00:00on today's episode i'm going to talk
00:01about a brand that has always captured
00:03my attention with their really unique
00:06aesthetic unique sounds and just as
00:08people in general so let's dive right
00:10into old blood noise endeavors
00:22brady smith and seth mccarroll met at
00:24the university of oklahoma in 2006 and
00:27they quickly bonded over their love of
00:30and odd sci-fi films
00:32brady went on to work with keeley
00:35electronics yes that keeley and then
00:37later helped launch walrus audio yes
00:40that walrus even so brady could not get
00:43the idea of starting his own pedal
00:44company out of his head so in august of
00:462014 him and seth launched old blood
00:49noise endeavors with their very first
00:52pedal the black fountain i remember
00:54seeing this when it came out and i
00:55bought it instantly just because of how
00:57it looked and it happened to sound
00:59awesome since 2014 they have released
01:01more than 20 pedals and they launched a
01:03very successful and awesome youtube show
01:06called coffee and riffs in february of
01:082014. when i asked brady about what the
01:10name meant he basically broke it down
01:13that old blood is the opposite of young
01:16blood aka a noob and the term noise
01:20simply refers to the type of music that
01:22he and seth really enjoy the disruptive
01:24chaotic kind of stuff and then also
01:26endeavors leaves it open to other things
01:28other than pedals so old blood noise
01:30endeavors with that said let's jump in
01:33and look at these wonderful pedals
01:35everything they've done in the last
01:36eight years first up i'm going to do two
01:38pedals because they have a lot of cool
01:40petals in the line and you'll see me
01:42combining some things when i find it
01:44possible first up i'm going to do the
01:47sunlight dynamic reverb i've shown this
01:50on a new and notable like on a live
01:52wednesday but i'm going to use a really
01:54cool sound that i did not display there
01:56basically the toggle in the middle
01:58position and i have the rate really slow
02:01the mix is halfway decay halfway
02:04and it is just a reverb pad it's really
02:07beautiful this is a killer pedal if
02:09you're in a three-piece kind of thing
02:11with a guitar it literally creates a
02:13fantastic pad and you have the ability
02:15to mix your clean back into that so it
02:18doesn't get so washed out that you're no
02:20longer playing guitar you're like
02:22playing just noise so that's a cool
02:24pedal and i'm gonna use the fault
02:26overdrive distortion this is a pedal
02:29that immediately blew me away when i got
02:31it this is the v2 they started in 2020.
02:34i love this pedal and then i realized
02:36prepping for this episode it is a clone
02:40derivative and this really intrigued me
02:42because i love declon i don't love the
02:44klon for the prices i've loved it for
02:46years and years i love it for what it
02:48and i'm gonna tell you right now this
02:52the coolest take on the circuit as far
02:56as feature set user interface and tone
02:58abilities i've ever seen
03:00i can't believe i'm saying that
03:07all blood noise may make my favorite
03:13alternative modified pedal wow
03:16it's kind of crazy so let's look at it
03:19you have the 3-band slider eq and i
03:22believe this comes after what they call
03:24a voice i'm assuming this it feels like
03:27it to my ears i think voice is the
03:29original tone control which was called
03:32it's an assumption but it works fairly
03:34similar i think that is pre
03:36and then post i believe
03:39it's just this unit here probably some
03:41form of which is a super cool pedal this
03:43is something they make it's in their
03:45utility lineup i would recommend this to
03:47anyone you can put it in front of or
03:49after any drive and you have base mids
03:51and treble it's just super simple it's
03:53like a buffer eq you could use it in
03:55lots of different ways but they've
03:56inserted that into the clone and then
03:59you have gain one and two now this is
04:01where it gets spicy and awesome for me i
04:04play the clone with the drive control
04:07at like 75 which is really weird and i
04:10often want to push more like it'd be
04:12cool to bend down and turn it up more
04:14and then every once in a blue moon i
04:16want to turn it down to a lighter
04:18overdrive i'd never use it as a boost
04:20though so i can set this up
04:22like i want that control and then i have
04:25an alternate gain control when i turn it
04:27on and this is adjusted a little
04:29different the manual says that gain one
04:30is like standard overdrive and then i
04:32love their reference they say that game
04:34two is the intro scene from back to the
04:36future so it's just big bigger
04:38distortion you have a crush here which
04:41initiates some clipping diodes at the
04:44volume a boost it's so cool and it looks
04:51and we shall jam oh oh and by the way
04:54because all of old blood noise pedals
04:59feeling this emotion to them graphically
