Welcome to RodeRite. I'm Joshua Bardwell, and I'm Paul Nerkala. We have something really exciting for you guys today So CineWoops are one of my favorite tools, right? So these CineWoops, this is the chendron escort We've got a couple of them What I love about these is that they can do things that other camera systems can't you can't go from really high To low to through to under to over in the way that these kinds of systems can I've been really inspired by people like Robert Macintosh who is this the founder of real study There's a skateboarding video called pretty sweet and I've seen that Macintosh made the intro for that video back in like 2012 When drones like didn't even fly he did this awesome Single-take movement where he started up over around through down just like we're trying to create here today that Style of filmmaking really inspired me so I got really excited about the chendron squirt when Andy Shen sent it to me Okay, so let's break down the parts that are gonna go into this build and in case you didn't figure it out by now This is not just Paul and me talking about how cool CineWoops are for two hours This is a build video so the chendron squirt swings three inch props that are cut down to like 2.8 inches So the idea with these ducts is that they actually increase airflow as it comes in So as the airflow as air gets pulled into the ducts It increases the speed at which it goes through and that in turn adds extra thrust And so in order to make this fly better the ducts are there and you have to have the the props Is finally as close as you can to the outside of the duct companies like Gemfan have come out with props that are actually designed For the chendron squirt like it became a popular enough thing that they designed props custom made for okay And in case it's not obvious There are links to all of the parts for this build including these props and everything else we're using on my channel down in the video Description down in the video description of this and for sale on the road to ride store if you want to follow along with this Okay motors, what are we doing for motors? Let's crack this out while you tell us what we're doing So these are the T motor f20 v2s. We chose the 3250 kv variant and these are some pretty smooth motors When you're going for smooth flying you definitely don't want a super super notchy motor So we've got the hobby wing g2 stack. This is a 60 amp ESC. It's probably overkill for this drone But I love like I'm sponsored by hobby wing. I love hobby wing. I use everything from hobby wing Okay, but this is just like the perfect ESC. It's just the same ESC van over races with the 60 amp hobby wing I think so this is like van over races for a whole season and said it was the most bulletproof ESC I race it for a whole season to understand. I mean one of there's one of them is I'm just, you know, let's not get into it And then also we're gonna be working with the DJI FPV air unit. We're gonna do high definition build You certainly can do you fly typically high def or do you fly analog mostly? I fly a lot of both But for siney stuff, I definitely lean on the side of the air unit Especially for environments like this where you can kind of you go forever. You have no break up no multi-path thing And just the clearest signal possible Well, one of the things I love most about flying with DJI is that if for some reason your GoPro video craps out You have like a semi usable backup is very nice to have that 1080 recording on board This frame that we're working with is the Shen drones squirt and that was designed by Andy Shen Yep, just for anybody who doesn't know who is Andy Shen. He's he's my sensei He's and it started designing drone frames way back when and it eventually came up with this design Andy was designing drone frames like when four drones drone frames were a thing And I think we kind of have forgotten how much we got from him If you want to check out his website is Shen drones dot com one of my favorite things about Andy is that he does Design logs yes of all of the missteps and failures of designing a quadcopter frame before finally sometimes He results in a commercial frame and sometimes he just gives up and says this doesn't work Thank you Andy. We all wouldn't be here without the work that you did Where do we start the build Paul best place to start is with a little bit of frame assembly That's where I like to start especially because we're gonna need to lock tight everything. So with with all of these guys I find that there ends up being like some sort of weird Oscillation that is never like detectable on footage or anything like that, but it eventually works the screws loose So especially when you're like with the ducks like you really have to push them on and off and pull them on and off And when you do that a whole bunch like eventually you're gonna start losing your screws and stuff like that So I locked tight. I don't I almost never locked tight. I actually take a lot of heat for never locked tight I also I just check your one time check your screws that they're tight and you'll be fine But not on this build don't get some locked tight get some locked it blue lock tight right blue lock Take blue lock not the red stuff and now some people may be used to seeing me be the guy Giving the instructions and taking the lead but today. I'm just learning from Paul and providing comic relief Good to see people finally working in their strengths So are you're just dipping those screws in the lock tight a little bit before you put them on and you're installing the vertical standoffs Right. Yeah, so there's three tiny little ones that are on the outside and then there's four on the inside Different size standoffs. I don't know the length. So they different size. Yes Yes, so the no it's great because the ducks so the ducks don't go all the way through here So you see the thing so you need those smaller ones on the outside in the middle Let's take a look We got these smaller ones on the outside and longer ones where they're gonna go They're gonna go on the floor in the middle once you've got your the frames And then the look and then this will all sit all the way through it And actually look ends up looking really good because then you have this full TPU kind of cover. Yeah, it's great But you have to remember not to put the long ones on the other ones are the icy the longer ones are the green ones Yes, yeah, the black ones are the smaller ones. Oh, that makes it easy at least they're a different color Andy loves his pastel colors Also loves his dogs. What are kind of dogs? Yeah, but they are gorgie For his corgis. Look at that. I'm thinking about corgis and I put the wrong standoff on Wow Let's put some pictures of corgis up on this video of maybe Andy's own Drew's scratching his head behind me as if no, we'll edit this part out, but no corgis Yeah, the standoffs are great. I would put the motors on next. Do you want to do that? I'll be happy to do that. I would also lock tight those okay for the same exact reason Here we'll use a duct to hold all the stuff in place. No, that's convenient So I'm installing these motors. Well, he's finishing and sawing those motors I'm gonna start opening up the ESC because that'll be our next Step. It's a good idea. I haven't done this Because I'm assuming that we've done our research It's a good idea when you do a build the very first time Check the length of the motor is take your screw and hold it against the frame Where it's gonna be and see if it is gonna extend past the end of the motor base Because if the screw is too long and touches the windings It will cut into the insulation on the windings and damage them and basically destroy your motor and you may be thinking well The screws came with the motor so surely they're the right length But the problem is that the motor designer doesn't know how thick your frame is gonna be and the they've made some assumptions So you always want to double-check this I didn't double-check this and these screws are like a half a millimeter away from touching the windings They are really really close but not touching. So if you buy the hobby wing stack as like a one complete kit like the both the Flight controller and the ESC it comes with all of the hardware You need to like build the stack and standoffs all that inside of the frame But we have brought ourselves separate individual ones So we're kind of scrounging for some extra stuff. Because we knew that some of you would have bought them separate individually too Not because we're unprepared. So what we've got here for hardware is these are 25 millimeter M3 screws And these are some just little nylon threaded spacers. These are actually metal, but you'll probably use nylon Yeah, what I would suggest you do is just get like an M3 nylon spacer assortment Pretty sure it's sold on the rotor at store. There's a link in the video description if there if it is It comes with these spacers in various lengths. Well, Joshua is screwing around Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and tin up our ESC so that we have it already Before I work on any electronics always make sure that it's tinned and that we will be able to make nice clean joints on it That was not a clean joint because I'm standing so far away from this For the purposes of the camera. So let's get a close-up here of the placement. So there is a front and a back Right, let's be clear. How can they identify the front in the back? You need to leave space for the FPV air unit and this like this is the version of the Schindler on squirt that's built for the air unit. So if you look at the bag, you can see that there's plenty of room left for the The magical box, but here we've got a set of 20 millimeter holes and Another set of 20 well like one two three and one two three That's sort of the front and then this space back here with no holes is the back And we've got four of our M3 screws going through the front set of 30 millimeter mounting holes The outside one giving us some spacing from the bottom plate Excellent normally I would just mount the ESC with the capacitor and the battery leaves poking out the back me too But not this time not on the squirt because why so because we have to put the FPV air unit out the back essentially like this With the capacitor there and the big battery tabs on the way you see it's getting in the way So how should we do it? He shows so I would just take everything and turn it sideways, okay? And I after they're going out one side and I've played around with it a bunch And if you put the Ducks on it will still fit with the capacity and what we're gonna need to do also is we're just gonna bend the capacitor up a little bit Right just keep it out of where I wanted it. Oh you did that was right where you wanted it Yeah, it's like off to the side a little bit and then it all see when we put the ducts on You'll see why the capacitor has to go there exactly okay cool So we need to put the battery lead on this is probably a little bit too long I was trying to kind of measure it out So like essentially once the standoffs are on here and then the top plate's on you don't need a ton of length on this Squirt to reach the battery length so I'm thinking something like Yeah, okay So I'll cut it here.  