Meris Masterclass - Angelo Mazzocco dives deep into the Ottobit, Mercury7 and PolyMoon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.พ. 2018
- Lead DSP engineer at Meris, Angelo Mazzocco gave a quick improv masterclass on their 3 amazing effects pedals, the Ottobit Bitcrusher/Sequencer, Mercury7 Reverb and PolyMoon Delay. I thought I knew these pedals well, but my god... I had only scratched the surface. So much awesomeness hidden inside these three mind-blowing pedals.
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Meris Polymoon - thepedalzone.com/polymoon/
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What a time to be alive.
Indeed! We're not worthy, we're not worthy! 😊
strymon just got dunked on
Finally someone demonstrates the flanger, albeit briefly, independent of the delay. It’s surely important for prospective buyers to get an idea of whether the modulation can be a substitute for dedicated modulation pedals.
Meris is a company that is going places, and they're all good. Great engineering and design.
Totally agree! Incredible people with incredible engineering and design talent.
I want to see a para EQ noise gate with a drive! I bet they can do it!
I'm so happy I found this. I own the polymoon and merc7, and now I know so much more about them. Awesome. Thanks again
this was super useful and educational. More like this please! Angelo is one for the best!!
Woah, The Polymoon with the phase sounds is amazing at 7:10
Yeah, it's a mesmerising sound. Happy you dig it!
I bought the Ottobit Jr from the Merris web site, shipping international to NZ. It arrived very quickly. It sounds amazing. It looks amazing. Top quality audio signal. Expression pedal makes it super usable. I bought it for the stutter, but the quality of the bit crusher is intoxicating. Like a very good gated fuzz. I use it with bass guitar, no low end loss at all. Just saying... (buy it)
Yup! It's just incredible. The filter on that thing is just mind blowing. Just as good as any filter I've heard on analog synths.
Wow! So amazing, thanks for bringing us this @ThePedalZone!
My pleasure, man. And thank you for watching and commenting. Really means a lot ☺
Thank you for uploading this. You have the best videos
My pleasure. And thank you very much for the kindness 😊
Stefan!! Thanks for your NAMM work man! Especially this video. This was just face-melty awesome. I was already super impressed with meris. But now I know IT'S EVEN BETTER!!!!
Appreciate your hard work man! Peace!
So happy to hear you liked the video. It was a privilege and a pleasure getting to experience this first hand. I'm just happy I had my cameras there so I could share it with all of you 😊
Very instructive video! Cool editing, we can see all the modifications in real time, it opened a world of possibilities for me!
Happy you found this little improv session helpful. I definitely learned a lot from Angelo 😊
Amazing, man. Great to hear the trifecta under the hands of the man himself. Right for now, if I had to use only three pedals, it’d be these. I love ‘em.
Happy you enjoyed it, my friend. These pedals are seriously next level, and would definitely be on my desert island board as well 😊
Holy cow, just the pitch mix on the Mercury alone is genius. I've never liked shimmer because it's usually too extreme for me. This guy is making incredible stuff.
Yup! They truly have thought about everything. Just incredible pedals from start to finish 😊
Man! Meris really blows everything out of the water! Definitely learned a few tricks here! :-)
Yup! They truly are on another level!
Excellent!
Thanks! Happy you liked it 😊
Mitico Angelo !
DUDE! this is sick! really cool interview! definitely have to get me a polymoon ASAP.
Happy you enjoyed it, man. Angelo is such a kind and brilliant guy. Everything by Meris is just top notch. The Polymoon is a wonderful place to start your Meris journey. One of my absolute favorite ambient devices ☺
Selling my boss 500 pedals now, thanks.
My pleasure! You're in for a wild ride here 😊
Great vid! Meris always makes quality gear.
Thanks! Yeah, Meris are the best. Their pedals aren't just conventional effects. It's complete sonic worlds on their own, which you can dive into every day, and every day you discover something new and amazing about them.
ThePedalZone
Can say the same about OBNE pedals, offering different sounds than their competitors in fact perhaps no direct competition.
