You could always add an magnetic choke on the power cable going into the pedal to possibly get rid of the noise. I had to do that on my ham radio that sits close to my desktop computer. I like some of the sounds the Mini- Universe puts out. May jump on it!
Thanks for testing the drip and surf sounds, seems like everyone else that reviews this pedal forgot the basic reason for reverb. The ambient stuff is just a bonus.
I recently got one of the mini universe pedal and I was getting the whine as well. Tried everything. effects loop, straight thru to input, different positions on board, valve amps compared to solid state... no matter what had the whine until I tried a different power supply. It's true what is written in the little pamphlet. This pedal is only happy with 9v 500 ma power.and whine be gone!
@@ComicBookNerdOutCBNO It definitely cut it down a lot. That and making sure you have good cables in between your pedals. I was using some cheap ones and they added to the noise.
Great vid. I not long ago bought the M-Vave Mini Universe pedal. Was and still am, completely impressed with it, ...almost. I did have to power it by it's own power adapter though. As you mentioned, it didn't like being run on my Power Station DC Core 10 (power brick) with the rest of the pedals. For some reason, it just made a lot of noise. But given it's own power adapter, it is as quiet as the others. Not sure of the cause. But as for useability/creativity? Love it. Has great features and reverb choices. Love the parameter knobs and their individual shaping relevant to the selected reverb type. Love the small but tough build too. Doesn't hijack too much space on my pedal board either. Great share. Thank you.
I'm also using a joyo power supply dasiy chained with 3 other pedals and it sounds fantastic. I use a joyo zgp first then the reverb first in the power supply chain. Boss cs3, demon fx mini chorus demon fx tape echo and the mini universe.
SAME, but I purchased it from Amazon. I have a quality [individual] power supply, and I have never heard any noise from any pedal in my chain. I cannot wait to receive this pedal tomorrow morning & create, create, create! 🤙🏼
That last one, "lofi" reminded me of the Exorcist! Spooky sounds seems very fun and also quite similar to the A-labs Cetus but the Mvave definitely has a few unique sounds too!
Wow! First time an afford-a-board episode led to an immediate impulse buy for me. When it comes to reverbs, I'll rarely have use for anything other than a decent spring reverb (which I already have), and most ambient multi-reverb pedals cost an arm and a leg, so it's hard to justify spending that kind of money on a pedal as a permanent fixture on my board, so this seems like the perfect solution for me. Great find, Ryan!
The Mini Universe pedal needs to be on a 300ma isolated power supply. That will eliminate any noise. Similar to the Boss HM2 its a 9v Battery but recommend 12v Power supply. Hope this helps. I've had no problems check tech specs 👍
Can it handle 12v? Im very hesitant to put it on 12v because on the pedal it indicated 9v. Also if I put it on a 12v can it eliminate the popping sound when you click the foot switch?
@louiemausisa5048 so when you plug in a power supply that's 12 instead of 9v, would it fry things immediately? been wanting to try it with a mz-2 it's 9v
I have played for 30+ year's and I think the Mvave mini fx pedal is incredible. The silver pedal with a bear on it goes from clean Boost with 3 band eq to overdrive distortion and into fuzz, yes fuzz. Strangely enough when I backed off gain I got fuzz but shouldn't that be reversed? " This pedal is a better HM2, klon KOT, Pot, Timmy you name it. For 30$ this pedal will give me valuable space on the board. Thanks Ryan
You convinced me, I got the mini universe. Even though it is cheap, to be able to have all of those to mess around with for only $25 (found it on AliExpress for that price, I’m sorry Ryan) is amazing. I had to get it. Thank you :) I like my ambience lol
You've sold me on this guitar. I was thinking of buying an extended range guitar but the people I jam with are way more into the Cure and the B52s then metal
Try a 1 uF film capacitor across the power to that pedal. It will short out the noise (noise filtering) but won't affect the DC. Likely you could solve that problem for the price of a $1 cap.
I am starting to like the M-Vave line of products. I got the chocolate and set it up with an old cell phone of mine to control the effects of my Katana. It works well enough, and I just ordered the Tank G so can't wait for that to get here. I got that because it is portable, easy to switch between the effects and I can plug it into a portable speaker.
Preamps generally do better direct to power without an amp preamp. I might consider doing demos with an FX loop amp, also that said EG Fireball,, EnGl Fireball
I’ve had this pedal for about 6 months. I like it for heavy-handed, strong reverbs. It can drench a sound. Everything seems to skew metallic. Like you’re in a huge hall, but every surface is metal. I have trouble getting a good, subtle reverb I like from it.
wow, I've already sold mine. My Mooer A7 ordered me to do it, wanting to stay the only shimmer in my board. The same story with mini-amp. Joyo American sound is enough fo me.
I have the Mini Universe and it’s preposterous for the price. My only gripe is the little *pop* when you turn it on. You can hear that in the video here. But for the price, I’ve never seen a better value.
