3 Killer Stereo Pedals You Need To Hear!

[@thepedalzone]

Good to be back with another video, gang. Hope you enjoy it :) Would love to know what your favorite of the 3 was and what your favorite stereo pedal in general is. Please let me know in the comments below.

[@paulborovay]

I love my Echosystem… also a beautiful stereo delay. Great playing!

[@EdvinLaura]

red panda

[@gurrgurr1023]

Chase Bliss Mood 2, and Lossy. Raster2 and Particle are also wonderful. I can’t go back to mono.

[@blakeparadise9998]

Would love your particle presets! Those sounded insane

[@daveychainsaw961]

Recently acquired the Particle and am so impressed with how instantly fun it is unlike a lot of pedals. Obviously I had to come back to rewatch this video and see what my favourite ambient master did with it. Some beautiful chord progressions in this one Stefan and you've given me lots of ideas. I really love how Red Panda set up the Presets with the option to flip between the knob settings and the presets. So cool. It's my favourite pedal for a while. But i think it's finally going to send me down the rabbit hole of a MIDI controller to get more out of it and my other MIDI pedals. Thanks Stefan!

[@AndyAcker]

Thanks for reviewing the Particle v2 firmware update! (I haven't explored the new stereo options yet for some reason and integrated it into my stereo set-up). And the way you held things down into an infinite repeat/drone using the "chop" knob isnt something I'd considered. Also, at 4:35, I realized that guitar piece is so good, I could use at least a 7-minute post-rock development of it with full band behind! So good- listened to that section twice already and can't get enough. 🤘

[@alexherter2024]

Awesome shoegazing sounds you got going here! I personally love and use also the Nemesis and the Dimension C both in stereo. After them I add the new Slöer in stereo and the Ventris also in stereo. I've been using a stereo wet-dry-wet rig now for almost a year and as you metioned, there is NO WAY BACK! ;-)

[@bengoldman5519]

The 3d rotation stereo setting on the new boss slicer sl-2 is pretty rad

[@thepedalzone]

Yeah, Slicer is a great stereo experience. I featured the OG SL-20 in an earlier video I did on stereo pedals, so that’s why I left the new one out of this one. But it’s a super cool pedal

[@martincarbow5491]

Another awesome vid, Stefan - subbed fanboy w/guitar & keyboards here. Watching your always lovingly musical journeys is my favorite way to learn the ins and outs of pedals, new and old. Well, stereo is the way to go for me - it's so great that you're also into that now! My fav of the three pedals you demo'ed is the RED PANDA Particle 2 with its stereo position for each granule. And I'm fond of the subtle "failure" stereo width of my CHASE BLISS Gen Loss 2. I'm daydreaming about making a series of videos with my Prophet 10 Rev4 (which is mono) embellished by stereo pedals - just the way you do here. Let the prophet speak in stereo… Would love to see an in depth vid w/Particle 2 from you, as well as the Microcosm. How about it?! Keep on groovin', bro!

[@patrickr6505]

I'm about to pull the trigger on the Particle..Do the stereo effects like random spread and ping pong work if it's after a stereo pedal?..I know my Raster 2 ping pong only works if it's the first stereo pedal in my chain etc..

[@martincarbow5491]

@@patrickr6505 My Particle 2 (version 2.2+) works fine in stereo after my Deco stereo L-R delay. I think your Raster 2 should also do this as well. Check version, maybe it also needs to be 2.2+ or sth like that. Here's some info taken from the manual - maybe that could be an issue on your Raster 2: The pedal automatically detects mono or stereo input. Output is stereo. The pedal starts in mono in/stereo out. If a stereo input signal is detected, the pedal automatically switches to stereo in/stereo out. At that point it stops checking the input. If you need to switch back to a mono input, you can power cycle the pedal or toggle the input/output configuration to a different setting and back to "auto". This is a beta feature added in firmware version 2.2.0. It works well detect- ing mono or stereo connections on startup, but does not always detect "hot swapped" connections correctly. If you try this feature and have feedback, please contact us [Red Panda]. Hope that helps, Patrick - let me know how it worked out!

