I Made More Than Ever Before 

i'm sorry, your work is so inspiring and i love everything that you do....BUT I CANT STOP STARING AT THAT PAPER

I can't stop looking at the paper

Also, a future version of Yeah with an "inverse" output for the envelope follower would be useful for creating a sidechain-like expression output. That would be very very cool, and not something I've seen in pedal form before.

After I saw this video, I ordered the Yeah and Lust. I got the Yeah yesterday and hooked it to my Afterneath and to the Boss SY1. If you use your own instrument signal, it can sound very cool and organic modulations. Then I ran a drum machine as the signal while my guitar was on the SY1 and it would very quickly cycle through the filter on whatever setting I had, but at the beat of the drum machine. It came out really really cool. I think I'll run it through the Pigtronix Mothership next! Thanks Simon! Such a cool idea!

I love how they look both cartoonish and very brutal at the same time

We need a Magpie album of noisy textures and landscapes. Pure experimental madness

I couldn't find anything similar to the 'Yeah' pedal either so I tried to build my own using the (very basic) envelope follower circuit from Nicholas Collins - Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking and rigged it up to an LED/photoresistor optocouple thing. It worked and opened up some cool possibilities on my other pedals with EXP connections, but I didn't include a 'thru' path which I see you have put in that makes it way more practical! I found the sensitivity and range needed to be tweaked a lot to get good results on different pedals, so quite hard to set up for a live situation, interested to see more on this one if you've solved that in demos, or try it out myself if you're making more? Tip for anyone who got one or is DIYing it - a compressor in before the envelope generator helps in a lot of situations. Could also be a market for an envelope generator (rather than follower) with adjustable ADSR characteristics, maybe tying the attack time or sustain level to input level? Modular synth lot are probably all over this but not in pedal form.

Oh gosh that talkbox matrix looks amazing and highly fascinating to explore! Also congrats for all the other devices, they sound super fun to play with!

Still waiting for magpie drum machine 🤖👌hop someday gonna happen

So many cool things. Love the design of your pedals as always. Super cool man.

Immediately bought a Wet pedal. One of the coolest pedals I've ever seen or heard. I wish I could afford to buy all of your work!

I've been looking for a "Yeah"! There is nothing out there like it I can find. The closest thing that I know of is to create a custom ZOIA patch. I'm eagerly watching your store page waiting for the Yeah to show up 🙏 EDIT: Found that it's under "Misc" and not under "Pedals"

Your contact mic pedal can be used in really interesting ways. Contact mic pedal > envelope follower pedal > nasty > wet = Soma Labs Pipe competitor. You have all the building blocks ready to go

You should totally make an expression pedal based on Foam that is just a pressure to expression converter! Similar to how Yeah is just the envelope follower of Weird (I think). Congrats on all the new products, glad you're back 🥳

Love em all. Especially the pressure sensor ones, Foam 2(?) .

7:41 That's the best reason to invent something 😁👍

Let him cook, what a sick bunch of gear. The feedback organ is truly shocking lmao

Ahh one day I need some of these. I got a steel tongue drum and a kalimba for my birthday :D One day I need a theremin! 10 mins later... I need to win the lottery. Imagine a wall full of pedals all ready tro be connected and tweaked. You could just live in that one room forever.

17:26 So this is the Crazy Bus Soundtrack in a box. Bold choice for your lineup

Wow Simon, this new direction you have taken is bearing a lot of fruit. New stuff looks super-amazing. Love it. The talkbox thing is truly unique.

Just ordered Yeah and Lust! Thanks man! Can't wait to make some noise with these!

-Add a joystick/s to the tube feedback pedal with its function of controlling volumes of different feedback circuits on +x, +y, -x and -y axis. add on/off switches as alternative to buttons. You could morph/blend between the different droning feedback circuits. -add individual i/o for each circuit to add external effects.

So much cool stuff, so little disposable income. Idea for the feedback organ…rubber caps for the speaker and the microphones. Or corks on strings?