In my situation, i got the high pitch whine on my m-vave Elemental delay. Even I put it on different outlet. It will whine whenever the m-vave elemental and mini universe are plug in together.
Two things that are stopping me from putting this on my board: 1) the pedal *pops* when using the footswitch and 2) no tails/trails when you switch it off. I guess 2 is addressable of you use some kind of bypass looper and or delay but it would have been nice if it had that functionality to begin with... Other than that its a fun pedal to play around with.
So I put this on my pedalboard, and there IS a horrible whine if I connect to the same power supply as my other pedals, even when I use the battery power on my supply instead of leaving it plugged in. It does go completely silent if I plug in a separate power supply, but what's the point? Going to try using the USB out from my power supply and see if that silences it. Really disappointed because the reverb is beautiful - but running separate power supplies defeats the purpous of buying a nice isolated pedalboard unit.
Had the MVave/cuvave/lekato mini rig thing a magig and I believe it has the preamps as well as the new Tank G. Put on his with a Mooer radar, fine sculpt or any favorite IR and be done! Thanks Ryan, Your Mannequin hopefully has not tried to kill You!
I know that you aren't a guitarist who plays with loads of high gain, but if you wanted something to compare that multi-distortion pedal with, the Coolmusic Insane distortion pedal is pretty awesome for the $20ish it costs... plus no whine.
No brainer I bought a M-Vave, I love it. No reason not to own one considering the price. I mainly use modulation effects: Keeley Omni a Surfy-Bear metal, a Fulltone Deja' Vibe MkII, Dan Electro Chicken Salad and on-board spring reverb in my '65 Princeton. The only thing that sounds exactly like a spring reverb is a spring reverb. Doesn't mean pedals aren't any good. They bring their own thing to the table and sound great.
I've been buying a lot from TEMU lately. Some of their cheap pedals are great. I am currently awaiting the delivery of an M-Vave Tank G multi pedal that looks interesting in the demo videos on RUclips. Thanks for the videos!
The Mini-Universe shares a LOT of similarities with the Hall of Fame Reverb 2 which I discovered after doing a side-by-side. No, they're not the same pedal, they just share several sounds/options. If anything, the M-U is probably more versatile, although some of the extra options may not appeal to you. At any rate, there's absolutely no question that the M-U is worth the money and, yes, you can gig with it.
As long as temu keeps their return policy decent I buy from them almost every week. They have lots of good tools for the person who works on their own guitar every so often. Love the leveling files, fret end files, slot saw for cleaning them out, great nut files! They are regular nut files....not the chinsey stuff...yes they sell that too. Great string cleaners. Lot's of cable end stuff and weird cables....adapters! Bone nuts fairly cheap (Aliexpress is a bit cheaper but still cheaper the GC at 10.00 a nut.) Love the 20.00 mixer they have....has a H-Z input for passive piezios. They've gone up in price but still decent. They will refund immediately with a credit for 1 bad piece of garbage. The M-vave acoustic pedal is a good deal...can't use it for everything but is useful for certain guitar. If you get junk take a picture, spend 5 minutes doing a refuns....1 min leter you have a credit. Usually you can keep the product unless it's very expensive...certainly for everything under 20.00. They refunded a wireless pickup that was 75.00
Isn't M-Wave the same as Cuvave? Also, I think every single dirt pedal has this weird hissing to them because the stacking is always an issue... I was told that putting a noise gate right after the dirt pedal solves the whole thing. And a buffer also
This is great! The Ekoverb is my favorite affordable reverb though. Like this one, it doesnt surf well, but... Stereo with freeze, tap, and 3 delay and 3 reverb modes. Come on, can't beat that.
I have been um-ing and ah-ing over the Strymon Cloudburst for months but the price has deterred me. Having now heard the Mini Universe I ordered one straight away!
@@ChristopherVonnCornelio At £25GBP it is a total bargain. The reverb type knob is a little imprecise and the parameter knobs take some getting used to---they have a different function depending on the reverb type selected. But the sounds generally are excellent.
I like playing clean, but I got a Mini Universe off Temu this week, and I can't tell you how inspiring the pedal is for me. I've barely explored all the sounds, but man! I also bought the MoVall Falling Star, another hit. Crazy what pedals priced around $30 will get you, Now I'm exploring Ambient Guitar! Whoda thunk!
Dude, so did I. I mean I'm still learning and I suck but I'm enjoying fiddling with ambient sounds and delays. Alabs has great 4 pedals for 120 now but 99 when first. Did you get a his or whine? How did you resolve it if so?
I'm getting the mini universe. It is only $41 AUD on ebay, cheaper than even Temu. The whine is fixed with a separate power supply. Also I was wondering if the Spring delay would work better with less decay or adjusting one of the nobs, it seems to have that ongoing background sound that doesn't go away but might with an adjustment. Also these pedals suffer from a loud pop which apparently can be fixed by simply soldering a couple of resistors onto the board. I saw a video showing how to fix it and I'm sure there are more videos showing the same fix. Well worth it just for the shimmer and Cloud and Blom, Bloom?