[@whiskyjack802]

I absolutely love the particle!!!Would love to see a in depth review of it… all the best Stefan

[@thepedalzone]

Particle is phenomenal. The pedal that just keeps on giving. Constantly discover new sounds each time I plug it in :)

[@leftovernoise]

Just recently got the dimension c and the collider for my synths amd i love them. Imo the waza dimension c is as close to the original juno chorus as you can get in a pedal. It just tickles the ears in the most perfect way.

[@thepedalzone]

That is definitely one heck of an atmospheric power couple. Perfect for synths :)

[@TheSalinski]

I love your command of melodic chords. Ive got the Particle and the Nemesis and I'm inspired by your demo!

[@thepedalzone]

Gosh! Thank you so much

[@kubienatin3549]

Raster 2 with the ping pong and L/R pitch offsets is so wild. Loved your demo of that pedal. Context 2 is also amazing, especially Grain mode!

[@thepedalzone]

You just can't go wrong with Red Panda!

[@mikec_8]

Man, all of those sounds are killer! Great video as always Stefan, and thanks for sharing this with us!

[@thepedalzone]

Thank you so much ❤️

[@lemon_fields]

Particle is definitely on a wish list now! 🤩 thanks for such a great video

[@thepedalzone]

Happy you liked the video. Particle is just a textural dream machine. Love that pedal so much, and I'm stoked that this video put it on your radar :)

[@VictorMerryweather]

Awesome!! Your content Is so creative and musical I’d love to see more “weird combinations” “weird pedal order” videos. Keep It up!

[@thepedalzone]

Thank you very much!

[@patrickr6505]

Stereo is king.. Essential for ambient soundscapes..

[@thepedalzone]

YAAASS!!

[@vousandi8673]

the dirty tones you got with the dimension C are beautiful.

[@thepedalzone]

Thanks, man! Actually my favorite way to use the Dimension C. Just awesome for subtle spatial widening together with some overdrive/distortion

[@guillermozelis8771]

I wanna all this pedals!!!!

[@thepedalzone]

All 3 are so amazing. Happy you liked the sounds

[@arror1170]

Damn… what’s he playing around 10:00? Sounds great

[@thepedalzone]

I usually just make stuff up as I go, let the pedal inspire me. But what you're hearing is the Boss Dimension-C in SDD 320-mode 🤘

[@BCarpenter2314]

I've got the Boss DC-2W and love it. As for my favorite stereo pedal?... Strymon Blue Sky is pretty fabulous 🩵☁️

[@thepedalzone]

Happy to hear you're enjoying the DC-2w as well. Such a glorious spatial device. And yeah, you can't go wrong with Strymon when it comes to stereo sounds. They do it well.

[@RuinThatDay]

I got 2 on 3 + ventris reverb, still the best pedals (source audio)

[@MoeThermodynamics]

you play so beautifully, how can I learn to play like you???

[@thepedalzone]

Thank you so much! Very kind of you to say. The way I learned to play the way I do was simply by listening to other bands/musicians and stealing bits and pieces of their styles and blend it into something I can kinda call my own. I just try to play dynamically and with intention every single time. Open tunings and a healthy splash of reverb and delay helps as well :D

[@maxwellclark2345]

The DC-2w is forever on with my synths

[@thepedalzone]

So good on synths!

[@delivrance3961]

great job!!!

[@thepedalzone]

Thank you 🙏

[@theslaves]

I really like how my Thermae sounds through a Walrus Julianna and then to the GFI Specular Tempus. Or my Thermae through the Microcosm. Or Habit through the Mood mkII. Ooh well choices, choices. But if I had to pick one deserted island stereo pedal it would be the MOOD mkII

[@patrickr6505]

I agree..I have lots of great stereo pedals including the Particle,Raster 2, Polymoon, Raindrops but my Mood 2 is my desert Island pedal too...

[@craigbragg2842]

I have the Nemesis ADT and the Particle 2. I really want to get the Dimension C as well. It is hard to pick a favorite...the Nemesis is so versatile, but the Particle 2 can get the best kind of weird. I might give the nod to the Nemesis because of the community presets available on their app.

