you my friend are the winner of the funniest comment i have ever read .I made a yt account so i could tell you I didnt lol I laughed out my drink .Truly hilarious
The "shimmer" is the same reverb sound but up an octave (and hopefully with the harshness taken off with EQ). Like all good things, invented by Brian Eno. He's also responsible for penicillin, long shelf life milk and those wire thingies that help old people thread needles.
I am currently fooling around with separate tones for the repeats of my reverberating echo, and I had not yet considered serious octave play. 🤔 thanks.
I think the best example of “turn the reverb off” is the middle of the solo in Pink Floyd’s Money. The massive reverby jam completely dries up into a small, intimate section, then comes back bigger than ever. It’s insanely effective.
It took almost 20 years before I realized that the “reverb” sound I loved, was actually multiple delays. Now layering delay and reverb is one of the best ways for me to create the ambient textures I wanted
@@juanrubiogarciandia6597 I like running delays into reverb so the delay triggers the reverb each repeat, and with a tape delay or modulate setting on a boss dd20, the different sound of the delay repeat gives you some beautiful textures, hope that helps!
My “swell” sound is usually a warmer quarter delay, into a relatively bright dotted eighth delay, into a spring reverb, into a an octave or shimmer verb.
Juan Rubio Garciandía also my solo sound usually has an immediate slap back with a single repeat, into a warmer 16th not with long trails, into a hall reverb
currently running a chorus into a phaser into another chorus. Which goes into reverb, then the delay in the effects change. with a UniVibe at the start, too. Bring a towel, my tone is WET!
Loving this "10 ways to wreck your bank balance" series. But a shout out to your previous shows on " wet dry wet" set ups where you can dial that stereo verb to 11 and stack the other 'verbs 8 miles high
Ya babe, I’ll take the car for an oil change Friday morning! ***knowing TPS will be dropping an episode right on time! ;) thanks for making my waiting room wait less of a pain!
It's amazing how popular reverb pedals are now, as when I was younger and doing gymnasiums and and community halls a lot more, the last thing I'd want on my pedal board would be reverb. Nowadays, it's more bars and acoustically treated rooms, so it's okay to have a bit of space around the guitar :-)
Using a swell into a big reverb is an effect I use all the time - I love it - it’s so effective for creating pads and textures. I use an auto swell pedal (currently got the Mooer Slow Engine but loads of others do it too). It means I can concentrate on the notes without worrying about fading in!
I like reverb, but have considered it unusable in live situations. I don't know if it's just me, but that's one of the reasons why I love delay so much. If I step on the reverb, I disappear into the mix (a bit disconcerting the 1st time that happened!!), but delay is like the friend that doesn't let me down... and doesn't step all over my sound!! If you guys could talk about use in a live pop-rock situation (say guitar, drums, bass, keys, and vocals) that would be really great. Cheers.
Agreed. By time you can actually hear it, you’re using too much of it already. The amps reverb is more than sufficient to take the dryness off for most live situations.
That stereo hack is delightful. I had to try it. I discovered with my Immerse Mk II that if I had the input on one side and the output on the other side of the stereo (they're marked 1 and 2 on the pedal), that I still got a signal. It sounded like a dry kill, with just the tails, but fatter than with the dry signal mixed out. Another surprise. Thanks!
I'm much more connected to delay, as opposed to reverb. But when I turn off the delay, and just play through my Blue Sky reverb, I really love some of those sounds, and it makes me play slightly differently. I think that's why we're all (here) so nuts for new pedals. We're always looking for something new to connect with as a player, to keep things fresh and stimulate our playing. Very nice primer guys!
I have always played through Fender amps that have reverb built in. And I've found that it works for me by always having it on 2. Not more than 4 ever unless I'm playing surf stuff from my SoCal teenage years, back in the 1960s. Good video you guys.
the Boss Rv-500 lets you do all of this, including the series-parallel routing, sending different delays to different outputs or running them mono, plus it has built-in delay (including an algorithm for the space echo delay and reverb unit) that can be added in and can be turned on and off with the tap/ctrl button. I know menus are scary but I think you guys would really enjoy some of the features available if you dug into a little deeper. If I can do it so you. The Rv-500 with a tube screamer and fuzz can do just about everything you need for a grab and go board.
Going to try that hack with my HOF2! Speaking of hacks, when reverbs were still rare on pedalboards, I plugged an Alesis Nanoverb into an Xotic X-Blender and used that as my "reverb pedal." The Alesis normally does not have the headroom to run it as a guitar pedal, but the X-blender took care of that, as well as giving me a second "wet signal only" switch. I used one ofthe plate settings, and even after getting the Strymon Blue Sky, and the HOF2, it's still my favorite reverb sound (though I need to explore the HOF2 a little bit more).
WOW! You guys are psychics. I've been looking to buy a few new reverb pedals and have spent the last 2 months searching for some that I like. YESTERDAY I was talking about it with the other guitar player in our little jam group and I said "It would be great if TPS did a full episode on just reverb. The last one was a few years ago and so much has changed since then." I got a lot of great ideas from this episode. THANKS!!
