Feedback Techniques w/ Effect Pedals (feat. Fairfield Circuitry Hors d'Oeuvre?)

[@sarahbellereid]

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[@billwesley]

Not a lot of people do this kind of thing very well, it requires disapline but responsivity, this is really well done.

[@harmanburns]

The feedback loops with the Tensor are 👌 13:22

[@domek.]

Very informative video. It's worth nothing that you can create a feedback loop with pedals featuring stereo outputs by routing one of the outputs to the input, and using the second output to send the signal.

[@melter_rob]

That last patch is particularly lovely - really inspiring!

[@mtomnimedia]

again, you have the rare ability to both slay it and say it, the performances get me so hyped, so glad you do what you do and share generously

[@alexfletcher9915]

This is so inspiring! Love the range of sounds and textures presented.

[@eyesintheskies]

I have the long life which I thoroughly love even before I started exploring it’s cv options. Recommend you give it a whirl. 👍 This is next on my list though, I have a ton of pedals so the possibilities are mind boggling . Cheers for the rundown 😃

[@DaFake]

Awesome video as always! That last improvisation was so good!! 🖤

[@kenb7540]

That was great Sarah. So innovative ! That last patch in particular was mesmerising - there’s a 30 min live performance in that setup alone ! 👏👏

[@davidkristian6606]

I have many of the same pedals, and do a lot of feedback experimentation, but your mastery of feedback techniques inspires me to no end!

[@RobFlaxMusic]

IMMENSELY inspiring video! I haven't tried the Hors d'Oeuvre but I stumbled into no-input mixing with pedals via the VFE Klein Bottle... and not once did I ever try a compressor in the loop! Gonna have to change that. Less than halfway through and you've already inspired new music! Thank you, Sarah!

[@SidRockett]

Love the droney output! Feedback is really unpredictable technique.

[@matthew_b_golden]

If there was a reason to push me over that hump to someday justify getting a ring mod pedal, this video does that. Being a sound designer for visual media in addition to a musician and sound nerd generalist, this was all I needed and I thank you, immensely, for demonstrating only the tip of the iceberg of possibility. I recently have the Hors d'Oeuvre and this is such a great demonstration of how to approach it as a newbie. I also have a spare Mackie Onyx 1620i console to utilize. Was thinking of selling it but not now. The sound lab grows....... Awesome, just awesome! Subscribed!!!

[@bryanschuessler2903]

Thanks Sarah! Just got myself a 4 x 4 passive matrix mixer... this vid gave me some great ideas.

[@delivrance3961]

nothing like a good intense feedback!!! great job!

[@fl7210]

Very cool sounds

[@p.meyerhiggins3157]

Wonderful! I think you'd get a blast out of the Jomox T-Resonator II... My favourite for feedback madness.

[@lukaskoninger3312]

That is one crazy machine! Love it!

[@VEsound]

Great video Sarah! I loved your experimentations when you had the Tensor + PS-3 + 2 Fairfield Circuitry around 14:00 - 17:00 🤍

[@DavidChandekStark]

That last patch was cinematic! Well done! This video inspired me to try out some no input mixing myself for the first time. I don’t have so many cool pedals, but I did find an interesting component to put in the feedback loop - a cheap kids’ karaoke box with mic and aux inputs. :)

[@sarahbellereid]

Thank you! I'm glad that you found it inspiring. 🤍

[@JimmyLem]

Great video! Your intros and bumpers always rule!

[@garyrouzer9999]

The overhead view during the pieces is cool. This is what is missing during live performance. The gestures and movements are tied to the sound. You would have to have a video setup like on the cooking shows to pull it off in concert! Great playing Sarah!

[@sarahbellereid]

thanks! an overhead view at a concert would definitely be cool :)

[@-C-bu7sd]

@@sarahbellereid Hey Sarah! Which mixer would you choose between the Yamaha mg10xu and the Mackie 1202 vlz3 (or 802 vlz4) for make no imput mixing? I can buy the Yamaha at a good price... i know the answer is very personal, but let's say that i can also buy the Mackie 1202 vlz3 for only 90 euros...

[@Markus_Breuss]

Nice vídeo! thank you Sarah! gave me some ideas for using my Eventide mixing-link in my next performance....

[@adirenaldi]

Thanks! It's all I need!

[@MargaretHarmer]

Fun video! Some cool sounds with Tension & pitch shifter, and the reverb patch was good too. This Fairfield box is super useful. I have an Eventide mixing link, maybe I will try something too. Thanks!

