Lo-Fi Guitar: How to Be Creative

[@CyberattackWorld]

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[@NuttBustley]

The way your mind works is so cool dude. To have these visuals be inspired by playing such strange sounds is a magical thing to witness

[@StuffnSuch]

Wow, I love your rendition of “Between the Bars”.

[@CyberattackWorld]

that part is one of my favorite things i've ever done in these vids

[@StuffnSuch]

@@CyberattackWorld mine too ❤️ of yours I mean

[@mikeomatic9905]

Mariah Carey AND Eliot Smith covers in one video!? Madlad.

[@banwavy]

Agreed. Between the Bars was insanely well done. A++++++ video again CA 👏 The Mariah Carey was super rad too

[@conor2337]

@@CyberattackWorldIt's perfect

[@angelpolanski4927]

All the videos on this channel are a piece of art

[@johnplayer420]

That Thunder Road cover with the Zvex unit was absolutely STELLAR DUDE

[@CyberattackWorld]

Thanks man

[@uberjam-sam8512]

Love what you said about contrasting lo-fi brokenness with beautiful melodies. Such a foundational musical concept (that's applicable to so many things. Love the metaphor of putting a hat on a hat to contrast this notion. Hilarious and so effective

[@daviddelossantos6075]

Treble that’s faded like it’s been in the sun too long. I like that.

[@AMPR45]

Some of us don’t have to buy fancy pedals and equipment to sound low quality.

[@CyberattackWorld]

the truly advanced

[@emulgatorx]

True Lo-Fi tone is in the fingers

[@AMPR45]

@@emulgatorx there’s nothing like the sound of an amp that really pulls air.

[@bstoner1300]

Do not doing - The Tao (also me on Saturdays)

[@DSPsWifesBF]

Honestly, just pirate some good lofi vsts. OR check out the Line 6 MM4. It has all types of great modulation options including vibrato which if you pair with a Behringer overdrive or eq can give you a great lofi sound

[@theLastRaptor]

The slow dolly toward the church with that music was sooooo good.

[@OneHellOfASandwich]

Your rendition of between the bars here is fucking incredible dude. Haunting, yet beautiful. You’re on another level man.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man, that Elliott Smith cover is one of my favorite things i've ever done in these pedal vids

[@OneHellOfASandwich]

@@CyberattackWorld can I ask what song is at 7:05? Is that an original work or yet another great reinterpretation?

[@CyberattackWorld]

@@OneHellOfASandwich bit.ly/3vZ0yft

[@OneHellOfASandwich]

@@CyberattackWorld WOW. I’d much rather listen to your version of that. Good to know anyway I guess. I hear it tho, but yeah her music isn’t my pace. Thanks, I’ll keep comin back to this comment to check that sheet whenever I hear something I like but don’t recognize :) I gotta say you are a king of transformation!

[@Stephen-q6d]

Contrasting beautiful melodies with destroyed sounds pretty much sums up the Boards of Canada aesthetic.

[@cadenbenton6235]

Dude that Elliot and Superdrag cover was insane! I remember as a kid thinking about becoming a musician and I only had a casio keyboard at the time and you’re music is how I wanted music to be as a kid!

[@ChrisJohnson-lp3hc]

that part of Thunder Road always gets me a little choked up, sounded dope with the lofi treatment!

[@BobcatOneManBand]

I think the first lo-fi pedal is knew of was the Ibanez Tone-Lok Lo-Fi. I got mine in 1999 and still use it to this day

[@longmeaderulez]

Thunder Road sax solo and Sucked Out in one video...hell yeah

[@CyberattackWorld]

man i'm glad you caught those

[@pedalboy7]

Came down here to say this…(and very cool videos just generally)

[@pedalboy7]

..and Superdrag - ha! Nicely done.

[@stephengoold9044]

!!!! Thank god someone said it was the s Thunder road solo!! I don’t think I could have slept until I figured out what it was!!!

[@allivegottado]

So good to see some Superdrag love! Another amazing video. Your ability to welcome people into the way you see and think with your information and visuals is a real joy. Awesome content for guitarists and musicians but I’ve been sending your videos to friends who don’t play just because I find them so entertaining.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks, i really appreciate it. superdrag rules

[@RobUttley]

Love your videos mate, just brimming with ideas, vibe and attitude.