Now I'm trying to figure out what it actually was, um, so when you're at the talkbox and then cede into the springs I remembered. I'm not completely sure but I think it was that the signal got played into a kind of a chamber, twas an old barbecue half sphere and then 8 strings were strung through the space that also had a reverb plate. The hope was that all that various sound pressure, the speaker driving both the strings, with a pickup mounted, and the plate with piezos, could then be mixed with feedback applied as well. That was almost the last project before, it was quite a while ago, I finally got taken up by a art gallery and the painting and normal sculpture took off (for a few years)... then I went on holiday for ten years... but now I'm back! Anyway, I just thought that interactivity, physical, might be useful. Actually thing about it I should look into the sustainers, using coils to drive the strings themselves.

Damn the crazynator, it brings so many memories back !

good to have ya back! the new pedals sound fantastic ^^

9:23 - make all the tubes stationary because there’s only 1 speaker and give yourself the option to input on any tube with built in shut off for every tube as well. If you want it to be more steam punk-ish then use copper and if you want to be more tube-y use PEX 👍

Some kind of trombone like variable tube length in the feedbacker... love you, so glad you exist, super cool

Hitting Wet sounds like some sort of crazy gong/thunder effect. Imagine mounting one on a drum kit and playing it with sticks or mallets, or with a kick drum pedal.

You should make it possible to phaseswap each microphone on the feedback organ so you can play with sounddistance and cancellation around that

This stuff is so cool, great work Simon.

Its beautiful to see you having so much fun, just giggleing at your ideas & their results, as they overflow.

Dude, I have wanted a spring reverb tank pedal for years and I don't know why the hell nobody has done it before. I have no idea how much you're selling that for, it's likely too much for my poor pockets, but God damn yes man, I salute you. Also, idea for your feedback machine - put many little mics and speakers on sliders in their own tubes.

great video, loved the pedals! the drone oscillator looks fun haha

I love how you demo the stuff and are just in awe of the nonsense coming out. Really cool creations man

Yeah bro you're freaking amazing. Very cool and inspiring stuff here. I hope you go on to become a music gadget guru. I really like the "nasty' pedal.

Feedback Organ is the kind of thing I watch your channel for. The nozzle cap things could be silicone so you could stretch them and fit different plugs or sound funnels or make the whole thing easy to take out on either side; then..... that same idea you had could be explored in various, more echo-prone environments for feedback play.. like in a cave or something. Super cool man :)

Wet is lovely. I've built a small tank reverb for my modular, and it slaps

Very cool stuff thanks for making so much amazing gear

amazing work mate, absolute genius idiocy and ideas ;) they all look proper! .

Nasty is one of the coolest things I've seen on here, i really hope you release it and possibly a cv controllable version? That could be awesome as just a synth voice with more control.

_"Lets play back that kill-cam real quick; ... now, right here you can see my 'Yeah'-pedal-plans, just moments after it spawns..."_

Oh hey, Wet is similar to an idea I had for a reverb!! What a cool product. I wonder how Smooch would sound with a didgeridoo.... That could be lots of fun!

Also, that Smootch demo sounds like leaked, mundane Operations-comms of Astronauts out on a maintenance float.

tube talkbox feedback matrix is bonkers.

Killer, brother. I’m very happy to see all of this INSANE progress of yours! I am excited for you, mang!

Holy shit ive been looking for an audio to expression signal converter forever!!!

I’d use the feedback organ in drone n ambient projects. Please keep on developing this amazing concept.

I think I'll build a spring reverb of my own, with springs three or four feet long.

I've wanted someone to make an envelope expression for so long thank youuuu

Copilot FX's Autodialer is an envelope expression pedal. Not super easy to get a hold of though and I don't know if it's technically the same thing or not

I got an idea for a pedal that I think you are the only one capable of making into reality. (I have no idea how to make it work myself) It would be a type of delay pedal where the buffer would be effected by rolling a giant trackball from an arcade game, like Golden Tee. Rolling it on the X axis should do something and rolling on the Y axis should do something else. What? I don't know. Maybe delay time if you roll it forward/ away from you? Reverse if you roll backwards/ towards you? Right and Left? Glitch? Pitch? Feedback? It should only effect the audio when you roll the trackball so you could use short/quick rolls like a turntable. Or, roll it very hard to make it last as long as possible and get some aggression out. You use your imagination, I just want one of the pedals when you are finished.

