Is This The COOLEST Effects Pedal EVER??!!

Christian discusses the pitfalls of trying to be “cool” and whether a stomp box can make your music any cooler? Arguing that “Deep Water” by Fairfield Circuitry could be crowned Queen or King in this respect. What would be your coolest effects box?

CONTENTS:
00:00 WHAT IS COOL?
03:17 GETTING A LINE SIGNAL IN
04:47: FORM FACTOR
05:29 WHAT IS THIS UNIT?
06:49 WHAT DOES A PIANO SOUND LIKE THROUGH IT?
07:11 VOLUME, MIX, LOW PASS GATE
08:10 RATE, DEPTH, DAMP
09:23 DRUMS
11:34 GUITAR
12:42 SYNTHS
14:01 FLAUTANDO STRINGS
14:47 STEREO?
17:32 ANNOUNCEMENT
19:35 WINTER VOICES
24:16 DIFFERENT SOUNDS IN STEREO

The sample libraries CH used here:

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[ddcasemusic]

I can confirm that 1. Canada is cool and 2. Serbo-Croatian is easier to understand than Canadian French ;)

[DavidDiMuzio]

"But this lemon squeezer looks very cool but can't squeeze lemons for shit" 😂😂 ...seriously laughed out loud.

[loopop]

Love this pedal, and very, uhm, cool processing in stereo!

[adammiller]

I don’t follow why you need the re-amp box. This is a line compatible pedal, from the manual:
MORE CONTROL INSIDE
BOOST AND PAD
There are 2 jumpers at the input stage to match your input signal’s level and impedance. By default, BOOST is on, PAD is off; a typical set-
ting for high impedance, low output signals like a guitar’s single coil pickups. If the user finds there is too much distortion at the input stage, moving the BOOST jumper to its off position will reduce overall gain by 6 dB. If the signal source is line- level, the PAD can be set to its on position, giving another 6 dB of gain reduction while also reducing the input impedance by a factor of 10.

[usr]

One thing: Low Pass Gate, not just filter! A LPF that reacts to dynamics.

[yaanno]

as a hungarian who owns quite a few canadian effect pedals i can confirm that they must smoke the best serbo-croatian leaf in existence. empress, fairfield and industrialectric make the coolest pedals.

[gatorgoforth]

I love mine, but found it imparts a healthy amount of noise/hum into my signal. The low pass gate (not filter) is so magical because it responds to the dynamic of the input material. Breathes so much life into anything, the more dynamic the better.

[kurtisadair]

Started floating away from my desk around 16 minutes and swam back through the air to comment

[williamphilipson-composer]

Those flautando strings through that pedal are wonderful. I'm definitely going to explore using tape wobbles, and pitchy chorus/tremolos on intimate scenes on soft strings. Sounds great!

[ydlp]

Little note: Intruments signals such as guitar's have a high impedance (it's wrote on your reamp box "Hi-Z") whereas line signal is much hotter signal (also modular is much higher than line) and have a low impedance. 
Using a reamp or a DI box solve that issue by using a OP amp or a transformer (for higher hand DI box) to adapt impedance.

[chrisc]

my takeaway from this is I'm totally going to split sampled instruments into left and right channels and do different processing on them now

[zhangke]

Enjoyed your discussion about "cool". Very inspiring!!

[sassulusmagnus]

Fairfield Circuitry is a very interesting company. Almost all the pedals they make are weird, weird, weird. But weirdly useful in the right hands.

[noisecode]

You've discovered my favorite pedal!! Have fun.

[PeteBoyd]

Stumbled upon this thru a web search; laughing out loud; loving it; three minutes in and we're out on the hill and I've forgotten what I came here for, forgotten what the video is about (he hasn't gotten to that specific point yet) and I'm loving it so much more than so much else.

[bwdDD]

tiny correction : the microcontroller, the only digital component of the pedal, is the thing generating the random modulation voltage, so the signal path is 100% analog

[markhammer]

A rather Canadian episode. Radial devices are made in Vancouver, while Fairfield pedals are made just across the river from me in Gatineau, Quebec. I've had the pleasure of chatting with Guillaume Fairfield many times, and attended a dinner with him, and the folks from Chase Bliss and Empress (which is made on *this* side of the same river, in Ottawa). Lovely bunch of guys, all of them. Guillaume always tries to have his pedals do something that few, if any, other pedals do. Very smart guy. And as much as the legending and look seem like they were intended to look "cool", really it was a way of not having to be concerned about legending wearing off or paint chipping on the finish. A friend of Guillaume's does the lettering with an old-fashioned bang-it-in stencil set.

[JSCote]

Geez, I was excited when you were holding that pedal in your hands in your last video, imagine seeing this! The friends at Fairfield are neighbors (Hull represent!); good people, good builders... I love their delay pedal (Maude), I used it on many things over the years. And my wife is Croatian, so this video really spoke to me! :) Thanks, Christian!

[DavidJohnAshman]

Really loved what it did to those samples. Great watch and listen!

[sonalsystem]

I came for the review and iuAt 1:32 you killed me. 🤣🤣🤣 “the only building I’ve ever seen with sweat stains…” I wish every review I watched could be this honest and blunt.