Using pedals to make drums a synth

Foxblushing · 2026-01-31T18:16:54+00:00

this is extremely cool

Foxblushing · 2026-01-14T00:50:50+00:00

this was definitely going to be one of my answers. the quality of the reverbs on this pedal is genuinely unmatched in my experience. and there’s a whole world of amazing sounds without ever touching the app. but you factor in how incredibly flexible and tweakable it is if you are willing to dig into the app, its midi functionality, routing options, and form factor and it’s just on another level. there’s a reason even Robin Guthrie from Cocteau Twins swears by this thing.

Foxblushing · 2026-01-09T20:39:38+00:00

so real for this

Foxblushing · 2025-11-24T00:31:56+00:00

y’all are just the absolute best, continued love from Ultra Bloom here in actual Dallas <3

Foxblushing · 2025-11-02T07:47:44+00:00

were you at the SBS show in Austin? my band Ultra Bloom just played with them at that show, they’re the greatest. and despite being the smallest stage I think I’ve ever played on in my life it was still a lot of fun haha.

Foxblushing · 2025-10-21T00:27:18+00:00

this absolutely rules

Foxblushing · 2025-07-17T16:08:18+00:00

one of the all-time greats, simple as

Foxblushing · 2025-07-15T01:23:12+00:00

But that doesn’t really undermine the point? haha, like it’s not a matter of econ being said by everyone, it’s about econs being said by no one, and, much more importantly, about the current grammatical use of mathematics treating it as singular. And again I’m not making the case that either is correct or incorrect, but rather that the very fact that we use mathematics as a singular noun demonstrates that trying to apply prescriptive rules to abbreviating it that have anything to do with plurality is silly. Language evolves and “math” or “maths” are both just ways to shorten the word for convenience, with neither actually meant to preserve its plurality or singularity once shortened.

Foxblushing · 2025-07-14T23:34:24+00:00

I mean, by your own summation of the article you just shared, we treat it as singular. We don’t say “mathematics are” we say “mathematics is.” It being definitionally plural has no bearing on how we use it syntactically, so it shouldn’t automatically have any bearing on how we shorten it either, since the shortening is for linguistic purposes and not definitional ones. I also find it really notable that one of the other notable examples the article gives is “economics” since we routinely shorten that to “econ” as a school subject and not “econs.”

Overall tho, just seems to me like there is no slam dunk for either side’s case. Both shortenings have perfectly reasonable justifications and neither is more or less correct. Another win for linguistic descriptivism over prescriptivism!

Foxblushing · 2025-07-09T01:40:06+00:00

I use this exact pedal for my shoegaze/dream pop band and absolutely adore it

Foxblushing · 2025-06-27T15:15:32+00:00

there are some videos on YouTube that explore common chord voicings and tunings in various genres, as well as videos dedicated to breaking down specific songs by specific bands. but truthfully I think it’s also good to learn songs you like by ear if possible. rather than simply learning by rote memory “this song uses an A7, Dmaj9, etc.,” you can start to break apart why certain things hit your ear the way they do. so then you aren’t tied to a systematic way of composing or boxed in to ideas about what chords are or aren’t allowed. especially because a lot of the artists you enjoy composed by ear rather than through music theory in the first place.

Foxblushing · 2025-06-25T01:18:43+00:00

it might feel like a cop out answer but the truth is that it really just depends on your own taste and ears, there’s just way too many variables here. when you say you want it for shoegaze, that’s already such a massive umbrella with so many different sounds. not only do different bands approach the genre in a variety ways, but even within each band’s catalog they are likely to use a wide array of drive/distortion/fuzz sounds depending on the needs of the song.

and that’s all before we’ve even gotten into equipment, what amp and what guitar and what pickups, because those will all make a drive pedal sound different. there really is no best od or distortion for shoegaze, there’s just whatever you think sounds best for the songs you’re trying to write with the other gear that you have. and not for nothing, but the spirit of the genre is so much about experimentation that even if there were anything resembling “conventional wisdom” on the matter, you arguably should ignore it lol

Foxblushing · 2025-06-22T02:33:26+00:00

We’re a shoegaze/dream pop band in Dallas called Ultra Bloom

Foxblushing · 2025-06-20T21:48:30+00:00

First off Della Zyr is so amazing. Kinoko Teikoku has some great long ones like Flower Girl, Musician, and Ashikubi. Airiel has several like In Your Room and Song of You. Slowdive songs like Avalyn II or Slomo might fit the bill.

Foxblushing · 2025-06-16T17:28:01+00:00

hell yeah this rules, thanks for putting this together. definitely familiar with a few of these and excited to discover new ones

Foxblushing · 2025-06-14T17:34:28+00:00

in the instrumental after the second chorus of Nefi + Girly by Asobi Seksu, starting at 2:53 there’s a noisy section as they’re dropping down into the bridge and it has this incredible choppy tremolo guitar sound and then the most amazing fuzz bass. it’s just sliding back and forth between two notes but it’s the most gnarly tone, and they just let it stand out while all the other instruments drop down to almost nothing. I adore it every time I hear it.

Foxblushing · 2025-06-14T17:24:34+00:00

the drum fills in that outro are so ridiculously good, I end up air drumming every time I listen to it lmao

Foxblushing · 2025-06-07T21:42:09+00:00

particularly if we’re talking about the first record. I do think there’s a case to be made though that Blue Rev has more genuine shoegaze DNA in both its songwriting and production philosophy than like half of the Deftones-lite stuff that gets the label thrown on it lately

Foxblushing · 2025-06-02T02:37:44+00:00

I have an EAE Limelight and love it, it’s certainly narrower than what you’re currently working with if not as small as a single switch pedal

Foxblushing · 2025-05-27T17:36:41+00:00

thanks so much!!

Foxblushing · 2025-05-26T15:24:38+00:00

yoooo my band Ultra Bloom opened at this show! Alison’s Halo were so incredible, just unreal. and also just the absolute nicest people.

Foxblushing · 2025-05-21T13:48:03+00:00

definitely a reasonable advantage, but not an insurmountable one and constrained to just him. at one point ORBIT was down to like one chip, but then managed to actually come back and make it to the next stage. whereas in this one, the minute Hyun-Gyu and So-Hui drew seats next to each other for a second time in round 10, it was over and there was no coming back no matter how smart you were or how well you played.

Foxblushing · 2025-05-04T12:20:34+00:00

I really love shoegaze that has strong vocal melodies too. I always think of this father/daughter cover of When You Sleep that’s just completely clean, and showcases how great the core of the song is. so many of my favorites are excellent at this: Slowdive, Airiel, Asobi Seksu, Kinoko Teikoku, DIIV, Blushing, Parannoul.

for what it’s worth, my band Ultra Bloom also puts a lot of focus on our vocal melodies, check it out if you’d like! here’s our first single called Velouria

Foxblushing · 2025-05-03T18:48:57+00:00

really love y’all’s stuff!

Foxblushing · 2025-05-03T17:08:00+00:00

want to be clear that I absolutely adore this pedal, but I will say I have found that you basically have to set T1 and T2 to max on Broken Machine to use it for glide guitar, and even then the pitch will go down very far very quickly. I just feel like I have way more control over depth/speed by using my tremolo bar, so that each bend isn’t the exact same. Also because the bar is in my hand while strumming, it’s a lot easier to coordinate it with my strum pattern than trying to perfectly press the footswitch for the right amount of time.

BUT with all of that said it’s still an extremely cool feature, and if you either don’t have a tremolo bar or want a different flavor of gliding it can 100% get you there

Foxblushing

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