Rainger FX Snare Trap Demo and Review

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[00:00:00] Emily: Whew.

[00:00:05] Oh man. Oh, that’s good. Well, her husband made a really nice cup of coffee today. Welcome to get offset. My name is Emily and I’m here today with the ranger FX snare trap. It’s a little pedalboard drum machine, you know? It’s a pedal board drum machine there. I’ve played with a few things like this. Um, most notably I’ve played with the boss, RC 10 R that’s a Looper with a rhythm section and that one has a bunch of preset drum patterns.

[00:00:40] Uh, there’s an a and a B pattern. You can change out the kit so it can sound like basically, however you want it to sound. It’s a really neat, neat thing. Uh, it’s mostly. Uh, this is something completely different. Uh, this is a lot more customizable for how you want it to sound in some ways, in other ways, it is kind of what it is.

[00:01:07] It’s just a matter of is what it is right for. You will make you happy, will elevate your music. I would love to help you figure that one out personally. I like it. Let’s talk about it. It’s a call the snare Travis by ranger FX. And it comes with this little sheet that will tell you what all of these knobs, dials switches, inputs, outputs are.

[00:01:36] There’s quite a lot. So I’m not going to get into every single thing. I’m especially not going to get into the more advanced things. The triggers. For the bass drum, snare drum and us, and hi-hat, uh, I’m not going to get into the side chain, which you can turn on and off there. Um, I am going to get into pretty much everything else.

[00:01:56] So I’m just going to start kind of where it makes sense. In my brain, uh, to start the volume, that’s the overall output from the pedal. You also have a mix. You can have all, uh, all beets, all snare trap, all instrument and everywhere in between. You have, uh, the snare shape you can shape. Let me me. Okay, that’s fine.

[00:02:25] Like how would my nails look? Uh, you can set a shape on the snare. You can also, um, remove any reverberations from the snare sound there. It gives the debtor sound. Some people may like that. If you’re writing reverb pedals, after that, Maybe want that. Uh, and I will be running eight, at least one pedal after this, in the demo.

[00:02:51] What I won’t be doing is I won’t be running it with. I just don’t want to get into that today. I will eventually I promise, I promise. I promise you also have this little high hat switch up. The high hats are on eights and down there on fours. And you also can change where the second bass drum hit is and the bars.

[00:03:13] Uh, so by default, it’s on the one three, and it’s the one that’s by default on the three. And by default, I mean all the way counterclockwise turned to the left, that little dot. Right. Uh, over here, we have this snare delay section. The send is, this is just for the. No bass, no high hats on delay. So that’s a mix you can, uh, go from full dry to full wet.

[00:03:38] You have the rate and you have the feedback. That’s the number of repeats. Great. Uh, you have this little LFO rate that you can switch on and off. It is a low pass filter as is this so you can control that either manually, or you can have this. LFO running, you push that down and you’ll see, that will start to light up.

[00:04:05] I personally have, I use it more manual, uh, just to kind of filter out some of those highs, but I, it is pretty neat. The elbow. So I mentioned that came with us, anybody, a little manual on the bag. You can also see a quick start guide and you can also see my light and the reflection, my little shoe light.

[00:04:26] Let’s get you back down. Cool. So, um, the only button I haven’t covered yet is this pad button. Uh, you press the pad button down to tap in your tempo, uh, all year two taps. And if you want to start over, you do one long hold, but you can correct it. Um, it recommends small corrections. Cause if you do too big of a correction, it can kind of make everything go a little wackadoodle.

[00:04:55] Uh, so you can S you can trigger the pap tempo, and then if you want, you can push the toggle, uh, push that button again. It goes up and you have access to this white noise sound.

[00:05:13] Kind of cool. I just realized I’m playing this through the Stripe on a radium. I’m going to turn, go ahead and turn the room all the way down. Uh, everything else is pretty much in the middle of some of the round B setting. And the reason I’m doing that instead of going direct, which I believe you could do is because most of the time you’re playing this, unless you’re using like a splitter, you’re going to actually, you’re gonna be feeding that into your drum, uh, into your hand.

[00:05:36] So, uh, let’s go ahead and start making beats. Okay.

[00:05:47] 1 3, 4. So you can hear the bass drum on the one and the three. You can hear the high hats on the eights. Uh, I don’t have any delay, I guess I did have a little delay now. I don’t have any delay. Uh, the filters all the way up, not filtering anything out in this sheep of the snare is in the middle. I’m going to first adjust the shape of the snare.

[00:06:22] So you can basically tune the snare, which I think is pretty cool.

[00:06:33] A little more mellow all the way, the left little harsher, all the way, the right. You can also tune this there with. Was the dry switch down,

[00:06:50] just dead. It

[00:06:54] not a natural sound particularly, but I need sound,

[00:07:00] turn that back on. Let’s hear the high hats on the fourth.

[00:07:13] Right. I’m going to leave the high hats on the forest while I adjust where the second bass drum kick is.

[00:07:28] It really changes the whole mood and it really makes it, I think it makes it pretty cool sounding.

