@zackpack8 Oddly enough, I could probably get her to accept a $300+ pedal than easier than a $99 one because I could get EZ-Payments on the more expensive pedal (the same thing she does for her crafting equipment).
I got the Cetus reverb a while ago after the 60 Cycle Hum demo and I freaking love it. I'm insanely impressed with these for the price! I've wasted so many hours just playing ambient stuff with headphones on. A quick check of the instructions probably would have helped understand and show these off a little better. One feature you missed is they do stereo in/stereo out, mono in/mono out, but they also do mono in/stereo out. So your guitar signal will come out the same in both sides but the reverb or delay etc will come out stereo even with the guitar going in mono. (So I've put mine after my Katana record out into the pedal and then into my interface so I can have stereo reverb in my headphones/speakers) The switch changes what the foot switch does, but it also changes what that 5th knob does. So it makes that knob a pre-delay or a modulation knob for example. Also the infinity/expression mode of the footswitch record changes you want it to do when you hold it, and then will redo that whenever you hold it (with multiple layers). So you can make it so holding down the footswitch turns up the reverb mix, for example, but you can do any knob changes. So you can have the mix cut to 0 then swell in, and then you can have it also increase the decay at the same time, and then you can have it also modulate less or more etc etc all at once as you hold the footswitch. These are awesome. You also kind of missed the uniqueness of the last setting on the reverb called Wave, because it's kind of low by default. But again if you flip the switch down and use the mod knob you can increase how much of it there is. What it does it does a reverb with like an impulse response of literally ocean waves crashing on the beach mixed in, and it's so cool! And again for example with that expression mode of the foot switch you could record it to increase the amount of ocean waves in the reverb when you hold it for example. These pedals really are mindblowing to me for the price.
I waited to post this on prime day. These are not paid affiliate links. Alabs pedals US store amzn.to/4cAKZgS UK store amzn.to/4eMa1LO DE store amzn.to/3URXgGf Global Store: bit.ly/3xRD4MT The Kiesel Delo Im Using www.kieselguitars.com/series/guitar/phillip-mcknight-delos-edition
Great demo, Phil. These sound really nice. I wouldn’t call $99 cheap anymore, though. $200-300 feels overpriced considering how completely saturated the pedal market has become.
I agree. Why are the prices so high? I know a lot are made by boutique builders. . . but I don’t see how it adds up when you account for parts, labor, etc. It’ll cost more than a factory built pedal, but $200-$600 per pedal that basically has very limited functions? I don’t get the draw and how most normal people could afford that sort of pedal life. Even $99 is steep for what a pedal is, but at least these sound really nice and are in the same price range as a tried and true Boss pedal.
I don’t see it that way at all. In an age where a lot of pedals cost OVER $500 (prices you could buy a good guitar or amp for), $99 is absolutely a cheap price. The fact of the matter is that most *good* pedals average between $100 to $400 now. There may be a lot of pedals on the market for less than $99, but most of them are not really *good* pedals.
@masha. Pedals can be legitimately expensive for a number of reasons, sometimes it's the hard to find old transistors you are paying extra for, sometimes it is because of small boutique builders, or it can simply be a very high demand for a particular pedal or builder. Also digital pedals with a lot of tech in them and research in creating them can get one into that $300+ level gear. Simply deciding that any pedal over $99 or a $199 dollars is unjustified because you are either guessing at all this or just hopeful for everthing to be cheaper defies logic. If you look at pedals back in the 1970s and 1980s basic distortion or overdrives were going for roughly around $100... adjust that for inflation and depending on the exact year and pedal we are talking a few hundred dollars. Today we are lucky to have so many choices at a huge range of price points. There is lots of stuff even under $50 and there are also super expensive hand built pedals that go for hundreds of dollars. Buy what you can afford and what you like, some people are glad to part with $500 for a vintage recreation of some rare pedal that an original now goes for thousands while others struggle to come up with fifty bucks. You don't have to buy a $500 pedal if you don't want to but the offense at the existence of these products is pretty much a reflection of the general unfounded anger of the times.
I bought all 4 last year on Black Friday. They are great with the reverb being the best. They are power hungry though they all need a 250mA minimum supplied to them!
