Pedal geeks i need u (help jjjusten make decisions about awesome pedals for his store)

How did I not know Moog made a MF Tremolo? Fuck.... (goes off to sell more gear to get one)

can anyone ID the effect on this swervedriver tune for me please? its the sound right at the start of the song that sounds like some sort of chorusy glassy thing, almost like a weird mellotron flute sound. it does appear elsewhere in the song, most clearly from 3:38 through to the fade. is it even a pedal or is it someone playing behind the bridge or is it just open string harmonics in a weird tuning?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWAREhKcC4

Autofilter or something like a Mu-Tron Bi-phase maybe?

thanks milo, never explored either of those before

I have a very basic pedal question: are OD pedals more impacted by the output of your guitar (i.e. your guitar volume and picking strength) than by the amp volume? I had always assumed that if an amp is closer to breakup to begin with, it should be easier for an OD pedal to push it "over the edge" so to speak, yet I've found it easier with my current OD pedal (Plumes) to set the amp at a lower volume and the guitar higher, which is the opposite of what I like doing for clean tone.

trying to get my head around this… what pushes the amp is the OD’s output level, so we’d need to know how you’re setting the Plumes. also what amp.

also what volume you’re playing at. stage vs bedroom makes a difference here too.

what's that youtube account that does pedal and synth demos with no narration and the visuals are all just stylized shots of the pedal and other objects - you never see the person doing the playing except maybe their hands? i used to watch them frequently but now i've forgotten what it's called

knobs?

yes thank u

no worries. i got a bit obsessed with watching pedal demos over lockdown (and yes, buying pedals), these are two of my favourite under-the-radar channels atm:

Megan L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos - super-useful for seeing how each pedal works in yr chain, but also she has absolutely killer jangly shoegazery jams in all her videos with just the loveliest guitar tones imo

Andrew Brassell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos - impeccably shot with also great vibey jams, i don't knopw whether i actually love this guy or am just incredibly jealous of him

anyone got any recommends?

Can anyone recommend a good, basic reverb pedal? I'm looking for something for clean tone, tremolo style playing. Not trying to do any experimental stuff with it.

xp oh shit, those weren't supposed to be imbeds, just links to channels. let me find some samples.

okay different links... (sorry i'm making a mess of this)

megan l:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMuSNZLjNsk

andrew brassell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIOwJaIaVQc

Can anyone recommend a good, basic reverb pedal?

i've had ye olde tc hall of fame recently which i liked and kept, and ehx oceans 11 which i hated and sold (the spring setting was okay though)

also just got obne sunlight which is mega but probably not what youre after

I have one of those organizer pedals that I was hoping to trade for one. So should I be looking into the basic spring reverb pedals? Sorry don’t know shit about this other than that I’ve played with a few pricey ones that do way more than I need

what genres of music are you making?

Trying to do something vaguely jazzy americana

you'll probably want something with spring, plate and hall reverbs then unless you want one particular sound. i do think the hall of fame 2 is good value. not tried any of the cheaper options though

when i needed to get a reverb pedal i ended up picking the hall of fame 2, it's not "basic" but on the other hand i don't see myself ever needing to buy another reverb pedal.

i also really like the good old standbys for reverb. i have an mxr reverb and a boss rv-6 and that's realistically more than anyone needs. hall of fame does pretty much all of the same stuff, but honestly nobody can really tell the difference and they all sound pretty good. go with the cost effective option.

Thanks for the input. Realistically that’s how I should go but I just stumbled on something called the TRex roommate.

xp is the mxr or rv-6 cheaper than a hall of fame 2? especially a used one?

I have an MXR reverb + somewhere. Good verb but it didn't play well with the rest of my board and developed a high-pitched whine in some combinations.

Honestly my absolute favorite is the Marshall Reflector. I use it for everything, and it's always on. Every setting on it just... works.

Looks like used ones are widely available for less than one hundred American quatloos.

I really liked the reverb in Strymon's Flint and preferred the simplicity to something like a Blue Sky. Plus there's a tremolo!

I've had a Boss RV-3 for something like 15 years? Still on the board, still great.

I have a BigSky and it is too complicated.

Boss RV-3

alltimer.

I used to have an alesis nanoverb, I loved that thing. Great hall sounds.

I don't know if they're still cheap but the Digitech Polara sounds good, lots of options without getting too deep into the weeds on them.

I don’t know why I used past tense up there. I still have the Flint - it’s an awesome pedal that just happens to be on the opposite coast right now

oh milo, that's a really good suggestion! too bad that whole line of digitech stuff went out of production (though a quick search on reverb and it's not gotten outrageously expensive for second hand ones). the polara had some really strong conventional sounds (especially the spring — really good!), but then it also had some more weird modes like the halo setting. super unique and versatile.

i keep wanting to play a flint, but that strymon stuff is just too expensive to be going out on whims for.

i think i've finally gotten tired of delay. never thought it would happen, but i knew it was over when i looked at my trusty old bicycle delay and found myself asking, "do i really need this one? like REALLY need it?" seems like new delays coming out anymore are just focusing on presets and weird glitchy processed repeats. that stuff is fine, but meh i don't really have any interest in making those kinds of sounds. i bought a boss dd-200 last year and that has been pretty much my go-to ever since. i'm boring now i guess.

Another Digitech reverb that gets a lot of praise is the Supernatural, especially for the spring reverb.

Source Audio is also really good.

I have a Marshall Reflector too and like it. Have had it a long time and remember doing a lot of comparing with the EHX Holy Grail and maybe a Boss one when deciding what to buy. Clearly came out on top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVbeaDwDcWg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syruqlA0hpM

"Key Moments:
17:00 Kevin pleases himself.
19:20 J seems to nod approval.
23:32 J ‘Let me take over’.
26:23 Kevin imposes more knob twists."