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Waiting for UPS today like

So if anyone wants to trade theirs for a Mercury 7, hit me up

Got mine today and I've spent about 45 mins hunched over it so far. Some initial thoughts:

- The Keeley side is damn impressive. I've never really gone for his pedals but I love infinite reverb and so the dwell control is lovely
- If you've never bothered fucking with the dip switches on a CBA pedal, you really really should on this one (and it's easy), try starting with tone
- Running the pedal in either of the series configs seems to result in losing a bit of the wetness from the World side
- The Black setting is touchy, there's a fairly fine zone that it seems to work well in, where you're not stacking too much volume on the freeze, but not getting cuts when hitting the env threshold. The freeze volume can get too loud, even if you don't touch the modify knob.
- Dirt pedals into it sound great
- When trails are on, you don't get an easy way to clear the buffer if, for example, you're in Black mode and you've got a crazy freeze going on. It would be nice to have a long-press on the footswitch or something to clear the buffer.
- I'd love some blue tonal recall knobs on this baby

worra wrote:Got mine today and I've spent about 45 mins hunched over it so far. Some initial thoughts:

- The Keeley side is damn impressive. I've never really gone for his pedals but I love infinite reverb and so the dwell control is lovely
- If you've never bothered fucking with the dip switches on a CBA pedal, you really really should on this one (and it's easy), try starting with tone
- Running the pedal in either of the series configs seems to result in losing a bit of the wetness from the World side
- The Black setting is touchy, there's a fairly fine zone that it seems to work well in, where you're not stacking too much volume on the freeze, but not getting cuts when hitting the env threshold. The freeze volume can get too loud, even if you don't touch the modify knob.
- Dirt pedals into it sound great
- When trails are on, you don't get an easy way to clear the buffer if, for example, you're in Black mode and you've got a crazy freeze going on. It would be nice to have a long-press on the footswitch or something to clear the buffer.
- I'd love some blue tonal recall knobs on this baby

Very cool. Just wanted to fire off a few quick responses.

In series mode it’s improtant to remember that the engines that are getting stacked into are processing a 100% wet signal so things can be a little different than you might expect. Also if you have tone down it’s going through 2 tone stacks.

I think you are using black mode how I was using it when tom first sent me the program. The thing to keep in mind is that buffer is always filling up with sound until you trigger it to clear. So it’s just going to keep building if you keep playing without defeating the threshold. I’m gonna do another video on this.

With trails on, it Always honors the last state. So if you want the freeze to shut off in that context just turn the world channel on and off by itself quick.

chaseblissaudio wrote:

worra wrote:Got mine today and I've spent about 45 mins hunched over it so far. Some initial thoughts:

- The Keeley side is damn impressive. I've never really gone for his pedals but I love infinite reverb and so the dwell control is lovely
- If you've never bothered fucking with the dip switches on a CBA pedal, you really really should on this one (and it's easy), try starting with tone
- Running the pedal in either of the series configs seems to result in losing a bit of the wetness from the World side
- The Black setting is touchy, there's a fairly fine zone that it seems to work well in, where you're not stacking too much volume on the freeze, but not getting cuts when hitting the env threshold. The freeze volume can get too loud, even if you don't touch the modify knob.
- Dirt pedals into it sound great
- When trails are on, you don't get an easy way to clear the buffer if, for example, you're in Black mode and you've got a crazy freeze going on. It would be nice to have a long-press on the footswitch or something to clear the buffer.
- I'd love some blue tonal recall knobs on this baby

Very cool. Just wanted to fire off a few quick responses.

In series mode it’s improtant to remember that the engines that are getting stacked into are processing a 100% wet signal so things can be a little different than you might expect. Also if you have tone down it’s going through 2 tone stacks.

I think you are using black mode how I was using it when tom first sent me the program. The thing to keep in mind is that buffer is always filling up with sound until you trigger it to clear. So it’s just going to keep building if you keep playing without defeating the threshold. I’m gonna do another video on this.

With trails on, it Always honors the last state. So if you want the freeze to shut off in that context just turn the world channel on and off by itself quick.

Excellent tips, thanks so much I'm sure I'll get more acquainted with it as time goes on.

Speaking of time...and temples....https://www.instagram.com/p/BqtZC4eHpPH/

So basically you've gotta fill up that buffer like heart containers, defeat the threshold like it's a boss, then grab a hunk of the Triforce?

