Here's a throwback to February 2020. Our friend, colleague, and collaborator Evan Weiss was in town for a couple of days so we took the opportunity to capture a Coffee and Riffs episode with him. We thought we were about to start Coffee & Riffs back up, then the pandemic kicked in about three weeks later and we quickly had to push pause again and divert focus elsewhere. I am very glad we captured this episode, Evan created a beautiful moment in our old shop in Norman, OK.

Evan plays a Kramer 250G into a Fender Bronco and Fender Champ. Evan's chain of effects is Keeley Electronics SY-1, OBNE Procession, Reflector, Excess V1, Minim, Chase Bliss Audio MOOD, OBNE Whitecap, and TC Electronics Ditto X4 Looper.

Evan has his hands in the creation of a lot of good things, including the musical acts Into It. Over It. Pet Symmetry, Couplet, Their/They're/There, and a record label called Storm Chasers LTD (we like that name here in OK). Check here for a whole bunch of links: https://linktr.ee/intoitoverit

Coffee & Riffs Part Ninety-Two featuring Evan Weiss

Video produced by Old Blood Noise Endeavors and Atria Creative

Performance: Evan Weiss

Host: Brady Smith

Cameras: Blake Studdard, Kilyn Massey, Seth McCarroll

Audio: Kilyn Massey

Edit/Color: Kilyn Massey

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Here we are in a New Year. Coffee and Riffs carries the torch further, this time with Olivia Komahcheet. Olivia plays her Fender Stratocaster into a Greer Amps Lightspeed Overdrive, then splitting into parallel signal paths via the OBNE AB/Y Switcher; (L, R) Earthquaker Devices Pyramids, (L) Farm Pedals Fly Agaric, (R) EQD Hummingbird, (L, R) EQD Avalanche Run, (R) OBNE Sunlight, (L, R) Boss DD-500, ending up in the Roland JC-40, mic'd in-stereo.

Check out Olivia’s music at:

https://linktr.ee/liv_theartist

https://instagram.com/liv_theartist

https://instagram.com/oliviakomahcheet

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No longer going to say “we’re back!” Because it’s obvious Coffee & Riffs never dies. We’re not in control of that it seems, which actually feels good. So enjoy another season of whatever this is, however long it lasts. We make Coffee and Riffs because we love quality time with friends—old and new, inspiration found in sounds, and adventurous collaboration. I suppose when it becomes about something else, that’s probably when C&R will show itself out.

Cathy plays an early 1980's Fender Bullet Tele and @bensonamps Vincent bookending the OBNE Fault V2, Pladask Elektrisk Draume and Tåken, powered by Strymon engineering Zuma. Summer plays a Yamaha DX into a Roland JC-40 with an OBNE Sunlight Dynamic Reverb in betwixt.

Special thanks to Ashlee McCarroll, Connor Schmigle, and Dan Pechacek for joining in the fun.

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Cameras: Kilyn Massey, Seth McCarroll, Blake Studdard

Lighting: Blake Studdard

Editing: Blake Studdard

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Almost a year to the day, we did this again. We were in Anaheim, CA along with the rest of the instrument and manufacturing part of the music industry. Thus, we find ourselves in the midst of a lot of smart, intelligent people that are fun to be around looking for something to create. So here we land once again, our friends Mason Stoops and Andy Othling collaborating on the fly, this time each of them in stereo.

Andy is playing his Fender Telecaster through a Benson Nathan Jr and Matchless Clubman, with these effects in between his guitar and amps: Keeley Compressor Pro, Ehx Pog2, Meris Enzo, Caroline Somersault, Old Blood Noise Dark Star, Smallsound/Bigsound Mini, Demedash T-120, Strymon El Capistan, Old Blood Noise Signal Blender -Loop A: Chase Bliss Blooper

-Loop B: Chase Bliss Mood + Chase Bliss/Cooper Generation Loss, Death By Audio Evil Filter, Line 6 Echo Park, and Neunaber Immerse.

Mason plays his friend’s 1988 Casio DG-1 into a Benson Monarch and Marshall JMP along with these effects: Keeley Compressor, AnalogMan King of Tone, JHS Tacobolt, Lehle Volume, OBNE Black Fountain, Keeley ECCOS stereo delay, Output A: Strymon Flint, 1965 Echoplex EP-2 tape delay, Mr Black Stereo Vintage Ensemble (channel A), Chase Bliss Audio + Meris CXM 1978 (channel A)

(Output B of ECCOS): Surfy Industries Surfy Vibe, Mr Black Stereo Vintage Ensemble (channel B), and CBA CXM stereo reverb (Channel B).

Thank you to Stefan and Randy for operating a camera, Stefan for the use of his field recorder, and to Joel/ Chase Bliss Audio for facilitating the whole experience. Like we said last time, let's do it again sometime.

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Welcome to episode Eighty Eight. For this iteration of the always-in-flux form-factor that is Coffee and Riffs, Eric Cannata and Jacob Tilley from Young The Giant swung through the Old Blood Noise Endeavors headquarters so we turn on some bright lights lights, plugged in the OBNE demo board + the Chase Bliss Audio MOOD, and enjoyed capturing the sonic tapestry that Jacob and Eric crafted together. Thanks again to Eric and Jacob, catch them on tour w/ http://youngthegiant.com http://oldbloodnoise.com http://atriacreative.co http://obneac.com Edit By: Kilyn Massey

Warren Walker stopped by Old Blood While he was driving through Oklahoma a couple of months ago. It's always great to see Warren, he's a cool dude and a really incredible musician. Check out his music and follow his tour dates at http://warrenwalkermusic.com Warren's modular set up is : Squarp Industries Hermod, Make Noise Tempe, Make Noise Rene, WMD Spectrum, Make Noise Morphagene, Make Noise Erbe Verb, Expert Sleepers Disting, Noise Engineering BIA, Make Noise QPAS, Frap Tools Falistri, and he uses an Arturia Controller and an Organelle. He runs his saxaphone through EQD Spatial Delivery, Red Panda Particle, EHX Pitchfork, Keeley Synth-1, Eventide Mixing Link, Dwarfcraft Hax 2, Chase Bliss Dark World, Red Panda Tensor, Chase Bliss Warped Vinyl, and OBNE Reflector V3.

It was a nice spring day outside when Andy Othling stopped by the OBNE HQ with Knobs and Joel from Chase Bliss, though one would never be able to tell based on this dark cave at the back of our shop that Andy and Brady holed up in. Andy explores the deep darkness of how the Dark Star circuits in the Relevator communicates with the Blooper Looper. About the gear used: Andy plugs in the Bilt + Old Blood Noise Endeavors Collaborative Relevator Guitar which has the Pitch and Delay Modes of the Dark Star Pad Reverb installed into it, allowing the player to engage either or both effects, or play the guitar without effects at all. He then begins the chain with the Chase Bliss Audio Blooper, Datachoir+ Old Blood Noise Endeavors Rêver, and the smallsound/bigsound Pretty Years, from there into a Fender Quad Reverb mic'd with an EV 635a into a 2-track Zoom H4N field recorder. See the Relevator and more from Bilt. http://biltguitars.com Check out Andy Othling's YouTube Channel and the rest of his work. https://www.youtube.com/tubescreamer Keep up with the Blooper status by following Knobs. https://www.youtube.com/knobs Video by: http://oldbloodnoise.com http://atriacreative.co

Tune in Thursday 4/25 at 12:15PM CST for the Premiere of Coffee and Riffs Part Eighty Five Featuring Melissa Jacobs hosting and Sarah Reid Performing at Resonator Institute in Norman, OK. Melissa Jacobs—amongst her artwork hung in conjunction with her MFA graduation from the OU School Of Fine Arts—takes the helm and engages in a discussion with our friend Sarah Reid about their artistic output and creative processes. Sarah runs her violin through the Keeley Oxblood, EHX Micro POG, Fishman Aura, OBNE Black Fountain, OBNE Rever, OBNE Whitecap, and Boomerang III Phrase Sampler, and a TC Ditto Looper. For her vocals she uses the Death By Audio Echo Master and Red Panda Tensor. All mics are Electro Voice 635a. Find Sarah's music at https://sarahreid.bandcamp.com Find Melissa's art at https://melissajacobs.art Check out Resonator Institute at https://resonator.space http://oldbloodnoise.com http://atriacreative.co http://coffeeandriffs.com

