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I'm so sick of shimmer. I used to be hangning out for a shimmer pedal but now... nup. It just grates. There's no one shimmer pedal to blame. I blame all of them. In 20 years time pedal nerds will look at shimmer like rack chorus units in the 80s.

No matter how uncool it ever becomes, I'll always love my space station.

greigoroth wrote:I blame all of them. In 20 years time pedal nerds will look at shimmer like rack chorus units in the 80s.

Same thing I thought... People just want to like "NEW" stuff...

Chankgeez wrote:http://www.hulu.com/watch/61320

Can't see it as I'm outside of the US

And unlike the 80s rack stuff, I will not want a shimmer pedal if I'm around in 5 years, let alone 20.

If I want pitch-wobbling wierd, I can just tune the Space Echo tape loop a little loose and turn it into oscillation.

greigoroth wrote:

Chankgeez wrote:http://www.hulu.com/watch/61320

Can't see it as I'm outside of the US

Damn, that bites.

Sorry about that.

It's the Shimmer commercial from Saturday Night Live from the Seventies. Well worth seeking out if you can find it.

I think 80s rack chorus sounds groovy in the right context


but more on topic....what the fuck is shimmer in this context exactly???

Chankgeez wrote:

greigoroth wrote:

Chankgeez wrote:http://www.hulu.com/watch/61320

Can't see it as I'm outside of the US

Damn, that bites.

Sorry about that.

It's the Shimmer commercial from Saturday Night Live from the Seventies. Well worth seeking out if you can find it.

http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/4/snl-new-shimmer-commercial-704661
For them pesky foreigners.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCQ_HFB9fHc[/youtube]

Tacky shimmering of which we speak.

rfurtkamp wrote:
Tacky shimmering of which we speak.

Exactly!
A couple more examples:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vqTRylaSyc[/youtube]

As I understand it, it's using DSP to put a regenerating octave onto the reverb tails.

The "crystal" setting on the Eventide pitch factor is a more extreme example of the sound - check out
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb9I2zjv1yE[/youtube]

I mean, it's cool and all, but shit, it's so overblown and sits about as well in the mix as ... um... like... a thing that doesn't sit well in mixes.

Re: 80s rack chorus - I actually dig it as well , but it got bigger than jesus and kinda ruined the whole sound. Now, with a couple of decades distance you can use that sound in a more modern context and it sounds pretty rad. Still doesn't get rid of the stigma around it though.

rfurtkamp wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCQ_HFB9fHc[/youtube]

Tacky shimmering of which we speak.

These all sound amazing

greigoroth wrote:

rfurtkamp wrote:
Tacky shimmering of which we speak.

Exactly!
A couple more examples:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vqTRylaSyc[/youtube]

As I understand it, it's using DSP to put a regenerating octave onto the reverb tails.

The "crystal" setting on the Eventide pitch factor is a more extreme example of the sound - check out
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb9I2zjv1yE[/youtube]

I mean, it's cool and all, but shit, it's so overblown and sits about as well in the mix as ... um... like... a thing that doesn't sit well in mixes.

Re: 80s rack chorus - I actually dig it as well , but it got bigger than jesus and kinda ruined the whole sound. Now, with a couple of decades distance you can use that sound in a more modern context and it sounds pretty rad. Still doesn't get rid of the stigma around it though.

well not sitting well in the mix can be a fault somewhere else than in the effect itself, right?

i mean i think that Supernatural's Shimmer might be one of the best i've heard, actually pretty "natural"

from experience with shimmer pedals, they force you to find an application for a sound that after a few times of playing around with it, you realize that there is no solid application other than making demo videos for shimmer pedals.

Back when I had delays with shimmer on them I used them as initial texture tracks in looping, but I didn't run shimmer through my entire looping sessions. They're good for textures, but anything else, in my experience with them, is meh.