Let me explain. In a spring reverb, the spring vibrates, and the diffetence between the string vibrating and the spring vibrating is the reverb you hear. With the optical sensors, an infrared light is shone across the spring at various places. When the spring vibrates, the light is interrupted and this is picked up as a "vibration". Having this near the ends of the spring will be a shorter and 'tighter' reverb, and in the middle will be a longer and more 'spacey' reverb. Hence in the sweep mode, it appears to change speed as the different light sensors are activated.
Considering you discovered the ctrl position in video, I'm guessing you didn't find the speed ramping options or the ability to stack two modulations...
These game changer Audio pedals are incredible. Once i get a job and have paid for my driving lessons I’m gonna have to get their reverb and fuzz pedal. Along with a tone bender 1.5 of course
I recently bought one and it has ruined the sound of my Strymon Timeline for me. Real sounds just sound real. More depth, more space, and more feedback.
@@YesItsReallyKeith Yes, but you can control the stomp-feedback. on the backside there is a 3 way switch for hard, 1/2 control, and an off-position, were you get the natural stomp effect of an spring reverb. But, as captain said - you really need to read the manual. I'd read it before I got mine, but haven't been enough. The Pedal has so many controls... It's really marvelous.
I sold my Walrus Audio Mako reverb after hearing this. The R1 isn’t great on its best days but the Light is amazing. Probably the best pedal I’ve ever bought from a smiles and sheer amazement point of view.
@@jayandgem the reverse, duck, swell, and ping pong stuff from the Timeline is still cool; but the sound from a real spring is just so nuanced that any digital sound just can’t compare. It’s like they’ve been over engineered to sound too pristine.
Jeff Buckley FTW! I remember the first time I heard his cover of Hallelujah in college. I made my friend play it, well, many times in a row. I can't remember. It was college..
Great demo. I’ve only just found out about this pedal and the more experimental sounds are exactly what I’ve been looking for. Out of stock at the moment but I’ve pre-ordered👍😊. In every demo I’ve seen the player is smiling.
You're both right about the wooshing red scanner light - Glen Larson (producer) took the Cylon scanner 'eye' from Battlestar Galactica and incorporated it into KITT on Knight Rider.
Thanks, this is the only video where I can hear what it does with music. All the other videos are drowning in the FX. Reverb is like salt for me, I dont put a tone in the soup. It just makes the tone more lively. Thanks : )
Gamechanger, Alexander Pedals and Earthquaker Devices are some of the few companies that are trying to innovate the pedal industry. A breath of fresh air after decades of thousands of boring tubescreamers clones and bland delays. We need NEW stuff, not reiterations of the old stuff.
yes indeed. I drives me nuts to know that we have all this technology and people are constantly trying to make it sound like some old stuff I sold back in the 80's because I didn't like it back then. new ideas and new sounds. thats the ticket.
ChaseBliss, Wampler, Walrus Audio, Keeley, Malekko, TC Electronic, Beetronics, Death by Audio, Dr. Scientist, Rainger Fx, Red Panda, ZVEX. To be honest I think most pedal companies tries to do that, I think it's rather "few companies" that don't - but the market share of cookie cutter stuff is higher.
@@RupeeRhod Wampler, Keely and TC Electronics do not push the bar further, they just do very high quality versions of old concepts. The real innovators out there, or people that just try to do even "weird" stuff, are very few compared to the total number of companies, even fewer taking in account market shares (everyone have, or had, at least one Boss pedal, Meris doesn't even come close to that). Your numbers are off by a lot.
You guys have the opportunity to make a badass pedaltable. Ins&outs, power. It could be awesome. I mean the tabletop on a black draped box, sideways head with power supply is great and all...