[@bstoner1300]

Great advice. Liminal space sounds…good work. Great visuals. All reasons why I have been binging your channel the past few days!

[@Yoshipk777]

That last sound example was amazing!

[@aravindvinayakan]

I've only watched 2-3 videos of yours, but you're very quickly becoming one of my favorite guitar channels on KZbin. Super unique, informative videos with incredible playing/demonstrations! Subbed and looking forward to more :)

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks for the comment. all my videos are exactly like this, if you wanna take the plunge and go through the older ones

[@aravindvinayakan]

​@@CyberattackWorld I fully intend on going through everything I've missed! :)

[@GasStationSushiiii]

Best pedal reviewer ever

[@doobledoo]

Absolutely the best guitar KZbinr. You actually know what you're talking about. It's amazing

[@ItsVictoriaG]

Okay, but the fuzz fugue of Always Be My Baby is something I didn’t know I needed! 🥹

[@CyberattackWorld]

baby it's only a matter of time

[@Railage]

Love your channel

[@WreckDX]

been binge watching your content. always love recognizing some covers i never thought i'd hear. Sucked Out was a real treat

[@chrisstryker7077]

I thought before I watched this that this video idea would work well playing in the vein of Elliot smith. And Logan’s behold, syntax error. Great video.

[@loganhone]

By SO far, the sickest gear videos on KZbin. bravo!!

[@kevinstokes5254]

Bruh... this entire series is masterclass-level... both content and delivery. [Been playing since 1994, yet I learn new things from each of your vids.] Zen-master insights made open-source... available to anybody who will look, listen, and then go APPLY them in their own new ways. Muchas gracias and God bless

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks dude

[@martincarbow5491]

There's this powerful "get more out of what you already have - by insanely thinking out of the box" (subtext?) message in your pedal vids, Ivan. Which is SUSTAINABLY INSPIRING. Imho the only true antidote to GAS, which is the hauntingly persistent plague of our times: "Buy more to feel mo' better"… And that's exactly why I dig your entire Oeuvre so desparately, apart from your soulfully emotional commitment of playing uncompromisingly in the pocket with the most cheesiest of sounds. My two favs apart from the technical ideas in this vid are the Fuzzed out Mariah Carey fuge and Superdrag's Sucked Out, for the irresistible rock groove. Wish I could give a hundred likes instead of only that painfully insufficient one. In honesty, ALL of your vids so far have been lo-fi guitar gold mines, anyway. Keep 'em coming!

[@CyberattackWorld]

Thanks man I'm glad you get it

[@benhodson9718]

Nice! Extra points for the Superdrag cover at the end!

[@chrisegonmusic]

I think the ‘Let it be Beautiful’ thing works because it gives it a delicate quality. Like it’s just about hanging on without falling apart 🎸

[@roscoeswraps2510]

Major TPPOJLA philosophy. Cyberattack you're killing it

[@CyberattackWorld]

#tppojla is the only reality

[@spindal_1]

Pretty unique approach to the guitar and great playing skills 😎

[@wonderwomanguy]

lo-fi on the cheap (i.e., you might already have these boxes): take a 6 or 7 band eq and drop every other slider down. Pair that with a vibe, phaser or flanger, maybe a little reverb and you're good to go. Eq's can be dirt cheap.

[@CyberattackWorld]

Yes this is classic

[@asmahism]

Dude using “then he kissed me” is an amazing choice. You’re a fucking genius. And Elliot Smith this is my favorite video you’ve made.

[@CyberattackWorld]

glad you caught those, thanks dude

[@ValdrVideo]

"'Lo-Fi guitar' stands for 'low fidelity guitar'" is beautiful comedic timing

[@CyberattackWorld]

"humor, at the highest level, isn't funny at all." -David Lee Roth

[@pickyyeeter]

That was great. It reminded me of "El Niño is Spanish for...The Niño"

[@GummyWormeon]

This is why i don’t like memorizing and reciting long winded jokes. “Like putting a hat on a hat” -cyberattack

[@Joshua_Griffin]

It's true though

[@kendallmasterssank369]

Not really anymore. That's where the name of the style comes from. But it has evolved and became a genre of music, so LoFi guitar today is hi fi

[@NohFyuchur]

Like putting a hat…on a hat… Omg..that made me spit coffee😂☕️i freakin love your videos, i think boards of canada really got into my head years ago with the lo fi, detuning and sun faded polaroid sounds, you do the lofi proud!

