Pedal Tricks with Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos

Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos joined us at Reverb HQ for the newest round of Pedal Tricks, where he showed us how to get some of his weirdest, non-guitar sounds. Using the Bit Commander, Rainbow Machine, Tentacle, and Organizer pedals from EarthQuaker Devices, favored by experimental artists for their ability to produce the subtle or strange, Nick demonstrates for us how to wring out some sounds you might not know these pedals had.
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[@MrCoolbat]

His reaction to the last sound "I didn't mean to do that but okay"

[@Todesnuss]

That's the rainbow machine for you. It's one of those pedals that are lots of fun because most of ther features are completely useless in any musical application.

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

Todesnuss not true

[@Wabuu-zoo]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIfbloF7pZ1kqq8

[@johnnyarenas9962]

reverb should have Nick show off all pedals. He does so much with them.

[@no.mans.guy.]

he's got his own better pedal channel

[@BenDEPBass1]

Nick Reinhart is my hero

[@mattgilbert7347]

Kevin Shields is now frantically searching Reverb for deals on these.

[@LostSinsCelebration]

2:38 Without doubt these are the sounds of the game Excitebike -La Salsa

[@discobassgroove]

fuck now I want the tentacle and organizer. Nick Reinhart is amazing. EQD is amazing. Reverb is amazing. And my wallet is pissed.

[@nicholassansouci2840]

+Lucas Redekop fucking same dude omg

[@Reverb]

+Lucas Redekop haha!

[@Vishnu-xn4vx]

2:36 so Death Grips-esque No wonder why he work with them, dope

[@brandonburroughs7128]

Pretty sure that’s exactly what he used on some stuff from BP. Bubbles for sure

[@7Korat]

Nick you are True guitarist od the future! You really deserve to be one of the guitar Gods! Your song "40 rods of the hogs head" instantly became in my top 3 ever in line with Hendrix "Machine Gun" and "We drift like a worried fire" by GYBE.

[@bigpp645]

Nick is definitely one of my guitar heroes.

[@monikerdenada6093]

These pedals sound amazing. I like how he allows focus on the pedals rather than his technicality.

[@JordanHowmann]

Came here looking for Death Grips tone secrets and was not disappointed cos I can now clearly see how the sounds in Hot Head were achieved

[@locksh]

Holy shit this is awesome. More videos like this please.

[@Reverb]

+locksh Ask and you shall receive! :)

[@prp3190]

Oh my god the rainbow + organizer sounds like heaven

[@justinwwwalin]

This is the only video that's ever made me want a Rainbow Machine.

[@Momointvland]

Love it. I love pedals with no knobs even more. Also love that Reverb is doing these short demo videos. Though I wish they were a little bit longer so we could see more of what Nick or say Denver Dalley is doing when they are just going off with the pedals, or even interacting with new pedals that they have never played on before. That would be a cool series to watch as well.

[@IIBBEEXX]

Racetrack, ufo, and a growling monster. Awesome.

[@trentkoopman]

whoa that organizer just makes your guitar sound like an omnichord

[@SIDESmusic]

cool sounds with Earthquaker Devices pedals

[@boonshit]

Right on Nick!!! we love making weird sounds as well, with the exception that You are way way smarter and advanced than us!!! Thanks for the most superb creations and please keep creating!!!

[@whiterottenrabbit]

You know your video will rock donkey ass if you just start with the pedal sound without even showing how the guitar & amp sound like without the effects! Thumbs up for your ingenious masterpiece!

[@theycallmejpj]

you don't know what a guitar sounds like...?

[@whiterottenrabbit]

theycallmejpj Because every guitar and every amp sound exactly the same, right? So, when you heard a guitar once, you heard them all, heh?

[@theycallmejpj]

whiterottenrabbit the frequencies may differ minutely but the sound of the instrument is the same.

[@whiterottenrabbit]

theycallmejpj Granted, the sound of a generic guitar is perceived to be different from a sound of a generic accordion, let's say. Still, what you seem to fail to understand is that there are many nuances in the sound of different guitars played on different aplifiers. Furthermore, to really understand how a pedal influences the guitar sound, one should first listen to the raw, i.e. unprocessed, sound of a particular guitar played through a particular amp; only after that one should listen to how this particular sound is affected by the pedal effect. So, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about! "The sound of the instrument is the same" my ass... Get the fuck out of here!

[@theycallmejpj]

whiterottenrabbit I haven't failed to understand anything, the characteristics of the instrument are the same. if you don't know what single coils sound like on a fender by now you pretty much have no hope. let me put it another way, if you're confident in what you say, show me an example of the same pedals with the same settings generating a different sound because they're being used with a different guitar or amplifier

[@teriakamoto]

Love it. almost 5 years later and it is still good. A lot more of this going on now, and for good reason.

[@HiGlowie]

The bit commander combined with the rainbow machine sounded like a square wave

[@-k-b-]

I bet playing Come up and Get Me by Death Grips is really easy using the bit commander

[@___domey]

Nick is the best

[@Chayse88Black]

Wasn't this the same dude who did a video experiment of what a guitar sounds like with 100 pedals running though the signal at once? Which sounded like the portal to hell.

[@Seth-hc2bj]

A few people did that but I think he was one of them

[@crystalteapot9353]

Chayse88Black youre thinking of rob scallon

[@wizoz4967]

@@crystalteapot9353 No that's Nick : kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYSueIKNqZ5nqZo

[@SPaulAndrewMaertens]

@@crystalteapot9353 Rob did a thousand pedals pretty much

[@HiGlowie]

Wasn’t that Look Mum No Computer?