U have 2 spend like days and days with this pedal to understand the whole spectrum of the potential of this black box with the light inside. Have one of this. I like experiments and it fits just great! Don't forget it uses 500 mA so not every pedal board power supply has such option. Be very very accurate with Drive knob. It is very sensetive and makes what it is named for. Mixing 2 different reverb presets opens another level of possibilities. Fellows musicians are mad of how agile it is. Cinematic flawor and spring taste makes it a great instrument for creating different drone-ambient samples. I use it as a spring reverb in the end of the circuit [guitar->wah-compressor-overdrive/fuzz-phaser-delay-Reverb->amp] on gigs. But it totally openes in the studio work.
Omg i love this pedal. 🥺 Immagine to use an ebow with the feedback option... You could get some awesome soundscapes with this. Love it... I hope you can get this in Denmark at a reasonable price. Keep up those videos lads. Kæmpe fedt Pete 💪😁
99% of the time that i watch pedal videos they are about something that i either dont need or want. This one sits squarely in the other 1% Sweet Jesus that thing sounds really great!
Captain: Ok let's see what happens when everything's on 10 Pedal: I'm sorry captain - I can't let you do that Captain: WTF ??? Pedal: This demonstration can serve no further purpose. Goodbye captain.
I can't say that I've ever felt excited about checking out a reverb pedal before, but this is amazing! I'd think that Bill Vencil at Chords of Orion would go crazy over this!
@@Zwidawurzn no, that spring provides the reverb. The COSM is a marketing tool to fool the consumer that it has processing potential. But in fact it's the natural reverb from the spring inside of the pedal.
@@DarkVelizar What marketing trick? "i'll buy this spring reverb because it has processing potential instead of using actual springs" nobody ever said. Boss can be trusted, if they say their pedal is digital it is actually digital and not secretly analog. Everyone else also says FRV1 is digital sound modeling and there are no fragile tubes or springs inside that require special care or maintenance^^ There's even forum posts where people opened up their FRV1 and post pictures of no spring inside. Except the spring that holds the footswitch up, just next to the battery compartement... every Boss pedal has that spring.
We enter a new realm of names for pedal companies: "No false modesty" seems a good on to me, as well as "Plenty of room", "Kick ass pedals", "Click&Play" and "Kick the bucket brigade"
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Let me explain. In a spring reverb, the spring vibrates, and the diffetence between the string vibrating and the spring vibrating is the reverb you hear. With the optical sensors, an infrared light is shone across the spring at various places. When the spring vibrates, the light is interrupted and this is picked up as a "vibration". Having this near the ends of the spring will be a shorter and 'tighter' reverb, and in the middle will be a longer and more 'spacey' reverb. Hence in the sweep mode, it appears to change speed as the different light sensors are activated.
Few things are purer than the Captain's joy at some great Danish playing
Truer words never spoken
What an intro...more capo please, forget the friggin' cowbell.
That was hallelujah
And frustration when the Dane doesn’t STFU
That's fantastic!
I love it when a pedal company dares to do something different and expand the boundaries of imagination. ❤️
As a Reverb and Delay addict i'm totally in shock how good this is.
Great demo and playing!
It's truly a different take on the standard reverb pedal! Thanks for tuning in Elrondo
Thanks for the comment! :)
Got mine last week. It’s bloody marvellous. Love it. It’s staggeringly beautiful.
I could listen that purple tele with reverb all day.
The overtones on that spring are incredible
A boost pedal with built in Flamethrower would be awesome too .
Gamechanger: “Hold my beer!”
Checking in to see what sounds you guys got with this.....
Considering you discovered the ctrl position in video, I'm guessing you didn't find the speed ramping options or the ability to stack two modulations...
There’s no way I’d do that pedal enough justice to buy it, but my God does it sound incredible. Lovely playing as per Pete!
Sure you will eventually. I'm the same but I'm ordering the Headrest core and this pedal soon:-) I'll "grow" into it:-)
That springs so real every time you step on it you knee yourself in the face
As somebody who generally don't like to play with Reverb, all I want to say is. This sounds EPIC & I probably want one.
