Question is if that's a pedal with an attached tank or a tank with a pedal hanging from it? I don't know, maybe a lawyer or a phylosopher around here to set this thing...
A massive thanks to all of you at JHS for featuring our pedals 😍 We are so proud to be your selection for analog spring reverb with the Element 💪🤘 Merci ❤️
I'm getting back into guitar after many years. I was a straight-into-the-amp guy back in my punk/indie days, but I'm looking forward to exploring pedals now as a home player. Your videos are fantastic. You're very generous with your knowledge and in giving airtime to different makers. Thank you!
I am so fortunate to be an early fan of Mono. My friend was friends with them back in Japan and gave me their very first demo. I remember thinking "instrumental rock? LAME." But from the very first notes I was hooked and became a rabid fan. Favorite show was attending the concert in NYC with an orchestra they recorded for the DVD, one of my favorite all time concerts. Makes me really happy to see them get some love here!
I am getting old to the point of not caring about vintage or boutique gear anymore and stick to a 2019 Fender Vintera Tele into a 2021 Fender Blues Junior amp haha.
So true, I never gave a crap about clean tone in my teens and early 20’s, now mid 30’s have a Series 3 Reverb on all the time and I run my tubes on the edge of break up. I love hearing the guitar.
MONO was one of the loudest bands I've ever heard. And one of the most serene and beautiful. Their lead guitarist wept during my favorite song of theirs. Saw them on tour once with Pelican, and another time with Boris.
Glad that a pedal maestro has given the thumbs up for the holy grail. I’ve had one for about 15 years and it’s finally given up the ghost. I’ve ordered the same one again. Most others seem to have too many options and would take a load of faffing / adjusting between sounds live. This one instantly sounds great and you can just flick between spring and hall depending on the song. No messing
As always, I watch mainly for the guitar stuff and Josh, but am always blown away by Nick's KILLER TASTY drumming (ghost notes, single hand rolls, and that drum tone...)
i loved the infinte plate joke! My "favorite" reverb sound are the spring tanks in my amp, but I love my OBNE Dark Star, since it can do all the crazy long ambient reverb stuff, with modulation, and has a footswitch to hold the reverb infinitely, it's just really cool for big ambient pad reverb. I almost think of it as an overtone device sometimes more than a reverb
You’re absolutely right about the plate setting on the Blue Sky! I’ve used it for years! And another hell yes to a ducking reverb. Ducking delay. Everything ducking. The only way to use time based effects with fuzz or high gain. Cheers!
Empress Reverb. I love it. I have been chasing delay for years, buy it was really reverb that I needed. I heard the 'dark spring" setting demoed, then immediately sold my Blue Sky for the Empress. No regrets. But the Blue Sky is cool.
My favorite reverb pedal currently is the dynamic hall on the helix software since it’s not a standalone pedal that goes to the neunaber wet reverb I love the wet sounds you can get from that I’ve broken at least 3 from rowdy gigs I’ve played i love it that much. My first reverb is a line 6 verbzilla I bought new in 2006 mainly using the cave setting. it was on my board till 2013 when the wet reverb took over it’s place after a drunk destroyed my verbzilla jumping off the stage and using my board as a ramp. Gotta love grunge rock.
My first amp was a Marshall Valvestate. I used to kick it to make that sound where Josho-boy shook the springs here. I thought it was the speaker shaking that made that sound for many years.
Very nice episode, thank you Josh (and the whole JHS team!) I'm deeply involved in reverb and I think is my favorite kind of effect for guitar. I like a lot the wall of sound reverb permits, or the atmospheric hints it can give. My favorite sound right now: - Reverse reverb (ok, it's a bit like cheating as it's a kind of delay, but the full wet shoegazy reverse reverb is incredible) - Plate, with its striking precision, is a go-to for any reverb sound. Like when I think of a reverb, it's plate reverb. - Reverb before the drive. The purist will eyeball for the wrong order, but I became a better person after putting the Cathedral (my main reverb unit) before my ODs. The tails are so sweetly enhanced by light overdrive or completely crushed by a high gain distortion. Every sound is better, my whole person is better.
I was called the Flerb in Highschool. I also didn’t have any friends... it was more of a title than a nick name. It was more like: here comes the flerb
This is like an episode of "JHS Pedals". You're all very satirically humorous. Downplayed and undercut yet... infinite. btw that Line 6 pedal was/is just how you billed it. Awesome pedal !!
I like it when one of my pedals is featured on this show, especially when it’s one I got cheap. I’ve been into Line 6 tonecore for a while, it looks like the days of getting them cheap are numbered.
My first was also an RV-3, that I bought new in the late eighties or early nineties (whenever it was that it was released) and I still use it! I also have an Ocean’s 11, and it’s really all most folks would need. Awesome selection of types, and the spring and shimmer are standouts!