I'll show myself out.

popvulture wrote:So basically you've gotta fill up that buffer like heart containers, defeat the threshold like it's a boss, then grab a hunk of the Triforce?

I'll show myself out.

Yep

chaseblissaudio wrote:

worra wrote:Got mine today and I've spent about 45 mins hunched over it so far. Some initial thoughts:

- The Keeley side is damn impressive. I've never really gone for his pedals but I love infinite reverb and so the dwell control is lovely
- If you've never bothered fucking with the dip switches on a CBA pedal, you really really should on this one (and it's easy), try starting with tone
- Running the pedal in either of the series configs seems to result in losing a bit of the wetness from the World side
- The Black setting is touchy, there's a fairly fine zone that it seems to work well in, where you're not stacking too much volume on the freeze, but not getting cuts when hitting the env threshold. The freeze volume can get too loud, even if you don't touch the modify knob.
- Dirt pedals into it sound great
- When trails are on, you don't get an easy way to clear the buffer if, for example, you're in Black mode and you've got a crazy freeze going on. It would be nice to have a long-press on the footswitch or something to clear the buffer.
- I'd love some blue tonal recall knobs on this baby

Very cool. Just wanted to fire off a few quick responses.

In series mode it’s improtant to remember that the engines that are getting stacked into are processing a 100% wet signal so things can be a little different than you might expect. Also if you have tone down it’s going through 2 tone stacks.

I think you are using black mode how I was using it when tom first sent me the program. The thing to keep in mind is that buffer is always filling up with sound until you trigger it to clear. So it’s just going to keep building if you keep playing without defeating the threshold. I’m gonna do another video on this.

With trails on, it Always honors the last state. So if you want the freeze to shut off in that context just turn the world channel on and off by itself quick.

I was momentarily confused by "clearing the state" of the freeze.

Then I read the manual again. D'oh.

Thanks.

I've been really happy with the World mode. After fiddling with the Hall setting for a minute, I think it's a suitable replacement for my Bitquest reverb, which frees me up to do more fun stuff with the Bitquest on my small board.

The Mod setting on Dark mode alone (along with the fantastic options on the World side) make this pedal worth it to me even without the other fun settings.

I'm still trying to figure out how to work the Black mode without a sudden drop off in volume, but it seems like I should just make the threshhold lower so it doesn't build as much.

worra wrote:- When trails are on, you don't get an easy way to clear the buffer if, for example, you're in Black mode and you've got a crazy freeze going on. It would be nice to have a long-press on the footswitch or something to clear the buffer.

Two thoughts

1) To quickly clear the buffer, flip the Dark mode toggle to something else (with the Dark channel engaged)

2) For a more subtle transition, flip the routing to D > W and run the Dark into a long-dwell World reverb. Then turn down/clear the Dark buffer and let the World trails ride out

worra wrote:
- If you've never bothered fucking with the dip switches on a CBA pedal, you really really should on this one (and it's easy), try starting with tone

Bouncing the mix and tone on the mod setting on a slow ramp makes a really, really satisfying tape-loop-eating-itself effect.

worra wrote:
- If you've never bothered fucking with the dip switches on a CBA pedal, you really really should on this one (and it's easy), try starting with tone

Bouncing the mix and tone on the mod setting on a slow ramp makes a really, really satisfying tape-loop-eating-itself effect.

I like ramping the dwell with dark on and setting the expression for tone. Killer.

And yeah, it takes some time finding the right threshold in dark but when you do for your playing and attack it's great. Kudos Joel and Co.!!!

I very much like mine, although I've only gotten about an hour with it. First impressions were that I was very into the World side—very usable, pretty reverbs that will be nice to have on tap, especially in terms of presets.

I dove in without having read the instruction manual just to see what I could get out of the pedal from an intuitive standpoint, so naturally the Dark side was a bit more elusive. First takeaway was that I really liked the mod setting, was surprised/delighted by the shimmer (I usually hate them), and didn't quite know what to do with the black. That said, having consulted the manual after the fact, what I was doing wrong with the latter is now very clear.

WHO NEEDS MANUALS. Well, I suppose I do, and I look forward to messing around some more after learning how to better use the thing

Hehehehe....yeah, you really need the manual on this one <g>.