Oliver Ackermann from Death By Audio: My personal pedalboard @ Guitar Summit Web Camp 2020

Oliver Ackermann, Gründer und CEO von Death By Audio und Gitarrist bei 'A Place to Bury Strangers', stellt sein persönliches Pedalboard vor und demonstriert, zu welchen Noise-Orgien es fähig ist.
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Oliver Ackermann, founder and CEO of Death By Audio and guitarist for 'A Place to Bury Strangers', presents his personal pedalboard and demonstrates the noise orgies it is capable of.

[@Speedomodel]

“You can tune it...if you find that to be necessary.” Ah, my kind..

[@adrianseifi3285]

I've seen his band play three times and last time he didn't tune his guitar once during the entire show.

[@LotharOfTheHillPeople]

Insane runs of cabling, a daisy chain power supply, everything screwed to a painted piece of plywood… it’s the antithesis of every Instagram pedalboard.

[@chrishepburn1503]

That's why it rules!

[@crisepuyao7722]

It is "Death By Audio"

[@furlag2]

Yeah ...because this guy USE IT! on ig people only show for appreciation...he you have a kind a battlefield pedalboard. A true essence...

[@dbeardsleyor]

Beautiful destruction

[@zwidawurzn9423]

Pretty much like the first Pedalboard i had. Now i have better plywood and an isolated power supply but that's good enough for a workhorse pedalboard.

[@daniilzadorozhnyy8950]

thats hillarious they didnt cut out the phone call

[@terminalglimmer]

I honestly thought it was a bit hahaha

[@p4trickpants]

Sweetwater always be calling lol

[@kenb9762]

"Jason, from Sweetwater" I laughed out loud for real

[@LotharOfTheHillPeople]

The way he’s twisting knobs like his previous settings mean nothing is hilarious.

[@SS_Psyops]

I never knew people didn’t until people started saying things about me doing it. From just the differences in venues to getting more out of them, I think it’s pretty necessary.

[@pnut91red]

Probably runs them all at max anyway 😂

[@zarubymollie8470]

man i like this guy

[@themzbonez14]

I honestly didn’t expect Oliver to be this talkative and charming in person. Also I’d buy that wah pedal in a heartbeat

[@matthewdonaldleddy]

I met him last night, he is a very sweet guy

[@dewittsnyder4212]

Dude, dude do you shoot dope because that shit is crazy as fuck

[@waynepayne864]

i hate getting calls from sweetwater nice of him to pickup. they called me once when i was like 13 cuz i gave them my info. they woke me up but i was a teenager and i didnt want to embarass myself so i pretended to be a working musicians. "oh you know man, just doing gigs where i can man"

[@CasualT840]

😆

[@J4060]

The sickness level of that board is insane!!!

[@johanneskulesza6841]

Death by Audio really should start making these super high super low wah wah pedals, sounds sick.

[@matthewdonaldleddy]

You could probably order one

[@the-np4mr]

Just get a bass wah

[@danielcarter3928]

@@the-np4mrwould a bass wah do the same thing?

[@danielcarter3928]

anyone know what wah on the market would be good to recreate his sounds? crybaby, crybaby classic, vox 847, bass crybaby, other? so many options.

[@the-np4mr]

@@danielcarter3928 sorry I meant pmtv, Google pmtv bass wah

[@raypauta3784]

Wow just a 9v daisy chain? No isolated power brick? Oliver is a mad man.

[@occams_chainsaw]

That's what I do with my board. I use a 1Spot 9v chain adapter. Not sure if that makes me a mad man, or just cheap lol

[@zzzzzzzzzzzzz3545]

It looks like there's some extension cables running throughout, so he's probably running anything that doesn't play nice in a daisy chain on its own power supply, kind of like a bootleg or cheaper version of a voodoo or mxr iso brick in that sense hahahah

[@thisguy2973]

@@occams_chainsaw I have a 1Spot adapter that’s rated for 2A, so it could probably power an entire chain as well lol

[@analogMensch]

If you wait for the playing demo, you can see a 1Spot in the upper left corner and another supply besides the tuner. But even is there's only one supply.........I ran my whole board (including a programmable digital switcher) on one daisychained 18 volts line. Works great, absolutly no noise at all!

