Me too. I’ve been trying to avoid this video but here i am for a second look. Another reverb addition is on the horizon and I’m trying to stay away from this because of the large footprint but i can’t believe that this would sound gobsmacking awesome with my Nightsky or Mercury 7. Being driven by a Count to 5. . . I’m doomed
@@ponderersounds3172 Yes, this is the ultimate feeder pedal because of the low pass filter. Now, can you please tell me where I can get those fingerless gloves, for I wish to become immersed within the ponder sounds animated world.
@@ponderersounds3172 I spent the entire day today playing with it. This pedal sounds many times better than any other Walrus Audio pedal. I have owned and own many of them including the Slö and the Slötva. I wonder if someone besides Jason Stulce helped with the algorithm design? The algorithms are on a higher level of quality than anything else from Walrus Audio. This is some of the nicest sounding work done on the FV-1 chip to date. Now, I would love to see Walrus Audio do a stereo pedal that has mode IV from Lore and mode IV from Fable with the stretch control and the same low pass filter control knob and super wide stereo mode as Slöer. I also much prefer the black/cream version of Slöer as I think it matches the more elegant and expensive sound and would love to see a new stereo pedal with Lore/Fable algorithms in a similar enclosure ;)
Your demos always just hit different! I don't know why, but even if i am not interested in the product i just like to hang around for the vibes on each new upload. The tracks you write are so beautiful arranged and together with the lush visuals it really excells at everything - thank you for these audio-visual experiences!
Your demos are always the best, most varied sounds. Not just the cut and paste generic ambient guitar. Great illustration of the range of sounds with synth, voice and guitar in stereo. I'm glad I held off on slotva but this one is calling me and making my wallet sob in quiet desperation with reverb.
@@patrickr6505 I will have to check that out, thanks. I sold my Tensor, the lack of delay or reverb seemed to put me off, not bad, but I didn't get along with it.
First - great demo. I always look forward to yours! Huge downer that the reverb can't be applied to your signal when latching in Dream mode. None of the Slo's can do it but the R1 can, had hoped this would have been an obvious upgrade. Its nice when you're running into other reverbs but its a silly limitation these days. I really wish it had been a 'smarter' pedal that took more advantage of the Mako line control tech. Having owned a SLARP, Slotva and now looking at a Sloer - its really irritating to see the tech taking baby steps when you know Walrus has already far outrun these in its other lines - and they're still dropping these for +$300. Its one thing to support a growing brand with a hit like the Slo being mono and no presets. Its another thing to - years later and an entire tech upgrade later (Mako runs on SHARC chips) - offer the same tech with the same limits but in stereo. And still Dream is the only latching reverb. Players need to start understanding that the limitations of this are imaginary. There is no reason you can't choose between latching and sustain for each. Its all software. In the wake of what companies like Hologram are putting out, I admit its difficult to get excited for this release, even considering the Slo is one of my favorite all-time reverbs. I also don't like how Walrus keeps undercutting their own line-up with these baby-step releases. The value of the SLARP and Slo dumped with the Slotva, the slotva dumped with the Sloer, etc. I think innovation looks more like allowing old pedals to hold their value because they are special, and not just milking iterations indefinitely.
Firstly thanks so much for the kind words! I really appreciate it and I’m glad you look forward to my work. I get where you’re coming from I think, but I think you’re wrong on a few counts. The Slöer runs two entirely independent algorithms for left and right, unlike many of the industry standards from the past decade that use a cheap trick to make a stereo pedal. The freezing effect is using that reverb algorithm to create the sustain so in order to have reverb after there needs to be another chip to create a reverb after it. The Slöer, having two algorithms, could do this but it would have to be in mono, one into the other, I’m in favour for having a stereo pedal be stereo all the time. Some pedals out there that do the sustain or loop thing and allow effect post sustained pad actually don’t have the truest form of stereo imaging going on. There’s a really great article from Mr Black that breaks down the difference. On the topic of Walrus making a lot of releases, they do have a large lineup, but I understand it. They have different releases for different customers, not everyone wants or needs everything crammed into a pedal. I actually manage a large pedal store and daily see how a comprehensive lineup appeals to lots of different customers, and Walrus are one of those brands that sells a lot because they have varying levels of complexity that appeal to certain individuals. Don’t get me wrong, I personally would love to see the Slöer with MIDI and four real time reverbs to do stereo sustaining but it would be expensive and a pretty small market as far as who would buy it for that particular purpose.
