This Trick Allows ANY Pedal to Sound Like a Crazy Circuit Bent Synth

[@kaneduke581]

dont tell radiohead

[@pulsemaps]

I discovered this as a stoned teenager and thought I’d unlocked an inter-dimensional portal. I remember the whammy pedal in particular was totally crazy sounding.

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

I haven't actually tried a whammy with this, I can only imagine it would be beautiful carnage!

[@GoCreateSomething]

You can do that no input synth thing with a mixer also. Simon the Magpie has a video showing that kind of stuff. All the eq knobs affect the tone and you can use pedals there as well. I like how vocal the filtering in the Phaser sounds.

[@rockingjoh]

Thanks for this great idea. And that you put the whole thing into a musical context at the end is really great!

[@yeruchemrischall6682]

This is a great video. I’ve used a delay pedal in the past to make some funky sounds but I never knew you could basically make a fully functional modular synth table from pedals. Wicked!

[@evanwilliams8908]

Very cool idea . Would have been fun to see it paired with drum machine. Chords are ok but a simple beat really let’s the weird sounds shine without needing harmony.

[@probindemufhoes42069]

Wait do you mean like putting the drum machine in the chain or to substitute the amp with the drum machine and route the chain of pedals into the drum machine input?

[@epiphonium]

Terrible idea !

[@mariesyvian8187]

​@@probindemufhoes42069 I believe they just mean as an accompaniment instrument

[@johnpickk7526]

@@epiphonium actually its a fantastic idea, you clearly just have that small of a mind

[@MrMorse99]

Amazing ! Love it ! Thanks for all the useful tips 🤩

[@partirparlesarmoires]

Super ! I love your channel, you already helped me improve my guitar sound with your video on flangers, I copied your settings on the OD-3 before the BF-2 (I happen to have the same pedals as yourself) and it made a big difference !

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

That's brilliant to hear! Glad you found it useful and thanks for commenting.

[@RobUttley]

Great idea - and loved the final piece. Thanks!

[@squirelova1815]

I just looked at the Superb variety of excellent subjects you've chosen for your channel and after seeing your truly talented playing ability especially while demoing gear, well...I just HAD to subscribe. Thanks for the really useful educational vids; they're like training lessons!

[@robertbastian9001]

Very cool. Sounded like a Manzanera / Eno jam at the end. Thanks for the inspriation!

[@jacksmith3229]

Wow, awesome video.

[@StratsRUs]

Always a great video .Thanks

[@johnjoyce]

Track at the end was really brilliant

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Thank you!

[@markkirschenmann3925]

Wow! Thanks for posting, super interesting!

[@danrussell9473]

Great video. That last clip had a graham coxon feel to it. Will definitely be trying this out

[@luismendo]

Cool Sterelolab vibes!

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Thanks! Stereolab are great.

[@tomholmes1087]

Just tried this with a Whammy into a Muff. If you set the Whammy to the octave up and down harmony mode you can get a violin type sound as you hit the sweet spot with expression pedal.

[@michelvondenhoff9673]

As a synthesizer guy I can totally relate 😀

[@rolandpalmer7125]

Finally, a useful application for fx pedals

[@user-tm9bn3in7x]

Excellent video

[@rogerbranton1752]

Really wild - thanks!

[@cadflo]

This is amazing!

[@tomheineman4369]

Looks like you were having fun

[@scooter5005]

That's a lot of fun! There's definitely potential there for helping a player make the connection to today's music.

[@TheSetDog]

dope at the end there!

[@michaelfowler3187]

Nice coffee and tv solo at the end! You can get faux sample hold sounds with the boss delay dd20 in reverse mode, even some ring mod sounds.

[@troutbummi]

Schweet broh. Exactly the video I was looking for. Have an old intercom i think will work as a mixer/3 octave keyboard. An old turbo chorus pedal, and an old crystal oscillator from a work truck radio. I have no idea, but I am pretty stoked. B Thanks for the inspiration.

[@ArmandoGarcia-or6ks]

Wow!!! Is like the reaktable thing

[@lynksdisease8795]

That is goddamn amazing, could recreate any weird intro/outro ever with that trick

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Yeah, when I used this live, it was for an intro. Works well

[@elemkay5104]

You can do this with pedals that have multiple outputs, rather than into the amp and out. The Digitech Bad Monkey has an amp output and mixer output. You just patch from the mixer output into the input, and out of the other output you have your self-oscillation. Everything else works like the way you explained in the video. Nice work!! I would love to hear what sounds could be gotten from using some exotic reverbs on full wet. You could get some more mellow sounds by doing that and reducing the volume.

