These Are Some Innovative Reverbs!

[@7digger3]

I enjoy gear use videos so much more than gear review videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.

[@DerekRNeumann]

Rarely.. a 20 min feature vid and a 20 min vid exploring their uses are vastly different in concept and composition. Not to mention intention

[@7digger3]

@659J not really.

[@richeymcc]

Agree with this! Loved this vid

[@samiirai]

I angry no matter what the internet presents. nice try

[@7digger3]

@@samiirai ?

[@Keysounds0]

Hologram stopped requesting reviews after a negative one, while Strymon continued to seek feedback. Good on them

[@mezu-e]

Another company shoots itself in the foot.

[@rahzark]

How have I lived so many years without a cowboy describing the controls of reverb pedals in my life?

[@helgepopanz598]

that was the peak of gear reviews

[@MilesAwayOfficial]

Best demo of Cosmos I've seen! Such an inspiring instrument.

[@JCtheMusicMan_]

You are a musician nerds’ nerd! Your knowledge and understanding of music production, playing, editing, mastering, sound engineering, and quality testing is impressive and awe inspiring! 😎 I mean, honestly! You proved, in the right hands, truly anything can be made into a mind blowing instrument 🤯

[@markduret9538]

I recently sold most of my gear because it was just collecting dust. I kept my nightsky because even just using my wife's electric piano and acoustic guitar I can make some pretty killer sounds, it makes it just fun to play around with it.

[@sonicspecter]

23:34 that is an important information! They could only demand an update of the review if your review contains false statements or when they have provided a fix for the issue. Don’t want to buy from a company that tries to take down critical reviews of their crappy products.

[@darkuniversesound]

That wasn't Dorian ☝️.... (Appreciate you and everything you contribute to the online and real-life community) 🙏🤙🌌

[@cjthomasmusic]

I had to double check my ears because I was hearing the jazz background music. Thought maybe I had something else playing in the background. Then I realized it was your video. Then I thought “Hmmm that’s unusual”. And then I had to send you a resounding “THANK YOU for using something other than lo-fi hip hop or vocal chop beats in your video!!”

[@claytonromero13]

While I love your insights and commentary on your gear stuff, if a “muted Benn” gear exploration video they also gets us some more of your awesome cinematography and still lets you play with gear for us…. Then hell yes, let’s do it.

[@AntOn-ms5jt]

Best video of the Nightsky! I always enjoy your videos! As an owner of one, it’s always refreshing to get reminded how awesome something is from someone else’s perspective.

[@michaelgriffin5304]

The NightSKy is an absolute monster of a pedal that allows me to create a vast landscape with almost no effort. Wild what we can get at our feet for just a few hundred bucks! Cosmos is absolutely intense and weird and I love it. What a neat concept that I did not even think of.

[@Jake-mv7yo]

I use my nightsky with my Korg MS-20. Sometimes I just have it hold a note and then I use it as an ambient soundscape to read to.

[@MrJ-b1n]

Hey Ben. I think you should remember that loopop has already cornered the market on faceless, features and functionality only reviews. People come to your channel for your opinion. And there's good reason to want to hear it. You blend your feelings and love for music with scientific persuit and people enjoy that.

[@trwolfe]

I've got my Tempus and Ventris based on Benn's reviews and just so happened to get a Nightsky a few weeks ago! Fantastic video. Thank you!

[@someoneontheweb4303]

Always a delight watching your videos dude!

[@mrbluecat007]

Loving this series on reverbs…finding it very helpful..many thanks Ben Jordan!

[@DivKid]

Night Sky sounds fantastic, I'd diminished it at a time of feeling tired of the octave up shimmer, but there's a lot more to explore. Appreciate the run down.

[@JohnOverturf]

I like the non-talking gear format - Knobs, collector//emitter, and Megan L make some great videos about gear with no talking.

[@InventorZahran]

TC Electronic has their '0% Talk 100% Tones' series, but that's a major brand promoting their own products....

[@RoeJogan]

subscribed... not sure why I wasnt before. Benn has that honest take of a stereo reverb junkie, which is why I trust him. To quote the late great Terrance Mckenna.... If the truth can be told, so as to be understood, it will be believed.

[@dreamstaticsounds]

Oh wow. I've had my Nightsky for over a year and a half and I didn't know about the resonance or some of those other hidden features. Thank you! That will open up what was already an amazing pedal even further.

[@chiefbucknell]

The soundtrack to Traffic - I’ve listened to it more than I can count. It was awesome to find out that David Torn played a large part in its composition, something like that.

