Old Blood Noise Endeavors Excess V2 Distorting Modulator

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[00:00:00] Emily: Welcome to get offset. My name is Emily and you work it out. You look strong. My friend I’ve been working out. I feel strong. It’s about feeling good. And today I have something new. If you read, if you read the title of the video, you know what it is, it’s a brand new launch today. It’s the old blood noise endeavors, excess V2.

[00:00:31] Um, I wanna start with just a little unboxing of it because people want to know what’s in the box. What’s in the box. So let’s go over to camera to open up the box. They’ve really, they’ve really upped their box experience. Uh, since I started doing demos for them, this is really, really nice a code to scan to join their discord community.

[00:00:57] Really cool. It’s a beautiful, beautiful pedal and some other goodies in here. Let’s see what we’ve got. Oh, that comes right out. It’s her pic. It’s that glows in the dark. Hold up to the light. Do you see the light? What light? Maybe I’ll check that out. At the end of the video, turn off all the latency we’ve got sticker.

[00:01:28] We have guitar pack and. We have button and this beautiful box, it will be going up on my shelf. So a nice little fun experience there. Simple, effective, great job. So I’m going to, um, plug this end and reset a little bit and we’re going to get planned. That was painless. Painless. All right. I’m back. Um, I realized I didn’t talk about with the pedal is the excess, uh, the V1 was chorus and distortion.

[00:02:17] Played it, but it was always a problem I was really interested in because it combined two things that I was really interested in and I always loved, uh, pedals by old blood. So I’m really excited to be a part of this release. Big thanks to old blood noise and divers for sending it to me. I am so stoked, um, to be able to play it.

[00:02:39] So let’s talk about. About the controls. Um, so you have independent, independent controls for modulation and distortion. Oh, I should plug it in first.

[00:03:00] I knew I was forgetting something.

[00:03:06] So you have independent controls for, um, modulation. And the store shit and they have different colors. So

[00:03:23] so you can, uh, turn them on separately. That’s a different, uh, controls there. Pretty neat. So, um, there’s a toggle for the effect. Um, there’s a toggle for the module type of modulation effect. I believe the original excess only had chorus. This has chorus delay and, um, fifths. So it’s going to be pretty, pretty neat.

[00:03:57] Um, we have here. Um, the sources section has three nubs. The source and volume is the volume of the distortion. Obviously, when I turned all of the source and you didn’t hear much distortion because I had a, the gain turned it down. I also had the tone turned down, which is over here, and this would be the game.

[00:04:21] And then the modulation has three knobs. The volume of the modulation. So that’s pretty self-explanatory, uh, time will control, uh, the Raiders time of the modulation. Um, so that would be the speed of the chorus LFO, a delay time of the delay depths controls the depth of the feedback of the modulation. I, the width of the chorus LFO, or the number of repeats in the delay, the modes of modulation.

[00:04:55] Fifth is, although this toggle all the way to the left, that is a harmonized delay. Apparently it was based on a hidden mode and the excess V one that I never got to experience harmonizes the delay, repeat up to a perfect fifth. Pretty cool. They continue to harmonize upward with repeat. So I’ll be fun. Of course is a classic chorus delay is a short delay, you know, maybe then the Aboriginal access did have.

[00:05:24] Again, I never played it. I’m just really excited to try this one out. So there are three ways of reading the effects. You can have the modulation first. Uh, so you’re gonna have your chorus, for example, into your distortion. You’re gonna have the in parallel, so running at the same time, which is something that I personally love to do.

[00:05:40] Um, or you can have a distortion first. Uh, so I’m gonna first have them running in parallel, but first I want to do them separately. I think. Okay, I’m going to start with a distortion and, uh, it gets kinda loud, pretty quickly. I don’t know if you’d ever play the distortion down all the way, but, um,

[00:06:17] it doesn’t really do much down all the way.

[00:08:12] So that’s the spot. I like it. Uh, let’s just play around with the, uh, chorus.

[00:08:52] I forgot every right. Like I know

[00:09:55] I forgot to mention that it’s a short delay. It’s like a slot back.

[00:10:23] and then let’s try the.

[00:10:30] Uh, there’s a longer delay. Clearly.

[00:10:53] It’s really musical. I like a modulator delay. I don’t really usually like pitch shifting, but I like it to delay

[00:11:19] it was a video game quality. So let’s go back. Um, let’s get some distortion going, uh, maybe turn the volume on that back a little bit and get the chorus and the distortion going in parallel.