There was a video about the white noise I Remember a wire and your biggest complaint about it was that they were hard to solder because the pads are so close together That you bridge the pads No Never a lot a lot of people have that problem before we try to put the XC60 picktail on we want to tin up the Leads so that it's easier to get make that joint. Don't breathe this stuff Yeah, it's really bad for you. Yeah, very bad for you Okay, so these are now tinned up or positive as towards the front end the way we have this configured You should always double check this a few times. Yeah double triple check that you red red to Positive and black to negative But there's a camera guy there and there and there and they're all watching too so they know that we did it, right? So soldering is a thing that a lot of people struggle with in this hobby because nobody gets into FPV because they want to learn to Solder they want to learn to fly and soldering is just an annoying thing that you got to get out of the way in order to get in the air But if you're bad at soldering your quadcopters are going to fly bad and fall out of the sky So this is not a soldering tutorial, but if you're struggling to solder this great big XT60 That may be a sign that you should practice soldering some more before you finish the rest of the build because this is the most Forgiving of the pads the great big ones the little tiny ones are just going to come off But it's also the most difficult because you need so much heat right, but the point is it this will if Your technique is bad. This will show you that your technique is bad. So what's good technique? What's good technique good technique is to have a hot temperature controlled iron If you have one of those like 30 watt irons that isn't temperature controlled It doesn't have a thermostat that you turn up and down That's not as good clean tip clean silver shiny tip Not an oxidized tip if you put solder on the tip and the solder balls up Instead of spreading out on the tip stop Do not proceed you need a new tip or you need to clean your tip if you are having trouble getting the solder to flow It's all craggy and not turning liquid that is a sign your iron is not hot enough It's not driving heat into the joint another thing you generally don't want to do is you want to lay the wire flat Against the pad you don't want to come out like this because then there's not a lot of surface contact between the end of The wire see the strands of the wire are just kind of like this, and they're not you're not getting good surface contact How'd you? Sometimes you can get away with it But yeah, I want the I want the leads to come out because this is a really high-gauge wire You can picture like the battery strap going on and holding it like that So that then the lead of the battery will just come in and plug it on the back like that so Probably not going to eject many of these batteries anyway, so it really doesn't matter if that's a very sound joint Next step motors motors, so we've got the XT60 wired up. Yes Now we got to do the motors. Yes, I got three motor wires. Yep. I got three motor pads Yep, does it matter the order? It does not matter the order depending on who you ask and how you want to do it So each of the motors have to spin a different direction right the cork the opposite corners spin Opposite or the same direction as each other and then next to each other spin the opposite direction There's two ways to change the motor direction. The first is you can solder so there's three wires Those are the individual phases of the motor if you swap any to phase the direction that the motor Spins is reversed but you can also use software to program the ESC and change the direction digitally now I'm kind of of the opinion that you just get it right when you build it. That's just easier How do you know which way they're gonna? Oh, you just you swap the leads to make the motor spin the right way Okay, but some to people the other way I'm of the opinion when I when I solder it I just run the wire straight. It makes clean neat wiring and then rather than pull up my soldering iron back out I just rather do it on the computer one way is not better than the other It totally doesn't matter as long as the motor ends up spinning the right direction at the end of the day Exactly. All right. I'm gonna start these up. Cool. So I'm kind of just gauging out the distance of the wire that I want I'll pull it out Get it nice and tight. I always have a mistake I make where I get the motor exactly the right length then I strip it and tin it and cut it And then it's too short. I always leave myself like three millimeters of slack to avoid it Because once you've made a motor wire too short, it's a real pain to fix. I did that. I just misspoke You cut wires to exactly the right length.  Okay. One two three. There you go All right, you probably put a zip tie or something on that, but we'll do that We'll get to that. This is all none of this is an exact sign It's like at this point it kind of becomes an art project.  Oh, yeah, if you do that You want to be real careful when you push it down not to pinch the wires, you know what?  I think they're gonna be just right Okay, so we better started it all of our motor side it up very important to double check that there are no solder bridges Correct that none of these are touching each other basically So the way I do that is give the motor a little spin and if it freewheels at all, it's fine If it stops immediately, that's really clever. There's a principle called feck drag Which means that when two phases are shorted to each other didn't know the word for that It will actually kind of self-break. Yeah, I'm trying to use in the screwdriver to short these two. Oh, there you go Oh, yeah, look so now there's a ton of resistance in order to move the motor But then when I release it it spins and that's how you know, I've got a shorter that's a really good tip Okay, motor started up next flight controller Right. I like controllers super easy because it comes with this plug. You just plug it in here.  I want you but man. Oh, we need these spacers. Don't we? Yeah Here's the here are the spacers jump the gun when you put those spacers on Don't screw them down so tight that you crush those gummies those gummies are for vibration isolation Vibration isolation is important It makes the quad run smoother and it helps protect the delicate electronics from damage when you crash That's not as big a deal on a Cinewhip, which shouldn't be crashed super hard super fast most of the time Watch me. We'd hope but especially if you're building a racing or freestyle quad That's why the ESC has gummies on it. Even though the ESC doesn't actually Have vibration sensitive instruments like the flight controller So squeeze them down tight enough that the gummies are just a little compressed But not so tight that they're completely crushed and the vibration isolation is Defeated so the flight controller we have this plugged in and then we can plug into the ESC Okay, and we turn the ESC sideways. Do we need to turn the flight controller sideways? No, okay So because we're not using so the ESC is built to be put in Forward so that you just wire each corner directly together now. We've turned it So each motor is now corresponding to a Incorrect pad. Yeah, exactly. So we're gonna have to do some work and software later So we might as well just cleanly mount our flight controller this way because we're gonna have to do work on it Anyway, one thing I can't help but notice is that puts the usb port facing the back Is that is that there's no way so with the squirt There's no way to reach the flight controller the usb anyway Oh because of that. So you have to take it apart to use the usb Not ideal room for improvement Andy. Well, I've always thought about like getting like a usb extension Like it's just like a little one. So run it out the bottom or something, but yeah So that is one annoying thing about the squirt But once like the beauty of this is like once you build it you have everything working You put it together and you just don't ever have to change anything. You don't break props on it You don't burn electronics like it just is done and it works. All right, so we're gonna put these nuts on top Um, yeah, just keep it in place Best cases if those are nyloc nuts, these are the only ones we had on hand And um, these will back out Eventually If you put them on tight enough that they don't back out then they crush the gummies, right? So nyloc would be better But this is what we're going with for now because that's what we got. Yep. All right next step air unit Uh, yeah, so the air unit I would build I've only built like one quad with the air unit And I still use my own receiver just because I My my air unit transmitter is broken Why is it broken paul? My friend poured powerade on it. His friend poured powerade on it Now there's some flight controllers Where you can just literally plug the air unit into the flight controller. That's so nice and long The hobby wing is not one of those we're gonna be soldering this up But we will literally only have one two three four five six solder joints And then we're just done with the build pretty much We got uh red power two to four s two to four s voltage It can the air unit can handle natively If you're going above four s The uh hobby wing flight controller actually has a three amp regulator that you can use We're gonna use it anyway 12 volt three amp 12 volt. That's more than enough. We're gonna use this anyway If somebody one day plugs in a six s battery by accident It won't fry the thing black is ground future proofing white and gray Are to let you get battery voltage in your goggles And then yellow is the control connection and that's another ground wire and if that all didn't make sense We got a graphic showing you exactly where to put these wires on this flight controller. We're gonna go ahead and solder them up Let's mount the air unit first or that so that we're gonna go ahead and mount that air unit Then we'll solder it up. Um, so if you look at the back There's a little hole here conveniently placed so that when you put the No usb Fit you can still get access to it and uh, what about your sd card comes out the top And being brilliant your siphon and we don't deserve you So I was just wondering like oh, how do we mount this inside of the frame? And so I go and look at the one that we have pre-built over here And it turns out there's a little tpu mount a little 3d printed Okay, so we gotta get this Stand it up in there. Yeah, so now we get those standoffs back for a lot tight We're gonna put our big frame standoffs on okay, so tpu mount thingy. Let's show them. Hold on. Don't rest. Don't rest I'm so excited though. So we get this tpu mount Here's the piece It's gonna go with the flat side down over the standoffs and half of you guys are going of course barred Well, what do you think we are idiots and half of you are going no do it slower I got you guys So I wanted to point out one thing is so at the beginning of this video We started out like pretty evenly balanced on this table and progressively barred while it's pushed me further and further out to the side of the That's not true. That's not true. It just goes in and it sits right there. It's so good Okay, so that's gonna go in. Yep, and then this is gonna come around Yeah, I put it inside of the standoff. Yeah, perfect inside the standoff And then it's all it's gonna get sorted up exactly like that diagram boom diagram Okay, so next we're gonna put the camera on because the camera is the lowest part of the front of this Machine and so we have this mount created by our own julian at rotor riot and by our I mean there And it bends back And sits down a little bit further So that it's flush to the ground, which is actually pretty awesome. So like if I push this all the way down, okay I might have this upside down. No, I don't okay How can you tell if you got it upside down? It's because now it sits all the way on the ground So it's just like you just got this chin. I see I see Oh, I see I see the top part kind of angles up And then let's see the can we say I can figure this out the camera is just gonna go into these screw holes But wait josh, what happens if you put it on upside down? We just flip it over right In soft but you can do it, but you can do it in the goggles Did you know you could do that? Yeah?  