Awesome demo of some exiting pedals! The factors which cured my pedal addiction: 1.) An old USA Peavey Bandit amp- sounded so much better without external effects 2.) The $300+ pedals flooding the market 3.) The Mooer Red Truck
Own the reverb and delay pedal and have to say especially the reverb is REALLY good. If you want the exitement that something like the strymon reverbs can bring you - this pedal delivers. More conventional algorithms like room, spring and plate sound very good too. Could not found a real downside apart from the double function pot for mod and pre-delay.
I LOVE the sound of my Timeslip in tape delay mode into my Cetus in hall reverb mode (extra dark) with my baritone into my Nux Pulse stereo cab simulator pedal. Cheap and lush.
I love these. I have three of the four. They have some issues such as they don’t like being plugged in for super long (like when I forget to turn off my power strip after practice). I love the mod/x knob they put on them.
@@caseylockwood5512 Their digital insides didn’t seem to turn on if they’ve been plugged in for days. The lights would work, but I’d only get bypass sounds with maybe a tiny bit of glitchy modulation. The problem COMPLETELY went away when I got a better, fully isolated, power supply instead of using a daisy chain wall wart or cheap power brick. I still have the Cetus (reverb) on my board and haven’t had a problem since I upgraded to an MXR IsoBrick Pro
It’s been a bit. I left the Cetus on this entire time using the IsoBrick Pro. Randomly plug in and play and no problems. I tested the delay pedal on my small board with a mini Iso-Brick as the power unit and haven’t had a problem, but leaving it plugged into a wall wart for 4 hours gives it glitches.
All of the Alabs units are on offer in the UK for Prime Day, for those this side of the Atlantic that may be interested. Something very Walrus Audio about the look of these!
They sound amazing to my untrained ear! Had I not spent 2x my self imposed allowance on the Ampero II Stage being on sale, I would have picked one or two of these up.
I really liked the Reverb and Delay. The Modulation pedal didn’t sound very good to my ears. It might be a pedal you have to spend time tweaking each different effect. I don’t have much use for the pitch pedal but there was a point where you had a cool chorus effect through that pedal. Thanks for the video.
I bought the modulation bthe first time I saw a demo, and a lot of the modes sound fairly similar to me. I like the tremolo in stereo and (surprisingly) the ring mod. Messing with the settings on the "infinite" mode makes it a lot of fun, but without those features I think I'd like my Flamma FS05 more at around the same price point.
So, this came out in prime day, and I liked the reverb so I stopped the video right they and ordered one. Now it has been been delivered and I am LOVING the shimmer. But a few points. The packing is not bad but it’s not great, yeah sure , it’s not just a box with a lid, but it’s not (for example) as nice as the little magnet clasped boxes Andertons had on their own brand Landlord pedals. What is slightly hilarious is "ritual like unboxing" list listed as a feature of the range on all the boxes. It’s like the packaging designer took the brief printed it on the box and won the contract! Speaking of what’s written on the box, "abundant merch" obviously is marketing speak for: a guitar pick and a little sheet of stickers.
I literally could replace everything on my board with these and be just fine. Especially, now that I am in a band and just need simple solid units that work.
You think Walrus has a case for copyright infringement, the design is a strait rip off. But i don’t know about laws, it probably only applies to written language? aka Copyright. What do you think?
The demo was great and the pedals sounded great as well. I just have an issue with so many versions of an effect in one pedal. Not condusive to stage play IMO without having multiple units. I suppose you could always pick your favorite then set it and forget it.
That’s the idea, yeah. Pick a setting per pedal. You don’t want to change them in the fly. I saw a bass player not that long ago (Jimbo Hart with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit) who had these little joystick pedals on his board (no idea what they were) but he kept having to bend down to alter them during one song and it looked uncomfortable to me (I’m pretty stiff), but he was getting some pretty cool sounds out of them. I bring that up to say there are some people interacting with their board like that, but I couldn’t be one of them.
Huh?! $99 bucks.... Thanks for the demo Phil. I literally had to pause video to go rummage thru my pedals to see if I need something that a $99 pedal could fix.
Something funny about pedal packaging is that, at this point I have purchased probably like 5 $200-$300 pedals from reputable companies and they all came in the cheapest cardboard box imaginable 😂
As long as Josh@JHS doesnt make a video they sould stay around 99$ ..seriously though the jhs 3 series pedals although sterile in appearance, Are pretty awsome....i just wish they were in stereo.
According to my wife, $99 isn't a cheap pedal.
