Cooper FX Arcades Generation Loss Card Demo and Review

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Welcome to get off set. My name is Emily and I’m here with the Cooper effects, arcades generation loss, the chip, not the pedal, the chip. This is essentially, um, you know, well, the generation loss is sort of this low five flutter. Wow. Pedal that got really get really famous and nobody can get their hands on anymore.

Uh, chase bliss did aversion. You can’t see it, but it’s behind me. I can’t get my hair in a way. Yeah, I like it. Um, but Cooper affects put out a chip for the arcades. That’s eight takes on the gin loss. So, uh, let’s get to it. Shall we? I’m going to be reading from the manual for the, the, the card. Um, it’s in front of me, I’m going to use chip and card kind of interchangeably because you know, they’re basically little SD cards.

Um, they got a big chip on the back. I know they’re not the same, but for some reason, ship is just the word that. Is going to come out of my mouth 90% of the time when I’m talking about it. So I’m going to read from the manual, the generation lost pedal, not the card has two sections, the wow and flutter section and the fidelity section, the wow and flutter section does the pitch vibrato and random pitch fluctuations.

And the wow is like the slower, deeper ones. And the flutter is the. Faster higher ones. Um, and the fidelity takes the fidelity section takes care of the filtering noise and sample rate reduction. Knowing this will explain, uh, the first four. So looking at the first, uh, pitch a patch node, uh, is the w and F for awhile and flutter.

This one focuses on the phenomena. Wow. And flutter often found. On magnetic media, like tapes while describes the low frequency frequency of pitch variations, like five Bronto and guitar terms, and flutter describes the high frequency pitch jumps and really creates a sound of a garbled tape. Uh, w speed WSPB controls the speed of the wow.

A WD P D trolls, the depth of the modulation F D P T, and allows you to control the amount of flutter. Flutter can be smooth or disordered and crinkly to adjust, adjust this characteristic of the flutter. The FC H R will increase harsh tape irregularities as you turn it clockwise. That’s a lot of words.

Um, and first I’m going to just show you that secondary features. Um, so each, each knob is labeled ABCD and there are two pages. This page has the, what drives tone in clock. I’m going to leave the wet and dry, both maxed out. So you can really hear the effect and the dry signal. And I’m just gonna leave the teller in the clock in the middle.

And this is page has the things that change all the time. Uh, The wet, dry is the same for every setting and it will carry between settings. It’ll even carry between cars if I remember correctly. Um, so let’s get to it.

I have my fender American made Jazzmaster played through the strive and Iridium round B gain at dune room at noon. And then the settings, just the way I like them, you can hear them. So let’s look. And, uh, I don’t want anything maxed out as to start with everything kind of in the middle.

I took a little tumble there. I will put that on the Patriots. You subscribe to get offset that patrion.com/get offset. Uh, you can watch the entirety of the phone falling over. Alright.

I really, really liked that that’s really, that adds a lot of sweetness. And, um, the wording here, people use a lot with these low five kind of pedals. Are these tape emulation pedals is, um, warmth. And, uh, I can, I it’s, it’s, it’s nostalgic for a certain generation of person and older bang bang. I just think it sounds really cool and neat.

A very hipster to be fair. Uh, the next one is the fidelity mode. The fidelity side of the generation loss, a filtering noise and sample rate are key here. There’s a low pass filter and high pass filter, which should just the cutoff frequencies, um, of the each filter respectively. Uh, Jen NAB, lets you dial back the call quality and digitize the audio by reducing the sample rate.

Not something found on analog media, but a nice tool to have with any lo-fi manipulator and then the noise Novolins and some unique. Extremely unique noise and dirty flutter characteristics. Okay. Everything back in the middle there.

that’s essentially like no filter. So let’s just look at the

that has nothing happening with the pedal. So let’s very, very gently turn right.

that’s cool.

That sounds weird. And I like it.

another, another real winner in my opinion. That’s another real winner. So this is called combo a combines the flow. Wow. Characteristics from the first patch with the filtering options from the second a while, and flutter control the amount of wound flutter, respectively, low pass filter, and high pass filter.

