Digitech FreqOut - Ambient Demo Improvisation - Mika Tyyskä

[@fbhistoriador]

You are the only one so far who used this pedal without a lot of distortion. Congratulations! Creative and inspiring.

[@kyleahlstrom4812]

1:50 sounds like a majestic creature calling out for love. Beautiful.

[@Ale-Desafinados]

Every now and then I come back to this video for listening and enjoy those beautiful melodies while I've been hypnotized to another dimension.

[@michaelsnydermusic]

Finally, someone uses it correctly on a video! Thank you. This was awesome. I just got one and love it for this sort of playing. P.S. do you have any ambient albums out there?

[@MikaFastfinger]

Thank you. I got this pedal 3 years ago and it became part of my permanent pedalboard. It’s a wonderful pedal, not perfect but super inspiring and versatile. I haven’t got ambient album , Yet. I need to do one one day. but check out the tune ”Lake Ionian” from my Night Overdrive -album (released under name Mika Tyyskä) some frequout tones there too.

[@michaelsnydermusic]

@@MikaFastfinger will do. I watched one of your live performances and it was brilliant. Btw, I have two ambient guitar albums available under my name (After-Life & Dreaming Pain Away). You can hear them on KZbin.

[@MikaFastfinger]

Michael Snyder Thank you. Just quickly checking your music on Spotify. it does sound great. Will save the albums to plylist and listen properly when in right mind setting. 🙏

[@michaelsnydermusic]

Just returned to this video and it’s still just as good. I still use mine and actually quite a bit on my last ambient album “Ambient music for Spaceports” instead of only relying on the Ebow. I’m also using it a lot on my solos for my Uncle Michael Metal stuff. I’m finding it adds that extra unpredictability and oomf I’m looking for. I do want to have a sustainiac pick up though. I’d love to have it in my Music Man but I don’t think I dare! Have you used one? Is it worth the trouble if you have this pedal and an Ebow? Hope you are well!

[@Ale-Desafinados]

So beautiful !! Those ideas should not be forgotten. A full song based on that would be awesome. Your ability for improvisation fascinates me.

[@MikaFastfinger]

Desafinados Thanks, i kind of like it how it is here as a solo performance. Especially the early part with the sub mode works pretty well.

[@thesynthteashop3055]

fantastic work - super expressive

[@MikaFastfinger]

🙏🔥🔥🔥

[@Micky-yo3ng]

You make the ambient guitar music I have in my head. Nice playing

[@ambilingua]

Great pedal. Fantastic player.

[@Elena_Krossviktory]

Those lights above your head really look like sunrays!🌞🌞🌞Fascinating sounds!

[@irmaztamal21]

You should write soundtracks for movie or documentaries.. your composition are always mesmerizing & touching.

[@MikaFastfinger]

Bey Zam Humble thanks! I've done some of that in the past. Some short fictional films, some documentaries too. Would be fun to score some film again :)

[@philspill6854]

Love my Freqout. Such a musical tool.

[@MikaFastfinger]

🙌

[@Bozemancurtis]

Love this sound.

[@SoundingSix]

That pedal is amazing, especially in the right hands, such as yours. Can't wait to see what artistry you create with it! What you did in this video sounds like it needs to become something. Pete Thorn's demo of the Freqout is pretty sweet, too. It's on my to do list to get one and will definitely be my next pedal purchase. It's just too awesome to not have around!

[@MikaFastfinger]

testekleez Thanks! The pedal sure is wonderful! I'm definetly going to have to make room in my tight pedalboard for this to be there always with me :)

[@treyvisqueux7973]

Thank you for making this video -- you play beautifully, and most of the other demos don't use this pedal with such subtlety.

[@MikaFastfinger]

Thanks, glad you liked it. it's a wonderful pedal, part of my main pedalboard now. this is what came out when I first sat down to play with it. the reason why i felt i needed and got me the pedal was the song Secrets & Magic, maybe you saw the video here too. there were few spots where long notes neede extra tail and harmonic feedback sounds.

[@treyvisqueux7973]

Thanks for the reply -- I didn't see that video for Secrets and Magic, but will check it out!

