How your synth would sound in the post-apocalypse [Fairfield Circuitry Roger That]

[@emilyharpist]

That intro was hysterical! The music was so good too! Wow!

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Thanks Emily! Was literally watching your video while my premiere was happening. 😂 Do you think I could get Barry and/or Kevin to collab?

[@emilyharpist]

@@JamesonNathanJones hahaha ABSOLUTELY 😂❤🙌

[@ErwinSchrodinger64]

Jameson's comedy is subtle but dark... but always has me in tears.

[@TonyAndersonMusic]

Sorry. My music already sounds bad enough. Don’t need this to help it along.

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Run the Prophet 10 through it and you’ll never notice the distorting voice cards

[@kgbinfo]

Haaaaahahahaha

[@justingoers]

Lol

[@spltrcl]

i love seeing folks discovering that noise can be incorporated & fully, wonderfully integrated into beautiful music; it's been true for some for a very long time, but: most of the style-driven barriers to creatively making music are the ones we really only imagine to exist.

[@edrift3d]

Thanks to this video I went out and picked up the Roger That. Came in the mail today. Can’t wait to mess with it. Thanks Jameson!

[@mrwplay1]

Might be a niche market. I admire your perseverance with this one.

[@JamesonNathanJones]

It definitely is, but I ended up having a lot of fun trying to figure out the puzzle of how to work it into my kinds of sounds.

[@alexfletcher9915]

The treatment of arps with the Roger That is exceptional!

[@praveensharmanyc]

That intro summed up all our first experiences with roger

[@AUTOSAD777]

This is my new favorite channel. Very glad I stumbled on you a few months back. Keep it up, JNJ!

[@pthelo]

Hey Jameson! Right around 13 minutes you totally nailed the "Space Station SOMA" sound. Good show. Thanks for the demo!

[@shadowfall2823]

The intro was perfection for this pedal. haha! This pedal is definitely not for me, but I enjoyed watching your demo.

[@AndyDollerson]

damn. Opening arp just sold me on that pedal! I have a shallow water and love it. Wallet Opening....

[@photosinferno6870]

That’s a very interesting pedal, from an ambient creator’s perspective.great review as always 😊

[@subradial]

Some beautiful sounds, great video! loved the arps with delay through roger, it ads some awesome textures, almost like listening to music on radio with bad signal and some interferences, definitely my cup of tea!

[@TheSoulSynthesis]

Haha loving the intro! I have a slight issue with the pedal. it's nice but very niche and boutique priced. I could also hunt down some weird recordings from WebSDR from all kinds of radio and mess with that or do some gating and sidechaining tricks with some random samples i drop under whatever i want to have a bit of grainy texture. I'm glad you enjoyed it in the end and I hope you can find a lot of use for it (if you keep it / decide to get one)

[@aakash9058]

Or just use a ableton max msp plugin 😊

[@tukoijarrett9155]

it does admittedly work as a solid distortion pedal but it's a little niche yeah

[@samuelmckahey7226]

Excellent demo.

[@orchidsvoid]

Thanks for a practical review! Would be cool to hear a chain of different "artifacts" pedals!

[@JamesonNathanJones]

1. Go into kitchen 2. Turn on garbage disposal….

[@orchidsvoid]

@@JamesonNathanJones nice sound design tip 😅

[@robertlouismccrory3364]

Gorgeous! Though i've seen this pedal, after deciding to pick-up their Shallow Water, I never gave much attention due to the description sounding like a 'gimmick' to me. You just proved my dummy bummy wrong as wrong can be. So much so, that I think I may get this, the Shallow water, Vongon's reverb + delay pdeals, and either the Mood or Baklengs (yes -i'm name dropping), in place of the Octatrack -since i was only going to use the Octatrack for live performances. I wanted a lot of dirty textures to have available, and the OT seemed like a fun tool to work with. However, after hearing this, I think my flow will feel faster, and more intuitive with pedals -in addition to a varietal plethora of a sound palette to choose from. I'll come back here and really, well, really do something if this pedal doesn't give me the sound i want, when combined with the above, and my existing pedals. Thanks a lot once again! Love the humor in your content/videos too...great work, you seem very natural doing this content!

[@cornishwavesmusic]

Loved this on the fairfield Jameson,sounds int but im going for the shallow water

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Can’t go wrong with the Shallow Water. Their Meet Maude delay is one of my favorites too.

[@steveh8658]

Reminds me a lot of the Cooper FX Lost Generation pedal. Funny vid man!

[@eavolski]

Very clever use of the matriarch’s architecture to add this into the signal path! It sounded so good. Were you going headphone out into the pedal?

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Yep

[@janikskeeba]

A perfect pedal for imperfection :)

[@clearsidemusic]

Thanks man.

[@docnova]

That over-encumbered message from Fallout brought up some painful gaming memories. Hilarious.