The Mini Universe is an amazing pedal. No noise with the Mosky Iso 10 power source. Horrible noise with the Mooer "isolated" power source (the one with 8 outputs).
You asked for thoughts from the peanut gallery, so yep. I have spring tanks in two of my amps and a Danelectro Spring King for a cheap reverb as as well as one of those TC Electronics Fluorescence. I don't know what to do with the latter even though I've had it a while and it's friggin' cool (been using it on my Bass VI for weird droning). Anyway, I've had spring tanks in something since the 80s and lean toward loose springs when I can find them (had Standel twin with a crappy spring tank that nothing comes close to). Mostly, I don't do digital (OK the TC is digital and the Danelectro has a digital delay, but mostly I use old-assed pedals). I do a lot of punk, deathrock and experimental, rooted heavily in surf. Hell, I took up surfing (and I suck) for sake of truly understanding the sound. All that said, I ordered the Vave, on merit of this video. I have no real use for it, but it'll go in somewhere on the chain. The other reverb you show is okay, but the Vave sounds absurdly awesome and powerful from this demo. Personally, I've heard spring tanks that didn't sound as good as the spring setting on that (real tight springs? idfk). And yeah, it sounds a little off, but guessing it can be dialed out or unnoticable in a mix. That's my hot take.
I also bought the efx for distortions and I have the same problem, alone there are no problems but with other pedals it has a high-pitched hiss, I've even tested it with an isolated power supply and different cables and it still works, I also tested my other pedals to make sure it's not them , it must be a manufacturing fault, the mini universe is great but the efx I really don't recommend it (I accept suggestions for multi distortion pedals because I don't want to add more gain stages)
I think the first pedal I was not impressed with to start but near the end with the British and MT 1 and 2 if you were thinking about the Boss Metal Zone MT2 this would be a cheap alternative and gets you that chugging plus you have a bunch of alternatives on top of it. I think the mini universe Room sounds like you want to turn the mix and decay right down unless you are thinking of a really big ass room but I have an RV5 which means I missed out on shimmer so this could be something to play around with especially with those parameters. Looks like a lot of fun.
PSA: Put the soft side of Velcro on your pedals and the hard side on the pedalboard. If you do it this way and you need to take the pedal off the board, it wont scratch up wood tables and stuff when you set it down. Sadly, it seems everyone does it the opposite way and I always have to rip the Velcro off when I buy a used pedal. 😅
If you want to get rid of the whiney noise you are hearing, you need to not only run it on its own power versus putting it on a power line that is being split; but you need to have a nose suppressor pedal as well.
26:14 it almost sounds like there's some dry signal mixed into the distorted signal. That's not good for a preamp style pedal - does the level maybe work as a blend?
Praise and worship board should called the my Lord a board.another great pedal I'll be buying immediately hopefully temu ships faster than AliExpress I've been waiting a month or more on a guitar from them I wanted to get for a Halloween show guess I didn't read the fine print about the super long shipping time oh well if it doesn't ever show up I guess I'll have extra money for xmas
Please try the kmise affordable pedal board with the built in power brick. I love it and it makes my pedals happy noise wise! Cheers and thanks for the video
I also have a M-vave Mini universe other option is if you use usb type C for power suppy it will reduce the high pitch noise but the popping sound is still there, but if you let the pedal on for few minutes the popping sound will lessen, have to do this everytime before jamming starts
Nope men, It either you endure the popping sound or bring it to guitar pedal tech to fix it Everytime I let it on for few minutes before the jam so it will lessen the popping sound
@@kylejuicewaaah you don't mention about the physical sound right, but the switching sound that bleeds into the reverberated sound as well. I noticed that, too unfortunately.
@@captain6198 yeah but you can do mods on it, buy some solid wire and 2 pieces 1meg ohms resistor one for input and one for output then connect it to the ground thru solid wire
What other pedals give the mini universe multi selection and that cool almost synth sound? Got this one on order but looking for more cool effects pedals that I can get lost playing.
It's twice the price on Amazon, ended up ordering on Temu and bought two. One for me and one for my daughter. I hope I don't get the high pitched noise. Thanks for the demo.
Hi and many thanks for your great videos. I have a pretty big affoardaboard, with 16 pedals including buffers on both ends, running on 2x8 isolated power units, and I've got that same whine problem. But I don't really know which pedal it comes from, it seems that certain pedals together produce it when I put some types of overdrives on. But it doesn't seem to always be the case, and didn't always do that. Any advice on finding a solution?