@zackpack8 Oddly enough, I could probably get her to accept a $300+ pedal than easier than a $99 one because I could get EZ-Payments on the more expensive pedal (the same thing she does for her crafting equipment).
get her looking at UA & Strymon pedals.
Tell her it will help you write love songs to her. Problem solved.
According to me, $300 isn't a cheap pair of shoes.
@@phishfan Unfortunately, she only likes EDM.
I got the Cetus reverb a while ago after the 60 Cycle Hum demo and I freaking love it. I'm insanely impressed with these for the price! I've wasted so many hours just playing ambient stuff with headphones on. A quick check of the instructions probably would have helped understand and show these off a little better. One feature you missed is they do stereo in/stereo out, mono in/mono out, but they also do mono in/stereo out. So your guitar signal will come out the same in both sides but the reverb or delay etc will come out stereo even with the guitar going in mono. (So I've put mine after my Katana record out into the pedal and then into my interface so I can have stereo reverb in my headphones/speakers) The switch changes what the foot switch does, but it also changes what that 5th knob does. So it makes that knob a pre-delay or a modulation knob for example. Also the infinity/expression mode of the footswitch record changes you want it to do when you hold it, and then will redo that whenever you hold it (with multiple layers). So you can make it so holding down the footswitch turns up the reverb mix, for example, but you can do any knob changes. So you can have the mix cut to 0 then swell in, and then you can have it also increase the decay at the same time, and then you can have it also modulate less or more etc etc all at once as you hold the footswitch. These are awesome.
You also kind of missed the uniqueness of the last setting on the reverb called Wave, because it's kind of low by default. But again if you flip the switch down and use the mod knob you can increase how much of it there is. What it does it does a reverb with like an impulse response of literally ocean waves crashing on the beach mixed in, and it's so cool! And again for example with that expression mode of the foot switch you could record it to increase the amount of ocean waves in the reverb when you hold it for example. These pedals really are mindblowing to me for the price.
I waited to post this on prime day. These are not paid affiliate links.
Alabs pedals
US store amzn.to/4cAKZgS
UK store amzn.to/4eMa1LO
DE store amzn.to/3URXgGf
Global Store: bit.ly/3xRD4MT
The Kiesel Delo Im Using
www.kieselguitars.com/series/guitar/phillip-mcknight-delos-edition
I got all but the octave when they first dropped for $79 apiece. Totally worth it.
Thanks Phil! Great timing -- the Timeslip Pedal is an Amazon Prime Day Deal $93.48 USD.
Great demo, Phil. These sound really nice. I wouldn’t call $99 cheap anymore, though. $200-300 feels overpriced considering how completely saturated the pedal market has become.
All Most even pedal on these guitar youtuber channels outside of ( Cheap temu products) are $199
Thanks for the heads up. Much better than the old Arion pedals we used back in the day.
I agree. Why are the prices so high? I know a lot are made by boutique builders. . . but I don’t see how it adds up when you account for parts, labor, etc. It’ll cost more than a factory built pedal, but $200-$600 per pedal that basically has very limited functions? I don’t get the draw and how most normal people could afford that sort of pedal life.
Even $99 is steep for what a pedal is, but at least these sound really nice and are in the same price range as a tried and true Boss pedal.
I don’t see it that way at all. In an age where a lot of pedals cost OVER $500 (prices you could buy a good guitar or amp for), $99 is absolutely a cheap price. The fact of the matter is that most *good* pedals average between $100 to $400 now. There may be a lot of pedals on the market for less than $99, but most of them are not really *good* pedals.
@masha. Pedals can be legitimately expensive for a number of reasons, sometimes it's the hard to find old transistors you are paying extra for, sometimes it is because of small boutique builders, or it can simply be a very high demand for a particular pedal or builder. Also digital pedals with a lot of tech in them and research in creating them can get one into that $300+ level gear.
Simply deciding that any pedal over $99 or a $199 dollars is unjustified because you are either guessing at all this or just hopeful for everthing to be cheaper defies logic.
If you look at pedals back in the 1970s and 1980s basic distortion or overdrives were going for roughly around $100... adjust that for inflation and depending on the exact year and pedal we are talking a few hundred dollars. Today we are lucky to have so many choices at a huge range of price points. There is lots of stuff even under $50 and there are also super expensive hand built pedals that go for hundreds of dollars.
