I remember when the ehx holy grail was the only real option I could buy locally for a reverb pedal when I was first trying to find a reverb pedal. Amazing how far we’ve come since then.
I spent years buying chorus, flanger, phaser and a ton of other pedals when the whole time all I needed was a Strymon Flint. I'll never get rid of that thing. Love Reverb!!!
They're great. I notice you see them on so many pro pedal boards. Maybe more so that the Big Sky. It's not just the Flint pedal, thought it's a great one. It's combination of a great reverb, and a tremelo. It's why people love the Fender Deluxe Reverb. It's reverb and 'vibrato' circuit are maybe the best thing about that amp. Mercury X is my favourite pedal these days. Would love if UA woulda add tremelo algorithm to the Del-Verb, that can be switched in instead of a delay, with some kind of magic foot tap/button press sequence. Because it's my favourit Spring algorithm, and the plate is great too.
Similarly it was amps, overdrives and fuzzes for me but then I had a realisation that it was delay, reverb and then the pedals like Keeley’s 30ms that truly make a difference in bridging the gap between amp in the room versus recorded sounds. Pedals that are akin to studio pixie dust
@@ribbonsofeuphoria5744It depends on the guitar, but for spikey single coil guitars, especially Telecasters, I find an always-on compressor pretty essential too.
Plus it has the 80s verb. For spring I’ll always prefer a real fender but the variety of tremelo plus the 80s verb and a solid digital spring it hard to replace
I'm a serious reverb and delay junky. That Poly Verb is the most exciting reverb thing I've seen in a long while. I'll end up getting one. Thanks guys, for breaking down the creation of algorithms into that pedal. The idea of that capability is quite limitless in the sounds you can invent or capture. My imagination runs on stuff like that.
Same here. There s just something so great about the Polverbs. The quality and depth of the revrerbs just seem to be on another level than even other great reverbs. I like em all but, there is something almost magically opulent about may of the patches on the Polyverb. I'm actually thinking about sellling one of my vintage Lexicons to get one.
@@philipdonovan5127 I finally got around to ordering the Poly Verbs, it's on the way now. But now I should sell one of my other pedals, the Avalanche Run is the likely candidate.
Holy moly! This is my favorite TPS "pedal" episode in a lonnnnnnng(woof) time. Such beautiful sounds, and so much comedy. This is really what sets you guys apart - the joy of discovery and sharing with 386K of us. I can't say enough about how wonderful and fun this was. Also, I have gear lust again. Oh, botherrrrrrrrrrrrrrr(honk)
I love Mick and his playing, let it be said. When a TPS video starts with Dan playing, I am immediately happy like Christmas morning, and my tail starts wagging. Profound gratitude for this moment of pure joy!!!
I watched this and was moved to buy some merch.....it turned up 2 days later - it was an amazing unboxing experience ...it was like getting a new iPhone - whoever packs your merch deserve a raise!! I want to buy more just to unbox it! and I love the pedals on here reverb is my favourite!
Seeing Mick doing all that new fangled computery jazz like a pro does my DSP (I mean heart) good. I can’t wait to see a Jet Revelation reverb on this show. Super powerful, small package. Love the poly verb.
Love the Crimson at the top 😅!!! Seductive. Massive presence and character without getting in the way. The most organic way to turn the guitar into a synth like sound.
This has to be one of the best TPS episodes, ever! I love your IRs, Mick! Laughed myself to tears more than once! Also, the ideo to use the guitar body as a room is genius. Would be interesting to tune that guitar to an open chord, use that as the key center of a song and see how the reverb fits into the song.
Mick -- I love how hard you nerd on this stuff, and that you show the real-life, take 1, take 2, take 3, take 49 reality that sometimes happens as you try to figure all this stuff out. Oh the number of times you think you have it sorted, and then... it still doesn't work. I appreciate your efforts. Informative and entertaining. Keep up the great work.
I owned a BigSky for 9 years and recently upgraded to the MercuryX. It’s a totally different level. MercuryX is so inspiring and magical. Could not recommend it enough. Well worth the steep price
I was already sold on the Verbs and planning on getting one, but your segment on how easy and fun it is to capture and import custom IRs really seals the deal. Capturing some real spaces I have access to would be cool. But even more interesting is the idea of capturing favorite reverb settings from my favorite reverb pedals and plugins and just having them all on the Verbs. My favorite reverb pedal ever is the stereo Wet from Neunaber. My thought was to get the Verbs and have them both on the board. But I really only have 2 or 3 settings that I always use on the Wet, so maybe I could just load those into the Verbs and free up a spot on my board at the same time. A very intriguing idea; and something I’ll have to think about for sure. Plus there’s a couple of reverb plugins that I love, it would be cool to have some of those sounds on a pedal. The advancements in guitar technology in the past couple of years have been so cool and inspiring, especially with capture technology and Dsp. One of these days it would be really cool to have a pedal that would just load any plugin or vst onto it and take it on the go. Just imagine how powerful that would be. If I could load my favorite compressor plugin and setting into a pedal on my board that would be wild
I really appreciate you two including that Oceans pedal. I've been looking for a bit of justification for my reverb choices... I bought my Oceans 11 years ago (for the shimmer) as an addition to the spring reverb in my amp. I've since bought a Neunaber Wet, and a Slotva, and the oceans box always comes back to the board. EHX managed to cram a really natural sound into a very affordable device. Thanks for absolving my guilt!