[@MYGAS21]

Powerful stuff. These tools bring tricks done in the mixing studio into live situations on the pedalboard. I am currently designing my new pedalboard into a more permanent state and in the process started watching pedal order videos, revisiting my notebooks on my previous experiments comparing notes. Reverb is something that suddenly acquired a new meaning for me and this is how I discovered your channel. I am very impressed by the way. So ....I noticed that things I wanted to do to manipulate the reverb space, with multiple pedals to shape it, animate it, compress it, lift or lower it, pan it etc are integrated into functions of single reverb pedals that are recently emerging. The first reverb I noticed did that was the DREADBOX DARKNESS. And here you showed some other stunning examples. This is a big deal because as knowledge grows, the complete pedal order is getting bigger and bigger and more complicated. Pedals like EQ, compressors, delays, reverbs, pitch shifters, etc for those that know can't go in just one place.... and that is too many pedals. So they have to shrink and/or integrate a small pedalboard in themselves. Right? ........Cheers and Thanks!

[@im58woody]

Just found your channel and since I am a reverb junky like so many others watching, I have to subscribe. Thanks for the wonderful way your brain works 👍

[@Popbot]

Hey! I have a reverb recommendation for you. There's a max for live device called "particle reverb" by a developer named Kentaro. I think he's also ported it to vst. Said reverb is a somewhat simple granular reverb, and i have never managed to make a bad sound with it. I suggest you try it out (if you have time ofc), cause it's magical. thx for the video!

[@foodstampz]

Thanks

[@CapriciousBlackBox]

Yes, Kentaro makes some really interesting M4L devices! Particle Reverb is a go-to, and his modulation devices are a ton of fun!

[@wrenchposting9097]

Sounds like it might be based on the 'Particle Verb' from old Line 6 pedals

[@subradial]

Great video, pleasure to watch as usual! big SOMA 'fanboy' here, love and often use 'Cosmos' but also Strymon's 'StarLab' as well as Hologram's 'Microcosm', definitely among my all time favourite effect units

[@matrix12x]

Awesome video. I appreciate your understanding of reverb.

[@gossamyr]

tldr don't take that video down, that company is childish to even ask that, love both of these reverb vids! In just about any other industry, mistakes are remedied with customer service. You can't erase what has happened, and wanting to, is childish and unprofessional, so that particular company that doesn't like a critical video can suck it up, grow a pair and play like a big boy company or continue with some psychotic negative eraser by spurning seriously talented youtubers with unrealistic requests, that has subsequently made someone wary of buying from them. We simply can't reward such behaviour(which means buy it used, the only consumer option when we the plebs disagree with corporate choices) dot sadface.

[@SkeledroMan]

These are the kinds of pedals that explain why The Mars Volta always had someone in the band just playing live effects.

[@chinmeysway]

generally the less or no talking vids can be a joy i usually feel. here for sounds most often so it does add up. artful video is of course a great combo w sound i’ve always thought. so yeah that’s just me :)

[@infertype]

Love StarLab and Cosmos. Haven’t tried NightSky yet. There’s a lot of hate for the StarLab in the modular world, so I’m glad to see a positive take on it.

[@pjforde1978]

Folks seem to love to hate things that they suspect others might like.

[@jtn191]

Reich's Music for 18 Musicians is GOAT, & my favorite from him! *trying to not be that guy but minor correction that the quote in "Come Out" was "Come out to show them" as in "let a little bruise blood come out to show them"

[@prime-mate]

Yep.. he is definitely playing that guitar upside down.. 😂😂

[@danielleohallisey4218]

When I listen to Reich’s phase music, I imagine improvising with something like the Cosmos, then working to transcribe it. Of course it’s simpler; you just write phrases of dissimilar length. But I think of it that way… My brain hurts, but it’s a GOOD brain hurt! Thanks, Benn!

[@originalamias]

Love you openness and honesty

[@SpikesStudio3]

Hey Ben, watching you listen to reverbs is like feeling marshmallows with your toes. Its really kind of nice.🙌

[@davidrotter3862]

I almost can’t believe you mentioned the very conundrum that I myself am dealing with right now! I am starting a new KZbin channel and one of my first videos is about a product that I get some amazing results out of and that I also despise for taking a music legend and turning him into a gigantic edifice of grift! Do I please manufacturers of amps and pedals and keyboards 🎹 and not mention all of those pesky trifles called “things that suck about their products” or do I take a hard stand about the truth as I see it and gain viewer trust and admiration? That you would mention these antithetical dynamics in this video means a lot to me, Benn. Once again with unparalleled skill, aplomb and humility, you show us all some great products and in doing so you save us time and money, with time being the greater of the two. I cannot thank you enough and the Meris Mercury x will be here in 3 days, thanks to you! Much appreciation coming to you from the Pacific Northwest USA!

