I can confirm that 1. Canada is cool and 2. Serbo-Croatian is easier to understand than Canadian French ;)
@everestwitman3 жыл бұрын
T'as-tu deux piasses mon chum?
@0ddcasemusic3 жыл бұрын
@@everestwitman Lol c'est ça également. Ce qui me rend fou est tous les anglicismes.
@everestwitman3 жыл бұрын
@@0ddcasemusic En vérité, il se trouves le même nombre d'anglicisms chez le français de France, mais ils croient faussement que c'est du français, et il savent pas prononcer les mots comme il faut 😜 -> "stop", "baskets", "parking", "footing", "iced latte"....
@0ddcasemusic3 жыл бұрын
@@everestwitman Ah ok, je vois ce que tu veux dire.
@everestwitman3 жыл бұрын
@@0ddcasemusic J'essaie de changer le monde... une personne à la fois sur l'internet 😂
@DavidDiMuzio3 жыл бұрын
"But this lemon squeezer looks very cool but can't squeeze lemons for shit" 😂😂 ...seriously laughed out loud.
@jowlorenz95553 жыл бұрын
Lemon squeezer would make a great pedal name --- shock yer ballz !
@sonalsystem2 жыл бұрын
I did as well…he should do stand up :) I died with the “the only building I’ve ever seen with sweat stains.. “
@loopop3 жыл бұрын
Love this pedal, and very, uhm, cool processing in stereo!
@fifty7beats3 жыл бұрын
loopop love your videos ;)
@loopop3 жыл бұрын
@@fifty7beats thanks!
@jonaseggen22303 жыл бұрын
@@fifty7beats Yes that stereo solution was new to me. Lovely piano to. Seriously almost brought tears to my eyes. But I'm an old man so what one would expect I guess. One thing though. The lpg is more a low pass gate than a low pass filter, or that's where it shines the most, because honestly, as a regular filter it's not in any way amazing. Also kudos to your old school british documentary style, and lovely and fitting the mentioning of your wife. Subbed now because of this.
@adammiller63472 жыл бұрын
I don’t follow why you need the re-amp box. This is a line compatible pedal, from the manual: MORE CONTROL INSIDE BOOST AND PAD There are 2 jumpers at the input stage to match your input signal’s level and impedance. By default, BOOST is on, PAD is off; a typical set- ting for high impedance, low output signals like a guitar’s single coil pickups. If the user finds there is too much distortion at the input stage, moving the BOOST jumper to its off position will reduce overall gain by 6 dB. If the signal source is line- level, the PAD can be set to its on position, giving another 6 dB of gain reduction while also reducing the input impedance by a factor of 10.
@yaanno3 жыл бұрын
as a hungarian who owns quite a few canadian effect pedals i can confirm that they must smoke the best serbo-croatian leaf in existence. empress, fairfield and industrialectric make the coolest pedals.
@kurtisadair8 ай бұрын
Started floating away from my desk around 16 minutes and swam back through the air to comment
@sassulusmagnus3 жыл бұрын
Fairfield Circuitry is a very interesting company. Almost all the pedals they make are weird, weird, weird. But weirdly useful in the right hands.
@andrewgreen59863 жыл бұрын
Yes, I very much appreciated their ‘Unpleasant Surprise’ pedal.
@gatorgoforth30973 жыл бұрын
I love mine, but found it imparts a healthy amount of noise/hum into my signal. The low pass gate (not filter) is so magical because it responds to the dynamic of the input material. Breathes so much life into anything, the more dynamic the better.
@markhammer6433 жыл бұрын
A rather Canadian episode. Radial devices are made in Vancouver, while Fairfield pedals are made just across the river from me in Gatineau, Quebec. I've had the pleasure of chatting with Guillaume Fairfield many times, and attended a dinner with him, and the folks from Chase Bliss and Empress (which is made on *this* side of the same river, in Ottawa). Lovely bunch of guys, all of them. Guillaume always tries to have his pedals do something that few, if any, other pedals do. Very smart guy. And as much as the legending and look seem like they were intended to look "cool", really it was a way of not having to be concerned about legending wearing off or paint chipping on the finish. A friend of Guillaume's does the lettering with an old-fashioned bang-it-in stencil set.
