I use both pedals in a 4 parellel channel board (3 stereo / 1 mono dry)... I use the Timeline as the last delay when stacking for its digital readout, looper, and reverb qualities... I use the LVX more up front for its tone creation, stringed instrument emulation, and drive shaping... Both pedals are keepers for me...
@@nickreesyt In the simplest and cheapest way, you can use a Musicom Lab Parellelizer alone to create 3 parellel stereo channels with a forth dry... The better way is to use a Radial Shotgun to divide your guitar signal into 4 buffered channels, then run them into the Parellelizer's returns to contol each channel's volume before summing... Then I run it into a Headrush Looperboard that doubles nicely as a 4 stereo channel input mixer for vocals and synths...then into an Akai Force that is audio interfaced wth Abelton... This setup allows me to easily switch between guitar and synth while remaining combined with vocals... You can do this much cheaper by just using an audio interface into any DAW without the HR and Force...
This is what I meant when I said I was interested to see how Strymon old pedals can keep up with modern stuff and today’s powerful DSPs and algorithms. I agree 100% with all your arguments and reasons to keep LVX. Same thing happened to me with Big Sky, which secret is, to my ears, its darker eq which makes shimmer arguably the best out there. For everything else, Empress Reverb … maybe until Strymon decides to update and release BigSky MK2 🤔
YES! i guess if you are after the LVX purely as a delay pedal then the rest of what it does may seem over the top and not worth the money. But with the rest of what’s in it being so damn good it makes it hard to resist. Bigsky 2. Even seeing that written down has me excited
I tried the Meris LVX, and I just found it really confusing and disappointing. For the price, I was really expecting it to sound so far ahead of the game... but the reality is... it doesn't. There's loads of stuff out there that competes with it. I don't really like the "modular" "build your own delay" aspect of the LVX. They make you jump through so many hoops to do really basic stuff. I'm just not a Meris guy.
Interesting to hear your journey thanks for sharing it. I dropped a video a few weeks back on how to do those simple things easily but I guess its a bit late for that now. What else are you enjoying this year?
I sold my Timeline long before I got the LVX. Sounds from Timeline are really great (nevertheless a little "Strymon-sterile") but I never got fond of the interface. I'm just not the Strymon guy. Even the Strymon Volante didn't make it (I can't even explain why). The only Strymon pedal I still have here is the El Capistan. Just pretty simple to dial in. But the LVX is really exciting, the interface is great, the sounds are awesome. LVX replaced Polymoon on my board.
I was just thinking yesterday about selling Polymoon and keep LVX, I was wondering if I would miss anything the Polymoon has to offer. I haven’t explored everything LVX has to offer but so far the answer is the only reason to keep it is to restrain my GAS by looking at so many pedals every time I want to get a new one 🤪.
@@ingreynelg I ALSO kept my Polymoon after getting the LVX. I'd say for most folks if you get an LVX there are not a ton of reasons to keep the Polymoon. What the Polymoon does uniquely is give you the full range of modulation options for both the early and late modulation. If I understand correctly, LVX has early and late for the Polymoon modulation, but the general mod controls one and the 'detented' settings (e.g. 'fast & shallow') control the other. The only other thing you really don't have on the LVX is the stereo flanger WITH analog dry through. You can use the mod block on the LVX in the pre+dry position for the same flanger, but you loose analog dry through (as is the case with all the effects in that position). Not sure how many people actually care about that tho. And of course (with the LVX) you gain more delay time, 2 somewhat independent Polymoon algos with the Poly structure, and all the (fantastic) modular bits.
@@Telorchid yeh I watched a few videos on this and it seems like if you have both then you’re good to sell the polymoon and invest that money into something else
Late on this thread...HOWEVER....Following Strymons MX release of the BigSky...Would you consider a Timeline MX instead of the LVX? I don't have either and Im curious if it's worth eating to see if Timeline MX becomes a reality.....Thoughts?
Logic tells me that they will do a timeline mx. Makes sense. For me I would keep LVX unless they really do something different. The LVX does so much more than delay that the sonic possibilities are just so deep. But…..I would have to see what the specs were before deciding. the interface for strymon pedals is simpler than meris which is a consideration.
My thought is, all well and good to move on for inspirational purposes..... but... If something can be so good for so long, you will eventually regret parting. Pedals unlike girlfriends, will happily sit around while you 'explore' other pedals.
Just got an LVX but am not selling my Timeline. LVX is a studio piece for the time being. Partly this is a workflow/pedalboard/preset issue, as I have many song-specific presets on the Timeline that I would have to recreate on the LVX. (And the LVX also has fewer preset slots). There are tradeoffs to any choice; the relative simplicity of the Timeline is quite nice, AND I appreciate the complexity and range of creative stuff the LVX offers, not only as a delay but as modular effects device (of course it CAN get very complicated, very quickly.) I certainly understand why some would want to forward $$ from a Timeline sale towards the pricey LVX however. And I think you are quite fair to the Timeline overall in this video.
Some great points. Interestingly I haven’t yet set my own bank of presets up for the LVX more I’ve been experimenting and mostly learning how to really draw out the sort of sounds I want from it. The timeline is a stone walled classic and ideally I wouldn’t have sold mine either but until they start giving me these things the bank account has to balance right :)
@@ingreynelg yes, I am keeping both. I honestly never had plans to sell the Timeline. The only question was what to keep to keep on what board. Swapping the LVX with the Timeline at present, even after lots of time getting to know the LVX is just a no-go in terms of workflow. Timeline still has twice the number of preset slots (I have about 150 songs programmed in my current rig) and the venerable +/-3 db boost cut. It stays where it is. I'd prefer to build a board around the LVX along with some other newer pedals, but that is years away. (I believe Meris is working on another larger format pedal, and I'm hoping it's a reverb, because I love the Mercury7, but would love one with more tweakability and presets. Not many stereo reverbs actually process the wet in stereo FROM stereo dry in, but the M7 does, hopefully this will do that, preserving all the stereo wonder of the LVX.)
All the justifications that every guitar player makes to justify new gear. Then when we bought the new gear, we will make everything possible for make it sound like the one we are saying “goodbye to” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