Don Eisenberg is a busy Man. Don plays a lot of drums. Don has a radio show on 91.7 KOSU The SPY that he helms called No One Man. Don is a man of many names. Don keeps us on time and laughing all at once. Thank you Don! Don runs his Akai MPC 1000 through the Earthquaker Devices Avalanche Run. His Yamaha Stage Custom is mic'd and ran through the Strymon Deco, DatachoirxOBNE Rêver, using the Cusack Pedal Cracker to do so. All is running through a Ditto x2 Looper, then into Fender Bronco and Champ amps. Follow Don and his many musical endeavors

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Tanner Watkins of the OKC band Gloom Cruise swung by our shop and plugged a Gibson Les Paul and Rickenbacker 3000 into the SmallSound BigSound F*ck Overdrive, Walrus Audio Julia, Walrus Audio Fathom, Datachoir+Old Blood Noise Endeavors Rêver, Old Blood Noise Endeavors Mondegreen and uses a Boss DB-90 Dr. Beat along with the TC Electronic Ditto x2 to round out his riff before running it all into a Fender Quad Reverb. Check out Gloom Cruise, they're cool. https://gloomcruise.bandcamp.com video by: http://oldbloodnoise.com http://atriacreative.co

KLLR Coffee opened the doors of their roastery to us and Maddie Razook painting a beautiful aural tapestry in stereo using her voice, an EV635a, a Juno D5, Catilinbread Topanga, Strymon Engineering Deco, Cusack Pedal Cracker, Datachoir x Old Blood Noise Endeavors Rêver, and Old Blood Noise Endeavors Dweller into a Fender Bronco and Fender Champ Check out Maddie’s Music at http://maddierazook.bandcamp.com Check out KLLR coffee at http://kllrcoffee.com http://oldbloodnoise.com http://atriacreative.co http://obneac.com

We find ourselves in California at the end of January of this year and get to share a meal with with friends from all over. We stay up late and Andy and Mason go head to head in a compelling push-pull of analog and digital sounds. Mason plays his 1950’s Classical guitar retrofitted into a baritone with a rubber bridge through a Keeley Compressor, Datachoir Old Blood Noise Rêver, Analogman King of Tone, Strymon Timeline, JHS Taco Bolt, a Lehle Volume Pedal running stereo into a Tone King and also a Kalamazoo practice amp. Andy runs his Telecaster into a Boss MS-3 which controls switching for Chase Bliss Audio Dark World, Dark World, Warped Vinyl, Wombtone, Gravitas, Condor, Brothers, Tonal Recall, Theremae and Modded Ibanez Delay, Ep Boost using the Disaster Area Connect, Micro Clock and CBA Faves Switcher, from there into a Boss Volume Pedal/ Tuner, Montreal Assembly Count To 5 and Old Blood Noise Endeavors Whitecap Tremolo into a Matchless Amp. Thanks to Joel and the CBA crew for hosting us. Let’s do it again. Video by: http://www.oldbloodnoise.com http://www.atriacreative.co Edited by: Kilyn Massey http://www.chaseblissaudio.com http://www.oldbloodnoise.com http://www.lowercasenoises.com/ https://www.instagram.com/masonstoops...

Hi there. Thanks for coming back. Here we have Brady Smith playing a Rickenbacker 360 through a DigiTech XP 1000 Mod, EHX Mel 9, Boss Slicer, Old Blood Noise Endeavors Rêver and Reflector v3, EHX Bass MicroSynth, Earthquaker Bit Commander and Data Corruptor, and Mr. Black Twin Lazers, all finishing into a Fender Blues Junior that's been mic'd with an EV 635A going direct into a stereo field recorder. Brady walks Brady through his process and approach afterwards. Behold the true madness of the duality of self. Video by http://oldbloodnoise.com http://atriacreative.co

Andy Nunez is someone who has both passively and actively informed the music scene in Oklahoma for the last 20ish years. Marian and Andy Nunez opened their music venue Opolis in Norman, Oklahoma in the early 2000s and has been a mainstay of the live music in and passing through town. Opolis has in the last few years delved deeper into vegan food preparation and drinks culture. Now they open up a few nights a week even if there’s not a band playing because the food, drinks and atmosphere are just that good. The OBNE crew goes there for lunch whenever we hear they’re going to be open. Playing in an array of bands over the years, notably Andy played drums in Starlight Mints through the late 90’s until the band ended a couple of years ago. He is now actively performing in Applied Music Program, check out their music in the link below. Everyone who works at Old Blood has spent part of their life either playing or attending shows at Opolis in Norman, Oklahoma and we are grateful to Andy and Marian for their continuing and lasting contributions to the music, art, and good-food scenes in Oklahoma. 

Andy runs a Shure SM58 and a MicroKorg through the Hologram Effects Infinite Jets and Dream Sequence, Boss Harmonizer, and the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Mondegreen. The beat is produced by the FunkBox app. Everything is looped on a TC Electronics Ditto x2. He then runs everything into a mixer where he controls the levels.
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Our friend Danny had a few of us over on a brisk morning and we drank Braums coffee while Danny set up his riffs. From a large menu of pedals Danny chose a minimal pallette to work from with the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Reflector V3 Chorus and Black Fountain Delay. Using a Fender Mustang and Teenage Engineering OP-1, he paints brights swaths of pop melodies draped across a catchy landscape. Oof, that was a rough painting analogy. Danny plays in a band called Husbands from Oklahoma City, hear their tunes and buy a tape while you’re at it. https://www.husbandsokc.bandcamp.com Video By: https://www.oldbloodnoise.com https://www.atriacreative.co

Premiered Dec 24, 2018

Coffee & Riffs returns with Penny Pitchlynn. Penny helms the band Labrys and plays bass in the band Broncho, catch them on tour and buy their music (links at bottom). For these pieces of music Penny uses a Fender Mustang Bass, Dearmond x155 Guitar, Death By Audio Echo Master Vocal Delay, Fuzzrocious Demon Fuzz, MXR Bass Chorus Delux, Old Blood Noise Endeavors Flat Light Textural Flange Shifter, Old Blood Noise Endeavors Dweller Phase Repeater, Datachoir x Old Blood Noise Endeavors Rêver Reverse Delay+Reverb, Red Panda Mixer and Boss RC-300 Loop Station. Blake prepares us a hand-brewed batch of Coffee from Cirque, a Tulsa Oklahoma Roastery. All sounds created by Penny Pitchlynn. https://labrys.bandcamp.com http://broncho.tv/ https://www.cirquecoffee.com/ https://fuzzrociouspedals.com/ http://www.redpandalab.com/ https://www.datachoirsounds.com/