Ditto on the Oceans 11. I love the spring setting, the pre-delay feature is a godsend and it's even got a pretty usable tremolo. A real swiss army knife pedal for not too many £££s.
My favorite natural reverb I have stubbled across was the "high end" acoustic room of the Guitar Center at the South Center Mall in Tukwila, Washington, because every time you hit G, A, D, or E the 30 instruments on the wall would all resonate along with you and ring out in a kind of "swell" reverb. It was amazing.
Have to say, been watching TPS since beginning and Dans playing has improved immensely over that time. Touch, feel, licks fretboard knowledge. Really good, well done mate.
Thanks guys, this week I joined ye in wet/dry/wet heaven. Got a Marshall Studio ST20 to use as dry amp. To pair with VOX AC L/R wet amps, that I used in stereo before. Love my Mercury X. But I still love my Del-Verb too. It has my favourite stereo spring algorithm. It's hall and plate is great too. So I've switched the Mercury X over the sends of my mixer to use with my synthesizers (Prophet, Moog, Peak, GR-1, Digitone), instead of the guitar. Because Del-verb mostly did a great job for guitar. And I can use Mercury X with more sources, and in mixing, if it's on the mixer stereo sends/returns. It's almost too powerful to dedicate to just one source - it's my main studio reverb now. Yip, Mick just said same about his CXM, that computes. And yeah, like Eventide ... but better in some ways, and cheaper.
Just purchased a Poly Verbs. The sounds, simplicity and UI meaning you can see the details behind any preset sold it to me. Can't wait to start using reverb as a conscious effect instead of just a slight tone sweetener. I think pairing it with my thermae is going to be a super creative experience
Such a cool field trip to the shitstore and murder barn. Thank you taking the time and effort to do that. I hope it was enjoyable. And to anyone involved in the making of this who would otherwise simply prefer to twiddle knobs for a wysiwyg experience, your sacrifice is appreciated. ;-)
Lovely, gentlemen! I need my first reverb and struck out with what I learned was a "Belton Brick" style that had character to spare but too much irreducible pre-delay. So now I've been vacillating or maybe oscillating wildly between "sounds, features" and "sounds, UI" on the "you can have two but have to compromise somewhat on the third" decision axis. "Just get something simple and stompable, you're playing for yourself at home" logic says Fender Marine Layer (basic), UA Golden Reverberator (gorgeous basic), or Neunaber Immerse Mk II (broad). "Buy the future, you'll never need another pedal again, plus it has a tuner!" has found me standing on the verge of getting it on with a display screen, which I thought I would never do, for the Meris Mercury X. Only I can answer the question about what I need - but your videos have helped!
Awesome sounds .. an ep full of film & tv scores ! Plus the epic 📯 I messaged Loki a while ago took him a few days to get back to me as being the person he is he was off exploring somewhere extremely remote & dangerous… the man is a genius !!!
Great episode Lads. There’s no question… each of these digital reverbs have their own sound. I have the Strymon Trifecta and love all three. The only thing I’d do differently is possibly go with the Boss MD-500 as I think the Boss modulation sounds are bit closer to an analogue vibe. On my small practice/fly board I have some drives connected to a Quartermaster going into a Line 6 HX Effects and while this setup works, I find when I play through it I miss the sound of my big Schmidt Array G3 based board. There’s no question that this is a golden age of effects and there’s an option for everyone.
Absolutely great episode gents! Love the Two Rock lead channel!!! But, I have to give you props for loading the Fifty Fifty into the matching rack cab! I’ve always paired mine with a Mesa Studio Preamp, but using it for W/D/W is a killer setup!
This was the BEST!!! Totally raising my hand to be amongst the ones "desperate to hear it". Reminded me of growing up on the farm and experimenting with all manner of blowing things up, welding them together, creating canon. How incredibly cool was the Poly Verbs journey! Long may the Shit Store ride!! Dan totally adapted his playing to the Murder Barn. I can definitely see going back to the Shit Store and recording Mark II. Ever drop stones down a deep well? Ours was pumping at 1,200 feet... Amazing episode.
This was very interesting guys and I have to say Mick that "Murder Barn" is the absolute coolest name for a Reverb EVER!!!!!! Thank you Mick and Dan for going down these rabbit holes for us!!! Have a great weekend!!!
With the Boss 200 series, you can enter the configuration mode and increase the number of available presets via the front face button. By default it is set to 4+manual but you can increase that. The DD-200 I have I keep at 8+man available via the memory footswitch
Brilliant show! Very, very impressive batch of 'verbs. I really don't need massive programibility, but it's really cool to see that effects are still evolving in terms of both the creative and interface capacity. I fell in love with the sound of the Mercury 7 when I heard you guys demo it, also OBNE's Black Fountain some years ago. Sometimes a thing just grabs your attention. I'm still working on making use of those noises, that's a journey that will last years, so money very well spent. Don't underestimate the influence you have on your viewers! 😁
I don’t see Ventris make the big time shows too often. Mick’s comment about needs (features) says it all. For most rock/blues. It seems like the Flint (not even the blue sky) covers the bases. I also agree with his comment that reverb is spaces.
