you my friend are the winner of the funniest comment i have ever read .I made a yt account so i could tell you I didnt lol I laughed out my drink .Truly hilarious
currently running a chorus into a phaser into another chorus. Which goes into reverb, then the delay in the effects change. with a UniVibe at the start, too. Bring a towel, my tone is WET!
I think the best example of “turn the reverb off” is the middle of the solo in Pink Floyd’s Money. The massive reverby jam completely dries up into a small, intimate section, then comes back bigger than ever. It’s insanely effective.
The "shimmer" is the same reverb sound but up an octave (and hopefully with the harshness taken off with EQ). Like all good things, invented by Brian Eno. He's also responsible for penicillin, long shelf life milk and those wire thingies that help old people thread needles.
I am currently fooling around with separate tones for the repeats of my reverberating echo, and I had not yet considered serious octave play. 🤔 thanks.
It took almost 20 years before I realized that the “reverb” sound I loved, was actually multiple delays. Now layering delay and reverb is one of the best ways for me to create the ambient textures I wanted
@@Suanagan I like running delays into reverb so the delay triggers the reverb each repeat, and with a tape delay or modulate setting on a boss dd20, the different sound of the delay repeat gives you some beautiful textures, hope that helps!
My “swell” sound is usually a warmer quarter delay, into a relatively bright dotted eighth delay, into a spring reverb, into a an octave or shimmer verb.
Juan Rubio Garciandía also my solo sound usually has an immediate slap back with a single repeat, into a warmer 16th not with long trails, into a hall reverb
Loving this "10 ways to wreck your bank balance" series. But a shout out to your previous shows on " wet dry wet" set ups where you can dial that stereo verb to 11 and stack the other 'verbs 8 miles high
Saying I learn something from every show would be an understatement! I don't know how to play yet, but I have become obsessed with collecting and learning. So as much as 50% of the shows can be a learning experience for me. And over the years I have learned things that have piqued my curiosity, made me go "...huh...", made me exclaim "oh wow" and just downright flabbergasted me. But that stereo reverb/dual reverb trick was the first thing to legitimately blow my mind! 🤯
Ya babe, I’ll take the car for an oil change Friday morning! ***knowing TPS will be dropping an episode right on time! ;) thanks for making my waiting room wait less of a pain!
WOW! You guys are psychics. I've been looking to buy a few new reverb pedals and have spent the last 2 months searching for some that I like. YESTERDAY I was talking about it with the other guitar player in our little jam group and I said "It would be great if TPS did a full episode on just reverb. The last one was a few years ago and so much has changed since then." I got a lot of great ideas from this episode. THANKS!!
That stereo hack is delightful. I had to try it. I discovered with my Immerse Mk II that if I had the input on one side and the output on the other side of the stereo (they're marked 1 and 2 on the pedal), that I still got a signal. It sounded like a dry kill, with just the tails, but fatter than with the dry signal mixed out. Another surprise. Thanks!
I have always played through Fender amps that have reverb built in. And I've found that it works for me by always having it on 2. Not more than 4 ever unless I'm playing surf stuff from my SoCal teenage years, back in the 1960s. Good video you guys.
It's you two I have to thank for ever trying reverb. When I was younger and owned a 1980ish Fender75 I never used built in spring reverb because I didn't like it, nor was it needed for the type of music I had played. Now I own a 1963 Farfisa8 and had to go out and buy a reverb pedal (TC-HOF) which is almost always on and maxed out. Thank you 👊
Using a swell into a big reverb is an effect I use all the time - I love it - it’s so effective for creating pads and textures. I use an auto swell pedal (currently got the Mooer Slow Engine but loads of others do it too). It means I can concentrate on the notes without worrying about fading in!
It's amazing how popular reverb pedals are now, as when I was younger and doing gymnasiums and and community halls a lot more, the last thing I'd want on my pedal board would be reverb. Nowadays, it's more bars and acoustically treated rooms, so it's okay to have a bit of space around the guitar :-)
I’ve been obsessed with reverb for as long as I can remember. Now I get to learn more about it from my two favorite gents. Also, I love running my Boss RV-6 into my Earthquaker Devices Afterneath. It’s so amazing!
Your delay/reverb show on "before or after overdrive" clued me in on how to get a sound that more resembles that of a classic external Fender reverb by moving my Hall of Fame before my overdrive pedals. Soon after, I switched to the Topanga as I had decided that a really good spring reverb sound was more important to me than the larger range of reverb types the HOF provides. Interestingly, the "dwell" control on the Topanga gives the feel of reverb before overdrive without the need to put it before the actual overdrive pedals. This allows me to keep it at the end of my effects chain and use the dwell knob to switch between a pre-overdrive and a post-overdrive sound. As regards this particular show, it may have been easier in retrospect to contrast the pre vs post overdrive tones using a cleaner type of reverb than the Topanga. I love the show, as well as the vlogs… especially Mick's strat journey, as I am a tinkerer who spends far too much time tweaking parts to get the last 1% sound improvement out of my gear. Thank you for being the internet's premier tone crafting resource!
Very informative episode, Dan & Mick! I was an amp reverb only player until I bought a modded AC30 with no built-in reverb and invested in a TC Hall of Fame for my board. Probably the most underrated part of my sound outside of EQ pedal, but so essential.
