Thank you Aaron as always, with your great content I have and will have more pleasure out of my Matrise Stereo and was really curious about this pedal. Best regards from İstanbul!🎉
I stupidly sold mine a few months ago. A new batch went on sale today, so I bought another one! Refreshing my memory with your great demos. I did tend to use Nightly more than the original firmware however.
Hi, yes the Habit is providing delay. For the Blooper, I basically put down a stack of loops, and then just started turning them on through the video. I may have turned on the Reverse effect on the Blooper at some point. Thanks for watching!
Hi Aaron..hey, I have about 4 drive/distortion pedals on my board, and wonder..what position should this pedal sit in..I start with noise gate, wah, whammy 5, compressor, screamer, evh 5150 pedal, xotic effects rc booster, eq pedal, animals delay, then the cavern delay, to the front end of a tune amp...fm3 in the amps effects loops for the main verbs n delays....where do I put the freakout?
Hello! I think there are several good answers to that. I tend to always put the FreqOut at the beginning of my chain, as I like it before my gain pedals-but I don’t currently use a wah or a whammy pedal. I think the whammy and the wah may sound very cool if they affect the feedback sound. If it were me, I’d test it out in 3 spots to see what I like best-before the wah, before the whammy, and before the compressor. Hope that helps :) And thanks for watching!
Not only is this the clearest, most concise and useful demo of this pedal, Aaron is intelligent, humble and seemingly born to do this. This is how it's done! 🤘🏼
You’re more than welcome, Aaron. I meant to subscribe earlier, but I have remedied that now. I’m looking forward to more of your videos. Good luck to you in growing your channel and in general. ✌🏼
The way you show the seemingly complicated routing possibilities of the Matrise by highlighting and labelling them and in addition pointing with your finger to make it even clearer was helpfully informative and inspiring for me, Aaron. Thumbs up!
Dude. You make the best reviews out there. Thank you so much As a simple question. Do you find this stretch time feature in mkI more inspiring or better than the drolo itself?.. Ta.
Thank you for the kind words! To answer your question: yes, absolutely. The time stretch on the Mki is just special to me-it's one of my favorite effects of all time.
Great demo of this pedal. I really like your style of presentation. I think your blend of playing/talking is excellent. I really like this pedal. I use it with my microKorg and Korg R3. Alabs did a great job with the algorithms. The standard ones (room, hall, church, plate) all sound superb to me, and the more 'spacey' ones like Cloud and Shimmer are a great way to create a very 'big' soundscape very easily.
Had this pedal since release and even tho I don’t nearly use it to its full capacity it’s still one of my favorite reverb pedals, something about the dry and wet mix knobs really makes it easy to find that perfect balance of mix
Súper noob question here. What's the order of the pedals if you are looping a guitar part and making changes to It after you have the loop, like in this video. You put these two pedals after the looper?
Hello! Great question... my pedal chain for this video is Guitar->(I probably used a bit of overdrive here)->Chase Bliss Blooper-> Brig -> Cloudburst -> Iridium, and then ran this into my DAW. Thanks for watching!
Could you do another set of videos showing some of the features with their later firmware updates? Those seem to have really changed what happens in mode 1 and all their explanations of what the newer firmware does are (to me at least) unhelpful.
Wow. As someone said..Best Video on Mood regardless of version. I learned so much because I have a Mk. 1 and have no clue. ..which is part of the fun...@ 31 min talking about clock quality...An optional filter would be nice if you didn't want as much aliasing with even lower clock rate to achieve even longer tape capture. I know they have Blooper but I want to change pitch and speed and reverse like tape or the old EH 16 second delay which used a reticon filter chip to mask the aliasing. You get super long layers and lengths and the time is controlled by the adjustable sample rate but a filter is introduced and it sounds very much like tape, Unfortunately no longer made
Thank you for watching! Also, I didn't even know that EH 16 pedal existed, thank you for bringing that to my attention... I wonder if EH will ever re-release it?
