♪♪ Hey everybody! It's Rob and Andrew, and today we're looking at a bunch of pedals from Gamechanger Audio. I've used a bunch of these before, Rob's never seen... Any of them? Some of them? I actually have seen this one. That's a wild one. Well they're all wild, like all of them do something that I've never seen before. Okay, when it says it has plasma... Oh, it has plasma! What exactly is plasma? Plasma is like the state beyond gas, electrical... - The state beyond gas?
- Like electrical... Um, yeah. So if you stake it so bad, you get here? ♪♪ Are we both...? Yeah, this is so fun. Both going through the same pedals. I've never gone through the same pedals with someone. Are you seeing this light up as we play? Yeah. ♪♪ The Light. The Light pedal is a reverb pedal and it's got the spring tank in here. The spring vibrates... Yeah. And then you turn it back into audio. But this has an extra layer where there's also these lights... And they're using infrared sensors to see how the spring is moving and taking that as a reverb signal. So actually play something like somewhat steady. ♪♪ Ooh... ♪♪ Oh, that's nice! ♪♪ Do you feel a song coming on already? ♪♪ Actually another fun thing that I'm thinking of right now is this gate knob. So you can have it where there's more reverb the louder you play, or the louder you play, the more it ducks the reverb. Yeah, and for people, like... Gate, it's kind of like.. Imagine a gate that stops something... And you're controlling a gate. It's kind of-- Closing the door on the sound. Yeah, and I'm sure there's a better way that I could describe it but that's essentially-- ♪♪ - Wooow!
- You can dial in how much you want to gate it. Whoa, bring the gate all the way up. And then you can go from like... ♪♪ So reverb-y... and then it's just dead. ♪♪ - But then there's the opposite--
- Wait, wait! I want to play around with that for a little bit. - Okay!
- That's so cool. Let's do it. ♪♪ That's so weird! ♪♪ Oooh. ♪♪ - Yeeeaah!
- Okay, I feel a song coming on. Should we bring in the band? - Let's bring in the band.
- You guys good? Ready. You know it. K, one, two, three, four: ♪♪ Do you want to keep jamming on this or should we try the other gate or-- Yeah, I think we should move on. I don't like with a band did. So flipping the gate the other way means there's no reverb while you're playing. ♪♪ And then when you let go... It swells in. Let's do the same song with the band but now the other way. Yeah, yeah, it's dry and then we fill the space with reverb, sick. Alright. One, two, three, same song: ♪♪ Dang that is cool! Beautiful. That sounds like we're playing and once we stop... it's like the sound wants to go into a cave and once we stop it can finally just shoot into a cave. "I really wanna go, I really wanna go!" Okay, that was great. You guys are doing better. Thank you, mm. Okay, so the next mode is sweep, where the lights automatically change and you can control the rate of them. So this will just I guess affect the tone of the reverb? Oh yep, uh huh. ♪♪ E major, and then to this one. ♪♪ Oh yeah. ♪♪ ♪ [wrong notes] ♪ No. So here's a feedback mode. ♪♪ So now, the signal is going into the spring, being read by the lights, and then that signal is going back into the spring, and being read by the lights, and that's how you're gonna feed. Yeah, both the spring and the lights are what we're hearing right now. Alright, there's one more mode it's called harmonic ♪♪ and this one adds like a shimmer sort of thing? So now, the whole thing we just described but then adding... accentuating certain harmonics of the spring. Yeah. ♪♪ I'll just I'll be the pedal guy. Yeah. ♪♪ Ooh. ♪♪ We are both in our natural habitat. Now you're turning knobs and I'm playing guitar. ♪♪ Ooh, it sounds like... ♪♪ It kind of sounds like there's a bunch of... ♪♪ Screaming gremlins? But, like, they're happy? [gremlin giggles] Alright, let's move on. So this next pedal is called the Plus pedal. So you play... ♪♪ Ohhh. - Ohh man!
- You hold whatever-- ♪♪ And you can have a blend between the dry and the wet. I think you can have it... like fade in? ♪♪ I'll turn down the fade so it just, like, instantly kicks in. ♪♪ I would hate to communicate that to make good music you just need gear. I really don't want to do that! But man it's fun! ♪♪ We're on the second pedal, - I know--
- And I could be here all day. You could write an album with each of these. Yeah. So, for the next ones, we could probably do these at the same time because their variations because they're variations of the same thing. We've got the Plasma pedal and then plasma coil was their collaboration with Jack White And the Plasma Coil was their collaboration with Jack White. - Oh cool, cool.
- And these are just like some... ♪♪ I love that...you can see it. ♪♪ So it's going into the Plasma... - Yeah.
