COMPETITION CLOSED! We met up with the inimitable Devin Townsend at winter NAMM 2019 to get his take on a compact yet comprehensive pedalboard. Be sure to check out Devin's brand new album "Empath" - open.spotify.com/album/7MPJRy...
@@tcelectronic And maybe, if there is more "material" like this quote (but i bet Devin has to be the most prolific at this) a whole series of t-shirts with different pedals and quotes from guitarists on TC videos like this and tone print creation ones :D
Devin is a legend. Hearing him explain his thought process as he arranged the pedals was fantastic. Pedal boards are such a personal thing and people rarely agree with the layout.
Awesome, this is exactly what I've been looking for. I have Devin's Ocean Machine pedal but I've not been super sure what to pair it with to get closer to his sound. Seeing him do it with these ones on the spot suddenly made it much easier, especially him mentioning the delay/reverb settings he shoots for. Great vid!
I just added the Spark pedal to my setup and I love it, Gain all the way down, Volume all the way up and toggle switch on Clean. It gives a huge clean boost to all three channels on my 50 watt EVH 5150 III EL34 and it doesn’t color my tone at all and makes the clean channel sound so big and full. One of the best pedals I’ve ever bought. I never turn it off, without it my clean channel sounds thin to me now.
Thank you to TC and Devin for providing us a chance to not only get a glimpse into the head space needed to creating tones like this, but also for us to have the gear to do it. Not all of us have the funds to pursue our dream tones so it goes a long way. All the best!
Meeting Devin in Tampa and getting to tell him he was the best musician in the entire club (I won’t name the other bands out of respect for them and their fans but SYL was one of the opening bands at that show) and him thanking me and talking to me as if he knew me like an old friend would was surreal and made me feel at ease and not awkward at all. Just being in the same club/room with him made me a better musician and talking to him very briefly just totally made my night.
@MorbidManMusic Definitely a fan, have been for nearly 20 years. I met a lot of musicians that were really nice though that would talk to you like an old friend such as Henry Rollins, Tim Yeung and Joey Z. but yeah I look up to Devin more than them as a musician. Devin is up there with Steven Wilson imo, too bad I didn't like Steven Wilson's newest album though.
@MorbidManMusic There's nothing wrong with being a fanboy when said fanboy is respectful and kind. Do you even listen to what Devin's albums are about?
There were 2 interesting choices made if you look at the pedal order. first: Boost into drive as a solo boost. This leads just to more gain which is a bit of tweaking to get not too much gain. second: Tremolo into compressor. The Trem makes the signal louder and wuieter in a periodic way. The compressor is trying to even out the signal. so i would've thought the comp is eliminating the trm effect to some degree and is producing a bit more noise when making the quieter parts louder. It seems to work but its soth i woul have never tried myself
Really love that new pitch shifter pedal. It sounds absolutely stupid yet it can create both Steve Vai and Devin's Ziltoid things and sound professional doing them. Somehow TC has the ability to bring out silly effects and make them sound musical and professional.
The bulk of my pedal board is TC Electronic, true bypass and toneprint technology makes them equal or superior to most boutique pedals at half the price or less. I have quite a few TC Electronic pedals but I still have a list of other TC Electronic pedals I want to add to my chain. The high end quality and amazing versatility of these pedals at a very reasonable price makes them my default choice for almost every effect. I had a pedal chain (by a very popular brand) before that quite frankly ruined my guitar tone and turned me off of pedals for awhile. Then discovering how transparent TC Electronic pedals are and don’t drain or color my tone whatsoever was like a revelation to me. TC Electronic restored my faith in effect pedals and now I’m addicted to collecting them and experimenting with them in my effects loop and in front of my amp. I never thought pedals could be so transparent after my initial bad experience with that popular brand. TC Electronic is the standard all pedals should be compared to. You’ll be hard pressed to find a pedal that can compete with the quality and price point of TC Electronic products, their pedals are the overall best value of any pedals I’ve ever encountered and that’s even including the G System if you want to just buy one big pedal system that has the all in one thing going for it.
yes it will, in a good way if you set it right. dude below has no idea how compression works. compression reduces the peak to average ratio of a signal and its makeup gain brings it back up. the trem is amplitude modulation with an LFO, which has a certain dynamic range. the dynamic range is reduced by compressing the AM'd signal. tldr; compressing a tremolo signal will affect its depth
I know!! I've never heard him in standard and he says he can't play that way! I only wish I could play in standard as "badly" as he does! He makes the guitar sing just by looking at it 😂
