Creative Eurorack Distortion & How To Use It // HEAD BANGER from Setonix Synth & Robots Are Red

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"Distortion has been an essential tool for my music making for most of my life, whether that was playing guitar, working with synths in amps, re amping synths and production stems through pedal FX or smashing mixers, tape machines and other gear I've always found it fascinating and with the options to CV control distortion in modular it's even better!

Head Banger from Setonix Synth & Robots Are Red takes the Swedish Death Metal sound of the Boss Heavy Metal pedal, heavily re vamps it for a wide range of input sources, adds CV control and a creative feedback path and presents itself in Eurorack form. While the name and styling lean on the metal heritage it's been interesting to find a subtler warmth and crunch, synths in tube amp like tones and blown out noisy cassette style grunge for more ambient music.

There's a 5% off code for sales of Head Banger at https://www.setonixsynth.com/ with code HEADBANGER5. If you're a Patreon supporter there's an exclusive 15% off code for you at / divkid"

*TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS*

00:00 Hello & previews

01:17 What is Head Banger?

02:28 Feature & signal flow run down

04:17 French punk fuzz & daft distortion

05:41 Destroying beats & how to layer them
06:52 Sequenced feedback ‘riffs’
07:35 Chopping beats in VCAs

08:46 Super stepped random bass riffing

11:32 Blown out destroyed tape sound for grungy ambient music
MUSIC FROM SKYLID

14:42 Chainsaw guitar chugs

15:21 Enhancing basic synth voices - multiple tips!
16:10 Using gain CV as an accent pattern
16:55 Feedback modulation
17:42 Send out wet FX processing
18:58 Injecting more sounds into Head Banger with the return input

21:07 VCO wave shaping basics

22:48 Musical modulated VCO wave shaping

24:39 Head banger as a dual dirty VCA

25:50 Feedback driven counter basslines
PATREON SUPPORTER AUDIO - NICK GILLING

27:20 Audio rate modulation basics

28:10 Dynamic musical audio rate modulation