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We improvised and recorded this ambient session when we first planned to shoot some videos for the Nocturnal. This is 100% improvised, so don't be hard on my playing..!
Hope you'll love this session.
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If you don't already know him, check Hudson Freeman's work. He's an amazing indie music artist.
Love ♥
CD's crew
Improvising a session with rythmic patterns going through a looper, Crushturnal and Nocturnal.
Those 2 devices are so inspiring for creating moving melodies and ambient textures.
It's really cool to see how this can be very fun in few minutes.
Just let you dive into this rythmic / ambient session :)
Signal path is : Crushturnal, Nocturnal, Ditto looper, Morgan Amp sim.
Love ♥
CD's crew
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Louis has been using our pedals for a few years now (Black Hole Symmetry, Nocturnal, and Crushturnal), and he came up with the idea of creating a Live Session with his modular setup, his saxophone, and his voice.
It was truly a beautiful moment.
Be sure to follow him !
He’ll be glad to answer your questions and share his favorite tricks!
Title of the song : Le vent
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To follow this legend : instagram.com/louis_rxse
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Please do as many checks as needed to make sure a component is correctly soldered and not reversed when a polarity is required.
Have fun building yours!
More informations at : collisiondevices.com/fz-infos
00:00 Tools required
00:28 DIY kit unboxing
01:22 Resistors
09:38 Film / Ceramic Capacitors
12:16 Electrolytic Capacitors
15:20 Diodes
17:28 Transistors
20:48 Toggle switch
22:37 Potentiometers
25:53 Audio jacks
29:07 Footswitch 3PDT
30:45 LED
32:12 Final assembly
FZ is the 1st pedal from the Sparks Series. Our line dedicated to DIY. You can buy the pedal or a kit to build it or book a workshop with us. Choose your favorite.
It is available at : collisiondevices.com
Here are few audio clips registered with a looper and a fender telecaster / squier bass with different music inspirations :
00:00 Hendrix
01:12 SRV
01:52 Lynyrd
02:42 Pantera
03:27 shoegaze BDRMM
04:48 midwest
06:08 noisy
07:49 heavy
09:40 bass line
10:57 bass chords
12:51 after reverb : MEGAGAZE
It can destroy everything you plug into it.
It has a VOLUME control, toggle switch for brightness or darkness,
GAIN control from low gain to very compressed and distorted,
GATE control to make it sound like if something was broken.
But you wallet will not be as it's only 149 € ex taxes!
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en quoi ça consiste? Comment se passent les ateliers? Puis je la monter chez moi ?
On répond à tout ça dans cette vidéo.
FZ launch !
What is it? What are the workshops? Can we build it at home?
Everything is described in this video.
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00:00 Introduction FZ - Sparks Series
00:33 Ateliers de fabrication / Workshop
04:52 DIY KIT chez soi / at home
06:19 Pedal already built / déjà assemblée
06:59 What is the FZ
09:44 Ending
We improvised a live session with the Outer Wilds Travelers theme.
Outer Wilds has been an inspiration for us for years. This is the video game we would have liked to create and think about.
If there is something of Outer Wilds that is weekly with us, it is its OST by Andrew Prahlow : http://www.andrewprahlow.com
An amazing human being we had the chance to meet at NAMM 22. We are so glad he owns a Nocturnal and this is why we decided to shoot this video with a Nocturnal only.
Remind you Nocturnal is available here : collisiondevices.com/shop/p/nocturnal
Dive with us into the ambient world of Nocturnal.
We had a lot of fun to shoot it in one take as a sequence shot.
Sometimes just improvise and let music talk as a way to express your feelings is the best medicine
This is what happened there.
Wanna get this baby ? : collisiondevices.com/shop/p/nocturnal
Nocturnal is now 232,5€ instead of 332,5€
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Signal path : Telecaster - NTL - Ditto looper - Morgan amp simulation
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1st : Melodic arpeggio
High Pass Filter with expression and low gain distortion. Blast secondary fuzz makes it gnarly
Serial mode. Exp on HPF.
2nd : Blow it up
Add Fuzz mode with expression pedal on Low Pass filter to make its resonance peak.
3rd : Bass-Tars
Low Pass filter sweep is perfect for an intro. Blast section makes your bass cut through the mix and destroys it. Right in a DI, no cheating.
Serial mode. Exp on LPF.
00:00 Melodic arpeggio
01:01 Blow it up
01:46 Bass Tars
This is an improvised session derived from those chords I love from #3. Aphex Twin albums have been huge inspirations when we created the Crushturnal. All those glitches and weird sounds helped us creating it.
Here I lost myself with Crushturnal, TARS DLX and Black Hole Symmetry.
