New TE KO Sidekick. Old Tape Loops. Several Plants.

The new Teenage Engineering EP-136 KO Sidekick keeps giving me ideas for fun jams. I wanted to push both of its effect channels, so I set up a serial FX chain: the tape runs into the Sidekick so both its onboard effects hit the tape signal, then the KOII is in via the Sidekick's aux input.

The source material is all tape loops of Fender Rhodes, electric guitar, and banjo live onto a TEAC reel-to-reel using a BOSS RC-600, then played back at different speeds. Slow for dense, drifting pads, fast for brighter, more frantic textures in the middle. Sidekick effects were fun, especially adjusting tape on tape and then manipulating the actual tape speeds. I also sampled some of the tape into the KOII for the melody that comes in in the middle.

00:00 - ambient loops through delay effect
00:20 - tape warble via sidekick
00:40 - tape speed modulation
01:20 - tape sample melody
1:53 - speed up actual tape to realtime speed
2:15 - full beat
2:40 - slow tape back down
3:15 - fade beat with lpf and vol
3:30 - messing with loop and tremelo
4:00 - delay and fade

Gear list:
Teenage Engineering EP-136 KO Sidekick (NEW)
Teenage Engineering EP-133 KOII
TEAC Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder
BOSS RC-600 Loop Station
Fender Rhodes
Electric Guitar
Banjo

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