@PeteBoyd Жыл бұрын
Stumbled upon this thru a web search; laughing out loud; loving it; three minutes in and we're out on the hill and I've forgotten what I came here for, forgotten what the video is about (he hasn't gotten to that specific point yet) and I'm loving it so much more than so much else.
@thsithks3 жыл бұрын
One thing: Low Pass Gate, not just filter! A LPF that reacts to dynamics.
@galacticecho70273 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I discovered a patch on my Microfreak that could do stuff like that with the low pass filter. I tweaked it slightly to make it more my flavor of sound but I used it in a song for a cool warbly tape effect. I manually rode the cutoff and resonance knobs to get the sound for about 4 bars I think and then looped it.
@evanlynch68973 жыл бұрын
Low Pass Gates are my favourite things in the world of synthesis, shame to see this feature undersold here but I get how it’s an easy mistake for someone to make
@galacticecho70273 жыл бұрын
@@evanlynch6897 Yeah, I didn't necessarily realize that was possible until I stumbled on that patched and tweaked it. But, it was a fun realization!
@chuuweec.80803 жыл бұрын
@@galacticecho7027 🤔
@AnnesYarak3 жыл бұрын
@@vinc6 Most LPG use vactrol. But there are also other LPG... „It is an electrical circuit that combines elements of amplifiers and low-pass filters“ (stromkult.com)
@RickyTinez3 жыл бұрын
"...is that it?" i've never laughed so loud haha. Thanks for making this Christian!
@fifty7beats3 жыл бұрын
Ricky Tinez love your videos too bro ;)
@sonalsystem2 жыл бұрын
I came for the review and iuAt 1:32 you killed me. 🤣🤣🤣 “the only building I’ve ever seen with sweat stains…” I wish every review I watched could be this honest and blunt.
@AynenMakino3 жыл бұрын
To quote from the Secret Life of Walter Mitty: "Beautiful things don't ask for attention". I feel that this is much more true for the sound from this effects box than it is for it's looks.
@BlueAltitudes Жыл бұрын
That's a beautiful quote. I think I should really set aside some time to watch this movie. Also, yeah The Shallow Water pedal is undeniably cool 😎
@JSCote3 жыл бұрын
Geez, I was excited when you were holding that pedal in your hands in your last video, imagine seeing this! The friends at Fairfield are neighbors (Hull represent!); good people, good builders... I love their delay pedal (Maude), I used it on many things over the years. And my wife is Croatian, so this video really spoke to me! :) Thanks, Christian!
@David-nu5cj3 жыл бұрын
Really loved what it did to those samples. Great watch and listen!
@ydlp77053 жыл бұрын
Little note: Intruments signals such as guitar's have a high impedance (it's wrote on your reamp box "Hi-Z") whereas line signal is much hotter signal (also modular is much higher than line) and have a low impedance. Using a reamp or a DI box solve that issue by using a OP amp or a transformer (for higher hand DI box) to adapt impedance.
@Petekelly553 жыл бұрын
I am a guitar player and due to a shoulder injury I am unable to play. So I recently turned my attention to sample libraries and analogue synths. Having (too many?) guitar pedals I have been experimenting in sound creation. Th Chase Bliss Automatone is the ultimate in cool. It is VERY expensive but worth every penny . Loads of KZbin videos showing the pedal and its capabilities Well worth a look IMHO.
@JoshuaBatch3 жыл бұрын
Fairfield do make some wonderful sounding pedals, this is no exception.
@eeajikofficial2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. It's very detailed and shows a loving interest in this pedals (& sound design). It's the coolest pedal review I've seen on KZbin.
@zhangke13503 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed your discussion about "cool". Very inspiring!!
@GabrielRO88 ай бұрын
This has to be *the* best pedal demo in the history of music.
@Da_Publick2 ай бұрын
It's nice, but the best?
@GabrielRO82 ай бұрын
@@Da_Publick Yes.
@noisecode58673 жыл бұрын
You've discovered my favorite pedal!! Have fun.
