Can't wait to try recording with this thing, been excited since they teased it at NAM like a year ago. Gamechangers indeed, and this seems like their most ambitious pedal yet!
Thanks for this…I have a large board made up of pedals that make weird noises that I use for experimental/avant-garde music and I think this thing is a perfect fit! I knew I could trust the “King of Spring” to really dig into the oddity. 🏄🎸
@@deliciousaudio In the meteorological world, spring began March 1, the same date it has since the mid-1900s when the seasons were differently defined.
@@deliciousaudio I'm being a little optimistic but actually I'm right kind of. the meteorological seasons were created because traditional seasons varied in length from 89 to 93 days and it was difficult for experts to compare statistics from one year to another.
@@60CycleHumcast There is a Perfect Circuit video of this on a 0-coast, but I wish they'd done some drum machines and pluckier more conventional synth sounds too.
Eh, I don’t care for reverb on synths unless it’s a pad. Synths just don’t need many effects if at all do to how powerful sound design is on your basic analog/subtractive synth. If we need growling Harmonics we will just sync an oscillator to another and route an envelope or lfo to the synced oscillator’s pitch which sweeps a metric F*** ton of increased harmonics. However sync does pair well with either a flanger or phaser for two different growls to cut through the band.
The gamechanger guys are so creative! I don't see why they get called gimmicky so often when they're just pushing the boundaries of old ideas in really creative ways!
Because there are always Luddites in the world. I’m sure people said the same, “gimmick”, for every effect that didn’t exist previously. Lack of imagination runs rampant.
They are creative but not every pedal has been a success because of that. Thats why they get called gimmicky. Excited to see what they do in the future but none of there stuff is for me yet.
Seriously. People complain when they get “another tube screamer or klon” but then when they get something new, they also complain. Pedal nerds are insufferable sometimes.
It's neither gimmick nor innovation it's a form-factor adapted to 9V pedals. The tech has has been around for 80+ years. All the stuff we get is just trickle-down tech that is "more" of the same, but imbued over decades with higher efficiency in mass quantities of scale due to more minds tending to it.
Very good presentation of the light pedal. I have been trying to convince myself that this is not a gas situation. Your enthusiastic wonder was the tipping point that ultimately just won me over. That said, I'm still not sure that I really need this thing, but I am obsessed and intrigued enough to just go for it. I never seen your channel before but good job 🙂 Cheers,
I wonder what he used. I was chatting with someone about Jah Wobble's bass tone earlier this morning, weird. and then I found out Dexter sings in a goth electro-synth band called Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum.
This is one of the sickest and best Reverbs i ever listened to and i own a ton of Reverb pedals... If you fiddle a bit you can get some decent Surf sounds too!
The optical sound is kinda "ringmod" like, and synthy. Not sure I would use it on clean sounds ever, but with this going into wild delays and reverbs or as part of a wet dry rig where this effect is upstream of a big room reverb, I would love it.
Its the drive that is doing that. It boosts the level going into the springtank and makes the sound louder and more resonant/metallic sounding. Dude had it dimed the whole video for some reason, it sounds much more "natural" with the drive down.
I bought two for stereo L/R channels for my Oberheim OB-X8 mainly for the light show! This should get interesting with each channel doing its own thing. X8 has some clever panning options so imagine that side to side. If you think about an analog synth the entire thing is a gimmick making some fantastic noises. This should be a good pairing.