I’ve been obsessed with reverb for as long as I can remember. Now I get to learn more about it from my two favorite gents. Also, I love running my Boss RV-6 into my Earthquaker Devices Afterneath. It’s so amazing!
Love the swell button on the Mercury 7 reverb to kill the dry guitar signal without needing to adjust settings. Perfect for what Mick was saying in thing 8 - playing some nice chords/arpeggios under a vocal melody and filling out a lot of space with only a few notes. Another great episode guys! Have really gotten a lot of helpful knowledge out of this little series of videos. Keep it up!
One of the best purest reverb pedals I have found for the money, getting the most for your dollars spent, is a TRex Tube Reverb, it sounds fantastic, especially when plugged into a Fender 1957 Custom Shop Reissue Twin Amp with 2 X 12 inch speakers. I can truly understand why Eric Clapton chooses that amp for his favorite.
Saying I learn something from every show would be an understatement! I don't know how to play yet, but I have become obsessed with collecting and learning. So as much as 50% of the shows can be a learning experience for me. And over the years I have learned things that have piqued my curiosity, made me go "...huh...", made me exclaim "oh wow" and just downright flabbergasted me. But that stereo reverb/dual reverb trick was the first thing to legitimately blow my mind! 🤯
Your delay/reverb show on "before or after overdrive" clued me in on how to get a sound that more resembles that of a classic external Fender reverb by moving my Hall of Fame before my overdrive pedals. Soon after, I switched to the Topanga as I had decided that a really good spring reverb sound was more important to me than the larger range of reverb types the HOF provides. Interestingly, the "dwell" control on the Topanga gives the feel of reverb before overdrive without the need to put it before the actual overdrive pedals. This allows me to keep it at the end of my effects chain and use the dwell knob to switch between a pre-overdrive and a post-overdrive sound. As regards this particular show, it may have been easier in retrospect to contrast the pre vs post overdrive tones using a cleaner type of reverb than the Topanga. I love the show, as well as the vlogs… especially Mick's strat journey, as I am a tinkerer who spends far too much time tweaking parts to get the last 1% sound improvement out of my gear. Thank you for being the internet's premier tone crafting resource!
I love this show more than anything on the internet, and I consume a lot of audio podcast (20hrs a week I would imagine). Keep it up, love from Australia
Very informative episode, Dan & Mick! I was an amp reverb only player until I bought a modded AC30 with no built-in reverb and invested in a TC Hall of Fame for my board. Probably the most underrated part of my sound outside of EQ pedal, but so essential.
It's you two I have to thank for ever trying reverb. When I was younger and owned a 1980ish Fender75 I never used built in spring reverb because I didn't like it, nor was it needed for the type of music I had played. Now I own a 1963 Farfisa8 and had to go out and buy a reverb pedal (TC-HOF) which is almost always on and maxed out. Thank you 👊
I've heard the reverb before drive in some live Peter Green Fleetwood Mac recordings. He would alternate between crashing devastating reverb, to bone dry, for extra textures and dynamics. I sold my Topanga after I bought a Deluxe Reverb, regretting that decision now! Love the show!
Love love love my Keeley Caverns reverb. Even makes my terrible playing sound reasonably nice (so in the hands of someone half way competent would sound like heaven).
I’ve never loved reverb pedals until I got my Walrus Fathom. It’s just great when used tastefully, just a taste of the plate setting. Fender Amp spring reverb of course sounds amazing.
I once had a RV-5 and i never liked it until i sold it. Now i finally bought a TC HOF2 now this episode is quite useful for me! Turning it darker is the best tip, stereo hack also blew my mind!
I’m a huge fan of the Source Audio Ventris. It’s a stereo delay that allows you to run two separate reverb algorithms simultaneously. Each preset on the Ventris contains two reverbs, which you can run individually, in series, or in parallel, so you can accomplish every trick mentioned in this video with one (incredible sounding) pedal.
You guys already got me to put the Reverb before the drive and now I must jump the stereo signal on my HOF2. Holy crap, how do you keep finding such wonderfully weird & awesome tricks...besides time and the fact that finding those tricks is a revenue stream for you.
I tried it with my HOF2 right after I watched and it was amazing. If you have a big washy setting like hall and add some modulation, you can mess around with decay and mix knob to get some weird feedback noises like an analog delay self oscillating!
OOH! You've got the Mesa out! Number 2 in a way had me laughing a bit, because my first reverb pedal back in the early 1990s was a Boss RV-2 Digital Reverb, and as you might remember, the frequency response of the reverb on that pedal only went to 10 KHz. I've never really tried to make my reverb dark on purpose, but you can be sure that the next time I fire up my rig, I'm going to experiment with that sound on my tc electronic Arena (Guitar Center special version of the Hall of Fame). As for Number 5, I always ran my RV-2 (either in Hall or Plate modes) into the Accutronics long-tank spring reverb and detune stereo chorus of my Ampeg VH-140C combo. What a glorious sound that was! Also, on Number 10, when Mick mentioned adding ping-pong delay to stereo reverb, the RV-2 had that built-in as one of its modes.