@@ponderersounds3172 I really appreciate your response and its super cool that you run a store! From that perspective I suppose I could see Walrus' offerings being a huge plus for the reasons you've stated. For me as an early adopter of a lot of their tech, it gets frustrating when you have to lose money from supporting early releases. When it comes to true stereo, I always thought the Walrus R1 was true stereo. In that pedal you can sustain *any algorithm* while also choosing whether or not you want continued effect or not - its one of its coolest features (bypassing the pedal with a latched sustain keeps the sustain going - therefore you can have your signal wet or dry along with the sustain). I have a myriad of frustrations with the Mako line (clip at the output super easily forcing low mix values) but this was a huge win. Its a pretty big deal that the Sloer runs completely unique algorithms for both LR channels. I find Walrus is often pretty bad at PR'ing their tech specs and it can lead to users like me being frustrated. Its really cool to hear that this is true stereo. Really makes me wonder why the Lore and Fable weren't though when they both had dual DSP. I wonder if FV-1 can be stereo off one chip? I don't think they ever made a big deal about Mako being SHARC based and I often wonder if it would have boosted sales.
What an absolutely fantastic video explaining everything about the Slöer reverb without a word. Just loved the graphics and all about how you did it. I have Moog Subharmonicon and Lyra 8 and want to do Ambient. I already have the Strymon Blue sky but keep looking at videos about the Slöer. Somehow ....er....I want one. Okay so it does not do midi presets but I do not like using a pc to get them anyway. Thats why I spent dollars on hardware!.....duh. Do you think the Slöer is superior to the Bluesky? I know its subjective but want your opinion please.... Thank you so much for a 5 star vid man.
I always put it in the video description, but here it is: Gear - 2022 Groves Custom 62' Telecaster, UA Dream & Juno 25 - Audient Preamps for Piano, Synth & Sample tones. I used an amp sim on the left (UA Dream, can’t remember the specifics) and a real amp on the right (the Juno is a Bassman style amp) I always dial them in quite close but not quite. The Tele is a custom build by a master here in Australia, almost a straight up ‘62 standard but with a little more across the string spacing at the nut, and a slightly more baseball bat feel to the neck, pickups are both Righteous Sound, 90’s Gazer in the neck and Tele Foil in the bridge. I don’t do any audio work in post, you hear it exactly how it was recorded. Hope that’s what you were wanting ✌🏼
Very nice video thanks! How do you feel this compares to the R1 as I feel like they are almost competing with each other at this price? Also is the piano sound a VST? if so what one? sounds great :D
This and the R1 are very different to me, the R1 is a reverb for many different contexts where as I find the Slö series more like an additional instrument. R1 could be the only verb I need on a board with MIDI but I’d want a second reverb if I only had the Slöer. The piano is Spitfire Audios Cinematic Soft Piano ✌🏼
It is? He is just run his mono signal in - OR - are you wishing he had other stereo pedals in front? It is not TRS in - it has left and right in. I don't mind TRS in some situation's, I have a bunch of EBS TRS to dual TS AND they are great, never had a fail and been using them for year's. I do like this have 2x2 though...
Sorry - had page opened for day's and didn't see other replies or your response :) ignore "my" comment other than the good EBS cables! I'm buying this AS I was SO close to buying TWO SLO pedals! I already have 4-5 great reverbs!
Hands down the BEST DEMO of this pedal out of the 8 to 12 ones I've checked out so far. Really excellent method. No talk... just bliss.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m terrified to watch this because I know I’m going want it so bad. Haha
It is blue after all 🤷🏼♂️
Me too. I’ve been trying to avoid this video but here i am for a second look. Another reverb addition is on the horizon and I’m trying to stay away from this because of the large footprint but i can’t believe that this would sound gobsmacking awesome with my Nightsky or Mercury 7. Being driven by a Count to 5. . . I’m doomed
Because of this video, I bought the Slöer pedal.
