# not allowed to live stream for 24hr, so let's experiment with sound instead

**Source:** Walt Wood Pinball  
**Type:** video  
**Published:** 2026-01-05  
**Duration:** 45m 44s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLXYlFKeyNE

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## Analysis

Walt Wood experiments with guitar audio effects in his studio while banned from live streaming for 24 hours. He cycles through various experimental effects (backwards tape, blooming echo, cascade, clock tower trance, condensator, crusher, deep sea dive, dream canyon, ghost world) and discusses his creative process. He briefly comments on pinball industry drama (Pokemon, Deadpool, Bond designer transitions) but emphasizes his current focus is on music rather than competitive pinball.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] Walt Wood retired from competitive pinball in Colorado due to declining attendance and cliquish tournament culture. — _Direct personal statement about retirement and Colorado pinball community dynamics_
- [MEDIUM] Steve Richie quit Stern Pinball, and Walt Wood questions what Stern did wrong to drive him away. — _Walt Wood's speculation about Richie's departure; framed as a question rather than confirmed fact_
- [LOW] Pokemon pinball was started by Jack Danger and finished by George Gomez. — _Walt Wood states this as rumor/gossip; uses 'rumors of' framing; no official confirmation referenced_
- [LOW] Deadpool pinball was started by someone (unnamed, referred to as 'the kid toucher'/'Trudeau') and finished by Richie. — _Speculative gossip; Walt Wood uses derogatory language and appears uncertain about details_
- [HIGH] Walt Wood feels better since stopping competitive pinball play. — _Direct personal statement about mental/emotional state_
- [HIGH] The pinball industry is not releasing new games that excite Walt Wood. — _Direct opinion stated during discussion of industry stagnation_

### Notable Quotes

> "Bro, you got to be doing something wrong to drive off Steve Richie."
> — **Walt Wood**, N/A
> _Commentary on Stern Pinball's apparent mismanagement or cultural issues that led to Steve Richie's departure_

> "I've been feeling way better since I stopped playing pinball to be honest with you."
> — **Walt Wood**, N/A
> _Personal revelation about mental health improvement after leaving competitive pinball scene_

> "The problem is they're not giving us anything new. You know, we got no new games."
> — **Walt Wood**, N/A
> _Complaint about lack of new pinball releases and innovation_

> "I'm not really giving a [fuck] about Pinball right now. I'll be honest with you. I want to find out what's going on with these tones."
> — **Walt Wood**, N/A
> _Explicit shift in priorities from pinball to music/audio engineering_

> "How do you [fuck] with effects, guys? You got to sift through the effects. You got to like sit there."
> — **Walt Wood**, N/A
> _Description of iterative audio engineering creative process; analogy to T-Pain's autotune discovery_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Walt Wood | person | Content creator, guitarist, former competitive pinball player from Colorado who recently retired from competitive play |
| Steve Richie | person | Pinball designer who Walt Wood suggests quit Stern Pinball; reportedly worked on Deadpool and Bond |
| Jack Danger | person | Pinball designer rumored to have started Pokemon pinball (allegedly finished by George Gomez) |
| George Gomez | person | Pinball designer rumored to have finished Pokemon pinball after Jack Danger |
| Stern Pinball | company | Major pinball manufacturer; subject of criticism for losing talent (Richie) and slow game release schedule |
| Colorado pinball community | organization | Regional pinball tournament scene Walt Wood describes as cliquish with low tournament attendance and selective participation |
| Arizona pinball community | organization | Regional pinball tournament scene Walt Wood praises for consistent tournament participation across top players |
| Pokemon (pinball) | game | Rumored upcoming Stern pinball title; allegedly started by Jack Danger and finished by George Gomez |
| Deadpool (pinball) | game | Stern pinball title; Walt Wood claims it was started by unnamed designer and finished by Steve Richie |
| Bond (pinball) | game | Stern pinball title; Walt Wood references it in context of designer transitions |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Audio engineering and guitar effects experimentation, Walt Wood's retirement from competitive pinball, Shift from pinball to music as primary creative focus
- **Secondary:** Pinball designer departures from Stern (Steve Richie), Colorado pinball tournament culture and participation, New pinball game announcements and rumors (Pokemon, Deadpool, Bond)

### Sentiment

**Mixed** (0.35) — Walt Wood is positive and enthusiastic about audio effects experimentation but increasingly negative/apathetic about competitive pinball and Stern Pinball's direction. He expresses relief at leaving competitive pinball but frustration with industry stagnation. Tone is candid, self-aware about alienating pinball-focused viewers, and unapologetically redirecting toward music.

