@@winstonsmith8236 Can't really comment on that yet, but I will. People are jumping the gun and saying you can get everything in the MX that you can in the OG sound wise, and I'm skeptical. I've already found that "classic" voicings are only available for 4/12 reverb types. I'll be attempting to re-create my favorite presets from the OG Big Sky in the coming days, which should give me a better idea of the sonic differences between them. Haven't spent enough time comparing to really know yet. Will probably post a video with my pro's/con's and comparison stuff.
@@winstonsmith8236Sorry! I got your question confused with you asking about the Big Sky MX Vs the original Big Sky. Not the Meris Mercury X. Big difference on the Meris is that Meris is very much a modular toolbox. It can be all sorts of things, not just reverb. Want chorus? it's Chorus. Want drive? Its drive. Want Trem? It's a tremolo. Want sweeping filters? etc... It is a sound design tool. It is not go'ing for hyper realistic base verb types, but rather giving you tools that you can do amazing things with and string them together in all sorts of orders. Mercury X has a LOT of automated control options that really open up sounds for evolving movement etc... very complex sounds. The Big Sky MX is just a stereo reverb pedal. Paths are fixed, elements are fixed, you can change amounts or parameters and that's all. It is focused on more realistic spaces and doing the reverb job. It also has not only the ability to do convolution reverb, but 2 of them in stereo and the ability to edit those extensively on the fly, which I'm not aware of another pedal that does this. On paper they may look similar, but I view them like the above. They are 2 completely different philosophies and approaches to designing a product.
Another great review. So far, I'm still preferring the UA stuff, if only they would make a device that was actually controllable with expression pedals or midi... With Strymon and Line6, I feel the sounds are an effect that's controlled by guitar, losing some of the directness in your playing, whereas with the UA pedals I feel more like it's the guitar's sound, placed into a different context, if that makes sense. Of course Strymon has more over the top stuff built into their pedals than the emulations of old gear UA offers.