I would be willing to bet that you are using inexpensive power supply that says isolated on it but isn’t. There are such culprits out there. I just watched a video by a group called Chairmen of the Board . They are three prominent pedal board builders and Mason Marangello was just covering a common pedalboard mistakes and going low budget on the power supply is the wrong way to go. I just bit the bullet and ordered myself a Strymon Zuma. I have 2 O’jais but they are 5 outlets each and my board has 22 pedals. I was going to use the cheap Mosky unit that I bought for analog pedals but it just seems to dicey. Open your power supply. If you don’t see transformers in there it’s probably only filtered at best. Some digital pedals dump their noise down the ground of their power unit and if that pedal is not isolated, the noise dumped down the ground is contaminating your other pedals and a whine can be the result. I’m no expert on power supply electrical layout but I know the most common type of isolation is galvanic isolation and that uses a transformer.I know my reply was long. Sorry about that. I hope it helped you. Cheers!
@@lynyrddeville you are probably right. Thanks for your answer, it's just the right length and very useful! I took some Harley Benton supplies, not the most expensive ones. How do I recognize transformers? Strymon are probably expensive for me, maybe there's something good in lower price range?
@@lynyrddeville It does say specifically "isolated, filtered and protected against short-circuits, eliminating hums and noises... But maybe it's just not done well.
@@lynyrddeville to let you know: I went for a more expensive - although reasonable compared to others - Rockboard power supply, and it totally solved my problem! So you were right: cheap, even isolated, power supplies simply don't do the job correctly. Thanks for your advice!
【pinned comment】
Download Temu App to get $100 Coupon Bundle FOR FREE：temu.to/m/uyiucp3xci3
🔍Or search my code【dkh2372】on Temu App to claim
I cannot think of a less honest company than Temu. They sell counterfeits of almost everything, robbing from honest sellers and manufacturers.
You could always add an magnetic choke on the power cable going into the pedal to possibly get rid of the noise. I had to do that on my ham radio that sits close to my desktop computer. I like some of the sounds the Mini- Universe puts out. May jump on it!
Thanks for testing the drip and surf sounds, seems like everyone else that reviews this pedal forgot the basic reason for reverb. The ambient stuff is just a bonus.
I recently got one of the mini universe pedal and I was getting the whine as well. Tried everything. effects loop, straight thru to input, different positions on board, valve amps compared to solid state... no matter what had the whine until I tried a different power supply. It's true what is written in the little pamphlet. This pedal is only happy with 9v 500 ma power.and whine be gone!
500 fixed it? If so I'm buying it depending on your response. I have a free 500 slot.
Thanks in advance. 😮
@@ComicBookNerdOutCBNO It definitely cut it down a lot. That and making sure you have good cables in between your pedals. I was using some cheap ones and they added to the noise.
Great vid. I not long ago bought the M-Vave Mini Universe pedal. Was and still am, completely impressed with it, ...almost. I did have to power it by it's own power adapter though. As you mentioned, it didn't like being run on my Power Station DC Core 10 (power brick) with the rest of the pedals. For some reason, it just made a lot of noise. But given it's own power adapter, it is as quiet as the others. Not sure of the cause.
But as for useability/creativity? Love it. Has great features and reverb choices. Love the parameter knobs and their individual shaping relevant to the selected reverb type. Love the small but tough build too. Doesn't hijack too much space on my pedal board either. Great share. Thank you.
Purchased one because of this video, came in today and it sounds incredible AND there’s no horrible whining sound on my joyo power supply lol
Great right? They also offer a free return on any item you purchase and give you credit or refund your money. Usually, keep the product.
I'm also using a joyo power supply dasiy chained with 3 other pedals and it sounds fantastic. I use a joyo zgp first then the reverb first in the power supply chain.
Boss cs3, demon fx mini chorus demon fx tape echo and the mini universe.
SAME, but I purchased it from Amazon. I have a quality [individual] power supply, and I have never heard any noise from any pedal in my chain. I cannot wait to receive this pedal tomorrow morning & create, create, create! 🤙🏼
That last one, "lofi" reminded me of the Exorcist! Spooky sounds seems very fun and also quite similar to the A-labs Cetus but the Mvave definitely has a few unique sounds too!
Wow! First time an afford-a-board episode led to an immediate impulse buy for me. When it comes to reverbs, I'll rarely have use for anything other than a decent spring reverb (which I already have), and most ambient multi-reverb pedals cost an arm and a leg, so it's hard to justify spending that kind of money on a pedal as a permanent fixture on my board, so this seems like the perfect solution for me. Great find, Ryan!
The Mini Universe pedal needs to be on a 300ma isolated power supply. That will eliminate any noise. Similar to the Boss HM2 its a 9v Battery but recommend 12v Power supply. Hope this helps. I've had no problems check tech specs 👍
Can it handle 12v? Im very hesitant to put it on 12v because on the pedal it indicated 9v. Also if I put it on a 12v can it eliminate the popping sound when you click the foot switch?
@@louiemausisa5048same popping on my neoclone ehx..thats a problem dues to capacitors.