[@tomhuxley4705]

Only discovered the channel this week, but absolutely loving these videos. Very inspiring.

[@EngineeredNonsense]

Another amazing video! Like others have mentioned, the Elliott Smith cover was incredible. 1:02 The Ibanez LF7 ‘lo fi’ distortion pedal with a high pass filter in 2000 was quite a bit earlier than the Zvex in 2008. I remember looking at catalogs (!) and wondering if it would make me sound like Graham Coxon’s first solo record that sounds like it was recorded inside a potato.

[@CyberattackWorld]

that's awesome, great info thank you

[@NickTimoniere]

I need either a full version of that "Always Be My Baby" fugue or sheet music for it (or both!) Also you somehow made an Elliott Smith song even more haunting which is wild! Absolutely incredible work as always dude.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man, this video was very close to my heart

[@Paulo-ut1li]

God that Phil Spector and Superdrag made that video so special! Wish we could start a band after that! Great video

[@mrwhateverism]

I enjoyed watching this video. I enjoyed watching your past videos. I will enjoy watching your future videos. Peace.

[@CyberattackWorld]

time is never time at all

[@maximhelincks]

Pffff such amazing vibezzz. Sunfaded, I’m stealing that for a songtitle.

[@riseandshine5706]

yo this channel came at the right time for me. sharing some gold plated wisdom here sir. big thanks 🙏

[@ProfOfHifi]

Quality video! I think the same way about lo-fi, it needs to be fun, beautiful and exciting at it's heart. But what I like a lot a few videos I have been watching from you that you often create actually songs and not only soundscapes with pedals that has strange effects. Thank you! :)

[@linewizard]

One of my favorite SECRET lo-fi effects is the lo-fi delay of the Zoom MS-50G fully wet, with time turned all the way down. You can get some crazy telephone-y jack white-y sounds out of it

[@ShallieDragon]

This is great food for thought for me. I'm only starting to dip my toes into Lo-Fi pedal stuff, and now I have some ideas about where to start. I was familiar with some of these already, but others were totally new to me. Thank you!

[@BradleyRegister]

Wow I haven’t thought about Superdrag in a LONG time! My OLD band opened quite a few shows for them around 1998. Really nice guys if I remember right… Great vid as always.

[@CyberattackWorld]

That's awesome

[@oak7741]

the first video i've seen from your channel and wow what an introduction!

[@daviddavis1322]

The visuals accompanying who sucked out the feeling might keep me awake to long tonight

[@davidsummerville351]

#5 was incredible.

[@themotioncodemarc]

This is my favourite fx channel. Love your content.

[@jacobswaim449]

Try this: gated fuzz > bitcrusher > low pass filter > big reverb. Maximum crackle and pop, every note sounds like you're unplugging/plugging your input jack. Throw in a loop of just passive hiss from a cranked distortion/open fuzz for good measure.

[@buffalofeathers]

Subscribed because of Between the Bars. Nice work, man. I appreciate your takes.

[@Perfect_Dark_77]

I was just wondering how to do this and thought the cyberattack guy would have something good and lo and behold. Thanks.

[@BobcatOneManBand]

Z-Vex did not create the lo-fi pedal. Have you ever played through an Ibanez Lo-Fi pedal made in the late 1990's? I love that pedal and I'm very sad it's discontinued. I wish they would make a mini-version so I can put on my touring pedal board!

[@alexfletcher9915]

Excellent insights delivered perfectly!

[@IsothermeMusic]

Is that Action Park in Vernon at 1:23?

[@CyberattackWorld]

man i'm amazed you caught that. NJ forever

[@rsr_brian]

“It’s like putting a hat on a hat.” < the second I hit “Subscribe” 😂

[@Thr3-Words]

I watch Cyberattack videos at 240p (no joke) and it just fits. I would go for 144p, but the drop in sound quality is a bit much

[@CyberattackWorld]

advanced

[@FriendOfTheNight24]

Great job. I opted for the chase bliss warped vinyl

[@ryanh7389]

Goddam fuckin chills over here listening to that Between The Bars cover. Brilliant man. So beautiful! But now I'm sad

[@zero_x93]

great cover at the end 💪🏼 underrated super drag song🔥

[@iiaaiiaannaaiiaaii]

Win win (win?) for me here. love Mariah, love fuzz and love/share your perspective on good/bad sounds. Also, the Elliot Smith cover was lovely - but stopped counting at three wins. Thanks for another dose inspiration, cheers.