[@bradclayton3175]

Oh man. That digital delay piece is especially something. Cheers!

[@thepedalzone]

Thank you, my friend! I love Source Audio’s digital delay algorithm. One of the finest I’ve heard

[@ediththeband]

Great pedals... it seems I have been sleeping on Source Audio for too long, that Nemesis is something else! As always though, your playing and riffs are the star of the show.

[@leftovernoise]

I can personally recommend the collider. They took the most popular settings from the nemesis and the ventris and put them in one pedal. It's a really good deal. Just picked one up for around $250usd used. Importantly for me, who uses it with synths, it accepts line level signals perfectly, and the delay can be midi synced with the rest of my rig.

[@slylang]

One huge thing to consider with Source Audio One Series is their extraordinairy editor, the Neuro App. It brings tons of other controls and sound scape possibilties in a very easy way. It also handles many pedals in the same environnement. Like many, i have been overlooking them for very long but i'm glad i have found them. Ventris reverb as such an amazing tone. It caries the best classic reverbs algorythms around but it can also bring you very far, i really love it.

[@leftovernoise]

@@slylang I do like that I can hook my phone up to my collider to change settings. But the drawback is there is one particular setting I like to change often that can ONLY be changed on the app. So it's kind of a double edged sword imo.

[@slylang]

Hahaha ! So right. Well, in your situation... For my part i always work in my studio environnement and i'm using my pc. Once i get to something that really works , i stack the preset on my midi controller. I may go back to tweak it afterwards but i seldom do it while i play. I really love the fact that by one tip of a toe, i may command 16 simultanious changes on my pedal board. I use many presets in one song.@@leftovernoise

[@thepedalzone]

Source Audio just makes spectacular pedals. Especially their Nemesis, Collider and Ventris are standout devices to me. Sound so good! Happy you enjoyed the tunes and the tones. Means a lot to me!

[@Digiphex]

Can you make this stuff with a Helix or a programmable multi effect?

[@elliottsidewater1288]

I now feel guilty for not spending as much time with the Nemesis as it deserves. Got bogged down with the 48 page user's manual. Upon finishing it, my thought was "now what"?

[@thepedalzone]

Hope you get the chance to give it another spin sometime. It really is an amazing delay pedal. I use it constantly in my demos :)

[@markhammer643]

One of the things that rarely gets mentioned about the DC-2/2W is that, by virtue of employing two counterswept delay chips, it provides THREE, count 'em, *three* voices: one dry, and two modulated delay. Having a 2nd voice is like having a backup singer. Having TWO additional voices, however, is what makes for a vocal chorus. I realize that the raison d'etre for this particular video is your love of stereo effects, but here's an interesting suggestion, if you're willing to give up stereo for a moment. Many 2-in/2-out stereo pedals are capable of "reprocessing". That is, you can take the output of one channel, patch it to the input of the other channel, and it gets processed all over again. Depending on the particular pedal, some attenuation may be required between the first output and second input, in order to prevent runaway oscillation, but I've yet to encounter this myself. Add to this the expectation by pedalmakers that many players will provide a mono input signal, but wish to use a stereo output. Consequently, the DSP will often provide slightly different versions of the sonic transformation to each output jack. That's great for achieving a pleasing stereo ambience, but it also provides some ammunition for interesting reprocessing. Consider reverse delay. If you reprocess reversed repeats, you get forward delay, right? But if slightly different versions of reverse delay are fed to both output jacks, then feeding A's output to B's input will get you a combination of the backwards repeats crossfed from A, *plus* the forward "re-reversed" repeats from B's processing, showing up at the same output jack. Play a note, and it comes back forwards and backwards. I once did this in conjunction with a stereo flanger. Guitar goes to flanger channel A, flanger to delay channel A, A's output back to flanger channel B, and flanger B channel to delay channel B. Strum once and you have an entire Tame Impala or Steve Hillage album. Take a short vacation from stereo and blow your mind for a bit.

[@AndyAcker]

Man, I can't read something like this and not try it next time I set up. Hopefully my Boss DD-8 is up for this reprocessing experiment in reverse mode. 🤞

[@thepedalzone]

Oh yeah, I'm familiar with using stereo effects to create an extra internal effects loop. I actually made a video on exactly that topic many years ago when I worked at TC Electronic :) Especially dual delays can get really washy and dreamy when doing this trick.