- And overdriving the Plasma Which is essentially distortion, you put a signal into something-- The audio is actually turning into that... - Electricity.
- Yeah. - We're seeing the audio.
- You're turning it back into audio. Yeah. I wonder if I play a low note if the plasma is less? ♪♪ Then give it a high note. ♪♪ Yeah, totally! Totally. So it's fully just like... waves. - It's frequency.
- Yeah. ♪♪ What if we double up... ♪♪ That's kind of like an octave fuzz if I'm doing the octave and you're doing it. Oh, I thought you were doing the same thing as me? You were up an octave? Halfway through I went up an octave. Cool. And that's why it sounded like octave fuzz. Well there is actually an octave fuzz on this one. Whoa, let's do it. Time for a quick sponsored message. ♪♪ The perfect background music can make such a big difference to your videos. The perfect background music can make such a big difference to your videos. The perfect background music can make such a big difference to your videos. So if you don't already know about Epidemic Sound, they are sponsoring today's video. They make it really easy to find great music for your content because every track is high quality and they're all categorized really well and searchable, and you can play them all right from your browser or from the Epidemic Sound app. ♪♪ Some tracks have stems, so for instance, this sounds pretty cool but if I wanted, I could just use the instruments: ♪♪ Or just the drums: ♪♪ And on top of that, there's this 'Find similar' button where it'll show you similar tracks, or you can even highlight part of a track you like and it'll show you sections of other tracks that are sonically similar. ♪♪ So you can really zero in on what music is going to best serve your project. Click the link in the description to sign up for a free 30-day trial and anything you use from Epidemic Sound, even if it's during the trial and even if you ever cancel, can remain in your content for life and it will be protected from copyright strikes and takedowns. Thanks so much to Epidemic Sound for making today's video possible. Let's get back to Sonic Boom. ♪♪ So this one has a blend knob so you can get your dry signal in there. Oh yeah. And this one replaces the blend knob with a bunch of different options, so let's switch over to this one. We don't want the dry signal. ♪♪ There... ♪♪ So I think there's octave down, octave up... A few different varieties. So in the middle this is like a mode knob. ♪♪ Whoa dude! ♪♪ What?! ♪♪ - Wow!
- That's insane. I love that. Okay, well I think we have to play... The First of October song I was just playing, what is it? Oh, Headless? Headless, yeah, we gotta play some of Headless with the band. Yeah man. ♪♪ What about just pure sludge? ♪♪ Okay, can I just do that with the band real quick? Yeah, yeah, yeah! One, two, three, four: ♪♪ Yeah, yeah, that's all I need. Oh man. That's all I need. Thanks guys. Yeah. Let's just get to the Bigsbys. - Alright so--
- And we have two of them. ♪♪ Oh man! ♪♪ - Oh!
- That's a really clean pitch shift. ♪♪ And why do we have two? Just to go up two octaves? No, we can have different settings. I mean we could do that, we could do two in a row. ♪♪ But... I was thinking you can set it to any semitone amount or even microtones. So we could do one where it's like we're playing we go up an octave, we're playing we go up a fifth or something like that. But also you can go the other way. Oh wait no-- This is doing a tremolo now. ♪♪ There we go. ♪♪ It depends on the setting. You can also, there's an inverting switch... Yeah, so now we could go like this way's up and this way's down. ♪♪ Well that's up. Oh never mind I just flipped it around. Anyway. Anyway. So this one's up-- You can choose which one's up and which one's down. ♪♪ And then here you go, here's the most expensive way to just be in the same spot. ♪♪ But I was thinking we could change one to like... just a tone down. One to... a fifth up or something? Yeah, so here we got one on a minor sixth... ♪♪ and one at an octave... ♪♪ - Down, we could like...
- Ooh. ♪♪ Imagine just getting one for each note. Yeah! Oh my god! Dancing around. Every Bigsby is a different semitone. So you could just play like: [musical sounds] like a piano. Oh, could we go through the Plasma too though? ♪♪ Yeah. Alright we need the band. Alright well let's play this guys. One, two, three, four: ♪♪ I'll add some octaves maybe. ♪♪ Yeah. ♪♪ I love that! ♪♪ I forgot it goes the other way too. ♪♪ Probably it, eh? Let's end with just a few notes here. ♪♪ Boom. ♪♪ Boom. ♪♪ Boom. ♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom, whatever. Great job, guys. God, was that the video? ♪♪ You are so creative. I know there's another dream just around the corner for you. It's just like, I've been working-- We're going to smash it. ...at this restaurant for so long-- You're not even going to remember what Chuck E. Cheese is.