I'd be so scared to take this on stage lol. Its such a luxurious reverb pedal I feel like a theif could smell that the second they were within 15 feet of it
60 cycle hum can you make another video trying to make this pedal sound just like a reverb tank getting drippy springy surf reverb sounds or it can't do that? I like a good drip. The pedal sounds great to get all different types of other reverb sounds but it can't get that surfy drippy spring reverb it seems
Haha a little too metallic to my taste due to the shorter springs I think. Kind of sounds like a metallic spiral staircase in the hallway of an apartment building or something 😆 Kind of fun. And interesting about the pickup thing, which makes a lot of sense actually. But I love to experiment, and right now I'm thinking how it would sound with some sort of clipping pedal after it. Maybe a fuzz could be fun. I'm thinking that the metallic and feedbacky sound could benefit from it maybe 😄 I really like how they gave a spring reverb versatilty and options similar to a modern algoritmic reverb, but in its own way. The gate is like adjustment for the decay before the mid position. And after it's like the adjustment for pre-delay. Also the pickups makes sense on a spring reverb. Why haven't that been done before? (Or has it?). Quite interesting. I might actually get one at some point to be honest 😅
Duuuuuude... I knew of all people out there, you'd take this pedal to Surf-Town and Spaghetti Western Hell and back! Great job on explaining how this thing works... and... what it does that makes this thing super unique. Only thing I hear people wishing it could do is save presets... but then it would have to be digital, and this thing is far from a digital effect! Such a cool device... and happy to say, I finally own one! Thanks for a cool demo, man! 😎🤘🎸⚡️🎛
Hi, thanks for this video ! I was thinking of taking the Element from Anadounds! But now that there is this Light Pedal, it's hard to make a choice! The Gamechanger, for the same price, seems to have a lot more possibilities! Even if these possibilities are not all interesting for me! But you who have been able to test both, could you tell me if, in spring position only, the Gamechanger is as good as the Anasounds? Thank you in advance.
This is kinda cool. But I don’t see a place on a pedalboard for it as a performance tool as it’s a bit busy. I can definitely see a use for it in recording though.
Ryan, First kid on the block with the review of this 👍 I want one but need to play with one for a few hours before I spring over £300 on one. Do you have there Synth pedal ?
Hmmmm...not overly a fan in terms of overall usefulness. However, if we are talking having some fun for a bit then sure I dig it. I do think it would soon become rather tiresome. But, great to see something fairly unique, that's not just a tweak of some older circuit. 😎
I dont care that its $250, that spring reverb is one of the best i have heard, plus the gates, plus the optical reverb, plus the ‘driven’ sound, plus that SWEEP effect. I am certainly gonna get one. At first it was kinda like this looks sick i might get it and now its fully i am going to buy one
@Nilly Sigger nah its not, but whatever you are buying its a lot of money considering you could probably get a spring reverb for £150 or so. But the fact it looks super cool and has all those other effects makes it worth it
I don't really understand, its picking up the light produced from the guitar center? How does it make a reverb sound? The speed of light being what it is, I would think the signal would die out even if did reflect for a while, it would happen nearly instantly.
an infrared light is shining across/through the springs, an optical sensor on the other side picks up the fluctuations and translates them into an electric signal.
its not a traditional spring reverb at all. this is an experimental reverb for folks that want to make new and unique sounds. I tried to make that clear in the video.
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This is so dumb, such a gimmick ... Ok, is pretty cool, I want one.
I am weak. Help me. Stop! the! GAS!
it looks wild and I think my bank account is gonna regret this later in the month
🤣🤣🤣
This was literally my 3 step thought process. I’ve now ordered one
just the opposite, I came here wanting to like it, ended thinking it´s dumb and such a gimmick
Can't wait to try recording with this thing, been excited since they teased it at NAM like a year ago. Gamechangers indeed, and this seems like their most ambitious pedal yet!
Doesn’t get drippy, but it definitely gets trippy.
Most interesting reverb in the past decade.
Exactly
Thanks for this…I have a large board made up of pedals that make weird noises that I use for experimental/avant-garde music and I think this thing is a perfect fit! I knew I could trust the “King of Spring” to really dig into the oddity. 🏄🎸
And perfect video for the first day of SPRING !
Which is not today! (March 21st)
@@deliciousaudio In the meteorological world, spring began March 1, the same date it has since the mid-1900s when the seasons were differently defined.
@@deliciousaudio I'm being a little optimistic but actually I'm right kind of. the meteorological seasons were created because traditional seasons varied in length from 89 to 93 days and it was difficult for experts to compare statistics from one year to another.
@@Sailor_Man_Music it's cold here too but it was warmish over the weekend. SW Ohio here
You will always be the KING of Reverb reviews. 🤴🏼
Really want to hear this on synth and drum machine sounds.
That would be wild
@@60CycleHumcast There is a Perfect Circuit video of this on a 0-coast, but I wish they'd done some drum machines and pluckier more conventional synth sounds too.
