Every other video on the RV-500: "I'm just going to run through a few of the modes and presets because otherwise this video would be too long." Me: "Awww" [Notices this video]: "Yesssss" 5 minutes in: Run off to get an RV-500 that's popped up on kijiji. 10 minutes in: "This video is as gorgeous as it is useful." 15 minutes in: Pulls out pedal, plugs it in to follow along. Thanks! Gonna read the manual too, but let's be honest this video is so much better.
Not even interested in getting an RV-500, but this is perfect to put on and enjoy in the background while I work. Thank you for putting this up. Fantastic playing!
@@cloudconnect i understand your POV, it's a long video, but for me, i'd like to gather as much information about a pedal (especially for ones as pricey as this one). I'd skip to the parts I'm interested in, and this video provides useful information about what each modes and controls do, so for someone like me, this format of video is helpful. I kinda stray away from reviews that talks a lot, and you heard very little of what the pedal can actually produce. My 2 cents tho. Peace!
This demo totally sold me on the RV500. Was debating upgrading my blue sky to a big sky. Had a hard time justifying that price tag, especially since everyone and their mother already uses the same verb patch. Each mode on the RV500 is sooooo customizable. And I dont have to spend $500 just because it says Strymon.
I think the difference with the boss pedals (for me at least) is that you dont have one or two modes which are great, then a bunch of weird stuff that you will never use. Even their weirder modes are MUSICAL and inspiring. I think the shimmer delays on the rv-500 and rv-200 are a great example. They sound better than any comparable algorithm I have ever heard (including all my fancy plugins) I really think boss nailed it with these.
@@ruffrider6653 I think that's a valid-ish point... and I'd add to it the fact the company is based in CA. However, I'd also argue that the components and assembly labor aren't that expensive. What you're buying with these digital pedals is algorithms that can be expensive to develop... but Strymon developed their algos over a decade ago, any development cost has since been recovered 10x's over. I think strymon just wants to be seen as a botique pro-sumer product provider and knows enough people will buy at the premium price. I also think that Boss provides the better value - their altos and GUI are far more than what you get in strymon.
man I feel same, not so much customization on Big Sky and same verb sound in all their models, and here I see alot of customization and beautifull reverb, so I can do much with it as a sound designer
i'm thankful that you spent so much time and detail here, especially on the Hall settings. best and most thorough overview of a pedal i've ever encountered
Excellent job and nicely done! This was HUGE in getting a handle on the capabilities of this unit. Your "slap" inclusion was excellent in helping to clarify the algorithm being applied to the signal in each case. Many thanks indeed!
Amazing demo for the night, just best reverb demo I ever heard and i'm sold on RV-500) Can't wait how I can use it with synthesizers, I synthesized some guitar sounds on Minilogue XD, I think it will sounds perfect with this reverb
I own a bunch of Strymon pedals, a Chase Bliss Audio Brothers, Empress Effects ParaEQ, Cali76 CD compressor.. Top notch stuff. I've also got a BOSS MD-500. For a multi-effects unit it's great. I will say this: the BOSS 200 and 500 series if nothing else are the best bang-for-your-buck pedals you can get right now.
I used to have a PT-PRO board full of pedals, over 12-13 pedals with 2 Pedalpower 4x4, but now my board is only consist of polytune 2, hypergravity compressor, fulltone ocd, MVP volume pedal, DD500 and RV500, all in a PT-JR board, powered by a single pedalpower 4x4. I am happy. :)
I usually set it so youtube manually places ads if the video is longer than ten minutes.. but granted this video is much longer 😂 so they might be overdoing it! I'll check the settings next time I'm at a computer :) thank you for the heads up!
@@RyanLutton sorry what are patches? I'm new to the world of pedals and there's a certain sound that I like to achieve. So far I only have a looper pedal and I'm getting this next.
@@RyanLutton So these are just settings that I can download so that my reverb sounds exactly as you set it up? I didn't know you could do those on pedals. I really like the first part of your demo under the Hall type. That was the sound I'm trying to achieve for my music.