### Signals

- **[business_signal]** Stern Pinball experiencing talent drain; Walt Wood questions why Steve Richie would leave and speculates on internal problems. (confidence: medium) — Walt Wood's rhetorical question about what Stern did wrong to lose Richie, contrasted with multiple designer transitions
- **[community_signal]** Colorado pinball tournament scene is fragmented and cliquish, with players avoiding tournaments where specific competitors will attend. (confidence: high) — Walt Wood: 'It's clicky... I'm not going to go to that one cuz so and so is at that one... you're not challenging the best of the best.'
- **[personnel_signal]** Steve Richie allegedly quit Stern Pinball; Walt Wood speculates about what Stern did wrong to drive him away. (confidence: medium) — Walt Wood: 'Bro, you got to be doing something wrong to drive off Steve Richie. Like, what do you what they do?'
- **[rumor_hype]** Deadpool pinball allegedly started by one designer (unclear, derogatory reference) and finished by Steve Richie. (confidence: low) — Walt Wood: 'Deadpool was uh the the kid toucher... And then the guy on uh Bond was Richie who quit.'
- **[rumor_hype]** Pokemon pinball rumored to be started by Jack Danger and finished by George Gomez, suggesting possible designer transition or conflict. (confidence: low) — Walt Wood: 'We got rumors of a Pokemon started by Jack Danger and finished by uh what's his face? Gomez.'
- **[sentiment_shift]** Walt Wood has significantly deprioritized competitive pinball, citing lack of new games and improved mental health since retirement. (confidence: high) — Walt Wood: 'I've been feeling way better since I stopped playing pinball to be honest with you' and 'I'm not really giving a [fuck] about Pinball right now.'

