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- Hey everyone, this is Rodrigo and Stan
with the Fender Pedals team.
Today we're here to show you a special pedal board
that we've assembled with five of our new pedals
and some that you might already know.
Today we're going to be going over our new
tube distortion, our tremolo reverb combo
and three distinctly different modulation pedals.
There's a lot of different and unique features
to talk about so let's get started.
The pedal that you just heard in the opening segment
was our new Pinwheel rotary speak emulator
which features three distinctly different modes.
A 145 and 122 and Fender's own
classic fiber tone sound.
Let's takes a look at the knob layout
on the Pinwheel.
The first set of controls that you'll see
are your level which is your overall output.
Your drive control which will add some natural
grit to the sound.
And then a tone control which contain
some of the high end that comes out when you add
a little bit of grittiness to the tone.
You'll also notice two independent rates
for fast and slow as well as a ramp knob
that controls the time that it takes
to go from slow to fast or from fast
back down to slow.
You can toggle between the two rates
using the foot switch, using the dynamically
sensitive rate toggle which we'll talk about
in just a bit or using a regular expression pedal
via the expression pedal input on the side.
Let's let Stan play a little bit
and I'll toggle between the three different types
as well as the slow and fast speeds
to let you hear what they sound like.
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- So what you heard was the 122 obviously
had a little more bass response than the 145.
It's a bigger cabinet so it has just natural
better bass extension.
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Two types.
The vibratone, of course, is just a single rotor.
The 122 and 145 each have two rotors
so it's a simpler sound.
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They all have good uses.
- Yeah definitely, it's a unique flavor.
Let's take a few minutes to play
with the drive control and see what kind
of sounds we can get from that.
I'm gonna compensate by lowering
the level a little bit as the overdrive
will naturally add a bit more level to the sound.
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So you can hear you get a really wide range
of sounds between the level, drive
and tone controls.
Let's take a quick minute to talk about
the dynamically sensitive rate toggle.
- This I think is a really cool part of the pedal.
Obviously we like that so much that we put
it on all three of the mod pedals
this time around.
It just monitors your guitar playing
and when you're playing at kind
of slower or medium volumes, it'll run
the pedal in one state.
When you dig in it can speed it up
which is this great emotional fun swell.
You don't have to be stomping on a button
to do it.
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You can hear it speed up and slow down.
- Very cool. - You mentioned the expression
pedal track where you can plug in
expression pedal or a regular one button
latching foot switch in it to be able
to control the speed remotely.
This pedal is two stereo in and out
so it'll preserve the steroness
of the rest of your pedal board.
It's also great for keyboard players.
And there's a voicing switch on the back
that lets it work better either in a keyboard context
or with a guitar kind of context.
To me it's a lot of fun.
It's three different mechanical speakers,
totally different vibes for 'em.
The fact that you can get the distortion
be kind of grindy and with the various expressive
kind of ability with it.
It's just a fun, emotional kind of thing
to play with.
- Yeah.
Kind of adds a whole new dimension to your playing.
- And just to close out here,
this is set to the 145 setting.
I've got it set fast, I'm gonna add a little bit
of the grind to it and just play a tiny little bit.
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- Now let's check out the Bubbler Chorus pedal.
The Bubbler is a fully analog bucket brigade style chorus,
again featuring two independent rate
and also depth controls.
You've also got a toggle switch between
triangle and sign waves and the same dynamically
sensitive rate toggle that we just talked about
with the Pinwheel.
Let's take a listen.
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It's also worth mentioning that the Bubbler chorus
features stereo outputs.
For this demo, we're using two 68 custom deluxe reverbs
to demo the Bubbler in true stereo.
- Next up, let's talk about the Lost Highway Phaser.
This is an analog fade shifter.
It has four or eight stages in it that's switchable.
Just like the Bubbler, it's got two rates
and depth controls.
You can toggle between them with a foot switch.
It has the same dynamic sensitivity feature.
The Bubbler Chorus and the Lost Highway both speed
up and slow down in the same way that the Pinwheel does
so it takes time to get from one to the other.
I'll just play a couple of sounds.
You can kind of hear it.
So right now what I'm doing is I've got it set
to eight stages.
I'm gonna set the triangle and I've got
the feedback turned way up and the blend
is right in the middle.
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You can hear the depth of the sweep there.
I'll turn the feedback down
and I'll increase the speed a little bit.
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It just gets a kind of cool, swishy character to it.
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If I speed that up, it gets to be
kind of vibrato-like.
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There's a cool trick this pedal will do
where the blend control blends from completely dry
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the fade shifted signal and when you don't have
a dry signal to compare it with,
it ends up sounding not like a fade shifter,
but like vibrato.
