Strymon NightSky: How to Be Advanced

[@RhettShull]

You absolutely killed this. Amazing job on these sounds.

[@CyberattackWorld]

whoa thanks man

[@livefromthepsy-op1170]

Do a collab. He deserves the bump. I’ve written two songs off these and the Timeline tips.

[@CyberattackWorld]

@@livefromthepsy-op1170 obviously i would be all for this

[@marcusstrymon693]

See rhett, you can use it musically

[@house-o-twang]

Thanks for the link Rhett

[@ethan.j.holder]

He said "this is the kinda shit you have to do to sound interesting as a guitar player when there is already 70 years of people being good at that" and I subscribed.

[@CyberattackWorld]

i'm glad you're with me on this part

[@hafizimranYT]

5:28

[@MrRob33]

Yep me too that was Church.

[@JosephHernandez-ml6gn]

@@MrRob33 Wdym?

[@Lainer1]

Same here.

[@geras2058]

this is the only demo I've seen of the nightsky that focuses on the musicality instead of just sounds, it's just great!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thank you. as much as I love pedals, I feel like they're pointless unless you're using them to do something bigger, and i try to make these videos in that spirit

[@harrisfrankou2368]

@@CyberattackWorld Mate you got some Western Swing down... great playing.

[@zillion3786]

Unreal guitarist. Touch, tone, taste and timing. God damn...

[@CyberattackWorld]

oh man thank you

[@wonderingson]

sold. someone at strymon give this man a commission. or more pedals

[@CyberattackWorld]

full disclosure, it's probably gonna be more pedals. thanks for checking out the video dude

[@mavillah9548]

Well done. Thank you for taking the time. "Reverb in the key of God" sounds like the hallowed "hallelujah" jeff B tone. Really dig all of the tips and a special thanks for putting illustrations of the knobs and buttons so that those of us who might like to recreate these tones can do so readily.

[@NateBriggs1212]

6:42 is unbelievably beautiful bro. Love your subtle phrasing, bell like tone cradled in reverb. All in the key of God.

[@kinsmenmusicofficial]

Reverb in the key of god was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard.

[@CyberattackWorld]

whoa thank you

[@bzdollars]

A G R E E D

[@alexandregeoffrion405]

best demo i've seen about the pedal! you also play very well dude, keep going!!

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

You are a very good guitar player! Excellent tips!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks

[@churv666]

Best Demo of the NightSky so far.

[@neenerheaddj]

Agreed.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks. i went back and forth about whether i should ignore the "sequencer" part of the pedal, but in the end i decided the other stuff was cooler

[@michael_caz_nyc]

"When the World is Running Down" = Impressive. You did a Fantastic job with this. Enjoyed it. Rhett Shull brought me here. oNe LovE from NYC

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man

[@damiansamb3980]

Da Police! ⚡

[@alfonsogarciaugarte1347]

Thanks man! I already knew my nightsky was powerful and weird, but you took it a (big) step beyond!

[@ajohnsonstudio]

I was on the fence about picking up this pedal...you just sold me. Thanks for the great demos!

[@mrnolex]

You're an instant legend man! Not only is the contents epic, but the visuals are the best I've seen since Jexus insane synth demos.

[@pthomas36]

Watched this once last week and then Rhett Shull sent me back for another visit. Even better the second time through. Your visuals are awesome too. Probably not my last time watching this.

[@the_architect..]

The fact you add animated action figures into your videos makes somone like me (Marvel Legends collector) relate even more to your videos. I love it!

[@CyberattackWorld]

Thanks dude. Welcome to this weird little world I’m trying to create

[@derrickhazel2871]

Absolutely the best video demonstrating the capabilities of this pedal. Well done! I think you might have nailed the Jeff Buckley Hallelujah reverb there.

[@silasmoon]

Finally got one of these, and was very excited to see you'd made a video on them. I feel like I'm never being sold on a pedal, and rather like I'm chilling with a friend talking about their creative process. It's what I want out of the YT music community.

[@J.R.Psych74]

Randy Rhoads 😊 Great video ✌

[@tusharistherails]

The sounds are incredible, but dude, the video editing. HOW?! It’s perfect

[@tusharistherails]

And you better believe I subbed.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks dude. a lot of the video tricks are actually assets I'm reusing from my music videos. I have a short video about how I do a lot of that stuff (on the music-video side) if you want to begin the deep dive: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5emn2qumreil5o thanks for the sub

[@johnhajjar3621]

Some of the freshest electric guitar ideas I've heard in a while!