As a repairer I get to see most things, and for the first time in a long time I have the sensation
“I want one”
These game changer Audio pedals are incredible. Once i get a job and have paid for my driving lessons I’m gonna have to get their reverb and fuzz pedal. Along with a tone bender 1.5 of course
At 5mins there is clean humour from Pete! Will wonders never cease!
Pedal is cool, but Peet’s playing! Hallelujah!!!!!!
I recently bought one and it has ruined the sound of my Strymon Timeline for me. Real sounds just sound real. More depth, more space, and more feedback.
so how does it sound when you stomp on it ? a loud boooooinggggg ?
@@YesItsReallyKeith Yes, but you can control the stomp-feedback. on the backside there is a 3 way switch for hard, 1/2 control, and an off-position, were you get the natural stomp effect of an spring reverb. But, as captain said - you really need to read the manual. I'd read it before I got mine, but haven't been enough. The Pedal has so many controls... It's really marvelous.
I sold my Walrus Audio Mako reverb after hearing this. The R1 isn’t great on its best days but the Light is amazing. Probably the best pedal I’ve ever bought from a smiles and sheer amazement point of view.
@@jayandgem the reverse, duck, swell, and ping pong stuff from the Timeline is still cool; but the sound from a real spring is just so nuanced that any digital sound just can’t compare. It’s like they’ve been over engineered to sound too pristine.
@@YesItsReallyKeith I don’t know. I never turn it off once I’m playing. It’s that good.
U2's The Edge will run 8 of these in series
Plus a couple delay pedals
One of the coolest pedals to come along in awhile.
I love Danish Petes sense of humor. He should never change that about himself.
8:50 is a perfect “Rising Sun” sound!
“House of rising Sun” rather!
Jeff Buckley FTW! I remember the first time I heard his cover of Hallelujah in college. I made my friend play it, well, many times in a row. I can't remember. It was college..
Stellar intro! Great sounding pedal. I kept expecting Lee to join in and start singing along.
Hats off to Gamechanger. Pete’s practically got wood & I don’t blame him. It’s versitile & sounds beautiful
Brilliant, stunning, spectacular. And the pedal is cool too!
Great demo. I’ve only just found out about this pedal and the more experimental sounds are exactly what I’ve been looking for. Out of stock at the moment but I’ve pre-ordered👍😊. In every demo I’ve seen the player is smiling.
When the Captain crosses his legs AND arms and just sits back and let Danish Pete play it's a good pedal and outstanding player.
Bloody hell Pete! You are a gem. Your playing is next level.
You're both right about the wooshing red scanner light - Glen Larson (producer) took the Cylon scanner 'eye' from Battlestar Galactica and incorporated it into KITT on Knight Rider.
This pedal is so good, it would put a spring in your step.
Lol you watch Uncle Doug's channel.....and if you don't you should lol
I see Pete's intro was inspired by Paul David's video about Hallelujah haha
Ha, was just thinking that..
James Buckley version.
@@facetono You mean Jeff Buckley?
Shopping for a new reverb. This is on the short list. Great playing, Pete!
Ive never pre-ordered something so fast. this thing is next level.
Thanks, this is the only video where I can hear what it does with music. All the other videos are drowning in the FX. Reverb is like salt for me, I dont put a tone in the soup. It just makes the tone more lively. Thanks : )
Pete is the best! Masterful clean tone as always!
I actually really liked the dissonant oscillating reverb sound.
One of the most heartfelt, musical and sensible intro 🙌
Good morning Gents! Killer intro!
That was beautiful but I would love to hear Bea On that with a baritone
Ive been waiting for this bad boy to release, got my preorder in already. STOKED!
This sounds incredible, both as a spring tank and as an experimental device. It’s not cheap, but I expected it to cost more if I’m honest
Gamechanger, Alexander Pedals and Earthquaker Devices are some of the few companies that are trying to innovate the pedal industry.
