This is why you need a Parallel Mixer on your Pedalboard
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That’s just very very cool. I’ve been playing rock-n-roll since I was a young kid in the 70’s. Recently told the wife I just want to sit in my music room and play something different..This is definitely different, and will definitely help this 69yr Young man be able to chill out a bit and relax…! Now all I gotta do is get the $ to buy some new pedals..! You know how us older people in the USA are supposed to live off our Social Security…
Thank you for a great, very very cool video….!see ya down the road…✌️
Hey Michael. Firstly thanks for stopping by on the channel and taking the time to watch and comment. I have a lot of videos that you may find interesting if you’re embarking on new sounds, if there is anything specifically you are after let me know and I will do my best to help. I post here every Monday and Wednesday and am also over on Instagram if you are there drop me a DM and say hi
Wow, I never expected a reply, so Thank You for the response. Yes you video was awesome and I’m wanting to do some new things, and try new sounds. I’m wanting to do very slow melodic rythems and if I can master a looper and learn to record on my laptop or iPad, using something this old brain will understand, like GarageBand or something, I would love to play the tracks and go over them with very slow melodic leads, like David Gilmore and others whose names I can’t seem to recall at this moment. I will be checking in on Mondays and Wednesdays and Instagram as well.. Have fun, and stay safe my friend…and Thanks again…..!
Nice work Nick. Well explained! Nice and simple. I'm getting back into thinking about a parallel mixer again. When i had one years ago i just tinkered relentlessly and didnt play anything! I really appreciate the ability to separate different elements from one another. Cheers!
Amen brother
My FAVORITE thing to do with these... Is to stack fuzzes. I wish I wouldn't have let go of both of mine, I will definitely get them again. My friends would see my pedal board and reply something along the lines of "Wait you have two fuzzes per channel so 12 fuzzes total?" *shrugs* I'm a strange guitarist, I also only had fuzzes and a delay pedal... Just how I've always done things, I just now got into compressors due to Lowell George. Seeing your layout is so clean and beautiful man! Never heard of Emmergy fx, just went on their website. Want that fourced smile and the slowdriver. Also nice Revstar!
Firstly thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. I appreciate you. Your comment made me think of beam splitter by OBNE. Ive never actually thought about running fuzz in parallel and now I want that thing. Yes Emmergy are doing some really cool stuff and I can personally vouch they are also awesome people. If you’re over on IG come find me I’d love to chat more
@nickreesyt my dude!!!! I had a pladesk electrisk... I'm all about splitting. I just looked up the OBNE beam splitter. Thank you! I have Facebook and not IG if you do wanna chat. I'd love to swap ideas! You seem to be full of great ones! 🙏🏻
Parallel mixers are almost essential for ambient soundscaping, at least if you use quite complex seetups. My ambient sounds would just be impossible without a parallel mixer and my pedalboard would be lost without my Matrise.
These three loops in the TPM sound very good together. 👍👍
Ah yeh so cool to hear and I knew you’d be a fan of parallel mixers. is the matrise stereo?
@@nickreesyt no, my Matrise is still mono. I thought about getting a stereo Matrise, but it would make my board a lot more complicated. I have a lot of good mono pedals and I keep my stereo pedals at the end of the chain. Thus a stereo Matrise is actually not necessary for me.
Very interested in the GFI Duophony too, great video again Nick (and still loving the MercuryX! yes it’s me 😂)
Haha hey Tom good to see you here in the comments. yeh the GFI looks like a wild piece of kit, maybe one to dive into on day. haha great to hear you’re loving the Mercury x, happy that I put it to good use (as well as featuring it here on the channel) and it now has a great new home
So many ideas running through my head right now!!
Cool video!!
Ah that’s so cool….how could you see this working in your setup?
@@nickreesyt yeah for example putting generation loss and lossy in the loops to really be able to have control over the mix of what one you want to use, and not having them effect each other as well! So many ideas!
Exactly what I did with the thermae and mood mk2 recently for a gig
@@nickreesyt yes!! That’s awesome!