@@louiemausisa5048did you bite the bullet and test it?
@@fortheloveofnoise naaah, I'm too scared to do it.
@louiemausisa5048 so when you plug in a power supply that's 12 instead of 9v, would it fry things immediately? been wanting to try it with a mz-2 it's 9v
Been waiting for this video. The Mini Universe is absolutely insane for the price and I really hope m-vave makes a similar multi-delay pedal.
I have played for 30+ year's and I think the Mvave mini fx pedal is incredible. The silver pedal with a bear on it goes from clean Boost with 3 band eq to overdrive distortion and into fuzz, yes fuzz. Strangely enough when I backed off gain I got fuzz but shouldn't that be reversed? " This pedal is a better HM2, klon KOT, Pot, Timmy you name it. For 30$ this pedal will give me valuable space on the board. Thanks Ryan
You convinced me, I got the mini universe. Even though it is cheap, to be able to have all of those to mess around with for only $25 (found it on AliExpress for that price, I’m sorry Ryan) is amazing. I had to get it. Thank you :) I like my ambience lol
avez-vous un "pop"à l'enclenchement de la pédale ?
You've sold me on this guitar. I was thinking of buying an extended range guitar but the people I jam with are way more into the Cure and the B52s then metal
Wow that reverb has got a lot of character. Loving it
Try a 1 uF film capacitor across the power to that pedal. It will short out the noise (noise filtering) but won't affect the DC. Likely you could solve that problem for the price of a $1 cap.
There's a new m-vave Tank-G. Big brother of the m-vave cube baby. It has proper EQ knobs. It also has a noise gate and can store 32 presets.
and firmware updates, software and FREE files to download
I am starting to like the M-Vave line of products. I got the chocolate and set it up with an old cell phone of mine to control the effects of my Katana. It works well enough, and I just ordered the Tank G so can't wait for that to get here. I got that because it is portable, easy to switch between the effects and I can plug it into a portable speaker.
The opening montage sold me
Mini Universe Under $27 on Aliexpress w shipping... just got mine yesterday, bought all 3
Hey, can you post a link? Couldn't find it that cheap.
Preamps generally do better direct to power without an amp preamp. I might consider doing demos with an FX loop amp, also that said EG Fireball,, EnGl Fireball
I’ve had this pedal for about 6 months. I like it for heavy-handed, strong reverbs. It can drench a sound. Everything seems to skew metallic. Like you’re in a huge hall, but every surface is metal.
I have trouble getting a good, subtle reverb I like from it.
wow, I've already sold mine. My Mooer A7 ordered me to do it, wanting to stay the only shimmer in my board. The same story with mini-amp. Joyo American sound is enough fo me.
I have the Mini Universe and it’s preposterous for the price. My only gripe is the little *pop* when you turn it on. You can hear that in the video here. But for the price, I’ve never seen a better value.
In my situation, i got the high pitch whine on my m-vave Elemental delay. Even I put it on different outlet. It will whine whenever the m-vave elemental and mini universe are plug in together.
I do agree, it has a lot of potential, ( no fun pun) yet that whine is hard to keep.
Two things that are stopping me from putting this on my board: 1) the pedal *pops* when using the footswitch and 2) no tails/trails when you switch it off. I guess 2 is addressable of you use some kind of bypass looper and or delay but it would have been nice if it had that functionality to begin with... Other than that its a fun pedal to play around with.
You can fix the pop, have a look at pedal forums. The tail cut is to be expected with true bypass again a mod can fix that
What pedal forum?
I’m glad to see you doing these pedals! I ordered a Mini Universe off of Ali Express for $25. My board is becoming a afforadaboard.
@4:42 Premium Kazoo sounds like the the name of the first band on at the Indie gig.
So I put this on my pedalboard, and there IS a horrible whine if I connect to the same power supply as my other pedals, even when I use the battery power on my supply instead of leaving it plugged in. It does go completely silent if I plug in a separate power supply, but what's the point? Going to try using the USB out from my power supply and see if that silences it. Really disappointed because the reverb is beautiful - but running separate power supplies defeats the purpous of buying a nice isolated pedalboard unit.
Had the MVave/cuvave/lekato mini rig thing a magig and I believe it has the preamps as well as the new Tank G. Put on his with a Mooer radar, fine sculpt or any favorite IR and be done! Thanks Ryan, Your Mannequin hopefully has not tried to kill You!
I know that you aren't a guitarist who plays with loads of high gain, but if you wanted something to compare that multi-distortion pedal with, the Coolmusic Insane distortion pedal is pretty awesome for the $20ish it costs... plus no whine.
No brainer I bought a M-Vave, I love it. No reason not to own one considering the price. I mainly use modulation effects: Keeley Omni a Surfy-Bear metal, a Fulltone Deja' Vibe MkII, Dan Electro Chicken Salad and on-board spring reverb in my '65 Princeton. The only thing that sounds exactly like a spring reverb is a spring reverb. Doesn't mean pedals aren't any good. They bring their own thing to the table and sound great.