Recently got an Electro Harmonix Oceans 12 and it's pretty darn killer. It's a feature rich stereo, dual reverb with a bunch of cool, fun, and inspiring sounds - the hall is great and I personally have a ton of fun with reverse reverb.
I am a bassist in a drummerless art rock trio and right now, I am totally rolling with the Neunaber Immense Reverberator Mk. 2. It's my only effect and I love it.
Flerb might be one of the most hated settings of all time, but that really goes to show you how well the other 2 settings are because that pedal is everywhere
I got the Neo specifically because it ditched flerb and added plate (my personal favorite type). Mine is always on, though I adjust the knob a little bit here and there.
Reverb might be the most important effect because It can really evoke emotion, & tune your tone, but you can also turn it into other effects with a bit of manipulation. Tremolo, Reverse, Rotary, etc...
Love. Love. Love Mono. Friend told me about them. Listened and ears were forever kissed. Getting vinyl of Nowhere Now Here did my birthday on Sunday. I love it.
Verbzilla is the first verb pedal I bought (with gift money, too). I keep it on basically one setting, where it's similar to the Barton Hall sound from Grateful Dead's 5/8/77 show. With an envelope filter into it, I can pretend to play a Jerry line or two. To me it's like my favorite local pizza joint. It's perfect.
Had the same exact thought and it is driving me crazy. Not only does the H9 have a ton of delays (and every other effect) in it, but the Blackhole algorithm actually even has a multi-tap delay within it. LOL
JHS being a sound engineer/designer/musician and very small tubes available, please design a real tube, real spring , real small reverb tank/unit/pedal. Love the topic(s), love the show!
i love your video and your personal choice of best spring reverb: - at about 3:37 : shake it baby, that is a nice and natural way of introducing some modulation! - your story and showing off of the gold-plated H9 reminded me, perhaps strangely, of the King Crimson song "indiscipline" : "the more i look at it, the more i like it, i repeat myself when under stress". Ah, the eventide H9, overall my worst nightmare: only two switches and a dial on the front. Nothing showing us or even indicating of what it all can do. Big mistery. - i use the blue sky myself for all the reasons you mentioned. It is very versatile yet much less complicated than the big sky. And like all strymon pedals it adds something new and essential to the clean sound without omitting it. The effect can be as subtle or as extreme as you like. Currently using the cloudburst for individual tracks, especially vocals, and the blue sky for mastering. Guys, i really enjoyed this video very much. My respect for the drummer, without whom this video wouldn't have been the same!
Ever try the Stargazer by Hungry Robot? It’s my favorite reverb. It’s a dual reverb that does real nice sounds from subtle to ambient reverb. The two reverbs in the pedal are exactly the same circuit. So the common thing to do with this pedal is to set one as a subtle/always on reverb, and set the second reverb to a more extreme/lush ambient reverb. Now you have two very different sounding reverbs that you can switch between very easily. The ambient style reverb that it does is very nice because it’s not like a lot of the other ambient reverbs that you commonly hear. It doesn’t have those higher octave undertones like most others, which makes the Stargazer more musical and useful in my opinion.
Most of the people spending this kind of money on music gear already have large pedalboards anyways. You could easily mount the spring tank to the front or bottom.
MONO ❤ I started listening to the in 2007-8 when I was in highschool. And this year I finally saw the live for the first time. They played their latest album 'OATH' from beginning to end. This was one of the last records Steve Albini produced. He also produced all the previous albums by Mono. On this album, they collaborated with Steve for the first time. And the go to track for me is '16.12'. It's hard to pick a favorite album for me. I prefer their later work, the early records have more dramatic phrasing and maybe a bit more melodic. There's always a beautiful sound beneath the heavier songs and I just close my eyes and drift away every time I listen to them When I saw them live, I literally just closed my eyes and by the last song , Everlasting light (dedicated to Steve) I sort of 'woke up' when it was just guitars playing with the arpeggios and I think smiled down on us from Guitar-heaven ❤ Before the concert I had the chance to thank Taka and 'Yoda', the guitarists of the band, for the beautiful music that they have brought us over the Years. Here's a playlist that I made with all my favorite songs by Mono, enjoy 🙌 music.ua-cam.com/play/PL-rQ2_2cyzMaSsVdWta55-elX7DPNI0dh.html&si=-slV_YpfamMr6Jpx
Wasn't it just yesterday that Nick was ranking on a scale of Turquoise to Mustard Yellow...and then today he shows up in a turquoise hat and mustard yellow hoodie? Are there no rules?
The True Spring is absolutely brilliant. Only reverb pedal I own at the moment, but I came to it after a long and tiring spring journey. Nobody has done digital spring as good as Source Audio, and it even beat out my Surfy Bear build kit, which is nuts when you think about it.