I still have my Crazynator, that thing is too amazingly crazy to ever get rid of. Loving that Primitive drone box, "bizarre nasty" is definitely my thing.

man I wish shipping wasn't likely to be so much to New Zealand that it would double the price of the pedal or I'd love a couple of your creations. So the 6 OSC droney randomy thingo - slew on the S&H would be a nice addition? Also - instead of (as well as) random it's using the Turing Machine algorithm so if we like the pitch pattern we can have it repeat predictably? Just a thought. And another thought. I like this idea of checking out while you create then coming back to show what you did with the time. Maybe I should steal that idea, the internet is hellishly distracting! Nice to see you back and great to see how productive you've been!!

got my bit pirate v.2+ in the mail about a week ago. i'm now the proud owner of #34 from kansas, USA. i love the thing. feels so high quality, and i love the little easter egg on the pcb. fantastic pedal!! (the tap tempo mode blew my bandmates' minds lol) Edit: would this one be #34 of the entire bit pirate line? or just the bit pirate v.2 line? OR just the bit pirate v.2+ line??

id love to learn more about the foam one not sure what it did but i like it 🤣

this put me in such a good mood. these are all so fun!!!! I think i need a smootch 😘

I can't wait to hear more about the Feedback Organ. Such a neat idea and a creative spin compared to a traditional Talkbox!

with wet you could possibly have some sort of soft stick to hit it with as those noises are quite desirable :) would kind of hurt banging it after a while. such inventive gear i am al for them

Bummer that I missed out on Wet. Stoked to see what I can do with the Bit Pirate tho.

Seven seconds. Seven seconds before I noticed the paper. F you all. I’m taking you down with me. Awesome video man, new subscriber ✌🏻

Gr8 design ideas...run smooch thru the tube organ..then regen it thru......

"nasty" is like the sound of why I like the wasp put into a guitar pedal id pre-order that one if thats available i still love your disconoise even tho thats insane lol

It seems like you and Hainbach should collaborate!

fuckin great to have you back !

Just saw this. No more Expression Yeah. Please make more!!!!!

Yooo wet is super cool! It's like I dunno, super cool to use with modulat

I really want the Nasty!

Welcome Back!

don't forget to do a demo of the nasty w/ guitar please thanks please! i am hunting around but don't think you have yet at least

I love the feedback organ its great sounding

Would love to hear a demo of Bit Pirate V.2+ on guitar/bass!

i hard STARED at that paper the entire episode.

I don't see in your website that 41-06 ?I'm interested I need that monster

I have a pedal from a while ago called Clari(Not). It is a slap-back delay that has it's time controlled by the intensity of the input signal. It also had a built in fuzz. I modded it to give me an envelope out to hook to modular gear back when I was playing a lot. I think they used a vactrol inside to control it. I'm assuming it would work the same way if you hooked up the expression pedal to the Lust pedal. Would love to see.

I've never seen such envelope-cc converter, is mind-blowing

8:20 you should build Eurorack module versions of your pedals!

epic as always magpie

Cool stuff man!

I'll recommend this Video to some HighEnd Audio Freaks as Speaker Test "Material" ✊🔊🔊🕴 And I need at least one of those boxes 👀 SeeYa

Damn! Way too cool! All of it! Now I need to find some money!

awesome ! epic work dood !!

Wow ... congrats!!

I want one of those vests that he is wearing. I want one NOW!!!

So you got so into the no input feedback stuff that you designed a pedal out of it? :D

😮😮😮 fantastic dude !!!

Im glad beehives are still interesting and doing more weird

Hey Magpie! I’m loving Kind of a One, is there a cd I can buy, or just download?

Colour optimisation? Yep, count me in

Damn I want them all!

I loved the crazynator! I made one. But, didn't you take that video down or put it behind a pay wall?

Since some of these are guitar pedals, it would be great if you could put guitar signal through them

It seems the envelope follower expression pedal isn't on the website

Hey, it looks like you just have mono in / out on the lust v2, so how is it you were able to get stereo sound? Does it have TRS in / out jacks?

Crazinator is liminal elevator music

Telex Copyette converted into a tape delay?....just thinking aloud.

want them all...

Did "Wet" sell out already, or is it not available yet? I just hopped on the site to snag one, and it says "The quantity required exceeds the stock balance"

Make a smaller version of Wet with one spring and call it Moist?

where do you get these massive enclosures