One of the only entrepreneurs who openly endorses other companies' pedals. You are a class act, Josh, which clearly demonstrates your integrity as a business owner and a human being! Keep up the excellent work!
I couldn’t vouch more for the Old Blood Procession. Years later and it’s still my most inspiring wild card pedal. Every sound is so beautiful and being able to hold trails is magic.
I used to have a blueSky and a Hall Of Fame 2 on my board but decided to sell my HOF and use only my blueSky. Best decision I made (mainly cause I use more delay than I do reverb).
My first standalone reverb pedal was the Behringer RV-600. Great pedal, but not exactly what I was looking for. Then I found the TC Electronics Hallmof Fame 2 - awesome Reverb pedal, great takes on almost all of the most usable reverb sounds. I then decided to treat myself to something more ambient, and picked up the Walrus Slöer (my Hall of Fame 2 ended up on my daughter’s board) and holy moly… that thing is awesome. Pads, shimmers, anything you could want, and even the Slö’s ability to sustain, and still better yet, can store 3 presets. Amazing machine. I’ve also been playing with all the reverbs and delays included in the HX Stomp. Running that in parallel with the Slöer and the possibilities seem endless!
I love the Meris Mercury7. I had my eye on it ever since it came out and eventually got one. I highly recommend it. It's got (only) two algorithms, but they're wonderful and it has kind of its own sound. I like that.
It’s wild how when ever I get a bug about something and I think, let me go look for a video.... with in the same week you have a new video up on that subject.
I’ve got a Keeley mod workstation, and with the expression pedal on the plate reverb, there is a phenomenal feedback effect that adds a little distortion. It sounds really cool.
The Caroline Meteore reminds me of my Premiere spring reverb - really gritty and if you crank up the amount of reverb, the reverberations seem to smack each other into overdrive. Very unique sound. Thanks for another cool video, John. Er, Josh.
This is an awesome list! Can honestly say I've never heard some of those sounds. I would just add the Empress Reverb, it has some of the craziest cool algorithms on it!
After finding this channel, I found a new thing about the guitar to be obsessed with. Had pedals before, but I was underwhelmed. I got the JHS unicorn v2, it's absolutely fantastic. After tinkering with a few other of their pedals, I can say they are all keepers, this is the real deal. Thanks for the great pedals and videos! pedals really can be inspiring- I generally play clean so I'm admittedly picky about pedals and their tone sucking capabilities but I don't worry about that with jhs. Keep on rockin' in the free world
Welp... I guess after binge-watching your channel for the last week or two, I'll subscribe. I forgot I wasn't. Love the channel and by the way, I don't think you're hoarding pedals... you just have a library! Awesome. Thanks for all the stuff I've learned the last couple weeks. This channel's been really helpful.
i'm a huge fan of the Catalinbread Talisman. it's a recreation of the EMT 140 Plate Reverb with some killer features. it will run on 18v for higher headroom, has a boost that (in trails mode, internally switchable) remains on when the effect is in bypass (functioning as a great end of chain boost), has a very useful pre-delay control, will do full wet, near infinite but degrading trails, and has a super useful high pass to tighten it up. if you allow all the low end and crank up the verb, it accurately reproduces the effect of overwhelming the plates into a chaotic resonance. but it really accomplishes all the great things of good plate reverb, producing a gorgeous, shimmery reverb that doesn't dominate your dry signal but sits nicely in the background. best single-style reverb i've played. and no... i don't work for Catalinbread. haha. i just love the pedal.
Grouper- Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill. I mean any Grouper would do. Her haunting voice and guitar are drenched in reverb. I also enjoy how electronic artists like Boards of Canada and Tycho use reverb and delay. Honestly I could go on almost every artist I listen to has reverb. It's certainly prominent in my sonic experiments.
.PSHC has a great reverb pedal, the Ripple, that sounds absolutely fantastic. It's so unique, and he made a version 1.1 that I think is on sale right now (right after I bought version 1 haha, but that's how his business model works) that adds a little more functionality...
These are all good but my favorite reverb is hungry Robot El Castillo arpeggiating reverb. It's just insane. Can sound like several instruments playing at once. I like a lot of their pedals. Really unique.
Love me some Trent Dabbs! And yes, The Way We Look at Horses is a phenomenal album! Loved seeing him rewarded helping Kasey Musgraves win album of the year (co-wrote High-Horse...I smell a theme). First album I recognized used reverb as a prominent part was The Inbetween Time by Common Children
Strymon Big Sky is a great one. Also the Mr Black Supermoon (also Supermoon Chrome, and Bloodmoon). They are super wet and with sway turned up it takes you to outer space.
Pedal: Terverb by Ezhi & Aka/ Reverb in a Song: "Theme From 'Harry's Game' by Clannad which U2 introduced to the world during the opening credits of their 80s video concert masterpiece "Under a Blood Red Sky Live at Red Rocks". The Clannad track is featured on their album Magical Ring which is a great album to play at any point in the year but also around the stressful holidays. (Enya used to be in Clannad before she also got mega-reverby and became monumentally famous. And yes, all the members are literally related.)
Big fan of the Chase Bliss Dark World! It's on my board. Just got the Slö and put it on my all-blue pedalboard too... That "dark" setting with the suboctave all the way off is a really usable "always on" plate kind of sound. Honorable mention to the EQD Dispatch Master, and its bigger brother the Avalanche Run. For a recording that really relies on reverb for the sound? Fleet Foxes! Their self-titled 2008 record is just drenched in plate.