Yep that's it :) although they may not sound fully identical as different guitars and amps change sound a lot.. but it will be in the same ball park for you to tweak
I saw your RV-6 demo a while back and also LOVED that murky lowpass ambient shimmer tone you achieved in that video and I just got an RV-500 recently and was not able to dial in that same kind of shimmer tone on the RV-500? Were you able to achieve that same aforementioned murky shimmer on your RV-500? I am out of the country atm so I can't fiddle with it more right now but I was just curious. Also Boss seriously needs to update the firmware to extend decay beyond 10 seconds amongst a handful of other things imho. EXCELLENT video by the way! This was one of the videos that really helped me decide on purchasing an RV-500. Subscribed. Keep up the good work man!
I haven't actually tried but I'll have a lil mess around today and see if I can dial something in! I was planning a comparison with the BigSky so this is a good excuse to film that :) I'm sure there is a way to get close to the RV-6 sounds after all there are so many parameters on this thing haha! I'd love a decay longer than 10 seconds that'd be great fingers crossed they release something, its interesting now with all these digital updatable pedals I find myself making more demos of the same pedals haha glad the video helped! happy to have you as a subscriber! thanks! I'll let you know if I can get close to the RV-6 sound :)
I'm very interested in the This verb. Some great sounds. But that Shimmer sounds horrible. Like nails on a chalkboard. But I may need one for all the other settings:)
Great demo, sfx sounds incredible! Just that makes me want to buy the rv500. How do you like the spring reverb? Flint has the best spring that I have tried, didn't like the spring on the bigsky/h9/polara. Just sold my big sky, sounded too generic and everybody that has a bigsky sound the same... A very distinct sound. So looking for a new reverb :D mercury7, ventris and rv500 all sound great! Keep up the good work!
"sounded too generic and everybody that ha a bigsky sound the same" YES! Love the sound of the bigsky, but i think the same! You can achieve more unique sounds with the RV500, but you have to tweak more.
I think so.. I may have had the Boss TU3 pedal between the guitar and the RV-500 I'm not sure.. nothing else would have been in the chain though :)
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@@RyanLutton thank you so much :) I'm trying to decide between boss rv 500 and fender tre-verb. I think boss rv 500 is better than fender because (as far as ı know) fender tre verb has only sprng reverb
Thank you for the great and very informative video. I may have missed this and I apologize if I have, can you set the control button function differently for each reverb selection or preset?
It does not have a "church" or "cathedral" setting, but those are basically tweaked "hall" reverbs. You would be able to get a "church" sound by tweaking the eq and modulation of "hall". It only has up to 10 seconds of decay though.
I'm new to some of this stuff so forgive my ignorance. How does this pedal work for vocals as well? I am hoping to find something that I can control the reverb of my guitar as well as my voice. Thank you!^^
Thank you for responding! I actually went with the V-500 and bought a basic reverb pedal for my guitar. It's all for live play, but I do like being in my basement studio as well and record some songs. I sing, and play so it probably made sense to get the vocal pedal instead and have more focus on that. :)
depends what you're looking for on your pedalboard really :) they are two very different pedals! the RV-500 can do lots of things the Immerse can't.. but the Immerse is one of the best reverbs for its price in my opinion :)
Depends what you're doing, you don't "need" an amp, if you're a guitarist I'd reccomend getting a digital amp. I used the Waves GTR3 stuff for ages and loved it. that way you can plug into your focusrite and use a digital amp to get the best out of your guitar and the pedal. if you're using a synth then you don't need to worry about an amp. :)
mostly yes, and in demo videos pretty much always :) my rig at the moment I run everything in front of the amps, but i have two very clean amps. I also use a Marshall sometimes so when i'm using that i'd use the loop
They are great. I found a Reverb preset on RUclips for the HX stomp that is right there with the Big Sky you just have to be creative but it's all there
John Hernandez its pretty much ready to go right out of the box, you can plug it in to your Mac to download updates if needed as well as edit the presets to fit what you want, which is what he is doing but it’s a lot easier and faster on a computer if you’re able to!
I have a few complaints. There are no indiscriminate blues licks, there is no gurning throughout the entire video. There are also no stacked gain pedals. Jeez
I accidentally fell asleep to this last night.
Every other video on the RV-500: "I'm just going to run through a few of the modes and presets because otherwise this video would be too long."
Me: "Awww"
[Notices this video]: "Yesssss"
5 minutes in: Run off to get an RV-500 that's popped up on kijiji.
10 minutes in: "This video is as gorgeous as it is useful."
15 minutes in: Pulls out pedal, plugs it in to follow along.
