Submarine Pickup Demo Including Stereo Fun with the Poly Beebo

Video Transcript

Note: a machine made this, so it’s not perfect, but if you’re hearing impaired and have any questions about what we said, please feel free to ask us in the comments or send us an email with the form below. 

[00:00:00] Emily: All right. All right, then. Well, uh, welcome to get offset. My name is Emily and I’m here today with a submarine pickup it’s already on the guitar. Um, but I’m going to reach over here and grab another one for. Uh, I want to go ahead and shout out our Patrion supporter. David , uh, he, he, his submarine pickup a while back.

[00:00:29] I never got the chance to, um, actually play his, I was just so swamped with some other projects. Um, and then I thought I lost it when it was time to sing it back to him. I bought him a new one. And then as soon as I saw the box of this came in. I know where that is. And so now I own one and I’m going to have some fun with mine.

[00:00:53] Um, might have some fun with his. So I want to talk a little bit about how this works, um, and what comes in the box. So this is what it looks like. It looks like a submarine. I’m going to hold it under this camera as well as probably gonna be a little bit off focus. You see some other pet, you see some other pedals here.

[00:01:09] I’m actually going to hold it up to this camera. Okay. You can see why they would call it a submarine. It very much looks like. Uh, traditionally and you’ll see two little divots there. That line up with the strings on the back there, it’s a little sticky surface that actually holds quite well to the, to the guitar.

[00:01:28] It stays in there. Pretty sturdily. Uh, there’s a little eighth inch, I think that’s a 3.5 millimeter Jack there, uh, plugs in two little height, adjustment screws. They give you an Allen wrench. They also give you the case. That that attaches to, um, and a little extra magnet, uh, for some mounting purposes is my understanding.

[00:01:51] I did not need to use that as a three-way switch. One position. I just has one string on two position has both strings on. Uh, so typically that would be the low east string for most mounting sit scenarios. ENA string and then the third position would be, it just turned completely off. Uh, so a couple, a couple options there you could, of course Mount it to the high strings.

[00:02:22] Uh, most people don’t tend to do that. Um, most people tend to play this, uh, the, these, this, uh, submarine pickup, uh, kind of as a bass player. And that’s how I have it set up on the jazz master today. And it has a little ENA string bass player. If he has sneak peek before I have a special edition chemist, the 1.5 from Matthew’s effects.

[00:02:48] I have that, uh, with just the octave down, kind of. Close to 50% blend, not quite completely there. And I have that with the Mazet, uh, lower drive going into the stream and Iridium on the round B setting with the base treble, you know, who cares, uh, bass trouble up mids kind of, uh, and ends at noon, uh, trouble kinda trying to shovel down a sketch who cares.

[00:03:17] You’re not even hearing those. So, um, I am running my gets horror also. Yeah, I’m, I’m kinda cabled up. So let’s talk about this cable run, cause it is, I’m not going to lie if you’re playing this live, it’s pretty fucking annoying. I’m not going to mince words. I’m going to say the F word about it. Um, but it’s pretty awesome.

[00:03:39] Pretty damn cool. Um, I’m playing around with it for a bit this afternoon. I’m kinda sad. It took me so long to get to it. I’m glad I own one now, but you know, mounts there wraps around here. Gunny hook, they recommend Velcro showing it to your strap live. If I played it live, I would absolutely do that. Um, it hooked into the Octa pedal for sure.

[00:04:08] Could not find my OSI five. I’m sure I will laugh when I do find. So that’s in my octave pedal, which is a separate part of my pedal run, obviously. Um, and then I have my guitar plugged into my regular Sunday crushed pedalboard. I’m only going to be playing through the Halberd and the lb. Um, and I will.

[00:04:30] Probably do a little muting and toggling of tracks as I do the editing. Uh, just so you can kind of hear, uh, the separation there a little bit. So, um, let’s, let’s get to playing, uh, I’m going to turn the, the, um, the submarine off to begin with. Uh, this is just clean signal. Um, using the amp, I’m using his, basically the calves.