[@MrKrisstain]

My favourite way of using feedback is with no-output patching!

[@BottleMakesMusic]

Fascinating insight as always, Sarah. Has gotten me inspired to do more feedback patching with some new pedals. Interested to experiment with pitch modulation. Looking at getting the JHS Pedals Artificial Blonde for some vibrato in the feedback path, which I feel could open up some interesting sonic possibilities

[@TilliKommunikation]

Reminds me of my first modems. :o)

[@sodothehivesonhisleg]

The music thing modular spring reverb has all these features btw and is an affordable DIY kit :)

[@davidsummerville351]

Great info. Thanks

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

🔊🔥🔊🔥🔊

[@commodoor6549]

@12:33 you had a very interesting sound I wish you had explored a little more.

[@rhysmop]

So siik!

[@gatorgoforth3097]

Your voice sounds perfect with that mic. What is your signal path?

[@DallonAnderson]

I need one

[@tomheineman4369]

Crum drum has a great product that isn't for sale especially in the US

[@raena_copiacobain]

Idk, I’m trying to get the Kurt Cobain-y sound iykyk

[@TheThinkingTank]

Of course I love your videos and work (liked seeing you in person at the High Zero Festival), but I have mixed feelings, mostly tied to ego I guess, which after all, must be destroyed. These feelings swirl around you giving out the secrets, kind of like magicians telling their secrets. It started with your reveal of the mixer looping (that's what we called it back in the day). At least back then (early 90s), it was like a dark art that only those who were in the know could use. I was especially into looping FX pedals, and now you are exposing that, even using one of my go to pedals (the Boss Delay/Pitch Shifter). (As an aside, you would appreciate even more the PS-2 model I've got because it is even glitchier). The tuner output and pitch knob are especially useful for our purposes. I started out with an Ibanez Stereo Chorus to make the loop at first, but I graduated to other pedals as my "splitter". As far as the main noise makers, I always liked analog pedals because they were ever so slightly more predictable. The Electric Mistress and Memory Man are especially fruitful. Tube pedals are nice too. Any pedal that can self-oscillate is extra good. Digital pedals often jump around and bust your speakers if you are not careful at high volumes. Of course that might be exactly what you are looking for... Anyway, I suppose it is just being esoteric and needlessly "gate-keepery" to try to keep this information secret. You obviously have a much more transparent view of all of this. I can see that side, too--mixed feelings are exactly that, mixed.

[@cbrohawn96]

Feedback systems have a long history in electronic and electroacoustic music that goes all the way back to Stockhausen’s *Kontakte*. your noise jams in the 90s were not esoteric rituals.

[@TheThinkingTank]

@@cbrohawn96 Of course, where do you think we got our ideas from! But Stockhausen, Russolo, Varese, hell, even Branca,etc. were esoteric in their own way. And there was no KZbin. Just exploring some weird feelings about the whole thing.

[@pillbug2796]

It hasn't been a secret for a while, though (if it ever was). If you search for "no input" on youtube, you will find plenty of people working with both mixers and pedals.

[@TheThinkingTank]

@@pillbug2796 And it shouldn't be secret--why should we hold back information people can use to make art? When Sigur Ros took the bow to the guitar, did it change what Page did or diminish it in anyway? Naw, just made something new and cool with it. It was just a stupid wistful feeling I had and I wanted to share it with folks who might understand how stupid it is to even have that feeling for 1/2 a second.

[@idkreina]

i understand this feeling.. but isnt it great now that an entire new generation of folk have access to this information! they can not only explore what you were exploring back in the good ol days, but continue to innovate & push the medium forward (: just like everyone wishes graffiti could have stayed "pure" on the trains.. but now its something else entirely. something new, and exciting. not better or worse but different. whats the use in having noise & the underground & the esoteric stay the same?? there will always be those things, but they will also always evolve. and besides.. Sarah *is* an educator! one of the best around imo. early on in her synthesis course she has an entire lesson based around discovery, and accidents, and finding innovative/unconventional paths of creativity through that. which is perhaps exactly the spirit of things that u speak to. even tho no input mixing & pedal feedback etc etc arent where those curiosities & discoveries r being explored in 2022, theyre still out there!

[@markusi_wagner]

Sarah, you are great and you create awesome content!!!!!

[@Stazma]

Super cool stuff as always !

[@sarahbellereid]

thank you!

[@Stazma]

@@sarahbellereid Rewatching this properly as I just received mine yesterday hahaha. Thanks for making me discover this pedal, I've been looking for something like this for quite some time actualy. Looking forward playing with this!