My Favorite Effect Chains // How I Use Effect Pedals Together to Get the Best Tone 

I love how you say, "you can use it all in the 'wrong way' and sometimes get something nice". I teach digital art and intentionally show the wrong ways - the way you are not supposed to. Only then you discover something original. Well done 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏✌🥳🗽👋

Watching this feels like I’m going to a friends, who’s sharing the salient s@#t. Not some gear demo, at a trade show. Providing context , and sharing preferences and workflow, really differentiates your channel for me! Great work!

Any synth -> Mood -> Shallow Water -> Stereo Reverb of Choice. Works every time. Or reverse SW and Mood - experiment.

Love the pieces you have chosen for your studio. Clearly a lot of love and thought goes into what you do. I enjoy your videos very much.

Grande Fede! Ottimo tutorial

Great reviews of your set ups. Thank you.

Another WOW!!! video of yours that I dig very, very much ❤️ Well done!!! Love and light from sunny Thailand 🇹🇭 ☀️ 🏖

Cant wait for the 1978 review ! Great video again, you are an inspiration for sound design. Thank you for sharing it.

Amazing, I def. want to get into pedals now.

Happy 2021 to you too!

Great video man - learning tons about the world of pedals from you!

You are my favorite RU-vidr. Excellent excellent stuff. Thank you so much for the inspiration

Excellent!!!

Holy pedals, some good ones here!

More of these videos please. Absolutely love them :)

Hey man, this is extremely helpful as I'm looking for some effects to round up the Digitone+Digitakt combo. Thank you!

The Avalon + the Strymon's remind me a lot of the early Autechre: love it!

I like that you say that simple pedals, with a few basic controls are 'bloody' great. I totally agree, I got rid of my Bigsky for just that reason, it's a good pedal, but I like to play while I play, too :)

Your content is getting better and better. Kudos! new subscriber!

Well that was a perfect video. Thanks a lot.

Really enjoying your channel, learning a lot. I just wish I had your pedal collection!

I use a chain similar to your third one for ambient exploration. And also for my guitar. I use Soma Labs Cosmos to drive/arrange everything. And like you, always Mood mk.II, Shallow Water. Then Polymoon and finally UA FX Del-Verb. With delay on a woozy DMM setting, or long dark Tape mode; sometimes on slapback settings. And for reverb, I loooove the Del-verbs drippy spring if using guitar or analogue synth, plate on Vocal or Lexicon style on digital synths/samplers. The sound of mismatching mic'd stereo guitar amps adds a lot at the end of chain, with tremelo, and sometimes a little splash of spring, if I'm not using the Del-Verb Spring setting. But please can someone convince Fairfield Circuitry to do a tricked out stereo Shallow Water maybe stick a squelchy 303 or Moog stereo VCF with drippy resonance in it (Muggy Waters?).

Microcosm + Rooms = 💯🔥Insane Jam!

Very cool

I agree with your symbiosis pedal theory. There are no rules but experimentation can pay off.

Amazing... Echosystem Is just arriving.

This was very inspiring to watch. I need more pedals now hmmmmm

Bellissima la catena con l'avalon! E grazie a questo video comincio anche ad avere le idee un filo meno confuse dal lato sound design. Thanks!

Its good to adventure in music and discover new ways of creating sounds

Any chance you would do a video on how you use re-use the samples you make for other compositions? That would be really cool to see.

great content bud - - - - )

I use a formula Sound ff4000 mixer for my synths and pedalboard. All analog or if I need a filter I use my Allen & Heath px5 both sound wonderful for this particular setup

Acid for Life 🤘

Suggest putting Raster 2 in front of Microcosm...then put the Space reverb after it... I think that doing sound design with pedal combos will get alot of views... ☺️

yeah, house on fire, my first thing to grab from the studio would be the Avalon Bassline

Fantastic content. Subscribed now A little hard to hear your words over the music at times. Watching this video cost me at least $400 because I need to keep an eye out for the microcosm pedal now 🤩

Hey, great channel! Keep going! Do I need an external mixer to mix the dry channel with the effects like you do at around 3:20 or is it somehow possible to do only with Octatrack when in studio mode?

Thanks for this, learned a lot! I wonder, if you’d have to choose one ‘best’ allround reverb, and one delay pedal for an analog synth like the vermona, which one would you choose?

Nice videos man! Have you tried the sound of the NTS-1 as an effect unit? It's just 99 USD sounds great but it only does stereo in.. Cheers! Ciao!

Question. Is there any pedals that's can do halftime in real time... Like your doing with that op-1? All my loopers do this but slowing that mood down as it's playing sounds great..... Without having to loop it

Do you use the delay and reverb that are on some synths, or do you do all the effects with your FX chain?

Hey man, thank you for sharing this. Please turn down the music when you are talking, I really want to understand what you are sharing with us! God bless!

did u adjust the trimpots in the shallow water at all?

What are these type of cable ? Any reference ? Thanks

I’ve been looking for a modulated echo style pedal. I really like the fuzzy, overdriven character of the Echo Dream 2, but does it have a good “warble” too it? I really like the vibrato/tremolo sounds of the Gen Loss, Shallow Water, and other VHS tape effects so I’d love that wobble modulation alongside delay and fuzz. Cool vid.

Federico, do you only operate at instrument level with your pedal set-ups? Do you ever employ re-amping, perhaps bringing in signal from a DAW? If so how do you deal with this?

Surprised that you haven't ventured into the Strymon NightSky yet...

My least favorite among these is the echo dream 2, such weird echo machine, hard to tame, and the fact that DBA always likes to mix everything with fuzz really turned me off. I shelved the unit after about three months of using it. just couldn't find usable sound (at least for me) for my composition

A good was to spend 4500

Oh my god the music you can makes if you have enough money!