Thank you so much for making such an in-depth review and demo! Out of curiosity, if you have any experience with it, how would you say this compares with the OBNE Float?
How do you write this much music so fast!? You put out incredible demos with interesting songs every single week. It’s baffling. Even if they aren’t complete pieces, the production is off the charts. So pumped to follow, my wife probably isn’t a fan as I did the math and have spent over $7000 on pedals due in most part to your suggestions. -CXM 1978 - $900 -mkii - $850 -microcosm -$450 -chroma - $450 -mood $350 -echo fix - $2500 -dream ‘65 - $400 -Enigmatic - $400 -reverse mode C - $450 -thermae - $500 -vongon replay $700 I will tell you right now that I regret none of them. They are all fantastic and inspire me to play and create. I wouldn’t have rather spent that money in any other way… I still get the excitement shivers every time I walk into the studio. You have turned my complete boss 200 series board into my “cheap” board… and that’s nuts lol.
@@alexhedstrom582 imo it’s way less so the jam muscle. If anything I feel like I’ve gotten worse at jamming / improving as I’ve gotten better at writing. Which is a weird place to me but I very much feel like the more you write songs the easier it is to write songs
At first I was worried cause I just bought an obne float. Obviously with a pedal this advanced having mid or presets saves a ton so that's already a great step up on the vongon. But after listening they really are different pedals. This is one filter with a great stereo voicing and stereo panning. The float is two filters at once doing wild things. The paragraphs II has more control over the basic sound of the wavelength. The float has more control over the wavelength shape and how it responds to playing. Both super cool pedals glad I got my float. This is def one I have to try eventually.
This may be pretty interesting for lo-fi music, adding frequency variations jumps would reproduce some of the beautiful decay qualities we can sometimes hear on old recordings.
Wow, what an upgrade to the first one. This definitely fills a hole on my board. While some of the modulation might be redundant, I can see putting the Paragraphs II earlier in the chain and then finishing off the signal chain with the Chase Bliss Clean. Thoughts on that? Or if you're using a Paragraphs II then just stick with a standard compressor either at the beginning or end of the signal chain? Thanks, Mark!
i dunno if i should use the shallow water at the start of my chain... or put this after my delays and reverbs in my fx loop.... maybe both ? edit: yeah i think i want both
As per usual...really good music, opening. And the footage, namely the closeUps on the guitar picking are brilliant. Good lighting too! Are you gonna do anything on the new Fractal , and the amp modeler by Polyverb ?
Thanks for your videos, huge fan. Question on this pedal - could you see yourself using this live? That sensitivity seems to be the make or break here, kinda finicky. Do you find yourself tweaking that often? Or does it eventually get "dialed in" to your guitars output? Side note, follower mode is exactly what v1 of this pedal lacked (have it).
Feels like they could have used the playing dynamics to also control the LFO rate and depth (with the same degree of controlling upper and lower bounds of LFO rate and depth) - which again would have improved the dynamics and not have that static LFO rate. Maybe in Paragraphs III
It should be analog. I don't say this as a total analog purist, but filter is one of those effects that... doesn't gain anything from being digital? I mean, aside from ditigal being easier to work with in a context which involves a lot of stereo field syncing and wizardry. Vongon's audio aesthetic seems to be all about soft edges, but filtering is all about nonlinearities and aggressive alterations to the sound. Otherwise, it almost might as well be tremolo. This is cool, but Kinotone Sparks seems to blow this out of the water, though not easy to find..
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That intro is straight fire
Sick as always, but your sudden ending tripped me up, thought my TH-cam app had a glitch. You’re the best man!
the perils of forgetting to record an outro.
Thank you so much for making such an in-depth review and demo! Out of curiosity, if you have any experience with it, how would you say this compares with the OBNE Float?
How do you write this much music so fast!? You put out incredible demos with interesting songs every single week. It’s baffling. Even if they aren’t complete pieces, the production is off the charts. So pumped to follow, my wife probably isn’t a fan as I did the math and have spent over $7000 on pedals due in most part to your suggestions.
