Daniel Fisher, Sweetwater’s mad scientist of sonic aberration, explains how to choose effect pedals to use with synths and demonstrates why he considers these some of the best effects pedals for synthesizers. They were chosen for their sounds, versatility, and special features, as well as important considerations such as stereo ins and outs, battery and adapter powering, size and weight, and a high performance/price ratio.
The effects are applied to a Korg minilogue Polyphonic Analogue Synthesizer with a very simple setting of just a Sawtooth wave. Each effect is demonstrated separately, and then all of them are used simultaneously.
0:00 – Intro
0:47 – Korg Minilogue Synthesizer
1:02 – TC Electronic Flashback
3:18 – Boss RV-6 Reverb
5:10 – DigiTech Nautila Chorus/Flanger
8:09 – EHX SuperEgo Synth Engine
9:20 – EHX Ring Thing
11:03 – Using All of the Pedals
13:34 – Thanks for Watching!
Here is a list of the products used in the order that they are first demonstrated:
Korg minilogue Polyphonic Analogue Synthesizer: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/minilogue
TC Electronic Flashback Delay and Looper Pedal: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Flashback
Boss RV-6 Digital Reverb Pedal: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/RV6
M-Audio EX-P Expression Pedal: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PedalExp
DigiTech Nautila Chorus and Flange Pedal: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Nautila
electro-harmonix Superego Polyphonic Synth Engine: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Superego