EHX Mel9: What it really sounds like. 

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Imagine that would be so cool

I tried to cover all the things that are most important to me.. Satisfying clicks being a big one.

Thanks! Trying to bring as much of my personality into my videos as possible. Thanks for the motivation! I need to upload more!

I will definitely admit I'm not much of a demo player because I honestly have no idea what to play. When I get a new music gadget, I pretty much just strum random things and play random strings just to try and get an idea of the gadget's dynamic range. For my next product demo videos I will have song snippets and such I will play that better suit the pedal. Thanks for your informative comment and for visiting my channel!

Absolutely true. For electric guitars (and especially for nylon string or acoustic guitars), you need to place a really good compressor before MEL9/C9/B9/KEY9 pedals, for adding the proper balance and sustain to your tone. If you use both such guitars and electric violin through any of these pedals, you need a D.I. Box with different load settings, to accommodate the noticeable difference in instrument impedance. What a wonderful pedal MEL9 is...

Do you have any video with mel 9 on elecrtic violin please? I hesitate to buy it for my electric violin

I now a sax guy who plays his saxo into this pedal

It works GREAT on mine! I use it frequently at open mics as well as with a Prog band.

Well, maybe I can answer that because the 12 string has become my favorite instrument of choice the last months. I can assure you that the sounds combined with this pedal are way beyond expectation: when you set the mix on halfway, you can get the Moody Blues sound with guitar and the famous mellotron combined into yourself, as mentioned in my comment above, it also gets you the sound of most George Harrison songs, and with a little turning of the knob presets and combined with a phaser, you can get the "reverse loop" guitar sounds as on many Beatles' songs on the Revolver album and on their song Rain....the ongoing discoveries are too far out to be mentioned in this comment alone

Not many people know this, but if you press the metal switch in the middle, your guitar will go back to sounding like a guitar.

Interestingly, there's the Roland virtual guitar system where you install a hexaphonic pickup on your guitar and it triggers sampled guitars. No joke.

@@MFKitten I was literally scrolling eBay yesterday trying to find a good deal on one of these. Have you tried it??

@@ryank.creates9677 I have the roland hex pickup on a guitar with a boss floorboard thingy, and it simulates different pickup types and instruments and stuff. It's way better than I had expected, and lots of fun, but I haven't ever tried the guitar synth floorboards and stuff. The tracking based stuff is way too finnicky for me to bother dealing with, but the simulated pickups and acoustics and stuff is great.

Yes....its called wear an ass hat and play what you like. But, obviously you know that because you're an ass hat.....we have a win win.....

You mean you added a switcher?

Put a compressor in front of it too.

...and talent

Ego lacking for sure

Fripp don't smile or laugh.

I love King Crimson, so this is a big compliment!

You're right. The signal does need some post-processing like any type of modulation plus delay and/or reverb. But that tremolo is too much. And you cannot control it in any way. Pity...

same as I...

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Yes it can. Your results may vary depending on the kind of pickups you have and the kid of amp you're running through, as I BELIEVE it's mostly intended for use with an electric guitar.

Let your ears be the judge. Did you end up getting it or something else?

yea, ehx has some bespoke pitch tracking algos that work better than anything else out there. no idea how they do it.

TROGULAR 10,000 they have one

Synth9 bruv

"Killer good" is a state of mind, boo.

You're welcome!

Both in the mail😎

I'd go for the Synth9. I think it's all up to preference though. They are both super versatile for all different styles.

Synth 9 seems a bit more modern (and slightly limited) whereas Mel 9 is more of a classic vibe... all depends on what style you're going for.

How do you use a pedal unplugged?

@@布衣-l1l most "unplugged" performances are not really unplugged, rather just played on acoustic instruments

This is a garage, so those panels are MDF covered in fabric cut to fit the standard garage door panels!

I love that my shirt has become a point of interest hahaha. I got it from a second hand store in Nashville I believe.. I'll look at the label when I get off work.

It was from Express

🤔 This seems to be the more versatile pedal of the two, with richer, more polyphonic sounds and just a wider range in general (and I have both). A great option as well: EHX Tri-Parallel Mixer will blend multiple pedals in parallel instead of series. It depends what style you're aiming for, but the Mel 9 seems to be more of a "classic" sound... ☮️+💜+🎶

I really enjoyed this comment. Lmao

I did up until a week ago when it broke.... Sad day.

I see you are very passionate about what other people choose to wear. why does it make you so upset though? are you a fashionista designer? I wear jeans and shirts, is that cool? I don't want to piss my girlfriend off. She sometimes gets her panties in a bunch when i don't match- whatever that means.

@Walt Coyle "I have the right to be a dumbass but choose not to." Are you sure about that...?

I think they were vans high tops! unfortunately, I stepped in a giant puddle of trash juice while wearing those, so they were put to rest.

What it you just put a looper pedal after it?

@@graphicnick07 that’s what I mean. I use a loop pedal after it but I wish I didn’t have to bend down and switch the instrument every time I want to change instruments

Gotta take them shoes off man. Use your toes.

There must be something out there that can do something like that

Still going

ert..what? Who are you talking too and why don't they care about the past? And who are you apologizing too? Yep, the mellotron is a classic. I think that's why they made this? are you all right? am i?? fuck!

Kristopher Kinzie yeah it's aight

So he can look like every other Douche Bag Slick Hipster ? Not cool enough for ya' ? Refreshing to see "the Novice approach" instead of over produced dildos looking to be discovered IMO. 65,00 views, and most comments are positive. To each his own.

sonijam It's a Monoprice tube amp.

Might be speaker/amp as have trouble when I put thru a 10in spkr.Pevy Envoy am I right people or maybe I have sour unit too/Springy esp. on Orchestra.

Please I welcome comments from all you fellow musicians assistance.

You have to make sure you run lots of volume into it. if you go directly from the guitar into the pedal and you're a very light picker, you'll get those fluctuations. Try either playing a bit more aggressively, or run some kind of boost (volume boost like an LPB1 or maybe a compressor) before the Mel9... that ought to smooth out the volume.

Neil Aspinall has

It DEFINITELY has very delicate volume sensitivity. I've found putting some kind of limiter after it can help with that. Like a compressor. And the tracking noticeably improved for me after putting it in the effects loop rather than plugging my guitar into it directly. Its still not perfect, but i am now happy with it.

theID2 you should put your head phones on bro there completely different Instruments

@@RepukeinScapegoat ... i said "pretty much". there are small differences but nothing worth what a mel9 costs.

theID2 got mine 100 used mint in box last week love it but not for everyone, I find THE EHX MEL 9 incredibly helpful for intros and Layering also sounds good with distortions through a 4 channel patch method if u have a dedicated loop out in the head or rack depending what u use with it

@@RepukeinScapegoat .. i think our uses differ. going for distortion i'd assume you play electric. i'm an acoustic player and don't care for muddied sound

theID2 i like acoustic ASWELL ,UT WHAT YOU JUST SAID SIR IS BLASPHEMY!! Lol ON ELECTRIC ITS REALLY FUN I THINK PRIMARILY THATS WHAT IT WAS BUILT AROUND FOR ELECTRIC PLAYERS EVEN PLAYERS THAT PLAY SOLEY ON CLEAN CHANNELS NO DISTORTION OR GAIN STAGES ECT TRY IT THROUGH A ELECTRIC. By the way I’ve heard friends use it through pianos/ bass even electric drum set .... the mel9 through a drum set is off and everywhere sounding like dropping acid speed and shrroms and having the worse trip of your life I put it though a PA and used my voice that was fun but hard to control since I don’t sing primarily I do backups occasionally