What are your four ‘must-have’ pedals? That is what we ask our guests to share with you in our Four On the Floor podcast segment.
One of the founders of Adventure Audio, He is a formidable audio electronic engineer with a penchant for words. Matt also likes noise – lots of it and the more unusual the better. If you are not familiar with Adventure Audio do yourself a favor and check them out. They gave us a fantastic interview too! You can hear the episode for yourself right here. Check out these choices for his Four On The Floor.
1. Adventure Audio – Dream Reaper Fuzz Modulation Machine
“I do feel a little self-congratulating on this one. I designed it for a reason and that is it makes a bunch of noise I wanted it to make. It functions like a really dirty and crude voltage oscillator. So in a less than perfect manner, which I like, you are able to modulate the oscillation with your guitar signal. This affects the pitch and timbre. You are able to wrestle and fight that your guitar signal with another signal. This is much more interesting than adding two signals together or multiplying….(listen to the podcast for the rest. there is lots more.. basically..)”
Check out the Adventure Audio – Dream Reaper Fuzz Modulation Machine
2. Red Panda – Tensor Time Warp
“It is a sample manipulation pedal that functions as a delay looper but is so much more. You cant stretch or shrink the time of the loop you capture…(see podcast instructions above)”
Check out the Red Panda – Tensor Time Warp
3. BOSS – MT-2 Metal Zone Distortion
“It was my first pedal. It predated my entry into pedal building by about ten years. Knowing what I know now about electronics I can make it sound much better than it did stock. It holds a place in my (electronic) heart.”
Check out the BOSS – MT-2 Metal Zone Distortion
4. Electro-Harmonix – Pitchfork Polyphonic Pitch Shifter
“I like to use this with my baritone guitar. I split my guitar signal first by creating outputs for each pickup independently. I send the bridge pickup through my guitar pedal chain guitar amp. Then I send the neck pickup through a compressor then the Pitchfork an octave down with no dry signal straight to a bass amp. This allows me to be both the guitar player and bass player for my band.”
Check out the Electro-Harmonix – Pitchfork Polyphonic Pitch Shifter
Huge thanks to Matt for being a guest on our show and please check out Adventure Audio. We wish him continued success!