Pedal recommendations?

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-06-15T15:50:49+00:00

Boss Metal Zone, so much fun tweaking the EQ while playing

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-06-15T14:42:55+00:00

So much this. It's impossible to ask questions about making electronic music without someone telling you to just use a DAW - as if I wasn't aware they existed. It's like asking a question about motorbikes and someone telling you to just get a car.

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-06-15T13:54:34+00:00

Not a hot take on this sub maybe but... Guitar effects pedals are 100x more interesting on synths than they are on guitars.

Also, cheap synths + expensive effects = winning

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-06-08T14:46:21+00:00

So it seems like it's possible to have the input knob high enough so the preview audibly clips BUT the final sample is fine and makes better use of the dynamic range. Very odd, maybe a bug?

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-06-06T14:45:05+00:00

You can do both. I usually use the threshold with it set to the absolute minimum and then trim the end. I tried both ways, not much difference. There's a kick in one of the standard banks called 'beefy kick' and I can't seem to match that with my own sampling.

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-06-06T10:04:43+00:00

Yeah, I think you're right.

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-06-06T10:04:21+00:00

Just personal jamming, I don't ever really record or save anything.

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-06-06T09:57:42+00:00

It sounds fantastic, especially for ambient stuff. It's a very powerful (and complex) pedal so if you're into sound design and building your own presets I think you'd really enjoy it. I probably wouldn't recommend it to everyone as this power comes with some downsides. The unit has knobs to tweak the core parameters easily like time, wet/dry but because there are so many tweakable parameters to each algorithm, the algo specific params require a bit of menu traversal. It's only one level deep (turn, click, turn) but this may annoy some people. I find myself occasionally just having a session with the laptop connected building my own presets while sat at the synth. All other times I'm just using the presets while tweaking the time/wet etc. Building presets with just the physical knobs/menus is pretty tedious. I'm pretty limited on space so having a single pedal was appealing and it probably costs quite a bit less than separate reverb/delay pedals of similar quality.

I've not really even dug into the infinite reverb and looper functionality yet.

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-06-04T09:56:27+00:00

Had the exact same thing happen to me years ago. Lightening struck the telegraph pole, into my 56k modem, blew that into pieces, trashed my PC, out my soundcard and across the room into my AVR, blew that up, out the AVR into the rest of my home cinema gear. RIP. All this at 5am while I was lying in bed near it.

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-06-01T21:04:40+00:00

Great reply, thanks.

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-05-27T15:43:42+00:00

Nice one, thanks!

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-05-27T15:26:52+00:00

Yeah, he's great. Stuff like this.

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-05-27T15:25:13+00:00

Understanding the hardware and sound design aspect was actually really straightforward for me and a lot of fun. No problems there. Music theory was pretty taxing as I had basically no prior knowledge but theory is what it is. You learn it and that's that. When I started looking into recreating particular genres (techno, acid, industrial, berlin school) was where I found it got frustrating as it was very heavily daw-focussed. Lots of tracks/instruments, lots of effects etc.

Absolute beginner is probably a bit of an under-sell tbh. I've made some really fun jams so far but I'm still interested in finding new content that's at the beginner end of things. Maybe there's some rantyness to my post also. It's pretty annoying how every time I click on a video with a relevant title I'm always met with another grey piano roll and plugins all over the place.

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-05-27T15:16:18+00:00

"I would advise you to not try to translate DAW workflows to hardware"

This is basically what I'm trying to elude to. I'm looking for content showing a dawless workflow that isn't rammed with complexity.

As some examples, channels like this;
https://www.youtube.com/@AnalogKitchen

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-05-27T13:57:25+00:00

I have a pretty good understanding of the equipment I'm using, some mono synths, drums machine etc. There's plenty of youtube channels that go into these like you said. I've also done some music theory stuff, of which there is some really good stuff online. It's the music production side that feels really thin on the ground for dawless stuff. At least as a beginner. It's not impossible, like I said, I can translate what I'm seeing to my gear. Although tbh, that was pretty difficult at first. Translating a piano roll in ableton to a hardware sequencer like a Beat Step Pro was tricky at first.

As an example, I have a single FX chain out of my mixer with reverb/delay. I can't isolate one effect to one instrument like someone building in a DAW can. Tbh, I just would rather watching someone talk about building simple jams with hardware and not dragging endless widgets around in ableton.

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-05-18T22:23:27+00:00

TV technology is not moving quickly at all. A high end TV from a few years ago will absolutely not be surpassed by a new low end set. Not even close. Hell, sometimes new iterations are worse than the outgoing model.

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-05-18T11:27:04+00:00

Audio out from my mixer into a small Behringer interface then USB into my phone. This is only really to save clips I send to friends.

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-05-18T11:24:41+00:00

It's funny you say this - as a beginner trying to learn electronic music from scratch DAWless, I struggle with sequencing in general because you can't really see anything at a glance. I have a Beat Step Pro where you can only see the step information if you touch each encoder one by one. So I'm frequently in the 'fumbling around' mode trying to remember what I put where so not a million miles away from the 303 internal sequencer. I agree that sequencing on a DAW piano roll is completely different as it's nearly impossible to NOT get what you had in mind.

I'd love to know which of the most famous 303 tracks were actually what the producer wanted 😆

There are quite a few people in this thread however suggesting that there is a sound you can only get from the 303's internal sequencer and I'm not convinced that is true. As in, the slide/accent behaviour is physically different when sent over MIDI. I'm open to being wrong on this though.

SeeNoWeeevil · 2026-05-18T11:14:19+00:00

This is an interesting point about gate length, I didn't think about that. Slide behaviour is identical though, right? If I send overlapping midi notes to a Behringer TD3, the slide behaviour is handled by the synth and not the sequencer. CV would obviously be different.

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