[@zzzzzzzzzzzzz3545]

@@thisguy2973 Usually the problem is ground loops caused by the daisy chain rather than the pedals being underpowered, but I guess some people don't experience that for one reason or another, and more power to them if that's the case bc onespots are helluva a lot cheaper than the isolated stuff hahahah

[@roberthead3930]

That was awesome!! What a treat!! Thank you!

[@Mr.Steve-O]

I met Oliver at the Soda Bar in San Diego when APTBS was playing, were starting chatting as we were both watching the Glove set. The dude is super cool, and I had to get pics of his pedal board. It's the same one in this video. I love that it looks like it survived a nuclear attack. BTW - if you have not seen APTBS live yet, you need to!

[@jarvikseven]

I saw APTBS play two nights ago. Fantastic show. Incredible sound!

[@GhostsOfJenova]

I like that the phone call wasn't edited out. It could've been, but it wasn't. It's just the perfect mentality for their products.

[@calebriley7466]

SOOO SICKKK!!! Thanks man:)

[@bernarddoherty2303]

It's priceless that Sweetwater called

[@alejandro_algo]

I don't understand what I'm listening to or how the hell he does it but I love it.

[@Duskmos]

The Sweetwater call is too real 😆

[@vladstoica1946]

best band ive seen in years

[@Joshua_Ott]

That is such a uniquely pro pedal board!

[@arbitrarychemistry]

Looks like he summoned that pedalboard from of the ocean floor.

[@Skrekkugle]

Sick!

[@DIPOT]

Sounds pretty sick

[@RDHamel]

‘Here’s my clean sound…’

[@monarakudumbiya957]

Death by audio , game changer audio and jptt fx. Hell yeah !!!

[@johanneskulesza6841]

My 3 favorites!

[@danielrios6536]

Sempre volto aki pq gosto de enlouqecer mais um poco

[@mattondrey]

say hi to Jason

[@bobwasmycat]

How much of that board did Jason send over exactly?

[@prettyugly6089]

Just purchased Fuzz War

[@noods3979]

Me 2 Just wow

[@prettyugly6089]

@Tobias Chobotuck funny you say this at the exact time you did. I just had the time to experiment with it and boosted it with a Bad Monkey. I finally had time to mess with it and a ton of boosts. But the Bad Monkey won. Some serious Fuzz War Monkey Chugggg going on. Cranked through my Soldano SLO 100!

[@summerofgeorge585]

It looks like it's been in a fire...cool.

[@nataroonytrontime3976]

His pedalboard looks like he found it in a coal mine

[@athletesmoot956]

A coal mine in a Fallout game.

[@juancitolimon8743]

tremendo

[@danielcarter3928]

anyone know what wah pedal available would be closest to his?

[@TheAffluenza]

Seeing Place To Bury live a few years ago was absolutely punishing. Wall of harsh noise, strobe lights, and they beat the living shit out of their guitars.

[@pnut91red]

I had tickets but chickened out 😂

[@seanbrohman4138]

I love DBA pedals. Half the time he's stepping on pedals I can't hear any difference to the sound tho

[@tyran7777777]

Sooo coool

[@mattgilbert7347]

HIWATT! hell yes

[@danielcarter3928]

anyone know what wah on the market would be good to recreate his sounds? crybaby, crybaby classic, vox 847, bass crybaby, other? so many options.

[@KyOlsen]

At 6:10 is Oliver teasing Purple Haze?

[@hendrix1175]

This guy is crazy………….Fuckin awesome! 👍🏼

[@nickhem12]

So if I wanted to get within range of this it’s a tuner, wah, apocalypse, and rooms?

