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Our weekly roundup of exciting new One Series pedal presets created by the Neuro Community
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"Chaves" - C4 Synth - Created by B4ss21
This C4 Synth preset and sound clip certainly jumped out at us. It is a cover of a song called "Colored Candles" by Tony Hymas. To be honest we had never heard this song until it showed up in the Neuro Feed, but that electronic, psychedelic jazz vibe is impossible to resist. Apparently it comes from a collection of 70s children's music put out by music archivist company called Bruton Music. The preset combines two Sine wave oscillators, one set to the root note, the other an octave down. Both voices run through a 4-Pole Low Pass filter with a touch of Moderate overdrive. It's bouncy!!
"D2 Victrola" & "D3 Clock Radio" - EQ2 Programmable Equalizer - Created by Shoepedals
Our friend and colleague, Christopher Venter of SHOE Pedals, is back at with a wonderful suite of lofi presets for the EQ2 Programmable Equalizer. Christopher is the effects pedal guru who collaborated with us in the development of the ZIO Analog Front End + Boost. He also contributed greatly to the development of the Atlas Compressor, True Spring Reverb, and many more pedals to come. We asked Christopher to tap into the EQ2's parametric equalization abilities to create a collection of presets that capture the vibe of things like a victrola, intercom system, clock radio, etc. Basically, we want a bunch of presets to offer some different takes on the David Gilmour "Wish You Were Here" telephone line guitar tone. Christopher's results were spectacular. The clip below explores a few of our favorites, but there are a bunch of additional Venter-penned lo-fi presets available in the Neuro Editor - just type "shoepedals" into the Neuro search engine.
"Downtown Stank (Edit)" - Spectrum Intelligent Filter - Created by EMorrison1962
This one is a revisit from a contest we did a couple years ago where we asked One Series pedal owners to replicate the sound of classic recordings with our gear. This Spectrum Intelligent Filter preset from EMorrison1962 does a great job of nailing the "Dow Dow, Do Dow Dow" chants from the Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars track "Uptown Funk." EMorrison recently updated the preset and it sounds fantastic. It's a great combination of two filters (Low-Pass Peak & Notch Notch Low-Pass) that gives the preset its super vowelly quality. In other words, this preset speaks to me!!!
"Lost Shelter Pt. 1" - C4 Synth - Created by Monotuer
An extremely animated C4 Synth preset from Monotuer. Play a single note with this kinetic preset and you are off and running - its dual sequencer pattern is a song in itself. Breaking this one down reveals a combination of 4 different oscillator voices: a single Sine wave oscillator routed to Sequencer 1, two additional oscillators (a Saw and a Square) routed to Sequencer 2 which is set at twice the speed of Oscillator 1, plus a droning Saw wave oscillator set to a 5th. The audio clip he recorded with the preset is what convinced us - it sounds splendid.
"FLASHBACK" - Ventris Dual Reverb - Created by MSBevel
A peaceful and luxurious Ventris Dual Reverb preset from Michael Bevel. This lingering taste of stereo bliss is a perfect combination of an Arena sized Swell reverb cascading into the Modverb. It's got a magical blooming quality with a soft ping-pong tremolo in the trail. It's excellent with a clean guitar playing pretty chords, but it also handles melodic lines quite beautifully.
"Nick's Secret Sauce" - Collider Delay+Reverb - Created by SourceAudio Official
We're going to do something a little different for this one - we usually don't post our own presets here, but this is just too cool. It was created by our man Nick, who we worked with us over the summer before heading off for his freshman year at Berklee College of Music in the fall (Good luck, Nick!!!). Nick discovered a way to turn the Collider Delay+Reverb into an overdrive pedal... with a little help from the ZIO Front End + Boost (though we imagine other boost pedals will work in place of ZIO). He's using the Oil Can Delay, which is already a little dirty, and he has the Time, Feedback, and Tone turned all the way down. The Mix, Control 1, and Control 2 are turned all the way up. As Nick put it, "every knob is either goosed or juiced." That also gives you a very cool doubling effect when run in stereo, but if you push it with the ZIO it creates an amazing overdriven sound that completely captures the layered guitar sound of the 90s. Who needs an overdrive pedal?!?!?
BTW, that is Nick playing guitar in this clip.
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