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So you can do kind of cool, neat vibrato pedal
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Okay, so the fun thing that you can do
with this, if you combine that with a dynamic sensitivity
I can have the vibrato fade itself in.
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So lots of cool fade shift sounds
and kind of vibe kind of textures
and how we ended in traditional vibrato types of things.
- Very cool.
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- So that's just a few of the sounds
from the Lost Highway Phaser.
It's a really fun sandbox of tones,
lots of good things in there.
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That's the MTG tube distortion pedal.
We do this as a collaboration
with our friend Bruce Egnater.
It has an actual vacuum tube in it.
It's a new old-stock military tube.
It runs on actual tube amp voltages
so there's about 150 volts on the play
to the tube.
It has the switching power supply inside
that generates that voltage.
The fun part of that is most tube
high voltage pedals require some kind
of exotic power supply, like a big walward
or something to kind of power it.
This runs on a regular nine volt DC power supply
kind of power.
It draws a little bit of current,
draws about 350 milliamps of current or so,
so it needs a high current output
on a power supply, but it'll integrate in
in very normal pedal board kind of set up.
- Totally.
- Because of the high voltageness of it,
it cleans up pretty nicely.
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That was the MTG, vacuum tube distortion pedal.
- Yeah, it's super cool to have
a true tube distortion pedal that integrates
really easily with existing pedal boards
and is really friendly.
Next let's check out the Tre-Verb pedal.
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The Tre-Verb features two classic effects
from throughout Fender history, tremolo
and reverb, with three different modes for each.
- There's an optical tremolo which is more
typical of mid-60s Fender amplifiers.
- Okay.
- The optical part of it means there's a photocell
and a light that blinks and the resulting sound
can be choppy.
The bias tremolo goes back to smaller amps
and earlier amps where we use a thing
called power tube bias, so it actually controls
the gain through the tubes.
It's a much smoother sound.
And then lastly, there's harmonic vibrato
which we did on the brown amps even earlier
than the black face amps where it's more
of almost a pitch changing kind of thing.
- Very cool.
- On the reverb side of this pedal,
we have 63 and 65 spring reverb models.
The 63 is our standalone reverb tank.
It's very common in surf music.
It's a big, beautiful sound.
It integrates really well with your note
where it seems to kind of wrap itself
around the guitar note.
65 is more the reverb that's built into
the amplifiers and it's more of a background
texture for me.
One is better for kind of single note playing.
The 65 sound, the drive circuit has to work
a little harder so there's a little crash
at the beginning of the note.
On both of these reverbs, we worked really hard
to get the best spring that we could
so you really do hear some of the artifacts
of the spring crashing a little bit
when you play super staccato with it.
The third reverb type is a modulated plate.
A modulated plate has kind of a chorus sound
built into it and it's really fun to do
volume pedal swells and things like that.
- Let's take look at the knob layout
on the tremolo side.
You've got a level control which controls
the overall level of the tremolo,
a rate control which controls the speed
of the tremolo and a depth which controls
the intensity of the tremolo.
I'm gonna let Stan play a few chords
and I'll toggle between the three different modes
and play with the knobs a little bit so you can see
what they all sound like.
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So that gives you an idea of what all
the three different modes sound like.
Also with the tremolo side of the Tre-Verb,
there's a tap tempo built into the foot switch.
Simply hold it down for a few seconds
and you'll be entered into a tap tempo mode
where you can set your rate just using
the foot switch.
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This enables you to match the speed
of the tremolo to your music without having
to reach down and turn any knobs.
Looking at the knobs on the reverb side,
you've got a blend which controls
your wet-dry mix, a tone control which controls
the brightness or darkness of the sound,
and a dwell which controls the reverb time.
Now let's take a listen to the three
different types of reverb.
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Not that plate reader really has
a gorgeous decay to it.
One unique feature on the Tre-Verb
is the path switch.
Stan, what can you tell us about that?
- The path switch lets you decide
which effect actually goes first
and they sound completely different.
Where it's set right now, we have
the tremolo driving into the reverb.
Then that result of that is the reverb kind
of fills in the valleys of the tremolo
a little bit, so if I play,
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you hear the tremolo kind of throbbing away
but it's a little bit in the background.
I'll switch over.
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So now the reverb effect becomes much more
pronounced, it's obviously chopping--
- Pulsating, yeah, totally different.
The Tre-Verb also features true stereo inputs
and outputs as well as back lit LED indicators
on the knobs like all our other effects pedals.
- That's the Tre-Verb.
All the classic Fender amp effects built into
a pedal in stereo, easy to use.
- Thank you guys for hanging out with us
and checking out some of our new pedals.
I hope that this video's given you some ideas
and maybe some inspiration for what to do
with your own effects pedals at home.
Please see Fender.com for more information
and stay tuned here for more videos.
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