[@motherfuckerlimited1019]

Boost and octave too

[@jasonmcgary]

And ability to go all out on the guitar

[@thisguy2973]

The tuner likely functions as a mute. I think that apocalypse prototype has an octaver on it or something. This sound reminds me very much of Nine Inch Nails.

[@kajonx]

@@thisguy2973 It has filter, close to evil filter

[@VapnFagan]

nobody realized everything is wired backwards???

[@darwinsaye]

I don't even know who this guy is, but I had to click because I saw that amp and cab in the thumbnail.

[@plywoodduck]

My pedalboard... then I woke up and still had to destroy a bunch of stuff... not a problem... also... what's a tuner?

[@teenslain]

Was that a Chrome tune snuck in there? Fucking great sound, mate! 🙌

[@framlucasse]

No Fuzz War on this ? It's my next pedal. :)

[@shaunplander]

"Here's my clean tone!"

[@jeremyrandall7228]

Did I just see a billboard for sweeewata?

[@marvinm.messier1120]

noise freak master

[@riffwizardsupreme]

the guy breathing behind the camera

[@jakelogan249]

Definitely a mouth breather

[@vitaminscene]

2:02 hellow

[@psychotogether5114]

I love that he loves playing stereo. Josh from JHS and Jaime from EQD don’t like stereo so that don’t make many stereo pedals. That’s dumb.

[@jimmygalleguillos1992]

Están bien chicanos

[@lildoodoostain4935]

Would kinda like to know what his clean tone sounds like 😂😂

[@jmch6359]

Hendrix used his wah as a tone control - he would approve.

[@RayMcNamaraMusic]

All that talk of how important stereo pedals are to his sound and they don’t record the guitar is stereo. smh

[@3star2nr]

I choose death...by audio

[@Blackf1ngers]

It doesn't look hygienic.

[@xdumpstrspunionx902]

i can't even believe that Sweetwater called lol

[@thisguy2973]

No wonder Trent Reznor wanted you to make him pedals.

[@SilentJayBird]

"Hey Jay,,, Larry from Sweetwater. How are ya, man?"

[@PuttinOnTheRiffs]

6:10 sounds so blut aus nord!

[@ethermod307]

And I was wondering why it lasts so long. I know Oliver to be a minimalist I thought he'll be done in 2min.

[@MrNatahi]

i wish ur pedals came with soft footswitch. its hard to adjust ur feet if u have two kind of footswitches pedals on ur pedalboard. its really hard. love ur pedal btw

[@midnite_in_november]

How is that hard lol

[@ChrstnSmrvllMsc]

Can we talk about that power supply, tho? lol

[@fruitiusmaximus925]

LOL ... I wish I could afford to have some engineers build me a board of custom-made pedals.

[@6lord6red6]

lmao at the SW rep..

[@cb24203]

1:58 Sweetwater is getting kinda ridiculous with the sales calls. He probably added one item to his cart a few hours earlier......or it was a cleverly placed inside job advertisement. 😵

[@SS_Psyops]

In all honesty though the end result isn’t very impressive… I have had a couple of his pedals almost since DBA started and like them well enough but this just sounds like a dull, muddy wash where everything is lost. To each their own but I’d like for a little bit of the guitar to come through…. Going to buy a new Octave Clang this weekend for what it’s worth tho… so… ha!

[@bunnytracks55]

You lost me when you took your mask off to signal compliance.

[@deadghostplayer1845]

the tuner is so unnecesary there

[@trrzzl]

That sounds like multi dimensional diarrhea which is not a bad thing.

[@ColeWheeler4Lyfe]

Sweetwater. Kek.

[@Carclette]

gross mask

[@gleroyTullySAEHEYKID]

You lost me at showing up in a fkn mask.

[@ricardomorua4051]

Great board. But my boy here needs to stop sharing hair from one side of his head to the other and just shave

[@funk0rz]

what a tool ^^^🙄

[@ST4RCLOUD]

Stop breeding.

[@jeperstone]

He appears with a mask to signal his submission and then takes it off. A corporate toad

[@anniedarkhorse6791]

Answers the phone and chats during video. Hilarious.