[@CyberattackWorld]

All I've ever wanted is for Elliott Smith and Mariah Carey to live in the same format

[@iiaaiiaannaaiiaaii]

@@CyberattackWorld self-actualize it, don't criticize it.

[@whippyflagellum]

Man, I found your channel yesterday and going ham on it. But hearing your elliott smith rendition, instant subscribe!

[@GuyFi46]

I would love a full version of that last song, that went so unreasonably hard

[@CyberattackWorld]

enjoy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2Hddp6fhpqVn6ssi=r1t1k1YSDizRPfrt

[@GuyFi46]

Aw amazing thank you

[@davidbell1227]

Really digging this series, keep em coming!

[@lradmclovin9]

I'm kinda speechless you demonstrated a fuzz pedal with a fugue but I'm glad you did

[@Arkansya]

you just gave away my band's sound signature with the bitcrush+verb thing... ;)

[@cleekersneaker]

All these covers really got to me

[@dannywest8843]

Cyberattack will always be my baby.

[@CyberattackWorld]

i'm part of you indefinitely

[@dannywest8843]

and then a Superdrag homage. What a master.

[@dannywest8843]

@@CyberattackWorldconfirmed inescapable.

[@MrMetalsound95]

I love this channel so much

[@michaelfowler3187]

I've recommended it on comments of this channel before but the mr black analog chorus Vibrato can be "stretched" to insane delay times giving it a very gen-loss type of effect, even in a random fluttering Lfo. Using fast choppy tremolo is a nice way to get a flutter that sounds fairly complete but is missing information between the duty peaks. There are a number of subdecay pedals like their quasar and starlight pedals with some random lfos that can get this magical texture to them- I'm stretching though. Awesome topic and nice sounds as always man

[@CyberattackWorld]

that all sounds rad

[@michaelfowler3187]

I said delay times but I actually meant lfo rate.. it can go into about 14 seconds per cycle so it is a stretched or purring sound effect from what sounds like blurry bucket brigade smearing goodness. Buzzwords. Anyway the delay time is not what I actually meant to say on the earlier comment- thanks

[@chuckjaywalk]

I think I love you, Cyberattack.

[@midwinter78]

Fuzz started life as the sound of a broken mixing desk, to hey, yeah, makes total sense as lofi.

[@DrankZappa]

My favorite KZbinr. 🎉👍

[@GummyWormeon]

I think some of the AC noises pedals do lofi (or low fidelity) really well

[@CyberattackWorld]

agreed, especially the bitcrush + reverb thing

[@hippyhobo6285]

I have a potential reason for why the "plastic guitar" sounds great with low bit synth sounds actually! So around the time 16 bit synths were popular (think the 90s, like the Amiga or the sound chips on game consoles), ROMplers were also popular (as was multi-sampling), so these pieces of hardware would take one note or sound from that instrument (in this case a guitar), and to play the different notes on the keyboard, that source sound was pitch shifted (as opposed to each individual note being sampled at each pitch). This of course, introduces artifacting, similar to what you get with the "plastic guitar" sound in this video.

[@CyberattackWorld]

Great point

[@alvaroolivares2880]

Great video/Tutorial! Is there any chance you can make a video about the Alexander Pedals Rewind? Greetings from Berlin

[@CyberattackWorld]

A lot of the pro-tips I would give the Rewind would be extremely similar to what I did for the Alexander Space Force. A lot of their modes are similar and can be abused in the same ways. Alexander Pedals are the best.

[@gooman04]

is that an elliott smith song at like 9:00

[@cadenbenton6235]

Huh, it does have a bit of Between Bars feel!

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

It's amazing how much we're willing to pay to sound like we're using crappy equipment.

[@younico98]

hey man, great video. Love your visuals and sound examples

[@geoPhaze]

The lofi superdrag sucked out may be my favorite thing on the internet right now. Wow.

[@CyberattackWorld]

kissing the bride

[@ScamLikely9327]

You should look into Mask Audio Electronics. I have the Part Garden and it does the weirdest lofi fuzz tones. And then their Line Blur is strange because it has a frequency control for the mids and it can get weird or it can be a really good preamp but I use it to make my Plumes crackle in a broken speaker type of way without being too distorted.