One of the best purest reverb pedals I have found for the money, getting the most for your dollars spent, is a TRex Tube Reverb, it sounds fantastic, especially when plugged into a Fender 1957 Custom Shop Reissue Twin Amp with 2 X 12 inch speakers. I can truly understand why Eric Clapton chooses that amp for his favorite.
How plate reverb works. Plate reverb is surprisingly simple and actually has nothing to do with sending voltage through a plate. A speaker driver is connected to a large sheet of metal. When an audio signal is sent to the driver it vibrates the sheet of metal like it would a paper speaker cone, however unlike the cone, the metal continues to vibrate and recreate the signal after the signal has stopped thus creating the sound of reverb. That sound is then recaptured via either a microphone or, more commonly, through a type of pickup. Because of the simplicity of this design, there has been a recent trend in diy plate reverbs. I personally made out of an old cymbal, a driver from a broken monitor, and cheap condenser mic. It did not sound amazing but it worked and was a fun experiment. Cheers guys great show as always!
Hi Noisecode, Dan here, thanks for that. Whenever I see any sort of signal I see AC , it just helps me visualise it. The AC voltage hits the transducer which translates the energy to the plate
@@ThatPedalShow I know you guys know how it woks :) Just offering my 2 cents for the uninitiated and hoping to spread my excitement for the DIY potential to the comunity. I loved the DIY amp episode. Would love to see you guys tackle more DIY projects. Maybe a tube driven spring reverb tank. Cheers!
Going to try that hack with my HOF2! Speaking of hacks, when reverbs were still rare on pedalboards, I plugged an Alesis Nanoverb into an Xotic X-Blender and used that as my "reverb pedal." The Alesis normally does not have the headroom to run it as a guitar pedal, but the X-blender took care of that, as well as giving me a second "wet signal only" switch. I used one ofthe plate settings, and even after getting the Strymon Blue Sky, and the HOF2, it's still my favorite reverb sound (though I need to explore the HOF2 a little bit more).
Another great show. I play modern church worship music and reverb is essential for the sound. At one point I had 4 reverb pedal on my board. HOF v2, Oceans 11, Ernie Ball Ambient Delay and a Caline Snakebite. I now have a RV-500. Videos like this make it easier for me to teach people how to play with reverb and to help tell them when they are doing to wrong.
I'm much more connected to delay, as opposed to reverb. But when I turn off the delay, and just play through my Blue Sky reverb, I really love some of those sounds, and it makes me play slightly differently. I think that's why we're all (here) so nuts for new pedals. We're always looking for something new to connect with as a player, to keep things fresh and stimulate our playing. Very nice primer guys!
I love this show more than anything on the internet, and I consume a lot of audio podcast (20hrs a week I would imagine). Keep it up, love from Australia
I've heard the reverb before drive in some live Peter Green Fleetwood Mac recordings. He would alternate between crashing devastating reverb, to bone dry, for extra textures and dynamics. I sold my Topanga after I bought a Deluxe Reverb, regretting that decision now! Love the show!
OOH! You've got the Mesa out! Number 2 in a way had me laughing a bit, because my first reverb pedal back in the early 1990s was a Boss RV-2 Digital Reverb, and as you might remember, the frequency response of the reverb on that pedal only went to 10 KHz. I've never really tried to make my reverb dark on purpose, but you can be sure that the next time I fire up my rig, I'm going to experiment with that sound on my tc electronic Arena (Guitar Center special version of the Hall of Fame). As for Number 5, I always ran my RV-2 (either in Hall or Plate modes) into the Accutronics long-tank spring reverb and detune stereo chorus of my Ampeg VH-140C combo. What a glorious sound that was! Also, on Number 10, when Mick mentioned adding ping-pong delay to stereo reverb, the RV-2 had that built-in as one of its modes.
I like reverb, but have considered it unusable in live situations. I don't know if it's just me, but that's one of the reasons why I love delay so much. If I step on the reverb, I disappear into the mix (a bit disconcerting the 1st time that happened!!), but delay is like the friend that doesn't let me down... and doesn't step all over my sound!! If you guys could talk about use in a live pop-rock situation (say guitar, drums, bass, keys, and vocals) that would be really great. Cheers.
Agreed. By time you can actually hear it, you’re using too much of it already. The amps reverb is more than sufficient to take the dryness off for most live situations.
Love love love my Keeley Caverns reverb. Even makes my terrible playing sound reasonably nice (so in the hands of someone half way competent would sound like heaven).
You guys already got me to put the Reverb before the drive and now I must jump the stereo signal on my HOF2. Holy crap, how do you keep finding such wonderfully weird & awesome tricks...besides time and the fact that finding those tricks is a revenue stream for you.
I tried it with my HOF2 right after I watched and it was amazing. If you have a big washy setting like hall and add some modulation, you can mess around with decay and mix knob to get some weird feedback noises like an analog delay self oscillating!
I’ve never loved reverb pedals until I got my Walrus Fathom. It’s just great when used tastefully, just a taste of the plate setting. Fender Amp spring reverb of course sounds amazing.
Love the swell button on the Mercury 7 reverb to kill the dry guitar signal without needing to adjust settings. Perfect for what Mick was saying in thing 8 - playing some nice chords/arpeggios under a vocal melody and filling out a lot of space with only a few notes. Another great episode guys! Have really gotten a lot of helpful knowledge out of this little series of videos. Keep it up!