Thank you so much for all the work put in this. The most unique feature of any pedal was shown for the first time in this episode, and that’s when the Poly became an archive of stories. Imagine when you’re on a stage and you recall the preset of your private kitchen or a murder barn or the room of your child. It will affect your brain and your playing I guess. Also, collector of reverbs seems such an Alan Lomax experience. Anyways, thanks again. I loved watching this.
I have the Eventide H90. It took me a month to dial in a Reverb I really liked. The I got the Merris Mercury X. That took me a day to do the same. Now the H90 is free to do everything else I got it for.
Thanks for another amazing show, gentlemen! Lots of good tones from all of those pedals, but that Meris is arrestingly good. Amazing fidelity and width.
Just got to the RV200 part. I have the OD200 and I'll vouch for the good mix of "top panel" utility and under the hood flexibility. Nice to see this range of pedal getting some love.
I love Verb. My collection has a lot of the industry selections. Cloud, Realizer, Tre-Verb, Spash, HOF, Topanga, even made a couple. But the one that truly surprised me was the Mooer R-7 imho best budget reverb on the market.
Mick, you have out done yourself with the homework on this vid. Brilliant! Capturing the IRs was fascinating. I thought the Kitchen IR (balloon trigger) was particularly good. The reverb of your handclap at the shitstore was crazy! Nice work. Of course, Dan’s ambient deep dives are always great to hear. And Rosie…what a pooch!
i think it is maybe the 3rd time i’ve watched this one _ definitely, of my favourites . The Boss is brilliant ( they all are ), and it probably will be the one i get 1st , but the one that won my heart is the Poly verb. Those IRs are geeky..but damn fun, man. thank you for this, yet again, guys kudos from Portugal
I recently spent 3hrs in a rehearsal studio programming my Neunaber Illumine through the Boss ES8 and there is no way I ever, in a million years, would have gone close to that territory without you guys. Sorry I'm not using GigRig but I will soon invest in the Three2One. You're legends and we love you.
Thanks for this one. I saw the title pop up & got excited hoping that I might see a demo of the Catalinbread Sinkhole. This was a great episode even though I didn't get to see your take on it. Perhaps, you could feature it down the road? Anyway Cheers Gents, Happy Friday
Wonderful comparisons and features/sound/useability/price comparisons. Loki's pedal stole the show though, thanks in no small part to that vt segment. I have a Beebo which can also import irs..can you please make yours available.
Well a bit of a different topic guys but i was watching a pedal pawn Texan twang video when I hit on an idea. I generally use a couple of drive pedals into a clean amp a ds1 and boost it with a tube screamer or a blues driver. The Texan twang to me seems like a kind of treble boost. having used and loved the boss pedals for years I know the tone control can be really sharp past 9 o'clock on the blues driver. So I thought I try to use the blues drive as a kind of treble boost into the Ds1, I put the level past half way the tone nearly all the way round to three o'clock and a bit of drive about 9 o'clock, well massive smile on face it sure does give you this massive clean driven tone aka Stevie Ray. Job done guys worth a try.
@1:01:58 you've got a Dalek! How cool. Have always wanted one of those, regular fixture in the 1970s UK library. Of course that's almost certainly not what most people call them, their loss 😁
It really doesn’t matter if my reverb pedal has a tone control Mick I absolutely cannot “be really bright or really not bright”… I’m afraid I only have one “brightness” setting! 🤔😖😜 As much as I still pay attention to your Tubescreamery or Klony types of content this video was about stuff much more in my wheelhouse and I really enjoyed it… thank you very much! 👍🏻
I bought myself a Strymon UltraViolet for Christmas. It stopped working correctly, used it about 12 times. Strymon have been assisting to be fair. It's now going back to to the retailer, who are sending on to a UK Official repair centre. I'll let you know how it goes. But thus far, fair play, all concerned offered to help immediately. That can only be a good thing.
The EHX Holy Grail was my first reverb pedal, which I happily traded for a Thorpy Muffroom cloud. That little one is great though, with that pre-delay knob! I always prefer a longer one, so your initial note is clearer. Boss did a great Fender spring pedal that is discontinued, but I expect you can get that sound in the REV 200. The Poly is amazing.
Pretty cool, but I’ve been using the sadly discontinued Logidy EPSi convo reverb pedal for like a decade. Glad to see someone else has FINALLY made another convo verb pedal, so when my beloved EPSis die, something is there to replace them! Rolling your own reverbs is fun. Check out Joe Gore’s Tonefiend videos about the EPSi from forever ago. Also, when are we gonna get to hear that Wallace?!?
As I expected…AWESOME episode!! 2 Things: 1) Make those IR’s available for download (for a small fee of course) 2) “Mick’s Kitchen” has gotta be the title of a high tempo instrumental Texas shuffle using the appropriate IR :-) Fabulous work lads! Made my day!!
That's a good discussion. I've never cared for features that much in a pedal. Always preferred pedals that do a single thing very well over pedals that just do a lot of things, because I know i will only be using one sound anyway. I've even build multiple pedals that only have a single knob (which actually is more work, to make it work well).