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## Transcript

[music] almost
That sounds a little better. Okay, we are experimenting. I'm in the lab. You want to look at some [ __ ] We got all these experimental effects I want to go through. Um See what we can see if we can find something cool sounding, you know. Let's see. This is called backwards [music] backwards tape. Heat. Heat. I'm going to play Hey Joe. Let's see how it sounds backwards. Oh, almost sounded right. I was trying to play it backwards so it would sound forwards, [laughter] but I'm like, how do you play Hey Joe backwards? You know, like it's like But I'm like, how do you play that backwards? We're just [ __ ] around, man. That's it. This is called uh I got my glasses off, so it's kind of hard to see. Blooming echo. I like this. [music]
See, that's why this is why How do you [ __ ] with effects, guys? Some of you guys are probably watching this like, "What is this dude doing? What an [ __ ] He sucks at guitar. This guy is a piece of [ __ ] you know?" But you got to realize like you got to sift through the effects. You got to like sit there. Do you know how long it took Tain to find the autotune that made him a [ __ ] legend? Dude, he went through program after program and preset after preset for months to find that autotune that changed the world. This is kind of the same thing. Going through effects, listening the way things sound. I like that. I like this a lot.
or whatever. I'm still [ __ ] with Well, that was cool. Hold on. [singing and music] [music] Wow.
Cascade. [music] Let's get out of this key. That's [ __ ] cool. That's why I'm glad I'm filming right now. [ __ ] yeah. Cuz I'm going to use that for something. [ __ ] yeah, dude. Bro, at this point, I don't care if two people watch this. And both of them are mate. I don't care. I want that.
I am a winner.
[music]
that first part. I'm not so sure about second part, but the first part. Yeah, dude. I like this. I like this effect. [ __ ] yeah. This is called Well, I'm going to [ __ ] with that later. This is called Clock Tower F. Clock Tower Trance. Let's see what this is about. [singing] Christ be the Lord. Oh, my baby baby walking along soon [singing] that night. had a feeling it would be the last time I'd seen you held me so tight. And as the world gone [singing] down in the midnight in the morning, seeing your face for the last time, my baby, I know it's yearning for you, baby. Spending time. Spending time and I'll be hereing for my [music] baby. Let me get a clean tone real quick. You guys will hear what I'm talking about. Oh, no. [singing] Let me keep the note. I just want to keep the note so I know what key I'm in. [singing] holding in the morning, [music] No, [ __ ] I knew those. It was something in there, dude. I was like, "Fuck, what is that? I just had to go clean so I could grab it." Okay, let's go. I don't want to [ __ ] with clean, though. This is only experimental. I'm only [ __ ] with experimental uh effects here today. Condensator. Let's see what this is. Let me take this uh chroma verb off. Okay, here we go. This is the condensator. Okay, so it doesn't matter what you play. It just comes out with this thing at the end.
[music]
Ah, I get it. So, it gets more intense [music] the more intense you are. Got it. That's not a problem for this [ __ ] guy.
[singing] [music]
Dude, this effect would actually be cool for some [ __ ] I could totally [ __ ] see this effect for some [ __ ] Ah, like it's like uh you're walking down the hallway. Did you Are you sure you didn't hear anything? They say every Halloween this place is haunted. [laughter] Bro, I don't give a [ __ ] if all of you think I'm a [ __ ] I don't care. I think this is hilarious. I [ __ ] love audio so much. Like I really feel like I'm in a spooky hallway. Is that a [screaming] hand? It's a severed leg. Watch when I dive a harmonic. Ready? [music] I'm going to get one and it's going to be [ __ ] glorious. That was pretty close, dude. That sounded like a [ __ ] scream right there, dude. It sound like a bloody [ __ ] scream. Did you hear that?
I was at it. Bro, if I could get grab the harmonic just right, bro, this would sound like a bloody [ __ ] scream. Okay, I got to move on. I don't want [laughter] I don't want to spend the whole time on this one effect, bro. There's literally like 40 experimental effects in here, dude. That's only one of them. Okay, here we go. This is called the crusher. The crusher. It's got like a really tight noise gate. Like the second I stop playing it just cuts up. Whoa. It sounds like it's ripping at the end, doesn't it? That might be the noise gate. It might be. I think the noise gate is so so high high strong. Uhoh. That sounds kind of weird. Why is it the crusher though? I don't get it. [music] Oh, the elevator. All the elevator buttons so incredibly high. I stand today for the [ __ ] at the size of a regular guy.
[clears throat]
If you don't know that song, go watch uh Walkard Dewey Cox. This Whoa, hold up, hold up. This effect is called Deep Sea Dive. Um, deep sea dive. It's not bad. I mean, it's not it's not great. [music]
Get some some chroma verb on there. Come on, baby. Some blues in there. [music]
Okay. Sorry, I had to get that out. I had to get that out. [laughter] Let's go back to the experimental track. I had to get that get that out. [clears throat] Okay, [music] this is called Dream Canyon. Uh, let's go. Let me find a different key here. Let's go. That one's a little over all over the place. I feel like there's something in there, but I can't really sense it out. I can't sus it out right now. This is called from here to there.
[music]
