Today we're joined by Joel Korte of Chase Bliss! Joel's an inspiring figure in the gear industry, both for his engineering and his being-a-great-human. We get to know his story through the lens of the ZVEX Lo-Fi Loop Junky, a unique design using the ChipCorder voice recording chip to create short, compressed, warbling loops. We learn how Joel found himself at ZVEX, how he went from being a fan of the pedal to reinterpreting its sound as the Instant Lo-Fi Junky, and how he eventually went on...

That's right folks, it's time for a different type of actuator. Today we're joined by Alex Beachum, creative director of Outer Wilds. We talk about his favorite controller, the Dualshock 4, as part of a wider conversation about how we interact with games. We get some insight into the development of Outer Wilds, talk about its emotional impact, and get into some other games that influenced Alex. Plus, Andy gets to talk about Fortnite, we all try to remember what the deal with that Seaman game...

Today we're joined by Randall Taylor of Amulets to talk about a four track tape machine: the Tascam 414. We start the podcast with a full circle moment, then follow Randall's journey with tape: how he got started with it, how its particular quirks and challenges inspire the music he creates both live and on record, and generally why it's worth the hassle. We also get a tour of some pedals around his room, hear about the freedom of an uncomplicated setup with his project Jenny Haniver, and...

Today we're joined by Mike Rugnetta, a sound explorer of many forms. We get into music, podcasting, and a bit of sonic philosophy. Mike teaches us about field recorders, specifically the Sound Devices MixPre-3, and how they've been a part of his creative output through the years. Expect discussions of the meditative nature of capturing and manipulating sound, the value of a ping pong ball, and why Mike nearly chose a hard drive as his object. Oh and of course if you have an opinion on...

Today we're joined by Andrew Tasselmyer, prolific musician you may know from his solo work or as a member of Hotel Neon, Gray Acres, and Mordançage. Andrew and Andy have a long friendship, and Dan gets to meet Andrew for the first time. After some chat about technical difficulties and our favorite instrument mods, we get right into the Elektron Octatrack MKII, and Andy and Dan nod their heads along as if they understand half of what's being talked about. It's a deep dive on a deep device from...

Today we're joined by Eric Nyffeler: musician, visual artist, and Art Director for Chase Bliss. Centering around the Electro Harmonix 16 Second Delay Reissue, we talk about the beauty of early delay-looper technology and go deep on the aesthetics of pedals. We also get to some important questions with surprising answers: How do you pronounce his name? Should every pedal have a vent? This and more on today's Object Worship.

Today we're joined by Joe Branton of the Guitar Nerds podcast. Starting with the Boss CS-2, we take a tour of compressor pedals, with a focus on what makes them not so transparent and a key part of Joe's approach to bass. We also talk about the upcoming Effector Market and NAMM, and take a well-timed question about Bass VI from the hogline.

Today we're joined by Alec Breslow of Mask Audio Electronics. As a pedal builder and whacky fuzz aficionado, Alec shares with us the magic of the Devi Ever Bit: Legend of Fuzz. It was his first boutique pedal, and still inspires his design approach to this day. We talk about creative process, the joy of not quite knowing how a thing works, and we hear from some past guests on the hogline.

It's the end of the year episode! Dan and Andy get retrospective at the end of the podcast's first calendar year. They discuss a busy year for OBNE, respond to some listener voicemails, and talk about where they are in their gear and musical journeys.

Today we're joined by Kai West, ambient musician and PhD candidate in musicology at the University of Michigan. We talk about the wonders of the Pladask Matrise, the peculiarities of our particular corner of guitar culture, and blow right past "are pedals instruments?" to get to "are pedals collaborators?" A great time is had by all.

Today we're joined by producer Jeremy SH Griffith. We talk about his favorite tape machine, starting at the magic of tape and spinning off into the ways we get to know our objects decades later, the beauty of limitation and ritual, and the downright spiritual connection of passed-down familial gear. Also we get a voicemail about tremolos.

Today we're joined by Dave Jordan of Non-Human Audio to talk the nuance of big noise. He's brought a very particular example of a pedal with a decades-long history, and takes us through his journey from using that pedal to creating his own designs like the Slow Loris. Heck, we even talk about parts tolerances!

Object Worship is back! Andy and Dan catch up about what they've been up to lately, then they welcome Emily Harris to talk guitar playing, her channel Get Offset, and the many wonders and overall cool factor of the Fender Jazzmaster.

Dan and Andy catch up on the incredible Chase Bliss 10 Year Anniversary weekend and discuss the future of Object Worship.

Clint joins Dan + Andy on Object Worship’s 8th episode and brings his MWFX Judder board along and we talk in depth about the wonders of the PT-2399 microchip. Andy does his best to derail Clint with microexpressions and off the rails we go. Before diving in we enjoy an odd call from an odd hog on the HOG LINE*. Hog out.

Joan of Heart joins Dan + Andy on Object Worship’s 8th episode and brings her pedal board along as her device that has a large impact on her direction as a creator. Andy and Dan talk about MTET and the live MTET tutorial that Andy did at East Side Music Supply in Nashville Tennesee in June, 2023 and we got a first-time caller/not long-time listener on the HOG Line*. Things start to come unglued as the concept of Schrodinger’s Stereo is proposed.

Alex Goldman gets on the line with Dan and Andy and they talk all around delay, reverb, magical tone curses, modulation-types-as-cultural-shift-signifiers, song construction, and much more. Alex brings his Boss RV-3 Delay+ Reverb pedal as his Object of Worship and the conversation drifts into his approach to his musical workflow, including how he and Tim Howard would compose the music for Reply All. Alex is known for his production of that podcast for Gimlet Media, his band Slow Fawns,...

Jesse Honig of 29 Pedals, Believable Audio, plus a legacy of audio production and performance projects that are too vast to list out in this short eppy sum. We dive deep with Jesse into the personification and anthropomorphization of Objects as devices to edify.

Emily Hopkins and Russ, known for their harp + pedal + shenanigans av content on the Emily Harpist YouTube channel brings a harp and re-amp box to the OW party. After a couple of ridiculous listener voicemails from the Hog Line, we talk in-depth about Emily and Russ's objects of interest. The discussion also delves into Emily+Russ's collaborative workflow, film scoring, trolling trolls, and beans. Lots of bean talk, honestly.

Matt Lowery, known for his recorded musical endeavors and industry-defining demonstration videos drops in and discusses the Monome Norns+Grid and how they informed his direction and approach to production.

Dr. John Snyder, owner and operator of Electronic Audio Experiments out of Boston, MA, offers the Digitech PDS 2020 Multiplay Delay/Looper as his Object of Worship. John explains how tinkering with the clock trim pot inside the effector led him down his path of circuit and schematic exploration.

Andy Pitcher, Director of Artist Marketing at D'Addario and an often OBNE cohort and consultant (fun fact, Andy came up with the term Phase Repeater) brings his milieu of Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modellers and discusses the early influence the DL-4 as an Object and how it informed his trajectory.

Tom Majeski, the DSP wizard formerly of Cooper FX and currently of Chase Bliss, hops on the hog train with Dan and Andy and all he brings is a Korg Kaoss Pad 2.

Longtime fans of the format, Old Blood Noise Endeavors is entering the world of conversational audio entertainment with Object Worship: a podcast about how the tangible allows us to create the intangible. Each episode, hosts Dan Pechacek and Andy Othling sit down with a creator, from musicians to engineers to visual artists, and ask them about an object that’s been important in their journey. They’ll talk about creative process, early inspirations, and the magic of tactility, all the while...