Do you hear popping sound if pedal get on/off???
That blue pedal sounds so sick bro i love it TY!
I bought one off Aliexpress about a month ago for $28 including shipping. I didn't notice any whine. Think it's a great cheap ambient pedal.
Another buyer here, actually i got 2 from Aliexpress. No whine at all...amazing pedal for 🥜
I've been buying a lot from TEMU lately. Some of their cheap pedals are great. I am currently awaiting the delivery of an M-Vave Tank G multi pedal that looks interesting in the demo videos on RUclips. Thanks for the videos!
Feels like you’re in another dimension in a movie! Love it!!!!
I have this pedal and have a cheap Rowin power supply and no whine. Amazing pedal for the price
I brought the delay ( because of this review), got it for £18 because of a deal, it has some pretty out there sounds. Well worth the money.
The Mini-Universe shares a LOT of similarities with the Hall of Fame Reverb 2 which I discovered after doing a side-by-side. No, they're not the same pedal, they just share several sounds/options. If anything, the M-U is probably more versatile, although some of the extra options may not appeal to you. At any rate, there's absolutely no question that the M-U is worth the money and, yes, you can gig with it.
This is what I need! thank you!
I just bought the M Vave Reverb pedal on Shoppee and its well worth the $25. Such a low cost for such a great sounding pedal.
You have to inhale for the premium kazoo exp. I love your initial reactions. Your like Tom Green’s cousin.
Got to have that mini universe. For the price, outstanding. That Gregorian chant sounds spooky, like a mystical movie kind of thing. Interesting.
As long as temu keeps their return policy decent I buy from them almost every week. They have lots of good tools for the person who works on their own guitar every so often. Love the leveling files, fret end files, slot saw for cleaning them out, great nut files! They are regular nut files....not the chinsey stuff...yes they sell that too. Great string cleaners. Lot's of cable end stuff and weird cables....adapters! Bone nuts fairly cheap (Aliexpress is a bit cheaper but still cheaper the GC at 10.00 a nut.) Love the 20.00 mixer they have....has a H-Z input for passive piezios. They've gone up in price but still decent. They will refund immediately with a credit for 1 bad piece of garbage. The M-vave acoustic pedal is a good deal...can't use it for everything but is useful for certain guitar. If you get junk take a picture, spend 5 minutes doing a refuns....1 min leter you have a credit. Usually you can keep the product unless it's very expensive...certainly for everything under 20.00. They refunded a wireless pickup that was 75.00
Just ordered it for $15 after tax in Aliexpress. I'm excited to use it on my ukulele. Thanks for this video.
for your affordaboardpower supply problem I'd say try to use the newer isolated caline power supplies see if they're any good
Hiya I found the caline stuff to very noisy I have owned a fair few caline bits
Have you tried Mosky ISO 10? its cheap. Does it have noise issues too? Im trying to decide between a Mosky ISO 10 and Caline
Have you tried a Real Power Supply , say a Voodoo Lab ? 🤨🤨🤨
That shimmer on 45 minutes in almost sounded like the music off of flight of the navigator lol😂 that was funny
Isn't M-Wave the same as Cuvave?
Also, I think every single dirt pedal has this weird hissing to them because the stacking is always an issue... I was told that putting a noise gate right after the dirt pedal solves the whole thing. And a buffer also
When you played shimmer 43..
I saw your god ❤
Strymon is anxious ❤
You make the pedal shine ❤
Would like to see your band and worship service.
Thanks
That M-Vave Mini Universe is pretty cool, and affordable. ;) Love those ambient sounds.
This is great! The Ekoverb is my favorite affordable reverb though. Like this one, it doesnt surf well, but... Stereo with freeze, tap, and 3 delay and 3 reverb modes. Come on, can't beat that.
Great review Ryan 👍
It's a cool reverb, but I can't live with that power supply issue. If it wasn't for that, I would be all over this pedal.
M-Wave sounded way richer and more fun. Maybe a different power supply might do it... Very tempted to try it 😊
I have been um-ing and ah-ing over the Strymon Cloudburst for months but the price has deterred me. Having now heard the Mini Universe I ordered one straight away!
How is it? I am planning on ordering one as well.
@@ChristopherVonnCornelio At £25GBP it is a total bargain. The reverb type knob is a little imprecise and the parameter knobs take some getting used to---they have a different function depending on the reverb type selected. But the sounds generally are excellent.
@@kingstumble really appreciate the response mate. I will order one definitely.
Ryan, were you daisy-chaining the power supply when running all 3 pedals and getting the whine? Digital pedals don't work well with daisy chains.
I like playing clean, but I got a Mini Universe off Temu this week, and I can't tell you how inspiring the pedal is for me. I've barely explored all the sounds, but man! I also bought the MoVall Falling Star, another hit. Crazy what pedals priced around $30 will get you,
Now I'm exploring Ambient Guitar! Whoda thunk!