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Does every episode description start with me saying something about how we're back? Probably. I'm not going to look back to see. But we are. We're back. Again. Large and in charge in 2018. And this time we're kicking it off with Mariposa Coffee, a Roaster out of Norman OK, that we've featured in the past but want to shed some more light on as they do amazing things in the world while also making uncompromised coffee. Check them out and feel good about the coffee you're drinking.
We're trying something a little bit new.  A little bit different.  From time to time we'll be focusing a C&R episode around a specific pedal and attempting to build a soundscape using primarily that one pedal.  Today's focus is the Dwarfcraft Grazer pedal with assistance from the Montreal Assembly Puhzing, an Ibanez PH10 Bi Mode Phaser and the Earthquaker Devices Night Wire.  I'm playing a 70's era Les Paul stereo into a Fender Bassman and Marshall JCM 800.  It is blippy and bloopy and did I mention we're back?
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Aaaaaand we're back. Ol' trusty dusty Pete Jonas is back too, with a sweet friend named Connor Foubister. Back in July we found ourselves in Nashville, TN for a tradeshow, along with a lot of our friends in the "industry". So late one night, thanks solely to the kindness of our friend Tom, we were able to get into Barista Parlor's Golden Sound location and see what kind of riffs might drift from the amps and instruments of some friends. We brought our demo boards from the trade show while Pete and Connor brought some fun devices as well. Pete Jonas played a Prisma Diavolo guitar through the Old Blood Noise Endeavors EQ+Buffer, Black Fountain, Fault, Haunt, Reflector, Mondegreen, Procession, Dark Star and Whitecap, as well as the Walrus Audio 385 and Chase Bliss Tonal Recall into a custom built Otis Trudeau amplifier which we miked with an EV RE201. Connor ran his violin through a Fishman V200 Pickup, Adventure Audio Whateverb, the Old Blood Noise Endeavors EQ+Buffer, Black Fountain, Fault, Haunt, Reflector, Mondegreen, Procession, Dark Star, and Whitecap into a Fender Deluxe Reverb miked with an EV 635a. This shoot was only made possible due to some great people willing to take a risk and see what would happen if we through all of this together. Thank you to Tom Eisenbraun for trusting us to respect and be inspired by the Golden Sound location of Barista Parlor, it was a great time and I can speak for myself and say that I left inspired by his generous and creative spirit. Thank you also to August Greybosch of Otis amps, Nick Pourfard from Prisma Guitars, and Chris Demaria from Fishman Transducers; this shoot also would not have been possible without him lending us the V200 violin pickup. oldbloodnoise.com coffeeandriffs.com otisamps.com prismaguitars.com fishman.com electrovoice.com baristaparlor.com

Published on Apr 23, 2017

It was a sleepy weekday morning, and Sam Regan invited us into his physical and mental space in Oklahoma City to play a loop machine. His foundations are a keyboard and voices recorded to cassette, a one second loop cassette that Sam made himself, and 60 second loop cassette he procured from eBay. From there, he explores new waves of those sounds through a TCElectronic Ditto X2, Old Blood Noise Endeavors Black Fountain, and Electro-Harmonix Cathedral. We only wish we could have stuck around to hear those bird noises, but duty calls.

check out samueldregan.com for more of Sam's tunes.

Published on Mar 15, 2017

Dusted off this little gem we shot last spring at the Russo Music store in Asbury Park, New Jersey. I had all but forgotten that as we were packing up that day, Scott from Russo handed Brady that guitar and said he should do one. Brady grabbed the Earthquaker Devices demo board, Howie slid over a Supro and we banged out one more. 
We can't say thanks enough to our Michael Nicosia, Scott Engle, and everyone we met at Russo Music that day for being gracious hosts and receiving us with open arms. Russo Music is a cut above the rest when it comes to a brick and mortar store, if you're ever in NJ be sure to check out one of their two locations. It's very likely you'll see a few things you've never seen before.

Dillan Witherow swung through town and hung out for a few hours. We got to chat guitars, pedals, and road trips. He plugged in a garbage Strat through a chain consisting of the Old Blood Reflector, Haunt, Adventure Audio Glacial Zenith, Keeley Bubbletron, Old Blood Mondegreen, Caroline Guitar Meteoré, Old Blood Dark Star, and a Ditto X4 Looper. All of which was amplified by a lovely Otis Amp. 

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Published on Jan 27, 2017

Sometimes I like to scroll through Wesga's IG feed and watch all of the video from a period of time when he was videoing ABC's The Bachelor with his phone while running the audio through his modular rig. A commander of aural oddness, Wes helms the craft by manually engaging with the various generators, modulators, crushers and squashers that make up his modular synth cluster cuss. I mean that in a congenial way; it's a beautiful cluster that serves its purpose well.

What a fun afternoon. Warren Walker was passing through town and stopped in for an end-of-the-day video party. Running his tenor saxophone and Critter and Guitari Organelle through an array of effects he obviously has a strong command over, Warren crafts something that compels throughout. Here is how he is exacting this chain of aural events:
Selmer Super Balanced Action Tenor Saxaphone
AMT Mic
Eventide Mixing Link
Digitech Whammy II
OBNE Haunt
OBNE DarkStar
Red Panda Context
Strymon Dig
Earthquaker Devices Spatial Delivery
Line 6 DL4
Montreal Assembly Count to Five
Organelle uses the same effects chain via the Mixing Link.
 
Check out Warren's band, they're on tour quite a lot. 
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Concluding our afternoon with our new friends from Omaha, Mathew hops up to bat and delivers a concise and surprising soundscape. Employing his Strat through the smallsound/bigsound Buzzz, Old Blood Noise Haunt, Dr. Scientist Bit Quest, Montreal Assembly Count To 5, Alexander F1, Tomkat Day Dreamer, Strymon Deco, TC Electronic Ditto X2 into a Fender Super Six mic'd with an Electro Voice RE20 and Shure SM7 into a Zoom H4N shot on Canon Cameras with Rokinon lenses on Sandisk SD and CF cards, synced in Pluraleyes 3.5, edited, color corrected, and encoded in the Adobe Creative Cloud.
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Here we are, In Asbury Park, New Jersey. And there he is.  Our buddy Michael.  Well, first that's our friend Summer, upstairs at Lake House Studio. We headed downstairs to Russo Music and met up with Michael.  Michael slings musical gear at Russo.  Michael has an insanely large and fulfilling pedal board.  He makes no apologies for it.  And I like it.  Yes, I'm jealous of it.  Yes, he gigs with it.  Yes, it is heavy.  There it is.  Drone master Michael, take it away.

*Summer's piece where she employs a Rhodes electric piano accompanied by a Yamaha grand piano and some pedals can be found on the Old Blood Noise youtube channel, go check it out if you like.

We took a break one afternoon from the usual bit of making pedals, writing emails, drinking coffee, and yelling at the intern so that we could hang with the kids from See Through Dresses as they passed through OKC.  Sara is first up and plugs into some goodies from Mr. Black, Caroline Guitar Co, smallsound/bigsound and others.  We had some drinks, we talked and the kid ran around throwing pedals.

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Time is a funny thing.  Elusive.  And really sad.  If you're able to find the bright side, cup half full part of time ticking away and stealing life and vitality, good for you.  I'll sit over here and struggle and pout about it for awhile.  So it is that we rarely get to share time in the same space with Joel Korte, founder and brain behind Chase Bliss Audio.  A sweet, new dad whose experience seems more and more relatable every time we talk.  During Winter NAMM, we had more than a normal amount of time to spend with Joel, his guy Zack and our buddy Knobs.  One such night was spent at HIdden House Coffee in little San Juan Capistrano, California.  It was a little bit of a drive from Anaheim and its tucked away in one of the oldest neighborhoods in California.  With the help of our buddies Pete and Mason and the dudes of Hidden House, we were able to hang out for a solid night, drinking coffee, eating an absorbitant amount of taco ingredients and enjoying everyone's company.  We let Joel and Knobs alternate between playing fiddling with various effects including  the Chase Bliss Audio Tonal Recall, Spectre, Gravitas, Warped Vinyl, Wombtone, EHX Key 9, Earthquaker Organizer, Old Blood Noise Endeavors Haunt, Procession, Dark Star and the TC Electronic Ditto X2.  This is the music that you sit back and reminisce fondly about good times, but feel sad because its all in the past.  Oops, I got emo.  Take a minute.  Listen.  and go check out the new Chase Bliss Audio Tonal Recall Delay:  http://chaseblissaudio.com/
Or go check out the Knobs demos and be challenged to make better demos:  http://www.knobsdemos.com/

A couple of weeks ago we were in New York working on some video projects and Cathy was helping us out. She showed us Naia's performance videos online and said she had an idea for a Coffee and Riffs and that she'd be out in California the following week. To which we responded "Well yeah, dang. Do that." So here we have Coffee and Riffs, Part Sixty Three with Naia Izumi produced by Datachoir. 