Absolutely UNREAL episode lads!! Well done indeedy diddly. Would love to see your thoughts on the new OBNE Darklight dual reverb. Much love, Adrian from Mullumbimby Australia ❤
I had my students at my university making impulse responses just recently, you did a tremendous job demonstrating the process! I wish I could have had that bit of this video to show them for reference, haha.
You guys should check out the ALABS Cetus reverb. It's a great reverb for only around $120 (I've heard good things about their others as well, but I haven't tried them). It has 2 really cool unique reverb sounds. One literally adds the sound of ocean waves to the reverb trails and it's so cool! As soon as I heard it, I thought of Mick's reverb IR experiments with unique stuff like his acoustic resonating or dog barking etc. Gives me ideas for other interesting "sound effects" that could be part of a reverb IR.
Totally agree on wishing the Verbs had a high end filter as well. Much more useful IMO than the Smoosh control. Of the 48 onboard programs, I've got only a half dozen I go back to often. Most of the ones in group 6 aren't practical for most people and kind of a bummer. I wish we could load our IRs into that bank as well. The sound of the ones I like are pretty fantastic tho. It's hard getting used to not have a control over dwell time though on some sounds like you like the core bit (again a high cut filter would likely help here, as it seems to help do that on the OBNE Screen Violence I've got). Also wish we had switchable kill try for those of us crazy shoegazers who've loaded Alesis Midiverb II presets in it to channel our inner Kevin Shields. (I've also got some Yamaha EMP ones in there too... am looking for SPX patches too) Also, of note to the curious, you might have heard in the video, there IS a bit of a jump when going from one sound to another. It's not a smooth transition. And yes I want the Murder Barn, Shit Store, and Mick's Kitchen IRs. Dan playing through Murder Barn that first time was one of THE absolute best tones I've heard from him over the many years of the show.
Amazing episode. I am trying to buy a Poly right now thanks to you. Not having much luck. Blown away by those results. Good for you Mick spending the time to do all that IR work. Super impressed. Is it going on the board? Seems like a maybe. :) Cheers and have a great weekend.
Yeah, I used it on a small gig at a guitar show at the weekend. Worked great. But running stereo in my current rig is a giant PItA so if I go back to just wet dry, it’ll have to go (polarity flip).
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"Love is a 'Verb" is one of the best title cards I've seen here in a while.
It's from the lyrics to Teardrop by Massive Attack.
@@Craig1959Mand the song title by DC Talk. And more recently, a song title by John Mayer.
You beat me to it. That’s exactly what I was thinking.
And its on the poly verb website
Yes but for me…Verb is a love :)
My Meris X is on its way home, I can’t wait.
I remember when the ehx holy grail was the only real option I could buy locally for a reverb pedal when I was first trying to find a reverb pedal. Amazing how far we’ve come since then.
People still use the holy grail. It held up
Mick: “I don’t know how to navigate menus on a reverb pedal.”
Also Mick: “Here I made a reverb IR using my dog barking in my kitchen.”
😂🤔
I spent years buying chorus, flanger, phaser and a ton of other pedals when the whole time all I needed was a Strymon Flint. I'll never get rid of that thing. Love Reverb!!!
They're great. I notice you see them on so many pro pedal boards. Maybe more so that the Big Sky. It's not just the Flint pedal, thought it's a great one. It's combination of a great reverb, and a tremelo. It's why people love the Fender Deluxe Reverb. It's reverb and 'vibrato' circuit are maybe the best thing about that amp. Mercury X is my favourite pedal these days. Would love if UA woulda add tremelo algorithm to the Del-Verb, that can be switched in instead of a delay, with some kind of magic foot tap/button press sequence. Because it's my favourit Spring algorithm, and the plate is great too.
I find myself using the Harmonic Trem on the Flint all the time
Similarly it was amps, overdrives and fuzzes for me but then I had a realisation that it was delay, reverb and then the pedals like Keeley’s 30ms that truly make a difference in bridging the gap between amp in the room versus recorded sounds. Pedals that are akin to studio pixie dust
@@ribbonsofeuphoria5744It depends on the guitar, but for spikey single coil guitars, especially Telecasters, I find an always-on compressor pretty essential too.
Plus it has the 80s verb. For spring I’ll always prefer a real fender but the variety of tremelo plus the 80s verb and a solid digital spring it hard to replace
"King" of reverbs at the beginning!! Love it! Frippin' Excellent!
I think Dan must have an upcoming "Court" appearance 😜
What a wonderful time to be a guitar player!!!!!!
I don’t think I’ve seen you chaps smile so much as when playing the Verbs. Top notch fun.
I'm a serious reverb and delay junky. That Poly Verb is the most exciting reverb thing I've seen in a long while. I'll end up getting one. Thanks guys, for breaking down the creation of algorithms into that pedal. The idea of that capability is quite limitless in the sounds you can invent or capture. My imagination runs on stuff like that.
Same here. There s just something so great about the Polverbs. The quality and depth of the revrerbs just seem to be on another level than even other great reverbs. I like em all but, there is something almost magically opulent about may of the patches on the Polyverb. I'm actually thinking about sellling one of my vintage Lexicons to get one.