Dude, so did I. I mean I'm still learning and I suck but I'm enjoying fiddling with ambient sounds and delays. Alabs has great 4 pedals for 120 now but 99 when first.
Did you get a his or whine? How did you resolve it if so?
A joyo zgp will fix the power noise issue.
LOVE the Mini Universe that is a have to get IMO. The MINI AMP Electric Guitar Speaker Analog Effect says it's discontinued.
Well you cost $40.00+ LOL I had to jump on one of these just so I can experiment with some trippy music.
I'm getting the mini universe. It is only $41 AUD on ebay, cheaper than even Temu. The whine is fixed with a separate power supply. Also I was wondering if the Spring delay would work better with less decay or adjusting one of the nobs, it seems to have that ongoing background sound that doesn't go away but might with an adjustment. Also these pedals suffer from a loud pop which apparently can be fixed by simply soldering a couple of resistors onto the board. I saw a video showing how to fix it and I'm sure there are more videos showing the same fix. Well worth it just for the shimmer and Cloud and Blom, Bloom?
The Mini Universe is an amazing pedal. No noise with the Mosky Iso 10 power source. Horrible noise with the Mooer "isolated" power source (the one with 8 outputs).
Great demo! I didn't have noise issues with mine (I don't think? Off to listen again!)
What frequency is the whine? Can it be fixed with a cap? Either way $39 after tax on amzn that whine cannot stand.
ordered it for the shimmer...totally impressed by the rest, its supposed to arrive tomorrow
Did you ever find a power supply to eliminate the noise?
You asked for thoughts from the peanut gallery, so yep.
I have spring tanks in two of my amps and a Danelectro Spring King for a cheap reverb as as well as one of those TC Electronics Fluorescence. I don't know what to do with the latter even though I've had it a while and it's friggin' cool (been using it on my Bass VI for weird droning). Anyway, I've had spring tanks in something since the 80s and lean toward loose springs when I can find them (had Standel twin with a crappy spring tank that nothing comes close to).
Mostly, I don't do digital (OK the TC is digital and the Danelectro has a digital delay, but mostly I use old-assed pedals).
I do a lot of punk, deathrock and experimental, rooted heavily in surf. Hell, I took up surfing (and I suck) for sake of truly understanding the sound.
All that said, I ordered the Vave, on merit of this video. I have no real use for it, but it'll go in somewhere on the chain. The other reverb you show is okay, but the Vave sounds absurdly awesome and powerful from this demo. Personally, I've heard spring tanks that didn't sound as good as the spring setting on that (real tight springs? idfk). And yeah, it sounds a little off, but guessing it can be dialed out or unnoticable in a mix.
That's my hot take.
The high pitched whine is an absolute deal breaker on an otherwise great (for the price) reverb.
@@-vickyspit- does it happen for you with isolated power?
I also bought the efx for distortions and I have the same problem, alone there are no problems but with other pedals it has a high-pitched hiss, I've even tested it with an isolated power supply and different cables and it still works, I also tested my other pedals to make sure it's not them , it must be a manufacturing fault, the mini universe is great but the efx I really don't recommend it (I accept suggestions for multi distortion pedals because I don't want to add more gain stages)
I think the first pedal I was not impressed with to start but near the end with the British and MT 1 and 2 if you were thinking about the Boss Metal Zone MT2 this would be a cheap alternative and gets you that chugging plus you have a bunch of alternatives on top of it.
I think the mini universe Room sounds like you want to turn the mix and decay right down unless you are thinking of a really big ass room but I have an RV5 which means I missed out on shimmer so this could be something to play around with especially with those parameters. Looks like a lot of fun.
PSA: Put the soft side of Velcro on your pedals and the hard side on the pedalboard. If you do it this way and you need to take the pedal off the board, it wont scratch up wood tables and stuff when you set it down. Sadly, it seems everyone does it the opposite way and I always have to rip the Velcro off when I buy a used pedal. 😅
no. I wont do that.
@@60CycleHumcast😂 Was worth a shot, enjoyed the video!
I am gonna pick up two of those reverbs so I have like 1 stereo reverb.
If you want to get rid of the whiney noise you are hearing, you need to not only run it on its own power versus putting it on a power line that is being split; but you need to have a nose suppressor pedal as well.
As a life long musician and a MASSIVE Trekkie, I approve.
What’s your favorite show??? Mine is DS9.
26:14 it almost sounds like there's some dry signal mixed into the distorted signal. That's not good for a preamp style pedal - does the level maybe work as a blend?
Praise and worship board should called the my Lord a board.another great pedal I'll be buying immediately hopefully temu ships faster than AliExpress I've been waiting a month or more on a guitar from them I wanted to get for a Halloween show guess I didn't read the fine print about the super long shipping time oh well if it doesn't ever show up I guess I'll have extra money for xmas
I love your initial reactions. Your like Tom Green’s cousin.
