She sings through guitar pedals and it sounds AMAZING

[Music] this sort of really nostalgic experience I had in the first sort of pandemic summer I used to just sit in our attic you know Murder into my microphone make loops and when the loop felt like cooked you know when it felt right and eventually lie down on the floor you know Nostalgia like weirdness like all kind of going through you [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] I had a professor who was always like you have to see your name downwards like Courtney Swain instead of Courtney Swain like he's like you can't question mark your name I have a hard time working on the computer I just thought I was lazy like guys this stuff I just thought I was lazy or dumb I mean here's a computer there's a billion plugins I have a bunch of plugins why am I not making music and there was always this winter I don't like working on the computer no longer I started creating music a lot more and a lot more fluently just not having to turn on my computer I'm moving a lot of knobs and holding a lot of moments of loop I'm more comfortable with pedals or sort of this physical um like tactile way to create do you want to do some harp together we'll play some stuff together yes definitely yes tell me when I'll take you home from school [Music] you're never enough [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we made a new EP that comes out today and you can listen to this song in full along with a bunch of other ones we're really excited about it so you can listen to it wherever you listen to your music it looks so hard it looks really hard really yeah major major perspective for like making it look effortless there's like no hesitation really like you were oh I'm hesitating in my head a lot there's a lot of thoughts happening in the oven here is like panic panic panic I'm like you can't tell you look so relaxed that's so interesting I think I can do this I'm gonna try it I'm giving this pedalboard away thanks to today's sponsor perfect circuit and if you're watching this video before this date that means you still have a chance to win this board perfect circuit carries a lot of the pedals that you'll see featured in today's video but they don't tell me what pedals to use and they don't tell me what to say yes if you're gonna buy music gear anyway you should consider picking it up at perfect circuit and you should consider using my affiliate link which is in the video description below because doing so helps support the channel and it helps bring cool musicians like Courtney here to the studio to film and I think I'm done with this I would love for you to show us your setup and kind of talk about your process a little more yeah that's okay okay so let's do it this pedal allows me to take a normal dynamic microphone and convert the mic level signal into a instrument level signal the reason I picked this pedal is because it has a headphone out my next petal is the Maris Hydra it's a pitch shifter sometimes I'll just pick a key and I'll do maybe a static Harmony like thirds I'll hold my pitch steady but I'll actually change the harmony by changing the knob which I think is really fun [Music] foreign this is essentially a delay I say essentially because it can do a lot more it actually won't make a sound until I sort of bring the filter up as I pass it lower and lower I.E the sound goes away so which is nice because if I'm singing along if I'm singing alive I'm singing it out Etc I can kind of you know duck my own uh effects without it being super obvious you know I'm not turning it on and off I can scan through my delay memory say I'm singing songs something good it is [Music] the part where I was talking this is the first petal that I ever bought money well well spent I like to speed things up by having a Harmony and hedra [Music] so you have a nice little Looper I love the stability kind of adds a little warble [Music] and sometimes I'll slice up a loop [Music] kind of like jitteriness or almost like the camera is like shaking a little bit you can change the pitch as such if I want to fade out of a song Sometimes I'll just low pass it away as such this is a really new petal from Chase Bliss it's it's a well worth it's really interesting the new Reverb is is Lush and gorgeous so when I'm in tape mode oh it will sort of capture a little micro loop you can hear a little bit of talking in the background there too and you can use it like tape so you can speed it up [Music] all of these modes have a different way where they'll pan and they'll spread the sound out um and something about how the tape mode handles it is really gorgeous [Music] oh so this signals stereo and split meld so wonderfully will take stereo signal and separated it to two mono signals we have a giant closet full of petals so I'm wondering if you want to like pick out some yeah we'll try some fun stuff oh okay [Music] foreign [Laughter] [Music] [Music] oh my God [Music] I'm like looking mad though like I forget that so easy that was like so crazy to watch oh my God foreign [Music] louder [Music] please [Music] [Music] wow oh that is really cool whoa that's cool [Music] [Laughter] [Music] watching you work is so cool like seeing it happen in real time it's just yeah I mean I would be also amiss not to mention Vince because Vince has been processing my vocals for way longer than I have and uh we're both in this band called bent knee when we play Live he processes my voice but that's all software and that sounds incredible no there's like clips of him just going like the Reverb Tails just getting a little longer just yeah how long have you been in Ben our first tour was in 2011. oh wow it's actually been a really long time we just put out a single called lawnmower pretty recently the album's not done yet we just kind of wanted to put the single out first it does have a favorite pedal you tried for the first time when you were here I really like the light pedal and the sustain pedal I loved what you did with the percussion aspect of it yeah I just love that you could kind of tap on it I don't know I thought it was super cool that you can see the spring and it's just there yeah and yeah it felt very um tentative yeah it's an entity and you're like hello yeah hello spring like what's up [Laughter] [Music] this time [Music] please [Music] foreign [Music] [Music]

Channel: Emily Hopkins

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Id: 77iUH208XaI

Length: 13min 43sec (823 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 11 2023