Mick: "Your brain is extremely sophisticated in decoding it" ("It" being reverb) Yes! Actually we hear the space more than we hear the source. According to current research sound reaches our ears as a series of disjointed, stuttering flutter echos produced by the space in which a sound is made and is then reinterpreted and recompiled by our brains into the solid sounding waves we perceive as sound proving again that an individuals "reality" is entirely a product of how the mind compiles sensory input to present us with a picture of the world. (Interestingly infant brains cannot do this) In the context of reverb, what we need to know as musicians is that the perception of "source" is made up entirely of "room" making a reverb effect or lack there of an extremely important component of how our carefully crafted tones are received.
This is fascinating. It's a topic among those who study the neurophysiology of how we hear language. "For example, how and when does the brain decide which word is being said? There is evidence that the brain actually sifts through possibilities, but it is currently unknown how the brain successfully narrows down the choices to a single word and connects it with the meaning of the ongoing discourse" -Science Daily
@@mattgilbert7347 yes! My undergrad is in psychology with a focus in neuropsychology and I'm about to start working on a master's in communication disorders so you're right I'm my wheel house😎👍
35:44 He is one of my comedy heroes. "In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet." - Les Dawson
@@tommystratpaul It's a joke from one of Les Dawson's TV shows. I can't remember which one but there are lots of clips on UA-cam from his TV shows. Les was a comedian from the north of England. He had a very working class style of homour but was also a great wordsmith and clever bloke. He was famous for "mother-in-law jokes" and playing the piano "badly", but he was so much more too. I was walking down the street and my friend said "that looks like your mother-in-law getting beat up by four thugs, aren't you going to help?" I said "Nah, four should be enough".
Favorite effect, after gain. GTR>Fuzz>Boost>REVERB>Delay>breaking up-AMP rolling off GTR volume, cleans up the Fuzz, cleans up the Amp, takes the Reverb and Delay down in the mix. Bring GTR volume up brings in more of all those effects. As the Amp breaks up, you get the Reverb-in-front gain sound, but the Fuzz stays clearer. Painting with sound!
I was interviewed a few months back and when asked how to describe our band, I gave the genius answer of: Reverb, Fuzz and Delay. I got silence on the other end. This episode and the delay episode prove I gave an appropriate answer, lol. Love you guys!!! -Aaron
the Boss Rv-500 lets you do all of this, including the series-parallel routing, sending different delays to different outputs or running them mono, plus it has built-in delay (including an algorithm for the space echo delay and reverb unit) that can be added in and can be turned on and off with the tap/ctrl button. I know menus are scary but I think you guys would really enjoy some of the features available if you dug into a little deeper. If I can do it so you. The Rv-500 with a tube screamer and fuzz can do just about everything you need for a grab and go board.
It's cool for those of us who used a TON of chorus in the 80s, then lessened use chorus. Now we ca just have chorus on reverb trails and it sounds so beautiful and more moderated. Thanks gentlemen.
Thanks to you lot I’ve been “shoegazing” all weekend. I never thought that putting a reverb/delay before my fuzz and overdrives could be so much fun. I genuinely learnt something from this. Cheers!
I’m a huge fan of the Source Audio Ventris. It’s a stereo delay that allows you to run two separate reverb algorithms simultaneously. Each preset on the Ventris contains two reverbs, which you can run individually, in series, or in parallel, so you can accomplish every trick mentioned in this video with one (incredible sounding) pedal.
There are some videos which really have the power to change your (musical) life and I think that's definitely one of them. Demystifying the world of pedal effects and here I am building my own pedalboard and having fun !! Kudos to TPS 🎸🤘🏻🎶
Dan & Mick, Thanks to the two of you I only have a small fortune in my pedalboard as opposed to the large fortune I would have invested! You guys are AWESOME! My sincerest thanks for educating us by sharing your incredible wealth of knowledge!
Great video guys. Thank you very much. I previously did not know about the HoF2 stereo hack. It was bit like when your dogs does a trick you didn’t know it could do.... love it.
I just placed my reverb pedal on my keyboard at work, and gave it words of encouragement "go on little guy, work for me" No luck! Hopefully this video will be the solution! 🎸👍😁🤪
I once had a RV-5 and i never liked it until i sold it. Now i finally bought a TC HOF2 now this episode is quite useful for me! Turning it darker is the best tip, stereo hack also blew my mind!
I have Fender amps so it’s been hard to justify getting a reverb pedal. But it is clearly time to play around.. these 10 things vids have been great ..
My favorite lots-o-reverb tone is Jeff Beck. He just has the sound engineer kick on a stereo Lexicon hall/plate for some songs and it just sounds glorious.
Hey Dan and Mick, just wanted to say that Dan's stereo pedal hack is incredible and has not only changes how I will use certain pedals from now on, but also the way I look at new pedals when buying. Very cool
Love this episode. I have been expanding my reverb palate most notably with the Eventide H9. I find that there is a really nice middle ground between overly ambient sounds and run of the mill plate, hall, spring. In a stereo set up you can really make your tone sound like an "album". For sure dial it back a bit when you are playing a gig with the band, but maybe not. The right sound man that knows your stuff can pan your amps hard left and right and then WOW!!! I really enjoy the gigs when I show up like I am Richie Sambora or the Edge. Thanks for all you guys do.
Love my Empress Reverb, that pedal deserves a show unto itself for versatility, blows away many other a 'verb indeed! Great to see some other options, very cool!