Buy what you can afford and what you like, some people are glad to part with $500 for a vintage recreation of some rare pedal that an original now goes for thousands while others struggle to come up with fifty bucks.
You don't have to buy a $500 pedal if you don't want to but the offense at the existence of these products is pretty much a reflection of the general unfounded anger of the times.
I bought all 4 last year on Black Friday. They are great with the reverb being the best. They are power hungry though they all need a 250mA minimum supplied to them!
Awesome demo of some exiting pedals! The factors which cured my pedal addiction:
1.) An old USA Peavey Bandit amp- sounded so much better without external effects
2.) The $300+ pedals flooding the market
3.) The Mooer Red Truck
Own the reverb and delay pedal and have to say especially the reverb is REALLY good. If you want the exitement that something like the strymon reverbs can bring you - this pedal delivers. More conventional algorithms like room, spring and plate sound very good too. Could not found a real downside apart from the double function pot for mod and pre-delay.
Loved this demo…I’d like to hear how delay and reverb pedal sound together too! I’d be interested to hear a comparison between these pedals and JOYO.
I LOVE the sound of my Timeslip in tape delay mode into my Cetus in hall reverb mode (extra dark) with my baritone into my Nux Pulse stereo cab simulator pedal.
Cheap and lush.
You missed the best trick these pedals can do. The space ship sounds on the time slip is amazing
Phil, what OD pedal did you use? Sounds awesome
Walrus Audio called and want their artist back.
I wonder if they used AI for the artwork? 🤔
I love these. I have three of the four. They have some issues such as they don’t like being plugged in for super long (like when I forget to turn off my power strip after practice).
I love the mod/x knob they put on them.
What happened to them after they were plugged in too long??
@@caseylockwood5512 Their digital insides didn’t seem to turn on if they’ve been plugged in for days. The lights would work, but I’d only get bypass sounds with maybe a tiny bit of glitchy modulation.
The problem COMPLETELY went away when I got a better, fully isolated, power supply instead of using a daisy chain wall wart or cheap power brick. I still have the Cetus (reverb) on my board and haven’t had a problem since I upgraded to an MXR IsoBrick Pro
It’s been a bit. I left the Cetus on this entire time using the IsoBrick Pro. Randomly plug in and play and no problems.
I tested the delay pedal on my small board with a mini Iso-Brick as the power unit and haven’t had a problem, but leaving it plugged into a wall wart for 4 hours gives it glitches.
Reverb sounded very nice. The tails sound like part of the notes. Not stuck on top like many pedals.
to me, i could not care less about packaging, only performance matters.
Sweet Walrus knockoffs!!! I'm digging them!
Hi Guitar 🎸 guy nice video 📹 and workmanship that Guitar 🎸 sounding was the best
All of the Alabs units are on offer in the UK for Prime Day, for those this side of the Atlantic that may be interested.
Something very Walrus Audio about the look of these!
The reverb and delay were nice.
There is a press n hold feature that "saves" your knob twists that is another more unique feature of these. Might be worth a channel 2 cut.
Kind of reminds me of the reverbs on the Kemper. Great stuff and how nice of you for shining some light on these unknown pedal builders.
"I'd really like to hear this on a Bassman"... Wouldn't we all, brother!
They sound amazing to my untrained ear! Had I not spent 2x my self imposed allowance on the Ampero II Stage being on sale, I would have picked one or two of these up.
Phil, I appreciate all your videos. I listen to them all while working.
I really liked the Reverb and Delay. The Modulation pedal didn’t sound very good to my ears. It might be a pedal you have to spend time tweaking each different effect. I don’t have much use for the pitch pedal but there was a point where you had a cool chorus effect through that pedal. Thanks for the video.
I bought the modulation bthe first time I saw a demo, and a lot of the modes sound fairly similar to me. I like the tremolo in stereo and (surprisingly) the ring mod. Messing with the settings on the "infinite" mode makes it a lot of fun, but without those features I think I'd like my Flamma FS05 more at around the same price point.
No, Phil!!! I'm saving for one and you are going to make them go up in price 😅
The Cetus as a stereo reverb is awesome for the price.
