Checking Out The ALABS Pedals 

According to my wife, $99 isn't a cheap pedal.

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Thanks Phil! Great timing -- the Timeslip Pedal is an Amazon Prime Day Deal $93.48 USD.

Great demo, Phil. These sound really nice. I wouldn’t call $99 cheap anymore, though. $200-300 feels overpriced considering how completely saturated the pedal market has become.

I got the Cetus reverb a while ago after the 60 Cycle Hum demo and I freaking love it. I'm insanely impressed with these for the price! I've wasted so many hours just playing ambient stuff with headphones on. A quick check of the instructions probably would have helped understand and show these off a little better. One feature you missed is they do stereo in/stereo out, mono in/mono out, but they also do mono in/stereo out. So your guitar signal will come out the same in both sides but the reverb or delay etc will come out stereo even with the guitar going in mono. (So I've put mine after my Katana record out into the pedal and then into my interface so I can have stereo reverb in my headphones/speakers) The switch changes what the foot switch does, but it also changes what that 5th knob does. So it makes that knob a pre-delay or a modulation knob for example. Also the infinity/expression mode of the footswitch record changes you want it to do when you hold it, and then will redo that whenever you hold it (with multiple layers). So you can make it so holding down the footswitch turns up the reverb mix, for example, but you can do any knob changes. So you can have the mix cut to 0 then swell in, and then you can have it also increase the decay at the same time, and then you can have it also modulate less or more etc etc all at once as you hold the footswitch. These are awesome. You also kind of missed the uniqueness of the last setting on the reverb called Wave, because it's kind of low by default. But again if you flip the switch down and use the mod knob you can increase how much of it there is. What it does it does a reverb with like an impulse response of literally ocean waves crashing on the beach mixed in, and it's so cool! And again for example with that expression mode of the foot switch you could record it to increase the amount of ocean waves in the reverb when you hold it for example. These pedals really are mindblowing to me for the price.

You missed the best trick these pedals can do. The space ship sounds on the time slip is amazing

Walrus Audio called and want their artist back.

I bought all 4 last year on Black Friday. They are great with the reverb being the best. They are power hungry though they all need a 250mA minimum supplied to them!

Awesome demo of some exiting pedals! The factors which cured my pedal addiction: 1.) An old USA Peavey Bandit amp- sounded so much better without external effects 2.) The $300+ pedals flooding the market 3.) The Mooer Red Truck

Own the reverb and delay pedal and have to say especially the reverb is REALLY good. If you want the exitement that something like the strymon reverbs can bring you - this pedal delivers. More conventional algorithms like room, spring and plate sound very good too. Could not found a real downside apart from the double function pot for mod and pre-delay.

Loved this demo…I’d like to hear how delay and reverb pedal sound together too! I’d be interested to hear a comparison between these pedals and JOYO.

"I'd really like to hear this on a Bassman"... Wouldn't we all, brother!

to me, i could not care less about packaging, only performance matters.

Yeah...I don't consider $99 cheap. Especially if it's unknown. Every Boss pedal is around $100, and they have actual track record.

All of the Alabs units are on offer in the UK for Prime Day, for those this side of the Atlantic that may be interested. Something very Walrus Audio about the look of these!

The reverb and delay were nice.

No, Phil!!! I'm saving for one and you are going to make them go up in price 😅

That reverb pedal sounded insane!!! $100 steal

Reverb sounded very nice. The tails sound like part of the notes. Not stuck on top like many pedals.

I literally could replace everything on my board with these and be just fine. Especially, now that I am in a band and just need simple solid units that work.

They sound amazing to my untrained ear! Had I not spent 2x my self imposed allowance on the Ampero II Stage being on sale, I would have picked one or two of these up.

Kind of reminds me of the reverbs on the Kemper. Great stuff and how nice of you for shining some light on these unknown pedal builders.

There is a press n hold feature that "saves" your knob twists that is another more unique feature of these. Might be worth a channel 2 cut.