@chrisc72653 жыл бұрын
my takeaway from this is I'm totally going to split sampled instruments into left and right channels and do different processing on them now
@leflutebear3 жыл бұрын
Firewood Piano through a Deep Water pedal literally pulls emotion out of you in bucket loads....quite a special thing indeed
@katlegotladi21163 жыл бұрын
“MUMMY!” 9:39 Perfect reaction 😭
@williamphilipson-composer95763 жыл бұрын
Those flautando strings through that pedal are wonderful. I'm definitely going to explore using tape wobbles, and pitchy chorus/tremolos on intimate scenes on soft strings. Sounds great!
@galacticecho70273 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the strings were pretty amazing sounding.
@kevinbatchelor95663 жыл бұрын
Loving that they included a low pass gate in this design. The Make Noise Optomix has a lovely vactrol controlled lpg and it sounds beautiful.
@Quicksilver_Cookie Жыл бұрын
Being into playing music and gear in general taught me things about people. If there's anything somebody considers to be an undesirable defect - some will find a way to enjoy this broken thing, and turn it into a thing of beauty. I love this about music, and people. This is a gorgeous pedal. If used intelligently and with good care it can just sprinkle a little bit of magic on your recorded stuff.
@b4wd0DD3 жыл бұрын
tiny correction : the microcontroller, the only digital component of the pedal, is the thing generating the random modulation voltage, so the signal path is 100% analog
@pizzaROX3 жыл бұрын
I wish there was a pedal that does only that
@AndrossUT3 жыл бұрын
Naw there's definitely a pt2399 doing the vibrato
@leftovernoise3 жыл бұрын
@@AndrossUT nope. It's a v3207d bucket brigade chip. There are no pt2399 in this pedal
@ripwildy20222 жыл бұрын
@@AndrossUT why you randomly talking BS about stuff you have no clue on?
@AndrossUT2 жыл бұрын
@@ripwildy2022 just to anger you personally.
@rogermuller84833 жыл бұрын
You get all the upvotes I can give! Amazing content as always. And Yeah I ordered one as soon as I heard that stereo piano. The question now is: should I get 2? :)
@defnotmee50852 жыл бұрын
Man, I really like your ideas. Cool pedal featured here. thx
@Electricowlworks3 жыл бұрын
What a gratifying piece of kit! It reminds me a bit of the ZVex Instant LoFi Junky pedal. Thanks for the video, Christian! Cheers from South Wales, NY, USA. - chaz
@geraldhenrickson74722 жыл бұрын
Piece of kit? Ouch.
@barrnycharlton89513 жыл бұрын
interesting, unique and thought provoking video as per usual
@dijonstreak2 жыл бұрын
boy...you went ALL out on this one. WOW !!
@jeanfivaz8382 Жыл бұрын
This is the coolest effects pedal ever. But putting really pretty music into it helps. Thanks.
@Joshua_Ott Жыл бұрын
I like the 70's lofi film look to your video!
@echosonicmusic3 жыл бұрын
One of those special sauce pedals that are addictive to slap on everything ... nothing wrong with a blue LED, they are things of purity and great beauty. Great video Christian, I tried to do a winter voice recording but couldn't hold a note satisfactorily for 8 seconds and got very frustrated with myself ... I will watch on with interest!
@joshbabbitt92433 жыл бұрын
@Christian Henson, absolutely love this pedal, but can I ask what cables you had plugged into the SW were pretty please?
@howardanderson30613 жыл бұрын
It really is a stunning pedal, I can't believe it's a digital effect? Wow I agree the warble does have a very sad and Brocken sound, which I thunk we all can relate to that. Thanks for sharing! Excellent presentation
@sebastiens76213 жыл бұрын
It’s analog. Only the random modulation is made by micro processor. (Digital) like chase bliss audio
@jazzroom2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful string harmonic progression and voicings - I can hear Mahler influence. Thank you 🙏
@Mac.Eunique3 жыл бұрын
What’s cool is where you walk your dogs! 😳 Beautiful!
@Luigimeraz3 жыл бұрын
Unique video, love this pedal for synths also and I'm glad to hear your take on it!
@whatintheworld65013 жыл бұрын
Another brilliant video. Cheers mate!