What's great about the stereo input hack is this can be done by putting each side in different loops of a loop switcher and having different levels of reverb that you can do on the fly.
That stereo reverb hack with the HOF is an absolute game changer. Now using HOF mod reverb (hacked) going into (parallel) space echo and analog mod delays (set to quarter and dotted 8th respectively) on the triple delay. It's my shoegaze wet dream come true. 👍
That stereo hack... I will have to experiment with it! I'm thinking guitar into A, output of A into drive into delay into input B, output B into amp. Cool tip!
I love how in the first 50 second opener ... He had that Reverb ,,, hooked to his guitar strap ,, or to his chair ... So that he could milk the Reverb just right ... You know ,,, how he got his body English in there ( no pun intended ) ... I know there's nothing like that ... Just wishing ,,, you guys are great ... Love the Reverb ... Love your show ... D
My Marshall DSL100HR has Reverb on it (with two separate reverb controls one for each channel) and i actually really like it. I use the Hall of Fame in the fx loop if i need a moderate to heavy reverb effect but if i just need some more body the amps reverb is excellent. They made it a very minimal reverb which was an excellent idea cause at those levels its more of a tone shaping tool than an effect. You can pretty much have the reverb on the amp turned up a good bit and still have a nice precise tone albeit fuller and livelier. But if you want the reverb on the amp to be a bit more of a focal point there is enough to get you there. But like i said if you want some fuller thicker reverb having a pedal in the loop is perfect for that sorta stuff. It really was smart of Marshall to make the Reverb on the DSL's minimal, like i said before its just enough to fill out your tone and compensate for less lively practice/jam spaces. On the HR's the reverb is Digital which i was skeptical of at first but its actually a very pleasant versatile reverb. Im not sure what its supposed to be emulating but to me it sounds like a plate reverb.
23:00' Shimmer was originally created by producer Daniel Lanios when he was working with Brian Eno on the ambient records. Check out Music for Airports, etc. They used an Eventide Harmonizer rack unit to shift the reverb and delay trails up an octave.
You guys provide so much awesome information, I love it. Some things I learned through the years by experience (like rolling down the tone, stacking and adding delay instead of more reverb), but I'm still learning. I think you're saving a lot people quite some time with your show:) Cheers!
I like the stereo hack (Hall of Fame just got more fun!) Way cool! I’d love to see Dan hack the Boss CE-2 waza so that in a wet dry rig using a humdinger, output A goes to wet, output B goes to dry amp, for a really big JC120 style effect. Ideas? Great show as always.
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The Boss '63 Fender Reverb pedal has a real spring inside of it, next to the battery compartment.
Hahahaha!
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you my friend are the winner of the funniest comment i have ever read .I made a yt account so i could tell you I didnt lol I laughed out my drink .Truly hilarious
@@STRATMAN1969 hahahahha
Hahahaha Good!!
2019 - The year of gain stacking
2020 - The year of reverb stacking
2021 - The year of ring mod stacking
You know it’s coming.
I've been doing flanger into phase shifter lately.
I have 2 Dunlop wahs and an auto wah 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Yep, use my HOF with the reverb on in my Milkman all the time. The blend of the two is glorious.
I was honestly thinking about ring mods the other day. They are gnarly when used right!
currently running a chorus into a phaser into another chorus. Which goes into reverb, then the delay in the effects change. with a UniVibe at the start, too. Bring a towel, my tone is WET!
Yesterday: I need a simple one channel amp with no reverb.
Today: I need a pedal board with 9 reverb units.
Seriously, the funniest comment I've read on any video ever!!!
How can you not need at least a tiny bit of verb? Unless you're playing great sounding rooms at high enough volume to get it naturally*
@@Astral_Wave well .....reverb is a HORRIBLE effect ...clutters up a mix...sounds so DATED and 80s ....thats why
@@TheMichaelseymour not a good plate reverb like the talisman
I think the best example of “turn the reverb off” is the middle of the solo in Pink Floyd’s Money. The massive reverby jam completely dries up into a small, intimate section, then comes back bigger than ever. It’s insanely effective.
Or Huey Lewis Heart of Rock and Roll
The "shimmer" is the same reverb sound but up an octave (and hopefully with the harshness taken off with EQ). Like all good things, invented by Brian Eno. He's also responsible for penicillin, long shelf life milk and those wire thingies that help old people thread needles.
I am currently fooling around with separate tones for the repeats of my reverberating echo, and I had not yet considered serious octave play. 🤔 thanks.
If Megatron made love to Ladytron in deep space, how would Brian Eno?
@@GiantPinhead he's a gentleman and he would certainly not be peeking.
And square-bottomed taco shells and curved shower curtain rods.
I never knew this!
Thanks
Theres a nostalgic feel to these "10 ways" videos, brings me back to the early TPS episodes
It took almost 20 years before I realized that the “reverb” sound I loved, was actually multiple delays. Now layering delay and reverb is one of the best ways for me to create the ambient textures I wanted
Explain it for us please!
@@Suanagan I like running delays into reverb so the delay triggers the reverb each repeat, and with a tape delay or modulate setting on a boss dd20, the different sound of the delay repeat gives you some beautiful textures, hope that helps!
@@tomc9302 this is very common in reggae
My “swell” sound is usually a warmer quarter delay, into a relatively bright dotted eighth delay, into a spring reverb, into a an octave or shimmer verb.
