Meris Effects - Ottobit Jr.

Here’s one of two new pedals by Meris. The Ottobit Jr. Is a sequencer and a bit rusher that sounds better than anything else out there right now. Tons of features, small footprint, MIDI implementation and amazing sounds.
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Signal Chain:
PRS Holowbody II
Ditto X2 looper
Ottobit Jr.
Bogner Shiva 1x12 combo
SM57
Apogee Duet 2
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[@Warpsmasher]

Best demo for this pedal by far, thanks

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Ah thanks! That’s good to hear. Glad you’re feeling it👍

[@rickc2102]

This is definitely not just your basic pleasure model.

[@alessandroseravalle3807]

Bought it yesterday...one of the most amazing stompboxes ever!!!

[@ansonstiles]

Just what the doctor ordered. Love this thing. Still over my head. But time spent and vids like these . And the full manual. Will make a world of difference. Bless up 🙌🏻

[@aBunchOfPedals]

It's really awesome. I plan on keeping it on my board for a long time. I'm also looking forward to the full manual, I know there's some gems hidden in it! Thanks for watching.

[@CamTarn]

My god, this thing sounds gorgeous - especially love the way it breaks up smoothly into warm crunch as you take the bits knob down, rather than just going 16-bit smooth -> 8 bit grainy -> 4 bit destroyed. Wonder if there's a bit of regular distortion in there too, or something more interesting? I really like your review style as well :)

[@waskerbasket9601]

That last arpeggio sounded great

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Yea this was a really interesting pedal for sure. Lots of neat stuff hiding in there!

[@KarnEvil4]

At the 8 min mark it almost has the sound of the Pink Floyd sequencer as heard on the Dark Side Of The Moon track- On The Run before Time! Almost! LOL

[@aBunchOfPedals]

haha, I know. Sounds cool right?

[@cosmogang]

Can't wait to own this. holy crap

[@aBunchOfPedals]

yea man, it's awesome. I've been having a lot of fun with this and the Mercury 7 reverb

[@mezzafinook]

cosmogang it's not like you'll ever do anything cool with it, chill out.

[@sennstrato7281]

Meris is going to kill me financially. I need this,the mercury 7 and the enzo. I wonder if I got all three at the same time if they'd give me a price break? 😂😂😂

[@aBunchOfPedals]

yea right. If anything, get the M7 or Ploymoon. The Enzo is ok, not super special, unless you have time to edit the good features. Infinite Jets is way cooler.

[@Honking_Goose]

@@aBunchOfPedals +1 for the polymoon

[@kevmac1230]

@@aBunchOfPedals I have this and it's the balls,but I love the Enzo too.I think it's about the best synth pedal out.The sounds are vast and lush.

[@saladfatoosh2293]

I found this to be an awesome showcase of this pedal's effects. You did a marvelous job. I will own and master this. BRAVO!🎉

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Salad Fatoosh Thanks! I still don’t know how I managed to pull it off lol.

[@milkweedreflections]

Must own.

[@Lorneplumber]

That sounds pretty damn awesome

[@famitory]

all you need is some breakbeats and the first two minutes are the basis for a squarepusher track

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Wow, that's awesome you say that! Squarepusher is one of my all time favorite artists. Thanks!

[@famitory]

so i ended up making a jungle track and sampling this video for part of it. i hope you don't mind! famitory.bandcamp.com/track/meeting-at-shimmer-yard

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Dude that's cool!

[@eustacecranch]

​@@aBunchOfPedals we're all here thanks to squarepusher, arent we.

[@aBunchOfPedals]

eustace cranch Yuuuuup, he’s awesome!

[@antfactor]

wow - THIS looks cool!

[@aBunchOfPedals]

antfactor it really is. The tap tempo synced glitch is awesome.

[@jesuswasarobot]

Lots of good info man!! Thanks for doing this!! Mine will be here Wednesday and this demo will help a ton. A little bummed that the midi isn't separated from the expression but it's not that big of a deal.

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Yea, I hear ya on that for sure. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. There is a more detailed instruction manual that should be on the Meris site soon. There's a few hidden settings I missed.

[@777Yoni]

Thumbs up for the Caddyshack reference.

[@lapracticadefamila]

Great demo!

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Thanks, I appreciate it!

[@U2WB]

I’m puzzled. Is there an instrument connected to this, or is it a signal generator ?

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Yea, it’s just some guitar loops, nothing super special really

[@alessandroseravalle3807]

Man...this is great!!!!!

[@MarcusTheDarkest]

Awesome. I want it.

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Marc McLaud get it!!!

[@BTsMusicChannel]

Reverse it and put a little delay on it and it will sound awesome.

[@johnberg1326]

I believe this pedal plays you.

[@rearnakedhump]

John Berg enter the obligatory wet blanket that no one talks to at parties

[@uugr3]

You are my kinda groovy. Thanx.

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Thanks ☺️. And thanks for taking the time to check out the video!

[@sennstrato7281]

Since it's been three years now since they put this out are there any other peddles in the same vein. Really bugs me that there is not a mix knob on this. There's one on my Enzo, there's one on my Mercury 7. Why not on this, that is the question?

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Sennstrato Yea that would have been pretty cool. Who knows why? Lol

[@JCBigCat]

aBunchOfPedals most of its effects are gradually brought to the mix the more you turn the knobs. What good would have been a mix on filter? Or on the stutter? Would you like to lower the sample rate and yet keep a “normally” sampled sound? I actually wonder why they couldn’t fit a mini preset system like the one seen on Source Audio Nemesis or Ventris.