@ThomasKobrick3 жыл бұрын
Very cool pedal indeed. And such amazing craftsmanship putting these videos together. You are a generous contributor to the music community.
@dazejaАй бұрын
LMAO... as an Architectural Educator by profession/ Musician - Hobbyist. Building Sweat stains had me rolling!
@roybrooks Жыл бұрын
I got a Shallow Water a few days ago. I reckon it might be the coolest effects unit ever.
@The_Penny_Seventeens3 жыл бұрын
This is the coolest video I have ever watched 🎼🎼🎼
@ameliemarron2 жыл бұрын
Do I need preamp? for my shallow water pedal to work properly? I just got mine and i plugged in Into my synth/guitar directly and honestly it doesn’t do much, it doesn’t have the effect it does in this (or any other demo) video, it almost does nothing to the sound. Or did i receive a broken version?
@markushubermusic3 жыл бұрын
Tape Saturation. So satisfying.
@iantanner75793 жыл бұрын
It certainly adds a pleasing, sonically nostalgic emotion to any sound run through it, - I wonder if younger ears experience the same emotional attachment to the sounds created with a machine like this, compared to those of us who grew up using tape? Love to ALL, feel no hate
@Frozen_Smoke19723 жыл бұрын
That's actually a really good question, seeing as these types of effects might seem to rely on a certain sense of nostalgia.
@yareshs3 жыл бұрын
As a "younger" person that didn't really grow up on tape, I can confirm the emotion still transfers
@iantanner75793 жыл бұрын
@@yareshs - Thank you for the answer Yaresh, much appreciated.
@drnarwhal2888 Жыл бұрын
I was born in the 2000s and I absolutely love these sounds
@maxmatson15783 жыл бұрын
That's the beauty of Behringer synthesizer users. They don't give a damn if it's cool or not. It works, and works good
@skrapadelix3 жыл бұрын
I love this pedal. It takes my Roland Juno 6 and magically transforms it into a Roland Jupiter 4.
@marciocunha26393 жыл бұрын
Mate, instantly subscribed. That intro is quite something.
@Frozen_Smoke19723 жыл бұрын
Another great pedal that gets into the same sort of area, in regards to giving music a peculiar vibe (but not really the same type of sonic results, at all) is the Black Fountain by Old Blood Noise Endeavours. Fairfield Circuitry are a fantastic company though. They do great stuff. Anyway, great video. Keep up the excellent wok.
@darylccc3 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Im still amazed more people don't talk about the SnazzyFX Wow & Flutter though .It's quite similar to this, its more a tape delay, but you can get similar stuff to the Fairfield. I use the eurorack module version of it and it's probably my favourite "analog" delay i owned, which includes an RE-301. Having CV control over the randomness leads to some very organic or crazy stuff.
@janiviitamaki37753 жыл бұрын
I like the sound of this pedal very much.
@alanmaxwell66493 жыл бұрын
I live in Montreal and have a Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water pedal. I've used it on a Solina String machine and it was fabulous. There is one pedal from Retroactive Pedals called Dotchaser (its a delay) but it can add gentle distortion to your sources, not its main intention and it sounds so very good.
@heartofodds Жыл бұрын
Random oscillation is the thing we didn't quite know we needed. It does something to the brain, keeps it engaged, the way we know predictable oscillations sort of disappear, or become gratuitous. They always should have been a bit random perhaps, like human-made vibrato. If you'll forgive...our 'inner child' stays engaged. Whether because it's organic, honest, vulnerable, true. It is to take on imperfection willingly. Eyes open(be a human on earth). Forego the cheap pride of superficial/counterfeit adornments and 'airs'... Now we're talking...just be humble.
@mgscheue3 жыл бұрын
Love my Shallow Water! Thanks for this. So nicely described.
@chriswareham2 жыл бұрын
Sounds similar to Hainbach's East German wire recorder. Probably a bit too niche for me to justify the expense, but it's very tempting as I love wobbly modulation effects.