Funny you should ask that Paul because The camera actually has an up-facing arrow on the back So you can make sure to install it right side up But if you do install the camera upside down you can flip it in the image in the dji goggles So the camera is installed right side up right here We got these one and two screws right here this bottom screw sets the angle What angle do you typically fly out for commercial shooting in cinema stuff? No more than 10 degrees like very low. It's almost all very very slow and go This is probably more angle than you would want. Yeah, but I'm like 20 You can't you can always fly I find that it's always easier to fly slower With a higher tilt than it is to fly Faster with a larger cameras installed on the front next What's next? No, the only thing that's left is to install the ducts But it's really hard to put props on After you've put the ducts on wow So I like to put the props on first and then put the ducts on as weird as that sounds Okay, so I went over and got some props for this build And we're gonna run props out so that way can I show you a pro tip?  In fact, it is the chendron's battery strap that comes with the squirt That's the last one pro tip. He is rubberized It's got like a grippy rubber finish if you wrap it around the motor and I cinch the battery strap down To cause the motor to not rotate while I tighten it props are on now we install the ducts The ducts So the I start with the middle one usually Okay, this is going to go here He's ignoring what did I not start with the middle one? Yeah, put the middle one Push the push the middle oh, I didn't know there was I see. Oh, there's one under here I didn't get that so here from the underside. We're gonna get the middle one. I just didn't understand you Then we're gonna kind of push down on all the others It's very flexible. So it's very easy to get it lined up. It is. It's not really rocket science It's so satisfying when it drops into place and okay. Oh, here we go Oh, yeah That's good So smooth and satisfying now on this one. You're gonna want to get the capacitor out of the way, right? So I just wanted to up into the side a little bit. It doesn't need a lot Okay, get those antennas out of the way Best to have a friend to help you learn acquaintance So the capacitor is kind of tucked to the side of the duct here Just tucked out of the way now these little finally these little things go on.  They're gonna they're gonna slide down on the front on top of the camera There you go. Yep on the back one We see our uh FPV air unit And then screw goes through the bottom of the GoPro mount on both sides so that it's These are the uh same screws. They're just gonna go right down into the standoffs. Yep All right, so we've put our GoPro mount in I've put it at the uh, I pushed it all the way forward I don't know why I did that. Okay, but I like it there. Yeah. Nice. We also got to put this battery pad on We got a little bit of umma grip. Umma grip the universal super sticky battery pad Don't need quite as much as we have here. So I'll just cut it nice about there. Oh, it's perfect You got that you nailed it. Okay. Look at this. Oh, that's hot. You got the little SD card holder right there But like what what if I want to plug in my air unit to update the firmware you flip it over? Oh USB-C Yeah, it's so good. So we are done building the sinewup the shendrone squirt everything's assembled We just have to plug it into the computer do a little bit of configuration On the the flight controller in the ESC and we are ready to go flying. So let's go do that now This sinewup needs to be all tuned up in the mid flights There are a lot of things that are not working right now. For example, the motors don't spin and have we even plugged this in yet? We haven't even smoked check it. Let's uh come on come on over here. Let's see what happens We gotta smoke check it. We've got director drew coming in to check our work. Oh god It's okay. I think that what we first need to do is show them the things that are going to be the same For every air unit. Okay. There's a just a very few settings That everybody using dji is going to need to change. Let's dive in. Okay. We plugged in. Yes. So we're going to connect here In the ports tab We're going to need to set up our are we going to reflash this first three five six you arts But first we're going to reflash it because three five six. That's like the bg's we're going to firmware flasher What uh, what's the target for this flight controller? Do you know the omnibus s F4 sd in case you don't know the answer to that you can go to the cli and type the word version And it'll show you the target here. Let's show them at home how to do it Okay, I'm cycling the power on the flight controller. So we go out of dfu mode. Okay plugging it back in now We can connect on tt usb load them because we're on a mac good work So we can go to the cli and we can type the word version Oh version. I just hit dump and scroll all the way back up that will also work Or we can just look up here where it says target s4 and the configurator Omnibus f4 sd that's the information you need So then we're going to put it in bootloader mode We can do that by typing bl at the command line or you can hold down the bootloader button. You can type bl. That's da Badass We're now ready to flash. We're new to firmware flasher Omnibus f4 sd is what we want to see and we want to flash beta flight 41 Load firmware. We loaded the firmware and we're going to flash the firmware. All right We're going to connect beta flight 4.1 is going to ask you to apply custom defaults. Just say, okay Yeah, sure. We're good. We're good with that. There's a reason for that But we're not going to dive into that now that we're done flashing we're going to connect We're going to go to the port set where there are two ports. We need to configure One is one receiver. It's for the receiver. That's s bus. You are three is for the air unit Okay, that's and that is not you may notice how the default is set up. That's okay screw defaults We're going to go you are three We're going to enable the msp column you are one. We're going to enable serial rx That is literally all you have to do. It's just that easy Save and reboot check moving on on that tab. That's all you have to do. We're going to connect again We're going to go configuration tab And we are going to Set up a serial receiver. Yep, and s bus s bus and save and reboot So since this is a dji product, the very first thing you are going to want to do is register it Which dji people are completely used to and update it if And update it for work. Yeah, because some new updates just came out. They're always coming out. So Get your sbc cable It is pretty easy easier than like with beta flight. All you got to do is run this dji assistant software And then we need to power on the air unit and plug it in and we're going to update the air unit The controller if you're using the controller and the goggles Boom FPV air unit start activation If this is the first time you've done it you'll have to make an account and all that nonsense Definitely read all those terms read every word of it. I've read Next yep, it's activated. It'll ask you if you want to update the firmware Downloading the next thing we should do is we should bind our dji controller and our goggles So you actually have to bind the goggles first and then the controller If you bind the controller first and then the goggles the controller will lose its bind So maybe we should grab some goggles too. Okay, that's right Thank you paul plug it in. Okay. Thank you. So to bind our FPV air unit and our goggles. I'm going to first plug in the air unit As well as the goggles which are already plugged in and then right next to the Micro sd port. There's a little hole reach in give it a poke The led will turn red red and then on the air unit goggles, there's a button next to the power Give it a poke Or it's or it's gonna blow up. Hey, I can see dan over there And the led is green and the led is green goggles around goggles around. How do we bind the radio josh? Funny you should ask that. It's as simple as pressing three specific buttons at a time three Yeah, because on the goggles under the air unit, there's just one little bind button But on the controller you have to hold down this button right here the record button and This little scrolly ball it pushes in you push those all at the same time But first you got to turn it on to turn it on Press it once and then hold it down. We're going to hold down boom record button and The led here goes blue Go ahead and hit our bind button again on the air unit And we're bound the next thing we're going to do is we're going to go into beta flight And we're going to check the receiver tab make sure that we've got our aet r setting And it looks like we're we need to see is that first of all that the receiver channels move And we're just double check, but this should be correct throttle Is throttle give me the full y'all left y'all left y'all right good Pitch forward pitch Beauty roll, I'd say that's all correct. So we don't need to talk about channel mapping. So we'll go back to config tab What else do we need to do? Let's put our motors on D shot 600 because we're not doing RPM filtering No, yes, sir. No Bidirectional D shot. No motor poles. We're gonna ignore What do you set for the idle value? I do 4.0 throttle value on the sinewoop I want it to drop a little bit faster so that if I'm like because I'm a lot of times I'm like shooting gaps So I want to be able to just come off throttle and keep going into something. So okay, so we've got D shot 600 We want probably 8k 8k for the gyro in the pit loop by thing for sure.  