05:03nick and joshua wrote an entire basic
05:06script and scene to a movie that doesn't
05:08exist and all of our jams will be based
05:10around this false yet rivetingly real
05:14uh cinematic scenario
05:17at the dawn of time two sisters were
05:19born whose task it was to govern the
05:21rhythm of day and of night
05:25the name of one sister was daylight and
05:27the name of the other
05:30together their dance ensured the rising
05:37there was peace in the cosmos but an
05:39age-old hunger for power grew in the
05:43a fault line of chaos spread across the
05:46galaxy as dark star was attacked by an
05:48ancient cyborg cult known as the
05:52though they believed her destroyed the
05:54heart of darkstar now roams the galaxy
05:56looking for someone who like herself is
05:59pure of heart holding an affinity for
07:40you heard it here that fault is so good
07:43i love the reverb but this this this is
07:49a bit of a strange underdog clown killer
07:52on our hands and that's exciting this
07:53might have to go on my board don't tell
07:56one other thing i want to do here when
07:58it comes to the art so this art is
08:01really cool in all the petals and i'm
08:02going to try to name off the actual
08:04artists that design these because they
08:06actually use talented amazing people
08:08from all over and they let them design
08:10the art for the pedal and it's super
08:12cool they even have like screen printed
08:15comics and posters and
08:18it's really amazing like the level of
08:20care that they go through uh from the
08:23artistic perspective
08:24is awesome like what pedal company does
08:26this definitely not j chess you get like
08:29unicorn and a pick or something
08:33but then you get a uh a pretty cool
08:35poster that feels like there's a story
08:37and an underlying narrative the art on
08:39the fault is evan cohen and then on this
08:41one is john carling so yeah
08:45companies don't make things people do
08:47next battle next up we're going to play
08:49that first petal that i ever bought it
08:50is the black fountain
08:53this pedal replicates uh first off the
08:56sound of vintage oil can delays hence
08:59the oil coming out of the oil rig but it
09:02has a modern and an organ mode i'm gonna
09:05kind of the simple mode that i really
09:07like and a big huge washy reverb and you
09:11know i got to go back to this i'm not
09:12done with it yet i need more of this
09:14fault in my life i also want to point
09:16out that this is like a really cool
09:18strange subconscious
09:20i don't know it's like a thing about
09:22oklahoma there's like earthquakes and
09:24fault lines and then you have oil
09:26it's just fun i don't know that they
09:28know that they did that but now they
09:29know that i know that they know that
09:30they did that i think that's pretty cool
09:34is done by sam larson and there is a
09:36version too i have the box
09:40i have the box to all these but it would
09:42just be exhausting i might do a few more
09:44just for fun and for the kiddos if
09:45they're watching uh there is a v2 but it
09:48has tap tempo and it's updated and it's
09:51a lot better but i want to play the old
09:53one because honestly pedals are attached
09:55to my heart and i can't rip this away
09:56from my heart and the new one's not in
09:58my heart yet and it may never be
10:00honestly i don't care about the new one
10:01you might care about the noon because
10:02it's better but i like the old one
10:04because i'm old and some of us are
10:06broken and some pedals don't need to be
10:07fixed so i'm going to play the old pedal
10:11i was just told i made an error it's
10:13actually a version three so there's a
10:14version two i'm going to play one so old
10:17and out of date it's like we're using a
10:18windows 98 computer but i love it and
10:20you can probably find this on reverb
10:22if you want a new and buy a new one if
10:24you want an old one don't buy a new
11:47if the version one that's two versions
11:50old sounds that good
11:52you might want to check out the version
11:53two and last time i promise i'm gonna
11:55move on from the soapbox
11:57this is amazing i know i'm pushing it
11:59hard i don't get anything for this this
12:00is not a paid promotion i'm just amazed
12:03this is a clone i found it out it's been
12:05sitting on the shelves i'm super excited
12:10you know what that's cheaper than
12:14ktr they're like a grand now
12:18that's like 8 cups of coffee this is
12:20super cheap let's sell all these out
12:22like all of them thousands of them
12:24millions of them let's do away with this
12:28let's move on next up is a fuzz pedal
12:31that's super cool it's the alpha hunt
12:36when brady worked at keely and he was
12:40learning how to build pedals and he had
12:41this pedal that he created and he called
12:43it the gatekeeper and it was kind of
12:45close to a zvex woolly mammoth sort of
12:48uh and then that just basically evolved
12:50on and on through the years and then