Congrats man, you’ll get plenty of use out of it with your style ✌🏼
@@ponderersounds3172 Yes, this is the ultimate feeder pedal because of the low pass filter. Now, can you please tell me where I can get those fingerless gloves, for I wish to become immersed within the ponder sounds animated world.
Haha just bought some new ones from Temu!! They’ll feature a few vids down the track haha
@@ponderersounds3172 I spent the entire day today playing with it. This pedal sounds many times better than any other Walrus Audio pedal. I have owned and own many of them including the Slö and the Slötva. I wonder if someone besides Jason Stulce helped with the algorithm design? The algorithms are on a higher level of quality than anything else from Walrus Audio. This is some of the nicest sounding work done on the FV-1 chip to date.
Now, I would love to see Walrus Audio do a stereo pedal that has mode IV from Lore and mode IV from Fable with the stretch control and the same low pass filter control knob and super wide stereo mode as Slöer. I also much prefer the black/cream version of Slöer as I think it matches the more elegant and expensive sound and would love to see a new stereo pedal with Lore/Fable algorithms in a similar enclosure ;)
Your demos always just hit different! I don't know why, but even if i am not interested in the product i just like to hang around for the vibes on each new upload.
The tracks you write are so beautiful arranged and together with the lush visuals it really excells at everything - thank you for these audio-visual experiences!
Thanks so much, kind words. I try to be here for giving an experience over just showing off cool gear.
Very true
It’s beautifully done
I will never financially recover from buying one. But I will buy one. ❤ great demo, it truly let my inner demons out crying ❤
Haha you’ll survive! Tone is in the wallet 🥴 thanks for watching!
Wow that Shimmer section was beautiful..I must say it's the best shimmer reverb I've ever heard...
Totally agree!
This sounds so lush and dreamy! Great playing as always! 😍
Thanks for watching & listening!
Your demos are always the best, most varied sounds. Not just the cut and paste generic ambient guitar. Great illustration of the range of sounds with synth, voice and guitar in stereo. I'm glad I held off on slotva but this one is calling me and making my wallet sob in quiet desperation with reverb.
Agreed!
Thanks so much! It’s been a good evolution for the Slös!
Your videos are always sonically interesting and a feast for the eyes. @13:00 that is just sublime. Like heaven, will be like! Ha!
Thanks! Glad you like them!
Believe the hype on this pedal. I own the strymon big sky, Ventris, UAD delverb, but the Sloer is the most unique one.
Absolutely love that piano piece! Also the Sloër sounds really lovely :) must. not. buy. another. reverb.
Thank you! It’s quite a masterpiece, if you change your mind you won’t regret it!
The rain section is beautiful
It’s probably the nicest shimmer I’ve played, and I’m not super fond of shimmer in general!
Sounds killer.
I only just found your channel. So happy I did. Thanks for what you do 🙏
No worries! Glad you’re in my loop now ✌🏼
Wow… what a great musical demo. Loved it and thanks for sharing it.
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it ✌🏼
Perfect demo!! Thank you sir!! 🎼🔥🔥
This was an absolute pleasure to make 👌🏼
always very musical and interesting riffs
Thanks for watching!
Always a good day when a new Ponderer video drops! Nice work
Thanks Dom! Happy you feel that way!
I loved this - thank you!
Thanks for watching! 🙏
great to hear it on different sound sources! we be cool to build a mod to modulate X and Stretch
Yeah expression or MIDI would make this unbeatable!
I'm in the market for a good reverb pedal, and this is certainly on my list.
It’s quite the device 👍🏼
Excellent demo! What a fantastic pedal.
Thanks for watching, it’s a keeper!
Man and I just bought the SLO...
Return it..get this
Might be worth the upgrade, though I love the Slö early in the chain before dirt
Wow, I really wish more pedals let us use waveforms, if they make a delay like this pedal I am sold. Still a cool reverb. Nice demo.
Thanks! Yeah this is going to the ‘keep’ pile
Try the Red Panda Raster 2 delay..it has 7 waveforms and 2 envelopes, Stereo, Pitch Shifting and a myriad of Stereo manipulation...
@@patrickr6505 I will have to check that out, thanks. I sold my Tensor, the lack of delay or reverb seemed to put me off, not bad, but I didn't get along with it.