Juan Rubio Garciandía also my solo sound usually has an immediate slap back with a single repeat, into a warmer 16th not with long trails, into a hall reverb
Loving this "10 ways to wreck your bank balance" series. But a shout out to your previous shows on " wet dry wet" set ups where you can dial that stereo verb to 11 and stack the other 'verbs 8 miles high
Saying I learn something from every show would be an understatement! I don't know how to play yet, but I have become obsessed with collecting and learning. So as much as 50% of the shows can be a learning experience for me. And over the years I have learned things that have piqued my curiosity, made me go "...huh...", made me exclaim "oh wow" and just downright flabbergasted me. But that stereo reverb/dual reverb trick was the first thing to legitimately blow my mind! 🤯
Ya babe, I’ll take the car for an oil change Friday morning! ***knowing TPS will be dropping an episode right on time! ;) thanks for making my waiting room wait less of a pain!
One of the highest compliments I can give: You make learning fun!
Thank you RJ!
WOW! You guys are psychics. I've been looking to buy a few new reverb pedals and have spent the last 2 months searching for some that I like. YESTERDAY I was talking about it with the other guitar player in our little jam group and I said "It would be great if TPS did a full episode on just reverb. The last one was a few years ago and so much has changed since then."
I got a lot of great ideas from this episode. THANKS!!
That stereo hack is delightful. I had to try it. I discovered with my Immerse Mk II that if I had the input on one side and the output on the other side of the stereo (they're marked 1 and 2 on the pedal), that I still got a signal. It sounded like a dry kill, with just the tails, but fatter than with the dry signal mixed out. Another surprise. Thanks!
I have always played through Fender amps that have reverb built in. And I've found that it works for me by always having it on 2. Not more than 4 ever unless I'm playing surf stuff from my SoCal teenage years, back in the 1960s. Good video you guys.
It's you two I have to thank for ever trying reverb. When I was younger and owned a 1980ish Fender75 I never used built in spring reverb because I didn't like it, nor was it needed for the type of music I had played. Now I own a 1963 Farfisa8 and had to go out and buy a reverb pedal (TC-HOF) which is almost always on and maxed out. Thank you 👊
YES!
Bloody hell. That spoken intro was practically professional.
Using a swell into a big reverb is an effect I use all the time - I love it - it’s so effective for creating pads and textures.
I use an auto swell pedal (currently got the Mooer Slow Engine but loads of others do it too). It means I can concentrate on the notes without worrying about fading in!
Take a look at the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Dark Star.
Mario Driessen thanks - will do. Local shop stocks OBNE.
Also just got a Walrus Slo which I hope is going to do something similar.
It's amazing how popular reverb pedals are now, as when I was younger and doing gymnasiums and and community halls a lot more, the last thing I'd want on my pedal board would be reverb. Nowadays, it's more bars and acoustically treated rooms, so it's okay to have a bit of space around the guitar :-)
9:30 - Oi...that Topanga on the higher tone...brought a smile to MY face! Thanks boys!
I’ve been obsessed with reverb for as long as I can remember. Now I get to learn more about it from my two favorite gents.
Also, I love running my Boss RV-6 into my Earthquaker Devices Afterneath. It’s so amazing!
Your delay/reverb show on "before or after overdrive" clued me in on how to get a sound that more resembles that of a classic external Fender reverb by moving my Hall of Fame before my overdrive pedals. Soon after, I switched to the Topanga as I had decided that a really good spring reverb sound was more important to me than the larger range of reverb types the HOF provides. Interestingly, the "dwell" control on the Topanga gives the feel of reverb before overdrive without the need to put it before the actual overdrive pedals. This allows me to keep it at the end of my effects chain and use the dwell knob to switch between a pre-overdrive and a post-overdrive sound. As regards this particular show, it may have been easier in retrospect to contrast the pre vs post overdrive tones using a cleaner type of reverb than the Topanga. I love the show, as well as the vlogs… especially Mick's strat journey, as I am a tinkerer who spends far too much time tweaking parts to get the last 1% sound improvement out of my gear. Thank you for being the internet's premier tone crafting resource!
Very informative episode, Dan & Mick! I was an amp reverb only player until I bought a modded AC30 with no built-in reverb and invested in a TC Hall of Fame for my board. Probably the most underrated part of my sound outside of EQ pedal, but so essential.
I can't get enough of that Topanga into the D&M Drive! To this noise kid's ears it sounds like heaven!
I love this sound (Dan here) in fact I’m going to use it on my ep
@@ThatPedalShow Oh nice! Looking forward to hearing it man. Slap some analog delay on afterwards for some freaky psychedelic surf tones!
Holy Crap! SWEET chords!
One of the best purest reverb pedals I have found for the money, getting the most for your dollars spent, is a TRex Tube Reverb, it sounds fantastic, especially when plugged into a Fender 1957 Custom Shop Reissue Twin Amp with 2 X 12 inch speakers. I can truly understand why Eric Clapton chooses that amp for his favorite.
We love that one too.
I struggled to find a reverb that works for me. Then I got a Pedal Projects Marbleverb. Can't get enough of that little guy.