@@philipdonovan5127 I finally got around to ordering the Poly Verbs, it's on the way now. But now I should sell one of my other pedals, the Avalanche Run is the likely candidate.
Holy moly! This is my favorite TPS "pedal" episode in a lonnnnnnng(woof) time. Such beautiful sounds, and so much comedy. This is really what sets you guys apart - the joy of discovery and sharing with 386K of us. I can't say enough about how wonderful and fun this was. Also, I have gear lust again. Oh, botherrrrrrrrrrrrrrr(honk)
Excellent. A feature length episode!
I love Mick and his playing, let it be said. When a TPS video starts with Dan playing, I am immediately happy like Christmas morning, and my tail starts wagging. Profound gratitude for this moment of pure joy!!!
I watched this and was moved to buy some merch.....it turned up 2 days later - it was an amazing unboxing experience ...it was like getting a new iPhone - whoever packs your merch deserve a raise!! I want to buy more just to unbox it! and I love the pedals on here reverb is my favourite!
Thanks David. That will be either Katherine or Haydn. Thanks for buying merch - it’s what keeps the lights on!
Years and years ago I bought the MXR M300 reverb because of you guys and I still love it.
Seeing Mick doing all that new fangled computery jazz like a pro does my DSP (I mean heart) good. I can’t wait to see a Jet Revelation reverb on this show. Super powerful, small package. Love the poly verb.
Love the Crimson at the top 😅!!! Seductive. Massive presence and character without getting in the way. The most organic way to turn the guitar into a synth like sound.
I love the look on Mick's face when hearing the guitar resonance. Great to have walking thru IR's. Good stuff.
The choral reverb setting is alllllll over my music. It’s amazing. The walrus audio slo is sick too
This has to be one of the best TPS episodes, ever! I love your IRs, Mick! Laughed myself to tears more than once! Also, the ideo to use the guitar body as a room is genius. Would be interesting to tune that guitar to an open chord, use that as the key center of a song and see how the reverb fits into the song.
Thank you TPS for everything you do. You've guys have been a saving grace and have helped me so much in my life.
This is great. I appreciate the effort that went into capturing the IRs. Great filming and science.
Science! Gahahaha!
Mick -- I love how hard you nerd on this stuff, and that you show the real-life, take 1, take 2, take 3, take 49 reality that sometimes happens as you try to figure all this stuff out. Oh the number of times you think you have it sorted, and then... it still doesn't work. I appreciate your efforts. Informative and entertaining. Keep up the great work.
❤. I’ve had my Reverb situation. Sorted for quite some time with my MXR m300. It does everything I need. I just love listening to the boys play.
I owned a BigSky for 9 years and recently upgraded to the MercuryX. It’s a totally different level. MercuryX is so inspiring and magical. Could not recommend it enough. Well worth the steep price
Do you use analog dry through? How do you deal with lack of spillover if you do?
@@joshfirlotte I don’t use analog dry through. There is no relevant difference
@joshfirlotte is there no spill over on the new one?
@@boabglen only in digital dry through. If you want analog dry through there isn’t
I was already sold on the Verbs and planning on getting one, but your segment on how easy and fun it is to capture and import custom IRs really seals the deal. Capturing some real spaces I have access to would be cool. But even more interesting is the idea of capturing favorite reverb settings from my favorite reverb pedals and plugins and just having them all on the Verbs.
My favorite reverb pedal ever is the stereo Wet from Neunaber. My thought was to get the Verbs and have them both on the board. But I really only have 2 or 3 settings that I always use on the Wet, so maybe I could just load those into the Verbs and free up a spot on my board at the same time. A very intriguing idea; and something I’ll have to think about for sure. Plus there’s a couple of reverb plugins that I love, it would be cool to have some of those sounds on a pedal.
The advancements in guitar technology in the past couple of years have been so cool and inspiring, especially with capture technology and Dsp. One of these days it would be really cool to have a pedal that would just load any plugin or vst onto it and take it on the go. Just imagine how powerful that would be. If I could load my favorite compressor plugin and setting into a pedal on my board that would be wild
I really appreciate you two including that Oceans pedal. I've been looking for a bit of justification for my reverb choices... I bought my Oceans 11 years ago (for the shimmer) as an addition to the spring reverb in my amp. I've since bought a Neunaber Wet, and a Slotva, and the oceans box always comes back to the board. EHX managed to cram a really natural sound into a very affordable device. Thanks for absolving my guilt!
Ditto on the Oceans 11. I love the spring setting, the pre-delay feature is a godsend and it's even got a pretty usable tremolo. A real swiss army knife pedal for not too many £££s.
Just picked one up used a couple of days ago and it's really great, especially for the money. Very usable sounds, even the reverse is very good.
My favorite natural reverb I have stubbled across was the "high end" acoustic room of the Guitar Center at the South Center Mall in Tukwila, Washington, because every time you hit G, A, D, or E the 30 instruments on the wall would all resonate along with you and ring out in a kind of "swell" reverb. It was amazing.
Almost an hour and a half, and I came out the other end .. a genius of “verbs”! … that was a hell of a demo, thank you!
This is the most fun episode that you guys have done in a long time. Thank you for taking the time to do this for us.