12:52around the time when he decided hey i
12:54want to launch this old blood noise
12:56endeavors thing and i want to do this
12:57pedal called the black fountain he made
12:59some just a few printed and unprinted
13:01enclosures they sold them to raise the
13:04funds for this but that eventually
13:06further transformed later once they had
13:08launched into this pedal uh which is
13:11just the haunt and then you have the
13:12alpha which is later so it's like an
13:14evolution of an idea that was way before
13:16old blood noise so i'm gonna play this
13:18later because it's cool but right now
13:20i'm going to play this it's in that same
13:22format i didn't want to talk about this
13:23again but these are keller i never
13:26thought about old blood noise as great
13:28drives and fuzzes i always thought about
13:31ambience and weirdness but i have been
13:35these are amazing i would go as far as
13:38this would do any overdrive you ever
13:39need and this will definitely do any
13:41fuzz you've ever needed this has all
13:44kinds of sounds i'm gonna just have to
13:46pick a sound but don't by any means
13:48think that's the only thing it does
13:50because that would do it injustice i'm
13:51gonna let it gate a little it has a
13:53control so you can gate the note which
13:55will basically like kill it off and kill
13:58uh slightly velcro is what i'll go for
14:01i'm going to max the fuzz out you have a
14:03bias control you have different this
14:06high pass in the middle i didn't get to
14:08demo it but it's amazing
14:10then you have that same eq from this
14:13an enhanced volume for fuzz a master a
14:18you got wolves this art is done by my
14:20good buddy daniel danger there's a whole
14:22story here brady saw one of daniel's
14:25paintings in a gallery and asked could
14:28they use it for this so daniel basically
14:30cut those wolves out and uh they put it
14:34you got post this is just exciting stuff
14:38i'm going to throw this on the intro and
14:42this pedal's wild i'm going to have it
14:44in the echo mode and i'm just going to
14:46start the song and then i'm going to hit
14:48this hold switch and it's this pad
14:52frozen sound and then there's going to
14:55like a solo thing i don't think you can
14:57call it a solo it's a noise that i will
15:01detune i'll just flip it up same
15:03settings and you'll hear me push this
15:05and the note will pitch up out of tune
16:26this next petal the dweller
16:30knocked my socks off as the kids say
16:32it's from 2018 the thought is brady said
16:35if a phaser could remember itself like
16:38this strange delayed phaser crazy thing
16:40i just found a magical setting i'm not
16:43gonna claim i understand the setting
16:46but it's amazing it's an amazing setting
16:50garrett young and i showed this earlier
16:53but i mean look at this
16:55it also has this sick poster
16:58there's an entire story line to this
17:02i'm gonna play the older version of the
17:05and uh we're gonna try to imagine that
17:08we're radiohead and we're doing a
17:10seaside for king of limbs
18:54next up is a delay pedal that
18:57does some normal sounds i'm going to put
19:00it right on the verge of not normal but
19:02it's a really beautiful pedal the monda
19:05and it has a stutter shear and a whirl
19:09mode i'm gonna put it in whirl and this
19:11is a form of modulation on the repeats
19:17standard it's not exactly what you think
19:20of it's a little off it's a little
19:21different like all of the old blood
19:23sounds on the back of this there's a
19:25really cool thing it says great just
19:27what we all need another thing to buy
19:30another toy how's this going to help
19:33how's this going to make the world a
19:34little more right and a little less
19:36wrong it most assuredly will not
19:39but maybe you'll be happy for a moment
19:41at first and if you pay attention you'll
19:43see that happiness slowly transform
19:46this form day by day it will blur from
19:49contentment to hunger
19:50competency becomes inclination and
19:53that's where we'll pass like craps among
20:03i'm gonna try to harness that emotion
20:05and jam the art is by jake blanchard
21:20so to wrap on that jam the definition of
21:23mondogrin mondegreen whatever is a
21:26misunderstood or misinterpreted word or
21:29phrase resulting from a mishearing of
21:32the lyrics of the song and i just want
21:34to hearken back to when i was 12 or
21:37something like that and i thought that
21:42shaving or shaving i'm shaving as a man
21:45can be when he was saying shameless i
21:48also thought for years
21:52give me the beach boys and freak my soul
21:55and nick you thought i thought taylor
21:57swift's saying um starbucks starbucks
22:00lovers and what was there was there what
22:03was the other end hold me close tony
22:05hold me closer tony danza that is a
22:08mondogrin mondegreen mondogren
22:15mondegreen i can't i'm forgetting the
22:17the last thing i would ever think of and
22:20probably that you would ever think of
22:22with old blood noise endeavors is some