It'd be cool if Andrew Huang did a video on one of these
@@tothefinlandstation gonna have mines coming in soon pre order soon as I get it gonna post some of my drum machines
Eh, I don’t care for reverb on synths unless it’s a pad. Synths just don’t need many effects if at all do to how powerful sound design is on your basic analog/subtractive synth. If we need growling Harmonics we will just sync an oscillator to another and route an envelope or lfo to the synced oscillator’s pitch which sweeps a metric F*** ton of increased harmonics. However sync does pair well with either a flanger or phaser for two different growls to cut through the band.
Pretty gosh darn rad! This is a reverb "effects" pedal. I could make parts with this all day on so many instruments.
The gamechanger guys are so creative! I don't see why they get called gimmicky so often when they're just pushing the boundaries of old ideas in really creative ways!
Because there are always Luddites in the world.
I’m sure people said the same, “gimmick”, for every effect that didn’t exist previously. Lack of imagination runs rampant.
They are creative but not every pedal has been a success because of that. Thats why they get called gimmicky. Excited to see what they do in the future but none of there stuff is for me yet.
Seriously. People complain when they get “another tube screamer or klon” but then when they get something new, they also complain. Pedal nerds are insufferable sometimes.
It's neither gimmick nor innovation it's a form-factor adapted to 9V pedals. The tech has has been around for 80+ years. All the stuff we get is just trickle-down tech that is "more" of the same, but imbued over decades with higher efficiency in mass quantities of scale due to more minds tending to it.
Very good presentation of the light pedal. I have been trying to convince myself that this is not a gas situation. Your enthusiastic wonder was the tipping point that ultimately just won me over. That said, I'm still not sure that I really need this thing, but I am obsessed and intrigued enough to just go for it. I never seen your channel before but good job 🙂
Cheers,
When Mr kavell becomes James Bond they need to use your introduction today for their movie theme this is my favorite episode so far just fantastic
The Cylon Centurian verb. Well done. Chris Buck absolutely rocked this thing.
Great opening!! The lights from the pedal your jamming . Sounded great just awesome and trippy. 🤟.
Great looped jam Ryan. I listened to it again after watching the features.
Really reminds me of Keith Levene’s reverb on PIL’s Metal Box (Second Edition)
I wonder what he used. I was chatting with someone about Jah Wobble's bass tone earlier this morning, weird. and then I found out Dexter sings in a goth electro-synth band called Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum.
This is one of the sickest and best Reverbs i ever listened to and i own a ton of Reverb pedals...
If you fiddle a bit you can get some decent Surf sounds too!
Best demo of this pedal (I watched a few before this). Thanks for giving good explanations and going in depth. Amazing sound possibilities here.
Thank you.
If I can hear fuzz sound via this pedal, it's so great.
I would really like to mess around with this pedal. It looks like fun.
I saw Andertons vid earlier and all I could think about was how much Ryan needed to review this.
exactly what I came here to comment lol
Can’t stand the Andertons blokes personally
That opening song was dope!
Kind of surprised this doesn’t have a stereo out, but I still want it! Great song at the beginning. Great demonstration.
Wow. I think I'm gonna need to save up for one of these. Imagine a modern spaghetti western with this on the guitar tracks.
Man that riff at the start was badasssss
Space whales vs. the machine elves. I can't think of any reason why I need this, but I need this.
Imagine using this for movie sound effects, probably horror/suspense movies! Sounds creepy like that
I loved the jam of the beginning bro, you have a new song right there
A reverb revolution. Just in time for Spring. This thing is beautiful mad science. You could build an album around this pedal.
I thought the intro was just loud so when you started talking I turned it up to be a good volume. That next strum about blew out my ears 😂
Hello from the country it was created aka Latvia!
Hello✋
That is amazing. So psychedelic. I love it
Perfect for a DIY Noise Box.
Getting one for mine, right now
Picked one up a few days ago, great fun, and nice to see something that’s not a clone or copy.
Got mine last week. Crazy fun. Many possibilities.
Your best demo so far!
The optical sound is kinda "ringmod" like, and synthy. Not sure I would use it on clean sounds ever, but with this going into wild delays and reverbs or as part of a wet dry rig where this effect is upstream of a big room reverb, I would love it.
Looks like a ton of fun!