Have to say, been watching TPS since beginning and Dans playing has improved immensely over that time. Touch, feel, licks fretboard knowledge. Really good, well done mate.
Thanks for starting the video with what can only be termed some of the greatest recorded guitar music of all time.
Thanks guys, this week I joined ye in wet/dry/wet heaven. Got a Marshall Studio ST20 to use as dry amp. To pair with VOX AC L/R wet amps, that I used in stereo before. Love my Mercury X. But I still love my Del-Verb too. It has my favourite stereo spring algorithm. It's hall and plate is great too. So I've switched the Mercury X over the sends of my mixer to use with my synthesizers (Prophet, Moog, Peak, GR-1, Digitone), instead of the guitar. Because Del-verb mostly did a great job for guitar. And I can use Mercury X with more sources, and in mixing, if it's on the mixer stereo sends/returns. It's almost too powerful to dedicate to just one source - it's my main studio reverb now. Yip, Mick just said same about his CXM, that computes. And yeah, like Eventide ... but better in some ways, and cheaper.
Mick creating IRs was so much fun to watch. You guys are the best!
Just purchased a Poly Verbs. The sounds, simplicity and UI meaning you can see the details behind any preset sold it to me. Can't wait to start using reverb as a conscious effect instead of just a slight tone sweetener. I think pairing it with my thermae is going to be a super creative experience
Such a cool field trip to the shitstore and murder barn. Thank you taking the time and effort to do that. I hope it was enjoyable.
And to anyone involved in the making of this who would otherwise simply prefer to twiddle knobs for a wysiwyg experience, your sacrifice is appreciated. ;-)
Hey now!!! I detect a bit of Court of the Crimson King emanating from Old Red during the RV200 round. Thank You for that Mr. Dan!!
Lovely, gentlemen! I need my first reverb and struck out with what I learned was a "Belton Brick" style that had character to spare but too much irreducible pre-delay. So now I've been vacillating or maybe oscillating wildly between "sounds, features" and "sounds, UI" on the "you can have two but have to compromise somewhat on the third" decision axis. "Just get something simple and stompable, you're playing for yourself at home" logic says Fender Marine Layer (basic), UA Golden Reverberator (gorgeous basic), or Neunaber Immerse Mk II (broad). "Buy the future, you'll never need another pedal again, plus it has a tuner!" has found me standing on the verge of getting it on with a display screen, which I thought I would never do, for the Meris Mercury X. Only I can answer the question about what I need - but your videos have helped!
Fantastic reviews!
I dont know why the night sky doesn’t get more love, to me just the wet mix and dry mix knobs make it one of the easiest reverbs to dial in
Awesome sounds .. an ep full of film & tv scores ! Plus the epic 📯 I messaged Loki a while ago took him a few days to get back to me as being the person he is he was off exploring somewhere extremely remote & dangerous… the man is a genius !!!
This was an awesome video before the IR experiments started, and then phenomenal from then on! Thank you team!
Nanu Nanu fellow Orkan! Been a pleasure listening to your wonderful spacious creation today! ❤️
Absolutely loved the section with Mick making the IRs - great show as always!
Great episode Lads. There’s no question… each of these digital reverbs have their own sound. I have the Strymon Trifecta and love all three. The only thing I’d do differently is possibly go with the Boss MD-500 as I think the Boss modulation sounds are bit closer to an analogue vibe. On my small practice/fly board I have some drives connected to a Quartermaster going into a Line 6 HX Effects and while this setup works, I find when I play through it I miss the sound of my big Schmidt Array G3 based board. There’s no question that this is a golden age of effects and there’s an option for everyone.
Lovely “double” episode!! ❤
Absolutely great episode gents!
Love the Two Rock lead channel!!!
But, I have to give you props for loading the Fifty Fifty into the matching rack cab!
I’ve always paired mine with a Mesa Studio Preamp, but using it for W/D/W is a killer setup!
This was the BEST!!! Totally raising my hand to be amongst the ones "desperate to hear it". Reminded me of growing up on the farm and experimenting with all manner of blowing things up, welding them together, creating canon. How incredibly cool was the Poly Verbs journey! Long may the Shit Store ride!! Dan totally adapted his playing to the Murder Barn. I can definitely see going back to the Shit Store and recording Mark II. Ever drop stones down a deep well? Ours was pumping at 1,200 feet... Amazing episode.
Lovely stuff as ever gents and lady.
Great to see Mick’s presenting skills in different environments to boot.
This was very interesting guys and I have to say Mick that "Murder Barn" is the absolute coolest name for a Reverb EVER!!!!!! Thank you Mick and Dan for going down these rabbit holes for us!!! Have a great weekend!!!
Loving the show as always, love Dan’s shirt. I work at NASA, is there any chance that there’s gonna be a hoodie in that tone verse logo ?
With the Boss 200 series, you can enter the configuration mode and increase the number of available presets via the front face button. By default it is set to 4+manual but you can increase that. The DD-200 I have I keep at 8+man available via the memory footswitch
Brilliant show! Very, very impressive batch of 'verbs.
I really don't need massive programibility, but it's really cool to see that effects are still evolving in terms of both the creative and interface capacity.
I fell in love with the sound of the Mercury 7 when I heard you guys demo it, also OBNE's Black Fountain some years ago.