Agreed, got the Raster, it’s brilliant
@@ponderersounds3172 Do a demo..I'm sure it would be magnificent 👍
First - great demo. I always look forward to yours!
Huge downer that the reverb can't be applied to your signal when latching in Dream mode. None of the Slo's can do it but the R1 can, had hoped this would have been an obvious upgrade. Its nice when you're running into other reverbs but its a silly limitation these days. I really wish it had been a 'smarter' pedal that took more advantage of the Mako line control tech. Having owned a SLARP, Slotva and now looking at a Sloer - its really irritating to see the tech taking baby steps when you know Walrus has already far outrun these in its other lines - and they're still dropping these for +$300. Its one thing to support a growing brand with a hit like the Slo being mono and no presets. Its another thing to - years later and an entire tech upgrade later (Mako runs on SHARC chips) - offer the same tech with the same limits but in stereo. And still Dream is the only latching reverb. Players need to start understanding that the limitations of this are imaginary. There is no reason you can't choose between latching and sustain for each. Its all software.
In the wake of what companies like Hologram are putting out, I admit its difficult to get excited for this release, even considering the Slo is one of my favorite all-time reverbs. I also don't like how Walrus keeps undercutting their own line-up with these baby-step releases. The value of the SLARP and Slo dumped with the Slotva, the slotva dumped with the Sloer, etc. I think innovation looks more like allowing old pedals to hold their value because they are special, and not just milking iterations indefinitely.
Firstly thanks so much for the kind words! I really appreciate it and I’m glad you look forward to my work.
I get where you’re coming from I think, but I think you’re wrong on a few counts. The Slöer runs two entirely independent algorithms for left and right, unlike many of the industry standards from the past decade that use a cheap trick to make a stereo pedal. The freezing effect is using that reverb algorithm to create the sustain so in order to have reverb after there needs to be another chip to create a reverb after it. The Slöer, having two algorithms, could do this but it would have to be in mono, one into the other, I’m in favour for having a stereo pedal be stereo all the time. Some pedals out there that do the sustain or loop thing and allow effect post sustained pad actually don’t have the truest form of stereo imaging going on. There’s a really great article from Mr Black that breaks down the difference.
On the topic of Walrus making a lot of releases, they do have a large lineup, but I understand it. They have different releases for different customers, not everyone wants or needs everything crammed into a pedal. I actually manage a large pedal store and daily see how a comprehensive lineup appeals to lots of different customers, and Walrus are one of those brands that sells a lot because they have varying levels of complexity that appeal to certain individuals. Don’t get me wrong, I personally would love to see the Slöer with MIDI and four real time reverbs to do stereo sustaining but it would be expensive and a pretty small market as far as who would buy it for that particular purpose.
@@ponderersounds3172 I really appreciate your response and its super cool that you run a store! From that perspective I suppose I could see Walrus' offerings being a huge plus for the reasons you've stated. For me as an early adopter of a lot of their tech, it gets frustrating when you have to lose money from supporting early releases.
When it comes to true stereo, I always thought the Walrus R1 was true stereo. In that pedal you can sustain *any algorithm* while also choosing whether or not you want continued effect or not - its one of its coolest features (bypassing the pedal with a latched sustain keeps the sustain going - therefore you can have your signal wet or dry along with the sustain). I have a myriad of frustrations with the Mako line (clip at the output super easily forcing low mix values) but this was a huge win.
Its a pretty big deal that the Sloer runs completely unique algorithms for both LR channels. I find Walrus is often pretty bad at PR'ing their tech specs and it can lead to users like me being frustrated. Its really cool to hear that this is true stereo. Really makes me wonder why the Lore and Fable weren't though when they both had dual DSP. I wonder if FV-1 can be stereo off one chip? I don't think they ever made a big deal about Mako being SHARC based and I often wonder if it would have boosted sales.
What an absolutely fantastic video explaining everything about the Slöer reverb without a word.
Just loved the graphics and all about how you did it.
I have Moog Subharmonicon and Lyra 8 and want to do Ambient.
I already have the Strymon Blue sky but keep looking at videos about the Slöer.
Somehow ....er....I want one.
Okay so it does not do midi presets but I do not like using a pc to get them anyway. Thats why I spent dollars on hardware!.....duh.