My favorite lots-o-reverb tone is Jeff Beck. He just has the sound engineer kick on a stereo Lexicon hall/plate for some songs and it just sounds glorious.
It's cool for those of us who used a TON of chorus in the 80s, then lessened use chorus. Now we ca just have chorus on reverb trails and it sounds so beautiful and more moderated. Thanks gentlemen.
I have a HoF reverb on my board which is almost always set to custom toneprint for the ducking envelope. Quite useful as it lets you have a long reverb that rings out on chords, but without it getting all muddy when you play lines. You have to go into the companion app to access it though.
35:44 He is one of my comedy heroes. "In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet." - Les Dawson
@@tommystratpaul It's a joke from one of Les Dawson's TV shows. I can't remember which one but there are lots of clips on CZcams from his TV shows. Les was a comedian from the north of England. He had a very working class style of homour but was also a great wordsmith and clever bloke. He was famous for "mother-in-law jokes" and playing the piano "badly", but he was so much more too. I was walking down the street and my friend said "that looks like your mother-in-law getting beat up by four thugs, aren't you going to help?" I said "Nah, four should be enough".
Great video guys. Thank you very much. I previously did not know about the HoF2 stereo hack. It was bit like when your dogs does a trick you didn’t know it could do.... love it.
Another great show. I play modern church worship music and reverb is essential for the sound. At one point I had 4 reverb pedal on my board. HOF v2, Oceans 11, Ernie Ball Ambient Delay and a Caline Snakebite. I now have a RV-500. Videos like this make it easier for me to teach people how to play with reverb and to help tell them when they are doing to wrong.
There are some videos which really have the power to change your (musical) life and I think that's definitely one of them. Demystifying the world of pedal effects and here I am building my own pedalboard and having fun !! Kudos to TPS 🎸🤘🏻🎶
Thanks to you lot I’ve been “shoegazing” all weekend. I never thought that putting a reverb/delay before my fuzz and overdrives could be so much fun. I genuinely learnt something from this. Cheers!
Been really enjoying your rendition of Oklahoma Sky, Mick. One of the first gigs I ever did was performing that song at a wedding, but your version is far more interesting than the chords I strummed that day. Well done!!
Hey Dan and Mick, just wanted to say that Dan's stereo pedal hack is incredible and has not only changes how I will use certain pedals from now on, but also the way I look at new pedals when buying. Very cool
Love my Empress Reverb, that pedal deserves a show unto itself for versatility, blows away many other a 'verb indeed! Great to see some other options, very cool!
What's great about the stereo input hack is this can be done by putting each side in different loops of a loop switcher and having different levels of reverb that you can do on the fly.
I have Fender amps so it’s been hard to justify getting a reverb pedal. But it is clearly time to play around.. these 10 things vids have been great ..
That pedal show just makes life more enjoyable and keeps the savings on zero! Worth it always. Friday is “because tone” day. And I am still laughing at the “yam sack”. Man what a funny Koch-ism.
Loved the stereo reverb in series with itself trick! I often wondered what would happen but, worried it might hurt the pedal somehow. Thanks for lifting the veil on that one!
Love this episode. I have been expanding my reverb palate most notably with the Eventide H9. I find that there is a really nice middle ground between overly ambient sounds and run of the mill plate, hall, spring. In a stereo set up you can really make your tone sound like an "album". For sure dial it back a bit when you are playing a gig with the band, but maybe not. The right sound man that knows your stuff can pan your amps hard left and right and then WOW!!! I really enjoy the gigs when I show up like I am Richie Sambora or the Edge. Thanks for all you guys do.
You guys provide so much awesome information, I love it. Some things I learned through the years by experience (like rolling down the tone, stacking and adding delay instead of more reverb), but I'm still learning. I think you're saving a lot people quite some time with your show:) Cheers!
I've had all kinds of fun stacking delay into reverb. By which I mean, the Boonar or the Adineko into some of the more esoteric reverbs available on the Shift Line A+ Astronaut v2. Very wobbly and spacey.
I like the stereo hack (Hall of Fame just got more fun!) Way cool! I’d love to see Dan hack the Boss CE-2 waza so that in a wet dry rig using a humdinger, output A goes to wet, output B goes to dry amp, for a really big JC120 style effect. Ideas? Great show as always.
Mick: "Your brain is extremely sophisticated in decoding it" ("It" being reverb) Yes! Actually we hear the space more than we hear the source. According to current research sound reaches our ears as a series of disjointed, stuttering flutter echos produced by the space in which a sound is made and is then reinterpreted and recompiled by our brains into the solid sounding waves we perceive as sound proving again that an individuals "reality" is entirely a product of how the mind compiles sensory input to present us with a picture of the world. (Interestingly infant brains cannot do this) In the context of reverb, what we need to know as musicians is that the perception of "source" is made up entirely of "room" making a reverb effect or lack there of an extremely important component of how our carefully crafted tones are received.