Oh Nick, I had the idea of a parallel Mixer buried in the back of my head because space is a rare thing on a pedalboard. Now I remember Pladask Elektrisk did their Matrix Mixer in stereo. Thanks for the sleepless night to come 😂 Great video and nice sounds!
Haha awesome. Yeh the Pladask options are great but if you go down that hole…….then I will see you in a few months 😂🫣🤘🏼
Great work. I run my LVX and MercuryX in parallel most of the time. I’ve got the option of series (my loop switcher can change per preset). Love the blend of the two in parallel. Also enjoyed seeing how you use it. More like three separate tracks. Cool stuff. Thanks again!
Strange you say that..I may or may not be editing a video right this moment comparing the LVX and Merc from series to parallel
WOW that is a lot of knobs and buttons! and I love pedals.. but wow.... :-) Im glad you love it my man.
yeh it is haha but it gives you a lot more control over you’re sound
Haha the face you pull at 5:16 is very understandable. Really appreciate this explanation, I’m really pretty set with all my pedals but this is a great, different new way to get more out of them.
Haha thanks man. When you layer things up yet have total control over each layer it really does bring a new dimension to your sound
Every day is a school day, cheers for the vid!
Defo just like when you learned the earth wasn’t flat
@@nickreesyt wait… what?!
@rtrees86 I know I couldn’t believe it myself
Let's think in terms of the number of possible combinations. If you put two effect boxes on each channel, you would have, 1. nothing on, 2. A on, 3, B on, 4. Both on for four possibilities per channel. Not even thinking about changing the knobs/settings on the boxes, that's 4 x 4 x 4 = 64 possible combinations! Three effect boxes per channel gives you No effects on, A, B, C alone, then AB AC BC for seven possibilities per channel totaling 7 x 7 x 7 = 343 combinations! IF you start using two 1/4" male to two female splitters, you could split off an effect in channel One to a volume controller then into an effect in either channel Two or Three! Use the volume controller to add that effect when ever wanted/needed! Add another effect, like a phaser into the connection with the volume control to see what that creates. Have FUN!!! IF you want to hear one of my CDs search for Higher States by Richard Miklos at Amazon. Everything is played on guitar with a guitar synth and the midi going into my computer DAW and using Soundfonts for keys, horns, orchestra, percussion, etc.!
You are the weeble wobble wizard! Love what you doing here!! Ever put a thick fuzz or distortion in there? 🤠🎸
Haha why THANKYOU kind sir. I’ll take that. No but you’re not the first person to mention it after posting this video so I think I’m going to have to try it. Have you?
@@nickreesyt fuzz is so thick.. modulating it is really great fun
@Open_Eyes_Open_Heart awesome I’m Gna try it and share my results
Running parallel effects is somthinf I've been doing for years. After using this one for a while I became frustrated with it's limitations. It be so much better in stereo. My frustrations led me to using a small mixer on my board, I'm seeing this more and more.
This is kinda out of date.
Everything out of date if you’ve been doing it for years I guess. Not so if you just started or haven’t yet began tho hey. You’re setup sounds great would love to hear more about it
Do you always run these pedals in mono then? I do need a mixer!
Hey, I built this specifically for a gig and I did play mono. You can buy stereo parallel mixers though….and yeh that’s an even cooler level of detail you can build in
If only it was stereo
It can be if you have a stereo parallel mixer….
"This is why you need" - this is why guys play with buying pedals, instead of guitar.
Even if I agreed with that…would that be a problem?
@@nickreesyt well, yes, quite often, I see guitarists who tune their equipment longer, than actually play their few chords on the show 😸 And sometimes, it sounds worser, than if they just plugged straight into the amp.
Well, sometimes it is just a different thing: you can appreciate the pedals or the pedalboard as an instrument itself. I enjoy to play my pedalboard and create ambient soundscapes.
And actually I don't even need a guitar. And buying a new pedal already became quite a rare event for me.
@Tommy712rus peskey guitarists aye