Everything You Need to Know About Old Blood Noise Pedals

on today's episode i'm going to talk about a brand that has always captured my attention with their really unique aesthetic unique sounds and just as people in general so let's dive right into old blood noise endeavors [Music] brady smith and seth mccarroll met at the university of oklahoma in 2006 and they quickly bonded over their love of danish cinema and odd sci-fi films brady went on to work with keeley electronics yes that keeley and then later helped launch walrus audio yes that walrus even so brady could not get the idea of starting his own pedal company out of his head so in august of 2014 him and seth launched old blood noise endeavors with their very first pedal the black fountain i remember seeing this when it came out and i bought it instantly just because of how it looked and it happened to sound awesome since 2014 they have released more than 20 pedals and they launched a very successful and awesome youtube show called coffee and riffs in february of 2014. when i asked brady about what the name meant he basically broke it down that old blood is the opposite of young blood aka a noob and the term noise simply refers to the type of music that he and seth really enjoy the disruptive chaotic kind of stuff and then also endeavors leaves it open to other things other than pedals so old blood noise endeavors with that said let's jump in and look at these wonderful pedals everything they've done in the last eight years first up i'm going to do two pedals because they have a lot of cool petals in the line and you'll see me combining some things when i find it possible first up i'm going to do the sunlight dynamic reverb i've shown this on a new and notable like on a live wednesday but i'm going to use a really cool sound that i did not display there basically the toggle in the middle position and i have the rate really slow the mix is halfway decay halfway and it is just a reverb pad it's really beautiful this is a killer pedal if you're in a three-piece kind of thing with a guitar it literally creates a fantastic pad and you have the ability to mix your clean back into that so it doesn't get so washed out that you're no longer playing guitar you're like playing just noise so that's a cool pedal and i'm gonna use the fault overdrive distortion this is a pedal that immediately blew me away when i got it this is the v2 they started in 2020. i love this pedal and then i realized prepping for this episode it is a clone derivative and this really intrigued me because i love declon i don't love the klon for the prices i've loved it for years and years i love it for what it sounds like and i'm gonna tell you right now this may be the coolest take on the circuit as far as feature set user interface and tone abilities i've ever seen i can't believe i'm saying that pedal world news [Music] all blood noise may make my favorite clone replica alternative modified pedal wow it's kind of crazy so let's look at it you have the 3-band slider eq and i believe this comes after what they call a voice i'm assuming this it feels like it to my ears i think voice is the original tone control which was called treble it's an assumption but it works fairly similar i think that is pre and then post i believe it's just this unit here probably some form of which is a super cool pedal this is something they make it's in their utility lineup i would recommend this to anyone you can put it in front of or after any drive and you have base mids and treble it's just super simple it's like a buffer eq you could use it in lots of different ways but they've inserted that into the clone and then you have gain one and two now this is where it gets spicy and awesome for me i play the clone with the drive control at like 75 which is really weird and i often want to push more like it'd be cool to bend down and turn it up more and then every once in a blue moon i want to turn it down to a lighter overdrive i'd never use it as a boost though so i can set this up like i want that control and then i have an alternate gain control when i turn it on and this is adjusted a little different the manual says that gain one is like standard overdrive and then i love their reference they say that game two is the intro scene from back to the future so it's just big bigger distortion you have a crush here which initiates some clipping diodes at the end of the signal volume a boost it's so cool and it looks awesome so fault and this and we shall jam oh oh and by the way because all of old blood noise pedals have this cinematic feeling this emotion to them graphically and sonically nick and joshua wrote an entire basic script and scene to a movie that doesn't exist and all of our jams will be based around this false yet rivetingly real uh cinematic scenario at the dawn of time two sisters were born whose task it was to govern the rhythm of day and of night the name of one sister was daylight and the name of the other darkstar together their dance ensured the rising and setting of sun moon and stars there was peace in the cosmos but an age-old hunger for power grew in the shadows a fault line of chaos spread across the galaxy as dark star was attacked by an ancient cyborg cult known as the reflectors though they believed her destroyed the heart of darkstar now roams the galaxy looking for someone who like herself is pure of heart holding an affinity for the night [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you heard it here that fault is so good i love the reverb but this this this is so good i mean we may have a bit of a strange underdog clown killer on our hands and that's exciting this might have to go on my board don't tell anybody one other thing i want to do here when it comes to the art so this art is really cool in all the petals and i'm going to try to name off the actual artists that design these because they actually use talented amazing people from all over and they let them design the art for the pedal and it's super cool they even have like screen printed comics and posters and it's really amazing like the level of care that they go through uh from the artistic perspective is awesome like what pedal