EarthQuakerDevices | 3 years ago
Artist, producer and composer Matt Lange takes us on a trip through his pedalboard and his modular synth system. Matt likes to combine "traditional" instruments and non-traditional instruments, including the modular synths because it's like "having a musical conversation with a robot."
Watch in fascinated confusion or deep synth-nerd understanding as Matt shows us how he builds a rhythm using the various synth modules. EQD appears in his modular setup via the Afterneath Module, which Lange says he keeps in his rack because it is unique and "doesn't behave like you'd expect a traditional reverb to behave. It really does offer something different." Matt also likes to use pedals with his modular system, so he adds distortion via the Big Distortion Sound Machine by Dwarfcraft and puts all of his modular sounds through EQD's Astral Destiny to add some space.
Then Matt, who confesses he "loves guitar pedals," shows us his tidy traditional pedalboard, which includes EQD's Avalanche Run, Astral Destiny, Sea Machine, and the Hoof Reaper. Matt talks of his love of 80s guitar sounds and why the Sea Machine is simply "the best chorus pedal." For Matt, the Hoof Reaper "blows me away because of its sheer brutality," while the main channel "retains clarity on complex chords. Which I find really helpful because I love complex chords," Matt says.
The Avalanche Run is used for its "fantastic, moody melancholic sounds" that sound great emanating through an amplifier. Besides the EQD goodies, Matt uses Eventide's Rose delay and their Blackhole reverb along with the God City Instruments Jugendstil distortion pedal at the end of the chain, post reverb, "just to destroy a signal. I love destroying signals. It's a personal pleasure of mine."
By Vice Cooler
DP Dalton Blanco
Sound Scott Cornish
PA Henri Cash
Shot at The Smell in Los Angeles
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