1st reverb was the big box Holy Grail. When that power jack wigged out, I replaced it with the Neunaber Wet reverb. For me, THAT is the best modulated / infinite reverb sound. Neunaber has some killer stuff. I'm surprised I've never seen any of it mentioned in these videos.
Weird take: the EHX Cathedral makes the Flerb setting incredibly usable and honestly really stellar #1 reverb for me though is the mega simple Mr. Black Supermoon Chrome, the sway setting has this really gentle modulation that's woozy and dreamlike that i love
Great video, main two reverbs are the rm-1n and the V3 Afterneath. A while back I was messing around with trying to perfect my stereo setup, and I tried taking the stereo outs from my TC electronic triple delay and running the aforementioned reverbs parallel to each other; and that's basically my main set up now. They're both very different, the rm-1n is a gritty; dark sound that ranges from lo-fi textures to wailing distortion and the afterneath is a glossy and cavernous style. When I put the two against each other it provides such a perfectly wide and varied palette of sound, and the duality between the sounds is so perfect. P.S. Love the fact you gave Mono a shoutout! Their approach to post rock is so perfect. I was a fan since maybe 2014, and I got the chance to saw them live when they played a split set with Alcest; it was nothing short of transcendent. (I managed to meet Neige after the show too and he's a sweetheart.)
I really enjoy my Immerse reverb, but I HAD a Strymon Blue sky, That I absolutely Loved…sold it cause I wasn’t using it at the time. Now I’m sitting here having watched your video, drying my eyes, and ringing out my tear soaked clothing. Planning to make my way back to the therapist, for what I hope will be the last time… Just kidding I’m thinking about buying another one, today : - )
Spring Reverb is so far my favourite style. As for MONO I heard "Yearning" 10 years ago and completely fell in love with the band and the general vibe of post-rock.
FWIW, when I had my big muff Pi w/ tone wicker I’d max out the mix knob on the Flerb setting, slam it with the big muff and all that would go thru my maestro bg-2 in volume mode.... And it made for a very impressive rendition of alto sax or some Pharoah Thembi soundscape territory! Keep Rockin’! - Austin.
It's not just that wall, that whole room is like that, and he has more in drawers under the shelves and in his office (which also has the Sovtek amps), they used to also do the jams in a different room with all of Josh's guitars and amps on the wall, as well as his private collection at home. You watch this channel enough and you see just how much gear acquisition syndrome Josh has. 😂
The man asked what my favorite reverb pedal / sound is, and so I comply! I bought myself a cheap JOYO Space Verb, because a) cheap, b) small, and therefore good to have on my desk when I'm testing effects I'm working on, and c) It sounded good in the demos I could find (Acually I think I saw JHS do a video on the brand, if not this model, which probably swayed me somewhat.) I'll be the first to say my ear isn't yet finely tuned to the nuance of these things, I am not an experienced audio gourmet! But for now I like how it sounds. I think I like the plate sound best, maybe because it kind of evokes a slight vintageness to my ear. The pedal seems pretty versatile anyway. It's also got a really nice weight to it, and I dig the sprung-loaded flip lid which protects the settings from being inadvertently changed (even though said lid is only plastic.)
Essentially, you're saying, "Why don't you just spend a lot more money, haul around heavier gear, and sacrifice flexibility for your pedalboard?" Am I understanding you correctly?
Cool EBow . I use a slide with the Ebow. If you are ever in St. Paul Minnesota go to the Minnesota Historical Institute go to the east parking ramp stairwell. The reverb echo is mesmerizing. I installed all the signage there and the Mall of America which has nothing to do with reverb but that how I discovered that reverb.
One of my favorite Reverb sounds is the TC Electronic Hall of Fame TonePrint “Big Room with a View.” It’s an incredible reverb for ambience and swells. I don’t even use any of the other available sounds on the pedal. Just that one.
I love Mono, Fun fact... I'm working in a live venue in luxembourg as sound engineer, they were here 10 years ago, we needed a good gong sound for several purposes. They got one, we recorded it, and it's still today the same sound we use to make people to enter in the venue ;-)
Yo stop with the spoilers of season 23... You people already ruined the reveal that Addison was replaced by pedal bot 5000 on season 17! Honestly this attitude is ruining the show for me
Well... I was saving up for a bluesky but looks like I’ll need to double down on my savings. Anyone else been personally victimized by Josh’s market influence? Haha
Josh: "I like spring reverb because it's subtle"
Also Josh: "lets shake the springs like 50 times so everyone knows it's a real spring reverb"
Josh: "The rule is it has to be a pedal"
Also Josh: *pulls out spring reverb tank that attaches to a pedal* LOL
Danelectro had a pedal that I think had the tank inside the pedal (it also had a “kick” pad for that fun “sploing” sound of hitting the tank.