[@manikraina2154]

Rainbow Machine is my favourite pedal.Just love it

[@elitheegg4119]

i just saw him play last night. absolutely changed the way i look at my guitar.

[@TimothyPage06]

Dude this is so filthy. I love it.

[@seanarooni]

love the motorcycle sounds

[@soifpls]

when your guitar becomes a synth

[@Seth-hc2bj]

No surprise that this man is involved with Death Grips!

[@coughpillbox748]

Zach Hill carries deathgrips :O

[@TheSpallanzani]

2020 and I didn't knew that Nick or Zack were in Death Grips

[@yurirepollo1494]

Solid.Anibal zach produces most of the music in death grips and he plays drums live

[@brianpatrick6102]

Right on. E-Q = Happy.

[@kaleidoscopicvoid]

that's why i enjoy bands like monster magnet

[@Doctorbarber2]

Must... Buy.. Earthquaker devices.

[@howardanderson3061]

Nick is so awesome....

[@Jack-gm4vu]

this shit is nuts, sounds like dubstep/speeding cars almost

[@namesmud9510]

Reinhart go back and protect your team

[@wyattrileyedgeton7450]

Sounds like race cars driving straight through hell.

[@ckcost8714]

that....is fucking wicked

[@antonslayeranton6665]

I need that rainbow machine

[@pissnachoes]

the coolest guy

[@xerospacious4024]

Nick reinhardt at you service

[@simonthan407]

#Reverb.com can you have Robert Fripp?

[@Kezzeract]

Best weird noise/fucked up pedal I've ever heard is the 'Red Witch Analog Fuzz God II'. Crazy shit happens, when this pedal is involved.

[@Reverb]

+John S That's a good one too!

[@dustinbowlin]

sounds like the tanks in TRON

[@jimsy5530]

Sounds like the motorbike voice on an 80's casio keyboards.

[@tbsbasss1220]

3:40 felt like a dream

[@2002gamerboy]

Amazing

[@EkittyMonte]

lol video shut down when he turned on the rainbow machine's "magic" button

[@treetoptiana]

ah that was so brief

[@doodleedledoo]

Cool!

[@4lfr3d0]

Pedal Nerds??? Ok I accept it...

[@thomasbennett7210]

How about some pedal companies other than EQD for once?

[@lilybeejones]

+Thomas Bennett why they are amazing But I totally get you. I love EQD, but there are other pedal makers.

[@nicholassansouci2840]

+Thomas Bennett they should showcase some Mr. Black pedals

[@jazzblasterrr]

I would give anything for that Nash jazzmaster

[@foixjonwilliamson]

acid trip

[@SandalwoodBros]

I loved all of these except the Rainbow.

[@firewatergold]

0:07-0:09

[@namedidii]

Dreamy boy

[@simonthan407]

#Reverb.com can you have Munky and Head from Korn please?

[@stanleythomas10]

Yeeeeeeeeees

[@MrMediafy]

Rainbow machine reminds me of Mac Demarco

[@foixjonwilliamson]

Mediafy R all of this reminds me of mac

[@daleweber2579]

Needs a slide on this.

[@parsanouran9378]

Wow!!

[@user-xc6zw5rc8t]

hes so awesome you should of gave him a looper

[@JCBigCat]

John "should of gave" = should have given.

[@simonthan407]

#Reverb.com can you have Tom morello?

[@vaggelou_]

Is it just me or does Nick look a lot like Dan Maines, the bassist of Clutch?

[@BarnacleButtock]

4:17

[@veerchasm1]

Tera Melos rawks and they like boardgames

[@poopyjoe7883]

2:26

[@poopyjoe7883]

4:17

[@coughpillbox748]

Been listening to your band since my edgy teen phase lol

[@ramoniak6]

Sounds like a drum 'n bass hoover bass

[@shaft9000]

Hmmm this is kind of an archaic way to *not* sound like a guitar, when for not much more now you can get a small modular synthesizer with a guitar input module - and you can do 100x more sounds than these pedals can. A couple doepfer i/o modules, a delay, a bitcrusher or waveshaper, a couple LFOs & VCAs will completely smoke this (or any pedal, for that matter) setup. Studio only, of course - but then these pedals have no memory and you'd have to buy a loop switcher to get any preset patches anyway$.

[@methyod]

not really. of the pedals featured in this video, tentacles and organizer both have absolutely no modular equivalent, and a combination of modules that would let you fully ape rainbow machine or bit commander would cost 4-5x as much as just getting the pedals. there are tons of cool things you can do with modular on guitar, but it is absolutely not a direct replacement for a pedalboard.

[@tonys518]

Sounds like a stylaphone on magic mushrooms

[@tysonrinker5958]

I just don't get it

[@gizka6816]

tone dummy thicc

[@nicolashunter4131]

here in Argentina i need to rob a couple of banks to buy those pedals,so..danelectro for the win

[@hiqwertyhi]

thumbnail looks like mike rowe

[@FACEGRINDproductions]

Paid for by Earthquaker? :p

[@ccfmafia3301]

4 pedals that do octaves 😂

[@anusrepairman]

Rip my wallet

[@andrewochoa6607]

oh my god the orginizer! mind blowing

[@carlh1291]

is he getting paid to do this ????? i want that job!!!!

[@filthybassplayer9764]

Ahhh...so this is how you play dubstep on a guitar...

[@itznoxy7193]

Sounds like crap...

[@Melvin7727]

This was so pointless lol

[@stevekim4162]

Unusable garbage Just buy a synth

[@ia2625]

Wich one?