Thanks! Gonna read the manual too, but let's be honest this video is so much better.
Not even interested in getting an RV-500, but this is perfect to put on and enjoy in the background while I work. Thank you for putting this up. Fantastic playing!
Haha! Thanks Cameron! Glad you're enjoying it :)
this is by far the best demo for RV500.. almost two hours, and no talking at all.. thumbs up!
@@cloudconnect i understand your POV, it's a long video, but for me, i'd like to gather as much information about a pedal (especially for ones as pricey as this one). I'd skip to the parts I'm interested in, and this video provides useful information about what each modes and controls do, so for someone like me, this format of video is helpful. I kinda stray away from reviews that talks a lot, and you heard very little of what the pedal can actually produce. My 2 cents tho. Peace!
This review can be considered an album?
This is the longest review of a single pedal I have ever seen.
You should see the review of the married pedal
@@TheJofrica hahhaahahhaaha been there my friend.. and still there 😁
Used this video as background music to study. So satisfying and relaxing to listen to
This demo totally sold me on the RV500. Was debating upgrading my blue sky to a big sky. Had a hard time justifying that price tag, especially since everyone and their mother already uses the same verb patch. Each mode on the RV500 is sooooo customizable. And I dont have to spend $500 just because it says Strymon.
Maybe the Strymon has a higher price because they are made in the USA and production cost are higher in the USA...
@@ruffrider6653 Everything you said is correct. Also, it still says strymon, and it's still $500. Also, I'm still extremely happy with my RV500.
I think the difference with the boss pedals (for me at least) is that you dont have one or two modes which are great, then a bunch of weird stuff that you will never use.
Even their weirder modes are MUSICAL and inspiring.
I think the shimmer delays on the rv-500 and rv-200 are a great example. They sound better than any comparable algorithm I have ever heard (including all my fancy plugins)
I really think boss nailed it with these.
@@ruffrider6653 I think that's a valid-ish point... and I'd add to it the fact the company is based in CA. However, I'd also argue that the components and assembly labor aren't that expensive.
What you're buying with these digital pedals is algorithms that can be expensive to develop... but Strymon developed their algos over a decade ago, any development cost has since been recovered 10x's over.
I think strymon just wants to be seen as a botique pro-sumer product provider and knows enough people will buy at the premium price. I also think that Boss provides the better value - their altos and GUI are far more than what you get in strymon.
man I feel same, not so much customization on Big Sky and same verb sound in all their models, and here I see alot of customization and beautifull reverb, so I can do much with it as a sound designer
Slash's effect for sweet child ò mine and welcome to the jungle Roland svr 2000 rack too in boss 500 reverb! Cool!
i'm thankful that you spent so much time and detail here, especially on the Hall settings. best and most thorough overview of a pedal i've ever encountered
Congratulations for this album-review. Thank you so much for share it
no problem! hope it helps :) thanks for the comment
Excellent job and nicely done! This was HUGE in getting a handle on the capabilities of this unit. Your "slap" inclusion was excellent in helping to clarify the algorithm being applied to the signal in each case. Many thanks indeed!
Great in depth DEMO Ryan!! Your videos are so chill and relaxing to watch!!
I bought it because of your in depth demonstration that really gave me useful information about the sound and its amazing. Thank you!
Amazing demo for the night, just best reverb demo I ever heard and i'm sold on RV-500) Can't wait how I can use it with synthesizers, I synthesized some guitar sounds on Minilogue XD, I think it will sounds perfect with this reverb
I own a bunch of Strymon pedals, a Chase Bliss Audio Brothers, Empress Effects ParaEQ, Cali76 CD compressor.. Top notch stuff. I've also got a BOSS MD-500. For a multi-effects unit it's great. I will say this: the BOSS 200 and 500 series if nothing else are the best bang-for-your-buck pedals you can get right now.
I think I have to agree with you, I run an MD500 on my ambient board and I'm always discovering interesting new ways to apply it... amazing stuff!
Insane demo Ryan !!!
Thanks Steve! Appreciate it :)
@@RyanLutton Keep up the great work !
Big sir thank you and I am ready for such a loud sound to come true
Peace and love my 6-string bro (or sis) for this amazing and relaxing video!
What a review, great stuff.
Don't know how you do this, but keep it going.
Great job dude, thanks!