[@stuartchapman5171]

Hi, I use pedals for soundscape, most of the digitech dirt pedals have this feature. I have 4 now, as our Lord Josh Scott showed us, the Bad Monkey is a superior Tube Screamer clone because the eq is better. The digitech hot head is a DS-1 clone, with, Yep, a better eq. The Death Metal is a HM-2 I beleive, I think the eq is the same though, but you have the extra output and cab sim function, that all those era digitech dirt have, I beleive you hold down the footswitch whilst connecting the power. I think the mixer output has the sim on it, you'd have to look it up. I have the Digidelay and the Turbo Flange as well, the delay has cab sim, but the extra socket gives you ping pong delay!

[@spacedout_bae]

Subscribed!

[@tomocacerola]

Hi, loved the idea!! I'm pretty confident that this concept was used in the song Car Crash by IDLES

[@JasonAyalaSpare]

That is so cool!

[@haiderman1610]

Brilliant.

[@richsackett3423]

That has to be worth a sub for every person who watches this.

[@wolfchan4389]

what I have found is fun is going into a reverb, pitch shift and looper after the looped pedals and then layering them -

[@DerEchteBold]

Haha, I once started a 'sound tinkering' playlist ...if that wasn't waiting for this video I don't know!

[@ALTDOK667]

Ha ha! I was smiling the whole way through! Must try!

[@-jank-willson]

FINALLY! an instrument that is easy enough that i can actually play it!

[@guitarfreak521]

Love it!

[@ebstooge]

This is the tidiest noise show I've ever been to

[@Grummycanader]

Tremolo and vibrato pedals with square wave options on the lfo’s would give a sequenced vibe.

[@neightmorris]

Oh man my neighbors are going to hate me..Thank you!

[@Giovy-Perez]

cool!! synth!

[@georgeprice4212]

Getting your inner Beck on, I see!

[@johnstanley6977]

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! 😂

[@ZarkoSusnjar]

Definitely caught attention of my 1.5y old twins, they watched rest of the video mesmerised :)

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Glad they enjoyed it. I have a two year old myself, I can't imagine having two of her! I'll make sure to include my rendition of wheels on the bus for the next pedal demo.

[@jjcale2288]

Total eclipse...of the mind!

[@um3899]

awesome video! I didn't know this was possible... that last jam sounds like something Blur would've done...

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Thanks! Yeah I think Blur might use something like this setup for some of the sounds on the song Essex Dogs...

[@waynegram8907]

MIKE BANFIELD, have you tried taking the effects loop SEND and then connected that to the fenders amplifiers TREMOLO Channel input#1, while the guitar is plugged into the NORMAL channel input#1. You can also try making a video lesson about both of these sets ups, but also try connecting the guitar pedals backwards in this circuit bent setup because they will oscillate when the output port is now the feeding an INPUT signal through the output port. Try make a video about this

[@joemarshlljmp]

HA HA I just tried it with my Boss OD-20 in my Marshall lead 12! I got all the sounds!!

[@michaelfowler3187]

Never would have thought to do this but it seems so simple and obvious now that you've walked us thru it. What inspired you to use the amp as a sound source for the pedals? My bandmate/ friend Ryan still asks me which side is the input sometimes ... I mean bro.

[@johanneskulesza6841]

I didn't know it was possible to do the no input technique just with pedals until very recently, been experimenting with this for the last couple of weeks. Great video!

[@MarkRigler]

You need a zvex fuzz factory, one of the few pedals with a stability control, it can be played like it was a synth

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

I do need that pedal! I've wanted one of those for ages...

[@MarkRigler]

@@MichaelBanfieldGuitar I bought a clone on eBay for £50

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

@@MarkRigler ooh! Which one?

[@MarkRigler]

Tried posting a link but it disappeared

[@minnixmusic]

Michael, thanks for making this video. It's pretty cool. I was wondering if you can get a theremin sound this way. Like the ending of Good Vibrations?