[@phenixreturns]

*Amazing demo ! Check it out ! **kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXqUZZSpjdWelbs*

[@perboysen]

Nice playing! :-)

[@AlecBourneMidiMadScientist]

Really great video. I ordered one of these this morning, subbed up. Cheers for making this.

[@MikaFastfinger]

Alec Bourne - Midi Mad Scientist Thank you! This pedal’s been part of my pedalboard for 3 years now. Hope you dig it as much as I!

[@primaballerina84]

Fantastiskt som alltid 🎸❤️ from 🇸🇪

[@MikaFastfinger]

primaballerina84 Tack så mycket!

[@Franc77719]

Mika you are such an inspiration feels like everything you play you has meaning and full of emotion. Your music is amazing and unique definitely gonna get all the albums. Started watching your videos a few weeks back you sir have a fan for life now!! btw happy b-day coming up looking foward to many years of your music thanks!!!!

[@MikaFastfinger]

So great to hear all this. Thank you!

[@Bozemancurtis]

Amazing sound. I love how a new pedal can inspire music that wasn't possible before. You are so musical with all your playing!

[@LeviBulger]

Sounds awesome. I love this pedal so much.

[@joelgaribay7868]

Awesome dude

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

Pedal sounds nice, I was more captivated by the superb skills of the musician.

[@RobEllerMusic]

Nice work bro

[@YELLOWNITA]

Great vidéo...👍🎶

[@m8mstudio]

Wow, fantastic ! Many thanx for your sharing Mika ! I continue my way on your marvellous channel ! I dreamed to have this FX since 20 years. Happy to find it here ! My e-bow was too much complicated to manipulate during a solo... Yet, I've found a very interesting Fender runaway feedback with a cool control pedal ! Boss feedback booster is more a rough dirty on the end. And there's a very cool plugin by SoftubeStudios (acoustic feedback) and another one is the Bluecats AcouFiend. I share my search there...This could help...

[@MikaFastfinger]

🙏🙌 Thank you for sharing your tips about similar products. I got an ebow too, have had it since mid 90’s and i know exactly what you mean. It’s good for certain things. But giving up you right hand to operate is another thing. Will need to seek what the Fender runaway feedback is all about, never hear of it. please note: Freqout won’t give you eternal sustain, it just milks out everything out of even the smallest signal. when there’s no signal from your guitar it drops the sustain and feedback. but it’s still a wonderful pedal. I still use it actively, inportant part of my pedalboard and tone palette. Wax on!

[@LiisaKahleissa]

probs for miku stomp ;)) and also great sounds. can't wait your new tunes!

[@MikaFastfinger]

LiisaKahleissa Thanks! Miku is the heart and soul of my pedalboard :)

[@sinnertrain7405]

I bought one of these pedals as a Black Friday deal and a lot of the reason was this demo. I've always wanted a sustainer pickup equipped guitar, but didn't want to spend the money on one. This should scratch the itch, I hope.

[@wicasawakan3]

Hello Sinner Train, I would like to buy this pedal for the same reason (sustainer), and just wonder if it does the job for you? Want to do some kind of Collen's Hysteria melody, and would like to know if it would be close enough to do it with the FreqOut... ;-)

[@afterstars]

Awesome. It’s like an ambient Eric Johnson

[@stubrakon9683]

Great! Enjoyed alot!!😁

[@MikaFastfinger]

🙌

[@c.g.vonhagenstein7576]

So this is what neon sounds like on a rainy night. At least that's what it evoked for me :) I have this pedal and couldn't agree more. Does have a bit of a learning curve in terms of what you can/can't do with it and its, ermm, behaviour? for lack of a better term. It can do weird things when trying to track slides for example, but sometimes the unexpected results are cool and wonderful. My only nitpick with the pedal so far is that it can cut out a little unexpectedly sometimes. One thing that helps me with that is pairing it up with the Sustaniac pickup in my Schecter Hellraiser Hybrid and using the "natural" harmonic setting on the Sustaniac. You have to play with the gain/feedback controls for the pickup and pedal to have some control over which kicks in first but it's massive fun. I didn't really mean to write a wall of text, honest lol. This video is really inspiring and I'm a new sub to this channel + have the pedal, so perfect storm haha.