[@BougieButler]

That 8:48 Elliot Smith sound example was radddd at least I think that's what that was :)

[@CyberattackWorld]

it was, glad you caught that

[@sgriggl]

yeah

[@ToneSherpa]

THAT'S what that was! I was racking my brain!

[@maximhelincks]

Wow idd that between the bars version!!!

[@martianmurray]

With the Zvex I put it before my fuzz because it gets really dark after it

[@_OopsieDaisies]

dang that between the bars cover was so pretty

[@CyberattackWorld]

drink up baby!!!!

[@karlboman]

I love how you're quick to assure the viewer that the ~900 can still kill you! :D

[@CyberattackWorld]

what i am, what i want, i'm only after death!!!!!!!!

[@Swodie_Jeetin]

Excellent superdrag my dude 😎

[@CyberattackWorld]

this was my dream

[@jonathandranoff1721]

Nice work as always, Ivan. I really enjoyed your use of pitch shifting up a few steps, which I think you've done before. It occurs to me that if there were a way to keep the shifted signal clean but make the notes a bit more staccato by cutting them out, the resultant sound would be like a cheap Casiotone keyboard with a guitar patch. Which seems pretty consistent with the Cyberattack esthetic. I'd like to chase that down, but I don't know of an effect that cuts out notes prematurely (I guess it would be some kind of timed noise gate). Any thoughts?

[@CyberattackWorld]

Hey thanks for the comment. The EHX Attack Decay cuts off notes the exact way you want. Some envelope filters can also be made to do it, for more information about how check out my video about the GFI Synesthesia

[@LukasDrumZ]

Your videos are great! Keep it up!

[@alessandrociapica5180]

Gosh, that Springsteen tune hit me hard as f ❤

[@CyberattackWorld]

it's a town full of losers

[@cameronwatchesvideos]

lofi superdrag 💯

[@tjnathan]

Wale up babe, Cyberattack posted

[@guitarpedalhub]

Hey man, massive fan of your channel. I also have a chroma console, and I was just wondering how you layered both the vibrato and pitch shift effects into one track since they are part of the same module. Did you re-amp one of the signals through the chroma console? Or did you record individual tracks and combine them in your DAW? I have been wondering how to most easily use two effects of the same module so any insights are greatly appreciated!

[@CyberattackWorld]

hey that's a good point, I should have made this clearer. I was only using the pitch-shifter, but I turned up the Drift, which introduces some instability and vibrato. My goal was to combine pitch-shifting lo-fi and vibrato lo-fi into one sound, which it did really well, although the wording in the video should be better. thanks for the question.

[@martincarbow5491]

@@CyberattackWorld Thanks for explaining, this "pseudo-dual-fx" might also work on other pedals - I'll check that out…

[@CyberattackWorld]

@@martincarbow5491 also now that I've thought about it more, I think I was also running the Chroma Console's Cassette texture, which was applying some random vibrato to the pitch-shifter

[@martincarbow5491]

@@CyberattackWorld Thanks for the info, Ivan! I dig that random vibrato so much, probably my fav modulation on guitar as well as Rhodes and synths. Apropos, did you check out the Vongon Ultrasheer yet? So amazing to be able to swap the order of Reverb and Vibrato. Rev into random Vib makes for some serious lo-fi time and space travel…

[@CyberattackWorld]

@@martincarbow5491 Yeah the Ultrasheer is great

[@daveymoor]

A hat on a hat. Beautiful. 🧢 🎩 😊

[@louishwu]

Hat on top of a hat? oh cyberattack, youll always be my baby. Thanks for another great video

[@wiredbassclarinet]

Music example #4 - choice

[@rahzark]

This channel needs more Bruce Springsteen covers. First of all because NJ. Secondly, because he's the Boss and makes amazing pedals.

[@CyberattackWorld]

Thanks Rahzark, you make an excellent point. I'm assuming you caught the Springsteen cover in this one from a couple months ago: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4jHk6qIbtx5fck

[@rahzark]

@@CyberattackWorld i didn't, i'll go back and listen!

[@allyourbasearebelongtous2191]

Dude!!! That compressor/trem trick.... Holy shit... I actually LEARNED something. Fuck me. Amazing man