Awesome Reverb Pedals For Guitar [Meris Mercury X, Poly Verbs, Boss RV-200 & EHX Oceans 3-Verb]
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- The ’verbs just keep getting better and better - so what’s new?
Welcome to the show. Today we’re looking at a handful of highly capable reverb units that go far, far beyond the sounds and textures of a simple spring.
Indeed it wasn’t that long ago when it would be pretty unusual to see a reverb pedal at a guitar player’s feet. Today they’re relatively commonplace, but if you need a bit of guidance and inspiration on how to get in the verb game, this show is for you!
Yes, we spend a disproportionate amount of time on the Poly Verbs. More on the Mercury X would have been good. Maybe when Dan has had chance to explore it more we could follow up.
Enjoy the episode!
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Pedals & Stuff used in this show
• TheGigRig Three2One
www.thegigrig.com/three2one
• Sonic Research Turbo Tuner 200
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• Vahlbruch Kaluna
www.vahlbruch-fx.com/en/
• Electro Harmonic PICO Oceans 3 Verb
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• Strymon Big Sky
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• Meris Mercury X
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• Boss RV-200
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• Poly Effects Verbs
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• TheGigRig G3S
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Interesting bits and go-to sections
0:00 Intro playing
2:07 Why are we doing this today?
2:53 From the BigSky to today’s pedals
6:10 Strymon BigSky for context
9:53 Way beyond spring reverb
13:22 EHX Oceans 3-Verb
16:00 Things to love about 3-Verb
20:50 Boss RV-200 intro
23:15 RV-200 sounds
30:20 RV-200 simple preset UI
32:30 Meris Mercury X intro
33:35 Mercury X sounds
37:03 Mercury X UI and more sounds
48:38 The fight: features vs sound vs UI
51:30 Poly Verbs intro
53:20 Longest reverb in the world?
55:30 More Poly sounds
58:35 Mick captures impulse responses!
1:08:30 Mick’s IRs - did they work?
1:13:12 Better way to capture an IR?
1:14:00 Name Drop Horn IR?
1:23:45 Our choices & closing thoughts
Guitars in today’s show
• Fender Custom Shop ’63 Telecaster - Dan’s video here: • That Pedal Show - Our ...
1965 Gibson ES-345 - Mick’s video here: • The Gibson ES-345 [In ...
Amps in today’s show
• Two Rock TS1 50-watt 112 combo with TR1265 speaker
• Mesa Boogie 50/50 Stereo Power Amp with 2 x Zilla Custom 1x12 cabs with Celestion WGS12L speakers
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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.
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 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
Woohoo - King Crimson on the intro :)
and on the Boss!
On Red.
@@StevenHadfield *Crimson
With a Crimson colored guitar! Loved it.
I thought that was Blind House by Porcupine Tree. I'll have to check out this King Crimson you speak of 😂🤣
The Big Sky sounds even more spectacular than the first time I heard it many years ago.
"King" of reverbs at the beginning!! Love it! Frippin' Excellent!
I think Dan must have an upcoming "Court" appearance 😜
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.
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
What a wonderful time to be a guitar player!!!!!!
This was absolutely fascinating. Thanks gents!
Massively nerdy show !! Thanks guys !!
Lovely “double” episode!! ❤
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.
Loved how much fun you were having with the Poly! Wonderfully inspiring as always!
Excellent. A feature length episode!
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
The choral reverb setting is alllllll over my music. It’s amazing. The walrus audio slo is sick too
Absolutely loved the section with Mick making the IRs - great show as always!
Fripping heck into Jam sounded lovely.
That Poly thing is awesome and i really enjoyed the field trip!
I don’t think I’ve seen you chaps smile so much as when playing the Verbs. Top notch fun.
Outstanding presentation, guys! You kept me riveted start to finish.
Lovely stuff as ever gents and lady.
Great to see Mick’s presenting skills in different environments to boot.
