There are endless streams of pedal and synth reviews - produced in HD quality, where presenter yaps for 25 minutes straight about some latest newest musical gear gadget thing that does something, and you must need it now or Justin B will steal your fleslight.
Lol, it’s comical and insane at the same time. And they all speak with same self assurance and unfiltered authenticity of Robert Smith - like they’ve released countless top100 albums, toured the world for decades and know the sound art inside out.
What snow are they taking? Just plug the pedal in - play through the dials min/max, dry/wet or few presets - say few sentences if there are some important caveats and done.
Interesting, it’s typically Brits who go into endless word streams, talking more about their synth or guitars than actually playing them.
It’s like ChatGPT but in flesh. I sus some use GPT to generate all that word salad.
Ofc, I could just ignore all those vids - but hey, here’s the Monday rant
yeah, they hit me at a late evening doom scroll and I’m too retarded to turn off the box - advertisement as entertainment - I def need one more reverb pedal, lol. Then, and only then I can release my over-marinaded surf-rock album with ska elements, lol
Gosh, those guys so much wanted to do something and they are so doing it - just idk, like why, it just ads to the trash slurp - there’s enough slurp on the tubes already.
YouTube forces me to be even more conservative - not a single click sideways or the cat videos will take my soul.
If you got some spring reverb like a Roland Space Echo or emulation for that dripping sound, then you might be already set and good to go. They probably used the Roland Space Echo a lot back in the day. I suspect most reverbs (pedal or plugin) use the same algorithm. For plate reverbs, I don’t hear the big difference between Eventide, FabFilter or the free Airwindows.
The Youtubers want to make their bread and keep churning out content to avoid becoming irrelevant and then they have to leave the house if that sweet patreon and ad money stops raining down on them and the companies have bills to pay, so it goes on and on with the next big thing, but it’s really just a bunch of lukewarm air and about trying to sell a re-invented wheel.
I think the Youtube algorithm tries to promote more original, niche content now, instead of the product shills and content farmers, because some big channels were crying out loud that their views dropped.
Cheers, thanks for the clarifications - I think that’s how it is, the algorithm pushes the wheel forward, hamster must run.
I had Mosky Spring Reverb MP-51 pedal - sounded really good, I was surprised, but it’s digital - cant kick it to get the spring-kick sound, like ‘Trtrtrtrtrtrsh’ you can hear in some surf or garage records. Or I could kick a Combo, that has springs, perhaps not a good idea, for the tubes might suffer.
There are some analogue pedals, with actual springs inside - I might have one some time later.
I dabbled with surf rock and out of curiosity I looked up what was used and much to my surprise it was the reverb effect Fender 6G15 and Fender amps with built-in effects like Twin reverb, ,Showman and Tremolux were used in the 60s. Apparently not the Space Echo. Who knew?
I think as often, the effect of the effect was discovered through accident, like dropping the amp or accidentally kicking it, or playing way too loud - and someone thought, hey - it’s interesting, let’s record it.
The spring reverb is bad, if you are looking for halls, cathedrals or rooms - it just sounds like springs, lol - but with right production - it’s groovy.
Like bucket bridge dub-delay effect - it’s kinda bad, but in right context sounds very interesting. So on and so on.