This is fascinating. It's a topic among those who study the neurophysiology of how we hear language. "For example, how and when does the brain decide which word is being said? There is evidence that the brain actually sifts through possibilities, but it is currently unknown how the brain successfully narrows down the choices to a single word and connects it with the meaning of the ongoing discourse" -Science Daily
@@mattgilbert7347 yes! My undergrad is in psychology with a focus in neuropsychology and I'm about to start working on a master's in communication disorders so you're right I'm my wheel house😎👍
How plate reverb works. Plate reverb is surprisingly simple and actually has nothing to do with sending voltage through a plate. A speaker driver is connected to a large sheet of metal. When an audio signal is sent to the driver it vibrates the sheet of metal like it would a paper speaker cone, however unlike the cone, the metal continues to vibrate and recreate the signal after the signal has stopped thus creating the sound of reverb. That sound is then recaptured via either a microphone or, more commonly, through a type of pickup. Because of the simplicity of this design, there has been a recent trend in diy plate reverbs. I personally made out of an old cymbal, a driver from a broken monitor, and cheap condenser mic. It did not sound amazing but it worked and was a fun experiment. Cheers guys great show as always!
Hi Noisecode, Dan here, thanks for that. Whenever I see any sort of signal I see AC , it just helps me visualise it. The AC voltage hits the transducer which translates the energy to the plate
@@ThatPedalShow I know you guys know how it woks :) Just offering my 2 cents for the uninitiated and hoping to spread my excitement for the DIY potential to the comunity. I loved the DIY amp episode. Would love to see you guys tackle more DIY projects. Maybe a tube driven spring reverb tank. Cheers!
The Boss '63 Fender Reverb pedal has a real spring inside of it, next to the battery compartment.
Hahahaha!
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you my friend are the winner of the funniest comment i have ever read .I made a yt account so i could tell you I didnt lol I laughed out my drink .Truly hilarious
@@STRATMAN1969 hahahahha
Hahahaha Good!!
The "shimmer" is the same reverb sound but up an octave (and hopefully with the harshness taken off with EQ). Like all good things, invented by Brian Eno. He's also responsible for penicillin, long shelf life milk and those wire thingies that help old people thread needles.
I am currently fooling around with separate tones for the repeats of my reverberating echo, and I had not yet considered serious octave play. 🤔 thanks.
If Megatron made love to Ladytron in deep space, how would Brian Eno?
@@GiantPinhead he's a gentleman and he would certainly not be peeking.
And square-bottomed taco shells and curved shower curtain rods.
I never knew this!
Thanks
Yesterday: I need a simple one channel amp with no reverb.
Today: I need a pedal board with 9 reverb units.
Seriously, the funniest comment I've read on any video ever!!!
How can you not need at least a tiny bit of verb? Unless you're playing great sounding rooms at high enough volume to get it naturally*
@@Astral_Wave well .....reverb is a HORRIBLE effect ...clutters up a mix...sounds so DATED and 80s ....thats why
@@TheMichaelseymour not a good plate reverb like the talisman
I think the best example of “turn the reverb off” is the middle of the solo in Pink Floyd’s Money. The massive reverby jam completely dries up into a small, intimate section, then comes back bigger than ever. It’s insanely effective.
Or Huey Lewis Heart of Rock and Roll
Theres a nostalgic feel to these "10 ways" videos, brings me back to the early TPS episodes
It took almost 20 years before I realized that the “reverb” sound I loved, was actually multiple delays. Now layering delay and reverb is one of the best ways for me to create the ambient textures I wanted
Explain it for us please!
@@juanrubiogarciandia6597 I like running delays into reverb so the delay triggers the reverb each repeat, and with a tape delay or modulate setting on a boss dd20, the different sound of the delay repeat gives you some beautiful textures, hope that helps!
@@tomc9302 this is very common in reggae
My “swell” sound is usually a warmer quarter delay, into a relatively bright dotted eighth delay, into a spring reverb, into a an octave or shimmer verb.
Juan Rubio Garciandía also my solo sound usually has an immediate slap back with a single repeat, into a warmer 16th not with long trails, into a hall reverb
2019 - The year of gain stacking
2020 - The year of reverb stacking
2021 - The year of ring mod stacking
You know it’s coming.
I've been doing flanger into phase shifter lately.
I have 2 Dunlop wahs and an auto wah 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Yep, use my HOF with the reverb on in my Milkman all the time. The blend of the two is glorious.
I was honestly thinking about ring mods the other day. They are gnarly when used right!
currently running a chorus into a phaser into another chorus. Which goes into reverb, then the delay in the effects change. with a UniVibe at the start, too. Bring a towel, my tone is WET!
Loving this "10 ways to wreck your bank balance" series. But a shout out to your previous shows on " wet dry wet" set ups where you can dial that stereo verb to 11 and stack the other 'verbs 8 miles high
Ya babe, I’ll take the car for an oil change Friday morning! ***knowing TPS will be dropping an episode right on time! ;) thanks for making my waiting room wait less of a pain!