[@rickdeckard1075]

sounds like adrian belew from 40 years ago

[@frankvaleron]

Just want to say I dialed in reverb in the key of god this morning on my night sky from your settings. Very inspiring tone, hard to sound bad really. So thanks a lot

[@LeonTodd]

Never hit the sub button so hard. Loooove this.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man

[@2012SMC2012]

That is the best Digital Audio Workstation I have ever seen! >> Killer video!!!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thank you for recognizing the digital audio workstation, without it i am nothing

[@Nicholas-Santiago]

Just got my Night Sky and this video was a huge help in getting sounds. I just spent an hour trying to learn the tune to your resampled setting, i would buy it if you released it!!! So catchy!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks dude, the song actually has been released! It's called Invincible. Arrangement is different but check it out: cyberattack.bandcamp.com/track/invincible

[@Nicholas-Santiago]

@@CyberattackWorld is that live stream where you sent funny emails to people on KZbin? I wanted to rewatch it ^^

[@CyberattackWorld]

@@Nicholas-Santiago oh man, that's amazing. To answer your question, I take those videos down to edit out people's email addresses, and then I repost them over here: kzbin.info/door/JXuKecsnYyKrgMchrUOexA

[@CyberattackWorld]

@@Nicholas-Santiago you may also want to spend some time over here: emailpro.email/

[@Nicholas-Santiago]

@@CyberattackWorld thanks! That episode was a blast!!

[@Cloudkusanagui]

Wow, great demonstration of the pedal, and you picked just the right song for the "Reverb in the key of God". Had chills when I realized it was just what I was hoping for... as that song always gives me the chills! Great video!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man, metheny rules

[@OrbitalDeathRay]

The best pedal channel on the internet. Thank you, Cyberattack 🙏 My wallet won’t thank you, but screw that guy.

[@MartinSalad]

The pitch shift thing is awesome dude... subscribed. I love how you describe your mindset when going after these settings

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man welcome aboard

[@equanim]

Thx for the notes settings! Definitely saving up for this pedal. (Use for synths though..) Excellent video :) and nice guitar playing Definitely made it nice to watch/listen

[@rasm0225]

Seriously dank video editing. Loved it.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks, a lot of the crazy visuals are lifted from my music videos, which are also on this channel if you want a narcotic-level dose of dank editing

[@jesselough]

First vid of a night sky that made me want a night sky. Amazing demo. Love your work, and also you’re a wicked good guitar player to boot 👏

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man. having had the NightSky for however long it's been since this video came out, I can tell ya that I've really come to appreciate how good it sounds doing "normal" reverb on top of everything else. Like if you ignore the pitch stuff entirely, it still sounds amazing. Just FWIW.

[@mediumshreddercheese]

Nice work man!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thank you

[@graysonwilson-cacciapalle7989]

That bit at 3.20 reminds me of a Pain of Salvation song I can't quite recall

[@AL_1991]

dude i just bought this pedal and you are a f*****ng genius

[@gmtnosa00]

Cool! Love the Metheny at the end

[@peterpower2485]

Came here because of Rhett, stayed because of you, bought a NightSky soon as the video ended. Subscribed.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thank you for these amazing life choices

[@WHATISPOLITICS69]

love coming back to these, super usefull stuff

[@themotioncodemarc]

Just got this pedal. Thank you for your contribution

[@MrBothandNether]

Thank You very, very much.

[@MrBothandNether]

RITKOG FTW

[@KingDracSiege]

Your videos are fucking awesome and critically underrated. The habit pro tips video is one of the only useful vids about the habit on this site.

[@AllofJudea]

Snatched one for 300 bucks, now just waiting for it to arrive. Glad to have this as a starting point

[@dreamakah]

The playing clips are exquisite...love it. Going to get one of these spicy little bastards tomorrow.

[@tiesergrote]

your playing is RAD! subbed!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thank you

[@tiesergrote]

@@CyberattackWorld you're welcome

[@DoctaLivingston]

This channel kicks ass.

[@Deplated]

Amazing sounds, thanks!

[@bzdollars]

I love you man 💯

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man

[@wavescrashingmusic]

i like your style.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thank you

[@ludekkolenaty2209]

Your creativity and mastery is great!

[@CyberattackWorld]

Thank you

[@Rustocaps]

Last train home! Great stuff!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks i'm glad you caught that

[@osab5844]

Yes indeed! Nicely done!

[@orzelg]

Wow man! Artistic review! Briliant

[@hypadimensionalbum]

Want one now! Sounds lush & would add a whole new dimension to home recording! THANX for content dude ; )

[@dslavin]

That was excellent.

[@Gimlian]

Bro the diary of the madman and Pat Metheny you're my kind of guy 🙌🙌

[@CyberattackWorld]

lol those 2 rule my life

[@VanKapeghian]

Holy shit, that slapback tone is gorgeous.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks i feel like the slapback tone is an underrated feature of this pedal

[@TheShadowvaultAwaits]

This is a phenomenal channel

[@CyberattackWorld]

Glad ya found it

[@ultratone]

Great demo... nice re-harm on the "Last Train Home". Put a big smile on my face.