[00:04:59] Uh, for the guitar guitar, the regular Sunday crush run and the stream Iridium. Um, let me just make sure I have one, three guys on the mano. I am going to have some fun with this. I’m not going to get into all the settings quite yet. I’m going to see how far I can get into the features into the wildness of this guitar of the submarine, because I know it can do stereo stuff and I have some stairs.

[00:05:26] Things kind of hooked up, ready to go. I really hope I can get into them. I’m not a hundred percent sure I’ll have time today. So let’s get into it. It’s like, can this replace a basis? Maybe let’s find out

[00:05:51] let’s turn the submarine on. I’m mostly going to use it.

[00:06:08] so you can hear it. You can definitely hear it. Um, if I turn off, if I got the volume pedal down on the other, on the other whole guitar.

[00:06:25] And then the tracking on the chemist. Isn’t perfect. But the OSI five wouldn’t be perfect either. Neither would my even tide H five of I use one of the settings on that. So

[00:06:39] it does add some oomph though, to the playing. So, um, Yeah, let’s just keep playing with it.

[00:06:59] Um,

[00:07:09] so you can definitely hear it does not happen at all on the D

[00:07:19] Megan here on the line. You know, in the videos like on the website, they do tend to show it mounted closer to the neck. I do find it getting in the way, um, mountain, where it is on the jazz master is pretty essential to Mount it. That’s about as high up as I can mounted because otherwise it would get in the way of some of these controls here.

[00:07:41] So that’s my.

[00:07:54] I’m going to turn on some more gain. I’m going to head over and, uh, hit, uh, the lower drive setting on the diving bells

[00:08:06] and fix my ears.

[00:08:25] on the, uh,

[00:08:32] more of that.

[00:09:23] What happens when we turn the mics down.

[00:10:07] we just used on the Eastern sea that cleans it up at all.

[00:10:16] I think that is a little bit cleaner.

[00:10:38] All right. Well, that was a quick look at it. Uh, was it’s basically intended purpose. Um, I think that if you have a, an, an octave pedal that tracks a little bit faster, it’s going to sound a little bit sweeter, a little bit more natural. Um, if you like the charming nature of kind of wackadoodle, uh, tracking, I kinda, I kinda like it.

[00:11:01] Um, I think it works better when it’s just on the east string. I think it sounds a little. Odd on the eighth string, but I also think that sounds fine. Um, you know, it is what it is. So you kind of, I think you should probably take it, take it as it is. So, um, that’s kinda my thought with that one. I’m going to try see if I can do something kind of weird next.

[00:11:25] So let me see if I can make that happen. And if I come back and see, I couldn’t make it happen, please be understanding. All right. So what I’m going to try to do, we’ll turn down all the volumes. So this says that you can plug in

[00:11:54] a splitter cable like this guy,

[00:12:02] and you can say it. The Ian a string to separate channels. So I think that sounds fricking weird. I don’t have a lot of like stereo pedals, super duper handy, uh, like within arms reach. Oh, oh.

[00:12:31] So, oh, wait, no, I have the rooms right here and I have the age nine by even tide. How’d you go in? Um, so I’m going to try this. This is not like the longest Kate. This is not a long cable at all. So, um, Everything’s going to be extremely awkward. Uh, so I have also the split meld, which may help, but I’m going to just like kind of, you know, mess around and find out as the children say.

[00:13:08] So pray for me. All right. So I’m going to see what happens with the, the Beba. Here, which has currently no, and puts her outputs, but I trust the Beebo because, uh, the Beebo has TRS NS and TRS outs. And the S uh, the Shriver and Iridium takes stereo V a T R S N. So it seemed like a perfect, easy match for my, uh, wacky, wacky, old situation.