Naia Izumi who hails from Georgia and resides in California puts several pedals through their paces and gives some true compelling performances. with her Jazzmaster she employs the Mr. Black Gillamondo and Shepard's End, Walrus Audio Voyager, Boss RC-3 and the Old Blood Haunt, Procession, Reflector and Dark Star. Naia's musical endeavors can be found at naiaizumi.bandcamp.com 

Coffee and Riffs, Part Sixty Three with Naia Izumi
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Cathy Begien as Seth McCarroll

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Audio Technician
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Edited by Cathy Begien
Titles by Seth McCarroll

Alex Anderson from WMD is up to bat for episode Fifty Nine of Coffee & Riffs. I like when a person’s calm demeanor disarms me and makes me comfortable within the first few moments of meeting. Alex possesses that quality. He orchestrated all of the components necessary to make this shoot happen, and navigated all of the variables with deftness. Making impromptu shoots happen is hard folks, especially late at night in a town no one involved in the shoot is from. The credit for this happening truly goes to Alex, so thank you, Alex. He explains his signal chain much better than I can at the end of the video so stick around for that or skip to the end, either way works. 
Alex makes musical sounds: http://rosequartzmusic.com/ 
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While we were out in California for the 2016 NAMM expo we had the great fortune to throw a party with our friend Scott at his store WIndsor Homebrew Supply Co, in Costa Mesa. We invited any and all to come for a Coffee and Riffs Open Call shoot, where everyone is invited to come participate by performing, spectating, or bringing equipment. It was definitely an experiment, and what a fun experiment it was. We had a total of 14 people sign up to perform and were able to fit in 9 of them before the end of the night.There were several manufacturers and creators in attendence who generously brought equipment for people to use. Represented are Red Panda, Neunaber, Chase Bliss, Walrus Audio, WMD, Strymon, Adventure Audio, Old Blood Noise Endeavors, Temple Audio, Sinasoid Cables, Otis Amps, and  Nystrum Guitars. Thunder King Cold Brew and Noble Ale works graciously provided the libations. So here's Part One of the Two Part Coffee and Riffs Open Call at Windsor Homebrew Supply Co in Costa Mesa, California Featuring Pete Jonas, Leon Wright, Jeston Porter, Blake Wyland, and Henry Dillon. Enjoy. 

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While we were out in California for the 2016 NAMM expo we had the great fortune to throw a party with our friend Scott at his store WIndsor Homebrew Supply Co, in Costa Mesa. We invited any and all to come for a Coffee and Riffs Open Call shoot, where everyone is invited to come participate by performing, spectating, or bringing equipment. It was definitely an experiment, and what a fun experiment it was. We had a total of 14 people sign up to perform and were able to fit in 9 of them before the end of the night.There were several manufacturers and creators in attendence who generously brought equipment for people to use. Represented are Red Panda, Neunaber, Chase Bliss, Walrus Audio, WMD, Strymon, Adventure Audio, Old Blood Noise Endeavors, Temple Audio, Sinasoid Cables, Otis Amps, and  Nystrum Guitars. Thunder King Cold Brew and Noble Ale works graciously provided the libations. So here's Part Two of Coffee and Riffs Open Call at Windsor Homebrew Supply Co in Costa Mesa, California Featuring Sean Pierce Johnson, Christian Joseph Terjesen, Case Tanner and Ethan Tufts. Enjoy.

WARNING: there is terse language used in the this video, specifically the F word. 

Picking back up and finishing out the sessions at the WMD mobile HQ in Southern California, C Freddee of Mantic Conceptual and Holophrase jumps up to bat with his circuit bent Casio and swath of effects. thank you again to WMD for opening their space to us and making this shoot possible.

Wrapping up the session at Hoboken Coffee Roasters, M. Bailey Stephenson of the musical project Sun Riah ties everything together quite nicely with a few pieces that employ her pedal harp and and a small combination of effects pedals. Bailey ran her antique instrument through an EHX Key9, Mooer Shimverb, Old Blood Noise Black Fountain, Caroline Guitar Co Haymaker, and the TC Electronic Ditto X2, depending on the piece. Brady also had a good chat about coffee and Guthrie, OK with Trey Woods of Hoboken. This is more of a long-play episode of Coffee & Riffs; below are times where you can skip around to see different sections of the episode. We want to extend a gracious thanks to Trey and Hoboken for inviting us in and hosting us. If you're ever in the Guthrie area, I highly recommend a cortado and the peanut butter cookie. Thank you as well to Cathy Begien, who besides deftly helming the previous episode, stepped in and ran camera for this one. Cathy, you rule. 

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Well hello everyone.

It's been a spell since the last Coffee and Riffs; we've been spreading ourselves between additional video series, producing a new pedal, and doing our best to stay clear of the American holiday hubbub while simultaneous leaning into it. This feels good—to be back in the swing of drinking too much coffee while listening to some premium riffs. And what a treat to return with, Cathy Begien spent a few days with us at the Old Blood office and we talked her into doing an episode with us. We drove up to Guthrie, OK and spent a Friday morning at Hoboken Coffee Roasters. They graciously invited us in and gave us reign of their space to fill with our noise and hair. Cathy offers up two performances using a Jazzmaster through some fender amps and swath of interesting pedals. In the first she employs the Broadcast, F1 Flanger, Procession, Kilobyte and Context –from Hudson Electronics, Alexander Effects, Old Blood Noise, Caroline Guitar Co, and Red Panda, respectively. In the second performance she implements the Broadcast, Reflector, Count To Five, Meteoré – from Hudson Electronics, Old Blood Noise, Montreal Assembly, and Caroline Guitar Co., respectively. Both times she used the T.C. Electronic Ditto X2 to loop with. Pretty sure she tuned the guitar with that Boss TU-2 as well. 
Cheers. We'll be seeing you again soon. 

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Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes came by the shop and flexed his riff muscles before a show they played in OKC this summer. He chose to play through the Old Blood Black Fountain, Reflector, and Procession through the TC Electronic Ditto X2, stereo mic'd through a Fender Quad Reverb and the brokenish tweed amp Brian used in the previous episode. We all enjoyed some amazing coffee from Dagger Mountain. We really appreciate Taylor's openness and propensity for good conversation. Check out Dawes on the Internet or at your local record store. they are fabulous.

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Brian Hamilton of smallsound/bigsound and Cymbals Eat Guitars swung by the OBNE/AC HQ early on a quiet Tuesday morning and deftly ran his Nord Electro 2 73 through a diverse grouping of effects. Seth explores his interviewing skills on the other side of the camera. Brian does a great job. Starting with the Old Blood Reflector and Haunt, Red Panda  Context, Dr. Scientist Cosmichorus, Earthquaker Devices Afterneath, Caroline Guitar Haymaker, Line 6 DL-4, and TC Electronic Ditto X2 all into a small fender amp with some microphonic tubes which lends even more character to the layers. Brian designs some really great and compelling effects pedals, check out his Philadelphia based company here: www.smallsoundbigsound.com and here's a place to check out the band he plays keyboards in: www.cymbalseatguitars.com

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Ask and ye shall receive. This time around, anyway. Armon Jay and Benjamin Homola kept the party going so we kept the cameras rolling too (or at least attempted to, we had some battery issues in one of the cameras but thankfully we had a GoPro rolling as well to have enough footage to cobble together an edit). Benjamin builds a beat on the Korg Volca Beats and runs that through the Old Blood Noise endeavors Reflector, then lays down a part from the Critter and Guitarri Bolsa Bass through the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Procession on top of it. AJ then puts some tasty guitar licks over that while Benjamin intermittently manually modulates some knobs while he plays the Jazzmaster through the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Haunt, Earthquaker Devices Bit Commander, EHX Pog2, Old Blood Noise Endeavors Procession and Reflector* (*prototype), and the Strymon Timeline. All of this is looping through the TC Electronic Ditto X2 looper. Again, it was a real treat to spend an afternoon with these guys. they are both interesting and compelling artists, but as well, engaging and kind human beings. I’m thankful that out of everything Coffee and Riffs is and allows us to do, it affords the opportunity to meet and interact with some precious souls. 