How plate reverb works. Plate reverb is surprisingly simple and actually has nothing to do with sending voltage through a plate. A speaker driver is connected to a large sheet of metal. When an audio signal is sent to the driver it vibrates the sheet of metal like it would a paper speaker cone, however unlike the cone, the metal continues to vibrate and recreate the signal after the signal has stopped thus creating the sound of reverb. That sound is then recaptured via either a microphone or, more commonly, through a type of pickup. Because of the simplicity of this design, there has been a recent trend in diy plate reverbs. I personally made out of an old cymbal, a driver from a broken monitor, and cheap condenser mic. It did not sound amazing but it worked and was a fun experiment. Cheers guys great show as always!
Thank you!
Hi Noisecode, Dan here, thanks for that. Whenever I see any sort of signal I see AC , it just helps me visualise it. The AC voltage hits the transducer which translates the energy to the plate
@@ThatPedalShow I know you guys know how it woks :) Just offering my 2 cents for the uninitiated and hoping to spread my excitement for the DIY potential to the comunity. I loved the DIY amp episode. Would love to see you guys tackle more DIY projects. Maybe a tube driven spring reverb tank. Cheers!
Going to try that hack with my HOF2! Speaking of hacks, when reverbs were still rare on pedalboards, I plugged an Alesis Nanoverb into an Xotic X-Blender and used that as my "reverb pedal." The Alesis normally does not have the headroom to run it as a guitar pedal, but the X-blender took care of that, as well as giving me a second "wet signal only" switch. I used one ofthe plate settings, and even after getting the Strymon Blue Sky, and the HOF2, it's still my favorite reverb sound (though I need to explore the HOF2 a little bit more).
Another great show. I play modern church worship music and reverb is essential for the sound. At one point I had 4 reverb pedal on my board. HOF v2, Oceans 11, Ernie Ball Ambient Delay and a Caline Snakebite. I now have a RV-500. Videos like this make it easier for me to teach people how to play with reverb and to help tell them when they are doing to wrong.
I'm much more connected to delay, as opposed to reverb. But when I turn off the delay, and just play through my Blue Sky reverb, I really love some of those sounds, and it makes me play slightly differently. I think that's why we're all (here) so nuts for new pedals. We're always looking for something new to connect with as a player, to keep things fresh and stimulate our playing. Very nice primer guys!
I love this show more than anything on the internet, and I consume a lot of audio podcast (20hrs a week I would imagine). Keep it up, love from Australia
So glad that reverb pedals have really hit the big time. I couldn’t live without the added dimension they provide.
An episode touching on reverse and gated reverbs would be killer
I've heard the reverb before drive in some live Peter Green Fleetwood Mac recordings. He would alternate between crashing devastating reverb, to bone dry, for extra textures and dynamics. I sold my Topanga after I bought a Deluxe Reverb, regretting that decision now! Love the show!
OOH! You've got the Mesa out! Number 2 in a way had me laughing a bit, because my first reverb pedal back in the early 1990s was a Boss RV-2 Digital Reverb, and as you might remember, the frequency response of the reverb on that pedal only went to 10 KHz. I've never really tried to make my reverb dark on purpose, but you can be sure that the next time I fire up my rig, I'm going to experiment with that sound on my tc electronic Arena (Guitar Center special version of the Hall of Fame). As for Number 5, I always ran my RV-2 (either in Hall or Plate modes) into the Accutronics long-tank spring reverb and detune stereo chorus of my Ampeg VH-140C combo. What a glorious sound that was!
Also, on Number 10, when Mick mentioned adding ping-pong delay to stereo reverb, the RV-2 had that built-in as one of its modes.
Uggh!
That '61 sounded heavenly doing its "clean chords."
I like reverb, but have considered it unusable in live situations. I don't know if it's just me, but that's one of the reasons why I love delay so much. If I step on the reverb, I disappear into the mix (a bit disconcerting the 1st time that happened!!), but delay is like the friend that doesn't let me down... and doesn't step all over my sound!!
If you guys could talk about use in a live pop-rock situation (say guitar, drums, bass, keys, and vocals) that would be really great.
Cheers.
Agreed. By time you can actually hear it, you’re using too much of it already. The amps reverb is more than sufficient to take the dryness off for most live situations.
Love love love my Keeley Caverns reverb. Even makes my terrible playing sound reasonably nice (so in the hands of someone half way competent would sound like heaven).
You guys already got me to put the Reverb before the drive and now I must jump the stereo signal on my HOF2. Holy crap, how do you keep finding such wonderfully weird & awesome tricks...besides time and the fact that finding those tricks is a revenue stream for you.
I tried it with my HOF2 right after I watched and it was amazing. If you have a big washy setting like hall and add some modulation, you can mess around with decay and mix knob to get some weird feedback noises like an analog delay self oscillating!
@@JasonClute Dope!
When I saw Red and Jazzmaster together in one room, I knew my day was about to get a whoooole lot brighter...
A lush lesson and now I've gotta try that stereo 'hack' into my 35 quid Biyang Stereo Reverb. Cheers guys thanks.
I’ve never loved reverb pedals until I got my Walrus Fathom. It’s just great when used tastefully, just a taste of the plate setting. Fender Amp spring reverb of course sounds amazing.
Love the swell button on the Mercury 7 reverb to kill the dry guitar signal without needing to adjust settings. Perfect for what Mick was saying in thing 8 - playing some nice chords/arpeggios under a vocal melody and filling out a lot of space with only a few notes.
Another great episode guys! Have really gotten a lot of helpful knowledge out of this little series of videos. Keep it up!