A breath of fresh air after decades of thousands of boring tubescreamers clones and bland delays.
We need NEW stuff, not reiterations of the old stuff.
yes indeed. I drives me nuts to know that we have all this technology and people are constantly trying to make it sound like some old stuff I sold back in the 80's because I didn't like it back then. new ideas and new sounds. thats the ticket.
ChaseBliss, Wampler, Walrus Audio, Keeley, Malekko, TC Electronic, Beetronics, Death by Audio, Dr. Scientist, Rainger Fx, Red Panda, ZVEX.
To be honest I think most pedal companies tries to do that, I think it's rather "few companies" that don't - but the market share of cookie cutter stuff is higher.
@@RupeeRhod Wampler, Keely and TC Electronics do not push the bar further, they just do very high quality versions of old concepts.
The real innovators out there, or people that just try to do even "weird" stuff, are very few compared to the total number of companies, even fewer taking in account market shares (everyone have, or had, at least one Boss pedal, Meris doesn't even come close to that).
Your numbers are off by a lot.
These folks come up with some great gear. Hope some day the can come up with a tremolo driven by gravitational waves something weird like that.
Nobody makes cooler pedals than these guys. The Automatone things come in second.
Thanks a lot for the kind words :)
Captain & Pete : Talking about a superb reverb pedal
Me : "What a beautiful Bad Cat amp"
These guys are a good team.
I'm loving the videos guys, but where are the blindfold challenges. Haven't had one in ages. Bring them on 🤘
Golly!!! Im gonna have to grab one of these! The chops come with the pedal, right!?
You guys have the opportunity to make a badass pedaltable. Ins&outs, power. It could be awesome. I mean the tabletop on a black draped box, sideways head with power supply is great and all...
Great point, they should be pushing forward the cause of pedal furniture!
U have 2 spend like days and days with this pedal to understand the whole spectrum of the potential of this black box with the light inside. Have one of this. I like experiments and it fits just great! Don't forget it uses 500 mA so not every pedal board power supply has such option. Be very very accurate with Drive knob. It is very sensetive and makes what it is named for. Mixing 2 different reverb presets opens another level of possibilities.
Fellows musicians are mad of how agile it is. Cinematic flawor and spring taste makes it a great instrument for creating different drone-ambient samples.
I use it as a spring reverb in the end of the circuit [guitar->wah-compressor-overdrive/fuzz-phaser-delay-Reverb->amp] on gigs. But it totally openes in the studio work.
I don't chase spring reverb but this was really really good just for that aspect alone.
Just when I finished my pedalboard re-build. Time to find room for this. Whyyyyyyyohwhyyyyyyyyy?!?!?
Omg i love this pedal. 🥺 Immagine to use an ebow with the feedback option... You could get some awesome soundscapes with this. Love it... I hope you can get this in Denmark at a reasonable price. Keep up those videos lads. Kæmpe fedt Pete 💪😁
Db meter went to 69 while they were talking about the bedroom mood lighting.
This channel is notorious for faux-mo teases; I'm surprised the video editor didn't highlight the 69 reading!
Nice
@@dostacos1 finally.
This pedal is seriously cool. Easy to see why its so expensive.
99% of the time that i watch pedal videos they are about something that i either dont need or want. This one sits squarely in the other 1% Sweet Jesus that thing sounds really great!
Now I've heard there was a spring reverb
That Pete played, and it sounded superb
But you don't really care for this comment, do you?
Did you add the expression pedal before or after the reverb? because that sounds absolutely mind bogglingly good?
Got 1 coming tomorrow, can't wait
Awesome rendition of Master Of Puppets at the start Pete! Can't believe Metallica sounds so different with a bit of spring!
OBVIOUSLY JOKING
Now you have me wondering how Metallica's seemingly-baroque-influenced segments would sound with Pete playing them through this ...
Hallelujah!
I’d be staring at the thing constantly
... that was sheer fun!
Thanks a lot!
