Guitar pedals on drums sounds ridiculous

Summary by Krater

Andrew Huang runs drum loops through various guitar and synth pedals using a reamping box to explore creative sound processing possibilities.

From the video

Answers: What happens when you run drum loops through guitar pedals?

• Drum processing with guitar pedals
• Reamping guitar pedals
• Pitch shifting and delay on drums
• Synthesizer pedals on acoustic drums
• DAW vs hardware pedal workflows

What it concludes

• Using a reamping box solves impedance and level mismatch issues when routing signals through guitar pedals.
• Guitar pedals encourage tactile, hands-on knob twisting compared to automation in a DAW.
• Using pedals inside a DAW sacrifices spontaneity and requires manual mapping of every knob to a controller.
• Routing live drums through hardware pedals introduces significantly more latency than in-DAW effects.
• Synth pedals on drums tend to grab any available pitch and hold onto it as a note.