I love Reverb!! It could be because I'm not a great player
Helps me hide my flaws
This was a great episode
Thank you D&M
Mick: "Your brain is extremely sophisticated in decoding it" ("It" being reverb) Yes! Actually we hear the space more than we hear the source. According to current research sound reaches our ears as a series of disjointed, stuttering flutter echos produced by the space in which a sound is made and is then reinterpreted and recompiled by our brains into the solid sounding waves we perceive as sound proving again that an individuals "reality" is entirely a product of how the mind compiles sensory input to present us with a picture of the world. (Interestingly infant brains cannot do this) In the context of reverb, what we need to know as musicians is that the perception of "source" is made up entirely of "room" making a reverb effect or lack there of an extremely important component of how our carefully crafted tones are received.
I love this. Mick here. We don’t all hear the same thing.
This is fascinating. It's a topic among those who study the neurophysiology of how we hear language.
"For example, how and when does the brain decide which word is being said? There is evidence that the brain actually sifts through possibilities, but it is currently unknown how the brain successfully narrows down the choices to a single word and connects it with the meaning of the ongoing discourse"
-Science Daily
@@mattgilbert7347 yes! My undergrad is in psychology with a focus in neuropsychology and I'm about to start working on a master's in communication disorders so you're right I'm my wheel house😎👍
35:44 He is one of my comedy heroes.
"In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet." - Les Dawson
fishy paw hahaha where is the quote from? A larger work or a novella? Need me some more of that
I will have what he’s smoking.
@@tommystratpaul It's a joke from one of Les Dawson's TV shows. I can't remember which one but there are lots of clips on UA-cam from his TV shows. Les was a comedian from the north of England. He had a very working class style of homour but was also a great wordsmith and clever bloke. He was famous for "mother-in-law jokes" and playing the piano "badly", but he was so much more too.
I was walking down the street and my friend said "that looks like your mother-in-law getting beat up by four thugs, aren't you going to help?" I said "Nah, four should be enough".
Favorite effect, after gain. GTR>Fuzz>Boost>REVERB>Delay>breaking up-AMP rolling off GTR volume, cleans up the Fuzz, cleans up the Amp, takes the Reverb and Delay down in the mix. Bring GTR volume up brings in more of all those effects. As the Amp breaks up, you get the Reverb-in-front gain sound, but the Fuzz stays clearer.
Painting with sound!
I was interviewed a few months back and when asked how to describe our band, I gave the genius answer of: Reverb, Fuzz and Delay. I got silence on the other end. This episode and the delay episode prove I gave an appropriate answer, lol. Love you guys!!!
-Aaron
Love the volume swells! Sounds fantastic! Thanks guys.
Mick's Andy Timmons impression on the Stereo bit near the end. Fabulous.
the Boss Rv-500 lets you do all of this, including the series-parallel routing, sending different delays to different outputs or running them mono, plus it has built-in delay (including an algorithm for the space echo delay and reverb unit) that can be added in and can be turned on and off with the tap/ctrl button. I know menus are scary but I think you guys would really enjoy some of the features available if you dug into a little deeper. If I can do it so you. The Rv-500 with a tube screamer and fuzz can do just about everything you need for a grab and go board.
Yep. I got myself around the 500 UI pretty quick. Mick here. Boss have really got it right with those, and the 200s. Great stuff!
Oh man, that stereo setup gave me instant goosebumps...massive difference! 42:55
OMG, the stereo loop hack thing!!! You've given all new life to my Neunaber Immerse!
I am so obsessed with Dan's tele... I watch the videos for it more than anything else.
It's cool for those of us who used a TON of chorus in the 80s, then lessened use chorus. Now we ca just have chorus on reverb trails and it sounds so beautiful and more moderated. Thanks gentlemen.
32:40 Mick stumbles on a just beautiful melody there. Another great video!!
Thanks to you lot I’ve been “shoegazing” all weekend. I never thought that putting a reverb/delay before my fuzz and overdrives could be so much fun. I genuinely learnt something from this. Cheers!
I’m a huge fan of the Source Audio Ventris. It’s a stereo delay that allows you to run two separate reverb algorithms simultaneously. Each preset on the Ventris contains two reverbs, which you can run individually, in series, or in parallel, so you can accomplish every trick mentioned in this video with one (incredible sounding) pedal.
Mick: this video would be 8 hours long
All of us: YES!
Epic Episode Mates!! Worth a second watch. Keep on Rockin'!!! Viva La VerB!!!!!
There are some videos which really have the power to change your (musical) life and I think that's definitely one of them. Demystifying the world of pedal effects and here I am building my own pedalboard and having fun !! Kudos to TPS 🎸🤘🏻🎶
Dan & Mick,
Thanks to the two of you I only have a small fortune in my pedalboard as opposed to the large fortune I would have invested! You guys are AWESOME!
My sincerest thanks for educating us by sharing your incredible wealth of knowledge!
Thanks for being with us!
Great video guys. Thank you very much. I previously did not know about the HoF2 stereo hack.
It was bit like when your dogs does a trick you didn’t know it could do.... love it.
Loved this episode. I just swapped my Hall of Fame 2 for a GFI Specular Reverb v3. Some epic tones from that pedal !!
can't live without a reverb..it's everything
So nice to see you guys using the Mesa Lone Star. That was always my favorite amp to see on the show.
I use a wet dry rig thanks to the gig rig humdinger and I did the stereo pedal loop trick and am loving every second of it!
One of the greatest guitar tutorials ever.