[00:13:43] So, um, let’s pan to that camera and get a little patch gum. I kind of want to just start from scratch. I just forget how

[00:14:04] I’m getting separate a and separate E

[00:14:11] start. Emily. Good start. Good. Delete.

[00:14:19] Um, recent. I don’t have I delete. All right. It’s been a minute since I’ve played with this pedal. All right. So I’m going to hit back and delete and I’m going to add effect and effect, and let’s see what I can do.

[00:15:11] Man. I’m just thinking now I could’ve put everything through, uh, and he could put everything through an octave down first, and then you could put it through all these effects, but I won’t do that today. All right. Oh, I’m just keep, I just keep, I’m just saying a little, little overwhelmed with options, a little overwhelmed with that.

[00:15:36] Um, I just want a chorus.

[00:15:45] I know I’m going with this. Um,

[00:15:53] I think

[00:16:05] um, I have to actually connect it to things, which is what I did wrong. I think. So I connect that to that.

[00:16:54] Um,

[00:17:27] I don’t know why you would super duper want to do this, but I’m doing it so you can, so you can learn how. Synthesis weird.

[00:18:56] so I’m just gonna really quickly, uh, blend in the rest of the board, make some stupid noises because this doesn’t make any sense for anything. Holy shit. It happened again. I have a problem with this. I’m on a short leash.

[00:19:25] interrupt the gain there. I’ll adjust the volume in post and yeah.

[00:20:49] all right, I’m going to unplug myself from this prison. Whoop. I’m going to turn off the volume on this guitar. And I want to get my final thoughts because why the hell? Not at this point? Um, I’m going to be honest. I didn’t think it would be that cool to run weird ass effects through just the two low strings that didn’t really even involve octave stuff at that point.

[00:21:19] Like I had some pitch Bindi, some chorus, and I thought that sounded pretty neat just from like having a few minutes with it even. I’m sorry that took a while. I haven’t, haven’t played with the poly and in a hot minute, but like, honestly, That sounded kind of fun. That sounded weird. It sounded of kilter.

[00:21:41] It sounded unusual. And I thought it sounded a lot more cool and neat. And in super again, just weird. I liked it. I would do that again. That was fun. Shit. Yeah. So, um, that’s, that’s my thought on the submarine. I’m sure that was. The world’s most helpful demo and comms are gonna be like, you’re right. It wasn’t helpful.

[00:22:08] I’ll be like jokes on you. You watched the whole 30 minutes. If you got to the point where I said that, probably wasn’t very helpful. Ha ha. Now, uh, that was, that was fun. I’m glad I have one. I think it’ll probably probably be more of a studio tool. I. Not want to use it live particularly of Supreme, kudos to anybody who does use this thing live.

[00:22:34] Uh, please tell me how, uh, you managed to not hit this little dial all the time. You must be very, very careful. I know they also have the one that goes all the way under, uh, the fingerboard under the strings. I mean, um, and that’s really interesting to me. I I’m really curious about that. Pick up one of those or inquire, inquire about that one, but this is a very, very creative tool.

[00:22:59] And like, it’s just, it’s neat, man. Damn. So again, big, thanks to, um, David for us sending this my way. And it is also a friendly reminder of why I don’t borrow gear from subscribers, uh, because.

[00:23:22] Please don’t offer to send me things, sorry. Unless you are a brand, uh, please don’t send me things that you intend to get back. You’re not gonna, sorry, David is the exception and I have this plate was guilt for a month and a half while I waited for the new submarine pickup to come in. So yeah, those are my thoughts on, on, on this pickup.

[00:23:43] It’s neat. It’s cool. I’m probably going to play with it more. I might even play it with the other one. Before I send it back, maybe I’ll put it into the high strings. Probably not until, yeah. Well, I guess I’m like comment, subscribe below. Check us out on patrion.com/get offset. We have merchant gas at podcast.com/shop.

[00:24:04] Thanks for watching. Thanks for understanding. And till next time, my name is Emily goodbye.