[@bentropy]

this is up my alley. Akin to "no-input-mixer" approach to synthesis/sound design. I didn't know you could do this. What does the amp input being patched into the pedal input do, in terms of lay-person's explanation of the electronics?

[@davidnesselhauf2988]

great!

[@os5034]

Nice🎉

[@amonster8mymother]

Ok got it.

[@KB_Joys]

Lol, i had no clue about this 🤣

[@sonofsupernova3455]

Bruh this is such a cool idea. I gotta find someone with a slicer pedal!

[@WinstonTexas829]

Just wow...

[@michaelfowler3187]

I expected you to use the step phaser for a sample hold sound

[@desmondmyers]

Idk why but that eq pedal made me giggle

[@seanbierman]

6:30 sounds a little like the temporary secretary sound from McCarntey III

[@angeldelalamo]

🎸👍I did it aiready inv1979, and with all EHX and MXR devices, but is easy with a therrmim, if you want🤪💃

[@rustystove8410]

Now I wont have to save up a few grand to get a Moog synthesizer...LOL! Zillion thumbs up!!!! 😀😃😄😁😆😋🥰😍🤩😇🤗💯💥👍👍👍👍👍💪.

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Emoji overload! Thank you!

[@godrahabu3535]

Is there a pedal to get a vibraphone tone? Thanks

[@tylerdawson4591]

Thurston and Lee sounds.

[@dustingrant6388]

So that's how the Gilla boys did it..

[@TheHiphopdrunkie]

i do all this with a digitech whammy and heavy gain and a delay pedal, with just one input

[@jofus1405]

5:05-5:30 is NUTS 😮‍💨

[@j.harris1351]

Would this work with 2 amps?

[@jafs2]

Yes lets make a keyboard out of guitar Pedlas 🥳

[@magneticwest5285]

3:07 "A Glitch Supreme...A Glitch Supreme..."

[@FilipArlet]

This is really crazy. I was wondering this is just self loop that generates sound (from noise ? idk), but what if you add your guitar signal into the loop?

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Interesting idea! Maybe mix the guitar signal in parallel using a pedal like the Boss Line Selector or something, hmm...

[@dyndynmc]

​@@MichaelBanfieldGuitar I know I'm late but, I'm also curious about this. Could you put the y splitter in the fx loop with the pedals you want to oscillate while keeping your guitar and other pedals in a normal chain?

[@Hank_Errands]

get a BOSS slicer SL2 and a multi pitch/occ drone with filter knob

[@Paul-dw2cl]

sounds like Doc Brown’s amp for Marty McFly

[@RedCloudServices]

Toss a Boss Slicer 2 in there and it would go fkn bonkers lol

[@FakingANerve]

3:57 _a tween superfan has entered the chat_

[@AtomicHeartBand.]

How to annoy your parents 101😂

[@vladistefanov6795]

that sounded like something straight outta 13 by blur

[@juliusbernotas]

Thats how they have been creating noise music (might be called antimusic) for a long time, eg. Merzbow, Masonna and similar acts. Bunch of guitar pedals and analog synths connected to a loop and a guy screaming into a microphone.

[@jezmez68]

A DD-3, a Rat, and a PH-2. Did you sneak into my house and use my pedals?

[@NedJeffery]

The EQ sounds like an Otamatone

[@taylorsturgeon186]

Sounds like stereolab

[@cabaro10]

Cool, but for some reason, my neighbours didn't like the audio in this video.

[@roscius6204]

:)

[@alexanderfrederick1420]

selfosilate

[@TheMrsaintevil]

Industrial metal bands be like: 0____0

[@XPJV]

Something to mess around when you're completely bored and got nothing else to do.

[@marcosm6346]

Bro invented modular synthesis

[@kimseniorb]

whyy

[@weon_penca]

you have a lot of time, dude...

[@FFGG22E]

I have a masters degree in annoying me neighbors

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

My girlfriend who was in another part of the house while I recorded this, asked me later if I'd seen anything going in the street because she kept hearing sirens... oops

[@wallpurgesnight8209]

Wow Christopher Columbus You found something new 😂

[@_viy]

For actually use in music i think it needs a keyboard to pitch notes to 440Hz

[@_viy]

i need a dual input plug with 1->2 and a pedal style foot switch to change output channels 😅

[@sciexp]

That's what I do... But not in that way...

[@nojuanatall3281]

Anti music! I love it.