Devin Townsend - Building a Pedalboard
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We met up with the inimitable Devin Townsend at winter NAMM 2019 to get his take on a compact yet comprehensive pedalboard.
Be sure to check out Devin's brand new album "Empath" - open.spotify.com/album/7MPJRy...
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Dev is desperately trying NOT to say "My Ocean Machine does all this and more in just one pedal!"
@rohandebbarma7465
4 жыл бұрын
😆
@GahMehGrrrr
3 жыл бұрын
Just,.finally got one. 😀
I like how Lars is just staring at those pedals, wanting to tweak the shit out of those knobs...
@orphanuprising
5 жыл бұрын
Its like Dev is standing over a fresh carcass, Lars is likely to get his fingers bit.
@rigriggerson4949
5 жыл бұрын
My dad takes the truss rod out of my guitars so we don't have to worry about it
@philgallagher1
5 жыл бұрын
You can see Lars itching to get his hands on the knobs and Dev giving him the side-eye saying "DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH ANYTHING!!"
„Tore you cut your hair!“ Sorry, but that was really funny! Devin is such funny and smart guy!
@MM-jh6tf
5 жыл бұрын
Monsieur Safari inside joke?
yeah! I love creating and trying new sounds, combinations of effects, it's amazing
Great selection Devin! The brainwaves is amazing! You totally nailed it with those dirty sounds 😍
Devin is a legend. Hearing him explain his thought process as he arranged the pedals was fantastic. Pedal boards are such a personal thing and people rarely agree with the layout.
Awesome, this is exactly what I've been looking for. I have Devin's Ocean Machine pedal but I've not been super sure what to pair it with to get closer to his sound. Seeing him do it with these ones on the spot suddenly made it much easier, especially him mentioning the delay/reverb settings he shoots for. Great vid!
I just added the Spark pedal to my setup and I love it, Gain all the way down, Volume all the way up and toggle switch on Clean. It gives a huge clean boost to all three channels on my 50 watt EVH 5150 III EL34 and it doesn’t color my tone at all and makes the clean channel sound so big and full. One of the best pedals I’ve ever bought. I never turn it off, without it my clean channel sounds thin to me now.
Thank you to TC and Devin for providing us a chance to not only get a glimpse into the head space needed to creating tones like this, but also for us to have the gear to do it. Not all of us have the funds to pursue our dream tones so it goes a long way. All the best!
This is awesome. Devin is such a talent.
TC should release a "Don't tap my tempo!" T-Shirt with Flashback on it :D I would wear it :)
@tcelectronic
5 жыл бұрын
Great idea!
@lucaszembrzuski
5 жыл бұрын
@@tcelectronic And maybe, if there is more "material" like this quote (but i bet Devin has to be the most prolific at this) a whole series of t-shirts with different pedals and quotes from guitarists on TC videos like this and tone print creation ones :D
I swear Devin's pedalboard videos are the best. Always makes me laugh. Lmao
Love getting this full breakdown on Dev's setup!
Could never ever get bored of Devin himself, or his playing! And that sweep at 21:28 wtf?!?!?!
Damn, that's a sweet setup. Gets you a nice Devin sound :)
Can't wait to try out this pedalboard! :)
Devin knows what's up! Good guy!
Sweet!! Devin is the man!
amazing playing and creativity
Awesome stuff!
This is very cool! Emailed ...let awesome things happen!
Sounds fantastic
I love this and I need it :)
Daaaaang this was kinda awesome to watch
Thanks guys
Fingers crossed for this one.
Meeting Devin in Tampa and getting to tell him he was the best musician in the entire club (I won’t name the other bands out of respect for them and their fans but SYL was one of the opening bands at that show) and him thanking me and talking to me as if he knew me like an old friend would was surreal and made me feel at ease and not awkward at all. Just being in the same club/room with him made me a better musician and talking to him very briefly just totally made my night.
@richardaaron4454
5 жыл бұрын
@MorbidManMusic Definitely a fan, have been for nearly 20 years. I met a lot of musicians that were really nice though that would talk to you like an old friend such as Henry Rollins, Tim Yeung and Joey Z. but yeah I look up to Devin more than them as a musician. Devin is up there with Steven Wilson imo, too bad I didn't like Steven Wilson's newest album though.
@ZiddersRooFurry
5 жыл бұрын
@MorbidManMusic There's nothing wrong with being a fanboy when said fanboy is respectful and kind. Do you even listen to what Devin's albums are about?
This pedalboard is sweet!!!
Awesome video!
What a great board!
Yes!
wanted to try so many of these pedals for ages
Loved that
Awesome!
Very nice board !
He's actually ridiculous, love his sound
Devin is hilarious. I’ve also never thought to put my trem before the gain stages.
14:06 The part that you want to see. Another classic Devy and TC Electronics moment.
Wish I may, wish I might, when I wish upon a...guitar tonight!!! Or that badass pedal board!!!
Love TC pedals, specially my Mojo Mojo 😍
Great video!