One of the highest compliments I can give: You make learning fun!
Thank you RJ!
It's amazing how popular reverb pedals are now, as when I was younger and doing gymnasiums and and community halls a lot more, the last thing I'd want on my pedal board would be reverb. Nowadays, it's more bars and acoustically treated rooms, so it's okay to have a bit of space around the guitar :-)
Bloody hell. That spoken intro was practically professional.
Using a swell into a big reverb is an effect I use all the time - I love it - it’s so effective for creating pads and textures.
I use an auto swell pedal (currently got the Mooer Slow Engine but loads of others do it too). It means I can concentrate on the notes without worrying about fading in!
Take a look at the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Dark Star.
Mario Driessen thanks - will do. Local shop stocks OBNE.
Also just got a Walrus Slo which I hope is going to do something similar.
I like reverb, but have considered it unusable in live situations. I don't know if it's just me, but that's one of the reasons why I love delay so much. If I step on the reverb, I disappear into the mix (a bit disconcerting the 1st time that happened!!), but delay is like the friend that doesn't let me down... and doesn't step all over my sound!!
If you guys could talk about use in a live pop-rock situation (say guitar, drums, bass, keys, and vocals) that would be really great.
Cheers.
Agreed. By time you can actually hear it, you’re using too much of it already. The amps reverb is more than sufficient to take the dryness off for most live situations.
I can't get enough of that Topanga into the D&M Drive! To this noise kid's ears it sounds like heaven!
I love this sound (Dan here) in fact I’m going to use it on my ep
@@ThatPedalShow Oh nice! Looking forward to hearing it man. Slap some analog delay on afterwards for some freaky psychedelic surf tones!
That stereo hack is delightful. I had to try it. I discovered with my Immerse Mk II that if I had the input on one side and the output on the other side of the stereo (they're marked 1 and 2 on the pedal), that I still got a signal. It sounded like a dry kill, with just the tails, but fatter than with the dry signal mixed out. Another surprise. Thanks!
I'm much more connected to delay, as opposed to reverb. But when I turn off the delay, and just play through my Blue Sky reverb, I really love some of those sounds, and it makes me play slightly differently. I think that's why we're all (here) so nuts for new pedals. We're always looking for something new to connect with as a player, to keep things fresh and stimulate our playing. Very nice primer guys!
I have always played through Fender amps that have reverb built in. And I've found that it works for me by always having it on 2. Not more than 4 ever unless I'm playing surf stuff from my SoCal teenage years, back in the 1960s. Good video you guys.
the Boss Rv-500 lets you do all of this, including the series-parallel routing, sending different delays to different outputs or running them mono, plus it has built-in delay (including an algorithm for the space echo delay and reverb unit) that can be added in and can be turned on and off with the tap/ctrl button. I know menus are scary but I think you guys would really enjoy some of the features available if you dug into a little deeper. If I can do it so you. The Rv-500 with a tube screamer and fuzz can do just about everything you need for a grab and go board.
Yep. I got myself around the 500 UI pretty quick. Mick here. Boss have really got it right with those, and the 200s. Great stuff!
Going to try that hack with my HOF2! Speaking of hacks, when reverbs were still rare on pedalboards, I plugged an Alesis Nanoverb into an Xotic X-Blender and used that as my "reverb pedal." The Alesis normally does not have the headroom to run it as a guitar pedal, but the X-blender took care of that, as well as giving me a second "wet signal only" switch. I used one ofthe plate settings, and even after getting the Strymon Blue Sky, and the HOF2, it's still my favorite reverb sound (though I need to explore the HOF2 a little bit more).
WOW! You guys are psychics. I've been looking to buy a few new reverb pedals and have spent the last 2 months searching for some that I like. YESTERDAY I was talking about it with the other guitar player in our little jam group and I said "It would be great if TPS did a full episode on just reverb. The last one was a few years ago and so much has changed since then."
I got a lot of great ideas from this episode. THANKS!!
Uggh!
That '61 sounded heavenly doing its "clean chords."
A lush lesson and now I've gotta try that stereo 'hack' into my 35 quid Biyang Stereo Reverb. Cheers guys thanks.
I’ve been obsessed with reverb for as long as I can remember. Now I get to learn more about it from my two favorite gents.
Also, I love running my Boss RV-6 into my Earthquaker Devices Afterneath. It’s so amazing!
Love the swell button on the Mercury 7 reverb to kill the dry guitar signal without needing to adjust settings. Perfect for what Mick was saying in thing 8 - playing some nice chords/arpeggios under a vocal melody and filling out a lot of space with only a few notes.
Another great episode guys! Have really gotten a lot of helpful knowledge out of this little series of videos. Keep it up!
One of the best purest reverb pedals I have found for the money, getting the most for your dollars spent, is a TRex Tube Reverb, it sounds fantastic, especially when plugged into a Fender 1957 Custom Shop Reissue Twin Amp with 2 X 12 inch speakers. I can truly understand why Eric Clapton chooses that amp for his favorite.