[@lefunghi6151]

I was hoping for more Starlab from you last ep, and I basically got what I wanted. So yay!

[@usualatoms4868]

Yes to more creative video making! Go for it!

[@danhat606]

i LOVE YOU AND YOUR WORK PLEASE DONT STOP!

[@elwhagen]

Your videos are awesome, Benn!

[@CatFish107]

Free option with vaguely similar controls is Plateau from Valley in vcv rack, for those that want to dip a toe with low cost.

[@Banquet...]

I always feel that reverbs that get pitch shifted need to go through another reverb to smooth that out. I bought a Mercury 7 to smooth out the shifting on the Mood and it sounds great. That might make the sequencer on the Night Sky more musical, but otherwise it's a bit naff to my ears...

[@InventorZahran]

When the solution is to put reverb on your reverb:

[@ArkaHtun]

try and get hold of the discontinued stereo reverb made by crazy circuits called the splash mk II , the mono version is in the dreadbox nyx v1 .. they only made 200 , this is defo my favourite for long reverbs ..

[@justawatchin2]

yes please, i would watch all of this "year of content" of reverb

[@tonyrapa-tonyrapa]

Seriously, Benn, I am going to miss your demos/reviews/whatever you want to call them. You videos are definitely some of the more interesting ones out there and it's clear to see your love for what you do/demonstrate. Is there no way you can just ignore the arseholes? Anyway, the NightSky sounds awesome. And Cosmos is pretty mind-bending - very cool.

[@BennJordan]

Thank you! The reason I'm not doing "reviews" anymore isn't because of the trolls. The trolls are just a symptom of a larger problem that generally inspires people to spend money rather than making music. I want to inspire people to make music. It sounds I'll be delivering more of the content you like by doing this!

[@tonyrapa-tonyrapa]

@@BennJordan That's good to hear. And let me tell you something. It's only recently that I've understood how important reverb is in a mix. And it was one of your videos (can't remember which) that opened my eyes. Now, my mixes are starting to sound better (though I'm not going to claim that they're brilliant). So you see, we need your videos, dude.

[@WarrenPostma]

@@BennJordan this video did that for me. I went away and got out every weird ass preset names only please Melda plugin I own and tried to make it sound like this. I failed, but I created something else that sounds equally bonkers and unlike anything I had ever yet created. Thank you.

[@danieklerr]

I was inspired to set the loop-lengths of the 5 tracks in my Boss RC-505 independent of each other, to see if I can get polyphasic wash going. Haha, yeah. +1 on the inspiration.

[@philipmorison7769]

What ever you be doing Benn , I will be here for the journey. Keep up the amazing music!

[@bananaghost427]

I don't always like the "no-talking" type gear videos, but i would really look forward to seeing hour take on it. Knobs and Jeremy from RMR (along with some others) both have their own unique and entertaining approaches to those types of videos, and i expect you would be similarly fun and interesting. :)

[@mrmohantyexperiments]

There is no wrong note, only context. lol. Love your videos Ben, keep making.

[@TheToneWork]

Wondering if you've every tried the Source Audio Collider

[@doktorwer]

I love your gear reviews, they're thoughtful and entertaining.

[@Bthelick]

What's that ace sounding not-quite-acoustic guitar please Benn?

[@PleasantDiversion]

Today I learned. More about something I have: Nightsky. More about something I want: Cosmos. And even more important: 3 things on a desk can bring joy. Many pieces of this video I just want to put in a looper and live there for a while.

[@nimrodrg]

Used to own the Night Sky and then sold it to for the Starlab. Definitely my favorite reverb I’ve ever owned.

[@NicStage]

One bonus with gear videos that don't have talking is that you won't have to bring up cumpressors.

[@cmd_f5]

As someone fascinated by verbs and layering, this is so fun. I am just getting back into pedals for fx, not just distortion for guitar. It's a big spendy playground :D

[@Frozen_Smoke1972]

Damn it, Jordan! I was literally just saying this afternoon that I think I've scratched all my pedal itches now and then you go and show me the Night Sky. Why!!! Seriously though - excellent video, as always.