[@MikaFastfinger]

Thanks for the writing. Can't wait for all the upcoming adventures with this pedal. Like you said it can be sometimes a bit unexpected. The unexpected cut outs is something we need to learn to live with. I tried this pedal on my recent live gig. It acted werry strange. In all the hassle and everything that comes being on stage, i didn't realize I had it accidentally set to the highest squeal setting (5th?), instead of natural low setting which is pretty much currently my default setting for getting basic the feedback sounds. Next time I'll be more careful!!! Yes, was thinking sustainic pickup could be a nice pair with this. I'm not really thinking of getting one for myself but It's good to hear it works. I actually ended up buying this pedal as I was working on a song where I wanted to acheive a certain feedback-ish aftertouch to some longer notes. This pedal really did the job and helped me to achieve the sound I wanted. This tune is released as a single this friday. The video will also follow asap. Thanks!

[@tcw8287]

This is amazing. Can you use this like an ebow, i.e. if you hold a note on feedback can you move to another note without plucking the note? Slide about basically?

[@MikaFastfinger]

Yes, if you slide (or bend) the feedbacl follows. The effect is actually quite unguitar like. When you slide accross frets the feedback sound follows accurately but smoothens the pitch. it sounds a bit like synth or flute.

[@tcw8287]

@@MikaFastfinger amazing. I'll be getting one then haha I'll never be able to do what you do with it mind you

[@MegaBrebis]

Very informative, thanks! It seems to me that this pedal cannot replace an eBow. Also the note sustain time seems to be limited to a few seconds.

[@MikaFastfinger]

Hey! You’re absolutely right, it’s not a sustainer or a ebow. The sustain/feedback time depends on how long your guitar sustains the note. Even if there’s just a very little low volume note sustaining this pedal can turn it into a strongly feedback sounding sound.

[@yamitanomura]

Looks like has a compresor, reverb, delay and chorus... and is applied different depending on your playing. This can open your mind for new compositions, I can't wait to see how high you can go with that pedal !!

[@MikaFastfinger]

yamitanomura Actually no, Freqout only holds sustain / adds feedbacking effects in different ways other wise it's very dry. Echos and all comes from the pedalboard pedals and Cubase plug-ins. Check out any other videos with this pedal here on youtube for proper demo! I just played with it without too much thinking ;) And yes indeed this pedal will help me evolve as a player and a guitar singer!

[@wasichu66]

Beautiful exploration. I was debating getting an axe with a sustainer but generally don't like the sound, and it's tricky to use well. Just purchased this pedal so I can have the feedbacker on all my axes. Building a rig from bottom up, with a H&K GM40 and a pedalboard with a few additional fx. Question for you: where in the chain do you put the Freqout? especially considering I might use it for ambient stuff (beyond the obvious hair metal squeal ^^). Thx man.

[@MikaFastfinger]

Thanks! wonderful thing. I think the pedal works best if you place it as early as possible. the way the pedal follows your playing might get weird of you place it after delay or modulation. altough that could occationally be interesting too ;) For most versatile setting and best tracking i use it as the first pedal on my board. very useful pedal, still very much hooked to it.

[@wasichu66]

@@MikaFastfinger Thx for the kind reply. Being from the hair metal generation I will always cherish that style, but looking to do other things on guitar as well. Building a rig to handle more subtle stuff like my all-time favorite Gilmour, but also I'd like to try my luck at some ambient guitarscapes with Native American flute (not syrupy new age music! more like the Carlos Nakai from the 90's but obviously more modern) and I'm very impressed and inspired by what the Freqout does to clean sounds. Plus, it does 50's sci-fi movie sounds hahahaha. Rock on man, you're a fresh breath of air with your music.

[@mohdrizanijan9982]

very graet fastfinger really2 genius player..no 1 in world today..

[@MikaFastfinger]

MOHD RIZAN Ijan Humble thanks :)

[@Gimi.Endrics]

Hi is this pedal a viable alternative to sustainiac pickups?

[@MikaFastfinger]

this is a different thing. This will not give you endless sustain. It just mimics the feedback sound and aslong as there some sound from you guitar it sustains full on. But when the note dies, the sustain dies.

[@Gimi.Endrics]

@@MikaFastfinger OK thanks for the clarification

[@mikerockyislet]

Sounds very good.