-CXM 1978 - $900
-mkii - $850
-microcosm -$450
-chroma - $450
-mood $350
-echo fix - $2500
-dream ‘65 - $400
-Enigmatic - $400
-reverse mode C - $450
-thermae - $500
-vongon replay $700
I will tell you right now that I regret none of them. They are all fantastic and inspire me to play and create. I wouldn’t have rather spent that money in any other way… I still get the excitement shivers every time I walk into the studio.
You have turned my complete boss 200 series board into my “cheap” board… and that’s nuts lol.
It's like a muscle. the more your exercise it the easier it is to use.
The “jam” muscle
@@alexhedstrom582 imo it’s way less so the jam muscle. If anything I feel like I’ve gotten worse at jamming / improving as I’ve gotten better at writing. Which is a weird place to me but I very much feel like the more you write songs the easier it is to write songs
@@markjohnstonofficial makes sense!:)
He's an enabler. I've also made multiple purchases after watching.
At first I was worried cause I just bought an obne float. Obviously with a pedal this advanced having mid or presets saves a ton so that's already a great step up on the vongon. But after listening they really are different pedals. This is one filter with a great stereo voicing and stereo panning. The float is two filters at once doing wild things. The paragraphs II has more control over the basic sound of the wavelength. The float has more control over the wavelength shape and how it responds to playing. Both super cool pedals glad I got my float. This is def one I have to try eventually.
Nooooo Mark more ear candy I must own! Great vid, great pedal.
This may be pretty interesting for lo-fi music, adding frequency variations jumps would reproduce some of the beautiful decay qualities we can sometimes hear on old recordings.
Wow! Dark & moving 🎉
Wow, what an upgrade to the first one. This definitely fills a hole on my board. While some of the modulation might be redundant, I can see putting the Paragraphs II earlier in the chain and then finishing off the signal chain with the Chase Bliss Clean. Thoughts on that? Or if you're using a Paragraphs II then just stick with a standard compressor either at the beginning or end of the signal chain? Thanks, Mark!
i dunno if i should use the shallow water at the start of my chain... or put this after my delays and reverbs in my fx loop.... maybe both ?
edit: yeah i think i want both
As per usual...really good music, opening.
And the footage, namely the closeUps on the guitar picking are brilliant. Good lighting too!
Are you gonna do anything on the new Fractal , and the amp modeler by Polyverb ?
Thanks for your videos, huge fan. Question on this pedal - could you see yourself using this live? That sensitivity seems to be the make or break here, kinda finicky. Do you find yourself tweaking that often? Or does it eventually get "dialed in" to your guitars output? Side note, follower mode is exactly what v1 of this pedal lacked (have it).
Feels like they could have used the playing dynamics to also control the LFO rate and depth (with the same degree of controlling upper and lower bounds of LFO rate and depth) - which again would have improved the dynamics and not have that static LFO rate. Maybe in Paragraphs III
It should be analog. I don't say this as a total analog purist, but filter is one of those effects that... doesn't gain anything from being digital? I mean, aside from ditigal being easier to work with in a context which involves a lot of stereo field syncing and wizardry. Vongon's audio aesthetic seems to be all about soft edges, but filtering is all about nonlinearities and aggressive alterations to the sound. Otherwise, it almost might as well be tremolo. This is cool, but Kinotone Sparks seems to blow this out of the water, though not easy to find..
I also say this as a big fan of the og paragraphs, which I'll stick with.
What happened to the AEA?
Still here. Still rad. Just experimenting and fine tuning.
Is this analog?
Digital😐
Seems like this and the Chasebliss clean can do very similar things?
That baby head is creeping me out mark
The cartoon sticker of my son?
I think it's coo
very cool ambience tool but would need another PhD to operate😢
Having now watched the entire video, I need to go back to school…
Not hearing anything great, much more suited to synth work
Not a good review for people who don’t submerse themselves into the minutia of gear centric guitarist. Otherwise very interesting wrap-up.
Weird to be watching a half hour long demo of a guitar pedal and complaining about it the minutia
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
John 3:16
Jesus loves you!
Sir, This is a Wendy’s.