So, this came out in prime day, and I liked the reverb so I stopped the video right they and ordered one. Now it has been been delivered and I am LOVING the shimmer. But a few points. The packing is not bad but it’s not great, yeah sure , it’s not just a box with a lid, but it’s not (for example) as nice as the little magnet clasped boxes Andertons had on their own brand Landlord pedals. What is slightly hilarious is "ritual like unboxing" list listed as a feature of the range on all the boxes. It’s like the packaging designer took the brief printed it on the box and won the contract! Speaking of what’s written on the box, "abundant merch" obviously is marketing speak for: a guitar pick and a little sheet of stickers.
I literally could replace everything on my board with these and be just fine. Especially, now that I am in a band and just need simple solid units that work.
You think Walrus has a case for copyright infringement, the design is a strait rip off. But i don’t know about laws, it probably only applies to written language? aka Copyright. What do you think?
I've been looking for an inexpensive reverb pedalfor a couple of weeks. Definitely checking out the Cetus.
The demo was great and the pedals sounded great as well. I just have an issue with so many versions of an effect in one pedal. Not condusive to stage play IMO without having multiple units. I suppose you could always pick your favorite then set it and forget it.
That’s the idea, yeah. Pick a setting per pedal. You don’t want to change them in the fly.
I saw a bass player not that long ago (Jimbo Hart with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit) who had these little joystick pedals on his board (no idea what they were) but he kept having to bend down to alter them during one song and it looked uncomfortable to me (I’m pretty stiff), but he was getting some pretty cool sounds out of them. I bring that up to say there are some people interacting with their board like that, but I couldn’t be one of them.
That reverb pedal sounded insane!!! $100 steal
It's backup to 120.
@@LumaTo that’s was quick
@@mattlionmusic The next step on the roller coaster is that they added a $20 coupon so it's back to $100.
We’re gonna cry over 20$?
I don’t think so
@@GlennJimenez Hey, if you'd rather not have twenty bucks feel free to send em my way! 🤣
Dynamic pricing now has the reverb at $120, the delay and pitch shift at $93.50, and the modulation at $85.
I like that reverb. They need one with a bunch of badass drives
I have the Timeslip it’s awesome.
Nice review Phil! I really like the CETUS and TIMESLIP. You just helped ALabs sell a ton of these I suspect
Very interesting and very cool sounds !!
Reverb sounds great !
That reverb pedal was nice
The A in A Labs is most likely going to be Amazon's own brand. I'd avoid them myself but whatever floats your boat.
It certainly appears that the Prime Days was the time to buy these. They certainly have gone up since the sale ended.
Eqd plumes... AMAZING $100 ts circuit w 3 way clip switch
Huh?! $99 bucks.... Thanks for the demo Phil. I literally had to pause video to go rummage thru my pedals to see if I need something that a $99 pedal could fix.
85 to 99 dollars for Prime Day. You liked the Reverb too much Phil, they have that one listed for 119 (with a $20 coupon)
I’ll buy JHS series 3 stuff
But stereo?
ty jeff
Too much trem bar. I thought you were cutting back. None the less, good demos.
$119 now
Another Amazon product not available to us over here in Europe(Ireland.)..thanks for demoing...
Check his links
If you have ever opened some of these pedals, you might question why some of them cost $300..
They're now showing list prices of over $99 on Amazon for three of the four pedals.
I don’t think these are 99 anymore, prices went up or is it just me?
Something funny about pedal packaging is that, at this point I have purchased probably like 5 $200-$300 pedals from reputable companies and they all came in the cheapest cardboard box imaginable 😂
As long as Josh@JHS doesnt make a video they sould stay around 99$ ..seriously though the jhs 3 series pedals although sterile in appearance, Are pretty awsome....i just wish they were in stereo.
For a second I thought walrus was selling their pedals for 100 bucks now 😂
For less than $99 I'll just buy some used name brand pedals
I was thinking the same. These will crash in value. Boss etc won't much.
@@11000038 exactly, plus generally I think people feel better about owning reputable brands
I'll take "Because they're cheap" for $200, Alex...
They’re not $200, were you even paying attention?
@@michaelpacinus242 you misread his comment
@@michaelpacinus242 Jeopardy joke ,my friend.
Probably should have picked 100 tho, even if it's not the lowest value available.
@@LumaTo trolling your ass, my friend
@@michaelpacinus242 how is that trolling lol
Demonfx is better and cheaper if you dont have morals
How about "Why PEOPLE are talking about [whatever]".
Its' never "everyone".
came to say, first I've heard of these and I'm not gonna watch this video.
And once again the Canadian price is $145