[@markhammer643]

@@thepedalzone Absolutely. We see so may pedals coming out that aim for the exotic and unusual. Players should be a little more adventurous and explore the possibilities built in to what they might already own. There may be more on your pedalboard than you realize.

[@Enduringrevery]

Thank you for this!! Definitely going to give this ago!!!

[@rezthered]

I’ve been playing in stereo for a long long time. Usually just ping pong delays with slightly different intervals left and right. Really huge sound if used economically. Never understood why anyone would just play mono. Maybe I’m being a bit naive when it comes to getting guitars to settle in a pro mix..but I’ve never had an issue.

[@thepedalzone]

The gear evolution within amp/cab simulation has also made it significantly easier to get good stereo tones directly from your pedalboard. When I was in a band, I always dreamed about playing in stereo, but it was just not practical to drag around two amps for gigs and rehearsal. But stuff like Helix, IR-200, Iridium, Endgame etc etc etc has made the final piece of the stereo puzzle so much more practical and attainable. Good to hear you've been playing the stereo game for a while :)

[@rezthered]

@@thepedalzone Yes great points. I use an amp modeller for the most part and it’s just so much more convenient for these kind of effects.

[@Alex_Martz]

My favorite of these is the Red Panda Particle 2! also, by listening carefully I noticed a slight digital distortion on your voice, not sure on the music parts as you already have an amp with slight breakup crunch but your voice sounds slightly distorted, maybe a rendering or clipping issue?

[@thepedalzone]

Happy you enjoyed the demo and the Particle 2. It's a really cool pedal. And thanks for the feedback on the voice. I'll look into that. Didn't really notice any breakup on my headphones or speakers here

[@Merraldooo]

Been watching your stuff for awhile. Deciding on a Fender w/ spring or bassbreaker Orr peavey w/ spring to run some pedals. Nemesis has my vote* I’d like to see what you think of line 6 dl4 mkii?! Huge fan of that dispatch master. Thanks

[@untartelette7545]

Holy shit, there's been some upgrades in the guitar department!

[@thepedalzone]

New fun gear gets added every year #ItRhymes

[@MR1JUNO]

Sir can you kindly help me with your SDD 320 Mode of pedals, Boss C Dimension, Mersis, and the Ligt Blue is what? And can you tell me basic sounds like overdrive into delay into chorus. I love this sound and want to replicate it.

[@compucorder64]

Need to get a Dimension C. Nice Baum Wingman btw. And you have a Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster. I wonder how you feel the tones of the Wingman relate to the Jazzmaster?

[@thepedalzone]

Definitely get a Dimension C. Simple but beautiful sounding pedal. Regarding Wingman vs Jazzmaster, I would say that the sound of the Wingman is a bit beefier and punchier, whereas the Jazzmaster is a bit more lean and cutting. Both deliver lovely chimey clean tones though.

[@compucorder64]

@@thepedalzonethanks for the reply. Makes sense, yes, definitely a Dimension C, and a Fairfield C. Shallow Water on my shopping list to join my TC SCF+ and Boss CE-2. Was asking because I have a Baum Wingman on the way. But always wanted a J Mascis Jazzmaster. Listened to your other videos and got the impression the Baum had that low-mid weight. And the Jazzmaster more throaty. But was wondering about the clean chime ability of the Baum, for sparkly granular ambience. Because I could definitely hear the JMJM has that. Good to know the Baum does too. Torn between the JMJM and a second-hand Fender Vintera II 50s Nocaster. Will be my only guitar purchase this year. And wondering if the JMJM and Baum are so similar that the Tele-style would round out my collection better (335 & Mustang are my other guitars).

[@charlesmathay5234]

Totally Granular Bruh😊😊😊

[@thepedalzone]

Totally!

[@nathan3519]

Hi Stefan. I'd like your take on the Balaguer Espada guitar. What makes it or its pickups more suited for ambient music in your opinion? And how does it compare to your other gorgeous guitars - the Jazzmaster in particular.