Attention ! Captain on deck !! The Great Dane on the guns!
probably the greatest pedal since the 60s
You guys will try anything. Much love from Las Vegas😊
I rewatch this regularly just for Pete’s intro
Ahhh...the secret chord..that makes me happy Pete. Thanks for that choice
...an insanely cool sounding reverb pedal - is it rugged enough for pedalboard use - as in gigging, not just home/studio use?
Captain: Ok let's see what happens when everything's on 10
Pedal: I'm sorry captain - I can't let you do that
Captain: WTF ???
Pedal: This demonstration can serve no further purpose. Goodbye captain.
I can't say that I've ever felt excited about checking out a reverb pedal before, but this is amazing! I'd think that Bill Vencil at Chords of Orion would go crazy over this!
But is it really as good as the 1968 Radio Shack spring reverb?
Amazing video as usual!
The Boss FRV1 reverb pedal has a spring inside of it, near the battery compartment. How cool is that
Yes the spring for the footswitch. But the sound is made by COSM modeling isn't it?
@@Zwidawurzn no, that spring provides the reverb. The COSM is a marketing tool to fool the consumer that it has processing potential. But in fact it's the natural reverb from the spring inside of the pedal.
@@DarkVelizar What marketing trick? "i'll buy this spring reverb because it has processing potential instead of using actual springs" nobody ever said.
Boss can be trusted, if they say their pedal is digital it is actually digital and not secretly analog. Everyone else also says FRV1 is digital sound modeling and there are no fragile tubes or springs inside that require special care or maintenance^^ There's even forum posts where people opened up their FRV1 and post pictures of no spring inside.
Except the spring that holds the footswitch up, just next to the battery compartement... every Boss pedal has that spring.
@@Zwidawurzn that spring gives reverb effect. I've opened the pedal and sure enough the spring is the source of the reverb. I lay my case
This pedal is wonderful! And I’m mainly a drummer!
Would be nice to get a comparison with the anasound spring reverb
Well, that was great... but I can't imagine when I'd ever use one. I still want one, of course, but...
When I heard the driven spring, I wanted one, then I checked the price...and I still wanted one.
What a motion in the sound! Beutiful!
Feedback is almost like an organ effect in the backgrond.
Awesome song choice to start the show!
10:33 nice. it comes with a pickup selector knob
This is a very cool pedal for sure. It sounds great.
More reverb please! What a wonderful pedal!
2:38 Childhood trauma 101 with Captain Lee Anderton
I wonder how the harmonic mode would sound on vocals
I feel like the feedback and the shimmer would be great for volume swells for more ambient
Wow that is a great sounding pedal! 😳 ... Unfortunately I don't have the funds... going to have to stick with my BOSS RV-6 Reverb.
Everything Gamechanger does is so damn cool. The infinite sustain "piano footpedal" ... the plasma pedal ... now this.
I love that song , I prefer the Buckley version , it just reaches down into the dark depths of my Soul and can bring tears or joy ..........Hallelujah
"bag of sugar" is an excellent name for a pedal, tbh.
Cheers.
When will they make a flux capacitor I can buy which will take me back in time? This pedal sounds awesome.
We enter a new realm of names for pedal companies: "No false modesty" seems a good on to me, as well as "Plenty of room", "Kick ass pedals", "Click&Play" and "Kick the bucket brigade"
Petes getting a pay cut after that awful light/heavy joke haha
I for one loved it XD I love Pete's humor, it always gets me.
DP has dad jokes 4 days
This looks soooooo cool
Great tool. The Marshall ofc. Holding people's beer and cigaretes for ages and now even power supplies.
That's some Eric Johnson reverb sounds in that thing. Nice.
2:46 my new alarm noise, won’t be able to sleep after that.
best intro ever!!!
Having that on a live pedal board must be so much fun. :-) KRANNGGG KRANNGG KRANNNNNGGGGG.
Excellent Abyss reference!