This thing is insane! Keep it up gamechanger audio
So cool, like morley's optical technology with fender's springs, plus a whole Lotta todays digitization as a cherry on top.🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Nice James Bond style song at the beginning!
I’m usually a basic reverb guy but that pedal was exciting as hell
I was expecting to see Clint Eastwood show up. I like wierd stuff like this, so it would be cool to have this on my pedal board.
It sounds like its more like a oilcan drum delay. Cool!
Sweet, this pedal has a light show of its own lol
Very neat idea, it seems to have an inherent resonant frequency that I just don't dig at all
The kinda agree. I wonder if it’s something you could filter out with twist of the knobs. But at its bones I agree.
Its the drive that is doing that. It boosts the level going into the springtank and makes the sound louder and more resonant/metallic sounding.
Dude had it dimed the whole video for some reason, it sounds much more "natural" with the drive down.
I bought two for stereo L/R channels for my Oberheim OB-X8 mainly for the light show! This should get interesting with each channel doing its own thing. X8 has some clever panning options so imagine that side to side. If you think about an analog synth the entire thing is a gimmick making some fantastic noises. This should be a good pairing.
I'd be so scared to take this on stage lol. Its such a luxurious reverb pedal I feel like a theif could smell that the second they were within 15 feet of it
60 cycle hum can you make another video trying to make this pedal sound just like a reverb tank getting drippy springy surf reverb sounds or it can't do that? I like a good drip. The pedal sounds great to get all different types of other reverb sounds but it can't get that surfy drippy spring reverb it seems
I wonder if stage rumbling is enough to set off the internal springs for that "boing" efffect?
nobody better to demo such a contraption... I really want one
that was amazing but does it drip?
no, its not a drippy style reverb.
@@60CycleHumcast Thank you for answering this, it was my question I had all through the video
@@nugrafik yes it does. At its core it is a real spring reverb, it drips and does a whole lot more if you want it to.
@@60CycleHumcast I thought this was going to be a competitor to the surfybear compact at first. Hold my board.
I like it. It's the good weird. My hesitation is the price, but I understand that they've put a lot into it and that costs money.
This is awesome
Awesome demo! Cheers 😎
So many "sci-fi horror" vibes here, I might have to check the price ta- _oh mercy_
It’s actually a lot cheaper than buying a lot of spring tanks, and way more features
Haha a little too metallic to my taste due to the shorter springs I think. Kind of sounds like a metallic spiral staircase in the hallway of an apartment building or something 😆 Kind of fun. And interesting about the pickup thing, which makes a lot of sense actually.
But I love to experiment, and right now I'm thinking how it would sound with some sort of clipping pedal after it. Maybe a fuzz could be fun. I'm thinking that the metallic and feedbacky sound could benefit from it maybe 😄
I really like how they gave a spring reverb versatilty and options similar to a modern algoritmic reverb, but in its own way. The gate is like adjustment for the decay before the mid position. And after it's like the adjustment for pre-delay. Also the pickups makes sense on a spring reverb. Why haven't that been done before? (Or has it?). Quite interesting. I might actually get one at some point to be honest 😅
That was some sick jamming c:
Duuuuuude... I knew of all people out there, you'd take this pedal to Surf-Town and Spaghetti Western Hell and back! Great job on explaining how this thing works... and... what it does that makes this thing super unique. Only thing I hear people wishing it could do is save presets... but then it would have to be digital, and this thing is far from a digital effect! Such a cool device... and happy to say, I finally own one! Thanks for a cool demo, man! 😎🤘🎸⚡️🎛
Weird, I was just thinking about this pedal yesterday, i need to play around with it some more.
@60 Cycle Hum Try out with some Overdrive and Distortion... not to mention, great for Keyboards and some weird bass sounds too!
ABSOLUTY TOO COOL!! I see more of my money going away. Cha Ching!
My thought exactly lol
The price point on this thing is actually keeping me safe from the GAS. If this was $249 or less it would be dangerous territory.
If only Lou Reed had one of these in his Velvet Underground days!
I think that John Cale would have probably gotten much more use out of the thing.
Great demo!
You need to hook up with Gamechanger and Chase Bliss to make the ultimate drippy, optical midified Spring Reverb.
I wonder if they're going to do a physical plate reverb pedal next....