We love that one too.
Saying I learn something from every show would be an understatement! I don't know how to play yet, but I have become obsessed with collecting and learning. So as much as 50% of the shows can be a learning experience for me. And over the years I have learned things that have piqued my curiosity, made me go "...huh...", made me exclaim "oh wow" and just downright flabbergasted me. But that stereo reverb/dual reverb trick was the first thing to legitimately blow my mind! 🤯
Your delay/reverb show on "before or after overdrive" clued me in on how to get a sound that more resembles that of a classic external Fender reverb by moving my Hall of Fame before my overdrive pedals. Soon after, I switched to the Topanga as I had decided that a really good spring reverb sound was more important to me than the larger range of reverb types the HOF provides. Interestingly, the "dwell" control on the Topanga gives the feel of reverb before overdrive without the need to put it before the actual overdrive pedals. This allows me to keep it at the end of my effects chain and use the dwell knob to switch between a pre-overdrive and a post-overdrive sound. As regards this particular show, it may have been easier in retrospect to contrast the pre vs post overdrive tones using a cleaner type of reverb than the Topanga. I love the show, as well as the vlogs… especially Mick's strat journey, as I am a tinkerer who spends far too much time tweaking parts to get the last 1% sound improvement out of my gear. Thank you for being the internet's premier tone crafting resource!
I love this show more than anything on the internet, and I consume a lot of audio podcast (20hrs a week I would imagine). Keep it up, love from Australia
I struggled to find a reverb that works for me. Then I got a Pedal Projects Marbleverb. Can't get enough of that little guy.
Very informative episode, Dan & Mick! I was an amp reverb only player until I bought a modded AC30 with no built-in reverb and invested in a TC Hall of Fame for my board. Probably the most underrated part of my sound outside of EQ pedal, but so essential.
So glad that reverb pedals have really hit the big time. I couldn’t live without the added dimension they provide.
It's you two I have to thank for ever trying reverb. When I was younger and owned a 1980ish Fender75 I never used built in spring reverb because I didn't like it, nor was it needed for the type of music I had played. Now I own a 1963 Farfisa8 and had to go out and buy a reverb pedal (TC-HOF) which is almost always on and maxed out. Thank you 👊
YES!
I've heard the reverb before drive in some live Peter Green Fleetwood Mac recordings. He would alternate between crashing devastating reverb, to bone dry, for extra textures and dynamics. I sold my Topanga after I bought a Deluxe Reverb, regretting that decision now! Love the show!
Love love love my Keeley Caverns reverb. Even makes my terrible playing sound reasonably nice (so in the hands of someone half way competent would sound like heaven).
I’ve never loved reverb pedals until I got my Walrus Fathom. It’s just great when used tastefully, just a taste of the plate setting. Fender Amp spring reverb of course sounds amazing.
Mick: this video would be 8 hours long
All of us: YES!
I love Reverb!! It could be because I'm not a great player
Helps me hide my flaws
This was a great episode
Thank you D&M
9:30 - Oi...that Topanga on the higher tone...brought a smile to MY face! Thanks boys!
I was happily settled in to watch this, but ended up spending 30 mins on a detour about anechoic chambers. I’m back now, proceed...
Love the volume swells! Sounds fantastic! Thanks guys.
So nice to see you guys using the Mesa Lone Star. That was always my favorite amp to see on the show.
OMG, the stereo loop hack thing!!! You've given all new life to my Neunaber Immerse!
beautiful playing in the intro this week dear Daniel!
I once had a RV-5 and i never liked it until i sold it.
Now i finally bought a TC HOF2 now this episode is quite useful for me! Turning it darker is the best tip, stereo hack also blew my mind!
I use a wet dry rig thanks to the gig rig humdinger and I did the stereo pedal loop trick and am loving every second of it!
I’m a huge fan of the Source Audio Ventris. It’s a stereo delay that allows you to run two separate reverb algorithms simultaneously. Each preset on the Ventris contains two reverbs, which you can run individually, in series, or in parallel, so you can accomplish every trick mentioned in this video with one (incredible sounding) pedal.
You guys already got me to put the Reverb before the drive and now I must jump the stereo signal on my HOF2. Holy crap, how do you keep finding such wonderfully weird & awesome tricks...besides time and the fact that finding those tricks is a revenue stream for you.
I tried it with my HOF2 right after I watched and it was amazing. If you have a big washy setting like hall and add some modulation, you can mess around with decay and mix knob to get some weird feedback noises like an analog delay self oscillating!
@@JasonClute Dope!
OOH! You've got the Mesa out! Number 2 in a way had me laughing a bit, because my first reverb pedal back in the early 1990s was a Boss RV-2 Digital Reverb, and as you might remember, the frequency response of the reverb on that pedal only went to 10 KHz. I've never really tried to make my reverb dark on purpose, but you can be sure that the next time I fire up my rig, I'm going to experiment with that sound on my tc electronic Arena (Guitar Center special version of the Hall of Fame). As for Number 5, I always ran my RV-2 (either in Hall or Plate modes) into the Accutronics long-tank spring reverb and detune stereo chorus of my Ampeg VH-140C combo. What a glorious sound that was!
