FASCINATING Light Controlled Expression - Pedal Brainz Left Brain and Third Eye | Secret Weapons

I've always had kind of a strange gripe with consistent wave forms... I'm not sure what it is about a sine wave in a chorus that I just find a bit grating but nearly any time I can pick a random LFO over a sine or triangle I am all but guaranteed to. I feel the same way about expression generators in general. If we're gonna ramp something I either want it to be perfectly midi clocked or I want to be entirely surprised. And this is what I find so compelling about Left Brain' Pedalbrainz light sensitive (and generating) expression generator. There are dozens of varyingly inscrutable patterns, waveforms, and prompts to design your own flavor of randomized expression control. It's perfect for crafting unpredictable glitches or never-repeating evolving textures in ambient music or even just for adding some spice into your modulation effects. I, for one, love using Left Brain to randomly alter my harmonic tremolo rate or randomly open and close a LPF on the Gen Loss. So let's dig into Left Brain, Third Eye (You'll see) and see what makes these quirky offerings from Pedalbrainz such a breathe of fresh air.

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Signal Path:
Bondi 2026
Bondi Sick As
Chase Bliss Blooper
Mtl.Asm Count to 5
Chase Bliss Habit
Spaceman Delta II
CooperFX Generation Loss V2
AMT ACV-1
Strymon Timeline
Strymon BigSky
UA Ruby/Dream

Timecodes:
00:00 Intro Song
02:30 Review
09:53 Third Eye Samples
17:55 Left Brain Samples

Recorded in Universal Audio LUNA

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