We don't need a craft aim because we're not Running OSD. Air mode on that's the default. Do you fly with air mode on? Yes. Okay. I also do OSD whatever anti-gravity on dynamic filter on all good minimum arm angle is 180 That disables the minimum arm angle which allows you to arm the quad at any angle. What that That shouldn't normally happen Okay, we've got to set up our arming mode down into modes. We are gonna need the air unit turned on for that So I'm gonna unplug this back in Okay, we'll hit add range. Hang on in a minute. I'm gonna flip this Switch as soon as we're green. Okay. I'm gonna flip the switch. I'm using for arming Okay, I like to use the upper left switch flip that switch You should now see the little yellow indicator moving put the switch into the armed position Do you push away to arm or pull towards Paul push away to arm? I'm gonna push the switch away So it's in the armed position and then I'm gonna look at where that little yellow carrot is And I'm gonna put the drag it over so it covers it and you can hit save Uh, should we just do turtle mode war here turtle mode short turtle mode flips quad over if you land upside down After adding the range, we're gonna flip the switch. I like this one on the front personally So I'm gonna flip that and uh put it in the turtle mode position all the way down Okay, again move the slider so it covers that little carrot and hit save and angle mode I like to use the three same three position as turtle mode. Okay, so middle position will be angled Up will be neither and down will be turtle mode. We'll put it in the middle position. So we're already in the middle So we'll leave it there. Okay And then do this hide unused modes. You can check your modes pretty So we got turtle mode. I've never seen that switch before angle mode off and then arming mode which is turning red, but Once we unplug we should be good. Yep. Okay. We got our mode set up. We got to check our motor directions Yes, the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to check to see if we have our motors lined up with our flaky Trout now I can tell you right now that we don't because we turned the esc sideways And wired each motor to the esc directly without wiring it like all the way around to like motor one to four Whatever, so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go and i'm going to go on motor one And i'm going to start to spin it up and what do you know motor two on the quad starts to spin Okay, what are we doing? I make a column and it's the slider number So we've got sliders one two three and four. Okay. It's the motor position And if that's if you look in the diagram the positions are one two three and four, okay, and then the pin number So what we're going to do the sliders are one two three and four and we're going to raise the sliders one Slider one moves motor two slider one moves motor two slider two moves motor four slider three moves motor one and slide four moves motor three three Okay, now we got to go to the cli and We're going to just tell you guys what to put in the cli if you're following along Rather than making like try to explain to you exactly how to do it because I think that might be confusing resource motor two b zero zero We're just going to take this stuff from the position column and map the pins motor two b zero zero resource motor four b zero one resource motor one eight oh three resource motor three eight oh two and save those lines Those lines we can give them in the In the video description or whatever they can copy paste them in but essentially what we've done is we've said to Each so we've taken the pin numbers for which each motor is on and then we've said we've we've figured out which slider moves which And we're just reassigning the pins to the proper motor so that now when josh goes into the motors tab When he pushes slider one motor one, which is this one right here will move instead of motor three Which is what it was doing before yes motor one How about the direction want to make a note of the direction for us is the wrong direction motor two is the correct position Going the right way correct direction motor three correct position and direction and motor four Going the wrong way Okay, so motors one and four need to be reversed we got a disconnect from beta flight scooch on over to Be all la 32 do it go to zipport connect check for ec's Get rid of all but one Reverse it Right put your thing down Just flip it Reverse it and then get rid of that go to more four Unreverse it right Okay So motor four was going the wrong direction because we reversed it previously. So we're now we'll unreverse it. Yep disconnect to normal Go back to the motors tab one last time double check our work always double check because you think you got it right But you might not have got it right correct and correct Hey, what do you know we are Ready geniuses to maiden are we ready to maiden can we put it back together and can we fly it? Can we maiden it can we fly it can we fly it are we ready throttle down? Arm now don't raise the throttle just bump the pitch and roll stick a little And if that happens then something ain't right That's why I don't just raise the throttle and we did not stage that you could tell from my sincere reaction that that was What's wrong paul? We got the props on board alignment. We didn't fix the board alignment We have remapped the motors because we twisted the ec 90 degrees We also need to remap the flight controller. So if you check it out If you look at this 3d model here, you'll see that when I pitch the quad forward It actually is moving on the roll axis in this 3d model. It's not right. Okay, so we're going to go to the configuration tab We're going to put in negative 90 or 270 your pick degrees save and reboot We're going to connect and we'll just double check here. We will pitch forward. It picked them 3d model pitches forward Okay Now now we're ready now. Let's close it up to maiden it which we definitely didn't already do one time While paul is closing this up. Let me remind you that we have a full config dump All this work if you've watched us through configuring it that's cool because you won't learn how to do it But if you just want to get your quad set up the same as ours, there's a config dump It's linked in the video description You can paste it into the cli and then you'll just be set up and you should be ready to go Although you should still check Like you should still do your hover maiden carefully because if anything did get screwed up your quad will try to flip out All right, let's maiden Oh, those props sound good Thank you guys so much for watching Links to this down in the video description Thanks to paul nerkola for helping us build a sinewup and check out some sinewup footage If you stick this on your chest, I'll stick this on my chest. Okay, three two one


Wait, no now we're live live on the metal voice. Yeah, who we got the snake What's going it's cold today, it's cold everywhere man ice everywhere Yeah, where's the vice? Yes. Yes. Yes. Where's a vice? So how are things anyways good we're all good. Yeah, yeah, I guess we're we can call it good All right, yeah, exciting news the band new album. Yes Synchro anarchy. Let me just show you over it. Synchro anarchy. I'm showing the picture right now live Great artwork, beautiful artwork. Once again, of course by away, right? Always. Yes, fine job Is there any meaning to this artwork? Like I see fire coming from the sky. I see us flying saucer there I see the moon. I see skulls. Is there any concept behind this? This this this album artwork that you are aware of Well It's synchro anarchy as a reference to a lot of things and of course You know, it's a bit regarding the pandemic the first year of the pandemic I I spend I don't know. I mean, I think I spend the almost the entire year by myself at home and no girlfriend no dog no cat and and I was about Turned crazy, right? And then it seems like a Time stretch, you know, you know because Yeah, it's either you work it from home or you don't work at all You don't have schedule. You don't have routine anymore So it's like This is kind of stretching Timing and and as as another aspect it's We did this album in about four months all combined So everything was compressed, you know, the time was compressed.  It's been so hard to plan anything This is for the last two years. I didn't book a tour and it's never happened. So Yeah, it's pretty much a The I wanted to talk about a pandemic but not not about the virus not about, you know, whatever was more about The psycho kind of thing Let me ask you since the beginning of Voivode Did you write all the lyrics like on all the albums with the exceptions of the albums that you weren't on you did all the lyrics Yeah, yeah, pretty much did all I had a few a few help from a girl Kisti Matsubo for the album Angel Rat in a nothing face You know, I needed to have reference culture more of a cultural reference Because obviously, you know, I'm a French and I don't have the whole the old picture the background the culture Anglosaxon ass and so she helped me for these two records Pretty much figure out the ideas of the way I put things together It's all in me pretty much.  Is that am I getting the right phrase here and you speak English perfectly, right?  There's little things. You're not you're not, you know, you know, I'm a French, but if I if I hear a French from France A reference as a song a song from France, there's little reference that I you know, I had to What is he talking about? Okay, there's that I don't understand because it's a culture reference from that particular village or Place or whatever Expression. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, and I could see people's chats here Okay, so came and says saw Voivod at bloodstock and thought snake was one of the most enjoyable frontman I've ever seen and I was in 2013. So, uh, I think the last place I saw you guys was at the Jazz Fest and I think that was probably the last show in Montreal that you played, right? But the exciting news is this is your 15th album. Can you believe 15 albums 15 albums? On February 11th coming out synchro anarchy on century media records Do you ever like wake up in the morning saying we've done it all like where are we gonna go with this like what? What it's there left to do But I heard the album and I had the pleasure of hearing the album and I have to say one thing right off the bat I think it's a Francis Perron. He does an incredible production if if people thought the wake was good This is even better. Maybe you want to talk about Francis and and his is his Francis is always He's getting better everything he does gets better and he did a really fantastic job on the way The way it was, you know, we took three years to put the way together and so we had time we could have you know sit and talk and blah blah blah and And it was like a pofine product, you know, like many layers stuff This time around we didn't have you know any time, but he had a good experience while we did because we did a Livestreaming at his studio and when we did these recording We were only the four of us bass guitar drum vocal. That's it and he managed to Create a live sound sound that is perfect and and We kind of like the sound of those live streaming and we say hey, maybe, you know, it would be interesting to have like a Like for the next record to sound a little bit like that, you know, just just the four of us, you know, not having multi layers of stuff And so that's that's what we did with With synchronicity first of all, we didn't have time to think twice You were writing the album for like a long time. It's just the recording like they don't know no We did everything in four months You believe that it's crazy Believe that's great. So I thought you're writing the album for a long time and then you go Okay, we're gonna record a boom boom boom fast fast. We're in route. No, we had we had a few stuff in the bank, you know, but very little and and we had a meeting once and it was in June or July and The record company but because we had an upcoming tour organization for a for a for March Of this year But the record company said it would be great to have something fresh, you know and blah blah blah. Yeah, but How can you manage to do all this in such a period of time and then we're sitting around the fire by the studio and and and we all look at each other and Can we pull that off? Can we make a record in four months because we have to deliver in September and I was Really, I didn't know what the thing I said, okay. Well, give it a try but I I don't think we're gonna do this again We almost we almost killed ourself on the job, you know, like You know, because it's like working under pressure. It's like, you know, when you work under pressure if it's physical you you just go faster you run faster but Composing music and lyrics You cannot go with it, you know, your brain doesn't go any faster than what it's supposed to be and so It was almost like a writing with a gun in your head and say, hey, you know, it has to be good But the album as a as a really kind of has a special vibe because of that because We didn't we didn't we didn't have time to To to sit and think about you know, it was just almost like delivering delivering Okay, it is that boom boom boom and I Think we managed to create something very special with and you can feel the emergency in the music Okay, so how's this? I'm gonna bring Dan chewy on. Okay, too. Also. Okay. That's okay with you. That's okay with you You're the same bad Okay, and as we wait for Chewie to jump line Describe to somebody what you think this album sounds like musically I could I could describe it and I'm gonna describe it as extremely technical Very deep and dark.  How would you describe it though? musically Yeah, pretty much like you said, I mean it's there's a lot of there's a lot of kind of a Especially and in one song and it really the times timeshift is Like in in the song central on our key, you know, it's like it's almost like a ska beat And then but it chops at every every little while when you think that CD skip No, no, it's it's it's made on purpose, you know, so but uh, maybe maybe Dan can describe it more So so Dan I'm pressure. I'll get we'll get to the themes after with snake, but Dan give us your perspective on Okay, so I I've heard it you guys know it but everybody else out there what it can they expect musically Hi snake Hi Jimmy, how was it going? Well, it's I think it's I've heard the snake a bit of a bit. I was watching you guys It was so intense, you know and snake was right about it was so intense to write everything in insert such a short period of that time very very intensive It we didn't know really we didn't have any perspective on it while writing it and I just start to have a Perspective on it and I think it's deep. It's a deep album. It's a very honest It's dark But but I can see some light There is some light in it, but it's a dark album. It's deep. It's it's like there's a kind of a Not in a bad way, but there's a way to adapt to it that Was that's different from other albums. Is there a top ten single there? We're laughing about this. Is there a top ten single on this album top ten single Well, if there is it was not on purpose, but I wish there is one so we can have a lot of air Radio play and become rich But but I guess what I what I mean by that is I'm not trying to make fun I mean that it's a very complex You know album right that that's what I'm trying to say, you know, there's no like a Verse chorus verse chorus. There's none of that.   So Yeah, it's a dark album, but there's there's parts in the album that brings light and positive side despite, you know, whatever the darkness and The psycho kind of thing So it's very it's very varied Talk about quest for nothing like that is more of a I guess there you're going a little out of the box of you're getting more a little bit of orchestration there, Dan Is it is it like at the end especially it's sort of yeah more epic. We'll call it. Is that the word? Maybe yeah, that's what Francis used as a word when he heard the This section first and he said why this part is very like large sounding and I added some Mandolin Mandola at the end so it it brings another dimension, but yeah, it's like the whole song is kind of Prague song and it builds stress so to speak and then a big release and you're You know in this other dimension which everything is large and there's air and their space to breathe and So this part was the only orchestration difference is the mandolin in mandola But the rest is just the four of us with delay and effects that makes it bigger and everything and the melody Snake sign yeah, yeah Yeah, the harmony everything, you know, yeah the harmony So what's quest for nothing if you were to and I don't want you to give away all the lyrics But just you know an idea of what that meant to you snake the lyrics Well, it's a It's just that sometimes it's it's it's frustrating. It's just You try so hard to do something and then you finally realize that you know It was not worth it But you do that anyway because that's you you have to function you have to move forward and this And it and it's it's a pain. It's there's something that it's Like like going on a vacation, you know, you go on a vacation, but You become you come back from the vacation more tired because You need a vacation from the vacation exactly exactly that's that's that's what is not about but that's a little bit of a Of the line that that goes with it and the and the end part is it's more like Like you said a relief or something like okay kind of a zone that I Don't know you're in a spa or something You look at the beautiful sky and and then nothing else matters no matter what the day was You know everything is more More into Yeah More dreamy as well and reference with death and life and death and Whatever, you know being physically there or not or a spirit or that's a Then we're just like what I look at because I Remember down are you guys looking each other going?  No, but no, but I remember He came to me once again Yeah, but with his big eyes I think he didn't sleep for three days It has to be good It has to be Yeah, we can do it I Mind clock all right the song mind clock, you know, that's the sound of my head while writing music Dan mine clock All right. I mean at first you go wait a second is this alternative rock It starts off like really, you know in that sort of alternative 90s rock, but then it opens up and it just becomes this I Wouldn't call it thrash here, but more speed, you know Is that how would you describe mine clock? Track four About the way I Sort of starts off very very slow, and then it kind of builds up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay I got it. It's the only one that starts off really slow like you would think you're listening to some sort of I don't know With clean guitar part. Yes. Yeah, that's the one Okay, you guys have other interviews going on You might want to revisit your song Well, it's been a while You know we adjust, you know, like I said earlier, we're just kind of I get it. I get it. Don't worry. We're just joking around. We're joking. Yeah, yeah, but it's funny. I Remember this actually the music it's Well the text inspire me but the text came while we were writing it then it Yeah, I thought about mental sickness and loneliness. Yeah, and I think yeah, you give You gave me a hint and then I took your hand. Yeah, I think I Yeah, I took it from there and I created that that guy that is sitting in as a Sitting in like a retired man a retired house And everybody think it's crazy because he he's building a sign He had built a flying saucer yes, and then and He's he's saying to everybody that he's gonna go with his flying saucer Finally he did and and everybody's happy at the retirement finally. He's gone but Yeah, it's it. I want to tell everybody this just everybody understands what happened you guys Went into a studio For four months worked your asses off, right and Then just came out of the studio and you don't know what happened. You is that more or less like you're just so exhausted You're so exhausted from the work Well, yeah, pretty much That was like Go ahead. I was pretty much I had a few ideas that I started recording maybe almost two years ago, but just snippets like just and At some point we lost touch with each other and we had two like snakes said earlier Oh, we have a deadline, you know, let's let's work on it So basically a way had those ideas and they he tried to put them together so it makes structure of songs and he programmed drums and I wrote the arrangement and Slowly but very fastly we built it around it and then we had to try it in the studio live So to make sure every part was, you know working and we modified stuff and snake would try some lines and everything But it was like three or four days doing that So we didn't have time to go through all the songs and the ideas and some of the songs were not even written So I went back home I did all the demos with the programmed drums and structures that we did and what we worked in the studio and That's what the when the race started and and then we went back to the studio to to arrange and You know complete all the songs and record them You know, it's like a old school It's almost like going on tour, you know, you play every day for a few months You come back for me. It's like what happened. What happened? Yes Snake in the olden days with Voivode was it pretty much that like the first two three albums You just you go in the studio crank it out and that's that and it is what it is Yeah, but you know, we we always had time to Think about it which we did in this time but But it was yeah, you know, we didn't have a whole lot of budget and so the first couple of first couple of album You know, we were basically making the structure of the songs in our rehearsal space Which the sound was so bad. We couldn't hear anything and then we had to surprise when we got to the studio how it sounds But I mean the reality is like for this album, I'm assuming because of all the problems we had, you know with the COVID-19 right, it was less of that right less of the band jamming and less of the band collaborating, right? Yeah we all had to Kind of it was a constant brainstorm, you know, I was like I couldn't Set myself thinking about something else for four months.  