Omg I just posted this exact comment almost word for word!
And an Eventide unit with a thousand other effects. Love this show :)
Question is if that's a pedal with an attached tank or a tank with a pedal hanging from it? I don't know, maybe a lawyer or a phylosopher around here to set this thing...
Yea. A reverb tank is run essentially like a miniature amp fed through a spring. Is it a pedal to have a foot switch for my amp?
I think not JOSH!
A massive thanks to all of you at JHS for featuring our pedals 😍
We are so proud to be your selection for analog spring reverb with the Element 💪🤘
Merci ❤️
et merci pour palf :)
Your pedal is very cool never seen before,will have a look ,nice job eh!
Need a “Cool is not cool, good is cool” on a shirt immediately.
Still waiting….
This is my favorite sitcom.
the drumming was on another level today
riiight?
Yep!
As always though...
Always is!!!
Dudes my kind of drummer
DUDE the drums were so perfect on the ducking reverb song. Go Nick
I was going to say the same thing. Great job Nick.
The snare is always so snappy!
It's such creative drumming. Very musical. How do you learn that stuff?
@@sandervisser790 how do you mic them nick what kids are you using
Such a talented dude.
I'm getting back into guitar after many years. I was a straight-into-the-amp guy back in my punk/indie days, but I'm looking forward to exploring pedals now as a home player. Your videos are fantastic. You're very generous with your knowledge and in giving airtime to different makers. Thank you!
I feel like this episode taught us more about Josh's obsession than about reverb pedals.
Nah it was missing his whole, "i don't have this pedal, it's okay" speech and then Nick's jingle.
And I'm 💯 ok with that
Always has been
Blooming love my Marshall Reflector. Straightforward, easy to use, all the sounds sound great.
“Rule number 1, it has to be a pedal”
Immediately pulls out a pedal that runs into a tank
Yeah and I'm pretty sure he broke rule no 2 with the h9
Josh could be a Senator like that.
I am so fortunate to be an early fan of Mono. My friend was friends with them back in Japan and gave me their very first demo. I remember thinking "instrumental rock? LAME." But from the very first notes I was hooked and became a rabid fan. Favorite show was attending the concert in NYC with an orchestra they recorded for the DVD, one of my favorite all time concerts. Makes me really happy to see them get some love here!
Nobody tell Josh that the h9 has tons of delay algorithms, he'd have to redo the episode
Holy cow the jam and tone for the Holy Grail might be the best thing you’ve ever played on this channel. Tasty tone!
The older you get the less you obsess with gain and obsess with reverb more.
I am getting old to the point of not caring about vintage or boutique gear anymore and stick to a 2019 Fender Vintera Tele into a 2021 Fender Blues Junior amp haha.
Ummm, that's a really profound statement.
And it didn't totally go over my head.... 😏
I used to love heavy metal distortion ut now im into od getting there i think
So true, I never gave a crap about clean tone in my teens and early 20’s, now mid 30’s have a Series 3 Reverb on all the time and I run my tubes on the edge of break up. I love hearing the guitar.
Not me. Reverb is easy. OD and distortion are still much harder to perfect. It is a lifelong search.
Finally some love for the Blue Sky. Was my first serious pedal and will never leave my board. It's just so good.
MONO was one of the loudest bands I've ever heard. And one of the most serene and beautiful. Their lead guitarist wept during my favorite song of theirs. Saw them on tour once with Pelican, and another time with Boris.
I agree. I saw them way back when they toured behind "Walking Cloud and Long-Ass Title" as I like to call it, and my ears are still ringing.
@@lf170 lol I forgot about this post. I have a brief update, I saw Sunn O))) in February...sorry MONO, but you've been dethroned.
@@beelbrother1648 Nice. Thinking back, a Godspeed You Black Emperor show back in 2002 is probably tied with Mono for loudest!
@@lf170 Man I feel like a moron. I bought tickets for Godspeed this year, and I completely forgot to attend. Being a father has given me brain damage.
Parenthood will do that!@@beelbrother1648
Glad that a pedal maestro has given the thumbs up for the holy grail. I’ve had one for about 15 years and it’s finally given up the ghost. I’ve ordered the same one again. Most others seem to have too many options and would take a load of faffing / adjusting between sounds live. This one instantly sounds great and you can just flick between spring and hall depending on the song. No messing
As always, I watch mainly for the guitar stuff and Josh, but am always blown away by Nick's KILLER TASTY drumming (ghost notes, single hand rolls, and that drum tone...)
I absolutely adore Mono! I remember seeing them live in 09 and a kid fainted during the big moment in “Yearning”. Best show I’ve ever seen.