Do you think the Slöer is superior to the Bluesky?
I know its subjective but want your opinion please....
Thank you so much for a 5 star vid man.
Thanks for watching! I prefer the Slöer because I’m into a more characterful reverb, blue sky sounds great but to clean for me.
Good wood audio for a midi mod
That’d be nice but I don’t think the topology allows for it easily. Maybe there’ll be a MIDI Slo in the future 🤞🏼
When you engage the latching sustain in "Dream" mode, does the live signal go dry, or is reverb still applied to it?
I believe it’s dry, my friend
@@ponderersounds3172OK thanks
Tuning for the outro piece? So beautiful!
Not sure on this one, definitely needs revisiting too though!
This looks and sounds amazing. Just wish it wasn’t $350 :( Great demo though!
Unfortunately the cost of tone goes up with the cost of living too, well worth it if you can afford the clams though ✌🏼
@@ponderersounds3172 Tone IS living. They’re one in the same
super-nice sounding pedal! but i'm bummed by the lack of EXP control over the STRETCH slider...
That would be excellent 👍🏼
It sounds great, but I would have more use of it as a vst in my DAW.
Fair enough, but I’d rather turn knobs and push sliders than drag and click
Sounds great man! What were you using for strings?
This was Spitfire Audio British - Drama Toolkit. It’s a dynamic layer library, love it!
Now you made me look up the price of this thing
Haha sorry! It is quite lovely though!
what did you use to get the clean sound and what were the settings on the things you used to get your clean guitar sound?
I always put it in the video description, but here it is:
Gear - 2022 Groves Custom 62' Telecaster, UA Dream & Juno 25 - Audient Preamps for Piano, Synth & Sample tones.
I used an amp sim on the left (UA Dream, can’t remember the specifics) and a real amp on the right (the Juno is a Bassman style amp) I always dial them in quite close but not quite.
The Tele is a custom build by a master here in Australia, almost a straight up ‘62 standard but with a little more across the string spacing at the nut, and a slightly more baseball bat feel to the neck, pickups are both Righteous Sound, 90’s Gazer in the neck and Tele Foil in the bridge.
I don’t do any audio work in post, you hear it exactly how it was recorded. Hope that’s what you were wanting ✌🏼
What is that piece you're playing at 0:30?
Just my own original noodling. I write all my own music for these using the subject pedal as inspiration.
@@ponderersounds3172 It's phenomenal dude!
Cheers!
Very nice video thanks! How do you feel this compares to the R1 as I feel like they are almost competing with each other at this price? Also is the piano sound a VST? if so what one? sounds great :D
This and the R1 are very different to me, the R1 is a reverb for many different contexts where as I find the Slö series more like an additional instrument. R1 could be the only verb I need on a board with MIDI but I’d want a second reverb if I only had the Slöer. The piano is Spitfire Audios Cinematic Soft Piano ✌🏼
@@ponderersounds3172 Nice thanks! Waiting on the Ponderer album with all Star wars related track names.
That can be arranged 😜
Are any of these sounds in the R1?
Not explicitly but you can get to some similar territories
I just wish it was stereo (in and out)
U sure you're looking at the same pedal? It is stereo in and out....
Whaaat just noticed, ignore my comment then lmao
Hahaha definitely stereo in, I’m only plugged mono in though
It is? He is just run his mono signal in - OR - are you wishing he had other stereo pedals in front? It is not TRS in - it has left and right in. I don't mind TRS in some situation's, I have a bunch of EBS TRS to dual TS AND they are great, never had a fail and been using them for year's. I do like this have 2x2 though...
Sorry - had page opened for day's and didn't see other replies or your response :) ignore "my" comment other than the good EBS cables! I'm buying this AS I was SO close to buying TWO SLO pedals! I already have 4-5 great reverbs!
So, I WAS done with buying reverb pedals 😂
Dude,I thought that too after my 3rd or 4th one,Looks like this will b No 11😅
It’s a keeper!
I think I’m up to 23 🙃
Not for me [no MIDI] but enjoy your free pedal ☺
MIDI would really make it a top 3 verb for me 👌🏼 hardly free, by the way, lots of hours go into these vids!