Dynamic pricing now has the reverb at $120, the delay and pitch shift at $93.50, and the modulation at $85.

Hi Guitar 🎸 guy nice video 📹 and workmanship that Guitar 🎸 sounding was the best

I really liked the Reverb and Delay. The Modulation pedal didn’t sound very good to my ears. It might be a pedal you have to spend time tweaking each different effect. I don’t have much use for the pitch pedal but there was a point where you had a cool chorus effect through that pedal. Thanks for the video.

Sweet Walrus knockoffs!!! I'm digging them!

Phil, what OD pedal did you use? Sounds awesome

I love these. I have three of the four. They have some issues such as they don’t like being plugged in for super long (like when I forget to turn off my power strip after practice). I love the mod/x knob they put on them.

It certainly appears that the Prime Days was the time to buy these. They certainly have gone up since the sale ended.

Phil, I appreciate all your videos. I listen to them all while working.

I like that reverb. They need one with a bunch of badass drives

Reverb sounds great !

So, this came out in prime day, and I liked the reverb so I stopped the video right they and ordered one. Now it has been been delivered and I am LOVING the shimmer. But a few points. The packing is not bad but it’s not great, yeah sure , it’s not just a box with a lid, but it’s not (for example) as nice as the little magnet clasped boxes Andertons had on their own brand Landlord pedals. What is slightly hilarious is "ritual like unboxing" list listed as a feature of the range on all the boxes. It’s like the packaging designer took the brief printed it on the box and won the contract! Speaking of what’s written on the box, "abundant merch" obviously is marketing speak for: a guitar pick and a little sheet of stickers.

That reverb pedal was nice

The A in A Labs is most likely going to be Amazon's own brand. I'd avoid them myself but whatever floats your boat.

If you have ever opened some of these pedals, you might question why some of them cost $300..

I have the Timeslip it’s awesome.

You think Walrus has a case for copyright infringement, the design is a strait rip off. But i don’t know about laws, it probably only applies to written language? aka Copyright. What do you think?

The demo was great and the pedals sounded great as well. I just have an issue with so many versions of an effect in one pedal. Not condusive to stage play IMO without having multiple units. I suppose you could always pick your favorite then set it and forget it.

I’ll buy JHS series 3 stuff

I've been looking for an inexpensive reverb pedalfor a couple of weeks. Definitely checking out the Cetus.

Eqd plumes... AMAZING $100 ts circuit w 3 way clip switch

Something funny about pedal packaging is that, at this point I have purchased probably like 5 $200-$300 pedals from reputable companies and they all came in the cheapest cardboard box imaginable 😂

$119 now

ty jeff

Very interesting and very cool sounds !!

Huh?! $99 bucks.... Thanks for the demo Phil. I literally had to pause video to go rummage thru my pedals to see if I need something that a $99 pedal could fix.

They're now showing list prices of over $99 on Amazon for three of the four pedals.

85 to 99 dollars for Prime Day. You liked the Reverb too much Phil, they have that one listed for 119 (with a $20 coupon)

Too much trem bar. I thought you were cutting back. None the less, good demos.

I don’t think these are 99 anymore, prices went up or is it just me?

As long as Josh@JHS doesnt make a video they sould stay around 99$ ..seriously though the jhs 3 series pedals although sterile in appearance, Are pretty awsome....i just wish they were in stereo.

Another Amazon product not available to us over here in Europe(Ireland.)..thanks for demoing...

For a second I thought walrus was selling their pedals for 100 bucks now 😂

For less than $99 I'll just buy some used name brand pedals

I'll take "Because they're cheap" for $200, Alex...

Demonfx is better and cheaper if you dont have morals

How about "Why PEOPLE are talking about [whatever]". Its' never "everyone".

came to say, first I've heard of these and I'm not gonna watch this video.

And once again the Canadian price is $145

Nice review Phil! I really like the CETUS and TIMESLIP. You just helped ALabs sell a ton of these I suspect