22:24replication of a vintage unit you know
22:27that's kind of like what i do or
22:28something i always think of old blood
22:31creative crazy wild stuff but this
22:34is creative crazy and wild but it has
22:42vintage pedals i'll show you one of the
22:44very first pedals that the old blood
22:46guys ever played probably the first
22:48chorus that one of them ever played was
22:50the sc10 from the 10 series
22:54they stumbled upon and realized that
22:56there was a thing called the session man
22:58one and two now the session man one the
23:09this chorus in one pedal and you have a
23:11series parallel mode and what's annoying
23:14though is you have to flip this up and
23:15then there's like these microscopic
23:17screwdrive holes that there's no
23:19screwdriver that would ever fit them so
23:21you can't really adjust the settings
23:23and the idea was this is all you need
23:25for that session just go the footswitch
23:28is broken vintage pedals are fun and
23:30then there's another one
23:32session man 2 which has the
23:36and the screamer in it hi it's josh from
23:38the future like a few weeks after the
23:40josh you just saw i've been through a
23:46i made a mistake and i just want to
23:48admit it i talked about these session
23:50men pedals that i adore and love
23:52but i made a rookie mistake i made a
23:54mistake that was a real dumb dumb
23:58that it was the tube screamer ts10
24:01combined with the chorus that i showed
24:04but it's actually the fat cat
24:06and if i just woken up from my
24:08slumberish haze as i was talking to you
24:10i would have clearly seen the knob says
24:12distortion this is not distortion
24:15it's a tube screamer overdrive this is
24:17distortion and furthermore it's a rat
24:22these are rats combined with chorus or
24:27josh from the future needed to tell you
24:29this because misinformation is my enemy
24:31and it's your enemy and together we need
24:35go back to the old josh
24:37so when we look at this
24:40this is the origin of this idea so we
24:45on and off and you cannot turn off
24:48chorus or delay you have one or the
24:50other so you turn this on and you have
24:54chorus and delay i assume you could turn
24:56the volumes on the effects down i don't
24:57know but i'm gonna do both i'm going to
24:59start off with the chorus on and i'm
25:01going to set it fast like a rotary it's
25:04really cool and then i'm going to hit
25:07for a solo section i'm going to hit that
25:09and then i'm going to go to
25:10kind of a slap back hard one or two
25:13repeat delay and i'm going to do series
25:15you can do the parallel just like the
25:17original units and i want to stay away
25:19from blues but when i see the ts10 i
25:21start thinking about blues i don't want
25:23to play blues here because this is old
25:24blood so my thought is
25:29in outer space far away like let's say
25:31pluto and there's a cave in pluto and
25:34then the cave is like a blues band and
25:36then one of the guys in the pluto blues
25:39band he's like man we're like so
25:40traditional out here in space he's like
25:42i want to do experimental blues and then
25:45he gets this pedal shipped to him amazon
25:48and then he experiments with
27:14that jam was a solid like seven until i
27:18tried to play a space experimental blue
27:21solo which just resulted in me holding
27:24uh it wasn't good at all it was it's bad
27:28is bad is bad but i'm letting it stay
27:31because i'm human and you're human and
27:32sometimes we need to see that other
27:38two petals gonna show two i'm gonna do
27:42for an intro this is a pad reverb it's
27:46very very cool it's self-explanatory
27:48it's a big reverb used to do pad sounds
27:51but it has more weirdness
27:54than the other one i used earlier so i'm
27:56gonna do the crush setting there's a
27:58pitch delay and a crush so the crush
28:02the transients or the repeats or the
28:05echoes and it's just very interesting
28:07i'm gonna have the control one and two
28:09i'm gonna actually move one of the
28:10controls as i play and cause an actual
28:13pitch and do my hand at the beginning
28:15with that uh reverb pretty much all the
28:17way up you'll see me hit this so i'm
28:19gonna be holding it it's gonna pitch it
28:21up and back down as i turn the knob so
28:24that's gonna be fun then i'll turn that
28:27this is the main demo the minim now of
28:30all the time-based effects in the line
28:33this is my favorite because i love
28:35reverse delays and i love reverse
28:37reverbs and this is both
28:39it has a lot of controls it does a lot
28:41of things but i'm going to keep it
28:43pretty simple i'm going to use it as a
28:46reverb and a dotted a rhythmic delay and
28:50i'm going to reverse that at one point
28:54i love this one it's great it has a
28:57everything has a po why don't we have
28:59posters this has a look at this
29:01this is cool and then dark stars you
29:03have joshua you have a different version
29:08and his version looks better than mine