[@kjetilgrinderud8367]

I think the ambient Espada isnt so much about the pickups, as it is abou the semi hollow construction and J style tremolo. I have a Balaguer Hyperion myself with the same pickups, and they are kind of medium output, works with a lot of genres.

[@thepedalzone]

Don't think the Balaguer is more suited for ambient music than other guitars. The "ambient" moniker is more of a marketing tool, since the brand is mostly known for making guitars for the modern heavy/prog segment. So they wanted to show that their guitars are definitely capable of more than just that. All of my other instruments are single coil guitars, whereas the Ambient Espada is equipped with humbuckers, so it's a bit warmer and rounder in its overall tone, but without getting muddy. It's a humbucker sound that I actually like. It just feels very balanced and pleasant. One thing where it's clear they've had ambient players in mind though is the placement, feel and responsiveness of the Volume potentiometer. It's perfect for volume swells. Compared to my Jazzmaster, the Jazzmaster is of course way leaner and brighter in its overall tone, but the feel of the instruments are similar, since the scale length is the same, and the shape and feel of the necks are equally smooth and comfortable to play. So the Espada instantly feels like home to me, while giving me a slightly different tonal spectrum to play around with. Hope this helps.

[@nathan3519]

@kjetilgrinderud8367 Good points. Thank you.

[@nathan3519]

For sure. Thanks so much. And great content as usual. @@thepedalzone

[@pjuliano9000]

great pedals for cinematic aesthetic but anything up tempo would sound like moosh ... the Dimension D was quite extensively by Alex Lifesoin of RUSH ... so that one is pragmmatic

[@thepedalzone]

All of the pedals are pragmatic. Just because I like to play slow and search for cinematic sounds, Doran mean that that’s all the pedals are capable of. I just showcase the sounds that inspire me, and hopefully they’ll inspire others 😊 RUSH rules 🤘🤘🤘

[@oscarpalaciosbustamante4029]

Man, I wish one day we could jam together!

[@thepedalzone]

I'm always up for a jam :)

[@kandrews351]

Are these in the fx loop of the ir-200 or in front of it? Sounds great!

[@thepedalzone]

They are in the fx loop

[@Justin-bm7zn]

Hey man been around for a while now watching/studying your videos and appreciate all that you do. Question...I have the OG nemesis...is it worth selling it to get the new ADT version? Is it that much of a difference to update?

[@thepedalzone]

It depends on how important Analog Dry Through is to you. The OG Nemesis digitally converts your signal, and some people care a lot about that. ADT also has Drum Echo, Resonant Delay and Oil Can Delay accessible on the front instead of Degrade, Sweeper and Rhythmic. All of the different algorithms and more, are of course still available via the app. But if you're happy with your Nemesis as it is, then there's no real need to swap it for the ADT, in my honest opinion.

[@Justin-bm7zn]

Thank you very much for the reply. You're awesome. I did find it interesting that they changed the algos around and put the ones on the editor on the face of the pedal.

[@VictorMerryweather]

How do you do stereo without all the ground hum

[@MarkRigler]

As much as I love Red Panda Particle 2, when it comes to stereo, their Raster 2 wins the stereo spot

[@thepedalzone]

Raster 2 is indeed great. I have a full stereo demo of that on my channel 😊

[@MarkRigler]

@@thepedalzone already watched it

[@thepedalzone]

@MarkRigler Awesome to hear! Thank you 🙏

[@patrickr6505]

Yes the Raster 2 has killer stereo manipulation..so much that I'm still discovering new stereo soundscapes after a year lol. Ps:, Just ordered the Particle,I need those panning stereo grains in my soundscapes 🙂

[@Osmone_Everony]

Is it my sound chip or speaker or has this video distorted sound (even your voice)?

[@thepedalzone]

Everything sounds fine on my Phone and laptop.

[@Osmone_Everony]

@@thepedalzone I found the cause. You sound like having a sore throat. LOL

[@mrtncrls]

Stefan, it's time to remove the plastic on the Wingman. :)

[@thepedalzone]

It’s a loaner, so I’d rather not. Would have to check with Baum first