I love the MXR reverb. Lots of sounds in a standard enclosure.
I like the digitech Polara except for how difficult it is to read anything labeled… sounds great though for a reasonably priced unit 😊
The Stereo Cathedral was a big favourite of mine. The plate setting is beautiful.
I don't know homies name, forgive me., but can we give it up for the drummer? His feel is tasteful as fuck. Kudos man. I'd hire you.
this my fav episode for 2021
i loved the infinte plate joke! My "favorite" reverb sound are the spring tanks in my amp, but I love my OBNE Dark Star, since it can do all the crazy long ambient reverb stuff, with modulation, and has a footswitch to hold the reverb infinitely, it's just really cool for big ambient pad reverb. I almost think of it as an overtone device sometimes more than a reverb
You’re absolutely right about the plate setting on the Blue Sky! I’ve used it for years!
And another hell yes to a ducking reverb. Ducking delay. Everything ducking. The only way to use time based effects with fuzz or high gain.
Cheers!
Empress Reverb. I love it. I have been chasing delay for years, buy it was really reverb that I needed. I heard the 'dark spring" setting demoed, then immediately sold my Blue Sky for the Empress. No regrets. But the Blue Sky is cool.
My favorite reverb pedal currently is the dynamic hall on the helix software since it’s not a standalone pedal that goes to the neunaber wet reverb I love the wet sounds you can get from that I’ve broken at least 3 from rowdy gigs I’ve played i love it that much. My first reverb is a line 6 verbzilla I bought new in 2006 mainly using the cave setting. it was on my board till 2013 when the wet reverb took over it’s place after a drunk destroyed my verbzilla jumping off the stage and using my board as a ramp. Gotta love grunge rock.
My first amp was a Marshall Valvestate. I used to kick it to make that sound where Josho-boy shook the springs here. I thought it was the speaker shaking that made that sound for many years.
Very nice episode, thank you Josh (and the whole JHS team!)
I'm deeply involved in reverb and I think is my favorite kind of effect for guitar. I like a lot the wall of sound reverb permits, or the atmospheric hints it can give.
My favorite sound right now:
- Reverse reverb (ok, it's a bit like cheating as it's a kind of delay, but the full wet shoegazy reverse reverb is incredible)
- Plate, with its striking precision, is a go-to for any reverb sound. Like when I think of a reverb, it's plate reverb.
- Reverb before the drive. The purist will eyeball for the wrong order, but I became a better person after putting the Cathedral (my main reverb unit) before my ODs. The tails are so sweetly enhanced by light overdrive or completely crushed by a high gain distortion. Every sound is better, my whole person is better.
Sometime’s I cant tell if Josh is kidding about things. Then he goes and shakes that spring tank and I about lost it
He has a wonderfully British sense of deadpan humour
Got the Series 3 Reverb for Christmas. Straight forward great reverb is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for your hard work.
I was called the Flerb in Highschool. I also didn’t have any friends... it was more of a title than a nick name. It was more like: here comes the flerb
How did you become the Potto? Was that an upgrade?
So, do you like The Potto better than the Flerb?
Not much of an upgrade at that.
Get over it, dude; it’s soo in the past. (Man, what a flerb.)
This is like an episode of "JHS Pedals". You're all very satirically humorous. Downplayed and undercut yet... infinite. btw that Line 6 pedal was/is just how you billed it. Awesome pedal !!
I like it when one of my pedals is featured on this show, especially when it’s one I got cheap. I’ve been into Line 6 tonecore for a while, it looks like the days of getting them cheap are numbered.
I just ordered a used verbzilla a week ago. Glad I found one before this video came out. Haha
Well played sir. I'm on my second Verbzilla, bought just weeks ago, I let the first one go in a swap.
My first was also an RV-3, that I bought new in the late eighties or early nineties (whenever it was that it was released) and I still use it! I also have an Ocean’s 11, and it’s really all most folks would need. Awesome selection of types, and the spring and shimmer are standouts!
Recently got an Electro Harmonix Oceans 12 and it's pretty darn killer. It's a feature rich stereo, dual reverb with a bunch of cool, fun, and inspiring sounds - the hall is great and I personally have a ton of fun with reverse reverb.
"Night, night little buddy." Oh my... that's awesome!
I want a “We Speak Not of Flerb” t-shirt...
That
Yeah that
Agreed!
Make it happen Josh!
Came here to say the same thing
Nick is such a damn good smooove drummer! Never over plays. Always in the pocket.
Josh: demonstrates the fingerprint feature of the gold H9
Me: curb stomps my smartphone
Half expected a Gollum impression there... “my precious”
I am a bassist in a drummerless art rock trio and right now, I am totally rolling with the Neunaber Immense Reverberator Mk. 2. It's my only effect and I love it.