[@sennstrato7281]

@@JCBigCat I bought one and I like it very much,very fun.

[@renouncedequation3923]

The stuff, Trent inspires to be created amazes me...

[@michaelgeorgi4537]

A question to you: i World like to use a sample of yiur demo ... Can i mail you to ask ?

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Of course you can! Just let me hear it when you're done and credit me, you can use whatever you want. Email the song to me at abunchofpedals at gmail

[@proteusswarm7291]

Anybody else own this pedal and struggle with the fact that there is no mix control? Anybody have a good solution?

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Hey that's a good point. I actually never even though about it until but that would be pretty cool.

[@ktulukaramazov]

Yeah not having a mix control sucks. One possible solution could be getting a signal blender though.

[@telekhal]

Yes I own it and struggle with exactly the same problem! Sometimes I would like to have a more subtle effect, but without a mix poti it’s not possible. Only turnaround is a mixer pedal or even the send return of a desktop mixer. I mean: the pedal is so expensive, one more control shouldn’t break the bank for meris. I’ll keep it anyway....

[@whiterhino414]

Damn.....that`s heavy

[@aBunchOfPedals]

It sure is Marty

[@alcoyot]

Cool toy but not sure what I'd do with it.

[@flootymcdootymanooty9145]

@Paul Rogers gottem almost a year later

[@119FU]

Calculated.

[@hendratimothy1355]

How do you compare this to Red Panda Particle? I’m kinda in between whether to get this or the Particle.

[@jonridley]

I went for this one over the particle simply because the particle is mono only and I'm using it with synths so stereo was an important factor.

[@DroneCorpse]

lol are you serious? The meris ottobit jr is on a different league FAM

[@csrader]

Yes there is clearly an emergence of pedals with two markets in mind. For synth players, pedals have always been appealing but problematic. Add stereo and line level I/O and you've got a bigger market. These advantages would apply to effects send/return and certainly don't detract from guitarists' needs. Now: blend/mix knobs everyone, please.

[@alfabutane]

Benefit or hazard!! Great demo dude!

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Thanks man, much appreciated. I'm glad you liked it :)

[@Gonko100]

Holy shit.

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Biblical!

[@taratapa]

11:00 is it an Aphex Twin simulator ?

[@aBunchOfPedals]

taratapa Hahaha! You made it that far?!

[@flatfifth5876]

wow! how did i miss this one? how do you think it compares to the Dream Sequence by Hologram Electronics

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Someone just recently asked me that. They really are different. The bit crushing on the Ottobit Jr. is awesome and the sequencing sounds great. The DS is a little more in depth since you can edit the sequences with your DAW. Maybe I should just do a video my my Dream Sequence already.

[@flatfifth5876]

yeah man that would be cool. thanks for the response . iam leaning toward the otto bit . i am still figureing out my jets. are you hanging on too yours?

[@samuelpacker2976]

Nice stut... stutt...stutter effect

[@podhd500metal4]

오토비트

[@t.n.3819]

If someone took the Boredoms and condensed their sound into one pedal, this would be it.

[@aBunchOfPedals]

T. N. Another band I need to check out :)

[@Ghoopty]

DUDE! Boredoms are the SHIT!!🤘

[@shaft9000]

This would be MUCH more interesting if I knew before hand what the source audio is...here it could be a keyboard or looper or whatever...but we've no idea :(

[@aBunchOfPedals]

It's all guitar, on a looper of course.

[@proteusswarm7291]

Maybe take a look at the video description 😉. Every KZbin video had one.

[@iiaaiiaannaaiiaaii]

Evol!!

[@janipashkvan797]

grande ottobit

[@housemachine509]

Shit this thing kicks you in the face nicely

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Yea, it's one of those pleasant kicks to the face :)

[@Skyyyyyyyyyi]

Oh, "오토비트", it's Korean :)

[@aBunchOfPedals]

What's it say?

[@josiahstringer9435]

aBunchOfPedals it roughly translates to "ottobit" lol. It's pronounced oh-toh-bi-teu

[@silvergunk8441]

오토비트 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋthis is korea langauge

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Someone else said that too... what does it mean?

[@silvergunk8441]

If you change the auto bit to Korean, it will be (자동박자) automatic beat

[@JCBigCat]

aBunchOfPedals it’s because one of its creator at Meris is Korean. Enzo is an Italian name because it is another engineer’s grandpa name.

[@housemachine509]

Oh fuck that filter

[@EcoCentrist]

quality weird noises

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Thanks :)

[@Honking_Goose]

1:02 Easily the best? Think Geiger counter pro wants a word with you

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Alex Jones haha I’ve never even come close to one of those things. Seems pretty cool though.

[@tremolo664]

Fuck... I...don't....need... it....

[@aBunchOfPedals]

yes you do...

[@commodoor6549]

You're clearly just turning knobs with no clue about what effect they'll have. 🤣

[@aBunchOfPedals]

That’s how I roll 😉

[@commodoor6549]

@@aBunchOfPedals You roll pretty damn good. You have made some of the best pedal demo videos I've ever seen

[@aBunchOfPedals]

@@commodoor6549 Thank you, that's really nice of you to say :)

[@funkyfurballs1078]

It would take years to go through all the sounds!

[@aBunchOfPedals]

Funky' Furballs I still don't think I've figured it all out yet!

[@funkyfurballs1078]

Still waiting for their next run!

[@aBunchOfPedals]

It's out today!

[@funkyfurballs1078]

Don't tell everybody!