We love when friends passing through town are able to come by the shop. Armon Jay and Benjamin Homola (and an under the radar Mike Fanuele) had an unexpected day off in OKC so we were able to bring them down to OBNE HQ for some smoothies and to shoot some Coffee and Riffs. AJ starts us off by making something wild with the Old Blood Noise Haunt, Reflector protoype,  Procession, Black Fountain, EHX Micro Pog, Strymon Time Line and the Ditto X2. This was a really good day. AJ and Ben both have demeanors that brighten any room they walk into.
And later on Ben, Kilyn, Dan and Brady went and saw that band weed in a DIY punk space.  which was cool too.

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Continuing and closing out the Coop Ale Works sessions, Mandii comes all the way from Tulsa and makes some really great riffs happen while lots of brewery action happens in the background. We slow-sip the Coop Alpha Hive Double IPA while mandii plays her vintage mustang through the Mr. Black Overdrive, Old Blood Noise Endeavors Haunt, Black Fountain Reflector (at the time only known as the chorus prototype), and Procession, looped through the Ditto X2, into a Fender Super Six and Deluxe. Mandii plays in and fronts Low Litas, check them out, they're really killer. 

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We had the privilege to shoot two episodes of Coffee and Riffs at Coop Ale Works in Oklahoma City. Coop is a brewery we've enjoyed from their onset and it was a real treat to get to shoot there and to enjoy a special-made coffee porter that Will Quinlin brewed up for us.  This first installment from the Coop shoot is with Robbie Wing. Robbie lives in and plays music around OKC and works on a farm. He also organizes an annual noise festival called Loop Fest that is really wonderful. For this the fifty first episode, he uses his Micro Korg and Hohner Pianet T through an Akai Headrush, Boss RE-20, Caroline Guitar Co Wave Cannon MKii, Old Blood Noise Endeavors Procession and Black Fountain, running stereo through a Fender Super Six and Deluxe Reverb. 

Thanks again to Victoria, Will, and everyone else at Coop Ale Works for having us over, and to Robbie for taking the time out of his day to come perform. 

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This being the 50th episode of Coffee and Riffs, we wanted to do something special. We knew we'd be in LA for NAMM (as with the previous five episodes) and we were able to wrangle Henry Kohen of Mylets. Henry was sweet enough to meet us for pizza and riffs at the Echo in Echo Park, LA (the pizza was from next door). This prolific young artist gave us three different pieces to choose from but since this is episode fifty, we decided to use it all. An extended riff exploration. Henry implements the Sleeping Dog FX Fuzz Hound, Greer Amps Southland, Mr. Black Tunnelworm and Downward Spiral, Old Blood Procession, Fuzzrocious Tremorsolo, and a Line 6 M9 Modeler for looping. He plays a 1971 Gibson Les Paul and Milkman Half Pint Amplifier. 

Thank you so Much to Kyle Sheline and the Echo for having us by,  Wade Burton for guitar and amp loan, and to Summer Mastous for dropping by boosting our overall morale.  
Coffee and Riffs, Part Fifty. Here we go.

This episode will round out the Five Starr Sound Labs sessions in Highland Park, California; I want to reiterate how gracious it was of Juan Alderete to invite us into his studio. We are very thankful for that. Juan has a multitude of quality videos over at pedalsandeffects.com—premium content abounds. 

In walks Nick Reinhart. Nick starts constructing a dystopian infrastructure of noise almost before we can get our cameras on. Using his Super-Sonic, Nick lined up in varying order: the Recovery Effects Bad Comrade, Small Sound Big Sound Buzzz, Red Panda Particle, Earthquaker Devices Bit Commander and Rainbow Machine, Old Blood Noise Endeavors Procession, Line 6 DL4, and Digitech Whammy. Nick's musical skill is matched by his charm and wit. Before we know it everyone in the room is fully engaged in a somewhat depthy dissection of the definition of Riff. Thanks again to Nick Reinhart, and be sure to check out the multitude of quality acts he's involved in, including but not limited to, Tera Melos, Death Grips, and Big Walnuts Yonder.

Continuing on with the sessions we shot at Juan Alderete's Five Star Sound Labs in Highland Park, California, Jonathan Hischke steps in and takes the reigns of several wiley and unwieldy pedals, all of them musical manglers and dissonant de-constructors. Along with creating an odd, deep, and textural soundscape, he gives us insight into how he makes these pedals work for him. Make them work he did, all of the sounds amalgamating to create a fluctuating noise-scape that seemed to be different with each iteration of the loop. I'm ready for Jonathan to score a sci-fi movie already. Not that that is a thing that is happening, maybe it is, and if it's not, it should be a thing that happens. Jonathan played Juan's P Bass through the Earthquaker Devices Pitch Bay, Earthquaker Devices Arpanoid, Dwarfcraft Pitch Grinder, WTF Loud Button, Digitech PDS-20/20, and theRed Panda Partical, into an SVT with an 8x10 cabinet.

Just five hours after leaving our previous shooting location at 5:00am, we find ourselves in Highland Park, California, at Five Star Sound Labs with Juan Alderete. Juan is extremely kind and welcoming, with a wealth of knowledge of gear and history he happily shares. We enjoyed getting chill, looking forward to the next time we get to do it again. 

Juan constructs his beautifully obliterated sound palette with the T.C. Electronic Ditto x2, Fairfield Circuitry Randy's Revenge, JHS Pedals Emperor, Green House Effects Stone Fish, Vintage EHX Micro Synth, Mantic Concepts - Vitriol EHX - Vintage Big Muff, rounding out the Chain with the wildly fun HoTone - Wally. The beastly Jerry Jones Bass VI helped too. 

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Here's the second and final installment of the Noble Ale Works sessions in Anaheim, California. At least for now, we want to go back. 

So in walks Pete Jonas. Deceptively venerable, pete paints a brief and beautiful sonic landscape while maintaining his timid and kind demeanor. Big things ahead for this young gun. Pete runs his Eastwood Guitar through an Ibanez 1981 Tube Screamer, Spaceman Effects Gemini III, JHS Emperor, Old Blood Noise Endeavors Procession and Black Fountain, Mojo Hand FX Dew Drop, and finishing out the chain with the TC Electronic Ditto X2. Pete gives all of this noise aural-life with a Tone King Falcon amplifier. All while the rest of us keep sipping on the Noble Ale Works Naughty Sauce Stout which is chock-full of Portola Coffee. Did we mention it's so late at night that it's early? 

Thanks again to Joseph and Noble Ale Works for inviting us in and allowing this to happen. It was amazing. 
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welcome everyone.  to the official season two of coffee&riffs.  to start it off we visited our buddy mason stoops in anaheim at his favorite brewery, Noble Ale Works.  its coffee&riffs though, so we only drank the "Part of a Balanced Breakfast" Oatmeal Stout and "Naughty Sauce" Stout made with Portola Coffee Lab.  and then we probably had too much as the night went on.  opposite effect of just drinking coffee.  

mason plugged his Rhoney guitar into the Oddfellow Effects Caveman V1, Spaceman Spacerocket, Visual Volume, Old Blood Noise Endeavors Procession, Arion Octave, Earthquaker Devices Rainbow Machine and the Strymon Flint into mason's ToneKing Imperial amp.  which has been to 43 states or something. believe it.

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Here we are.  Starting a new section in the Coffee and Riffs world.  Mariposa Coffee in Norman, Oklahoma (mariposacoffeeroastery.com) opened their doors up to us to make some noise and drink all of their freshly roasted and brewed coffee.  Benjamin See of Plainspeak (plainspeak.bandcamp.com) hauled in his Janice cabs and plugged into the Mojo Hand Rook, Electro Harmonix POG 2, Red Panda Labs Context, Bondi Effects Sick As, Cusack Effects Tap-A-Whirl, Mr, Black Eterna and a Boss RC-3 for looping sentiments.  He gets tappy.  Just in time for Christmas, but it wasn't Christmas then. kids love coffee too.