Sometimes a thing just grabs your attention.
I'm still working on making use of those noises, that's a journey that will last years, so money very well spent.
Don't underestimate the influence you have on your viewers! 😁
Loved how much fun you were having with the Poly! Wonderfully inspiring as always!
Outstanding presentation, guys! You kept me riveted start to finish.
I don’t see Ventris make the big time shows too often.
Mick’s comment about needs (features) says it all. For most rock/blues. It seems like the Flint (not even the blue sky) covers the bases. I also agree with his comment that reverb is spaces.
Thank you so much for all the work put in this. The most unique feature of any pedal was shown for the first time in this episode, and that’s when the Poly became an archive of stories. Imagine when you’re on a stage and you recall the preset of your private kitchen or a murder barn or the room of your child. It will affect your brain and your playing I guess. Also, collector of reverbs seems such an Alan Lomax experience. Anyways, thanks again. I loved watching this.
That Pedal Dog immortalized in a reverb algorithm? Brilliant!!! Love you guys 😂
I have the Eventide H90. It took me a month to dial in a Reverb I really liked. The I got the Merris Mercury X. That took me a day to do the same. Now the H90 is free to do everything else I got it for.
Thanks for another amazing show, gentlemen! Lots of good tones from all of those pedals, but that Meris is arrestingly good. Amazing fidelity and width.
Amazing playing today Dan!
Ah, cheers mate 🙏
Just got to the RV200 part. I have the OD200 and I'll vouch for the good mix of "top panel" utility and under the hood flexibility. Nice to see this range of pedal getting some love.
I love Verb. My collection has a lot of the industry selections. Cloud, Realizer, Tre-Verb, Spash, HOF, Topanga, even made a couple. But the one that truly surprised me was the Mooer R-7 imho best budget reverb on the market.
This demands rewatching. Well done gents! I was very surprised at how good the sound was from the 'murder barn' lol.
Mick, you have out done yourself with the homework on this vid. Brilliant! Capturing the IRs was fascinating. I thought the Kitchen IR (balloon trigger) was particularly good. The reverb of your handclap at the shitstore was crazy! Nice work. Of course, Dan’s ambient deep dives are always great to hear. And Rosie…what a pooch!
Thank you Zoot! The Poly totally captured my brain!
@@ThatPedalShow And that's what it's all about, right!?
The Big Sky sounds even more spectacular than the first time I heard it many years ago.
i think it is maybe the 3rd time i’ve watched this one _ definitely, of my favourites .
The Boss is brilliant ( they all are ), and it probably will be the one i get 1st , but the one that won my heart is the Poly verb.
Those IRs are geeky..but damn fun, man.
thank you for this, yet again, guys
kudos from Portugal
I recently spent 3hrs in a rehearsal studio programming my Neunaber Illumine through the Boss ES8 and there is no way I ever, in a million years, would have gone close to that territory without you guys. Sorry I'm not using GigRig but I will soon invest in the Three2One. You're legends and we love you.
Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Fearless on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me makes me lighter
Fearless on my breath
Massive Attack??
I love my reverb I've got but a friend made it me during covid and I'm quite sentimental towards it and don't want it to ever die
I have a Mercury X and it is awesome... just scrolling the presets with a stereo rig is an amazing experience...
Just ordered one! I’m nervous and excited to try this expensive toy
Enjoy the new Meris preset editor too
You will love it! @@Truevitz
@@erniesfo2022There is no editor on the Mercury X yet..That's the LVX delay..
Thanks for this one. I saw the title pop up & got excited hoping that I might see a demo of the Catalinbread Sinkhole. This was a great episode even though I didn't get to see your take on it. Perhaps, you could feature it down the road? Anyway Cheers Gents, Happy Friday
Wonderful comparisons and features/sound/useability/price comparisons. Loki's pedal stole the show though, thanks in no small part to that vt segment. I have a Beebo which can also import irs..can you please make yours available.
Well a bit of a different topic guys but i was watching a pedal pawn Texan twang video when I hit on an idea. I generally use a couple of drive pedals into a clean amp a ds1 and boost it with a tube screamer or a blues driver. The Texan twang to me seems like a kind of treble boost. having used and loved the boss pedals for years I know the tone control can be really sharp past 9 o'clock on the blues driver. So I thought I try to use the blues drive as a kind of treble boost into the Ds1, I put the level past half way the tone nearly all the way round to three o'clock and a bit of drive about 9 o'clock, well massive smile on face it sure does give you this massive clean driven tone aka Stevie Ray. Job done guys worth a try.
@1:01:58 you've got a Dalek! How cool. Have always wanted one of those, regular fixture in the 1970s UK library. Of course that's almost certainly not what most people call them, their loss 😁
Yes...30 sec's in and I see a Poly 🙂. Any chance we can grab those IR's? Great Work, once again!!
Fripping heck into Jam sounded lovely.
It really doesn’t matter if my reverb pedal has a tone control Mick I absolutely cannot “be really bright or really not bright”… I’m afraid I only have one “brightness” setting! 🤔😖😜
As much as I still pay attention to your Tubescreamery or Klony types of content this video was about stuff much more in my wheelhouse and I really enjoyed it… thank you very much! 👍🏻
when i first picked up guitar i hid behind reverb. lately I’ve been hiding behind tape style delay, but this makes me want to verb it up again!
