Swiss Things First Impression - Sarah Lipstate (Noveller) | EarthQuaker Devices 

This lady knows what’s up. Stellar skill set. Makes for a crazy good Swiss things demo

If that ain't the right damn person to demo the Swiss Things... God Damn!!!

I'm going on 70 and have failed my musical dreams all my life This has been an eye opener Their is hope!

i’m glad she laughed when she said “it’s so simple” cus her pedal board looks like a cockpit compared to mine. awesome demo!

Beautifully done Sarah!! 🎯

Loved the ambient guitar performance with the electroacoustic pedal doing its minimal rhythm.

Particularly love when the guitar arpeggios and dark runs kick in just before 5 minutes. The spooky theremin like solo is wonderful. I am finding guitar has so few limits when FX are used creatively, and I often have a hard time remembering whether I used a synth or a keyboard in certain parts. Whoa, epic Finale! That weird little pile of experimental looping coda thingy is brilliant.

That is an amazing soundscape! So creative and versatile. I need to go home and play guitar now....

So interesting and incredible! Love her sound so much.

Seeing Noveller live is a definite bucketlist show.

really inspiring and beautiful sounds. all of the sounds together sound so orchestral and intense! she makes it look so simple!

EQD found the perfect person to demo this thing!

I love seeing other people's pedal boards because it's a personal expression of the artist ☺

Such awesome playing! Wow

Very layered. I feel there's a story behind the music. Like a painting...

Excellent work Sarah!!

It’s almost like a John Carpenter soundtrack. Great use of the Swiss Things and the pedals in general.

very nice gear! great explanations! thank you Sarah!

My God, she's a real queen. Amazing.

Sara you have 2 discontinued EQD fuzzes. The Black Ash and the GM fuzz. How cool.

Hell yes! That was great. Hope to see her live sometime. Maybe you guys could talk her into coming to Earthquaker Day this year?

very awesome. the Noveller albums are really good.

Although Sarah is the perfect person for that guitar and maybe vice versa, the Stratocaster scale just looks somehow not so majestetic as the clumsy old Jazzmaster. That said, is everything here a match made in heaven or what? I'm so happy to see you working together - the best branding possible. Pure inspiration and awesomeness. All the best from Finland!

This is my favorite EQD video thus far. Sarah is such a unique and creative guitarist.

Amazing !

I like her zeal. Awesome setup 👌

If I had the money this is pretty close to what my dream board would look like. Really nice setup!

That was great! 🤘

Her setup is so overwhelmingly vast to somebody who hasn't used it. Very impressive

Excellent.

Hands-down the best swiss things first impression

As a native east L.A. guitarist.I was part of a legendary Swiss progrock band Flame Dream signed to Vertigo Records. I’m very proud that Earthquaker Devices was inspired by me to coin their new indispensable device for my many years #inlovewithSwitzerland of “Swiss Things.

What a set up...Loving It....&. Coolest Music ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🤪🎸

that sound is huge!

One look at all that gear and I paused this video to go check out a Noveller song ( deep shelter ) and stashed an album in my bandcamp wishlist before coming back to this. She's awesome!

she is amazing.

That was amazing

Sarah is Amazing.

Great music, i've got her fantastic planet album and it's excellent. This makes my board look lonely haha! I don't actually own any Earthquaker pedals yet, but sure i'll invest eventually!

Really inspired. Cool

i can dig it!

Cool stuff

the most amazing part is how she knows her sounds and combinations,and how she setups the levels that goes in to the looper...with the wring balance and volumes would not be at good at all...she really knows her rig... she is gorgeous

Wow. That is intense.

I just have to comment... the 2 cents of a nobody on youtube.. anyone who doesn't or who kind-of uses musicals devices may be inclined to a "anyone-can-do-that-with-all-those-pedals" mentality... no. Sarah is a fucking magician. This shit takes a level of understanding that is beyond most of us.

Tú sí que eres awesome,Sarah!

Was looking at demos on Earthquaker Devices website an saw this video there, your pedal board looks similar in size to mine so I wanted to see what you have. Anyone I subbed, seems like a great channel!

Very cool

Great ideas

words aren't enough to say what she made me feel , Thank You

The end sounded like a mellotron. Awesome pants!

“undo “ is not lit on the bonus circle...badass.

Wow! 😮

very cool , i am thinking a lot of opened minded people will embrace the swiss things . very VERY cool !!

wow!

Folktek Nano Garden!! AWESOME!!!

I had one for about 3-4 months now but still figuring out every day since it's such new technology. So I use both single coil and humbuckers and use Lava solderless patch cables, voodoo 4x4 power supply, Polytune 3 in the Tuner out, a Dunlop Volume X expression in the EXP out, Keeley Compressor Plus BEFORE my SWISS Things Y as recommended in the EQD manual, a Boss NS-2 noise gate and a Timmy OD in my Loop 1. I actually leave my Loop 2 empty(because I don't like that the clean boost also boosts my Loop 2(only flaw I discovered in the Swiss Things, the Boost should only Boost Loop 1, so I put my Nova Delay and Boss RV-6 Reverb AFTER the B output of my Swiss Things until I get my 2nd amp for stereo in the future. I leave the Loop 2 empty as a result and just use it as a mute like you guys. I run all this through the front of my Fender Super Champ X2 on the clean channel. So my question, is it better to leave the Compressor in front of the Y input, put it in Loop 1 before my Timmy OD? I'm trying to use my single coil strat but get rid of my Noise Gate via clean isolated power, good solderless Lava patch cables, and good solderless DC power adapter cables. Also final question, with a side chained built in FX looped Boss NS-2 Noise gate, where and how should I wire the NS-2 in the Swiss Thing's signal chain? P.S. The Swiss Things has so much buffers in it on top of my buffered Boss Reverb, Boss Noise Suppressor, and Bonafide Buffered Polytune that's already on a buffered tuner out, so double buffering there, and I noticed my short Mogami cables actually sound darker and my longer Mogami cables sound brighter and has better signal. Is this due to having so many buffers in my chain?