[@CyberattackWorld]

metheny rules, gotta do it

[@roybratli]

Great playing and commentary, also digging the halflit gloomy room.

[@CyberattackWorld]

pedal is useless without gloomy room

[@pedrosacchetti4632]

Dude!! Killed it yet again !! Congrats! Can t wait for those mobious pro tips too!! Also u a f*** master on guitar 🤟🏻🤟🏻

[@CyberattackWorld]

thank you

[@edsthepreds2297]

Hi Cyberattack! First, thank you for this helpful video. I just bought the nightsky partly thanks to your video. However, when I try to create the ''Ducked reverb", I can't. The sparse decay appears immediately when I pluck the string and not when shocking off my notes. Can you name me the setting/knob who create this? Thank you !!

[@CyberattackWorld]

Make sure the Depth knob is set below its halfway position, around 11 o'clock. It sounds like you might have it above halfway, which is where the envelope sensitivity switches from negative to positive. Then besides that, Speed should be around 4 o'clock, the Mod Target should be Filter, and the Shape should be Env. Hope that helps.

[@edsthepreds2297]

@@CyberattackWorld It finally works. It was the Depth knob. Thank you for the fast response!!

[@CyberattackWorld]

@@edsthepreds2297 glad it worked out

[@lancelovecraft5913]

I would advocate yes, that shit is worth it to sound interesting. Great demo

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man, eyes on the prize

[@kozmicstreamz417]

Would love to hear this pedal on some synths ... but dude ... you killed it on guitar!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks. to be honest, when i think about using this with synths, it's almost too much

[@levijessegonzalez3629]

Ducked reverb didnt sound like a ducked reverb at first. Sounded so original. Wow this unit is a must have for making unique sounds for 2020

[@CyberattackWorld]

The ducked reverb was the hardest one for me to get. (It was way harder to dial in the sensitivity than it was for the gated reverb.) So it definitely felt like I was pushing the NightSky to do something outside its intended purpose. And the ducked reverb does have some other artifacts going on as a result, but that's part of the fun. Anyway I'm 100% with you that the real point here is finding unique sounds for the present.

[@levijessegonzalez3629]

@@CyberattackWorld you did a great job. Nice solo btw on the "when the world is running down" bassline

[@CyberattackWorld]

@@levijessegonzalez3629 thanks man glad you caught that

[@levijessegonzalez3629]

@@CyberattackWorld you gotta do more videos like this my guy...your channel will take off. People in 2020 appreciate quality content like this

[@kash76]

Great vid dude! Just got mine yesterday.

[@CyberattackWorld]

Thanks, have fun

[@imdanielchae]

high high quality mate

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks, more coming soon

[@chrisnurse7658]

Key of God - that was super sweet

[@stub390]

Loved the pedal. Loved the playing.

[@XISTH]

Amazing chops man .... !!!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man

[@gilbertsevdays]

4:30 i love that. but did it get a latency?

[@tendingtropic7778]

love the last one

[@CyberattackWorld]

Thank you, please remember me for future trending topics

[@Guitavatar]

Great cinematography! Takes me back pre-pandemic! Demo is superb. More please...phaser?

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man. i have more coming, but in the meantime don't miss my video about the Strymon Timeline, very similar tricks (and visuals): kzbin.info/www/bejne/n52lZImuecmSa8U

[@the5chord]

Saved these as presets in my NightSky tonight. All of these are legit. Is there a level 2 of Advanced coming out?

[@CyberattackWorld]

If I can find more sounds that are as cool/cooler than the ones I covered already, then absolutely I'll do a part 2 for the NightSky. So far the only new thing I've found that rises to that level is a setting that sort of sounds like a Leslie speaker / rotating cabinet type of thing.

[@imswaggyd]

This channel rules man

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks welcome aboard

[@jat5am]

any idea how to get that 6:02 sound with other pedal? sounds like random vibrato and bit crusher.

[@CyberattackWorld]

yes, random vibrato is definitely crucial to that sound (in that example, the NightSky is set to randomly modulate pitch within a narrow band). I think the bit-crushing is just because the sound is 100% wet, so you're hearing a sampled version of your guitar tone. I've tried to get a similar effect out of the Mobius, which can do random frequency modulation (aka random vibrato at low levels) in Quadrature mode, but I've never been able to get it to sound like 6:02. I'm working on a way to do it using the TWA Side Step, and there'll be a video about it before too long, so stay tuned for that.