Also, on Number 10, when Mick mentioned adding ping-pong delay to stereo reverb, the RV-2 had that built-in as one of its modes.
My favorite lots-o-reverb tone is Jeff Beck. He just has the sound engineer kick on a stereo Lexicon hall/plate for some songs and it just sounds glorious.
An episode touching on reverse and gated reverbs would be killer
When I saw Red and Jazzmaster together in one room, I knew my day was about to get a whoooole lot brighter...
It's cool for those of us who used a TON of chorus in the 80s, then lessened use chorus. Now we ca just have chorus on reverb trails and it sounds so beautiful and more moderated. Thanks gentlemen.
Loved this episode. I just swapped my Hall of Fame 2 for a GFI Specular Reverb v3. Some epic tones from that pedal !!
I have a HoF reverb on my board which is almost always set to custom toneprint for the ducking envelope. Quite useful as it lets you have a long reverb that rings out on chords, but without it getting all muddy when you play lines. You have to go into the companion app to access it though.
35:44 He is one of my comedy heroes.
"In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet." - Les Dawson
fishy paw hahaha where is the quote from? A larger work or a novella? Need me some more of that
I will have what he’s smoking.
@@tommystratpaul It's a joke from one of Les Dawson's TV shows. I can't remember which one but there are lots of clips on CZcams from his TV shows. Les was a comedian from the north of England. He had a very working class style of homour but was also a great wordsmith and clever bloke. He was famous for "mother-in-law jokes" and playing the piano "badly", but he was so much more too.
I was walking down the street and my friend said "that looks like your mother-in-law getting beat up by four thugs, aren't you going to help?" I said "Nah, four should be enough".
Excellent,the hack is a cool idea,very informative,love reverb,and guitar TV
Mick's Andy Timmons impression on the Stereo bit near the end. Fabulous.
Epic Episode Mates!! Worth a second watch. Keep on Rockin'!!! Viva La VerB!!!!!
Inspiring episode! Long episodes for the win! This 10 ways format is great.
"Pencils. Great for writing."
I actually laughed out loud :-)
Great video guys. Thank you very much. I previously did not know about the HoF2 stereo hack.
It was bit like when your dogs does a trick you didn’t know it could do.... love it.
Another great show. I play modern church worship music and reverb is essential for the sound. At one point I had 4 reverb pedal on my board. HOF v2, Oceans 11, Ernie Ball Ambient Delay and a Caline Snakebite. I now have a RV-500. Videos like this make it easier for me to teach people how to play with reverb and to help tell them when they are doing to wrong.
coupla corn balls in that intro! haha just messin! love you guys!!
I am so obsessed with Dan's tele... I watch the videos for it more than anything else.
You do not realise how inspiring that parallel set up is until you try it. I have the Source Audio Ventris which can do that. Incredible in stereo.
You guys are on a roll! I look forward to watching this whole video because I really don’t care for reverb... keep rocking guys!
There are some videos which really have the power to change your (musical) life and I think that's definitely one of them. Demystifying the world of pedal effects and here I am building my own pedalboard and having fun !! Kudos to TPS 🎸🤘🏻🎶
Holy Crap! SWEET chords!
Thanks to you lot I’ve been “shoegazing” all weekend. I never thought that putting a reverb/delay before my fuzz and overdrives could be so much fun. I genuinely learnt something from this. Cheers!
Nice to see the Lonestar back fellas! Great show for it👍 number 1 with. a touch of plate from a pedal is my go to
can't live without a reverb..it's everything
Been really enjoying your rendition of Oklahoma Sky, Mick. One of the first gigs I ever did was performing that song at a wedding, but your version is far more interesting than the chords I strummed that day. Well done!!
Hey Dan and Mick, just wanted to say that Dan's stereo pedal hack is incredible and has not only changes how I will use certain pedals from now on, but also the way I look at new pedals when buying. Very cool
Superb! Finally got round to 2-10 great show... cheers :)
Love my Empress Reverb, that pedal deserves a show unto itself for versatility, blows away many other a 'verb indeed! Great to see some other options, very cool!
What's great about the stereo input hack is this can be done by putting each side in different loops of a loop switcher and having different levels of reverb that you can do on the fly.
The playing and sounds from 44:00 are amazing Mick! So good man! You were inspired and inspiring.
WOW!!! Can't wait to go home and try the stereo hack on my Trinity Reverb (TC Hall of Fame Special Edition). That was SO COOL!
Nice to hear all the Topanga love. :-) Mine has never been out of my signal chain since getting it (in 2014, I think).
I'm gonna take a drink every time there's talking over the trails in this one... Sugar free iron bru, let's not go crazy
Get a beer in you son!
