Nick Reinhart of the experimental rock/jazz/ambient combo Tera Melos and well-regarded session bassist Juan Alderete de la Peña decided to chain together 100 effects pedals to see what it would sound like.

If you want to do this at home, you will immediately realize that, in addition to the shortfall in effects pedals you might have, you also don’t have nearly enough cables. So the video starts with them unboxing a bunch of Mogami cables.

In order to conduct the experiment, it was necessary to perform an incantation of specific runic phrases, such as “Radical Delay,” “Thrashmaster,” “Mantic Flex Pro” (signed by Adrian Belew!), and “Twin Cam Chorus.”

Spoiler: It don’t sound like Rachmaninoff.

It takes them a while to get to the full 100-pedal sound, so if you want to skip to that you can jump to about the 16:30 mark. But the setting up is pretty engaging, so I recommend just letting it play.
 

 
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Previously on Dangerous Minds:
‘Doctor Who’ theme recreated with just a guitar and Electro-Harmonix effect pedals
The Electric Prunes want to tell you all about the fabulous new ‘Wah-Wah’ pedal