This might just have been the catalyst for pulling me out of a major depression. It’s just what my soul needed. Humanity at its absolute best. Thank you
This is INSANE! As a chemist I really love the idea of the minibar and I'm really thinking about buying one to even use it to teach chemistry at school! Btw: Salt increases the electrical conductivity of the liquid because it has free Ions, which increases the electrical conductivity. Sugar, as it's a molecular substance in general, doesn't contain free ions and don't ionize the liquid, so it conducts less electricity and thus has more gain. You can think about the liquids as a "gain drain", so, the better electrical conductor, the cleaner the signal because it's conducting the gain out of the pedal in a way.
David is thinking totally off the page, and we need more of his genius in music. Some of us have been guilty of thinking the pedal industry is saturated, nothing new is happening, it's all been done before, etc. David Rainger is proof positive that a truly creative mind can inspire us and move us forward. Wow. Mind completely blown.
Absolutely nothing in the world would make me happier than watching David Rainger sitting in a studio with Graham Coxon just having coffee, talking and playing with gear.
I hope his sales go through the roof for this. Truly innovative and original. I’d mount them on a board and let members of the audience have goes on them while I played.
I think the comment on why they're laughing is perfect. The entire episode I was giddy, but not because I was excited, it was because I could feel my flow state being inspired by the sheer creativity in these pedals. I want weirder pedals not because I want to be weird, but because it's what the future of music is
Wow. There’s more creativity and uniqueness in just these 6 pedals from David than in the 1000s of pedals made by all the big name pedal companies for 30 years. So many shake your head and smile moments in this. What a star. Great stuff David.
Loved the way Dan was completely silent at 42:10 then abruptly said "okay, sorry". I could tell he just had to experience the Drone Rainger because it was something completely new to him and he was internally going bonkers. What a pedal, but what a guy Dan is.
That ‘drone/delay’ is so beautiful, so therapeutic in a way. I want that. All for myself. Make my own little album and be calm and happy and mindfull. 😉
Please please find all the cool uk pedal builders and bring them in and do this (I know you’ve done thorpy and one or two other). This type of show is absolutely phenomenal and we need more.
David is such a creative guy. A true mad scientist. A Carackticus Potts of the guitar world. His feet on the ground and his head in the clouds. A sound guy in every sense
David reminds me of one of the pioneering lab-coated early producer / engineers of the mid 60’s who came up with all the classic effects we all know BUT at exactly the same time it’s like he’s from the future. What an inspiring dude
Daivd Rainger is a genius. Much needed diversity in a world of digital reverb and delay units. In a market full of OD and Distortion. Almost all copies of copies of copied circuits. Rainger pedals are so incredibly unique and creative. They make you reframe your perspective on music and sound.
i'm in full agreement with you. I've lived with the Drone Rainger on my desk for a couple of years now, and i can tell you, with complete honesty, that having something like this tech at my fingertips has absolutely changed the way that i approach both sound design exploration and recording. having the ability to send an instant, pitched analog oscillation through whatever effect that i'm actively working on learning is ...well, orders of magnitude above whatever i was doing previously. Today's Drone Rainger signal chain: DR > MXR 10 > Tera Echo > SL2 > RT20. whoa
This man is just crazy. In the best kind of way. He never got the note "you can't do that" so he just did it. Even if you don't have a need for any of his pedals, you can't go "that's stupid, it doesn't have any value". It makes you imagine all the possibilities just by seeing and hearing it. Those old oil can tremolos worked with the liquid floating from side to side and either blocking or unblocking the sensor.
This is incredible! A whole new concept of pedal design, visually, internally and engineering process. Very intelligent human being. One of your best episodes ever. THANKS!
They say that genius and madness are separated by a hair's width. I'm not quite sure what side of that line David's on, but I love his creativity. I can see myslf at my next open mike night "A pint of lager for myself and a port and brandy for the pedal please?"
Saw the episode, bought the pedal (MiniBar) and it is just awesomely bonkers … single malt is my favourite so far … big smile and laughing my head off as I try everything in the fridge … but it makes so much sense … playing blues … add whisky … pub rock … add beer … jazz … red wine ? Thanks you David, a creative legend
The world is a better place for having David Rainger in it. If your creativity wants to go all cosmik, or destructiv or just somewhere no one has been, here is how you do it. Invent a journey and fuck with the soundtrack. Never forget to press record.
Inspiring. 1:06:10 'can you turn the jet plane off?' I love how effortlessly David invites us into his mindset :) This is frontier tone building, a-la early 60s, meted with 21st Century (TPS) pragmatism. Keep up your stella work gents.
Honestly, we have officially met the Eddie Van Halen and Les Paul of effects pedals. He’s totally chasing those sounds he’s hearing in his head and making them happen in much the same way. Love it! 🤘
What an absolute pleasure that was to watch. For me this has been the best pedal vid I’ve ever seen. Made want to get my credit card out. Incomparable to anything I’ve seen. The gentrification of the circuit board left me speechless. 😂😂😂What an artist David is. Incredible.
This is the best thing on the Internet ever. I can totally see radiohead making great use of all these things. Just wow, kudos to dave, you just wiped the floor with several multimillion dollar empires in terms of creativity. This is innovation at its finest
Watching this felt like making my dad sit down and watch one of my favourite movies for the first time, and just watching his reactions at all the good bits. 😜 What an amazing man, and what a wonderfully bizarre brain he has!
Absolutely amazing. I need the Drone Rainger in my life. I can’t help feel though that David is what you would get if Steven Wilson and Sean Lock had a baby
What a completely delightful person. Also the entire concept of "I'm interested in this, so I'm going to read books and just try until I know how to do the thing I want to do." is just brilliant. "Often, the way forward is to do the wrong thing." - Yeah, that's going into my journal. Great episode.
This might be one of the best TPS videos in a while! Also kudos to Rainger for making all these wild pedals. Even if I find it a bit tough to find a use for this stuff, I still hope others do and use them in musical ways because it's innovation like this that we need more in the pedal world.
Just wow I could listen to him talk all day!! I love David’s thinking… what a total genius I want them all then lock myself away with everything on 10 🤘😎🤘
This was a VERY expensive show (for me)! Glad ThatPedalShop actually had MOST of his pedals available! I had to go elsewhere to find the Break Box, but they had the other 3 ! 🙂 That is extremely rare for me (I’m not normally a spur-of-the-moment buyer), but David (and his gear) blew me away !
David has a beautiful mind. What an original and innovative builder. Taking pedals in a new direction where the pedals themselves are unique instruments to be explored. Just wow. ❤
Best episode ever...instead of "lets discuss the minute and imperceptible in a live situation, differences between 4 pedals trying to do the same thing"....this is a total exploration into new sounds and ideas, the very foundation in which music is supposed to be built. If David Gilmour had these pedals he would have changed music forever...we need more creative people in music instead of thousands of copy's of the same thing over and over. Hopefully someone takes there new ideas and creates music that will lead us into new territory, we've been playing recycled licks with the same tones for waaay too long.
What an amazing dude , so creative , eloquent and mad but educated and self taught . Great Britain needs more of this . A very 1960s attitude . Love the pedals 🙌
He had this cliche "mad scientist" vibe, and turns out he is the coolest, most humble and creative human being.. holy cow this show was such a joy to watch!
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