Why I Love The Hologram Chroma Console | Review & Demo 

Really cool to see this properly demoed on synths. I always love your penchant for warbly sounds.

Fantastic comprehensive demo! Love the tones!

Some serious Boards of Canada vibes in here. I can't wait to get this unit. It's so incredibly packed with features and there's no menu diving. Love it.

Appreciate you including the pedal comparisons (which I requested 😊). As always your musicianship shines through. I have a lot of gear but none of your composing or producing chops. Always learning. Thanks for the review!

This is one of the best videos about the chroma console

What an EXCELLENT starting jam! I'm still at the start.

I like the way you structure ur reviews, good video

oh nice! was looking forward to your video on this

Very helpful video thanks. Loved the music too. Definitely worth considering. Already have a microcosm and I find it unique!

Came here to learn about the pedal left falling in love with your musical talent. Amazing and inspirational jam! Cheers!

Useful demo, thanks!! - didn’t know every algorithm is stereo … the stereo fuzz is cool! Creative demo at the start. 😎👍🏼 The pedal looks beautiful, too!

Thank you for this video, I've been itching to get my hands on a chroma console

Masterful playing!

Fantastic Demo 👌 Awesome Intro 😃 what a Brilliant Pedal this is 💯 🤩 🙌

what a beautiful pedal & sound

Your demos are killer! Deff the best jams for a review channel. Next to Alex Ball, but I wouldn’t say he’s a review channel. Love seeing you grow brotha!

Duuude!!! That first jam!🤯🤩🤩

I was playing guitar completely in the box but have recently started building up a pedal board again and received the Chroma Console as a christmas gift. I've been loving it and agree that "Sweeten" just pretty much just something I always want on and the reverb is good, but kind of one note. I'm currently looking for a reverb to add on to it for both synth and guitar stuff but there's just so many good options these days. That was a super cool video; thanks for sharing.

INTRO SONG ROCKS!!!

That was sick af 😂 good job bro

As someone who intensely hated the Microcosm, this one is interesting. The Microcosm - every instance of it made everyone sound the same. It was like a box of sugar. This one has variety and flavor - and options. Thanks for showcasing!

great pedal

Dang, I’m tempted by this. You’re making me into a pedal collector! It’s funny, you were saying how the reverb isn’t so great, then you demo it and I’m like “it sounds pretty good to me”… then you played that clip through the Sloer and it just blew the Chroma Console reverb away. Maybe I like lofi reverbs. I’m tempted. Of course, “weak reverb” translates to “use the diffusion module for something else!”

Damn that opening jam caught me off guard 💯💯💯

WHERE did you get that spectrum visualizer?! And is it analyzing ambient sound or analyzing an audio input?

freakin great demo music.....

just got one and am interested in using it as a send in logic as well. not sure how to set that up you should make a tutorial

The gesture recording is perfect, that makes this worth getting. Before that I wasn't that impressed. Same reason I love the NightSky. These digital pedals are indeed a plugin in a box so in order for them to account for something more, they need to tell a story and a sequencer or gesture recording does that. Imho

Love this thing, just wish the tracking for that pitch module didn't have a literal full second of latency.

Reverb is nice on the Chroma , definitely not as dynamic as the other you showed but can sound just as good implementating the other effects with it

Why'd you have to go so hard on that demo song @ 1:30? Good lord, it's fire!

I actually LOVE the reverb with short decay times! But no, it doesn’t do “long and lush”..

Interested to find out all of the synths and gear you currently own and use in your studio, current setup and if you are thinking of buying anything else, waiting for a synth 🙂

I bought one of these this last weekend. I lOOOOOVE it of course. It's a great pedal. It would be worth it if it were just the delay and lo-fi section. Every single effect is really great. This is the thing though... no one is talking about it... like at all. Seriously. So far no one. Mono. All of these creators go on and on and on and on about the stereo stuff. Dont get me wrong... stereo really is amazing and of course everyone talks about that. But the "thing" is they forget that most guitarists don't run Stereo regularly. Most run mono. Who just has an extra $1200 guitar amp just... laying around. Guitarists trade and sell stuff to get other stuff. Unfortunately extra amps don't stick around. I know this isn't everyone. I'm just saying running a stereo rig is not as numerous as a mono rig. And no one has shown how great the pedal sounds as a simple mono run within the signal chain. It's so good. Everything sounds amazing in a normal signal chain. Hologram killed it with this pedal. Con. There is one con with the pedal. "Secondary Functions." You just push the first and second bank buttons together and that gives you access to those functions. It's easy... but it's still a "con." Boss has (as usual because they're the best) mastered this. It's so easy but people come up with these convoluted ways to do it. I just don't get it. If they just had concentric knobs there would be no reason to worry about weird ways to do the job. You can just do it analog. Lol. It's so simple. But yeah. That's the only con. A small thing... but still. Such a great pedal.

In the comparison between the the 4 pedals and the chroma console, it gets _really_ muddy in comparison to the 4 pedal chain, which is exactly what my experience is with non-guitars. And that's my beef with Hologram, they really make these things for guitars. They work fine for synths, but there are definitely issues, like this one. My synths sound muddy as hell through this pedal. I even calibrate mine almost every time I use it...

Great review - looks like this pedal has mojo.

Trem-olo.. or Tre-mo-lo?! 😧

this beats analog heat fx lol in the sense of sound and cost. this literally has the warmth that elketron forgot about

If you have an earthquake, that syntrx on the shelf is done for.

... I see what's going on here... you want me to sell almost all my pedals... but to do that I need to buy another pedal *which button to press meme intensifies*

Nope

I really hate Hologram. Their pedals are great but theyre a bitch to get in Europe xD

Oh, lol. I thought you kinda know what you are taking about, but compering it with Zoia make me thinking you are noob. Zoia can replace all those pedals) but thanks for review anyway…

As cool as Lofi fx pedals are-I still feel they are overhyped and overpriced for what they are and what they do. I feel like they are fashionable right now and will eventually fall out of style over time. I still think they are cool but a lot of Lofi fx can be achieved with plugins xln retro color or if you want the real thing buy a cassette player or reel to reel and run your audio through it.

For $399, you too can make your music sound like a sound track from a 1970's science fiction film with a corrupted audio feed.

You love it because you got it for free……

I just hate the guitar pedal format

dammit im sold