Irn Bru, a proper man's drink. Gaun yersel big man. 😉
@@gibletroyster4938 I can't find my Buckfast
Interesting choice of mixer... What whisky have you got in it?
@@davedavem Red Stag is my go to. Little hint of cherry in there
I tried the stereo hack on my Digitech Polara! Can confirm it works brilliantly!
The best sounding spring reverb pedal I’ve ever heard is the hardwire rv7. It really sounds just like a spring reverb tank.
I have Fender amps so it’s been hard to justify getting a reverb pedal. But it is clearly time to play around.. these 10 things vids have been great ..
That pedal show just makes life more enjoyable and keeps the savings on zero! Worth it always. Friday is “because tone” day. And I am still laughing at the “yam sack”. Man what a funny Koch-ism.
Loved the stereo reverb in series with itself trick! I often wondered what would happen but, worried it might hurt the pedal somehow. Thanks for lifting the veil on that one!
Love this episode. I have been expanding my reverb palate most notably with the Eventide H9. I find that there is a really nice middle ground between overly ambient sounds and run of the mill plate, hall, spring. In a stereo set up you can really make your tone sound like an "album". For sure dial it back a bit when you are playing a gig with the band, but maybe not. The right sound man that knows your stuff can pan your amps hard left and right and then WOW!!! I really enjoy the gigs when I show up like I am Richie Sambora or the Edge. Thanks for all you guys do.
Great video lads! I haven’t watched a TPS video in a few weeks and this is the perfect one to get back into it!
You guys provide so much awesome information, I love it. Some things I learned through the years by experience (like rolling down the tone, stacking and adding delay instead of more reverb), but I'm still learning. I think you're saving a lot people quite some time with your show:)
Cheers!
This video format reminds me of the eary days of TPS. Very nostalgic, hope to see more soon!
Dan's Stereo hack is brilliant 😮😊✨️💫
I've had all kinds of fun stacking delay into reverb. By which I mean, the Boonar or the Adineko into some of the more esoteric reverbs available on the Shift Line A+ Astronaut v2. Very wobbly and spacey.
I couldn’t live without my Topanga .. it is always on .... great episode
Oh man, that stereo setup gave me instant goosebumps...massive difference! 42:55
Ah, Saturday morning coffee and TPS. I look forward to this every Saturday.
I like the stereo hack (Hall of Fame just got more fun!) Way cool! I’d love to see Dan hack the Boss CE-2 waza so that in a wet dry rig using a humdinger, output A goes to wet, output B goes to dry amp, for a really big JC120 style effect. Ideas? Great show as always.
Ahhh the love of reverb! Looking forward to this one.
Really liked the Catalinbread Topanga on this video, can see me buying one soon!
Mick: "Your brain is extremely sophisticated in decoding it" ("It" being reverb) Yes! Actually we hear the space more than we hear the source. According to current research sound reaches our ears as a series of disjointed, stuttering flutter echos produced by the space in which a sound is made and is then reinterpreted and recompiled by our brains into the solid sounding waves we perceive as sound proving again that an individuals "reality" is entirely a product of how the mind compiles sensory input to present us with a picture of the world. (Interestingly infant brains cannot do this) In the context of reverb, what we need to know as musicians is that the perception of "source" is made up entirely of "room" making a reverb effect or lack there of an extremely important component of how our carefully crafted tones are received.
I love this. Mick here. We don’t all hear the same thing.
This is fascinating. It's a topic among those who study the neurophysiology of how we hear language.
"For example, how and when does the brain decide which word is being said? There is evidence that the brain actually sifts through possibilities, but it is currently unknown how the brain successfully narrows down the choices to a single word and connects it with the meaning of the ongoing discourse"
-Science Daily
@@mattgilbert7347 yes! My undergrad is in psychology with a focus in neuropsychology and I'm about to start working on a master's in communication disorders so you're right I'm my wheel house😎👍
How plate reverb works. Plate reverb is surprisingly simple and actually has nothing to do with sending voltage through a plate. A speaker driver is connected to a large sheet of metal. When an audio signal is sent to the driver it vibrates the sheet of metal like it would a paper speaker cone, however unlike the cone, the metal continues to vibrate and recreate the signal after the signal has stopped thus creating the sound of reverb. That sound is then recaptured via either a microphone or, more commonly, through a type of pickup. Because of the simplicity of this design, there has been a recent trend in diy plate reverbs. I personally made out of an old cymbal, a driver from a broken monitor, and cheap condenser mic. It did not sound amazing but it worked and was a fun experiment. Cheers guys great show as always!
Thank you!
Hi Noisecode, Dan here, thanks for that. Whenever I see any sort of signal I see AC , it just helps me visualise it. The AC voltage hits the transducer which translates the energy to the plate
@@ThatPedalShow I know you guys know how it woks :) Just offering my 2 cents for the uninitiated and hoping to spread my excitement for the DIY potential to the comunity. I loved the DIY amp episode. Would love to see you guys tackle more DIY projects. Maybe a tube driven spring reverb tank. Cheers!