I just placed my reverb pedal on my keyboard at work, and gave it words of encouragement "go on little guy, work for me" No luck! Hopefully this video will be the solution! 🎸👍😁🤪
I once had a RV-5 and i never liked it until i sold it.
Now i finally bought a TC HOF2 now this episode is quite useful for me! Turning it darker is the best tip, stereo hack also blew my mind!
I have Fender amps so it’s been hard to justify getting a reverb pedal. But it is clearly time to play around.. these 10 things vids have been great ..
My favorite lots-o-reverb tone is Jeff Beck. He just has the sound engineer kick on a stereo Lexicon hall/plate for some songs and it just sounds glorious.
Hey Dan and Mick, just wanted to say that Dan's stereo pedal hack is incredible and has not only changes how I will use certain pedals from now on, but also the way I look at new pedals when buying. Very cool
You guys are on a roll! I look forward to watching this whole video because I really don’t care for reverb... keep rocking guys!
I LOVE Reverb before Overdrive. It goes against the usual rules but I think it's amazing
You do not realise how inspiring that parallel set up is until you try it. I have the Source Audio Ventris which can do that. Incredible in stereo.
The playing and sounds from 44:00 are amazing Mick! So good man! You were inspired and inspiring.
Love this episode. I have been expanding my reverb palate most notably with the Eventide H9. I find that there is a really nice middle ground between overly ambient sounds and run of the mill plate, hall, spring. In a stereo set up you can really make your tone sound like an "album". For sure dial it back a bit when you are playing a gig with the band, but maybe not. The right sound man that knows your stuff can pan your amps hard left and right and then WOW!!! I really enjoy the gigs when I show up like I am Richie Sambora or the Edge. Thanks for all you guys do.
Love my Empress Reverb, that pedal deserves a show unto itself for versatility, blows away many other a 'verb indeed! Great to see some other options, very cool!
Dan's Stereo hack is brilliant 😮😊✨️💫
The tip about darkening down the tone of the repeats when adding masses of 'verb is brilliant!
Nice to see the Lonestar back fellas! Great show for it👍 number 1 with. a touch of plate from a pedal is my go to
Inspiring episode! Long episodes for the win! This 10 ways format is great.
What's great about the stereo input hack is this can be done by putting each side in different loops of a loop switcher and having different levels of reverb that you can do on the fly.
That stereo reverb hack with the HOF is an absolute game changer. Now using HOF mod reverb (hacked) going into (parallel) space echo and analog mod delays (set to quarter and dotted 8th respectively) on the triple delay. It's my shoegaze wet dream come true. 👍
I love every episode, and I especially love these 10 ways episodes. Thanks fellas!
That stereo hack... I will have to experiment with it! I'm thinking guitar into A, output of A into drive into delay into input B, output B into amp. Cool tip!
Guitar playing at 43:20 to the end of the video was jaw droppingly beautiful.
Great video lads! I haven’t watched a TPS video in a few weeks and this is the perfect one to get back into it!
I love how in the first 50 second opener ... He had that Reverb ,,, hooked to his guitar strap ,, or to his chair ... So that he could milk the Reverb just right ... You know ,,, how he got his body English in there ( no pun intended ) ... I know there's nothing like that ... Just wishing ,,, you guys are great ... Love the Reverb ... Love your show ... D
I tried the stereo hack on my Digitech Polara! Can confirm it works brilliantly!
My Marshall DSL100HR has Reverb on it (with two separate reverb controls one for each channel) and i actually really like it. I use the Hall of Fame in the fx loop if i need a moderate to heavy reverb effect but if i just need some more body the amps reverb is excellent. They made it a very minimal reverb which was an excellent idea cause at those levels its more of a tone shaping tool than an effect. You can pretty much have the reverb on the amp turned up a good bit and still have a nice precise tone albeit fuller and livelier. But if you want the reverb on the amp to be a bit more of a focal point there is enough to get you there. But like i said if you want some fuller thicker reverb having a pedal in the loop is perfect for that sorta stuff. It really was smart of Marshall to make the Reverb on the DSL's minimal, like i said before its just enough to fill out your tone and compensate for less lively practice/jam spaces. On the HR's the reverb is Digital which i was skeptical of at first but its actually a very pleasant versatile reverb. Im not sure what its supposed to be emulating but to me it sounds like a plate reverb.
23:00' Shimmer was originally created by producer Daniel Lanios when he was working with Brian Eno on the ambient records. Check out Music for Airports, etc. They used an Eventide Harmonizer rack unit to shift the reverb and delay trails up an octave.
Oh that is WAY cool.
You guys provide so much awesome information, I love it. Some things I learned through the years by experience (like rolling down the tone, stacking and adding delay instead of more reverb), but I'm still learning. I think you're saving a lot people quite some time with your show:)
Cheers!
Love the first blues lick!
What a great Stereo Hack you shared, that may have helped make my decision to now try that pedal. cheers
I like the stereo hack (Hall of Fame just got more fun!) Way cool! I’d love to see Dan hack the Boss CE-2 waza so that in a wet dry rig using a humdinger, output A goes to wet, output B goes to dry amp, for a really big JC120 style effect. Ideas? Great show as always.
This video format reminds me of the eary days of TPS. Very nostalgic, hope to see more soon!
Oh guys, can we just take 1 minute to appreciate the sound of this old Strat... It's sound just amazing.
Ahhh the love of reverb! Looking forward to this one.