“We’re going on a pedal quest!”: This YouTuber has created a Dungeons & Dragons inspired pedalboard game – and we wanna play…
Dragons! Wizards! Pedals? While a 20-sided dice is often reserved for fantastical roleplaying adventures, YouTuber Pedal Playhouse, AKA Joan Braga, has injected some D&D magic into pedalboard curation.
Braga’s brand new YouTube series, Pedal Quest, sees her and two guests, Science of Loud’s Colin Scott and 60 Cycle Hum’s Ryan Burke, embarking on a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired journey. The mission is to create the ‘perfect’ collaborative pedalboard, and the rules are simple: with each roll of your D20, you must add a pedal to the board.
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The D20 number reflects a certain category, with Braga splitting pedals into Distortion, Fuzz & Overdrive, Modulation Effects, and left-field ‘Wild Magic’ pedal categories… with one such option being the Miku Stomp by Korg.
Of course, it wouldn’t be Dungeons & Dragons without a few consequences and acts of trickery. For example, if you roll a one, and you’re doomed to add the infamous Boss Metal Zone MT-2 to your board. There is also a Deception round, which allows a chance for members of the party to swap out any pedals they’re unhappy with, or just adjust the general circuit set-up.
Plenty of pedals are in the mix, too. Braga’s selection spans from Mad Professor, to Universal Audio, to MXR, and more.
While it’s a fun way to mix up your pedal building process, it also looks like a great way to just have a laugh with your pals. It’s good to push yourself now and then – even if it means trying to miraculously make a ridiculous set-up work. “So we’ve got two reverbs, a delay, and a fuzz now… we’re done!!!” Burke jokes midway through the video.
At the end, every member of the party performs with the pedalboard setup. That’s when the creativity really comes into play, as Braga and the group try to conjure up what kind of D&D character the guitar tone might represent. Perhaps it’s a fried, chaotic evil burst of distortion because you rolled a one and have to use a Metal Zone. Or maybe it’s an otherworldly, god-like tone drowning in tremolo and reverb?
Regardless, Pedal Playhouse has cooked up a fun new approach to pedalboard building. It’s exactly what we’d expect from Braga, with the YouTuber emphasising the importance of ‘play’ wherever possible. “[In my videos], we’re looking at a pedal, but really it’s approaching things with the curiosity of a child again,” she told us back in 2022.
“The idea that, despite whatever else is going on in the world, there’s this thing with a sense of wonder and whimsy, and that anything is possible,” she smiled.
Check out the Pedal Playhouse YouTube channel.
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