[@henrikjensen4592]

Excellent, and super helpful, stuff! Thanks a lot! I am getting closer to start seriously thinking of getting this. (Strymon should hire you if they want to show that one can use their pedals creatively :-) )

[@johnsepulveda9538]

really impressive!

[@Arm.W]

Random clicked this video and found very pleasant ear with "Last train home" on last pro tip 😊

[@blankmelon]

Holy crap dude. I came for the Strymon but stayed for the awesome video and examples you’ve put together. Don’t know how you have a NightSky, don’t care. Looking forward to checking out your other videos. Well done.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man, i have a very similar video for the TimeLine, you might wanna start with that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n52lZImuecmSa8U

[@gustavog.c.2997]

Helo! Yousr videos are amazing! For the resampled guitar sound I discovered an interesting way to obtain it without the "delay". So... I have bought a voice changer, the cheaper you can get, and used as a guitar effect lol. The sound is very degrated and lofi, but it add a nice texture to a track.

[@thomasnicolajiversen7516]

Amazing video, thanks.

[@JamesAGuitar]

This is great! Very creative (yet practical) use of the pedal.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks

[@theeoddname]

Came here ‘cuz of Shull - wow …. Finally got some great tips on my sky pedal which I can actually use.

[@lukeweiler1192]

Awesome !!!! As always great vid

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man

[@whooshsg]

RITKOG, I dig that piece.

[@CyberattackWorld]

you might know this already but it's "last train home" by pat metheny

[@whooshsg]

You should do your own arrangement of it, sounds pretty dope.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man, the version i play is my own arrangement actually

[@giobass]

So great!

[@erickchicas2917]

Great demo!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks

[@bobs906]

Love the dancing action figure. It made me laugh. Nice video!

[@joshuarowland6018]

Reverb in the Key of God: love the Pat Metheny! Thank you!

[@CyberattackWorld]

metheny rules

[@ericamoretti5148]

Love the low-pass resonance.

[@CyberattackWorld]

yeah same

[@Gigirizzolihhhhyyy]

What song Is the last

[@CyberattackWorld]

"Last Train Home," Pat Metheny

[@KLRARMY]

So good man! Perfect use with that Police song!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man glad you caught that

[@1okanaganguy]

pure class

[@soulofash2112]

So. On the pitch shift thing. I have a reverb pedal that lets me do that... but in real time. I don't have to monkey about with my DAW to rearrange things and whatnot. Collision Devices Black Hole Symmetry. Not as fancy as anything Strymon has put out, but for my money, well, since it's the one on my board, obviously it's the one I chose lol. Great vid mate, I'm here from Rhett's channel--be prepared for a deluge of inbound subs!

[@CyberattackWorld]

That's cool that BHS lets you do it with zero latency. I have some others that are also quicker than the NightSky as well, but I found that the NS does add some additional glitch with the "mod" setting on random. I will check out the Black Hole Symmetry though thank you.

[@soulofash2112]

@@CyberattackWorld It's my desert island pedal, mate. Like, seriously. I don't know how I got on without it!

[@andrew-no2ti]

way cool video . thanks .

[@CyberattackWorld]

no THANK YOU

[@chrisf8850]

Fantastic Video, I bought a Nightsky off the back of this.

[@CyberattackWorld]

oh man have fun

[@CoolerZach]

Nice vid. Ty!❤❤❤

[@christopherklein4203]

Man, I just got this pedal and I will likely try and use everyone of these patches you created. Incredible job. Do you think you’ll make a video about the sequencer?

[@CyberattackWorld]

To be honest, the sequencer part of it is something I haven't been able to get into so far. I might be wrong, but my hunch is that using the NS sequencer sounds bonkers and cool, but it also sounds very much like you're using the NS sequencer-the type of sound that will live in everyone's mind as being associated with a specific product. I have similar feelings about the EQD Rainbow Machine, for instance: very cool, but very recognizable as this one particular pedal. So part of why I didn't get into the sequencer in this video is that I felt like I couldn't really top Strymon's demonstration of it, and also because what I'm trying to do with these videos, generally, is to find sounds that are not instantly recognizable as belonging to the pedal I'm talking about. However, all of this is still my first impression of the NS, and I may be underestimating the versatility and range of its sequencer stuff. It's totally possible that people will find ways to use it that sound unique and different-to be honest, I didn't spend as much time as I could have searching for that. Early on, I got swept up in other uses for this pedal, and that became what the video was about.

[@ja1815]

Dope review. Reverb in the key of God lowkey sounds like Immerse v2 WET mode though.

[@CyberattackWorld]

i had to look up what that is, but now that i have, yes that doesn't surprise me

[@tinkercitymusic]

Really great video! Love the aesthetic and forwardness.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thank you

[@cadenceangel]

Superb demo!!! And great playing!!!!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thank you angel cat