Unlocking the Secrets of Time Shadows II: A Deep Dive into Sonic Alchemy

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[Music] hey how's it going all right so we have in front of us the uh time Shadows uh V2 uh collaboration between Death By Audio and EarthQuaker devices and what you just heard was was craziness uh between well from the time Shadows but being controlled by the old blood noise it expression ramper uh V3 over here let's get that out of the way cuz we don't need that right now we'll unplug that no expression yet we'll come back to that so all right so with the new time Shadows we've got um three different modes uh the eqd mode the DBA mode and the sweet spot right in the middle I'm just going to spend some time and twiddle some knobs play a little bit and see what they sound like on all three settings um keep an eye on this toggle right here in the middle that will tell you uh which setting we are at left is EarthQuaker devices right is Death By Audio and that middle is um we'll call it a supernova something like that so controls here are time uh span and filter filter uh changes what it does based on the modes you also have a preset selector it has up to six presets and a a button here to go between red and green green being what you have live and then red being the presets so we're going to stick in live right now just start playing around uh let's start everything down low see what we got oh clean tone right here if we need it it's uh Fender Telly with a Seth lover hucker on the neck and uh into a uh Montreal assembly to positive overdrive uh I've also I might be pushing that in a little bit later with a Spaceman Mercury 4 uh straight at the time shadows and and on into uh protols here so clean [Music] tone okay let's get crazy but before we do um hit like subscribe comment all those things that you hear everybody say on the YouTube maybe start with the filter up [Music] the death B audio [Music] side The Magic In The Middle [Music] so I think it's important to note here real quick that the uh eqd side and the DBA side are completely separate they are both um brainchildsmusic but let's let's hear it let's find out um okay let's uh go back to eqd move some knobs around let's do something right everything in the [Music] middle Death By Audio [Music] and right in the middle [Music] uh all right have time and span dimed and filter is off does do we get anything no we not in that setting I guess we just don't okay [Music] [Music] dbaa in the middle [Music] so that's just some craziness and I'm loving it I'm loving it already Okay so what I just did there for a few minutes was uh same settings uh same knob placements but for all three mode settings now let's switch back to the eqd mode I'll stop talking for a bit and I'll just start diing around those knobs and playing see what we can come up with uh so let's do that oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] d [Music] the [Music] n [Music] [Music] okay that's super cool um very synthy sound coming out of the EarthQuaker device side really liking that and honestly when I first plugged it in that's kind of where it took me by surprise um and then I switched to the Death By Audio side and was equally and pleasantly surprised so let's go over there [Music] a [Music] the [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] w [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] W great [Music] so really cool stuff there as well um yeah funky pitchy delays I love it now let's go to the middle and let's mess let's mess around with that [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] w GL [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Music] the [Music] fun fun stuff um so the manual also says something about the input uh changes kind of like what what you get out of it so I'm going to drive this a little bit harder go to my nocaster bridge uh reversed nocaster bridge and let's see oh that's gainy let's see what we got [Music] w on [Music] [Music] he w [Music] n [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Applause] [Music] okay yeah so totally wild and crazy sounds there that you get out of that and as you kind of increase what you are slamming it with so I like it um you hung out with me this long I really appreciate it let's do just one more thing let's let's check out some expression with it so to do that let's let's bring in the expression ramper got the little scooch tap here both of these are by sorry those are old blood noise stuff brand new just got it love it it's great okay so let's do this let's uh let's manipulate the time control so to do that we're going going to bring that down here bring that here set to a take them both up all the way set to be rate uh we'll just do that little guy and I think that gets it going yeah there we go I use the tap so um let's get oh sorry y'all let's stop this real quick so you can hear what the sound like it's going to make right okay here we go let's Express can you say Express is that is that what we say let's Express I like it let's do it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] pretty cool let's uh let's check it out with the uh eqd side [Music] [Music] wild all right let's do the DBA side [Music] [Applause] [Music] let's slow that down a little bit and we'll take it to like a square wave uh still on the DBA side [Applause] [Music] r [Music] okay can I say that's my favorite so far tonight is that little jum right there