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i have this pedal for a couple years now and it´s still my favorite reverb in a box.
I can see why!
I just got one used for a great price. I'm liking it a lot so far.
@@mofomartianp meanwhile, i‘ve sold mine because of a little gear exchange…fast forward, i‘ve bought it back.i just can’t live without it anymore😅if you haven’t got it already, buying the preset switch is a huge upgrade too👌🏻
@@hiddennotesberlin Yea good call on the preset switch. Cheers :)
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Some of those sounds reminds me of the movie Close Encounter of the Third Kind.
The pitch down is my favorite! Instant thriller/horror movie soundtrack!
13:21 - I love this sound way too much
80's sci-fi movie transcendence scene music
8 am Saturday morning. Coffee in hand and watching Leon demo another pedal I didn’t know I needed. 😂
Anyway….greetings from sunny Tampa Florida and as always, great video my friend!👍
Great video! +1 on adding the Neunaber Illumine in the reverb shootout...
" Mornin' Leon!" I always use a touch of reverb, may be addicted! Lovely pedal, Thanks Brian! Have a great weekend and Be Well All!
Just a little bit of pep to get you going, right?
@@LeonTodd " Kinda like morning coffee!" Long day today, T - storms began 1am Saturday and I've been awake ever since! Need a good Nap! Enjoy your day Brother!
7:11 - 8:47 sounds absolutely heavenly :)
Btw, I went a little nuts looking for that song (I knew I had heard it somewhere before) until I realized it's an original Radgoll tune :) Heaven above is a great song, and I saw you even have a lesson for it already :)
Keep doing what you're doing Leon. Your channel is one of the best, your playing is inspiring and your personality is very warm and down to earth, which a real rarity these days.
I've never had a guitar teacher, but If you ever consider giving lessons, I'd love to have you share some nuggets of wisdom.
Thanks for your insights
Just got one and this was helpful
Glad it helped
Good morning my Aussie friend.
Man, that thing sounds great. I love me some cave sounding reverb and or delay or both. I always think Rush when I think modulated Reverb as well. How can you not!.
Man, those pickups sound great and that amp from the modeller sounds awesome man!
Please have a great weekend and better coming week. ♥️🤟♥️🤟🤟♥️🤟
Good morning!
Putting this pedal on synth and vocal tracks was a great idea. I think it really shines there, though I liked the guitar sections well enough.
Vocals is what I wanted to hear
I just love shimmers. The Mercury 7 has a great sounding one. The reverse shimmer sounds really cool. The Digitech Mosaic has a great shimmer. Have you tried that one before?
I would love to hear a reverb shootout for sure!
Will need to add the Neunaber Illumine to that shoot out vid.
That looks tasty!
@@LeonTodd I got the Blackhole pedal after watching your review, but with the 7 and now the Illumine, may have jumped the gun, be very interesting to see that shoot out.
Nice video. I think I'm in agreement with all of your major points, Leon. I have one of these; definitely agree the high end, especially with Cathedra, is not great with distorted guitars. Bigsky, in my opinion, is easier to manage in that regard, although one always needs to dial back high end and decay with high gain. It's fantastic with clean sources for massive ambience. I also agree that Ultraplate is great for standard reverb sounds on many sources, and finally, that the interface is cumbersome. It's tricky remembering what the alt functions do.
A couple of other things to note. I DO think density, of all the alt function parameters, is sort of a secret weapon for fine tuning the reverb for conventional or ambient usage. I do not think you will get the most out of the pedal without knowing that one. Modulation speed is also important, but you can turn off the modulation by turning the amount down all the way, bypassing the need for knowing that separate function if the mod is too much (this is the easiest alt control to remember, in my opinion, FWIW).
The vibrato function at a moderate depth can be really nice on cleans and to me is essentially a chorus without adjustable speed. What makes it a vibrato when it's not affecting the dry though, it's just the wet half of the chorus?!
Finally, it should be pointed out that the predelay range on this pedal is very small. It was done intentionally, according to the designers, to make part it the 'sound' of the Mercury7. The Bigsky predelays, on the other hand, have a relatively massive range of pre-delay times.
Any tips for the density control? I'll play with that some more!
@@LeonTodd yeah, I would just say crank it for ambient, and work down if necessary, and for dirt, the reverse - set it to minimum and then work up as needed. The more 'sustain' (not decay length, per se) you want in the verb, the more you want to increase the density.
This thing does too much for me. I was thinking about this one, or the neunaber Immerse MkII. After your demo, the Immerse would be my choice.
Great review, beautiful playing. I own this pedal. You can get close to copping it's sound with the Big Sky, but this can be set to very over-the-top reverbs with crazy amounts of modulation, which I dislike for guitar but love on synth. I also dislike this pedal's shimmer sound, it sounds like rusty gates opening, though you can mellow it out by adding modulation and vibrato and by turning the shimmer level down. It's great that this pedal takes both instrument- and line level signals.
That’s funny ., good funny
Because I like the shimmer on this verb more than any other shimmer I’ve heard .. I’ve always hated shimmer verb until. I heard this one.. and this is why it’s great that there’s lots of variation in the pedal market
Otherwise we’d just all sound the same
any chance we could see you get the source audio ventris for the big reverb shootout? or even that new neunaber illumine?
Hoping to grab a collider soon!
19:28 Strymon Nightsky & Source Audio Ventris / Collider for E-Dome for example
Foxgear-Rainbow......is a great reverb that no one talks about. And I love my Mercury 7. Best used with clean guitar and synthesizers. And of course there's the SLO, pedal.
had to look that one up - sounds AMAZING!
@@LeonTodd Also Foxgear ECHOSEX baby is supercool!
The descending doppler could be useful for recreating the opening credits from Blade Runner.
When you say “Giant reverb shootout” I assume you mean a reverb shootout where all the playing examples are from the first Giant album.
Well now that you've suggested it I think that's exactly what i have to do
Hey Leon! What is that little snippet of song you are playing at the 7.00 minute mark? I know I should know it but can't quite place it...Love your work dude!
This - th-cam.com/video/mgvl7ai-Vc8/w-d-xo.html
@@LeonTodd Ah...Of Course!! Cheers!
That outro needed to be wetter!! 🤔🤣🤘🏼
Hey dude. Can you remember what Stem pack you used for this? The vocals sound like LeBrock
The sax stuff is from Crystalline by the Midnight . Vocals are from a Ragdoll song called Here Today.
@@LeonTodd thanks!
What would be a similar reverb on the Fm3?
Large plate and cathedral. Try the plex delay plex detune and plex shift for the pitch shifted verb
@@LeonTodd Thank you!
that "amp" really sounds like 0's and 1's to me but hey- too each their own, sure it's lighter than my tube amp. It's a sound.
Leon XroX
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Love to see the source audio ventris in the upcoming comparison. Thought the Mercury 7 sounded fantastic and had more versatility than I realised. 👍
Hoping to get my hands on a Collider soon as part of the big reverb/delay vids i have planned
11:20 seriously reminds me of "The Dark" - Black Sabbath (off Born Again)
th-cam.com/video/eDzLk9SshYM/w-d-xo.html