Set the cutoff frequencies. And, uh, this patch, he says, uh, Tom from Cooper effects says, uh, borrows heavily from the chase bliss version of the generation loss. So let’s just keep things at noon and I’ll turn up my volume. I sent her.

That’s really cool. I have the chase bliss on generation loss. Please check out the demo for that. This is combo B and Tom says that this is the closest in his opinion to the original generation loss. Uh, it takes the full wow section, independent speed and depth that’s SPD and S P a M. From the first version of the gin loss age control leans into the low pass filter as some slight high pass filtering and a boost and noise levels.

This is akin to the noise mod version of the generation loss had ads, tape, crinkle, and distortion, not saturation, um, to the signal and adds a little more of a harsh verbal

it’s all in the middle there. Ooh.

Awesome. Awesome. Uh, now I need to move my window a little bit. Alright. Vintage vintage time capsule, uh, S Oh, Nope. Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope. Incorrect. VHS delay of VHS inspired, the lay time and feedback, or, you know, standard delay items. Um, there’s a low pass filter that, um, affects the repeats and, uh, the noise control address, the amount of random.

Heap fluctuations in his, put on the delay trails.

You can hear it’s a grading more. As it goes.

that is dark.

How was lovely. I forgot to mention chase Cooper effects slash Mons distro sent me these chips, uh, to demo. So this is a sponsored demo. Next is vintage speed sets. The speed and DPT sets the depth

of a random vibrato modulator. Um, S H P just a smooth smoothness, like AKA the shape it’s, um, refer slash point to, uh, counterclockwise to the left, smoother to the right, um, Dyna, uh, chest, uh, how filtering and volume characteristics of the affect respond to your playing dynamics. So everything’s in the middle.

The middle

that’s cool.

Hmm.

Beautiful. Uh, next is the CD skip, which I’m excited about because my favorite delay pedal ever. Yeah. Um, citizen men buy Carolyn bread and that’s based on CD skipping. So this recreates the sound of it. CD skipping size dictates how big a chunk of the audio is glitched upon act as the action of skipping.

And it’s an envelope sensitivity or LFOs speed control, depending on the source NAB. It’s an envelope to the left random elbow, to the right start with the envelope. Um, random dictates the probability of the size. Now getting randomized on each triggering event.

so the subdiscipline would be more like if it were at random and when I always wished I could have with the sadistic man was like this. Exactly like an envelope triggering or some sort of a, how would you say it? Um, expression control. Or hold to like trigger it. Cause I love the randomness, but I just wish I had like more control over it, which is to say, I guess I didn’t like the randomness very much.

So that’s what that, although, um, the action all the way sensitivity all the way down, I guess.

nice and it could have it very sensitive. I assume a little afraid

My losing my edge.

I love it.

beautiful. I I’m, I know I’m not the only person in the world who thinks that as beautiful as this pedal does exist, but I think that’s freaking beautiful. Last, but not least radio and attempt to simulate the sound of a bad radio signal. Like if you’re stuck between stations

cause for my hold steady fans, um, that doesn’t have the amount of hiss and static noise. High pass and low Kraft high pass and low pass filters. And then there’s an interference that creates random volume drops. Sounds like you’re in the car during a bad storm.

those are not the static.

that’s the high pass filter, and this is the low pass filter. So this is wide open. Yeah,

don’t hear any static. Yeah. Are you going to hear any volume traps?

so you just have to be triggered a little bit, at least for anything to happen.

that’s really a bottleneck. It.

just to show that it’s possible to put it in her subtly. That’s a look at the generation loss chip card, the card, not the pedal. It’s a lot of sounds in this that I personally would use. I don’t know if I have a favorite, but it really does feel like it adds a lot of warmth to your sound. Um, just scout.

It gives you that, that. Nostalgic feeling. And I really like it a lot. So, uh, another great card for the arcades by Cooper effects. If you’re interested in the arcades, please check out, uh, the reverb.com link in the video description. We get 1% back on purchases when you buy anything on reverb using that link and it doesn’t cost you anything extra.

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