[@Glitchhikers_Guide]

collector//emitter does pedal demos/reviews in a similar way to what you described at the end where he just shows the pedal and plays guitar into it. Absolutely love his aesthetic and while pedal youtube seems to be smaller than synth youtube (I guess pedals don't have enough LEDs to be exciting) he seems to be doing pretty well. I'd be very curious to see you take on that content personally, even if you relegate to a second channel for algorithm reasons.

[@mattuskamusic]

Every time you talk about reverb my shin hurts because I think about that cave video you did.

[@jamiestewart1644]

Love the sound of the night sky. I can hear lots of Kevin Saunderson style early Detroit sounds.

[@Bleaksigilkeep]

"I had to, like, open the bruise up, and let some of the bruise blood come out to show them" is the full sample, and "come out to show them" is the looped segment

[@AdhesiveWombat]

19:50 ...I WALK A LONELY ROAD (it's even then same key lmao)

[@ritchxmusic]

Would love to see more tutorials from you on how to compose with these tools, as I feel you've so much to teach beyond the gear reviews that the algos love. I'll search your back catelog for more composing videos.

[@MaashuCookiemonster]

I'm a big fan of my NightSky but would have respected your points if you'd decided it wasn't to your liking. Just keep making content man, we need more positivity in the world.

[@WellsOliver]

2024, 365 days of reverb content, you can do it

[@MattUFO33]

Always loved the videos by Knobs so I say go for it!

[@Modem5052]

Fwiw, Reich’s Different Trains was a brilliant way to soothe my children when they were babies. To be fair, it soothed me too and, while not the start of my interest in Phase Music, certainly gave my interest a second wind!

[@Natzure]

How are you mixing/incorporating these massive effects into a song? Always find myself cluttering everything and when trying to "fix" that, it falls apart

[@panir_gaming_kekw]

Depends on a song. Sometimes you can sample some highly wet sound and then use it as riser, drop, some adlibs or anything actually. To make it clean - you can just cut it off on the end with some filter

[@nikolasb8313]

I use m/s mixing techniques

[@chinmeysway]

the eq of the trails seems important in mixes. i like to cut the highs off a bit and the lows usually (plug-ins). pedals, hm maybe an eq pedal after the reverb or compress after. dense mixes you won’t benefit exactly from some of the pad sounding reverbs/ gets lost but sometimes that is what works too.

[@GRIFFARTCENTER]

Your videos lock me into a reverb chamber

[@ChristopherOrth]

How do you compare the Eventide h90 reverbs to these other units?

[@saardean4481]

Great Video Ben. Took me further than gear reviews do. Keep it up and stay inspired !

[@ultratone]

Always been a fan of your more artistic videos that incorporate your beautiful music and interesting photography. So I’m really up on your idea at the end of the video about gear use videos with no talking. Especially if that’s the only way we’ll get to hear you play with new gear in the future (aside from your albums of course).

[@alainthiry3965]

you can use starlab with synth without modular system? just a support and powersupply, more practical than pedal and sound very well

[@DTZinatbakhsh]

The primitive technology guy doesn't speak in a single video and the algorithm puts him out there just fine. And it doesn't make me want to try any of it less ✨

[@Ed-davies]

Yeah I love you gear use videos, peppered with some talking. One thing that this duo of videos has shown is what an awesome synth Nymphes is!

[@timm3376]

Thanks for the video. I loved the reverb sound coming from the Strymon Nightsky. I wonder if there is a similar pedal that is less expensive.

[@anthonywestbrook2155]

18:08 Well. I'm never going to be able to hear or say "compressor" the same again. Thank you?

[@anthonywestbrook2155]

If anyone makes a Cum Presser or Cum Pressor pedal, please send me one. I just searched and there's nothing with that name yet.

[@Nevtech1898]

You are literally a box of talent, Nevtech has some new effects coming out, I would very much like to see what you can do with them. Incredibly talented my friend ❤ loved this.

[@P_wizard]

I love your musical and honest deep dive videos- best gear content on the YT- keep it up 👍

[@Mundproductionfunkhaus]

As a game changer, I would be interested in seeing videos that are about getting creative with a certain device. When you do a presentation about the features, you always stay on a very superficial level. By this, I mean what you can really do with a device. Somebody I can’t remember his name made a video about, the Night Sky where he dug into some of the features and use them extremely creatively, and this sounded like a whole new world. These are musical instruments. It takes time to develop not a mastery, but just a sense of what they can do.

[@JayaLove]

Ooh! I’m jelly of your light green cosmos! I got the original black. Love it so much! I have some fun vids in my channel with it if you’re curious. Using it with synths and my voice.

