WMDevices | 6 years ago
The WMD Geiger Counter is hundreds of entirely new face melting sounds. A high gain modern preamp drives an 8 bit computer, creating sounds which range from nice (tubey overdrive, lofi aliasing, hot gated leads) to total madness (impossible amounts of gain, multiple octave foldover, harsh digital data errors, and piercing sculpted noise).
In this video, we are experimenting with running multiple hardware analog synthesizers, both vintage and modern, through the original Geiger Counter pedal. We've received a few emails from people asking what they can do to dirty up their synths, and what it sounds like to distort and bitcrush them with the Geiger Counter guitar pedal.
Is it possible? How should I go about running my synth through the Geiger Counter pedal? Is there anything special that I need to do?
The answers are yes, go for it, and adjust the ouput volume of your synth accordingly. The best advice I can give people is to just try it and make adjustments based on out the outcome sounds.
Here, I am running all of the synths and a Sequential Circuits drum machine into a Mackie Mix 8. The main output of the Mix 8 is feeding directly into the Geiger Counter. In order to make sure I was getting the most out of my preamp, I checked multiple output levels from the mixer, making sure that I could still turn the gain knob on the pedal and hear a difference in the amount of saturation.
Running drum machines through distortions is one of my favorite things to do and the Geiger Counter crushes drum machines so well that I couldn't resist. Playing both a synth and drum machine through the pedal at the same time made for some really cool sounds that I didn't know would happen..
I cover lots of ground in this video and make a ton of different sounds. Everything from just a little bit of extra grit organ-like sounds, to 8-bit Nintendo and Atari-ish sounds, to complete harsh noise chaos, the Geiger is a champ at.