Flerb might be one of the most hated settings of all time, but that really goes to show you how well the other 2 settings are because that pedal is everywhere
The Holy Grail had no rivals for a long long time. That's why.
Unpopular opinion: the flerb would be cool if there was a mix control for it. Give me a tiny drop of flerb
@@seang4 The cathedral has a flerb setting that can control. Think the oceans 11 can as well actually.
I got the Neo specifically because it ditched flerb and added plate (my personal favorite type). Mine is always on, though I adjust the knob a little bit here and there.
Why does no one talk about neo holy grail? That comes with plate instead of flerb. Way more useful
My Hall of Fame was in the room when I watched this, and now I have to deal with an upset Hall of Fame. Thanks, Josh.
Reverb might be the most important effect because It can really evoke emotion, & tune your tone, but you can also turn it into other effects with a bit of manipulation. Tremolo, Reverse, Rotary, etc...
Love. Love. Love Mono. Friend told me about them. Listened and ears were forever kissed. Getting vinyl of Nowhere Now Here did my birthday on Sunday. I love it.
Verbzilla is the first verb pedal I bought (with gift money, too). I keep it on basically one setting, where it's similar to the Barton Hall sound from Grateful Dead's 5/8/77 show. With an envelope filter into it, I can pretend to play a Jerry line or two. To me it's like my favorite local pizza joint. It's perfect.
The Caverns hasn't left my board since it came out. But I respect this list.
doesn’t the H9 break the rules about Reverb + Delay??
100% yes
Nah -he just said No Reverb plus Delay...never said anything about Reverb plus Delay plus everything else...:-)
340% yes
Rules do not apply to those who make them.
Had the same exact thought and it is driving me crazy. Not only does the H9 have a ton of delays (and every other effect) in it, but the Blackhole algorithm actually even has a multi-tap delay within it. LOL
The Cooper FX Arcades needs its own episode! I love it.
Killer music as always.
JHS being a sound engineer/designer/musician and very small tubes available, please design a real tube, real spring , real small reverb tank/unit/pedal. Love the topic(s), love the show!
Stick in a mini steel plate there somewhere and we'll call it a deal
And then name it "The Fake"...
I almost said "The Fake News", but then said "Nah" to that...
i love your video and your personal choice of best spring reverb:
- at about 3:37 : shake it baby, that is a nice and natural way of introducing some modulation!
- your story and showing off of the gold-plated H9 reminded me, perhaps strangely, of the King Crimson song "indiscipline" : "the more i look at it, the more i like it, i repeat myself when under stress". Ah, the eventide H9, overall my worst nightmare: only two switches and a dial on the front. Nothing showing us or even indicating of what it all can do. Big mistery.
- i use the blue sky myself for all the reasons you mentioned. It is very versatile yet much less complicated than the big sky. And like all strymon pedals it adds something new and essential to the clean sound without omitting it. The effect can be as subtle or as extreme as you like. Currently using the cloudburst for individual tracks, especially vocals, and the blue sky for mastering.
Guys, i really enjoyed this video very much. My respect for the drummer, without whom this video wouldn't have been the same!
Ever try the Stargazer by Hungry Robot? It’s my favorite reverb. It’s a dual reverb that does real nice sounds from subtle to ambient reverb. The two reverbs in the pedal are exactly the same circuit. So the common thing to do with this pedal is to set one as a subtle/always on reverb, and set the second reverb to a more extreme/lush ambient reverb. Now you have two very different sounding reverbs that you can switch between very easily. The ambient style reverb that it does is very nice because it’s not like a lot of the other ambient reverbs that you commonly hear. It doesn’t have those higher octave undertones like most others, which makes the Stargazer more musical and useful in my opinion.
Starlite user here. I can concur. A very cool ambient verb.
Catalinbread Talisman is my fav reverb pedal. Best plate reverb pedal imho. Lush, creamy, velvety. Is almost always on.
Most of the people spending this kind of money on music gear already have large pedalboards anyways. You could easily mount the spring tank to the front or bottom.
My favorite verb is a plate, medium-short decay, fairly high level, eq'd bright. Throw a tremolo after that - *chef's kiss*
C3PO wants his Eventide back. JHS sayin'.
I use my BlueSky in a very similar way to your “infinite hall” setting. Love it!
HOF Mini with Jonsi’s preset using an ebow, I won’t lie, it’s awesome......
MONO ❤
I started listening to the in 2007-8 when I was in highschool. And this year I finally saw the live for the first time.
They played their latest album 'OATH' from beginning to end. This was one of the last records Steve Albini produced. He also produced all the previous albums by Mono.
On this album, they collaborated with Steve for the first time. And the go to track for me is '16.12'.