hello , great video :-) i want to mention one thing where the mark 1 is better for me - you can assign the left footswitch as a momentary switch for the effect side or for the looper side. I am using it for the effect side set up to "slip - one octave higher - revers " just to activate the pedal for one phrase or lets say four notes in a longer guitar run , or just randomly step in - step out during playing guitar. This is a godly sound , very lively , i love it . Unfortunately the mark 2 does not have the momentary switch option. I know it has the freeze function instead, but its not the same . Anyway , both are great pedals , enjoy the music :-) Peter
So well done, so beautiful, not overplayed, just the right amount for tranquility. Exciting to see you work this whole improv with just one guitar....plus a freeze maybe?
I just got done watching your Strymon Night Sky review, where you really didn't play slow enough for those big reverbs. But watching this performance video you nailed the big effects playing style. You know what you are doing. Really great performance and improv (assuming improv) and the perfect parameter settings for this style of music. Very pleasant tones where a cleaner guitar could sound very nasal, this was soooooooo good!! Thank you.
Great review and demonstration!! I'm a synthesizer sound designer, so the deep control is actually a simple synth to me. That is what this pedal is, a synth reverb, or a reverb with synthesizer control. The pedal can do all the settings a BigSky can do, plus more and fine-tuned to your song. The BigSky is for musicians that don't want to design their own, the BigSky will get you there faster like a preset would. You will find that the features that sound "weird" are features that you use in a very subtle ways, just a little goes a long way. But Strymon also offer these "weird" features in big ways too, something we all want just in case we have a transition in a song we want to go out of this world :) I bought this pedal for synthesizers. I am a guitarist too, and will eventually try it for guitar, but I am thinking of using a glass slide with this pedal for my kind of music.
Out of all the reviews/demos of the Brig, yours is where I only got to finally understand how the FILTER knob works haha. I thought it only filters in or out the delay noise and never knew it has some EQ capability as well, thanks so much!
Hi Aaron, Thanks for this great comparasion. What a work! I couldn't find yet the time to watch it entirely, but I'd already have a question for you. I still don't have any mood pedal and wanna get one, especially for going into experimental sounds, and I'm quite interested in some upgrades of the mark 2 (like the smooth clock, freeeze or reversible stretch), but I'm afraid that the better sound quality of the mark 2 may be too "clean" for me. So my question is: does the "classic" mode on the mark 2 allow you to go into dirty distortions of the sound like the mark 1? Or how is it different? Thank you!
Hi Yves! Hmm, this is a tricky question. I recently threw the new firmware on my MkII and played around with it. The MkII Classic stretch mode is closer to the MkI... but it's not the same. I don't think it's as good. That being said, the MKII does have that hidden control "tone knob" as well. And Classic mode brings back the noisy clock, the degrading loops, etc., to make it nice and dirty. The MkII can definitely get messy and dark and dirty. In my opinion, the main thing the MKI really offers over the MKII is that very special Stretch mode... and for all I know, a future firmware update will solve that issue. I hope that helps!
Awesome review, So Aaron, would you say that this pedal is better than having the Fernandez Sustainiac pickups in your guitar ? I have the sustainiac pickup in one of my guitars, but I am really interested in this pedal. cheers. Ed
Hi Ed, so sorry for the late response. I have very limited hands-on experience with the Sustainer pickups (unfortunately)... but I would say this pedal isn't going to recreate all the cool things the Sustainer pickups can do. I actually prefer my eBow over the Freqout as well for that "held note" sound, because it just gives me more control. That being said... the FreqOut is still one of my "can't live without" pedals. Hope that helps!
I had it for 3 yrs now and I can barely make use out of it in most scenarios bc bigsky most often fits more BUT i could never sell it, its way too cool of a concept, I'll probably have this pedal until i am an old grumpy guy and way too scared that my grandchildren might become addicted to psychedelics and weed when they hear me jamming out on the nightsky hahaha