[00:08:02] Just letting you listen to it.

[00:08:12] I like that right now. So I’m going to put the high hats back on the eights that on the eighth, it propels it a lot more and it’s a lot more laid back with it on the fours. Let’s look at this low pass filter a little bit.

[00:08:39] Okay.

[00:08:56] It almost feels like you’re slowing it down when you do that, but you’re not.

[00:09:04] I like to filter out just a smudge of it.

[00:09:11] But let’s listen to the LFO.

[00:09:16] Very slow

[00:09:22] as a neat character. I like it.

[00:09:35] It’s very apparent at this speed.

[00:09:50] What happens when we have it on the LFO setting and do a manual budget?

[00:10:00] I think it becomes a lot less apparent. Um, if you’re going to use that manual setting, I think that you should keep the, uh, gonna use these two together. It’s hard. That’s just for my ears maybe, or maybe your has worked better than mine, which is very possible. But if you want to use the LFO rate, I kind of recommend keeping a cutoff pretty high.

[00:10:33] That’s pretty cool. All right. So what I am going to, I’m actually gonna turn the volume down there. So I’m going to do next is I’m going to play this through the ghost facts by dwarf craft devices. Unfortunately, Warcraft devices doesn’t really exist anymore, but this is a really fun phase. Phaser pedal.

[00:10:53] So a phase of days, I swear, oh, there it is. I even have a matching patch cable for it. So, um, I guess I’ll just do this, I guess I just, I guess I just will,

[00:11:11] if you also loved door craft devices, tell me in the comments, what was your favorite Dorf craft puddle? When was the great. Still is all right. That looks nice. Give them a power.

[00:11:30] I’m sorry. It’s a dwarf crafts. Um, pedals, a little out of focus. It’s a taller much taller pedal. I even plugged in. Maybe. There we go. All right. So let’s get that volume back up. The ghost fax is not on yet.

[00:11:55] Turn the poles down for a moment.

[00:12:47] I like that a lot better.

[00:13:25] It’s a farce. This wasn’t like the puddle of there.

[00:13:38] Man, I just don’t trust people who don’t put drum machines through phasers. It’s the funnest. It is the most fun. So, I mean, obviously, obviously whatever puddle you put through, um, the scenario. Uh, like whatever instrument he puts this near trap, it’s, it’s going like the effects you have before. That’s all going to kind of translate through cleanly, like a Looper pedal.

[00:14:11] And then when you put things after it, that’s when it’s going to start to impact the sound of the drum. And I put this, I put this through a lot of things. I’ve put the snare traps through the mood that was kind of fun. Uh, delay pedals were okay-ish fun. Um, I put it through a delay pedal and it was, it was okay.

[00:14:34] Uh, I feel like there were like just too many bleeps and bloops for it to really feel effective. I didn’t really put it through any dirt. I didn’t think that would be particularly compelling. Um, I did, I am going to put it next through the reverb X. Uh, that’s obviously another ranger effects pedal. Um, Sounds really, really good with it.

[00:14:56] It shouldn’t be too surprising, but I’m going to put the snare trap through this. I’m going to have the gated function on, uh, because I think a gated reverb with a drum is going to be really cool. I’m going to do the, you know, I didn’t do. I just realized I didn’t do the, um, the delay function. So I’m going to go ahead and turn off this pedal, move it over here, that back to the middle and let’s explore the delay on the snare song.

[00:15:28] All right.

[00:15:39] Two repeats kind of sounds like the minimum. I know it looks like this thing on my face. This is it. Um,

[00:15:49] You can actually.

[00:16:28] It almost, it sounds like you’re getting extra heads when you have the feedback down low and you kind of adjust the rate to your taste.

[00:16:47] They’re not all winners.

[00:16:52] So just adjust the tape. You can’t turn the mix all the way up.

[00:17:00] You actually hear exactly how quick the repeat is there.

[00:17:38] Right

[00:17:46] now, I want to turn that back down. I’m going to plug in the ranger, FX, uh, reverb. And again, I am sorry that it took me a minute. I almost forgot, but I didn’t forget. So don’t yell at me too much. I corrected my mistake. Please. Calm down. Angry people, Nate.

[00:18:28] Because the riverbeds has that dirt on the trail of the reasons. I have the gate on it’s on the dark setting. Most parents have the bright.

[00:19:06] Me.

[00:19:33] So that’s worth talking about, is that the elephant also very much. Feed like factors into the white noise sound.

[00:19:51] Do you want to use that?

[00:19:59] And you can just hold for one second. Stops. The self-sustaining.

[00:20:09] the white noise works. Even if you don’t have a bead set

[00:20:16] in factors into the delay as well.

[00:20:21] I don’t know why he pulling this hand up.

[00:20:50] Cool. So that is a look at the snare trap, mostly alone, uh, with a couple little key friends, uh, put in that demo. Um, check them out. If you want to use an affiliate code making this purchase or any purchase. Uh, we have codes in the video description for sweet water and for. Using those costs you nothing extra, but does, uh, help support this channel and helps me make videos like this.

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