Synth Sounds For Guitar From Meris, Boss, Beetronics & More – That Pedal Show
In this video we discuss synth sounds for guitar… but not in the MIDI-pickup-to-trigger-samples sense. Nope, here we’re talking about waveforms, oscillators, filters, modulation, manipulation and all that. The pedal everybody is talking about (in 2019) is the Meris Enzo, and for good measure we add the new SY-1 from Boss – the first Compact sized pedal to offer synthesis with no MIDI pickup required. Plus some others.
Join us as we stumble through some sounds, ask and answer questions and hopefully trigger some creative ideas and possibilities for your own music journey. This is guitar, Jim, but maybe not as you know it.
Enjoy the episode!
Pedals & stuff in this episode…
• TheGigRig Three2One
https://www.thegigrig.com/three2one
• Digitech Synth Wah
https://digitech.com/en/products/synth-wah
• Analog Man Envelope Filter
https://www.buyanalogman.com/Analog_Man_Block_Logo_Envelope_Filter_Pedal_p/am-blockenvelope.htm
• Greer Amps Lightspeed
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• Beetronics Swarm Fuzz Harmonizer
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3IX5GWt
Australia: http://bit.ly/2k7dcax
USA: https://bit.ly/3oDlQMc
• Meris Enzo
UK & Europe: http://bit.ly/2lZmE02
Australia: http://bit.ly/2m6iROK
• Boss SY-1
UK & Europe: http://bit.ly/2m0a8xl
USA: https://bit.ly/3GqDp8o
• Hologram Electronics Infinite Jets
Australia: http://bit.ly/2kc82Ks
• TheGigRig G2
https://www.thegigrig.com/g2
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Interesting bits and go to sections
– Intro playing – we’re not in Kansas anymore Micko: 0:00
– Welcome… and what are we doing today? 2:50
– I don’t know anything about synthesis: 3:24
– No, not MIDI-triggered-samples synthesis… 3:55
– …but let’s talk about GK pickups anyway: 5:45
– You don’t need a MIDI pickup: 7:25
– What’s on today’s board? And ocelots: 7:55
– Digitech Synth Wah sounds: 10:23
– Polly Phonic was a friend of mine:12:05
– Crazy frequency range: 13:31
– Tracking and bending : 16:05
– Beetronics Swarm: 18:30 (19:15)
– And with the Analog Mn Envelope Filter: 24:55
– What’s the blimmin’ point? 26:50
– Meris Enzo: 28:30 (29:10)
– Ring modulator: 32:05
– Secondary functions on the Enzo: 38:00
– Synth on bass? 41:05 (41:55)
– Boss: SY-1: 44:30 (45:18)
– Using an remote footswitch with the SY-1: 46:55
– Bass switch on the SY-1: 50:15
– And Swarm: 51:30
– And all on? Oh no: 52:48
– Hologram Infinite Jets: 54:50 (55:40)
– …and Enzo: 58:20
– What have we learned? 1:03:02 Enjoy the episode!
Guitars in this episode:
• Fender Custom Shop 1963 Telecaster – watch Dan’s video at http://bit.ly/2dlZJ6K
• Fender American Vintage ’62 Stratocaster – Mick’s video at http://bit.ly/2cQv3yT
• Fender Player Precision Bass: http://bit.ly/2kunG44
Amps in this episode
• Marshall 1987x with 1960AX cabinet / Celestion G12M Greenback speakers
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• Matchless HC-30 & HK 212 cab / Celestion G12M Greenback speakers
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Originally posted by UCnUXq8mGmoHt0e6ItuTs10w at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpgAOPPHjTg
I realize this was 4y ago but I have reached the conclusion these are basically useless. Also I've never turned ya'll off but,,,,,
58:30 Sounds like Invisible Sun by The Police
You guys should do a new synth pedal roundup. It's been 4 years since the last and I'm in the market!
Haha. Mick seems so uncomfortable and disinterested. It’s like watching a football player discuss ballet.
Enzo is my favorite one. But the problem is there's no patch to save. I can't use it live. Cause i want to make many sounds. I cannot change the buttons live. So sad because i'm still stock with my GR kit of Roland. Can wait for a pedal like that who can save patch. Let's go Meris !!!
Why such idiots
seems like Mick's been dipping into some serious edibles here…
Honestly all these synth pedals suck. Just get a real synth
Lol I just skipped through some parts to find some random sound I liked and the sounds are just too silly . Iv never liked these types of pedals and don’t find them musical at all.
I would be interested in a synth sound similar to something more straigjtforward sounding, like a synth tone I’d get from maybe a keyboard that isn’t over the top Star Wars on acid sounding. Just something to write synth riffs but doesn’t sound like a laser blaster or washy and ambient.
I can’t every imagine most of the sounds I skimmed through being used on a decent sounding song .
That being said I’ll watch the video and see what I missed. I like straight forward sounding synth tones , nothing totally weird with tons of layers or doesn’t ring out like a normal instrument
the digitech synth wah sound reminds me of the sound from Daft Punks "Human after all"
I still haven’t heard a single sound from these synth stomp boxes that make me want to bother with them. At least my Roland jdxi is consistent and forces me to learn piano????
Might be time to revisit this now that you've got 3 more years experience with them. ✌️????
Been a stressful time as of late. Just want to say thanks for this show and the optimism education and escape it provides!!
One little tip. If you use a pedal with horrendous frequency spectrum, try to add mid focused overdrive AFTER that pedal. It works beautifully and concentrate your sound in the place of guitar
Ocelots and Elephoes ????
Love your channel. Just to add, "ocelot" is for ocelotl, nahualt word for "tiger", so it was the translation given for the frailes in actual México, for a european dictionary in 1579. Saludos de Ciudad de México.
Love your videos
Ok I’m catching up on oldies here, but as an aside, Moog themselves also made a guitar/synth pedal, called the Freqbox. It is an unruly beast that perplexes everyone at first, bc Moog made such excellent clean sounding synths and all the awesome moogerfooger effects, but then there’s this Freqbox thing, that’s just a wall of heavy fuzz-like distortion with an autowah and crazy high frequency caterwauling, which just goes berserk as soon as you touch it. Guitar works best through the sine/triangle wave & minimal autowah settings, where it sounds great. The range of distortion settings are more useful when playing a subtractive moog synth through it, to add more fuzzy frequencies to your output for further filtering sweeps & phasing & whatnot. …good rule of thumb with other synth pedals too.
Dyup ????
What happened??? I just bought a guitar synth! ????
That Enzo caught my attention 🙂
17:10 is hilarious
Using my SY-300 first with a GT-1, now with a GT-1000; also have a SY-1000 for my GK guitars.
SY-1 is Boss' entry level guitar synth IMO.
Thanks so much for this demo love the Enzo i know pain stakingly demo
Dummgeschmatze
Ocelot ocelot won’t you come out to play
No Source Audio C4??? Was it out yet?
ENZO Vs SY-300
Please!!!