The dog bark reverb got me. 🐕🤣
Make sure you keep that forever. What a sound.
The balloon stuff was fun!
And I've always wanted reverb on the horn.
I bought myself a Strymon UltraViolet for Christmas. It stopped working correctly, used it about 12 times. Strymon have been assisting to be fair. It's now going back to to the retailer, who are sending on to a UK Official repair centre. I'll let you know how it goes. But thus far, fair play, all concerned offered to help immediately. That can only be a good thing.
Lately I have thing for stereo reverbs (unlike stereo delay), so Im looking forward to enjoy this episode.
It's insane to thinking about the first reverb show has grown to the IR capture! So cool!
The EHX Holy Grail was my first reverb pedal, which I happily traded for a Thorpy Muffroom cloud. That little one is great though, with that pre-delay knob! I always prefer a longer one, so your initial note is clearer. Boss did a great Fender spring pedal that is discontinued, but I expect you can get that sound in the REV 200. The Poly is amazing.
Pretty cool, but I’ve been using the sadly discontinued Logidy EPSi convo reverb pedal for like a decade. Glad to see someone else has FINALLY made another convo verb pedal, so when my beloved EPSis die, something is there to replace them! Rolling your own reverbs is fun. Check out Joe Gore’s Tonefiend videos about the EPSi from forever ago.
Also, when are we gonna get to hear that Wallace?!?
Mix sounds great. Makes sense to have the more detailed WGS12L's on the outside for a wider spread.
I love my Big Sky for shows, and the Mercury X is going to be awesome for the new studio rig that will be built soon!
Thanks guys. Great stuff. Isn't funny how we associate delays and reverbs with outer space when sound does not travel in the vacuum of outer space?
THIS! Awesome.
Great video, love the poly IR stuff 😎👍
As I expected…AWESOME episode!!
2 Things:
1) Make those IR’s available for download (for a small fee of course)
2) “Mick’s Kitchen” has gotta be the title of a high tempo instrumental Texas shuffle using the appropriate IR :-)
Fabulous work lads! Made my day!!
Hahaha! I’ll see if I can upload the IRs to Loki’s site maybe. Free of course!
Was that "Many of Horror" I heard? Great to see Simon in the latest Fender vid
That's a good discussion. I've never cared for features that much in a pedal. Always preferred pedals that do a single thing very well over pedals that just do a lot of things, because I know i will only be using one sound anyway. I've even build multiple pedals that only have a single knob (which actually is more work, to make it work well).
Absolutely UNREAL episode lads!! Well done indeedy diddly.
Would love to see your thoughts on the new OBNE Darklight dual reverb.
Much love, Adrian from Mullumbimby Australia ❤
I had my students at my university making impulse responses just recently, you did a tremendous job demonstrating the process! I wish I could have had that bit of this video to show them for reference, haha.
You guys should check out the ALABS Cetus reverb. It's a great reverb for only around $120 (I've heard good things about their others as well, but I haven't tried them). It has 2 really cool unique reverb sounds. One literally adds the sound of ocean waves to the reverb trails and it's so cool! As soon as I heard it, I thought of Mick's reverb IR experiments with unique stuff like his acoustic resonating or dog barking etc. Gives me ideas for other interesting "sound effects" that could be part of a reverb IR.
Bloody good chatting with Mick at the weekend, and cracking show upstairs chaps.
Cheers Phil!
Totally agree on wishing the Verbs had a high end filter as well. Much more useful IMO than the Smoosh control.
Of the 48 onboard programs, I've got only a half dozen I go back to often. Most of the ones in group 6 aren't practical for most people and kind of a bummer. I wish we could load our IRs into that bank as well.
The sound of the ones I like are pretty fantastic tho. It's hard getting used to not have a control over dwell time though on some sounds like you like the core bit (again a high cut filter would likely help here, as it seems to help do that on the OBNE Screen Violence I've got).
Also wish we had switchable kill try for those of us crazy shoegazers who've loaded Alesis Midiverb II presets in it to channel our inner Kevin Shields. (I've also got some Yamaha EMP ones in there too... am looking for SPX patches too)
Also, of note to the curious, you might have heard in the video, there IS a bit of a jump when going from one sound to another. It's not a smooth transition.
And yes I want the Murder Barn, Shit Store, and Mick's Kitchen IRs.
Dan playing through Murder Barn that first time was one of THE absolute best tones I've heard from him over the many years of the show.
That Poly thing is awesome and i really enjoyed the field trip!
Mick, I loved seeing your outing on this episode-really cool.
Thanks Daren. That’s my daily dog walk!
Amazing episode. I am trying to buy a Poly right now thanks to you. Not having much luck. Blown away by those results. Good for you Mick spending the time to do all that IR work. Super impressed. Is it going on the board? Seems like a maybe. :) Cheers and have a great weekend.
Yeah, I used it on a small gig at a guitar show at the weekend. Worked great. But running stereo in my current rig is a giant PItA so if I go back to just wet dry, it’ll have to go (polarity flip).
Just playing around and being curious. I love it! 😃