It's hard to pick a favorite album for me. I prefer their later work, the early records have more dramatic phrasing and maybe a bit more melodic.
There's always a beautiful sound beneath the heavier songs and I just close my eyes and drift away every time I listen to them
When I saw them live, I literally just closed my eyes and by the last song , Everlasting light (dedicated to Steve) I sort of 'woke up' when it was just guitars playing with the arpeggios and I think smiled down on us from Guitar-heaven ❤
Before the concert I had the chance to thank Taka and 'Yoda', the guitarists of the band, for the beautiful music that they have brought us over the Years.
Here's a playlist that I made with all my favorite songs by Mono, enjoy 🙌
music.ua-cam.com/play/PL-rQ2_2cyzMaSsVdWta55-elX7DPNI0dh.html&si=-slV_YpfamMr6Jpx
Wow I haven't seen an Ebow used since youthgroup praise and worship from the early 2000's
Phil Keaggy has used an Ebow a lot.
The verbzilla still to this day is SUCH a good pedal. Love the cave setting
Wasn't it just yesterday that Nick was ranking on a scale of Turquoise to Mustard Yellow...and then today he shows up in a turquoise hat and mustard yellow hoodie? Are there no rules?
The only rule is, there are no rules…
... and no delay combos in this episode.... except for the h9.
The True Spring is absolutely brilliant. Only reverb pedal I own at the moment, but I came to it after a long and tiring spring journey. Nobody has done digital spring as good as Source Audio, and it even beat out my Surfy Bear build kit, which is nuts when you think about it.
I have one too, believe it or not my first Reverb Pedal...not bad for a 1st one :)
I got it for the Drip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@adrianmiller1971 Nothing drips better, and I’ve tried almost all of them.
MONO is great! Their collab with World’s End Girlfriend is potentially my favorite post rock album of all time.
Man I'm pretty sure their World's End Girlfriend collab is the album I'd reach for if I knew I had 80 minutes left to live
Thanks so much for being a fan of the Verbzilla. I did most of the sound design for it as well as the original Electro Harmonix Holy Grail.
The "Walrus" Audio - "Slo" is pretty B.A. for a Reverb pedal.
Mine should be showin up tomorrow!
@@Magmoormaster hope you have a blast with it, dude! I got one a couple months back and can’t get enough of it
I wasn't able to spend a ton of time with it but WHOOOO BOY!!! It's great!!
Yeah even the Fathom. Really unique stuff always from Walrus.
Came for the pedals then started repeatedly playing the jam at 7:38. So cool
Please tell me that the song title, “There’s a Spaceship in the Barn” is a reference to Back to the Future.
Or the astronaut farmer
Or Superman?
At first I read “There’s a spaceship in my BRAIN”, and then I was disappointed to realize it was BARN. 😄
1st reverb was the big box Holy Grail. When that power jack wigged out, I replaced it with the Neunaber Wet reverb. For me, THAT is the best modulated / infinite reverb sound.
Neunaber has some killer stuff. I'm surprised I've never seen any of it mentioned in these videos.
By the way, the drum sound is also astoundingly good
I'd like an episode on how to get that drum tone!
Weird take: the EHX Cathedral makes the Flerb setting incredibly usable and honestly really stellar
#1 reverb for me though is the mega simple Mr. Black Supermoon Chrome, the sway setting has this really gentle modulation that's woozy and dreamlike that i love
Waiting for the “Cool is not cool; Good is cool” amp.
Great video, main two reverbs are the rm-1n and the V3 Afterneath. A while back I was messing around with trying to perfect my stereo setup, and I tried taking the stereo outs from my TC electronic triple delay and running the aforementioned reverbs parallel to each other; and that's basically my main set up now.
They're both very different, the rm-1n is a gritty; dark sound that ranges from lo-fi textures to wailing distortion and the afterneath is a glossy and cavernous style. When I put the two against each other it provides such a perfectly wide and varied palette of sound, and the duality between the sounds is so perfect.
P.S. Love the fact you gave Mono a shoutout! Their approach to post rock is so perfect. I was a fan since maybe 2014, and I got the chance to saw them live when they played a split set with Alcest; it was nothing short of transcendent. (I managed to meet Neige after the show too and he's a sweetheart.)
Are you going to invite everyone to the Gold-Plated Eventide H9 turn-on party?
My favorite is the T-Rex Roommate tube-verb, the 6-knob one with an LFO setting....so luscious.
The Holy Grail Max is better. Maybe if they could put the Holy Grail Max in a nano size 🤔...
Agreed!