That's a riff. I just can't remember what who who who that is. Who is that? You know what? Maybe when I'm uploading this video, it'll tell me. The last video it was it it gave me a copyright claim for the man in me. It was funny. It was like right in the middle. I was like, "Okay, cool." So, maybe that'll tell me again right there who that is. Heat. Heat. [music] Dude, that might be like the my favorite thing I've played so far. I know that's a riff. That's not my [ __ ] That's the someone else's [ __ ] That riff. I know that's some that's something, dude. I I just I can't Maybe one day like Elon will come up with like a [ __ ] neural link for our brain where like you can just hear the song, dude. And you know, kind of like Shazam. You know how Shazam like you could put your phone up to it and it'll [ __ ] tell you like, "Yo, this is Bob Dylan. This is [ __ ] you know, Led Zeppel." Maybe one day like we can get that in our brains, you know, to where you could hear a song and be like, But I don't know if I'd like that though because I like figuring [ __ ] out. Like I like [ __ ] um learning that yo this is in the same chord progression as that or this is in the same key as this and then being able to figure out like by my um my [ __ ] ear like I can figure out like yo okay well where's this you know where this is going next or what what have you whatever the [ __ ] it's hard to describe with words it's easier describe with like sound, I guess. Like I'm a whale. I'm a [ __ ] dolphin over here. I'm a goddamn dolphin here. I like this effect. I'm glad I got that down. I'm glad I like this effect the most. So far, like I said, you guys will probably hate me, dude. You hate these videos of me playing guitar because I'm not talking about pinball. I'm sorry. I know. I'm so sorry. But luckily, there's 3,000 other content creators that are talking about the same thing. So, there you go. You can watch those guys. [snorts] [cough] If it's cool with you, I like to focus on music. [laughter] That's more important to me. [cough] [clears throat] Trust me, bro. I love pinball, dude. You couldn't stop me playing pinball, dude. I had to quit in Colorado because like people stopped coming, bro, because of my ass. Dude, I had to stop. I had to retire. That's how much I took pinball seriously, bro. Your boy had to quit. I had to retire. So these people can come out of hiding under from the under the rocks, dude. Cuz that's what people do here in Colorado, man. They like hide under rocks. They only go to certain certain tournaments when they know certain people aren't going to be there, you know, because like we're not, you know, we don't have a state where everybody goes to all the tournaments as a group. Arizona's like that. That's one of the things I liked about the Arizona crowd. It seemed like it was the same people going to the same tournaments. Here it's like, ah, it's clicky and [snorts] oh, I'm not going to go to that one cuz so and so is at that one or whatever. It's just like h [snorts] the whole thing and people run around and wonder why they never get better. It's like you're not challenging the best of the best. You run and hide every time we come around. So it is what it is. So I just retired. Honestly, I've been feeling way better since I stopped playing pinball to be honest with you. Like in a competitive sense like I would [ __ ] around with it. The problem is they're not giving us anything new. You know, we got no new games. We got we got a rumors of a Pokemon started by Jack Danger and finished by uh what's his face? Gomez. So look at that like Bond. Look at that like Deadpool. Same thing. Richie started Deadpool and [ __ ] what's his face had to take over. Same thing with Bond or no Deadpool was uh the the kid toucher. Who was the kid toucher? Trudeau. The kid toucher. That was the guy on Deadpool. And then the guy on uh Bond was Richie who quit. He just got sick of Stern, bro. He's just like, "Bro, you got to be doing something wrong to drive off Steve Ritchie." Like, what do you what they do? That's what I want to know. All right. Anyway, moving on. I'm not really giving a [ __ ] about Pinball right now. I'll be honest with you. I want to find out what's going on with these tones. So, if that's something you're into, let's roll. If not, I don't care. I'm pretty much recording this for me to listen to later anyway. Like, there's a few tones in here I really want to [ __ ] with later, but it helps to watch the playback and see how that sounded. Like, that last tone, dude, totally worked. The one from like a few minutes ago. All right, this is called Ghost World.
Maybe it's cuz I got this on Why does that sound horrible? [music]
I can kind of hear remnants of it in the back. [music]
[music]
I don't understand this effect. Do you? I don't. Not doing anything. Look, it's still going. Still going. Not doing a thing. Still going. [groaning and screaming]
It's all about your right and left hand on that riff. [clears throat] [music] And then you put it all together. Dude, it's a hard riff. It's so simple, but it's like so hard. I don't know what it is, but it's such a [ __ ] awesome riff. I don't know what it is about that riff, bro. It is so [ __ ] cool. Uh, that was fun. I
[music]
Hooray!
Holly. [music]
Do you dare to walk with Walter? How many people made it this far? I wonder. Comment down below if you made it this far. I'm betting no one made it this far. Did you [singing] make it this [music] far, baby? Can you hear the calling from above? [music] alone. I know I can't save the human race. Feeling alone again. My love. Him is my only friend. My love. Will you ever see me again, my love? [laughter] I [clears throat] have no idea what the [ __ ] that was. Holy [ __ ] that was awesome. [music] [laughter] Okay, I wonder how many people made it to the end of the video. That was for you. Cuz I guarantee most of you clicked off cuz I'm not talking about pinball. Well, I'm sorry. Okay, I'm sorry. God bless and I'll see you on the other side.

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