company does this definitely not j chess you get like a unicorn and a pick or something but then you get a uh a pretty cool poster that feels like there's a story and an underlying narrative the art on the fault is evan cohen and then on this one is john carling so yeah pretty cool companies don't make things people do next battle next up we're going to play that first petal that i ever bought it is the black fountain this pedal replicates uh first off the sound of vintage oil can delays hence the oil coming out of the oil rig but it has a modern and an organ mode i'm gonna use it in kind of the simple mode that i really like and a big huge washy reverb and you know i got to go back to this i'm not done with it yet i need more of this fault in my life i also want to point out that this is like a really cool strange subconscious i don't know it's like a thing about oklahoma there's like earthquakes and fault lines and then you have oil it's just fun i don't know that they know that they did that but now they know that i know that they know that they did that i think that's pretty cool the art by this is done by sam larson and there is a version too i have the box i have the box to all these but it would just be exhausting i might do a few more just for fun and for the kiddos if they're watching uh there is a v2 but it has tap tempo and it's updated and it's a lot better but i want to play the old one because honestly pedals are attached to my heart and i can't rip this away from my heart and the new one's not in my heart yet and it may never be honestly i don't care about the new one you might care about the noon because it's better but i like the old one because i'm old and some of us are broken and some pedals don't need to be fixed so i'm going to play the old pedal with default i was just told i made an error it's actually a version three so there's a version two i'm going to play one so old and out of date it's like we're using a windows 98 computer but i love it and you can probably find this on reverb if you want a new and buy a new one if you want an old one don't buy a new [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Applause] [Music] uh [Applause] [Music] if the version one that's two versions old sounds that good you might want to check out the version two and last time i promise i'm gonna move on from the soapbox this is amazing i know i'm pushing it hard i don't get anything for this this is not a paid promotion i'm just amazed this is a clone i found it out it's been sitting on the shelves i'm super excited i like it it's 209 you know what that's cheaper than anything ktr they're like a grand now this is like 8 000 that's like 8 cups of coffee this is super cheap let's sell all these out like all of them thousands of them millions of them let's do away with this nonsense let's move on next up is a fuzz pedal that's super cool it's the alpha hunt this started way back when brady worked at keely and he was learning how to build pedals and he had this pedal that he created and he called it the gatekeeper and it was kind of close to a zvex woolly mammoth sort of uh and then that just basically evolved on and on through the years and then around the time when he decided hey i want to launch this old blood noise endeavors thing and i want to do this pedal called the black fountain he made some just a few printed and unprinted enclosures they sold them to raise the funds for this but that eventually further transformed later once they had launched into this pedal uh which is just the haunt and then you have the alpha which is later so it's like an evolution of an idea that was way before old blood noise so i'm gonna play this later because it's cool but right now i'm going to play this it's in that same format i didn't want to talk about this again but these are keller i never thought about old blood noise as great drives and fuzzes i always thought about ambience and weirdness but i have been very corrected these are amazing i would go as far as to say this would do any overdrive you ever need and this will definitely do any fuzz you've ever needed this has all kinds of sounds i'm gonna just have to pick a sound but don't by any means think that's the only thing it does because that would do it injustice i'm gonna let it gate a little it has a control so you can gate the note which will basically like kill it off and kill the sustain uh slightly velcro is what i'll go for i'm going to max the fuzz out you have a bias control you have different this high pass in the middle i didn't get to demo it but it's amazing then you have that same eq from this an enhanced volume for fuzz a master a tone control you got wolves this art is done by my good buddy daniel danger there's a whole story here brady saw one of daniel's paintings in a gallery and asked could they use it for this so daniel basically cut those wolves out and uh they put it in the design you got post this is just exciting stuff i'm going to throw this on the intro and a solo this pedal's wild i'm going to have it in the echo mode and i'm just going to start the song and then i'm going to hit this hold switch and it's this pad frozen sound and then there's going to be a like a solo thing i don't think you can call it a solo it's a noise that i will make detune i'll just flip it up same settings and you'll hear me push this and the note will pitch up out of tune it's pretty awesome [Music] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Music] [Music] this next petal the dweller has knocked my socks off as the kids say it's from 2018 the thought is brady said if a phaser could remember itself like this strange delayed phaser crazy thing i just found a magical setting i'm not gonna claim i understand the setting but it's amazing it's an amazing setting the art is by garrett young and i showed this earlier but i mean look at this it also has this sick poster there's an entire story line to this pedal i'm gonna play the older version of the haunt and uh we're gonna try to imagine that we're radiohead and we're doing a seaside for king of limbs [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] next up is a delay pedal that does some normal sounds