@deepnlow808]

Are you using a chorus pedal with a mono out!?

[@hellason1769]

I bought the od300 and dream after this I cannot wait

[@hellason1769]

they’re so cheap it’s like candy

[@DoctorRevers]

I was thinking when it happened..oh no, vocals. But ooh yeah. Nice job on the singing! I stay away from behringer myself. The thing is Boss pedals are pretty cheap and they’re tough to beat for the price. Definitely better than anything behringer makes. Agree with your reverb statement though. Hard to find a quality cheap reverb. You can get a Boss rv6 for under $200 though for example.

[@Bantam80]

The Digitech Polara is a great reverb for synths at a reasonable price. It treads the middle ground between good quality and not spending a small fortune.

[@LukezyM]

Yeah. HOF is not so bad either. MS-70CDR too.🙂

[@TeftyMeems]

Thanks for the tips! 🙏

[@FuZZbaLLbee]

How do these compare against the Zoom MS-70 CDR effects? I am looking for a good stereo chorus pedal

[@jello-tarzan]

Wow, great music!

[@synthgal1090]

8:15 fuck me, you just made "noise floor" instantly make sense, thank you

[@asynchronicity]

Too bad the Ultra Metal doesn’t have a wet/dry mix knob.

[@johannbach2725]

Fascinating stuff - have a minilogue as well - found stereo ultral chorus subtle but quite nice - be interested to try the tube one

[@ActionlessLoveless]

cool review, thanks! for sure BOD400 would make its way straight into one of my drum channels :) (OD300 is also interestingly sounds)

[@fakshen1973]

That $17 pedal seemed like a real good value for the price.

[@daneguitarist1]

heyyyy Teft, you gotta be on this ambient collab album im making with a bunch of different synthers

[@jeremyhutchison562]

Next time hook the ones that didn’t work to a equalizer pedal and drop the mid range might help

[@rokinrandy]

I have plastic Berhinger that’s almost 20 years old that’s been to rehearsals and shows. I’d rely on those more than that metal Mimi stuff. Just mho.

[@TeftyMeems]

Wow, good to know! I just assumed the build quality would easily break.

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

Ironically, Behringer did make an AMAZING affordable reverb pedal, the RV600 Reverb Machine, but now they seem to be out of production and prices have gone way up.

[@TheIndustrialRetrospective]

Looks like their around a hundred bucks and it's a clone of the Verbzilla, that you can get for about fifty dollars more!

[@hermestrismegistus3417]

I own or have owned every expensive reverb pedal. Ammoon pockverb is a good choice if you’re looking for something cheap.

[@preciseaudioblog]

Hi, are they made of plastic? (The Behringers) thanks!

[@trevor_mounts_music]

cheap reverbs have a vibe though! Maybe next time.

[@piotr803]

The lady’s voice reminds me A LOT of the vibe from a track by Bonobo feat. Bajka. The track name escapes me now.

[@ManCalledMif]

How do the behringer pedals contribute to the noise in the signal chain?

[@TheTerracide]

Absolutely

[@t55a2]

@@TheTerracideVery little, tbf

[@lyall01]

It sounds like some thing that Hanz Zimmer would make for a jason borne movie

[@peterjessop1878]

Well that was fun! I thought the Bod 400 seemed most useable of the distortions, but that isn’t surprising given the others are eq’d for guitar. I think the best cheap chorus for synth is the Behringer CC300 which is a copy of the Boss Dimension C but they are quite rare now. There is TC electronic version as well but that isn’t stereo.

[@TeftyMeems]

Hi Peter! Agreed. The bass pedal had the most bang for sonic buck. Lots of shaping options as well. I’m gonna have to experiment with some more chorus pedals. Cheers 🍻

[@SW-bb8lu]

Nice and cozy voice and good video👀 like from me

[@sonicmistress]

Nice video to a question that's been answered for years and obviously they do but to say there aren't any cheap good Reverb's or Delay's (Rack or Pedal) is just not true at all and a bit silly.

[@ВікторМіронов-ц8э]

Me: want to hear how cheap synth sound with cheap delay and reverb This dude: let’s plug cheap synth to cheap pedals, but reverb is exclusion. I can’t even except thinking about such crime as 50 bucks reverb

[@tuftyindigo]

You ask for inline solutions to noise coming from the distortion pedal, but later on you mention putting a noise gate after it, so you already know the most common solution. If it's high-pitched, an EQ pedal might work somewhat. I like running through effects pedals but my big grief with distortion pedals and amp sims is they're usually quite narrowband - you commented on the rolloff with the KMISE pedal - so I was nicely surprised with how good the BOD400 sounds across the board. It's making me want the ODB-3 it's cloned from. Some of these would be interesting effects to cut in for one iteration of a loop, just to add a twist to the usual trick of killing the lows or highs. But if you were going to do it in production and not live, why would you do that with a pedal instead of just a VST?

[@TeftyMeems]

Hi Tuftyindigo, reasons to use pedals over a VST - You’re already analog and don’t want to loop into a DAW for an effect at the moment. Having the knobs/buttons right in front of you for tweaking is always super nice (I prefer it over automation). Lastly, a different color/variation of tone. If my sound source is in the DAW 95% of the time, then I’d just use VST plugs. Cheers! 🍻

[@noth606]

I think to make this all less dry, you should have thrown in the Hatsune Miku Vocaloid pedal into it all in series. Why you ask? Because it exists. It is there, it demands attention, it just IS.

[@Rooftopaccessorizer]

Found this video when realizing behringer pedals are 20$. I figure a small cheap pedalboard on an aux send couldnt be a bad investment!

[@Zoie3x8]

34:45 "it's probably gonna be STUCK in your head by the end of this video" in bed, 3 AM a month from now ; *~doo-DOOO Doop-dooo~* o__o

[@ArturTadevosyan]

Try a battery for KMISE

[@lundsweden]

The JHS Series 3 Reverb isn't that expensive, and sounds great!

[@urbannpa]

Never had any luck with distortion or overdrive (Boss) pedals with synths...now I'm trying a Zoom multi and plan getting a Empress Zoia pedal.

[@kraftiekhunt251]

stereo chorus would've been nice :P

[@TeftyMeems]

Yeaaaah you right 👍

[@mambusskruj]

Can say that cheap distortion/overdrive pedals cut the spectrum richness of minilogue sound. So minilogue turns into something like a cheap digital synth. Although small analog delay pedal is a simple but lovely thing. I also like little tremolo pedal because of its volume shaping, yeah. Thank you.

[@lundsweden]

The pedals are rippoffs of Boss designs, they sound great IMO

[@andersjeppsson8499]

poor man's analogue heat... Sounds great and probably good enough in a mix

[@TeftyMeems]

That’s actually a great way of looking at it 👍

[@t55a2]

Of course they can

[@billy_pirie]

K I L L E R vid :)

[@sunnyschramm9650]

instead of buying 10 to 20 cheap ones better buy two really good ones ;-)

[@latenightfortunecookie]

If you dont have money to buy gear then become a pirate and use VSTs.. but dont start to buy cheap gear :D

[@davidhodgin8900]

nice hair