I just got the Mercury 7 reverb and it is like a Lexicon 224 on your pedalboard and so much more. Great sounding tool.
Man! Besides the story-behind-the-pedal idea, more of this too please! Builder's masterclass or something like that :)
Yeah, would be killer to be able to do more of these 😊
Awesome! Soooooo want the Ottobit Jr.
I absolutely need an Ottobit now. Such an amazing pedal!
ThePedalZone 😁
I have bought 3 Meris pedals (Enzo, Polymoon,Ottobit)mostly based on the sterling reputation,richly deserved I confess.However my 65 yr old school brain has it's problems wrapping around them.I'm trying hard but progress is slow.I won't give up and hopefully when I least expect it the light will flash on.
I have say thx to the pedal zone and the quick replies from Meris! I finally sold enough gear to get the Polymoon from Moog Audio in Montreal and after more sales, well...not sure about the next Meris I'll get buy but I want them all!!!
So rad, man! Polymoon is just incredible. 100% one of my all-time favorite ambient devices. Honored that my videos could be of assistance in your purchase decision. I recommend you check out the Mercury7 next. It just pairs so damn well with the Polymoon ☺
@@thepedalzone I'm sure they do! I'm just on the fence about getting a Disaster Area or Morningstar, to tap in the 16 presets. Disaster Area replied to me that they will have a PC editor soon... That would make my decision easier, since Morningstar has no distribution center in North America.
@@thepedalzone my polymoon will arrive next week 😊
I've had the Polymoon for a month or so and this video just highlighted how little I still know about it.
Same here! Angelo blew my mind. There's just endless sonic possibilities in that pedal.
It's that good?
Yes! One of the finest pedals ever made, at least in my book 👍
@@thepedalzone I want to pair the Polymoon with the Transmisser for a cavernous tone.
Go for it! I do that from time to time. Sounds otherworldly incredible 🧙♂️🌊🚀
I have the Hedra. I want more Meris now!
Can't wait for your demo review of Mecury7!
Lorenzo Rizzello - And I’m looking forward to making it. Utterly amazing reverb pedal. Will hopefully get it done sometime here in February 😊🤘
+1
Lorenzo Rizzello can you do a demo of the mercury 7 changing presets? Wanting to hear how the transition sounds from one preset to another
I knew about a lot of this hidden stuff on the Polymoon, but never would have put some of those sounds together on my own. The phaser is amazing and probably my favorite thing about the pedal. No need for a standalone phaser pedal.
Happy to hear you enjoyed the video. Polymoon is such a rich ambient device. And yeah, the phaser is just unreal, especially in stereo.
We need a beginners guide to Ottobit Jr. Pretty please!
I have a full demo of Ottobit Jr on my channel. You're welcome to check it out. Maybe not a beginners guide, but I try to keep the use cases as straight forward and concise as possible.
Nice vid! I have two of the three, and I like the Mercury 7, but the pedal of theirs that I am eye-balling is the Hedra. :)
Cheers, man! Mercury7 is my go-to reverb. Just sounds so dreamy. Hedra is a lot of fun. Can really turn a single not into a full-on dream sequence. You should definitely check it out 😊
I actually watched your Hedra video, and it was really good.
Meris has a good one as well where they use it on vocals! Very cool.
I guess you need to be a lead engineer at Meris to get cool sounds out of a Meris pedal. This is a lot more impressive than any review I've seen for any of them.
I've had a Polymoon for years and never even played with half of the alt functions. The interface is brutal. Using it requires you to not only remember alt functions for every knob, but there's also alt functions for each foot switch. And nothing is simple. The Time and Multiply knobs have alt functions which each blindly scroll through 16 different settings - and it's scrolling through totally different types of things on one knob. It's insane. Then there are "global settings" functions for each knob and each foot switch, too. If you're going to change any of them you'll need a chart mapping the cryptic binary values displayed on the four LEDs to their meanings.