Samantha Crain graced us with her presence and skills at the Mariposa Coffee Roastery sessions. She's not much for looping, and really doesn't need to be. She crafted something fluid and beautiful using the Walrus Audio Deep Six, Bondi Effects Sick As, Earthquaker Organizer, Ibanez Stereo Chorus, and Mojo Hand FX Dew Drop. we continued to drink whatever they wanted to pour for us and it was glorious. coffee rules. mariposa rules. samantha crain rules. riffs rule. it's Christmas today. that rules.

We are approaching the end of Season Two of Coffee & Riffs.  To conclude the Mariposa Coffee Roasters session, we have Ben See taking the helm again.  He gets funky. Funky with the Earthquakers Devices Depths, Heavy Electronics Radio Havana, Strymon Blue Sky, Walrus Deep Six and TSVG Pedals Slow Ride.  He has these Janice cabs.  They're also pretty great.  We pretty much overdosed on Coffee. So, I think we stopped drinking it by then.  Too much of a good thing is still a good thing, but you've probably had too much so you should stop.  So I've been told.  Been living life by that motto.  Since this shoot.

Jack O'Shea takes us on a pell-mell ride of precision riffs just before we had to jump off of this tour bus so it didn't try to leave with us in it. Jack says it himself that he hasn't experimented with many pedals in the past. Well Jack, you had us fooled because you slayed. His chain consists of the Walrus Audio Jupiter, Earthquaker Devices Bit Commander, Caroline Guitar Co. Kilobyte, Earthquaker Devices Bit Commander, Earthquaker Devices Rainbow Machine, Mr. Black Downward Spiral, Cusack Effects Tap-A-Whirl, and the TC Electronic Ditto. Solid pedal line-up. Solid riff. Solid human being. Thanks Jack, it was cool meeting you.

the C&R team continues its southwest Warped Tour adventure, part three of four. today we welcome Rodrigo Palma, bass player of Saves The Day, to plug into some pedals and drink some tequila flavored tequila. he had his way with the Walrus Audio Jupiter, Caroline Guitar Co. Wave Cannon, Earthquaker Devices Arpanoid, Earthquaker Devices Bit Commander, Mr. Black Super Moon and the TC Electronic Ditto Looper and created something worthy of a My Bloody Valentine bside. good on you rodrigo, good on you.

"if kids played more pedals and drank more coffee there'd be less gangs."
in this episode of coffee and riffs, we continue our Warped Tour adventure from last summer. the prince of positivity, Chris Conley of Saves the Day, plugs into the old Little Axe Gatekeeper, Walrus Audio Mayflower, Dr. Scientist Frazz Dazzler, Green House Effects Stone Fish, Strymon Blue Sky, Earthquaker Devices Rainbow Machine and a prototype version of the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Black Fountain. He loops it over with the TC Electronics Ditto. we spent easily 30 minutes lost in the Conley headspace. the tequila helped get us there. chillin' and riffin, part thirty eight.

The boys from Archabald stop by while they're in town to hang out on the farm, drink some Reanimator Coffee, fall asleep in hammocks, pet Bentley and mess with some pedals.  Starting with Andy Othling (archabald, lowercase noises and some other massive guitar demo video stuff), we watch as he creates a cloudy day farmscape vibe using the Mr. Black Eterna, Caroline Guitar Co Kilobyte, Mr. Black Tunnelworm, smallsound/bigsound f*** overdrive and Walrus Audio Iron Horse.  a true pedal master.  one for the books. the book that has all of the other episodes too.  just to be fair.

there was a day.  a day when maybe i would go to warped tour and see some bands.  well, on one hot day over this summer, a few of us made our way down to dallas to hang out with some guys.  first on the list is arun bali, guitar player for Saves The Day.  arun is great at guitar, from nashville, fuzz and oil can connoisseur.  so he gives some pedals a go.  we sweat, we cheer with whoever was playing on the world cup and we drink...tequila, i think.  no coffee. it was late in the day.  we talk some.  about pedals.  and we rejoice, to be in the presence of friendship once again.  arun plugs into the mr. black supermoon, the old blood noise prototype black fountain (because this was back in june or july or something), caroline guitar co. kilobyte delay, cusack tap o whirl (i love that pedal), chase bliss warped vinyl (i love that pedal too), walrus jupiter, earthquaker devices bit commander.  he then proceeds to pleasantly solo our collective faces off.  beware of 9:06.  we got pretty weird.  so i think seth censored it.
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So this is the beginning of what we will call Season Two of the Coffee and Riffs saga. From this point on you just might hear more about the coffee we drink and the people participating. Or maybe not.  Just depends on what footage we got on that particular day.  So here it is.  Coffee and Riffs Part Twenty Seven with Ryan Lindsey of Broncho.  Its a sunny day in early April, spirits are high, the sun is out and there is life all around.  Burdens are lifted and springtime has truly arrived.  So we shake off the winter sludge to some beats and dancing by Ryan.  We kept ourselves fresh with some Yippee IA from Elemental Coffee, which has a certain honey sweetness that carries a red currant acidity.  We've been doing our research.  Ryan plugs into Caroline Guitar Kilobyte, Mr. Black Deluxe Plus, Boss PN-2 Tremolo, EHX Bass Micro Synth, Ibanez Stereo Chorus, Walrus Audio Mayflower and Walrus Audio Voyager and creates weirdness.  Add in the Roland DD5 Drum Machine and it gets moving.  
Welcome to Season Two.

Our old and good friend Tyler Huskerson knows a thing or two about reverb, so we were excited when he agreed to come play some resonating riffs for us. We drink some Thousand Faces Coffee while Tyler tastefully plays through a vintage 1964 Fender Spring Reverb tank, Mr Black Deluxe Plus and Supermoon (chrome edition), Caroline Guitar Wave Cannon, Digitech Whammy, while finishing off the chain with the Ditto looper. Thanks again to Blake and Mark from Atria Creative for helping out on this shoot.

In Part Five of the Coffee And Riffs Sage, we drink some  Bent Tree Earthquaker Devices Blend coffee and make some noise with the Cusack Tap O' Whirl Tremolo, EHX Bass MicroSynth, Earthquaker Devices Bit Commander and Walrus Audio Mayflower.  Strat and Fender Amp, no big deal. Not sure where the animals were during this session.  May have still been asleep.

In part six of the Coffee and Riffs saga, we continue to drink the delightful Earthquaker Devices blend from Bent Tree Coffee.  Black, no sugar, no cream.  Then we plug in the Earthquaker Devices Arpanoid, Walrus Audio Jupiter and Strymon Blue Sky to get weird.  Weird it does get.

On a dark and stormy day in Oklahoma, we go out to Blueberry Hill Manor with our buddy Daniel Weaver from Power Pyramid, try out some coffee from Cafe Grumpy compliments of Mike Fadem and play with the Walrus Audio Mayflower, Earthquaker Devices Organizer and Mr. Black Supermoon.  I don't think there were any animals roaming.  Which was a bummer.  But Bentley showed up later and George the cat was sleeping somewhere in the Manor.

A cold front moved in on this overcast Saturday morning.  So we made Cafe Grumpy coffee from Brooklyn, NY and plugged Matthew Robertson into the Walrus Audio Deep Six Compressor, Emerson Custom EM Drive, Strymon Blue Sky Reverb and an old Boss PN-2 Pan/Tremolo.  Then Matt took us on a musical journey akin to Neil Young making the soundtrack for Dead Man.  But I wouldn't let Matt kick my amp.  Didn't seem prudent.  And I think I was out of coffee during the intro.

We made it through ten episodes without quitting.  On a frosty Saturday morning at Blueberry Hill Manor, Kilyn Massey, guitar adventurer for Power Pyramid, pedal builder and youtube specialist, walks us through a hazy sonic exploration using an old Gibson SG, Ibanez SC-10, Mr. Black Gilamondo, Boss RV-5, Little Axe Gatekeeper and Strymon Timeline.  We brewed a fresh pot of Cafe Grumpy coffee, poured it black, and all it managed to do was give Kilyn the giggles.