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Knew I should’ve brought my power armor….smh

[@bennethos]

For a very niche use-case. Reminds me of the box that picks up noise from the Lyra developer

[@OBudful]

love it

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

🤣 Youre too cool for school, dear Jameson !

[@synthseeker]

Thank you for making it clear that I do not need this. I think what I want it a cheap CB pair and I'll just send my signals through that.

[@JamesonNathanJones]

You could definitely get some cool noise that way. I’ve seen some demos of this pedal with guitar and it makes a bit more sense. It can be a fuzz pedal basically with all the weird artifacts as a bonus.

[@synthseeker]

@@JamesonNathanJones I saw that, but I do not take part in that...that...that...infernal metal twanger! (Channeling Twisted Sister Video)

[@mikegeary8056]

Sounds good to me

[@brucebaldy]

how are the artifacts through a granular system? interesting.

[@dartqrman]

whats the track that plays in the very beginning? its gorgeous

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Thank you! “All Things Repeat” 👍

[@remo.blllue]

great vid. wondrin hard how it sounds on drum machines

[@SynthoidSounds]

I'm always interested in unique, outside the box types of effects to use with my synth collection, but was having a bit of difficulty trying to imagine using this . . . it seems a lot of static noise, pops and clicks gets mixed into the signal of interest. In any case, thanks for the detailed demo, much appreciated.

[@canecreek00]

Maybe need to listen again but the pedal didn’t seem to affect the synth, it just played along with it, if that’s the case I might as well use my cheap Tecsun R9012 Am radio, let that play in the background whilst playing my synth.

[@JamesonNathanJones]

It’s a non-linear distortion as well as an fm artifact generator. The output of the Matriarch is being fed into the pedal and the wet output of the pedal fed back into the synth. It is effecting the Matriarch’s signal.

[@canecreek00]

And like I said the FM artefacts never affect the synth audio they just play along side it, I’m listening to that arp and not a single note ever faulters or breaks, if the synth was playing on a real radio that had a bad signal it would.

[@JamesonNathanJones]

@@canecreek00 ok

[@henryhill92]

@@canecreek00 I would say that's because in this feedback loop setup the pedal is in parallel, so what's being recorded out of the Matriarch is a mix of unaffected signal and Roger That

[@bimguff]

Love that you got some really nice sounds out of that, but for the price I think a cheap VST would fit that niche far better.

[@justingoers]

Yeah man it’s expensive. But I still want it bad.

[@justingoers]

@bigmuff there’s a really wonderful VST by Unfiltered Audio called LO-FI-AF to do similar stuff. It even does some fun FM radio stuff too. You can typically get it for around $30 via Plug-in Alliance deals.

[@edrift3d]

@@justingoers yeah me too. It’s a one trick pony but what a nice pony. Going to check the VST you mentioned. Thanks!

[@joyboricua3721]

< @1:00 😅 ... @ 2:46 this pedal emulates music silence in vinyl over a patio with a couple of days old chicks.

[@audiolego]

It's two am and I'm laughing ❤. :35 seconds

[@NutritionalZero]

Holy shit

[@chambre466]

😊

[@mjeetje5850]

Hi, Nice vid. I was wondering, do you go out headphone jack to pedal and then to instrument input in Matriarch? I would never thought of that. Doesn't it create a feedback loop or something?

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Yep that’s what I’ve done. Have to be a bit careful with the levels but there are multiple points to attenuate the signal between the headphone attenuator and the pedal’s wet/dry levels. I’m only using wet level from the pedal since I’m recording the synth from its line outputs.

[@mjeetje5850]

@@JamesonNathanJones Thanks!

[@unofsnd]

Love the sounds, hope to keep hearing them but no preceding apocalypse pls, covid was bad enough. p.s. In other words, this is kind of an oscillator modifier in your use case.

[@pandastick33]

Hahaha ... Love ur vids

[@ZipSnipe]

You opened it up and it’s full of dust and crap…..lol

[@JohnDoe-uc7et]

I think total recal 2049 needs a new music

[@gregbeaudry]

Idk… I get that everyone likes different stuff, but it feels like most creators using something from Fairfield Circuitry just kind of set and forget the pedals so it’s like there’s only one usable position on each pedal… in which case, it’s like JHS said: “do you really need knobs?”

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Sometimes you find sweet spots and want to live there awhile, and sometimes (as I demonstrated here) it’s more interesting when being modulated either by hand or by cv. Totally depends on the pedal and personal taste.

[@MrSNEAKFREAK96]

I'd say that's definitely down to the creators more than the pedals. I have 3 Fairfield pedals, and one of the reasons I love them so much is that all 3 have a very wide range of sounds. I would say that they are quite sensitive to changes though, which might lead people to stick to one sound so they don't lose whatever they liked.

[@edmc2]

You made a c rap sounding pedal into an entertaining vid..😎