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You can use delay and reverb simultaneously on the Pockverb, it literally has a switch that says R (reverb), D (delay), D+R (both). Select reverb/delay, use the blue led 'divide' button to set paramaters for both, when the blue light is on continuously you can set the reverb, when it flashes it's for setting the delay. Downside is, you never really know what the settings are, the pedal stores it, but the buttons show the last position you set them to and it might not match what you're actually hearing. Edit: also, at 8:36 somewhere in honorable mentions you state that the Joyo is more rugged, well that's not true. The Ammoon housing is the same as Boss, MXR and all the old brands, built like a tank, you could throw it through a window and it will still work, so it will last longer. The Joyo is their usual thinner folded aluminium with the leds in the front, these are more likely to break or dent than the housing of the Ammoon. So the opposite is the case, Ammoon is more rugged. Last but not least: Joyo generally is more expensive at Ali, if you're in EU it's cheaper to order at Thomann, this goes for almost all Joyo pedals, except maybe the ones that are out of production. But they stop making them for a reason. I bought a Joyo preamp thing, it was like 150 euros, but it had some flaws and a hum, I returned it to Ali for a refund.
I have the same Jag! Really quick though, the DF-7 big muff is based on the black Russian big muff, says so in the manual! Sounds great for shoegaze stuff
I tried and hm 2 and thought it was the worst , Just not musical at all. I love heavy pedals too. Rats , dirty fuzzes of all kinds , the diesel sounds good , but the hm 2 is just a weird ass pedal man. I respect the love it’s just not for everyone. Really cool vid. Loved what u brought with it even though I hated it for myself 🫡
Hello. How does the HP60 work? I am thinking of purchasing it for the same purpose, but I have doubts about its amplification power. Does the headphones you've tried sound good? Doesn't it lack power?
The pedals sounds great but the pop switch and it feels like a blast after pop, its so disturbing eventho after that everything is normal. I prefer ammoon pockver or sonicake sonic ambience tho 1 pedal and get multi reverb + multi delay
Hi I have a question do you use a 9v or a 12v power supply for the Boss HM-2? I will buy one this week but I only have a Strymon Ojai wich is a 9v with 5 slots... The other option that I have is to power supply it through my TU-3 will that work?? and is it much difference between a 9v and a 12v in the HM-2? greetings from Chile
Hi there! I know that using a daisy chain it should work, but I’m not sure about the TU-3. I’m using a Landscape Isopower 7, it has 12v slots, I’m powering both with 12v. If you have a daisy chain power supply hanging around you can try daisy chaining the hm2 with another pedal before buying a 12v power supply (:
Appreciate you doing an honest review and dare to say they don't work for you rather than just praising it and hope you get some free stuff from the manufacturer.
I have the BDI-21. It's a competent little pedal to say how cheap it is. I did however do some modifications to the one I have. First off - rechargeable battery because I use it a lot and was getting fed up of swapping batteries... Secondly I installed a potentiometer to give me control over the mid response because I'm not a massive fan of scooping the mids. bone stock the BDI-21 takes quite a lot of your harmonic content int he midrange. the third mod I did was to add a toggle for the low pass filter, which also came with the advantage of providing a gain boost when the filter is off.
I thought the midiverb got that sound als he uses a vox ac4; as one of his amps along with a Hiwatt RR103. I've seen them live 3 times and was very close to the stage .....it was literally louder than a shuttle launch
It's funny that every single video/review I've seen on this pedal makes it seem like M-Wave could have left out 8 of the 9 Reverbs & just made a Plate Reverb pedal. 😂😂
I love the super fuzz i mostly use it for stoner doom stuff like electric wizard who used the fz-2 but it sounds great in alot of applications would love to have a octave switch because im sure it would sound great without it too
I had one at that amount of RAM, took the opportunity to upgrade but noticed no big difference to be honest. I’d recommend using it now, cause you’ll have no big issues with latency, and saving money for an upgrade further down the road (; but you do you bro, tell me what you ended up choosing later on
Really nice setup, I have some of these pedals and am thinking about a way to put my rig together and your video is pretty helpful! Also, did you play a riff by Cavity there too? Extra like for that!!
actually endors toi was a song that kevin was cooking up even before innerspeaker, as it appears on 10th innerspeaker anniversary vinil, but as you can hear, the music was a lot different in that time, just like elephant.
idk i have a feeling yhe only tomorrow guitar sound is completely clean. as in no reverb. i might be wrong. it just sounds like its just distortion on the record
I get it! It’s such a defined guitar sound right? You might be right, maybe there’s no reverb in the rhythm sections, maybe it’s just in the leads.. That might be an interesting thing to try out recording 🤔
i could get pretty close to the guitar tone with the keeley fuzzbender, dab absolute distruction, shields blender (obviously) and a diy-fuzz that look mum no computer had once introduced
The Keeley fuzzbender is a great pedal! A friend had one some time ago.. I’ve been keen to think Kevin Shields is a fan of tone bender style fuzzes.. It seems to me that most of the pictures I see of him with pedals there’s a tone bender of some sort. Would you agree? Probably that’s also a great guess on what fuzz was used in the 2013 album (:
Hey! Awesome video. Would you recommend the Quadraverbs and Microverbs for similar sounds? I know Kevin Shields used certain specific programs in the midiverb 2 so I don't know if those other models would also have those programs
Thanks! I love my midiverb 3 and since its release date was close to the midiverb 2, I guess it’s inherited some of the algorithms found in the midiverb 2. Can’t confirm it though. But it’s safe to say that it’s unlikely that Alesis would renew the algorithm completely for these units. I think they’d just have added more features or expanded the algorithm through research instead of reinventing the whole thing. That’s just speculation though 😅 we’d need some sort of info from inside Alesis about these lovely pieces of gear. What I can tell you for sure is that all these reverbs are awesome, and I loved each one of these I’ve used (: they were very popular here in Brazil. So I recommend you try them out (; I think it’ll get you close enough hehe