How embarrassing.  After five cups of really strong coffee, we needed some pizza from the Wedge pretty bad.  But instead I plugged in, tweaked some and made everyone wait a little bit longer.  Sorry everyone.  Out of the Cafe Grumpy fueled ashes came this little diddy, Coffee and Riffs, Part Eleven.  With full support from the Caroline Guitars Wave Cannon, Walrus Audio Voyager, Earthquaker Devices Organizer and the EHX Bass Micro Synth (secret weapon), there came a riff that might one day be a song. Then we went and scarfed all over pizza.

In this the fourteenth installment of Coffee & Riffs, serial instrumentalist Eric Nauni of Beau Jennings and The Tigers and Gentle Ghost takes us on a cacophonous journey with his organ and a tall mug of Elemental Coffee Roasters coffee running through a hearty host of pedals including the Mr. Black Super Moon, Ibanez Twin Cam Chorus, Earthquaker Devices Organizer and Bit Commander, Caroline Guitar Co Wave Cannon, Boss Digital Delay, and the trusty ol' TC Electronics Ditto Looper. A pedal chain almost as long as that run on sentence I just assaulted you with. You're welcome.

All hands on deck for this one. The ever--sweet and always talented Kilyn Massey of Power Pyramid shows us what sophomore success sounds like in his second appearance on Coffee and Riffs. Running through the Siamese Growler from Adventure Audio, Dr. Scientist Frazz Dazzler, Mr. Black Eterna, Strymon Timeline and a Roland RE--501 Chorus Echo; you can almost see the shimmer on the notes coming from the amp. Almost. Meanwhile, Brady and Seth suffer from over--consumption of delicious coffee from OKC's own Elemental Coffee Roasters which you'll see in Brady's spirited orneriness and Seth's Blair Witch--camera technique. Coffee and Riffs, Part Fifteen.

Our dear friend and contemporary Blake Studdard gives a masterful and understated riffing in this the sixteenth iteration of Coffee & Riffs. Blake is a killer photographer / videographer and is the tasteful brains behind Atria Creative. He also plays in a band called Visions of Chorus's. Today we continue to sip the Elemental Coffee Roasters Yippy IA blend while blake plays through a Critter and Guitari Pocket Piano and Bolsa Bass, Dr. Scientist Frazz Dazzler and Cosmichorus; finishing out the chain with a Mr. Black Eterna shimmer reverb. Brady just kinda crashes from all of the caffeine. Someone get this man a pizza.

Brady gives us a broody slow-jam to deliberately nod our heads to in this the Seventeenth voyage of Coffee & Riffs. Playing a Schecter Bass XI through a Dr. Scientist Cosmichorus, a Walrus Audio Voyager, a Dr. Scientist Frazz Dazzler, a(nother) Walrus Audio Voyager, Mr. Black DeluxePlus, ending the chain with a Strymon Timeline for looping. 
This will wrap up the sessions at the Throne Room at Blueberry Hill Manor in Oklahoma City for a bit. Big thanks to Blueberry Hill for lending us such a fun and creatively inspiring locale to shoot at. By the way, that's my cat Young Money in the background and I love him more than even I can comprehend. -Seth Riffs

It was a bright and sunny Wednesday morning when dreamboat Jeffrey Kunde stopped by to drink some coffee and make a riff for Coffee and Riffs part Eighteen.  Eighteen.  Eighteen.  The heat hadn't set in yet, like it currently has, so it was a lovely morning.  I experimented with french pressing some Elemental coffee, Kelly critiqued, Jeffrey watched silently with unreadable thought and we all drank it black. He tried out his first Fender amp, used the Walrus Audio Iron Horse, Mojo Hands Effects Villanova, Earthquaker Devices Bit Commander, Strymon Timeline and Mr. Black Super Moon. We also forgot what episode we were on. So expect voice editing tricks from here on out.

Coffee & Riffs, Part Nineteen. Allie is a pianist often swaying toward the avant garde; we were pleased to have her along because though she'd never really used effects pedals, was eager to experiment. It's quite a journey. It starts out a little frightening and ends in quiet repose. Here she plays her Fender Rhodes through a Strymon Blue Sky, Walrus Audio Janus, Ibanez SC-10 Stereo Chorus, and T.C. Electronics Ditto Looper. We ran out of beans so we had to run by Elemental Coffee and pick up several large pour-overs to go. A big thanks to Blake and Mark from Atria Creative for lending their video skills on these. Oh, and we're in a pool for the next few episodes. Because, you know, reverb.

Music to drown to.  More of the pool sessions.  Brady was feeling froggy and jumped on the same pedal chain Tyler used in episode twenty and plugged in a Fender Custom Shop Bass VI which he ran through the Digitech Whammy, Caroline Guitar Co. Wave Cannon, Mr. Black Deluxe Plus and Supermoon Chrome, a vintage Fender Reverb Tank, and then also sequenced a Critter & Guitari Bolsa Bass through a bass rig. We continued to enjoy the Yippie IA from Elemental Coffee Roasters in OKC.

At the final Coffee and Riffs pool session, Chase Kerby jumps in, grabs a bow and makes some textural ambient, noise rock.  Using the EHX Memory Boy, Strymon Blue Sky, Walrus Audio Mayflower and Digitech Whammy, Chase puts us in our own sensory deprivation chamber, where we get to deal with all of our crap.  A wonderful treat for a Saturday morning.  Elemental Coffee, black, kept us going.  Thanks to Jeremiah Allen and the then unrenovated City Presbyterian in OKC for letting us skate around and be deviants.

We spend the next few sessions on the porch enjoying some springtime sunshine, Thousand Faces Coffee from Georgia, dogs, cats, and the ever-ubiquitous Riff. Brady kept it clean and simple on this sweet little sonic odyssey with the Chase Bliss Audio Warped Vinyl, Caroline Guitar Co. Kilobyte, EHX Bass Microsynth, and the T.C. Electronics Ditto. Also, plenty of pit bull and calico in these episodes, which, really, is the most important part. Enjoy.

Seth hands the camera over to Brady and steps to the other side of the lens for the 24th iteration of Coffee & Riffs. Using a minimal chain consisting of the Chase Bliss Audio Warped Vinyl, Caroline Guitar Co. Kilobyte, Mr. Black Deluxe Plus Reverb, and T. C. Electronics Ditto, he works up something as interesting as the story behind that shiner on his left eye. We are still enjoying Thousand Faces Coffee; Seth is enjoying beer as well, you know, because his face hurts. Our friend Brian from Brand New lent us his voice to help us remember which part we are on.

Winter grasps one last time and brings a cold front through Oklahoma.  So we brewed up some Elemental Coffee, lit a fire and invited John Calvin to come over and teach us how to play guitar the right way.  He plugged in to the Walrus Audio Mayflower, Mr Black Gilamondo Phaser and Supermoon, Strymon Blue Sky and Earthquaker Devices Arpanoid.  Then he soothed our souls  and warmed our hearts with his gypsy song.

this unique springtime porch session takes a dreamy turn as Derek Lemke grabs a strat, blows our collective mind with a weird signal chain and soaks up the sun.  Using the Strymon Big Sky Reverb, Walrus Audio Jupiter Fuzz, Caroline Guitar Co. Kilobyte, Dr. Scientist Cosmichorus and drinking a ton of French Pressed Thousand Face Coffee, Derek creates liquid sunshine. actual, liquid sunshine. and then quince got thrown and seth's ankles got burnt.

...And thus ends the first Season of Coffee and Riffs. Our friend Tyler Slemp rounds out the season with some very tasteful loops using the Walrus Audio Voyager, Caroline Guitar Co. Kilobyte, Mr. Black Supermoon, and the T.C. Electronics Ditto while we all come down off of Thousand Faces coffee from Atlanta, GA.  Quince the cat yearns to get outside and I believe we went to eat pizza and almost got in a fight, in which we would have lost. bad.