[00:13:17] I always love it. When distortion. Clearly there, but just like under the surface, almost like it’s spooky, sneaky, uh, it like a simmering.

[00:13:39] it’s one of the reasons I love running effects in parallel.

[00:14:42] if that’s a delay more or less. I’ve got quite a clean blend, I guess.

[00:15:27] Just as dramateur

[00:15:57] and the, um,

[00:16:15] I don’t really know completely what to do with that. That’s not my

[00:16:33] Really fast and really long

[00:16:42] And turn up the store.

[00:17:03] that sounds so video gaming. All right now, let’s try doing them.

[00:17:12] Just try doing it with a modulation first, real quick.

[00:17:54] I like that. That’s very shoe gazy to mind now. Shoegaze tune the ear.

[00:20:28] And you can also turn the modulation volume down

[00:20:35] cores, especially that might be a smart thing to do. You really want to go a little while?

[00:21:21] So that was going from modulation first parallel to modulation second. So you can hear how different it is and why, and that’s where it’s so cool that old blood noise gave you the possibility to choose. Where in the signal training, each thing goes that’s thank you. Old blood noise endeavors. Like I cannot get through everything in this pedal and a demo that is a normal and acceptable amount of time.

[00:21:54] It is just too much, but it is so. 209 bucks. I know it’s not a cheap pedal, but there’s a lot in this and it’s so flexible. It’s kind of mind blowing how flexible this pedal is in such a w with such a small box for not being like no screens or anything.

[00:22:19] I’m impressed. I’m so impressed. And. I am so impressed and, um, I really recommend it. Like I cannot wait to explore this more. Um, it’s going to show up more. I can tell already. I am just so stoked on this pedal. Yeah, that’s my, that’s my look at the excess V3. As much as I could fit in to such a short video, obviously three types of modulation, three types of routing to families of effects.

[00:22:58] So you’ve got distortion, you got modulation again, three types of it that you can route in three different ones. Like, I, I like, I can’t do the math in my head on how many options that is, but it’s too many to do in a video. I did the things that I personally find the most exciting. I love running things in parallel because most, most of the times it’s harder to do.

[00:23:24] Um, and then I ran chorus and delay. Uh, before the distortion, because that’s a little less common of a thing to do. Um, and then there are fifths again that you can run, um, also before the distortion or after, and then of course, after, and then how you set the volume will affect. Uh, let me turn the light down here.

[00:23:49] How you said the volume, uh, in the order of the signal chain will impact the output. So you could hear when I had the volume down on the modulation, I switched it to, um, modulation after the, uh, there, the volume dropped some. That was because it was set.

[00:24:19] Let me, um, actually.

[00:25:11] parallel is my favorite followed by chorus before the dirt. I feel like it does mellow the chorus some in a cool way. Um, Let’s see how I feel about delay. I like a longer time and shorter repeats on that delay. Um,

[00:26:06] for that. I think I I’m kind of torn between parallel and delay after though, if you’re doing something more shoe gazy I think you would definitely want it before. Um, this

[00:27:29] and then that one, I didn’t like the parallel as much. That’s another reason that I think it’s just brilliant that they give you the option to change. Um, the, the order of the effect, because I know that for me, the effect that I’m using is now is definitely going to determine the order of the effect, which makes sense.

[00:27:54] They’re all different. Um, so yeah, just a plus old blood noise and Deborah is the excess V2. Um, check it out. We have affiliate links, but buy directly from small builders when you can, if you want to buy other stuff, we have affiliate links for Sweetwater and reverb. Um, check this out in the video description, if you want to support us anyway, uh, liking commenting subscribing is the best way to do that.

[00:28:19] Um, maybe tell a little blood noise endeavors that we sent ya. Always a nice thing to do. Um, And watch the other great demos for this pedal that come up, uh, that came out today and will come out over the next, uh, the next few days and weeks. Uh, some phenomenal people I know are, are releasing some cool videos as well.

[00:28:39] Um, and I’m really, I’m personally really excited to see them. Uh, yeah. So as always, um, we have a patriotic patrion.com/get offset. Uh, if you donate $5 a month or more, uh, you get access to our exclusive discord server, um, We have merchant guests at podcast.com/shop. Um, yeah, but other than that, thanks for watching.

[00:29:01] Thanks for understanding. Keep being strong. My name is Emily good-bye.