I got I know how to Build up that chorus that makes sense. You know, it has to make sense of somehow but Yeah What about okay planet eaters, that's the first single right so Is that a good idea of what people can expect on the rest of the album to we Vibe I think Vova that has been renown from way before that I was in About their Each album has many surprises and it's all we can expect the unexpected and that's that kind of Vibe, you know, so I think You have two songs out now, which is planet eaters and Paranormalium which are very different One is more Metal so to speak and very chaotic and more what one is more melodic and organized So there's many different texture on the album many different dimensions so to speak Journey I think it's a pretty varied but of course the course the core the sound of the band This is recognizable through the, you know, the harmony the songs the structures the Progressive side and the sci-fi side and and so I think It's it's it's representative of the the sound of overall sound of the album planet eaters But it doesn't give everything that that the rest of the album have of course There's there's more surprise to it. All right, good. Yeah, and I agree with that. So a snake planet eaters. This is we're all basically Disposing of our planet and we're just sort of getting rid of things easily and a Disposable world maybe, you know, we're just not taking care of things as we should is that what it's about Yeah, pretty much. I was I was thinking about the way the way the player the way the song goes and It remind me of some sort of like a Things that I saw before but Basically, yeah, it's it's like Are we gonna be able to keep going like this forever even if you a little bit a little bit of recycling a little bit of that and now I'm trying to explore more more into the Into space and eventually, you know Eventually, it's either we collapse or try to find a way to expand somehow and somewhere else this the planet is a Finnish world It cannot give more than what it gives, you know, that's it.  It's a great line It's a really great line Yeah, we work we work together Chewy like oh, we're gonna build this how we're gonna build this Was a hard one to sing as well Yeah But it was fun and I remember What well, we're not so far away from that era, you know, like we just go to Mars with with Elon Musk says and we're going to Mars in 2030 or something like that, right? It's not far fetch at all, you know But but the idea like captain Kerr going to space, you know, like, you know Anybody can go on a special flight to to go in space and you know, you know Some people not any people for now, but it's I don't know. It's it's not reassuring You know that you put the aspect of saving for, you know, like aro plan or something Save on your next trip to Mars Get your fourth booster get a free trip to Mars Exactly if anybody has any questions that's watching they could you know, we'll ask the boys here And you know, it's interesting thing. You guys are a metal band, but you're a one guitarist metal band I know today Judas Priest announced we're going out as a four piece, but you guys have always been a four piece Do you and both of you I guess and maybe more the chewy do you find that it's sometimes, you know, you you like Filling in the gaps as one guitarist or maybe sometimes you think It'd be cool to have another guitar to get another sound there. I At first I was I was so used to play in Marty or my old band with two guitars and arrange everything with two guitars That it was a little bit Distabilizings, but I used to play as well as a in trios and stuff like that, but Voivodes music is so different than anything that I've played in before, you know, I knew the band of course, but The bass is acting somewhat of an Bass and guitar at the same time, you know, there's a lot of dialogue between instrument between, you know vocal lines and drums and both both instrument both strings instrument are you know, dialoguing so to speak a lot and So so my role sometime is more of a keyboard player than a guitar player because I have to suggest an harmony I have to suggest chord. It's not always riffing part it it has to have a floor for snake to sing and Snake needs chords and and you know harmonics and that's where he finds this He's comfortable in that chaos, you know that dissonance is the only singer I know on the earth that can bring out that simple melody out of this chaotic harmony I don't know how he does it. I don't know how he does it. There's no power chord There's no power chord to think of a melody, you know like right exactly It's always shaking, you know the harmony when you put two notes together that are dissonant It creates a vibration. That's not stable and most of people would say Doesn't sound right, but in Voila's music. It doesn't sound right everywhere Well, that's the charm, right?  I'm just looking at the screen, you know So Max Allard saying is the release of the hypercube sessions still in the plans So the hypercube sessions that you did I think it was six months ago Is that still in the plans to release that as a DVD I guess I don't know Well, that's that's that eventually will see the light of day I don't know in what context, but we know we have this we know people want to see it We just have to figure out how and when and you know on what platform But it will be out. I'm sure Or some of it, you know, all right just a matter of time. Okay, so K-man wants to know someone asked about the unreleased demo from 2001 Snake is there an unreleased demo from 2001? I Think he's referring to a demo with Eric forest before he okay. Yes So we don't know much about it Eric's got the tapes. Okay Kindly asked them what their favorite club was in Montreal in the 90s. I The scene was awesome at the time. So Snake, what was your favorite club to play back in the 90s? I Used to go to the food. Yeah, but I I don't sometimes I don't remember Dan how about you? Well, that was the food. Of course, there was the backstreet. I saw the backstreet Underground. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes We played there. Yeah, one of the first show I went to was the backstreet. I think I was underage and I think it was early Early shows of annihilator back then. Oh, yeah annihilator is great Chris Hawkins vibe was Yeah, I know I've been to the back straight. It was cool back then. It was really it was like you went downstairs, right? And it was yeah, the vibe was special. Yeah on mayor's something like that. Yeah Voie vaude angel rat reissue on vinyl any plans? So voie vaude angel rat reissue on vinyl. Are there any plans? Yes, I think I have it on paper here. They took some notes today. What the notes? Where's my paper and yeah, okay, go ahead Yeah, I should be released I'm gonna angel rat and nothing face on vinyl riddition from century media When exactly I Think it's in the process right now. So I don't know when it's gonna be out yet Yeah, it's on it's on the plan and also I'd like to tell everybody that the album that's being released It also there's a deluxe version of the new album where you can get a live and I don't remember where the live was but I could look it up There's a deluxe edition of synchro anarchy You can order and I actually pre-ordered it. So There's a live disc that it could you know that comes with it. I think it's 2018 somewhere you played or another You guys know I'm not sure but it comes with an extra disc as a deluxe so I could look it up on Amazon But can't really go to the screen So now maybe I'm telling you guys that this exists. Are you guys aware of this? Yeah, I was aware. I forgot about the gig. I think it was I'd stop. It was the Jean-Claire show I don't remember Return to the Margot 2018. Is that yeah, that's the Jean-Claire show. Yeah, that's that's oh, yeah, right All right, that's what I thought that was the last I Think it was that the show we we had footage on the obsolete being video We took footage from that show so return to Margot Jean-Claire the hometown of Boivard. Yes, and your family was there. I think snake your mother was there. Yeah Yeah, it was fun. And I think him Piggy's mother and sister were there too. Okay, cool It was it was very special. Yeah, so you can catch the vibe of the show And that's deluxe you could order the deluxe version with the extra All right air and I probably ask you guys this all of many many years The Voivod documentary air IK wants to know the Voivod documentary in the works. Yeah, it's been in the works We know that do you have a release date or what's what's happening? Well, the documentary Philippe is working on it Obviously still needs sometimes to Get some interviews but because of the pandemic it was difficult for him to travel he had to meet with With many people including Jason who wanted to get footage Or interview them So I yeah, it's on the process it did I Would I don't think it's gonna be ready for this year, but early next year I think it's gonna be out for the 40th 40th anniversary. Okay, cool What about I was reading a book. Is there a book and not a biography? Is that or is it just pictures and in artwork or is it? Jeff banger works on the book as well. Hey, and It's also gonna be for the 40th anniversary But I don't have much detail about what's in it So here's a good question for both of you Tanvier is saying I've never listened to a Voivod album. I Know it's crazy I know it's crazy. Which album would you recommend as a good entry point So what is the entry point for Voivod if you had to pick one Dan and then snake but first Dan What is the good entry point? It's really hard to tell I would go with The new one or the one before that if you want to be in present time and know what the Ben sound like today But as well, I would go with maybe an album like Dimension Hatross Which you know for me was had a real big impact as well as Progressive the progressive side the metal side and the psychedelic side is all there So that would be one of them. You know, but what about you snake? If you were some new young kid comes up today snake Which I'm sure with well the band what it's been listening to but I've been listening to I don't know Band or something. I don't know I would certainly recommend killing technology for the old days, you know When we really start to be more kind of Progressive with stuff from being really trash punk trash to be more progressive so pick up killing technology and And for the rest and for the present time The wake the wake is good The EP as well post society There's good songs in it And of course the new record. Yeah, of course, of course, we got to pick that up right away pre-order right now Dan your Japanese when you go to Japan How I mean when it kind of blows my mind Voivod is known everywhere in the world right snake and that chewy everywhere You go there's there's metal heads around the world who know Voivod, but when you go to Japan, how popular is the band there? I don't know Go ahead What's the what's the word for famous? I know you may you may all I know is mushy mushy mushy.  