@chrisjohnstone61645 ай бұрын
caught this by accicent because of the pedal -- fab use in the studio - ta luv
@jimsanger3 жыл бұрын
Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey. Its definitely cool. (Me quoting Dr Who shows I'm definitely not cool)
@BlackFrostt3 жыл бұрын
Oh mighty merciful overlord, please give us a flautando patch for LABS on Christmas this year. It's just so beautiful. Is their a way to get that sound using the discover library. I tried to EQ the longs and added a lush reverb but it sounds too synth-ish. I need something emotive and magical. I have another request. Can you make a video on how to make woodwinds section sound real. For eg: when should one use a solo oboe as opposed to many oboes. I try to arrange by ear but sometimes I can't tell if I'm doing the right thing and end up wasting time because it sounded great in my head but I'm not able to fit it in context.
@keiththeodosiou3 жыл бұрын
Always a great idea to experiment with pedals and keyboards. The winter voices is really picking up now and it sounds beautiful. Can't wait for the finished version! Well done everyone :)
@davidvochocjr10053 жыл бұрын
Hi Christian, I have seen in your different video - you have two of them? So, basically, are you using both in parallel for stereo recording? Because recording each channel separately is not quite "cool" if you agree ;-)
@TheCrowHillCo3 жыл бұрын
I’ve bought two in line with a workflow I’ve developed on a project I’m on. It involves feeding multiple stereo streams through different fx chains. By having two it means the time is halved doing this. June 21st all will be revealed!
@tendingtropic77783 жыл бұрын
wow thank you for this! just don't quite understand what you did to make it stereo? record a loop left mono and right mono and then blend them?
@TheCrowHillCo3 жыл бұрын
You got it!
@chandeleerjet56372 жыл бұрын
There's a free plugin for Reaktor called Deep Water which is one of my most used plugins. Just realized it's the same exact controls as this and an emulation. I love the plugin so I bet the hardware is amazing
@Seeattle3 жыл бұрын
I wasn’t too impressed until you ran the violin strings through it. Then I immediately resolved to want, badly.
@MarcusWarnerMusic3 жыл бұрын
if I saw car #1 being used for an Asda shopping trip I'd consider that infinitely cooler than car #2 sat in someone's showroom somewhere. Same with the pedals - all about how you use them, regardless of form factor
@TweezerBleezer1233 жыл бұрын
SUBSCRIBED. your rant ! Brilliant
@ArturTadevosyan3 жыл бұрын
Awesome! I can see my name in the samples list of Logic! Btw that pedal is REALLY COOl!
@experimetalfan88513 жыл бұрын
That intro was very *cool*
@RobinRimbaudScanner3 жыл бұрын
Picked one up a while back and love this pedal, especially when used subtly. You slightly confused me there in the description though, thinking that this was a new pedal from Fairfield Circuitry though, calling it 'Deep Water' when in fact it's still 'Shallow Water' as far as I know! Oh, you trickster you!
@nrg2423 жыл бұрын
same here. was about to rush over to Reverb to try and find one before i figured it was a mistake.
@RobinRimbaudScanner3 жыл бұрын
@@nrg242 yes, a little surprising that Christian hasn't updated it as yet as I'm sure there are lots of confused viewers out there thinking wondering where to find such an exclusive pedal, that doesn't even exist! :-)
@christopherecatalano3 жыл бұрын
Oh please, though🤣 Anything they make that is weird is going to be great!
@RobinRimbaudScanner3 жыл бұрын
@@christopherecatalano true, but most certainly a challenge if you are searching for 'Deep Water'! 😂
@christopherecatalano3 жыл бұрын
@@RobinRimbaudScanner, I wonder how a Deep Water pedal would actually play out. I could hear this being combined with a really strange Fairfield like reverb, maybe in stereo although stereo doesn’t seem to be their way.
@chronicmango3 жыл бұрын
“Jangling your change all day” sounds remarkably like a euphemism though you clearly were intending it to be interpreted literally.
@leonbc973 жыл бұрын
I wasn't expecting the stereo to sound so wide, thought it would be a lot more phasey in the centre. Very cool pedal
@thanosvovouras92253 жыл бұрын
Reaaaaaally intresting pedal!! Is that music sample a tune? If yes which one please?
