It's wrecked rap music, it dehumanizes everything it touches, and not in a good way. The only sound effect I can't wait to see die is autotune as an effect on vocals. It was cool five years ago, it had it's time and now I can't wait for it to finally die. It's the guitar equivalent of 'Lofi hip hop beats to study to'. They all sound so cookie cutter because instead of the player doing something interesting and creative with the pedals they have, a lot of it is just strumming a Cmaj7 with a $400 delay pedal with built in chorus, pitchshifting and calling it a day. This is a tangent, but it's one of the reasons why I find ambient and shoegaze guitar videos as boring and pointless as the dreaded blooz riff demos. Probably wouldn't use them when I'm recording some music though Also I'm not really one to talk since I have been wanting to get one these pedals, seems like they'd be fun to play with or be a useful performance tool. I do think this is probably something which would only bother people who actually play guitar/write music though, most listeners who aren't gearheads probably wouldn't notice lol. are simple enough that even if the effect is recognizable, as a listener you concentrate more on the guitarist's playing instead of thinking 'Oh, he's playing a Tele through a RAT'. and more importantly the guitarist's personality shines through.Īs for things like a RAT, CE-3 and the like being recognizable, effects like distortion, plate/hall reverbs, chorus etc. It sounds unique, t doesn't instantly pull you out of the song because you recognized that sound coming from a Chase Bliss/Strymon etc. Instead of that sound being a 'shimmer reverb in a box', it's a combination of some fairly standard delay pedals, clever use of a wah pedal, some technique and a whammy pedal. Combining pedals is very much a part of sound design, and by divorcing the player from that process, it also eliminates the guitarist's personality from the sound.įor example, the only compelling use of shimmer delay/reverb effect I personally heard was from this performance of Videotape by Radiohead.
But ironically, the intricately designed nature of these new pedals are precisely what make them sound so boring and instantly recognizable in a bad way. Of course the sound quality of the effects themselves are great, and the pedal makers obviously put in a lot of thought and attention to these pedals when they're designing them. 'Cheap Casio presets' is a great way to put how I feel about the new boutique pedals coming out these days.
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