Chords for Pedal Talk Ep. 1 - Steve Malkmus (The Jicks, Pavement) | EarthQuaker Devices

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_ _ _ _ _ Steve Malkemis, _ [Gb] Earthquaker _ _ device tester _ _ [Eb] from the Jicks and pavement and shit like that.
I think I already had _ one of these delay pedals or reverb pedals _ and then I did a Mark Maron episode.
He's like, I got some Earthquake pedals, _ I have a couple of doubles, would you like to take them?
They looked awesome and he was really being nice.
I hope that's not trouble for Mark, but he did.
[G] And then that's how I started to [D] use them. _
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_ _ _ _ [Eb] These are ones that we are [Bb] experimenting with today. _
I've never _ played any of these pedals, except for that one.
_ _ _ Yeah, I put them right in my _ pedal board. _ _
People have those, right?
I don't really have one, but I put them in [E] line and I also got a _ _ Hummingbird.
It's a tremolo.
It's a tremolo sound.
In a live area, I don't like to have that much stuff.
Maybe like a fuzz sound, a delay sound, _ and _ a wild card sound, which could be something like this. _ _ _
_ [N] _ You know, like something that is weird, that you don't overplay.
You could have a _ pedal is a star moment.
You know what I mean?
_ That's okay too.
I have one of these on my tour.
So I would almost not call this a pedal, _ _ because if you're using it as a _ virtual spring reverb,
it's kind of like almost not a pedal.
It could always be on.
Anything that's always on, I'm just going to not call it a pedal.
If you're just using something to keep your signal constantly _ _ boosted, _ it's more like _ _
part of your amp, _ except it's existing over here.
So these are great.
Just a spring reverb [F] sound.
_ [Bb] When _ I use it, I turn that all the way down.
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[D] So look, that just sounds _ nice.
This is called the Bit Commander. _
Made famous by Deer [G] Hoof. _ _
I learned.
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So it sounds like it's kind of fattening and dumbing down the amount of information into
a more computer sounding _ keyboard _ _ _ feel.
_ [Eb] I guess that's what the bit means.
Like in Ableton and stuff, when [G] you go down to like 8 or 12 bits.
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Obviously it could be good for bass. _ _ _ _
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It reminds me of Chrome too. _ _ _
They use a lot of weird sounds like that.
Now this here is called Sea [Bb] Machine.
_ [F] It's a chorus pedal from what I understand.
I'm going to use my bass [Ab] player Joanna's settings.
She told me not to _ use them, or [F] that I didn't have to, but _ I trust her. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ There's a little bit of underwater there. _ _
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Now I'm going to play the Nirvana song. _
[Ab] I always think of when I think of chorus, I think of maybe like the [G] Smiths or Nirvana.
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_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ This one's a little more, _ tends to be _ _ _ like changing the tune a little bit more than Andy Wallace did.
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ I don't think Kurt Cobain made that choice.
I could be wrong. _
_ Sounds like an Andy Wallace choice.
[G] Sea Machine.
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[Bb] Now this one's named after a neighborhood in Southern California, _ _ Palisades.
_ It's _ _ got a shitload of knobs [D] on it. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Here's before, here's after. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ So it's a booster and different volumes and voices.
_ [Bb] _ _ I [Gm] think you should cut that part out because I'm not talking [Db] about it.
I [A] _ _ mean if I was playing I want like _ _ _ _ _ incense _ _ _ _ and peppermint sound and then _ some more conservative _
like _ warm _ _ _ _ tone _ fuzz and then a delay and _ _ then a wild card like I said.
I would put this Bit Commander in there.
_ I would throw that over in the corner. _ _ _ _ _
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_ They're really fun.
They look like fishing lures to me or something.
_ Obviously if I were to go into a music store, you know, it's like, it's kind of like _ bait.
It's kind of like a fast food _ _ option in a music store.
I'm not saying they're totally inexpensive, but you know, there's a lot of things on the
wall that cost a lot.
Those kind of things, a guitar and amp, they represent more _ substantial changes to who you are.
But a pedal, you're just like adding, it's like getting a tattoo that is not, [G] that you
actually don't even, you can get it removed like really quickly.
So _ that's the pedal lifestyle.
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