That would be crazy
Nothings ever beat my Boss 63 pedal. How’s it compare? Have you had a chance to try both? Cheers!
Hi, thanks for this video ! I was thinking of taking the Element from Anadounds! But now that there is this Light Pedal, it's hard to make a choice! The Gamechanger, for the same price, seems to have a lot more possibilities! Even if these possibilities are not all interesting for me! But you who have been able to test both, could you tell me if, in spring position only, the Gamechanger is as good as the Anasounds? Thank you in advance.
ROBOSURF!
🏄♂️🏄♀️🤙
really nice to hear someone playing the guitar well, too many lame players presenting, thanks dude
Spring Delay Industries, George?
"And you wanna be my optical salesman"
Unique pedal, great personality, smart. Not sure it's my type tho'.
Cheers 🍻
This thing is so you. I hope you get to keep it.
I do
Maybe it's just me, but that intro jam made me think of James Bond doing his thing on a sunny Malibu beach.
At first I was like Psssshh overpriced, BUT then I looked at/listened to all the options.... Dangit Ryan....Adding this to my want list.
Sweep mode sounds like there's a phaser going on somewhere in there.
This is kinda cool. But I don’t see a place on a pedalboard for it as a performance tool as it’s a bit busy. I can definitely see a use for it in recording though.
wow this thing sounds fuckin great
18:18 OK I WANT IT. NOW
The pedal sounds awesome and is fun. I have to ask though when am I watching the pedals on my board? Pretty much never
Oh.... I like it once again more than earlier even 5hough I don't even have that yet😮😮🙄😞
I have ordered one from Andertons UK
Very cool. Reverb pedal. !
Ryan,
First kid on the block with the review of this 👍
I want one but need to play with one for a few hours before I spring over £300 on one.
Do you have there Synth pedal ?
Looks like a fun pedal.
Part 2: Expression Pedal pretty please🙏💋
That's sick.
Hmmmm...not overly a fan in terms of overall usefulness.
However, if we are talking having some fun for a bit then sure I dig it. I do think it would soon become rather tiresome.
But, great to see something fairly unique, that's not just a tweak of some older circuit. 😎
My guy drips
love it, whats your top five reverbs ??
Does Ryan sound quiet compared to his playing or is it just me?
yeah, the guitar on this one was significantly louder than the voice
Its often like that but this is bad
Every. Single. Video.
It sounds fine to me on my side 🤷♂️
Let me be the judge of that 🤣🤣🤣
Cool intro song!
I dont care that its $250, that spring reverb is one of the best i have heard, plus the gates, plus the optical reverb, plus the ‘driven’ sound, plus that SWEEP effect. I am certainly gonna get one. At first it was kinda like this looks sick i might get it and now its fully i am going to buy one
@Nilly Sigger sorry i meant to type pounds
@Nilly Sigger nah its not, but whatever you are buying its a lot of money considering you could probably get a spring reverb for £150 or so. But the fact it looks super cool and has all those other effects makes it worth it
Wonder what kicking it would sound like
Ambient optical spring reverb?
Uh wow, so that’s how they did the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack?! 🤩
I wish there was another pedal that just did the reverb-feedback thing.
You can do this pretty easily with a mixer and any reverb. Just feed the reverb return back into itself via an aux and tweak volume to taste :)
I came here looking for comments of people hating the way you play... but I’m too early.
Anyway, this or the Ocean’s 12?
Check back in a few days, I'm sure there will be a few juicy comments, lol.
This vs oceans 12 is kinda apples to oranges, they both can go into areas that the other can't.
I don't really understand, its picking up the light produced from the guitar center? How does it make a reverb sound? The speed of light being what it is, I would think the signal would die out even if did reflect for a while, it would happen nearly instantly.
an infrared light is shining across/through the springs, an optical sensor on the other side picks up the fluctuations and translates them into an electric signal.
My question is how would it compare to a tradition spring reverb pedal like the Oceans 11 reverb? I just got one a week ago and now I'm questioning it
its not a traditional spring reverb at all. this is an experimental reverb for folks that want to make new and unique sounds. I tried to make that clear in the video.
Really need to just call that sweep of the tone knob what it is:
...a TARDIS landing.
But does it drip?!?
It's........a Game changer