And now Meris just released the LVX with a big screen on it, but that just means you gotta go through menus to accomplish anything at all. If you're gonna make something as complicated as a Digitakt, you're gonna need some extra buttons/knobs/switches on the thing. All the DSP power in the world doesn't matter if it's behind a wall of bad UX.
Having said all that which I agree to some extent as I've mastered the Polymoon settings..The sound quality you get with it is very very good....
@@patrickr6505 It's definitely a love/hate relationship I have with the Polymoon. The UX choices are just so bad on every level. With something like the Eventide H9, yeah, it's complicated, and it's not very fun to play with, but at least it has a screen that tells you which setting you're changing and what the value is. With the Polymoon you get no feedback, and every knob has an alt function so you can't trust the position when you look at the knob. You can plug it into a MIDI controller (I have the Polymoon and an Empress Tremolo2 plugged into an Empress Midibox just for clock sync), but that's still complicated just because the early/late modulation and phaser settings are a mess. And it has the cool expression pedal function that you can map to a MIDI encoder and morph between two presets, but as soon as you touch that you can't trust the knobs because you're morphing between things which all share the same knobs. The H9 lets you morph settings like that with an expression pedal, but it's much more usable because you can set it up in the app and easily see and control what the expression pedal is morphing between. It feels like Meris is copying cool features from other pedals but with a much more frustrating blind interface that isn't fun and isn't intuitive.
They have these sticker overlays on their website that display all the secondary functions. Very helpful, especially on the polymoon
Essential viewing for Meris owners.
In order to assign things, do you have to use MIdi, or can it be done from the Alt buttons? Thanks!
Nice.
Thanks! Happy you liked it 😀
Been looking for a Holdsworth Chordal sound. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Can the poly moon delay do the same type of offset evolving delays that the evolver synth can do by Dave Smith?
So I can store presents and change between them using midi control? Then I will definetly buy both of them.
Well, guess I'll just have to pick up my jaw from the floor. This stuff is unreal!
Exactly what happened to me the first time I heard them. Unbelievable stuff really!
How do you reset factory presets for the polymoon? Couldn't find it in the manual. Thanks
Unplug. Hold ALT and SELECT while starting (both yellow buttons). Release. Unplug. Plug pack in. = Factory reset!
Nathan Vassiliades
While unplugged you say to unplug again?
Does anyone know how to connect these pedals to each other? I'm looking at adding the Mercury7 to my line up but how do I connect the stereo outs to it's mono input? Would a standard TRS y cable do the trick?
Rae - Yes, you can change the mono input to a stereo input via the pedal’s global settings and a TRS Y splitter cable 👍
@@thepedalzone thanks for responding! Just wanna say, I love your channel and the work that you do ✨
What Midi Pedal is he using on that board under the mercury 7 and polymoon?
It’s not a MIDI pedal. It’s a preset switcher. Meris’ own 4 preset switcher. It’ll be available soon 😊
ThePedalZone awesome, do you know any other preset pedal switchers/midi that work well with these pedals?
He just said that you can have one preset switch and control two pedals? Thats amazing if i heard correctly just wow!
Yup! You can do exactly that. You just need a dual TRS cable 👍
what guitar is he using?
Framus Idolmaker 5'R really beautifully built guitar. Comfortable neck, great sounding single coils, and outstanding fretwork.
Thanks for chiming in, Angelo! That guitar was awesome, and so was this entire session with you. Was fantastic to finally meet you 😊
Hot Damn!Polymoon on tithe way. .T
Awesome! You're gonna love it. Still one of the best delay pedals I've ever owned.
The guy with the guitar needs to give the guitar to the guy holding the mic.
Darryl of Sussex - I like the way Angelo plays. You should check out some of his official product demos for Meris it listen to all the killer sound examples he’s recorded for their website. He’s a brilliant musician 👌
Could have been so much better if he didn't play that horrible chord over and over again. Maybe the chord was affected by the ottobit or something but it sounded terrible.
D Addison Cowboy chord fan much?