[@SeanPithie]

Awesome! This was the demo I was looking for, more "clean" tones instead of lead guitar with od or distortion. Does it also work with laying down small chords (like 3 notes) to get a kind of pad sound?

[@MikaFastfinger]

Great! When you play chords this pedal smells the first note it hears and sticks with that. for example you arpeggiate g-b-d, the pedal picks g. of course if you play all the notes simultaniously it might pick some other other note too... in this video you can hear how i used this "function" as i use the pedal to create pedaltones and then play more notes on top of this.

[@Leo_Berger]

beatiful

[@dcsman1992]

Is this kinda like the gamechanger audio plus pedal? Or is there no comparison?

[@MikaFastfinger]

The two pedal are complitely different. Plus pedal creates infinite sustain (if i remember right). Freqout mimics the feedback sound but will not give you eternal sustain. you will get feedback sound only as long as your instrument gives some signal. When it drops, it drops ;)

[@Benteparle]

"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" cover possible ^^

[@MikaFastfinger]

Holy crap, you're right about. I think the sound is pretty close :)

[@ErikOosterwal]

3:20 = Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[@flabens]

It is your foot trasparent?

[@MikaFastfinger]

no. I just wear magic socks ;D

[@martinmark5100]

Great!

[@ЮРИЙФИЛИППОВ-й6е]

👍👍👍

[@davidlloyd9598]

Amazing playing. Would you recommend this pedal?

[@MikaFastfinger]

VoodooDragon 76 Thank you. For sure, it’s been permanently on my pedalboard since this. for what it does it’s amazing, just don’t expect eternal sustain. it only gives you the feedback kind of fx and does it well!

[@davidlloyd9598]

@@MikaFastfinger Thank you for the reply. I'm going to order it now. Your playing has inspired me.

[@owlan99]

Could you plug an expression pedal into this and control the level of feedback ? .

[@MikaFastfinger]

New Name you would need to make a mod to the pedal to do such. i personally don't think i'd really need such control.

[@NebulousWeb]

I'm considering buying one of these. Do you still use this pedal, or is it on a shelf gathering dust, because it got cliched or boring to use?

[@MikaFastfinger]

been using Freqout eversince i got it, still excited about it. I have this pedal permanently installed on my pedalboard. it expands my tome pallette and wouldn't want to live without it ;)

[@NebulousWeb]

@@MikaFastfinger Thanks for your reply. So if I watch a few of your other videos, I'll be hearing it with some regularity then? I'd love to hear more of the Freqout being used in context rather than more demos.

[@MikaFastfinger]

NebulousWeb The pedal is all over the new upcoming album. Plenty of videos pf these tunes coming here as well. from my current videos check Secrets & Magic, this tune was one of the reasons I actually bought the pedal. You'll here how it created magic with with sustaining long notes.

[@0oTHEJACKo0]

nice one Mika ;) haha 2:50 concerning hobbits?

[@MikaFastfinger]

0oTHEJACKo0 Hahaa, you're right! That sounds like some Hobbit music indeed. You can get funny flute / recorder flute sounds with this pedal :D

[@0oTHEJACKo0]

Indeed mate! I was thinking about buying one or maybe even building one myself. But now I got a guitar with a sustainiac pickup and I just fell in love with it :D

[@davidgoode7416]

Killer!, you just sold one...

[@MikaFastfinger]

👍👍👍 Great! It’s still a pedal that i have on my pedalboard and i use it all time!

[@Slears]

so a Marty Friedman simulator..NICE

[@Ocorri]

Sounds amazing, but you clearly have some sort of superhuman power which is making your foot semi-transparent, so I’ll put this down to you selling your soul or possibly being a ghost

[@paulvinova]

Sounds like some Close Encounters of the Third Kind, kinda shit haha

[@NoLightOnlyHope]

Dolphins on acid.

[@darrellbrock4788]

I've heard this pedal played by others and it sounded great, but either this guy is promoting a save the whales campaign or he just likes whale song.

[@MikaFastfinger]

Darrell Brock Haha! this was the feeling and the sounds that came out when i properly sat down to explore the pedal. Save the whales!!!

[@darrellbrock4788]

.....and hug those trees!!!