Love this: What are her pickups??

That jam was sick

Where are her meris pedals gone?

Really surprised that there are no Dr No pedals on there, not even her own signature pedal which came out less than a year ago. I'd be interested to know if this is how her actual touring rig is set up right now or if this was just for the video.

So many hard to find pedals!!

was thinking that Girl needs an EOB Strat and boom, she pulls one out...

Sarah, you always leave me speechless... 😮😮😮

What is that pitch 'shifting sequencing pedal'? Great vid and music, thanks.

Anyone know what pedal is in between the Avalanche Run and the Rever? I thought it was a Fairfield pedal of some sort, but not one that I recognize... The Swiss Things is a REALLY interesting device. I use a guitar with loops, a drum machine, and just purchased a Zoia and have crossed my mind to be able to route the guitar or drum signal through the Zoia and/or effects... this may be a good ticket to do just that!

That was awesome. I would be so overstimulated by that board though.

Very cool she uses the Ed O'Brien Signature Fender in conjunction with all these pedals!

that was wild

daaaaamn

Saraaaaaaahh. So stunning & inspiring. 🤩🎸😍

ed o'brien signature!

I'm absolutely in love with her.. Her instagram is very cool as well!

Great sounds. I think EHX has produced something similar. Can you possibly state why yours differs? Thanks C

I got stressed by just looking all the foot work.

i like everything here

So run your looper out of the outputs on the swiss things?

🙏❤️🙏

She’s the first internet crush I think I’ve ever had. What a great taste, the way she speaks and her overall image, the way she layers her music, this pedalboard! What a wonderful human being. Even if my girlfriend saw this comment she’d be like “yeah I get you, she’s quite something”. (Sorry if I sound creepy, I’m kinda new to crushing on strangers)

Did this girl do a demo of the the meris polymoon ?

Scored a Count to 5 dang

fuck yes

She is rad.

You seemed to have broke the ground and it speaks to what I would like to be able to do. Maybe even ‘well’ someday so avice wanted. Want to set up a system with ability to lay down a bass part with a looper such as ditto or flashback4x, play a guitar over the top, looping some of those parts again with a ditto, run two amps and maybe even a small synth to creat a pad. And.....maybe eventually start using stereo effects. This EQD Swiss seems like it would be a good place to start but as this landscape of pedals/amps/devices is so vast it can be hard to know where to start and not throw away too much cash. Living on top of the world, on a mountainside and in isolation...just a life style but out of necessity these days;I’m not young, immune compromised, undependable in health, even I best of times so I just want to be able to make some music with a few tools. It seems as if everything is so possible these days. Love what Andrew Bird does to what Tom Yorke has done with their approach to looping. Some days you’re feeling Fugazi...other days... ELO. Have to figure out the guitar/bass/ soft/LOUD - dynamics but ultimately get adept enough to compose, improvise, record while eventually aiming to incorporate a drum machine/synth. I have to start somewhere. I have the Flashback 4X so I can loop a bass line-with a Jmj bass through a 65’ reverberocket, but would like to a/b/y with a valco, Falcon, or GA40 as all these amps are so different from one another. Keeping the cleans through Ampeg or Falcon and dirty it up with the Valco or Gibson GA40. I have all this great gear and it would be grand to make some big noise, and maybe something with a melody once in awhile. I love that free form of ideas as you never know what it can produce. I would like to eventually get a better looper so I could save a store interesting ideas, almost akin to a scratch pad to keep track of different ideas. Alone..but not lonely-I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has been down this path. A beautiful setup. Thank you for sharing and would welcome any advice on going down this path when you can’t get together with folks. I can see how that EOB would really play well with that rig. It’s such a fun guitar to explore sound with.

Sarah is an amazing player and such a gifted sonic artist. I sometimes wonder though, when I see such a complicated set up to make this kind of music, wouldn't it be easier - and a damn site cheaper - just to have a synth or two and a laptop?! I don't want to take anything away from Sarah's creativity and EQD's ingenuity with the Swiss Things but this kind of effects routing is much easier to do with software. Looks less impressive though! And if Sarah needs a guitar and pedals to create then so be it, I'm not gonna tell someone how to be creative.

👍🌿

Holy Spin FV-1 chips, Batman!

Wowzers! 👀

Channeling Mike Oldfield and Wes Craven simultaneously! Thanks Swiss things👍

Cool loops, cool sounds .... but I think you're going to need a few more pedals. ; )

Lotta tap-dancin' going on there.

that kicked so much ass

😍

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.... Hey! Your not Beetlejuice!

seems like everybody has a supro amp these days.

Interesting! FYI, the playing actually starts at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nR4Bay4-jUY.html

A worthy successor to Robert Fripp. Great music!

Obelix pants.

It is this generation of guitarists, great. But with Iggy: you better have the sound like Ron, James,Steve (Jones),Kevin(Armstrong),Withy(Kirst) and so on.

Then theres me... and one pedal I never get sounding correctly so I just raw dog my amp