i'm going to put it right on the verge of not normal but it's a really beautiful pedal the monda green and it has a stutter shear and a whirl mode i'm gonna put it in whirl and this is a form of modulation on the repeats but it is not standard it's not exactly what you think of it's a little off it's a little different like all of the old blood sounds on the back of this there's a really cool thing it says great just what we all need another thing to buy another toy how's this going to help people how's this going to make the world a little more right and a little less wrong it most assuredly will not but maybe you'll be happy for a moment at first and if you pay attention you'll see that happiness slowly transform this form day by day it will blur from contentment to hunger competency becomes inclination and that's where we'll pass like craps among the stars craving stretching onward more i'm gonna try to harness that emotion and jam the art is by jake blanchard go forth [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] so to wrap on that jam the definition of mondogrin mondegreen whatever is a misunderstood or misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from a mishearing of the lyrics of the song and i just want to hearken back to when i was 12 or something like that and i thought that garth brooks sang i'm shaving shaving or shaving i'm shaving as a man can be when he was saying shameless i also thought for years that the song said give me the beach boys and freak my soul and nick you thought i thought taylor swift's saying um starbucks starbucks lovers and what was there was there what was the other end hold me close tony hold me closer tony danza that is a mondogrin mondegreen mondogren [Music] mondegreen i can't i'm forgetting the name the last thing i would ever think of and probably that you would ever think of with old blood noise endeavors is some replication of a vintage unit you know that's kind of like what i do or something i always think of old blood and it's like creative crazy wild stuff but this is creative crazy and wild but it has its heritage in two actually five vintage pedals i'll show you one of the very first pedals that the old blood guys ever played probably the first chorus that one of them ever played was the sc10 from the 10 series and they stumbled upon and realized that there was a thing called the session man one and two now the session man one the ss10 is the ts-10 and this chorus in one pedal and you have a series parallel mode and what's annoying though is you have to flip this up and then there's like these microscopic screwdrive holes that there's no screwdriver that would ever fit them so you can't really adjust the settings and the idea was this is all you need for that session just go the footswitch is broken vintage pedals are fun and then there's another one session man 2 which has the delay and the screamer in it hi it's josh from the future like a few weeks after the josh you just saw i've been through a lot of stuff of it's long story but i made a mistake and i just want to admit it i talked about these session men pedals that i adore and love but i made a rookie mistake i made a mistake that was a real dumb dumb mistake i said that it was the tube screamer ts10 combined with the chorus that i showed you but it's actually the fat cat and if i just woken up from my slumberish haze as i was talking to you i would have clearly seen the knob says distortion this is not distortion it's a tube screamer overdrive this is distortion and furthermore it's a rat so end of story is these are rats combined with chorus or delay josh from the future needed to tell you this because misinformation is my enemy and it's your enemy and together we need to kill the enemy go back to the old josh so when we look at this this is the origin of this idea so we have a drive pedal on and off and you cannot turn off chorus or delay you have one or the other so you turn this on and you have drive with chorus and delay i assume you could turn the volumes on the effects down i don't know but i'm gonna do both i'm going to start off with the chorus on and i'm going to set it fast like a rotary it's really cool and then i'm going to hit for a solo section i'm going to hit that and then i'm going to go to kind of a slap back hard one or two repeat delay and i'm going to do series you can do the parallel just like the original units and i want to stay away from blues but when i see the ts10 i start thinking about blues i don't want to play blues here because this is old blood so my thought is if blues exists in outer space far away like let's say pluto and there's a cave in pluto and then the cave is like a blues band and then one of the guys in the pluto blues band he's like man we're like so traditional out here in space he's like i want to do experimental blues and then he gets this pedal shipped to him amazon prime next day and then he experiments with experimental post rock blues pluto in his mind blues [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] that jam was a solid like seven until i tried to play a space experimental blue solo which just resulted in me holding out notes uh it wasn't good at all it was it's bad is bad is bad is bad but i'm letting it stay because i'm human and you're human and sometimes we need to see that other people are human last up is two petals gonna show two i'm gonna do the dark star here for an intro this is a pad reverb it's very very cool it's self-explanatory it's a big reverb used to do pad sounds but it has more weirdness than the other one i used earlier so i'm gonna do the crush setting there's a pitch delay and a crush so the crush starts to crush the transients or the repeats or the echoes and it's just very interesting i'm gonna have the control one and two i'm gonna actually move one of the controls as i play and cause an actual pitch and do my hand at the beginning with that uh reverb pretty much all the way up you'll see me hit this so i'm gonna be holding it it's gonna pitch it up and back down as i turn the knob so that's gonna be fun then i'll turn that off and this is the main demo the minim now of all the time-based effects in the line