The two princes, get me every time
Gemini is where I get tools that I can’t find elsewhere like that bendable multi level
Please try the kmise affordable pedal board with the built in power brick. I love it and it makes my pedals happy noise wise! Cheers and thanks for the video
I also have a M-vave Mini universe
other option is if you use usb type C for power suppy it will reduce the high pitch noise but the popping sound is still there, but if you let the pedal on for few minutes the popping sound will lessen, have to do this everytime before jamming starts
Do you find the solution for eliminating popping sound???
Nope men, It either you endure the popping sound or bring it to guitar pedal tech to fix it
Everytime I let it on for few minutes before the jam so it will lessen the popping sound
@@kylejuicewaaah you don't mention about the physical sound right, but the switching sound that bleeds into the reverberated sound as well. I noticed that, too unfortunately.
@@captain6198 yeah but you can do mods on it, buy some solid wire and 2 pieces 1meg ohms resistor one for input and one for output then connect it to the ground thru solid wire
@@kylejuicewaaah does it really help? Thanks for the advice!
You sold me on one, great demo. I like how it shows the more extreme sounds.
49.42 thats the clean sound part of iron maiden rime of the ancient mariner😱👌
Yeah seems like this is a must have I guess
What other pedals give the mini universe multi selection and that cool almost synth sound? Got this one on order but looking for more cool effects pedals that I can get lost playing.
Update: The loud pop when you switch it on is annoying. Anyone who bought it, did you fix it? Or do you know what the fix is?
Never turn it off.
They recommend not plugging the Mini Amp into the guitar input of your amp. You need to plug into the return of the FX loop.
Had to put a dedicated one spot supply on the mini universe. It had a awful hum with my power block
You must try the mvave ir. New life for effects pedals.
Try the Mosky ISO10 power supply for the affordable pedal board.
Hi! Which device has the best spring reverb tone - zoom multistomp or m-wave mini universe?
What is the best budget pedal for gilmour sounds? The this universe one might be good
For the afford-a-board power supply, have you tried the Caline? I've just ordered the Caline CP-04 Power Supply from aliexpress
It's twice the price on Amazon, ended up ordering on Temu and bought two. One for me and one for my daughter. I hope I don't get the high pitched noise. Thanks for the demo.
I guess Canada Temu and US Temu are different. All I can find are a couple of Dolamo pedals.
I just bought one, thanks Ryan, there are 17 left according to temu.
Total Hidden Gem - Instant Buy
can i use this with electic piano? will it sound good?
Awesome! i play STAR TREK ONLINE! Love the pedals.
Hi and many thanks for your great videos. I have a pretty big affoardaboard, with 16 pedals including buffers on both ends, running on 2x8 isolated power units, and I've got that same whine problem. But I don't really know which pedal it comes from, it seems that certain pedals together produce it when I put some types of overdrives on. But it doesn't seem to always be the case, and didn't always do that. Any advice on finding a solution?
I would be willing to bet that you are using inexpensive power supply that says isolated on it but isn’t. There are such culprits out there. I just watched a video by a group called Chairmen of the Board . They are three prominent pedal board builders and Mason Marangello was just covering a common pedalboard mistakes and going low budget on the power supply is the wrong way to go. I just bit the bullet and ordered myself a Strymon Zuma. I have 2 O’jais but they are 5 outlets each and my board has 22 pedals. I was going to use the cheap Mosky unit that I bought for analog pedals but it just seems to dicey. Open your power supply. If you don’t see transformers in there it’s probably only filtered at best. Some digital pedals dump their noise down the ground of their power unit and if that pedal is not isolated, the noise dumped down the ground is contaminating your other pedals and a whine can be the result. I’m no expert on power supply electrical layout but I know the most common type of isolation is galvanic isolation and that uses a transformer.I know my reply was long. Sorry about that. I hope it helped you. Cheers!
@@lynyrddeville you are probably right. Thanks for your answer, it's just the right length and very useful! I took some Harley Benton supplies, not the most expensive ones. How do I recognize transformers? Strymon are probably expensive for me, maybe there's something good in lower price range?
@@lynyrddeville It does say specifically "isolated, filtered and protected against short-circuits, eliminating hums and noises... But maybe it's just not done well.
@@lynyrddeville to let you know: I went for a more expensive - although reasonable compared to others - Rockboard power supply, and it totally solved my problem! So you were right: cheap, even isolated, power supplies simply don't do the job correctly. Thanks for your advice!
You should definitively demo the new "TANK - G" from M Vave (Cuvave). For the price, I believe it's a game changer.
What is that blue guitar in the background? Looks like Jaquar controls but three pickups?
It’s a Squier bass vi - steve
Actually its a Fender bass vi.
Hey- didnt you review that thing? ;)
The pedal is widely available on Amazon