This was an awesome video before the IR experiments started, and then phenomenal from then on! Thank you team!
It's insane to thinking about the first reverb show has grown to the IR capture! So cool!
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.
Mick creating IRs was so much fun to watch. You guys are the best!
Great video, love the poly IR stuff 😎👍
Awesome title ! Well done
The poly stuff was brilliant
Thank you TPS for everything you do. You've guys have been a saving grace and have helped me so much in my life.
Just playing around and being curious. I love it! 😃
Nanu Nanu fellow Orkan! Been a pleasure listening to your wonderful spacious creation today! ❤️
I love the look on Mick's face when hearing the guitar resonance. Great to have walking thru IR's. Good stuff.
That plate reverb on the Poly. Oh my giddy aunt ❤❤❤❤
The balloon stuff was fun!
And I've always wanted reverb on the horn.
That Pedal Dog immortalized in a reverb algorithm? Brilliant!!! Love you guys 😂
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)
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!
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!!
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
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!!!
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. ;-)
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.
Epic! I think toneverse is a multiverse! Love is reverb!
This demands rewatching. Well done gents! I was very surprised at how good the sound was from the 'murder barn' lol.
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??
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.
❤. 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.
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! 😁
Years and years ago I bought the MXR M300 reverb because of you guys and I still love it.
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!!!
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.
Fantastic reviews!
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 !!!
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.
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!
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
That VT is next level. LEGENDS
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 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.
Honestly, I love the horn IR!
Lately I have thing for stereo reverbs (unlike stereo delay), so Im looking forward to enjoy this episode.
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!
That Poly is EPIC
Its been a week hearing dan on rv 200 made me cry
Amazing playing today Dan!
Ah, cheers mate 🙏
Wow I never thought I'd see the day that you could have an entire abandoned cooling tower on your pedalboard. I'm just imagining the boys' faces when I show up to the next practice with an abandoned cooling tower.
got the big sky, it's a keeper, mainstay on my board.
Mix sounds great. Makes sense to have the more detailed WGS12L's on the outside for a wider spread.
The dog bark reverb got me. 🐕🤣
Make sure you keep that forever. What a sound.
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!
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.
Thanks for starting the video with what can only be termed some of the greatest recorded guitar music of all time.
Dan busting out the King Crimson every so often in this....brilliant tune. I should go learn it.
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
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.
That Poly Verbs is amazing - seriously considering my life choices now...
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.
Mick, I loved seeing your outing on this episode-really cool.
Thanks Daren. That’s my daily dog walk!
This is great. I appreciate the effort that went into capturing the IRs. Great filming and science.
Science! Gahahaha!
always great episode when Rosie's in it
(headphones and loud required) The demonic laughter at exactly 16:44 is amazeballs
As long as the sound is going through tubes🤘
I've bounced around a lot of reverb options, from the Old Blood Noise Procession to the EHX Oceans 12, Strymon Big Sky, Walrus Audio Mako R1, but nothing beats the simplicity and amazing options of the RV-200. It just works, presets are easy to build, set, and recall, and it does everything extremely well.
The hiwatt always posted up back there menacingly and glorious to behold 🤤
While watching this I kept thinking I have got to go and rewatch the Andertons show on the Poly Verb. That was a ton of fun.
If the Poly had real sliders and buttons instead of the touch screen controls, that’s the one I would get. But since it doesn’t, I’d go with the Boss reverb.
Bloody good chatting with Mick at the weekend, and cracking show upstairs chaps.
Cheers Phil!
That was just brilliant!
ps
Poly is something else...I might be in love.
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 ❤
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.
Was that "Many of Horror" I heard? Great to see Simon in the latest Fender vid
You had me at "Flashy-assed DSP"
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!
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!?
Lovely. Can't wait until you get 'hold of the new BigSky MX. IRs plus stereo verbs and new algorithms!
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.
Ventris is incredible.
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).
My gosh that Mercury and that Gibson sounded unreal