this is my favorite because i love reverse delays and i love reverse reverbs and this is both it has a lot of controls it does a lot of things but i'm going to keep it pretty simple i'm going to use it as a reverb and a dotted a rhythmic delay and i'm going to reverse that at one point in the track so i love this one it's great it has a poster everything has a po why don't we have posters this has a look at this this is cool and then dark stars you have joshua you have a different version of this right yeah and his version looks better than mine let me see that let me see that how'd you get that they sent it to me they just sent you because you're such a love old blood noise more than jhs whatever the artists the artist tim elliott designed this art and john carling on the dark star pad reverb and i'm totally okay that one of my own employees and part of the show uh loves old blood noise more than me and i'll reflect that okayness in this track of sadness and joy both you can be both at once [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] just a few honorable mentions uh here there's so many cool pedals in the line and i could have demoed these for hours the visitor is amazing it's like a tremolo chorus tremolo chorus or phaser and you can double them over each other it's stunning the reflector is exactly what you think it's it's reflection so delay actually um it's a chorus he was wrong it's chorus yeah i mean sure sure chorus is technically just fast really fast delay but i guess you're right joshua because you love them so much the procession was the second old blood i ever got it's basically a modulation device with like a creepy awesome graphic i like it you have this expression device that you can plug into most any of their pedals have an expression jack of some sort and you can basically like have your preset expressions in this and then this is really cool the signal blender so you can have a clean signal on and off a b and an a and lots of jacks lots of options maybe this is something we could uh throw on the drums or something later oh no and then i have tons of boxes that i didn't get to show have this box have this box this is a different older box this is another box this box this has the face of that dude box very cool they also have the maw which is a microphone pedal that i borrowed and neglected to bring it's at your house and i'm really sorry that's your house don't be mad it's fine it's really cool we asked brady to sum up the mantra of what is old blood noise this is what he said just from the beginning we operated under this no master go faster sort of flag of like if we want to do something let's just do it let's make it happen let's work together to make it happen and let's work with our friends and let's be honest about how we're doing it brady and seth have created an amazing pedal company that reflects their personalities and the design work and the sounds and again i'll say for the second time in this episode they are the perfect example of how companies don't make things people do each and every one of these petals is unique to seth and brady's personality the music they love and the art that they love so with that said let's go to record time today's record time is brought to you by 2005's talking voice versus singing voice by one of my favorite bands starflyer59 uh found out yesterday that brady is a big fan as well his favorite star flyer record which i don't have sadly it's amazing it's called the fashion focus if you have that vinyl i'd gladly purchase that or take that off your hands because i'm trying to collect all these this is quite a masterpiece in my opinion in this genre which i have a really hard time even identifying or labeling you just need to listen to it let me know in the comments what you think my favorite track is easy street definitely and i don't know why i just love it and sometimes that's enough closing up here i want to bring up a point about old blood they are a really good example of extremely illustrative artwork and i had the chance to write a chapter in the stompbox book that some of you may own if you don't there is a code in the description below i don't benefit from this at all but you can get a discount on this book so this lays out 100 petals uh of the world's greatest guitarist and then there is a section here where i got to write a pretty big chapter that was really fun it's called seeing sound and i walk through the complete aesthetic history of guitar pedals nothing about how they sound but i start in kalamazoo in 62. skip over here to new york and 75 blah blah blah you get over here to the clone 94 in boston and then if you keep going there is a section towards the end because it's kind of linear with how petals are made we end up in 2004 akron and i talk in this chapter a lot about earthquaker and old blood you actually see some of their petals and it's a very cool form of art that is very different from what i do at ghs but i appreciate it a lot and it was fun to kind of give these artists the props that they got in the episode today so old blood noise is a wonderful company i've said that enough and their art is very cool and the puddles are very cool so if you like this episode hit like subscribe to the channel click the bell icon for notifications of future episodes and also you can jam with all of these jams over on band lab that's it is that it you can watch you can also watch these jams on fresh clips because some of you don't want to hear me talk you're already sick of me you can just go watch the jams fresh clips there's a link for that as well it's another channel you need more channels subscribe do it now right now do it subscribe subscribe bye do it [Music] you

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Keywords: JHS, JHS Pedals, The JHS Show, Guitar Pedals, Guitar Effects, Guitar Gear, Guitar Pedal Demo, Music History, overdrive pedal, chorus pedal, distortion pedal, boss pedals, compressor pedal, univibe, delay pedal, octave fuzz, reverb pedal, reverb, eq pedal, boost pedal, behringer

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Length: 36min 46sec (2206 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 15 2022