The Ground Control Serpens is an optical boost and compressor that silently evens out playing dynamics while adding a darker charm to your tone.
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Hey, welcome to get offset. My name is Emily and I’m here with a pedal sent to me by ground control, audio to demo it is their serpens. It is their optical boost slash compressor. Let me just read little a, sheet, they give you. The serpens is not your traditional boost slash optical compressor pedal effectively, even being out, playing dynamics here, liking it remaining as silent as possible when not playing the serpents retains all of your guitars, unique character while adding its own slightly darker charm.
To your tone, volume controls the loudness of the output signal. Pretty standard blend. Turn clockwise to blend in more compressed signal. Sensitivity turn clockwise to make the compressor side chain more sensitive to your playing gain. Turn clockwise to add more headroom and possible amount of compression.
So, uh, let’s get to it better. Turn this off first so you can get the clean tone. Yup.
That’s a little bit much, right. Oh, my God. I’ve heard of my fender Jazzmaster with Lollar blademaster pickups, Strymon Iridium Round B a drive at noon room at 10.
Turning up the blend to add more compressed signal into the mix.
Try that game down a little bit for now.
I think that is driving the Iridium some. Let’s turn that to a three. Yeah.
I’ll I mean, already a pretty huge difference.
And it is slightly darker.
all right. Let’s turn the blend back to noon and play with the sensitivity.
That really was evening out the dynamics quite a bit. And let’s try that with the blend up all the way.
Alright, tell us up, try turning these guys back to noon and we’ll start turning up the gain.
Oh, that was at noon.
Woo. Every day I do that.
I’m going to blame my pinky for those.
That one was closer.
Alright, let’s turn that gain back down.
Okay.
Hard to imagine that. Yeah, it’s hard to imagine that. So you’re already on bed. Sounds gnarly and cool.
And that’s cool. I really like that. All right. Well, that’s a quick look at the serpents by ground control audio. If you’re interested in getting a serpent’s or any other pedal guitar, et cetera, please hit up the reverb dot Tom link. In the video description, we get 1% cash back on anything you buy. It doesn’t cost you anything extra.
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Once again, my name is Emily. Bye.