I used to have a PT-PRO board full of pedals, over 12-13 pedals with 2 Pedalpower 4x4, but now my board is only consist of polytune 2, hypergravity compressor, fulltone ocd, MVP volume pedal, DD500 and RV500, all in a PT-JR board, powered by a single pedalpower 4x4. I am happy. :)
Very good demo!! I'll buy this crazy as soon as possible
I keep hearing this little riff which sounds like a passage from “Lagrima” which also happens to be in E.
Great video! Thank you for doing this!
pedal ASMR，definitly
Thanks for the four walk-through. However sheer amount of ads is staggering! Didn’t make it past 11 minutes.
I usually set it so youtube manually places ads if the video is longer than ten minutes.. but granted this video is much longer 😂 so they might be overdoing it! I'll check the settings next time I'm at a computer :) thank you for the heads up!
I'm sold.. I'm buying one on my next paycheck. Thanks for the demo!
Hope you enjoy it! I'll be making some freely downloadable patches for it soon.. if that's your thing be sure to subscribe so you don't miss them :)
@@RyanLutton sorry what are patches? I'm new to the world of pedals and there's a certain sound that I like to achieve. So far I only have a looper pedal and I'm getting this next.
Great addition to a looper! Patches/presets are sounds you can download and install on your RV-500 :)
@@RyanLutton So these are just settings that I can download so that my reverb sounds exactly as you set it up? I didn't know you could do those on pedals. I really like the first part of your demo under the Hall type. That was the sound I'm trying to achieve for my music.
Yep that's it :) although they may not sound fully identical as different guitars and amps change sound a lot.. but it will be in the same ball park for you to tweak
Utterly beautiful
Que sonho de pedal 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Great video Ryan!
Thanks man :)
I saw your RV-6 demo a while back and also LOVED that murky lowpass ambient shimmer tone you achieved in that video and I just got an RV-500 recently and was not able to dial in that same kind of shimmer tone on the RV-500? Were you able to achieve that same aforementioned murky shimmer on your RV-500? I am out of the country atm so I can't fiddle with it more right now but I was just curious. Also Boss seriously needs to update the firmware to extend decay beyond 10 seconds amongst a handful of other things imho. EXCELLENT video by the way! This was one of the videos that really helped me decide on purchasing an RV-500. Subscribed. Keep up the good work man!
I haven't actually tried but I'll have a lil mess around today and see if I can dial something in! I was planning a comparison with the BigSky so this is a good excuse to film that :) I'm sure there is a way to get close to the RV-6 sounds after all there are so many parameters on this thing haha! I'd love a decay longer than 10 seconds that'd be great fingers crossed they release something, its interesting now with all these digital updatable pedals I find myself making more demos of the same pedals haha glad the video helped! happy to have you as a subscriber! thanks! I'll let you know if I can get close to the RV-6 sound :)
@@RyanLutton You are awesome my dude! Thanks a ton. Look forward to watching the video when it goes up!
This is great, really gives you an idea of what its capable of without a lot of talking and bullshit lol
Great video, you should do the comparisons between rv-500 vs big sky
there is a very big chance I get the rv 500 sounds great and I want to experiment with all the parameters available for tweaking.
the SRV setting is great for all that :) the parametric EQ really opens up the reverb possibilities!
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one of the best videos in the world!!! do you work for boss????EXELENT SOUND-PLAYING-TECHNIQUE,GREETINGS FROM BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA
Thank you
I'm very interested in the
This verb. Some great sounds. But that Shimmer sounds horrible. Like nails on a chalkboard. But I may need one for all the other settings:)
I'm sure if you devoted some time and serious tweaking you could get that dark subtle shimmer tone that's killer :) this is defo a tweaking pedal
Yea the sheeeite shimmer is the only reason I am gonna skip this pedal, such a shame.
Great demo, sfx sounds incredible! Just that makes me want to buy the rv500.
How do you like the spring reverb? Flint has the best spring that I have tried, didn't like the spring on the bigsky/h9/polara. Just sold my big sky, sounded too generic and everybody that has a bigsky sound the same... A very distinct sound. So looking for a new reverb :D mercury7, ventris and rv500 all sound great!
Keep up the good work!
"sounded too generic and everybody that ha a bigsky sound the same" YES! Love the sound of the bigsky, but i think the same! You can achieve more unique sounds with the RV500, but you have to tweak more.
dr. Gaál J. Krisztián I bought the Meris Mercury7 instead, so awesome!