[@Agerian7]

So sad to hear about Hologram. I love my Microcosm and I found it insane that Benn never covered it. Makes sense now

[@siriusofcanis]

I wish I could have a membership to his studio I would so love a tour.

[@dondouglas]

Great for the info and the way it is treated but very bad for the pocket. Thanks!!!

[@Em4gdn1m]

Love your videos, but change of subject here for a second. I really wish I could buy your music (especially Arboreal, but at least 3 or 4 more albums) on vinyl. You blend the most beautiful and interesting sounds together so perfectly. Can't wait to hear what you come out with next.

[@kingocowata]

People tend to ask why my mixes sound so different than theirs and it’s usually because I’m using reverb like an additional instrument, not just a little fx.

[@LoVeAmBiEnT]

Love your videos my man I stopped watching gear Review stuff a while ago just because I literally have everything I’ve ever wanted and all they do is make me want to buy more shit so anyway all right, let’s get back to the video

[@rolfamundsen230]

I'm going to be really sad if this is the last time you're doing gear demos. I love watching these. Such a shame the one out of a hundred kill the fun when there's 99 people who really enjoyed the video but never commented anything, but I guess that's just youtube. Something I'd love for you to make a video on is how you listen to reverb and what you listen for since you seem to have such an ear for reverb. I would love to hear you break down what to listen for and how you'd adjust a reverb to create a space, described for someone who tends to hear most reverbs as a mush and struggles to properly utilise it. I myself am a mixer who has spent a lot of time working on this and improving and your insight would probably be eye(ear)-opening 😊

[@greygibson4349]

What's up Benn, love your content ❤

[@mariovivalakosmosas7618]

Not gonna lie, I am amazed by your guitar technique

[@rhesreeves5339]

I really enjoy the content. I love using anything I can to make cool sounds from moms pots and pans to 600$ reverbs.. or better yet both!

[@wildnotemusic]

Wow, How Marvelous! Deep cut...😂

[@trushreitsam5802]

Was thinking: "He's got a real good taste in Pedals and instruments" - Look back on screen and see Benn Jordan "eating" (or singing after a second look) a Kalimba... XD

[@petrusbarbatusberolinensis2102]

What’s your opinion on the Tasty Chips reverb pedal, Ben?

[@MoVese-o4l]

Nice work! I can only covet the Cosmos ... Any opinions on the Shift Line Everest and/or Astronaut V? Astronaut seems to *ahem* spin in the same orbit / occupy the same universe as the Nightsky ...

[@sushant2095]

Great video, Benn! Curious what your thoughts are on the OTO Bam in comparison to these units.

[@The_Sound_Technician]

Is there anywhere that shows suggested user patches for the nightsky? I’m such a Luddite and with work and life there isn’t much time to commit to experimenting with gear. Anyone 🙏

[@lokologico]

what about VSTs? or does Valhalla reign?

[@thundergate4438]

I went in with the no speaking just tweaking philosophy and I get minimal trollish blow-back. I enjoy just making the music and showing the process. Maybe the alGODRythm doesn't like it, but as you say, F-it. I'm sure with your amazing skills, music only content will be welcomed Benn. I for one, would like to hear it. Keep rocking.

[@knuthillersy1002]

Inspiring , thorough and insightful as usual! One small thing-- at 8:10 - It`s Aeolian, not Dorian ;-)

[@lokelosk]

YES! GIVE US SOUND DEMOS WITH NO VOICE! SHOW US SONIC POSSIBILITIES! In all honesty, videos of you playing with gear (and explaining what you are doing) would be very helpful to a lot of people. Gear demos are, overall, pretty bad, always gravitating towards the same patches, no one says what they are doing, or they keep talking over the sound about something completely unrelated. And that's different than just playing stuff while recording a video. I want to see what gear can do in a practical way, not theoretical one (reading the manual is not as fun as twisting knobs, and imagining sounds is not as good as hearing them). The best part about your "reviews" was the small demos you came up with to show as an example. Watching you fiddling with stuff in creative ways fulfills some sort of content that is lacking on KZbin's gearsphere. I mean, Red Means Recording used to do something like that and it was great, and it was a bummer when Jeremy moved on to do other stuff (although I'm happy he's being successful in it). I hope there are more people out there that thinks the same. Your little demo with the Soma Cosmos, for instance, was amazing. It would be very awesome to see whole videos like that.

[@Bombbeachh]

I had no idea Jon Hamm was an awesome musician ❤