Perfect board
You're definitely not gonna wake the baby with volume levels set like you got there!
Oh how one can hope
This was really interesting.
Very nice pedalboard! Add one Vortex or Helix in there and get double fun!
Very nice!
awesome!
SWEET !!!!
First rule of Devin tech, don't touch the knobs man.
"more a wobbly effect than a stutter" lol I love DT
LET'S ROCK
There were 2 interesting choices made if you look at the pedal order. first: Boost into drive as a solo boost. This leads just to more gain which is a bit of tweaking to get not too much gain. second: Tremolo into compressor. The Trem makes the signal louder and wuieter in a periodic way. The compressor is trying to even out the signal. so i would've thought the comp is eliminating the trm effect to some degree and is producing a bit more noise when making the quieter parts louder. It seems to work but its soth i woul have never tried myself
Nifty bit of learning to be had here
Cool stuff! :D
Oh my... what pedalboard!
Good video!
Tasty board 👍🏻
Really love that new pitch shifter pedal. It sounds absolutely stupid yet it can create both Steve Vai and Devin's Ziltoid things and sound professional doing them. Somehow TC has the ability to bring out silly effects and make them sound musical and professional.
OK. I am in! :)
Alright! Entered!
Nice!!
Excellent pedalboard @tcelectronic and @devintownsend
The bulk of my pedal board is TC Electronic, true bypass and toneprint technology makes them equal or superior to most boutique pedals at half the price or less. I have quite a few TC Electronic pedals but I still have a list of other TC Electronic pedals I want to add to my chain. The high end quality and amazing versatility of these pedals at a very reasonable price makes them my default choice for almost every effect. I had a pedal chain (by a very popular brand) before that quite frankly ruined my guitar tone and turned me off of pedals for awhile. Then discovering how transparent TC Electronic pedals are and don’t drain or color my tone whatsoever was like a revelation to me. TC Electronic restored my faith in effect pedals and now I’m addicted to collecting them and experimenting with them in my effects loop and in front of my amp. I never thought pedals could be so transparent after my initial bad experience with that popular brand. TC Electronic is the standard all pedals should be compared to. You’ll be hard pressed to find a pedal that can compete with the quality and price point of TC Electronic products, their pedals are the overall best value of any pedals I’ve ever encountered and that’s even including the G System if you want to just buy one big pedal system that has the all in one thing going for it.
@tompoynton
5 жыл бұрын
Are you sure your real name isn’t Thomas Christian Electronic? (I jest)
@richardaaron4454
5 жыл бұрын
@@tompoynton I'd take that name for a sponsorship and free pedals!!
Awesome
Competition entered!
Nice!
Done!
Trem before compressor. Wow. Would need a major rewrite of my board to do that... interesting.
Heres hoping a get a new pedal board bois
21:25 Holy shit A440T makes Dev's arpeggios sound amazing!!
Interesting!
Ooooooweeeee!
oh yop interview guy touching the knobs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nice!
Nice
oh shit another episode with devin hahaha yes.
And thus the scissor saga was born
Nice...
Yass
Devin ftw
YESsssssssssss
Complex...gotta record this shit
I’m in. A board that is something different than all other boards you see people using
wow
This pedal board is ridiculous and looks like a creator of joy. WANT
Yewww
i'm yet to hear the mojomojo and think wow
Empath 2: Devy tries out a pitch pedal.
Harley Benton board...:’D
@PERPowns
5 жыл бұрын
Right!? Everyone knows the tone is in the board
tc + devin=my wet dream, and by wet i mean wet signal
My only question is: Won't compression after the trem will lessen the tremelo effect? Great video!
@casey.taylor
5 жыл бұрын
Compression affects the overall volume. So as long as the trem doesn't go over the threshold it won't be affected
@DroneCorpse
5 жыл бұрын
yes it will, in a good way if you set it right. dude below has no idea how compression works. compression reduces the peak to average ratio of a signal and its makeup gain brings it back up. the trem is amplitude modulation with an LFO, which has a certain dynamic range. the dynamic range is reduced by compressing the AM'd signal. tldr; compressing a tremolo signal will affect its depth
WOW :D
Wuuuuttttttttttt.
Devy's in standard 0_o and sounding lush
@philgallagher1
5 жыл бұрын
I know!! I've never heard him in standard and he says he can't play that way! I only wish I could play in standard as "badly" as he does! He makes the guitar sing just by looking at it 😂
I got a question about this board: Is the whole board going in front of the amp or are the delays and reverb going into the fx loop of the amp?
@tcelectronic
5 жыл бұрын
In this clip it's all going into the front, but you could hook it up however you wish.
Should I run a phaser through the FX loop or the front?
@tarkett8529
5 жыл бұрын
No one is touching that question with a 10’ pole (try it through both see what suits your style best).
I love how at 14:25 he goes full Ziltoid...
"Dot tap my tempo"
The link email address doesn't work for me.. giveaway@tcelectronic.com gives an error and bounces back !!