It's a very fragile community It's like a family Then snake says that at every every show Voivod's like a family because it's you know a lot of You know how outcast or misfits or whatever of Ordinary people they come to the show They they find something to to connect with they recognize themselves in in this movement of you know metal music but as well as with the band and And the vibe and you know, so I think that's the Kind of people that we run across when we're on tour and when we go in Japan We're we're able to play two nights in a row and Sold out and we go to when we go to Tokyo, but we don't play in stadiums or anything We just in front of the crowds that appreciate the music and this kind of music and Voivod So it's it's always it always surprised me That we play in Chile and we play in Tokyo and we play in in Montreal and we we go to Amsterdam or whatever And there's always people That shows up with Voivod shirts What about you snake? What was the most like you're sitting here in a country and you go wow these people actually know us here What was that moment? They said I can't believe this country Did you get or maybe you didn't have any moments like that? I don't know Well, like I like to we said it always amazed me to go somewhere and then Usually also what it's cool about it's when you travel and Touring and everything and sometimes you go to a festival and then At a festival you could be like in Czech Republic and then and then you have people from there You got people from Chile. You got people from Denmark. You got people from red But and then somehow we're all connected in the metal family But inside the metal family.  We're fucked and then Hey Yeah, he went back home He went back home take his pedal board bring it to the game and save the game and He had all the effects that I needed for the gig like all the Tremolos and delays and he knew about you know, he knew what I needed He was he was probably playing all the songs, you know The song you had the same effect that he that chewy had so And we had a supper at his home So like he's living in an apartment building up in the air. It's like we're in Chile This guy house and my god, you know, like you've got fans everywhere and they're really nice people They're always been nice and I think you know, we we do special music. We're we're kind of a unique band Yeah, not not not every band sound like us, you know, and I think our fans that what they're looking for is something that it's unique And and and they found it in voivode. What what really what they want to hear You know, I never asked metal massacre five How did you get condemned to the gallows on metal massacre five? Uh, it was a friend of ours Wayne Archibald Was a correspondent. Yeah, I know Wayne. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Wayne. Yeah He's Yeah, he sent uh He sent demos all over the place And uh, we had an offer from a metal blade once It was for that That song on the metal massacre five And metal blade after that released They give us a contract for a for an album So basically it's because of Wayne's good old Wayne. Good old Wayne He doesn't live too far from me Wayne, but good old Wayne. Yeah. Yeah. That's an amazing story. That's really is Chewy what were one of the favorite one of your favorite, uh, bands that you played with you know, it could be in a festival it could be opening for them or You know co-headlining with them or is a a band you said and you know Wow, I got to meet these guys This band They amazed me when we they opened for Voivode in Norway a few years ago. They are not Uh, I think then they're not They don't exist anymore, but virus Uh from Norway amazing band Uh, we played with so many bands but one of uh the highlight One of the highlight uh was playing a few shows with Motorhead and in heaven and hell, you know with Dio And you know be having the chance to tour is one thing the Dio. No Voivode. I just want to know this the Dio. No Voivode Ronnie James Dio. Yo, they played together in in Montreal. Actually Voivode with when snake came back to the band They opened for a deal, but the deal like oh, hey, man. I know. I mean, he was a very Yeah, we had a chance to meet. Yeah, we met after the gig. Yeah, very very nice. Yeah Yeah, we did uh, we did a tour as well When was when I came back to the band we did the tour with Motorhead and Just just for four four days, you know, and I thought I was gonna die Sorry but Chewie Well, now you've been in the band. Oh my god 15 years almost. Yeah, almost. I think 14. Geez man. It's gone by fast Who do you remember touring with that were okay virus, but I mean, you know, let's say, I don't know Creator was a creator you guys went with I can't remember. We we we toured. We had fun with napalm death car cast Yeah, we we had great fun with with many bands, you know when we're co-ed lining with with with guar by example Yeah, it's such a great time, you know and all you know The great tours are when you have a great time on stage and off stage as well And I'm not meaning about not talking about partying necessarily But just getting along go take a walk with someone, you know And and and have good conversation and it it's you know It kind of uh transpired through the whole tour and the whole vibe and what yeah When you go on stage and you're happy because you had a good day and you're with a bunch of great people every day So snake. Yeah, and sometimes go ahead. Sorry. Yeah, sometimes, you know, when you When you tour well, especially on festivals, you know, you see bands that you don't see much often you don't like Not so long ago like a few years ago. We saw a rose statue. I never saw a rose And I was like, oh my god And they were good, they were great, they were great and uh I'm at I'm at uh angry, which isn't yes angry. I understand you should be called happy And uh, oh my god, that was good Did you did you open up with ozzy for one date? Do you remember? Well, well, we we did we did a whole tour canadian tour with uh with ozzy um opening for uh Do you remember what before before the before the uh the osfas?  I think yeah What was it like touring with ozzy? It's ozzy, man. It's friggin ozzy, right?  So it's just like it's almost mister untouchable But I had one day it was my birthday and he signed my birthday card.  So yeah um They were they were nice and we had a good a good a good spot And they're in this big organization, which was uh The hospice before the hospice the tour went super well With the canadian tour. All right. Yeah, it was fun. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, did you guys ever tour a judas priest? We did shows we did shows with judas priest. We did shows with rush, you know, rush was like, uh, What was it not not not moving pictures that went after was uh, what's presto? Presto, presto. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and we opened for judas priest in 2009 in montreal at the bill center Uh, it was my yeah for it show with boy. I was like You know I was that was what's it like? Joey, what's it like transitioning from okay?  It's a big thing the arenas, right? I mean It was a big thing and you know, I remember that year or that first year First show heavy mtl big festival I think the second show was in dokio or or the third one, you know and uh And the the second or third one was with monster of rock ozzy judas priest at the in calgary, you know open stadium and then uh A few months later with with judas priest at the bell center and I thought I made it, you know I'm gonna buy a Porsche. I'm gonna buy a Porsche now No, but I mean it was so impressive playing, you know with it. There was huge venues with thousands of people tens of thousands of people and um, I was on a cloud really like Playing with my favorite band, you know, so I got good memories of that for sure All right, that's pretty much it. Is there anything else you guys want to add? You want to say? Well, look for the next for the new record, you know, yeah, we work really hard on it So I think it deserves to listen We listen to it If you don't like it, listen to it again And by the deluxe version Yeah, there's something something about it, you know, you're gonna discover something but uh, yeah We put a lot of effort on this record and so And hopefully we'll enjoy Go back to touring when it's possible and we can't wait to To go to see all our friends out there and maybe another You know online streaming show. I don't know. Oh, yeah, you know I have to say I did see the last It was two right? There was two online streaming shows. You did one Dimension we did three. Yeah, you did dimension.  And what was the first one? The first one was uh, regular live set list that we did Uh And uh, they both both the last one we're a complete album Oh, yeah, man It was it was like I gotta say like I seen a couple of these and holy shit. They were good, man They're like you guys are, you know, it was it was done really well like really well It was great to do that in the studio with francis. We were all set up set up there so the sound was really really good even in our ears and uh It was fun for us to play together Finally, you know, like after After a while, you know, and we're we're gonna get soon back at it. I hope It's been a while already Do you guys keep in touch with jason jason used it jason is always, uh Sending highs and respect and congrats on the new song, you know once in a while He's in contact with way and and snagin boy god and I received the text once in a while as well It's always positive always he's a still avoid, you know I'm looking at these questions. Where's where is the alice cooper cover from angel rat sessions There was an alice cooper cover on angel rad sessions. Yeah, don't tell me it's i'm 18 Schools out which one? No, it's a deep track Ah god Pick one How about this here's a question for you dan is as a snake tries to figure that out And it's i'm just gonna go for a few more minutes here because people are typing Are there any less played songs from the earlier albums you'd like to revisit dan Is there any songs, you know, like why are you know, I like to play that song. I think it's drive me nervous Oh drive me nervous. Drive me nervous Yeah, you're good man, dan you're good. No, no, no, I got a hint from the way he's watching Thanks a way Thanks a way So, uh, I forgot about the question, but oh yeah, is there are there any tracks that you'd like to play Like so like the old likes older stuff. Maybe you know that That doesn't get played enough you think We we did a few of the the first two albums, but We might go back to that Actually, you know refresh the set list and change some some songs. It's always good It feels good to change once in a while. I think I always suggested a song. I don't remember the Lauren Bain Is that it? Yeah Clouds in my house Yeah When's the last time you played that one? Oh Ages. Yeah It's a good song. I like it. It's a good song But we have to pick as well to to keep the show energetic energetic Some songs are slower Doesn't don't do super good in festivals So maybe in a streaming show that would be the best context for some of the songs But for sure an old trashy Punquish song would be great to you're always you're always looking for those trashy punky songs Yeah, um In terms of angel rat. Well, it was terry brown right who did that album What wasn't like working with terry brown? Was he was he you know, like was it was in this studio? Was that where you recorded it? I don't remember Uh, it wasn't missus soga. Oh miss saga metal works Yeah, okay. Yeah Yeah, very very cool guy very cool guy Did you really take apart your vocals and and sort of made you work hard at? Uh, yeah, he was uh, he was putting his input into you know, not only The vocal but I mean he was putting his input What he had an idea he was giving us through the idea, but he was not forcing anything Because you know, he seems to be like really relaxed, you know from the 70s from whatever production but uh Um, you guys are going man, this is terry brown man. This is rush man. Is that what you're thinking? Oh, yeah, yeah, this is right. Whatever he says is good man. Whatever said is good Yeah, I well he was Pretty much concentrate on the sound and how we're gonna do things but um Did he play a keyboard on the on the album? I don't recall any that was iven from men without hats and he played keyboard What men without yeah, iven from men with men without hats he played keyboards and he played On is that that album he played keyboard song? I think so. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah Did you tell him look look no pop the girl? Bob goes the world Um and somebody asked Uh Someone asked if there are there any eric forest songs that dad and snake like That's always the question, right? But yeah Are there any songs that you guys like? Because you both weren't in the band back then right when He was there Well, we used to play four long uh long time ago I don't that was a cool that it was a cool track We we performed another one. I think We played two I think But uh, yeah, I am a big fan of the four boss album and uh and snake was uh, it was great to uh To sing in isn't in his own way. It's not easy to sing another Uh Yeah from another singer. So it was great. It was a different version. It was really really cool to do Are you guys good for a few more minutes because I have a few more questions. Are you okay? Are we good? Yeah, we're good. Okay. We don't have another interview coming up after this. No, we're good.  We played it. Oh you played it. Oh, okay Oh you uh on the stream There's some no, but there's some footage of it. We did the whole tour playing that 17 minute song which takes like place It replaces three songs in the set list. So it's a hard choice You know, we have to let go to other songs to play just one But we did it because we we played at the road burn festival and and uh, Also one time in Montreal. We played it at uh, the salarosa And uh, it was for the road burn fest that we learned it because we wanted to do a special Set list for the event in tailberg Uh netherlands And uh, yeah, it was definitely a dream come true for me to play that song And I was not sure we could put it off because it's very complex and there's a lot of guitar effects. Well, that was That was uh, when we did the dimension nature of dimension nature center grow. Yes, exactly and at the end of it We played jack luminous. All right. Here's one for snake favorite canadian brewery or canadian beer, I guess Voivod beer Favorite canadian brewery Actually, the Voivod beer is really good. The new one with it. Yeah, that's brewed by Huff and Stark Lost machine lost machine lost machine. That's it. Yes. Yes. Yeah. So so what about you? Chewie, what do you got other than the Voivod beer? Do you have any other favorite beers? Of course, uh, all the products from Huff and Stark and uh, la potiquette It's in Saint-Jacques. They do good stuff too. L'Albion in Joliette Very very good beer, uh, english style You know, there's so much so many. Yeah, it was everywhere. Yeah, micro brewery seems to be more popular today, you know in, you know People tend to like that a lot more than the generic La Bats and Molson's right, you know, that's the same old same old Chris wants to know is snake involved in in the restaurant business Is snake involved in the restaurant business? He's involved in the food during the studio session Is he involved in the eating the restaurant business or the restaurant business? He does He makes the money and runs Oh Yeah, I used to Left the band, you know, I tried to experience a little Here and there a few things and there was a restaurant at one point. I actually it was two.  No, no, no. It was a taco place. Oh, okay. All right A taco trailer that I was taking to festival radio festival and stuff like that It was working pretty good and I had one restaurant in uh in a rosemont neighborhood Colmer yes, it was more like a belgium fries with Uh sandwich with sausages and beer. Okay, so you were really into it. Okay. I didn't even know that. Wow.  Yeah You know, it's really demanding and I I say it's leave to all the People who works in restaurant and have their business. I especially in the in that pandemic time You know, um, I have a whole lot of respect for them and I wish they're gonna go through because obviously it's not, uh It's really complicated and as as as for us as a band Yeah, imagine them, you know, we doing stuff Like we follow the restriction. We play shows with people seated with their mask and stuff like that We compose with the situation and we keep on We stay positive and everything and these people well, they do the same thing in the restaurant, you know, they Sometimes they close it. They really reopen or just able to have the takeout service and then they do it and they try to survive but Uh It's a hard work. Chewy you do guitar lessons, right? You do private guitar. Do you do like virtual guitar lessons? I do online guitar lessons. I started the more with When the lockdown happened one year ago and uh, I didn't have uh much Courses to teach at college in sigyap So, uh, I was like, uh, you know So I invested time to With the help of luke to A friend of ours who takes care of a website. So I have my website People can contact me through there and And I give lessons online. I have students all over the world. It's very interesting I I got a student from Serbia one from texas one from l'assomption and Yes, l'assomption Yes, it's really cool and a different totally different style of music Sometimes metalhead sometimes, you know, totally different and uh any ages. So I Some kids and some uh guys in their in their sixties and uh It's it's really it gave me uh back the uh Like the motivation to teach and now i'm going uh to start the session in sigyap the joliet Where I teach music theory courses guitar lessons and technology with you know music with computers I'm going to be pretty much full time there. So I have to slow down my private Lesson but I will continue It's going to be a constant thing Okay, audio blue rays in the near somebody asked a question any band members listen to the 70s italian prog rock Italian prog rock. Do you guys listen to it? I is there italian prog rock? I don't know 70s. Yeah, italian prog rock There's a goblin okay, uh, which Did a soundtracks for uh zombie movies And we saw them at In las vegas at the festival. They were great and there was two screens with With footage from the the movies and they played the soundtrack of that live. It was amazing and I think it's Vivo low or l vivo. I don't I'm not sure about the the band name. It's really prog From the 70s, you know beat we organ Grace great bass sounding. Yeah, well a lot of good prog in the 70s, right? Yeah. Yeah, but There was quality from uh yeah El volo, that's the name I'm not good with names, but yeah All right, somebody give me one great last question and we'll wrap it up So somebody you got to give me a really good question for the guys Interesting question and we'll wrap it up for the night Dario angeteros Suspira suspira, I guess that's maybe somebody from Italy I don't know but in the meantime Who came up with this? Okay, who came here's a good question. This is a good question Who came up with the idea that genius idea for the astronomy domain video where you guys are sort of spinning You know, well, I guess the cameras are spinning who came up with that idea. Was it director snake? Was it uh, was it a way? Who was this? It was director the video Pierre Dalpée Yeah, he was a good Good conceptor when he when he came up with the idea because At first we weren't so sure about it, but uh And the idea was pretty much simple. It's when you look at it, you know It was just a platform on the rig in a big open space and So it was like a platform in the rig And it was a pole attached to it and that pole was like looking like this like a hook And the camera was going like this, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and we set up the drum on the platform And uh, we attached blacky underneath Like that's like And uh, but uh, you all performed your parts on the platform and then he he sort of integrated Yeah, yeah, we we used the platform in many ways. Sometimes it was a drum set. Sometimes I was leaning on it It's it's frigging a great video If there's any it's a really great video and the song just comes out more in that video and that's probably why Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did a really good job on that. Yeah. Yeah as a concept Well, I thought you guys were going upside down. I thought you were going upside.  No, no, I know that I know that. Okay on that note. Go ahead It reminds me I wanted to tell earlier the planet eater Planet eaters video, uh, yes are all art from away But the guy who put it put it all together is pia de metterie minetrier Who did the video and uh, he did a great job as well It is it's a great video. Like that's one thing about your music When you when you get these cool concepts, it just It just works so well. It just it's like a little story, you know, and and uh, they always You guys always do the imagery is very powerful in the band and it's a huge part of the band I guess right and and hats off to a way who's always coming up with those cool image Imaging into the artwork, which really makes a big difference, right?  Is that the right way to say it sets the tone for the band. All right I know I've taken up all your time tonight It's time to go have uh some belgium french fries All right guys barbecue at my house in the summer. All right. All right. All right. We'll talk soon. Okay Have yourself a great day. Thank you very much jimmy. Thank you


You were 11 for 19 off Mariano in your career and he talked a lot about how you were one of those batters that he just couldn't figure out. First of all would there be some nice symmetry if you and Mariano were able to go in together and then second of all how did you dominate Mariano? You know I think he's going for sure. I mean he's in he's he's the first ballad hall of famer and it wasn't easy to face Mariano. Mariano is the toughest competitor when he gets in the mound and I think for me was what I didn't do when I faced Mariano right. I didn't try to do too much and he had a lot of movement on his quarter and you know one thing I didn't try to pull the ball against him and didn't try to over swing just try to make contact be happy with a single nor a double.