Those 3 devices are so cool to play ambient music, create pads or textures.
I mostly use TARS DLX as a little distortion and overall filter.
TARS DLX filters the microloops from Crushturnal, then Black Hole Symmetry at the end of the chain glues the whole thing.
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1st : Never Ending Descending
Sequencer is set up on infinite descending mode with a "tiny" step size.
Reverb and Delay clocks are sequenced.
2nd : Sequenced Pitched Delay
Sequencer is in manual mode. Each press on its footswitch triggers a new step.
Step mode is "up & down" and step size is "octave".
3rd : Vibrated Ambient Reverb
Sequencer mode is "up & down" and step size is "tiny".
Expression pedal is plugged and controls the clock around which the sequencer vibrates.
00:00 Never Ending Descending
01:00 Sequenced Pitched Delay
01:53 Vibrated Ambient Reverb
Crushturnal exists in standard or Black or Cream finish.
As if Joel & Ellie where left alone with CTL digital madness and ambiances.
We improvised and recorded this ambiant session when we first planned to shoot some videos for the Crushturnal. We came with a very inspired theme by the The last of us, and as we're huge fans of the game and we like the show, we wanted to record it. 100% improvised, so don't be hard on my playing..!
Love
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C'est une pédale qu'on aime beaucoup et qui représente vraiment ce qu'on affectionne dans l'artisanat, on a voulu lui rendre justice en expliquant le process de création visuelle de la pédale ♥
EN :
Here, Baptiste tells you about our worst pedal release and its unique design features.
It's a pedal we really love and one that truly represents what we cherish in craftsmanship. We wanted to do it justice by explaining the visual creation process behind it.
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Learn more on The Ranch :
youtube.com/watch?v=C6YC1Cu2BJo&t=13s&ab_channel=CollisionDevices
youtube.com/watch?v=VQ-5QED-mJM&t=955s&ab_channel=CollisionDevices
On espère que ça vous plaira ! ♥
English speaking friends, this video is entirely subtitled, enjoy!
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00:00 Intro
00:57 Historique Collision Devices
02:53 Komenkonfait
11:51 Faut lire en fait
13:36 Outr-hole Symmetry
Take your pedal and watch it to understand how it works and unveil the full creative potential of your pedal.
It's time to become a nerd. Welcome to our club.
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00:00 JHS introduction
01:01 Sequencer introduction
04:55 Controls
06:52 Step Size focus
10:30 Mode focus
34:22 Micro Looper
42:02 Sum up
46:49 Ambient Outro
On se met au chaud sous le plaid ou on chope une place dans les transports pour visionner 45min de TARS DLX ♥
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00:00 Intro Yo
00:53 Layout
02:37 Concept
04:10 Fuzz seule
07:02 Feedback Fuzz
10:09 Filtres seuls
19:31 Fuzz & Filtres en série
22:58 + Feedback Fuzz
24:46 ADD FUZZ MODE
33:16 Pédale d'expression
36:14 Outro
It is a stage & studio tool to shape your sound with high precision or an experimental device for loud noise makers.
We recorded TARS DLX technical demo in our workshop with a Ditto Looper while playing knobs and a Telecaster into a Morgan Amp sim.
We showed the main features of the pedal but there are many more to unveil.
Please use headphones ♥
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00:00 Dual Fuzz
02:07 LP/HP clean Filters
05:50 Fuzz and Filters parallel
08:18 Fuzz into Filters
12:27 "Add Fuzz" mode
16:42 Expression pedal on Filters
20:13 CV input on Filters
24:53 Bass demo
28:53 Bass filter sweeps
31:40 7strings guitar demo
34:32 Synths demo
37:39 Drum Machine demo
TARS DLX is the Deluxe version of TARS.
TARS DLX is a distortion/fuzz with 2 analog resonant filters inspired by the MS-20.
It is a stage & studio tool to shape your sound with high precision or an experimental device for loud noise makers.
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This video is particular for us as it is a new try. We release our traditionnal live session followed by a talk with the full Collision Devices team. (Nicolas, Baptiste, Aubin, Denis)
We felt more natural speaking in french and we subtitled the whole talk in english.
It was a super nice time to talk between us about this wonderful product we are so proud to release.
Have fun watching it! ♥
Baptiste uses TARS DLX to filter the mix at the end.
Aubin uses TARS DLX and Black Hole Symmetry with the Bass.
Denis uses TARS DLX and Crushturnal with the Guitar.
Audio clips from the live session : soundcloud.com/user-175699105
00:00 Live Session
04:31 Talk about TARS DLX (EN sub)
Video filming and editing : Chris ♥
Sound recording & mixing : Corentin ♥
Lights & smoke : Téo ♥