More unique sounds with RV500 and then in short time everyone gets RV500 and they all sound the same.
Is there a kill dry function?
in the manual it says you can adjust the direct level to 0.
Anyone know if it can run off 200ma?
I couldn't see anything related to 'duck', my impression is it should be related to decay.
Sounds great, but there’s way too many parameters to adjust. I get lost just watching
Thanks so so much 🙂 did you use only this pedal and amp while recording the video, right?
I think so.. I may have had the Boss TU3 pedal between the guitar and the RV-500 I'm not sure.. nothing else would have been in the chain though :)
@@RyanLutton thank you so much :) I'm trying to decide between boss rv 500 and fender tre-verb. I think boss rv 500 is better than fender because (as far as ı know) fender tre verb has only sprng reverb
Thank you for the great and very informative video. I may have missed this and I apologize if I have, can you set the control button function differently for each reverb selection or preset?
How does this compare with the ocean machines reverbs would you say?
Hey is the light background noise coming from the guitar cab or is it microphone noise?
So on dual you don't need to engage both A and B?
Does this pedal have church reverb?
It does not have a "church" or "cathedral" setting, but those are basically tweaked "hall" reverbs. You would be able to get a "church" sound by tweaking the eq and modulation of "hall". It only has up to 10 seconds of decay though.
I'm new to some of this stuff so forgive my ignorance. How does this pedal work for vocals as well? I am hoping to find something that I can control the reverb of my guitar as well as my voice. Thank you!^^
Live or studio?
Thank you for responding! I actually went with the V-500 and bought a basic reverb pedal for my guitar. It's all for live play, but I do like being in my basement studio as well and record some songs. I sing, and play so it probably made sense to get the vocal pedal instead and have more focus on that. :)
Which is better?? Boss RV 500 or neunaber immerse??
Angel Gonzalez soundwise Neunaber,more functionality if you need Boss
depends what you're looking for on your pedalboard really :) they are two very different pedals! the RV-500 can do lots of things the Immerse can't.. but the Immerse is one of the best reverbs for its price in my opinion :)
Does this require an amp or could I just connect this straight to my speaker and/or focusrite audio input?
Depends what you're doing, you don't "need" an amp, if you're a guitarist I'd reccomend getting a digital amp. I used the Waves GTR3 stuff for ages and loved it. that way you can plug into your focusrite and use a digital amp to get the best out of your guitar and the pedal. if you're using a synth then you don't need to worry about an amp. :)
Hey Ryan do you run your reverbs in front of amp or loop?
mostly yes, and in demo videos pretty much always :) my rig at the moment I run everything in front of the amps, but i have two very clean amps. I also use a Marshall sometimes so when i'm using that i'd use the loop
Do you have any experience with the HX effects reverbs? Crap?
They are great. I found a Reverb preset on RUclips for the HX stomp that is right there with the Big Sky you just have to be creative but it's all there
the only analog emulation delay is the space echo? or each reverb has the option of digital/analog? thanks!!!
Does this do a reverse reverb and can it be done on all of the types of reverbs?
Yes it does, but is its own reverb type, not an option for all types - the classic Boss reverse verb (with more you can do with it on this unit).
Does this pedal have the ability to download others created patches as a preset?
Yup!
What amp are you using??
Would one need to download updates/software in order to use this unit or can this be used right out of the box?
John Hernandez its pretty much ready to go right out of the box, you can plug it in to your Mac to download updates if needed as well as edit the presets to fit what you want, which is what he is doing but it’s a lot easier and faster on a computer if you’re able to!
@@aguitar3953 Thanks for the detailed reply!
Can it do delay without Reverb?
Dave Roberts yep
You hardly touched the pre-delay and you didn't even try to get a drip out of the Spring.
I have a few complaints. There are no indiscriminate blues licks, there is no gurning throughout the entire video. There are also no stacked gain pedals. Jeez
One hour of a bad music
My RV500 knocked my Bigsky off my board. The Bigsky is amazing, but i wanted something different.
I have both and keep both. Will never get rid of any of them. They are tools and I need more tools in my arsenal.
T. I. N Mateus Which one do you prefer
do you feel like the rv500 has harsh resonances you can’t dial out compared to big sky? also it’s missing that “fizziness” of big sky?