Synth\beard grooming team-up series is now obligatory. Get to work, the algorithm demands it Cameron. Emily harpist is lurking on here to. Throw her into the mix as an adjudicator just for the hell of it
lol more like a film strip in the 60s. VHS wasn't anywhere near that lo-fi. Unless you're talking about a tape that got melted in your car and somebody dumped a beer on your VCR. But then it would probably just not work at all. There wasn't much room for VCRs to fail gracefully. Mostly they just played perfectly but ate the tape when you tried to eject it.
@@delta-9969 nah, a film strip would have more projector noise, my guy and the frequency sweep of the vibrato is all off for a film strip in the 60s ok. It's VERY clearly the sound and warble of YOUR CHANGING BODY on VHS in an '91 RCA VR645HF 4 Head Hi-Fi VCR through a Panasonic CTN-1341R CRT TV. The level of grain and warble properly matches not only the sound of the blown out school TV speakers, but also the feeling of learning my body is rebelling against me and will change in ways beyond my control and life is no longer going to be SNICK and Pete and Pete and POGs. I'm gonna have to wear deodorant and shave my face and kiss girls on the mouth. This is the perfect emulator for that and if you don't hear it, you clearly need to upgrade your studio monitors ok
I bought one back in the fall. It’s pretty kick ass and once you get used to it, it is very easy to navigate. The infinite reverb and the loops speed changes are glorious.
Hi this is Nightshade. I just came across tour channel when I was trying to figure out how to add mono cables to my patchbay. I very quickly gell in love with tour channel. You have a great presentation and I like your mentality. Keep it up!
Your keyboard playing is getting very good! You create nice moods and tones. Thank you for all your hard work, you are a refreshing face in the gear world, which is typically pretty redundant and uninspiring.
Damn it Jorb… you’re making me want to buy this $400 thing that I don’t need… that I can’t even get! I have the walrus M1 which I absolutely love, but have been wanting the gen loss mkii and this video is really making me reconsider that… Ribbons seems to be just as high quality and the 4 page setup is frankly genius!
Great explanation of the controls on this, very good interface design for maintaining a balance of intuitive operations with four separate pages of effects! Very powerful. Also digging the bipolar knob adjustment on that hiss/pops and pre/post verb mix. Clever! Edit: the jumper config for TRS midi pinout is really a nice touch. Very thorough design! I'm a huge Volante fan as well 💚
This is crazy! Once again such a great demonstration, I’ve set a reminder in my calendar to try and get mine on Jan 30th. This pedal is so musical and I could use it in countless productions. Thanks for you videos man!
Ribbons is on my board for this exact reason! The looper mode is literally like having four Tensors in series. That's enough of a selling-point for me, all by itself! 😁
For those of us that still have the very old analogue equipment and like to use it, but don`t like to wear it out due to maintainance, I can see it would be very useful. As an intergrated part of a larger production I think it would be cost effective even though right now I don`t know the price, for a volume of work it can`t fail.
The tape emulation is really cool. It makes me want one with the same interface but with a more traditional set of keyboard sound sculpting controls, like a page for EQ, one for pitch and distortion, one for delay and one for reverb.
This is amazing, but..shockingly, I've never been more equally impressed and convinced I don't need a pedal before in my life. Is this what growing up feels like? 😂
@@JorbLovesGear HA just my good eyes and ears i guess;) woow so many good thing happened from MI open source stuff.. so sorry to hear about the end of that amazing small company..
I actually cut a long ramble where I talked about the shallow water approach to lo fi, where a bunch of classic synthesis / sound manipulation tools add up to make something feel "lo-fi", as opposed to just modeling the specific behavior of imperfect medium...... And ribbons does both!
I had to check my RU-vid playback speed multiple times throughout this video because the effects sounded so much like watching a music tech demo at 2x speed.
Amazing video! Highly influential in my decision to switch from Gen Loss mkii to Ribbons (only have need/space/$$ to keep one). Not a dig on CBA or Cooper, I just think Ribbons has a more usable feature and control set for what I want to do. I hope you do a similar video with Mood mkii!!
Use it with a synth and you get Stranger Things vibe...Use it with a guitar and you get Mac Demarco tone...use it just to modify some ballroom music and you get The Caretaker. What's more to love?
I think this pedal makes more sense for a keyboardist, since its so menu-divey and you could use your free hand. For a guitarist, I think Gen Loss, although more basic than Ribbons, has a set-it-and-forget-it feel. I have a Gen Loss and wanted Ribbons, but your in depth video actually turned me off to the idea. If it had a big box enclosure with additional physical controls, I’d be all over it. The Tape Stop (at least from your video) sounds better to my ears than the Gen Loss though. Thanks for the rundown.