On this striking episode of Coffee and Riffs, Brady writes a circus tune using the Caroline Guitar Co. Kilobyte and Wave Cannon, Earthquaker Devices Bit Commander and a very, very subtle Strymon Big Sky.  The most subtle of all pedals.  We were loaded on Elemental Coffee and having a grand adventure as the afternoon rolled in.  This is part Twenty Eight.  This. Is. Part. Twenty Eight. Twenty. Eight. Twent. Twe.

How To Write A Song.  Watch as Ryan Lindsey from Broncho constructs a song out of thin air.  Something that will get stuck in your head for days.  Here at Coffee and Riffs (and Old Blood), we support bands like Broncho, because they make songs that you can't escape.  Effortlessly.  Brent from Power Pyramid helps out some too.  Ryan plugs into the Earthquaker Devices Bit Commander, Mr. Black GilaMondo, Walrus Audio Mayflower and a TC Electronics Ditto Looper, which he later went and purchased.  So you owe us, TC.  You owe us big. Just kidding, no you don't.   Oh, and that Roland DD5 Drum Machine thing.  still shooting up big on the Elemental Coffee Yippee IA.  

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you should unbutton your shirt a little. loosen your collar. let your hair grow wild. let go. let go. let. go. there are no rules. you can use guitar pedals on drums. dustin ragland proves it. here. now. we let dustin loose on the pedal collection.  he mic'd up his c&c kit and got weird. so weird. and its so right. there are no rules. the eqd rainbow machine. the mr black tunnelworm. the greenhouse effects stonefish. the eqd depths. the caroline kilobyte. the ehx micro synth. the strymon big sky. the mojohand fx colossus. the mr black supermoon.  the critter and guitari bolsa bass. the mr black deluxe. the walrus mayflower. he did it all.  all whilst drinking alliance world coffee. coffee and riffs, part thirty. stiffs not welcome.

While Archabald was in town, Randy Bowman picked up the rarely used les paul and started plucking around with the mr. black super moon, caroline guitar co. kilobyte, walrus audio janus, and eqd organizer. this was before the world got sweaty. back when outside wasn't tangible misery. so we drank some piping hot reanimator coffee too. because it was the right thing to do.

Continuing on outside on a beautiful spring day, Corey Ray uses the Caroline Guitar Co Kilobyte and Wave Cannon, and the Mr. Black Eterna to make a swirly drone riff; accenting it nicely with the Korg Volca Beat. His mane of golden hair outshined only by his smile. Even Brady can't not hug him (note Corey's reaction to the possibly-too-close hug). Most of us were still drinking Alliance World Coffee, some of us switched to beer. Bentley gets frisky with an onlooker. We all basked in the glory of the sun. 
Riff on, riffers. Riff. On.

Well dang, if Andy is gonna stop by, might as well get him to do two Coffee & Riffs, right? In this impressive little gem of a riff, Andy bedazzles us with the Mojo Hand FX Dew Drop, the Greenhouse Effects Stone Fish, and a three Earthquaker Devices heavy hitters, Talons, Arpanoid and Rainbow Machine. Rounded out at the end by the T. C. Ellectronics Ditto. Andy rules. Sweet dude, playing sweet riffs, being sweet at life. 

Oh, and be sure to check out andyothingling.com

Our friend Danny had a few of us over on a brisk morning and we drank Braums coffee while Danny set up his riffs. From a large menu of pedals Danny chose a minimal pallette to work from with the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Reflector V3 Chorus and Black Fountain Delay. Using a Fender Mustang and Teenage Engineering OP-1, he paints brights swaths of pop melodies draped across a catchy landscape. Oof, that was a rough painting analogy. Danny plays in a band called Husbands from Oklahoma City, hear their tunes and buy a tape while you’re at it. https://www.husbandsokc.bandcamp.com Video By: https://www.oldbloodnoise.com https://www.atriacreative.co

The farm stage series of Coffee and Riffs continues with this baby faced, baby shaken dummy plugging into the Caroline Wave Cannon, Earthquaker Devices Pitch Bay and Depths, Greenhouse Effects Stonefish Vibrato/Chorus and Mr. Black Deluxe Tremolo/Reverb.  I was sipping heavy on some World Alliance Coffee, so I was thinking about the universe and how heavy it is.  And today I read that Black Holes might not be a thing.  up is down. left is right. out is in. spelling right is wrong.  Coffee and Riffs part Thirty Two.

here we are.  still going.  season two, which is a rough, subjective view on how we break up this large stack of episodes we have collected in 2014, continues on with our buddy Dan Pechacek of the OKC band Plainspeak plugging into an assortment of noise makers and coming up with one of the catchiest bleeping and blooping songs.  or it could be a song.  maybe it is a song.  a dan song.  we were pulling heavily from the Reanimator Coffee out of Philly.  the archabald boys were still hanging out too.  dan used a combination of the Mojo Hand FX Rook, Earthquaker Devices Dirt Transmitter, Caroline Guitar Co. Kilobyte and Strymon Engineering Big Sky with the looping by dan's Boss RC30. saddle up.  take a ride.  coffee and riffs part thirty six.

In part thirteen of the Coffee and Riffs saga, Nicholas Ley from Colourmusic and his boy Boo stop by.  Nick is a multi-instrumentalist but has a heavy focus on drums.  So he showed us his circuit bent Yamaha DD-5 drum machine.  And then we danced to the psychotic fuzz grind beats.   At different times the DD-5 ran into the Walrus Audio Deep Six and Mayflower, Mr. Black Gilamondo and Supermoon, Earthquaker Devices Arpanoid, Strymon Blue Sky and EHX Bass Micro Synth.  Go ahead and dance. Or trance. Or something.

So this is the beginning of what we will call Season Two of the Coffee and Riffs saga. From this point on you just might hear more about the coffee we drink and the people participating. Or maybe not. Just depends on what footage we got on that particular day. So here it is. Coffee and Riffs Part Twenty Seven with Ryan Lindsey of Broncho. Its a sunny day in early April, spirits are high, the sun is out and there is life all around. Burdens are lifted and springtime has truly arrived. So we shake off the winter sludge to some beats and dancing by Ryan. We kept ourselves fresh with some Yippee IA from Elemental Coffee, which has a certain honey sweetness that carries a red currant acidity. We've been doing our research. Ryan plugs into Caroline Guitar Kilobyte, Mr. Black Deluxe Plus, Boss PN-2 Tremolo, EHX Bass Micro Synth, Ibanez Stereo Chorus, Walrus Audio Mayflower and Walrus Audio Voyager and creates weirdness. Add in the Roland DD5 Drum Machine and it gets moving. 
Welcome to Season Two.

From the first session of Coffee and Riffs comes part three.  We take a quick look at the Walrus Audio Mayflower through the Dr. Scientist Cosmichorus.  There's a Rickenbacker guitar in there with a Fender amp, some cables and a TC Electronics Ditto Looper.  I believe we were still drinking subpar run of the mill coffee,

In the conclusion of the first segment of Coffee and Riffs, we take a look at the Critter and Guitari Pocket Piano through the Walrus Audio Jupiter, Strymon Timeline and the EHX Bass MicroSynth.  Coffee was meh.  Sounds were better.

Later on the aforementioned early Saturday morning, we try out some more run of the mill coffee, don't touch the gourmet donuts and mess with the Walrus Audio Voyager Overdrive running into the Walrus Audio Jupiter Fuzz through a possibly once stolen and pawn shopped 70's Les Paul Custom and some Fender amp. The results are worth a minute and 32 seconds of your time. Coffee and Riffs, Part Two. Cheers.

Early on a Saturday morning, we try out some run of the mill coffee, a slim selection of gourmet donuts and the combination of the Mr. Black Tunnelworm Flanger and the Walrus Audio Jupiter Fuzz through a beat up Strat and some Fender amp. The results are exciting. Coffee and Riffs, Part One. Cheers.