Also, I think a few of us would like a video on your guitars. Like what is that white semi hollow? I’ve seen your built guitar. And I think like a quickish rundown on your guitars would be cool.
The king of the Underrated Extraordinary Reverbs must be the Particle Verb by Line 6, it goes from "whoa what's this?" to "unfuckinbelievable!" in a flash!
Yea I read that little passage from Coast sonic. I thought it was dumb then too. Great effect though. I always learn something from your videos and I've been around the scene a long while. Thank you for all the great and informative videos! By the way, as much as I love my Wampler Velvet Fuzz, your Tiny Foot Fuzz is still my favorite! Also the effects loop on the Alpine Reverb is so innovative! I love putting a phaser or a Uni-Vibe in the loop for all the swishy goodness!!! I love J.H.S. Pedals!!!
Don't you feel that most of these reverbs marry you to an aesthetic? I don't expect pedals or any other gear to be this neutral blank canvas that keeps all options open and doesn't push you in any direction whatsoever, but with reverbs I feel that there's a very clear prescription to how whatever music that passes through them should end up sounding like. I like ambient a lot and, if I have to pick an umbrella term to describe the music I do to people, "ambient" is my go-to, but I feel that almost all of these pedals are going to make me sound like everybody else. The price tag on a lot of them also creates this situation in which you're clearly buying your membership to a club. I'm not being conspiratorial here, I guess there's a demand for this kind of stuff that pedal builders are simply fulfilling. If anything, this only proves that we are going through a golden age of pedals, but I wonder who else feels the same. With that said, the Boss RV-500 seems to me to be designed to give the user as much customization and control as he/she is willing to explore and that's where my money is likely going. Liz Harris' Grouper project is an ode to reverb. That's her instrument. The sound sources she uses and her song-writing are only feeding evolving sheets of reverb. This is particularly obvious in "A I A", but "Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill" would probably be a better place to start with Grouper.
Hi Josh! I'm a saxophone player and a HUGE fan of your pedals! My favorite sound was from the Chase Bliss Dark World. Question: when do you plan to do a video about the wall of pedals behind you? That would be a cool idea 😉
I'm dying to get a few of those! Thanks for the trip into SPACE. I recall the first time I heard Pink Floyd: One Of These Days... a Spacey Trip for sure. Or David Sylvian "Taking The Veil" - The 12" Single version!
Tempus was my favorite on this show. Epic reverb on Shine on You Crazy Diamond. I will always remember the first time I heard that song cranked in my buddy's car. EDIT: Not as much reverb as I thought on that track. Epic nonetheless!
YES! Doing one with Walrus.. I just discovered them and their pedals are crucial.... they win art category and damn near sound category (they might win that too)... but they don't win "plays well with others" category... LOL they work better independently powered b/c they ramp up 9v to 18v and other such mayhem. Love em. Esp. that fuzz tremolo one.
Great video featuring many pedals I've never tried before. It's great to hear them for comparison. My only reverb to date is the one built into my Marshall DSL 15C amplifier and I note a lot of Fender amplifiers also have Reverb built into them. A quick question for yourself or anyone else who can answer it. Years ago a famous musician by the name of 'Phil Collins' used a technique called 'gated reverb' for his drum recordings (also Peter Gabriel around the same time) and it became epic during the 80's, every recording from Michael Jackson to Bon Jovi had a bit of that gated sound spliced into the mix. Do some of these effects units allow for a 'gated reverb' sound from the guitar pedal?
Man, the Slo sounds unreal, but not sure I need any more reverb and delay pedals with the Afterneath, Dispatch Master, and Specular Tempus. Of course I say that still not having tried out Meris pedals.
I'm going with these: The Church, After Everything Now This (shimmer verb galore on "The Awful Ache") Slowdive, Just For A Day (reissue with the first EP included) (underrated even by the band; check out the awesome majesty of "She Calls") Soul Whirling Somewhere, Everyone Will Eventually Leave You (supposedly not his best, but the only one I have, and it's depressingly awesome, with lots of reverb and dying-alone-in-a-cold-desert vibes; straight outta Tucson) I'm still finding my favorite reverb, but whatever Julian Swayles uses is cool with me.
I liked the Old Blood Noise pedal and just bought it. I already have their fuzz pedal and it's just nasty. My favorite pedal, however, would be your pedal I've already had for a few years and used multiple times - the Afterneath.
Oh shoot, I have to rewind this episode Josh said nap and my tubby self went out! I had a crazy dream during my nap "I was floating on a wave"? Huh! Now what's this one about (Reverb!) Yeah! Uh Hey Wait!!!!
Owned a Wampler Spring Reverb that was incredible, just like a classic Fender spring, as much as you want...uncanny, check it out for true realistic spring
I've recently discovered your channel. So glad I did.most excellent content. It makes we wanna buy your pedals,just because your a very likeable dude. But they are fairly expensive down here in Australia. not crazy expensive but a bit out of my affordability.thanks for a great entertaining channel. If you get a chance check out a couple of Australian pedal builders I like. Kink pedals. Dazatronyx pedals. Great pedals from down Under.
Hey Josh, hope you're doing well. I'm thinking of joining the JHS family by getting the Alpine reverb. Any thoughts for being the first Jhs pedal on my board? Thanks for your time.