This is literally all I can think about. Make it a box with 16 knobs, even just a little bigger and use mini knobs. You can charge me more, I'll pay a premium no problem. I simply cannot stand diving like this. Its such a trend in the audio world and I couldn't hate it more. I know I sound like mister negative here but I am just so off put by the interface, and its a shame because I absolutely love this pedal and would 100% buy it if it had a different interface. Sidenote: I like strymon volante a lot.
@setzer they should’ve done a Microcosm-sized enclosure. But perhaps for a newer company there are greater costs for doing that. Maybe they’ll do a deluxe version down the line.
@@5etz3r It's incredible. It's got 3 modulations, vinyl warp, tape jitter and scrape. A compander section for degrading your signal, drop outs and stutter. Snap/pops, hiss, and hum--- which the tone/style can be adjusted. It's a serious lofi pedal. The guy did the DSP for the Blooper. But I must say that the Ribbons is also an incredible pedal. It has built in reverb, which all tape style pedals need. I sold the mk2 in a week and ordered the Bygones. Total upgrade.
I almost ordered a Ribbons, but instead went with the Gen Loss MK2 by Chase Bliss because it's not menu-divey at all, but still very deep. I'm definitely very pleased with the tape emulation (customization and midi controls are wild), and often will add a little bit of mixer reverb at the end of the chain. Ribbons looks super versatile, though.
I've got both, and while the UX is way better on the Gen Loss (even the dip switches aren't as bad as people say), I greatly prefer the flexibility and sound of the Ribbons. There's no wrong choice here, though - I love that we have options like this.
@@moldy_pirate5284 have you tried using the M4L midi program for the GLmk2? you dont have to touch the dip switches at all, tremendously convenient to have remote control over every aspect of the pedal from Ableton.
I’ve heard someone on youtube complain that the Generation Loss MkII was unusable for him due to latency. I’m guessing it’s more of a problem for people that are more guitar-oriented. Since you have experience with both pedals, could you tell me how they compare latency-wise? Thanks for this lovely review, by the way!
Gen loss just had an update to change the latency! And I wouldn't say unusable. Just at partial dry / wet mix, you can notice phasing with *some* short attack sounds. And the original latency was intentional, to allow for a pleasant chorus with dry in the mix, primarily for guitar players. I didn't compare their latency, but have had no issues with either, although I have mostly used both at full wet mix.
@@JorbLovesGear Thanks for the almost immediate reply! ;) I hadn’t researched this further, and didn’t know it was intentional. When you think about it, it’s really another low-fi effect, to be used as such. Makes sense. Thanks for clearing this up. I’m not gonna dare ask which one you like best. ;D
The pedal sounds incredible. I love that it includes low-pass and high-pass filtering, along with the choice to put reverb before or after the tape effect. However, I was watching this video and thinking, "How the hell am I going to remember which knob parameter is the one that splits two functions below and above twelve o'clock?" I am getting tired of the format of cramming, let's call it a "deluxe" feature set, into the footprint of a regular guitar effect stompbox. The single-knob-multiple-functions thing where you're depending on an LED to give you some form of visual feedback. It has kept me from ordering pedals I would have otherwise been interested in, like the Alexander Superball or a lot of the Meris stuff. [At least Ribbons is TRYING to give more visual feedback with the LED brightness shown to correspond with each knob.] If there are that many parameters available, I want to see some kind of digital screen that will read out what exactly I'm changing. I understand that aesthetics are important--It's cute! It's pink! It's got blinking lights on it!--but a screen would really help to dial in the level of control that this audio feature set deserves. It doesn't have to be big, or super menu-divey.
On my list. Same situation as you, with trying to get one, for a while now. I'm curious to know what you think of Nunomo's Qun. I have that on the way. It's an amazing little device, and it just keeps expanding. I'm totally stoked that it's got a granular-capable sampler.
The "presets" section showed one preset. (Unless you count the "effectively bypassed" one). Not trying to sound salty I just jumped there to hear what this puppy could do to the same sound source.
Hope someday you find a good deal on a Access Virus TI, a swiss army knife for synthesis, not least it's effects and stompbox emultaions, which you have the experience to judge. Snow is portable, but 61TI has the famed Fatar TP8/S keybed, considered by many (pre-Osmose) to be the best synth keys ever. And you can test the limits of VA on 16 channels ;) My go to pre-kemper Kemper guitar amp. Good VST integration on Mac so long as you don't go past Mojave. Those 2011 MBPs are cheap now, and have digital mini-jacks--MPC1k ready :)