I really enjoy my Immerse reverb, but I HAD a Strymon Blue sky, That I absolutely Loved…sold it cause I wasn’t using it at the time. Now I’m sitting here having watched your video, drying my eyes, and ringing out my tear soaked clothing. Planning to make my way back to the therapist, for what I hope will be the last time… Just kidding I’m thinking about buying another one, today
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I've never made it to an episode within a minute of upload hell yeah
Spring Reverb is so far my favourite style. As for MONO I heard "Yearning" 10 years ago and completely fell in love with the band and the general vibe of post-rock.
Flerb is the best reverb of all time, change my mind
Nope.
Did that work?
I’m a big fan of flerb. I use it all the time on bass for post-punk tones. All this flerb hate has me almost canceling JHS...
That's cool that you like it!
I was just joking..
Embrace the Flerb!!
I like flerb too
FWIW, when I had my big muff Pi w/ tone wicker I’d max out the mix knob on the Flerb setting, slam it with the big muff and all that would go thru my maestro bg-2 in volume mode.... And it made for a very impressive rendition of alto sax or some Pharoah Thembi soundscape territory!
Keep Rockin’! - Austin.
plot twist , the wall behind him is his pedalboard
It's not just that wall, that whole room is like that, and he has more in drawers under the shelves and in his office (which also has the Sovtek amps), they used to also do the jams in a different room with all of Josh's guitars and amps on the wall, as well as his private collection at home. You watch this channel enough and you see just how much gear acquisition syndrome Josh has. 😂
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I have the series 3 reverb on my most used board, and it's on all the time,
"I'm not feeling comfortable!!!!" :Nick
The man asked what my favorite reverb pedal / sound is, and so I comply! I bought myself a cheap JOYO Space Verb, because a) cheap, b) small, and therefore good to have on my desk when I'm testing effects I'm working on, and c) It sounded good in the demos I could find (Acually I think I saw JHS do a video on the brand, if not this model, which probably swayed me somewhat.)
I'll be the first to say my ear isn't yet finely tuned to the nuance of these things, I am not an experienced audio gourmet! But for now I like how it sounds.
I think I like the plate sound best, maybe because it kind of evokes a slight vintageness to my ear.
The pedal seems pretty versatile anyway. It's also got a really nice weight to it, and I dig the sprung-loaded flip lid which protects the settings from being inadvertently changed (even though said lid is only plastic.)
If the Morning Glory is "always on", why not just get a Blues Breaker styled amp?
Probably because they're not made by Sovtek.
Because the Morning Glory
To avoid delay + reverb into OD.
volume
Essentially, you're saying, "Why don't you just spend a lot more money, haul around heavier gear, and sacrifice flexibility for your pedalboard?"
Am I understanding you correctly?
Nice job, Nick. I like that beat that was on "There's a Spaceship in the Barn".
In my opinion Surfy Industries Surfybear would have definitely deserved a mention
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@@user-rx4nm4vd6w polara has been on my board for years.
Cool EBow . I use a slide with the Ebow. If you are ever in St. Paul Minnesota go to the Minnesota Historical Institute go to the east parking ramp stairwell. The reverb echo is mesmerizing. I installed all the signage there and the Mall of America which has nothing to do with reverb but that how I discovered that reverb.
When no one's around,do the gold H9 and Nick's microphone secretly hangout together?
One of my favorite Reverb sounds is the TC Electronic Hall of Fame TonePrint “Big Room with a View.” It’s an incredible reverb for ambience and swells. I don’t even use any of the other available sounds on the pedal. Just that one.
In French, “météore” is approximately MAY-TAY-ahr. [meteɔʀ]. So like the English noun “meteor” only without the silly English sounds.
Also, those are acute accents (French) - umlauts are German.
@@Twannnng Did they say “umlaut”?? oh my god, come on. “On today’s episode…” Americans learn about other languages’ diacritics.
Once the Big Sky demo started I said out loud, “ugh that is gorgeous”
"Small Town Sleuth" had some Deep Sea Diver vibes going on.
I love Mono, Fun fact... I'm working in a live venue in luxembourg as sound engineer, they were here 10 years ago, we needed a good
gong sound for several purposes. They got one, we recorded it, and it's still today the same sound we use to make people to enter in the venue ;-)
I love watching Josh. However he is starting to show signs he is sick of our shit and may stab Nick by years end.
Oh yeah and great reverbs
Yo stop with the spoilers of season 23... You people already ruined the reveal that Addison was replaced by pedal bot 5000 on season 17! Honestly this attitude is ruining the show for me
Jams on this on were great. You get a gold star sticker.
As a church player, I was issued a BigSky. Kind of required and it works for me.
Well... I was saving up for a bluesky but looks like I’ll need to double down on my savings. Anyone else been personally victimized by Josh’s market influence? Haha
Watching from in front, listening from behind :)
Mixes sound great and the perspective shift keeps giving me ear candy