@nomadvideomachine3 жыл бұрын
well that's refreshing!! And I haven't even arrived at the pedal part of the vid 😎
@nomadvideomachine3 жыл бұрын
6:16 - Me, later that day to my fiance "But darling, don't you realise that it’s possibilities are much greater than simply a Wow and Flutter machine"
@nomadvideomachine3 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for this beautifully crafted Pedal Production. Both the pedal and your [well, a review wouldn't do justice to the amount of work you've put in this and the wonderful musical results] are one of a kind! A big thanks to the Fair Circus as well
@parkerstroh65863 жыл бұрын
Top notch intro my dude, instant sub
@kibon83873 жыл бұрын
my definition of cool is when the weather is when the ambient temperature reach bellow 18C.
@SteveBlancoMusicianWarrior3 жыл бұрын
That is a great sounding pedal. Definitely on my list. Thanks for this video🥂
@ethanphelps53083 жыл бұрын
this man should have millions of subs
@earlsfield2 жыл бұрын
Serbo-Croatian still exists, although Serbia and Croatia are separate countries. With that sorted, Shallow Water is amazing. However ,there is a monster comming around the corner for about 400 quid - Generational Loss MK2, with much more to offer. Preordered it, it is loaded with tape models, all sorts of goodies you might want to find on a Boards of Canada in a pedal device :)
@crag_3 жыл бұрын
I have that lemon squeezer, its actually for making orange juice and it works really well. My dad paid way too much money for it 20 years ago though
@muaythaifred3 жыл бұрын
is this kind of like the strymon deco?
@billithoumilli29523 жыл бұрын
Is that a piano library at the beginning or a real recording of a piano?
@type1972 жыл бұрын
Cool vid... 😎 It's interesting to see your ideas here. I have the Glowfly/Wraa labs Retroflect lofi tape simulator, and coupled it with the Meris 'Blade Runneresque' Mercury7. But I only used it for one part just to add something 'cool'. The idea of adding multiple tracks run through the tape sim and then using the Mercury7 to tie it all together will be the next experiment. Thoroughly enjoyed this vid...
@christopherecatalano3 жыл бұрын
It sits right next to my Meet Maude. She is equally cool. Deliciously dark. Shallow Water is deep enough that you never stop being surprised by what it is doing, but used right it is ever so subtle; beautifully musical and so nice to just let it breathe in the background. Under water. The Fairfield pedals impart a tonal thing that is hard to describe, just sideways from your real tone, but an alternate tone nonetheless. Sometimes the shift the Shallow Water creates reminds me of those rubber knee reflex mallets the doctor uses to randomly turn your leg into jello😂
@jaxn_music95353 жыл бұрын
17:33 "utter scheise" :D That sounded so funny (as I am from Germany). :)
@sandwich-breath2 жыл бұрын
As soon as I picked up the shallow water I put it over an orchestral string piece I’m working on and my heart broke into little pieces and washed away
@endermusica3 жыл бұрын
Almost spit my tea with the lemon thing.
@sp3ct3rsd3mos3 жыл бұрын
Really lovely
@chucksmyth25983 жыл бұрын
Got mine a few weeks ago and loving it. They do need a stereo version. I’ve been trying to copy the sound of the intro credits to Scarface for years. This helps.
@wishbonebrewery Жыл бұрын
Needs to be a Eurorack module, I hear quite a few things like this used on peoples tracks and they nearly always over-do it with it ending up being quite hard to listen to as some warbling annoyance.
@MassacreVegan2 ай бұрын
You should definitely check out the Gen Loss MkII, if you haven't already. :)
@Fjordjumper3 жыл бұрын
Is the yellow box a reamp box next to the pedal? Does this unit not have line level then?
@FairuzOsman3 жыл бұрын
It’s a guitar pedal
@constantinflux10 ай бұрын
This goes out to everyone that is trying to be cool: it is inherently impossible, because cool is something that is perceived by the observer and never by the cool individual themselves. So you can only perceive "coolness" in others, never in yourself.
@Rustie.3 жыл бұрын
The Empress Zoia is very inspiring!
@AlexPolensky3 жыл бұрын
Great demo of how weird and varied this pedal can be! I'm excited to save up for one and try to apply it to my cues, as well as the EQD Avalanche Run.