29:10let me see that let me see that
29:14they sent it to me they just sent you
29:16because you're such a
29:17love old blood noise more than jhs
29:22the artist tim elliott designed this art
29:25and john carling on the dark star pad
29:28reverb and i'm totally okay that one of
29:30my own employees and part of the show
29:33uh loves old blood noise more than me
29:35and i'll reflect that okayness in this
29:37track of sadness and joy
29:40both you can be both at once
31:04just a few honorable mentions uh here
31:07there's so many cool pedals in the line
31:09and i could have demoed these for hours
31:11the visitor is amazing
31:15like a tremolo chorus tremolo chorus or
31:18phaser and you can double them over each
31:20other it's stunning the reflector is
31:23exactly what you think it's it's
31:27actually um it's a chorus he was wrong
31:35chorus is technically just fast really
31:38fast delay but i guess you're right
31:40joshua because you love them so much the
31:43procession was the second old blood i
31:45ever got it's basically a modulation
31:49like a creepy awesome graphic
31:52i like it you have this expression
31:54device that you can plug into
31:56most any of their pedals have an
31:58expression jack of some sort and you can
32:03have your preset expressions in this and
32:06then this is really cool the signal
32:07blender so you can have a clean signal
32:10on and off a b and an a
32:13lots of jacks lots of options maybe this
32:16is something we could uh throw on the
32:18drums or something later oh no and then
32:19i have tons of boxes that i didn't get
32:20to show have this box
32:28this is a different older box
32:41this has the face of that dude box
32:47they also have the maw which is a
32:49microphone pedal that i borrowed and
32:51neglected to bring it's at your house
32:53and i'm really sorry that's your house
32:55don't be mad it's fine
32:59we asked brady to sum up the mantra of
33:02what is old blood noise this is what he
33:04said just from the beginning we operated
33:07under this no master go faster sort of
33:09flag of like if we want to do something
33:11let's just do it let's make it happen
33:13let's work together to make it happen
33:16and let's work with our friends and
33:18let's be honest about how we're doing it
33:21brady and seth have created an amazing
33:23pedal company that reflects their
33:26personalities and the design work and
33:28the sounds and again i'll say for the
33:30second time in this episode they are the
33:33perfect example of how companies don't
33:35make things people do each and every one
33:37of these petals is unique to seth and
33:39brady's personality the music they love
33:42and the art that they love so with that
33:43said let's go to record time
33:47today's record time is brought to you by
33:492005's talking voice versus singing
33:52voice by one of my favorite bands
33:55uh found out yesterday that brady is a
33:58big fan as well his favorite star flyer
34:01record which i don't have sadly it's
34:03amazing it's called the fashion focus if
34:05you have that vinyl i'd gladly purchase
34:08that or take that off your hands because
34:10i'm trying to collect all these
34:12this is quite a masterpiece in my
34:14opinion in this genre which i have a
34:16really hard time even identifying or
34:19you just need to listen to it let me
34:21know in the comments what you think my
34:22favorite track is easy street definitely
34:26and i don't know why i just love it and
34:28sometimes that's enough
34:32closing up here i want to bring up a
34:34point about old blood they are a really
34:36good example of extremely illustrative
34:39artwork and i had the chance to write a
34:42chapter in the stompbox book that some
34:46if you don't there is a code in the
34:48description below i don't benefit from
34:50this at all but you can get a discount
34:52on this book so this lays out 100 petals
34:56uh of the world's greatest guitarist and
34:58then there is a section here where i got
35:00to write a pretty big chapter that was
35:02really fun it's called seeing sound and
35:06i walk through the complete aesthetic
35:08history of guitar pedals nothing about
35:10how they sound but i start in kalamazoo
35:15skip over here to new york and 75
35:18blah blah blah you get over here to the
35:22in boston and then if you keep going
35:25there is a section towards the end
35:27because it's kind of linear with how
35:30petals are made we end up in 2004 akron
35:33and i talk in this chapter a lot about
35:35earthquaker and old blood you actually
35:38see some of their petals and it's a very
35:40cool form of art that is very different
35:42from what i do at ghs but i appreciate
35:45it a lot and it was fun to kind of give
35:47these artists the props that they got in
35:49the episode today so old blood noise is
35:51a wonderful company i've said that
35:52enough and their art is very cool and
35:54the puddles are very cool so if you like
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