Skysurfer by TC Electronic

[@JK.Fraser]

wow. 3 seconds in and you've made this thing sound better than any other demo.

[@makkietakkie]

That's what I was thinking! It didn't do much for me in any other demo, but damn, this made me swell.

[@ravenjames3873]

i know

[@rockstarajl]

Those are the settings out of the box too lol

[@nichtimmer9134]

Moste can not made demos! That sad truth begins by guitar demos who 80% play only high gain mode ...not clean and fuzzy! ...hate that!

[@Pogokoala]

Does anyone know the name of that song that he plays at the end?

[@boulder89984]

One of the best pedal demos of all time. This format should be the standard. Nice work Sir!

[@TROGULAR10000]

Whoever made this video has reached exactly the same conclusions as me regarding what settings on a reverb pedal work and for what. This is the pedal I wanted for many years in terms of price. You could get these combinations but always around 100 bucks and up.

[@Bart_Fuzz]

"Just don't expect to sound like Dick Dale" *plays Misirlou*

[@indie-bindie]

And It sounded fuckin authentic.

[@strahlgabor5725]

Perfect demo. Not a single useless word. It was satisfying. Thank you.

[@VanTakashiBanzai]

This pedal is low cost, but simple and nice sound... anyway Good music selection for me. Thanks.

[@nym053]

One of the best sounding reverb pedals imo.

[@aujizaharudin]

Agree

[@goodnightmediaintl]

I have this pedal, I find my favourite setting is plate for the brightness, but for more subtle reverbs rolling the tone and mix back on the spring and hall is fantastic. IF YOU'RE AFTER DRIP DO NOT GET THIS, get the TC Electronics The Drip reverb. Best affordable Drip spring reverb there is.

[@jamiemaldonado2389]

I was sold when Sleepwalk was played at the end. I’ve been looking for a 50s sounding reverb and I think this did it for me.

[@MuhamadRizkySyaban]

Because of this video, I bought one and I'm lovin it! I'm using it as always on reverb for playing blues. Just set reverb and tone knobs at 12 o'clock. And mix at 9 - 10 o'clock. 👍

[@TomPark1986]

Smart of them to include a tone knob.

[@ruxiwang9571]

a true musician who really understand this pedal.

[@nichtimmer9134]

That reverb is much deeper than moste on board spring reverb's on most amps!!! ...only some amps have deeper reverbs! Thats why so many buy a reverb pedal or a spring reverb stand alone unit!

[@aftertheendtimes]

You make the best Tc demos period.🎸🙏❤️

[@viberge]

I like this sound on reverb 75% or more, mix 15-25%. Good demo, fast switch cases, same pattern.

[@pablomusicgear7288]

Nice playing man! This box sounds good in your hands!

[@johnw4115]

I love that modest mouse sleepwalking cover!!!!!

[@gavincrockett9521]

Sleepwalking is actually a rehash of Santo and Johnny's song, Sleepwalk, from 1959. The original is only an instrumental, though. MM took some liberties and added lyrics. They're such cool songs in their own right, but I think he was playing the original.

[@johnw4115]

Gavin Crockett oh thanks for letting me know ill check that out

[@JG-ux7of]

I know this is definitely one of Tone City's least favorite reverb pedals butI really like it. I think the name is what throws people off. With surfer in the name you'd expect to get Dick Dale surf spring reverb tones and it doesn't. The Plate and Hall settings with a mostly dry mix provides a really dreamy melodic sound that you can easily use. The spring setting doesn't sound really sound like spring reverb to me. It's my least favorite setting but I really bought this for the plate reverb. I wanted reverb that was somewhere between a haunting and shimmering reverb. I love the the long decay and trails you get from Shimverb but I can't really use it much without just playing slow spacey stuff. I love this reverb pedal and would recommend it to anyone looking for that almost shoegaze melodic dream pop sound. Or looking to add subtle hall reverb. 50's surf players are better looking elsewhere.

[@nichtimmer9134]

Thats a cool reverb! The 3 IMPORTANT reverb's spring, room and plate!!! ...yeahhh ...sad that the spring is not like the fender tube spring unit :( that were perfect! I use that for play on way and under tree's if the sun shine or gouse down!!!! With my digi tc delay that have analog/tape and more delay's on it!!! ...perfect for dreamy indy sounds!!!

[@EricTheCleric93]

Weirdly specific question: which setting would be best for the Ren and Stimpy theme?

[@tinomendoza9372]

lol

[@franciswhitehead6998]

Spring reverb I reckon, Der Screaming Lëderhosen all used Fender equipment

[@gmlasam]

Excellent review and demo. I’m deciding between this skysurfer and the drip.

[@bobayersquebec]

i ve just bought it and love it for 75 cad

[@esp224]

Great review,and nice playing ...Thanks

[@bengiz]

great demo. efficient and straight to the point. love it!

[@peterdadswell7998]

With some of those licks I thought I was listening to the intro of Better Call Saul. Sounds great.

[@MxDOOM]

Great demo!

[@jorgvlaardingen8771]

Thanks , really helpfull review. Just returned my Boss RV6 and used this one . Just to add a bit of reverb to my sound . This is all you need.

[@robertreynolds1489]

I was devastated..CRUSHED... because I needed a fast- replace- on reverb pedal, and I didn't want to spend $150, OR, jerk around with all the settings they have these days...So I bought one of these; it will be on stage in a few hours...I am checking out KZbin for a demo/settings/tweaks on the drive out. All's well right? One of the first Demo's that pop's up has a giant "60 CYCLE HUM" !!!!! NoooOOOooo! After staring out the window for 5min, I started listening....A. Ok, sounds alright, not bad. There is no hum?! B. You're freaking Strat players out with your youTube name: -subscribed- Thanks for the demo...and future anecdote.

[@60CycleHumcast]

LOL, we were a podcast first, and we thought '60 cycle hum' was a fun name for our show.

[@stephenpirie8900]

As I've come to expect, your demos hit every nerve (in a good way)!

[@thewhopper11]

Love their new lineup

[@natalies3032]

Have you tried the trex creamer pedal? Ive been looking for reviews on it

[@nmfl100]

Thanks, nice explanation of the pedal.

[@fabianmolina682]

Damn I already own one but hearing you play it makes me want to buy another one 😂 great playing!!

[@StormJH1]

Anybody find one of these in the U.S. yet? TC Electronic unveiled this thing and said November in Europe, and late November for a GC exclusive. Stopped in my GC again and no sign of them. Also, my GC's sales people seemed to have no idea what I was talking about, but that's commonly my experience with them. Kind of a missed opportunity to flood GC with a bunch of $50 in-store exclusive pedals just before Christmas...

[@OfficialMorda]

Guitar Guitar do them in the UK now, if you're still looking

[@drewstathakis2984]

StormJH1 I found mine online in Musicians friend

[@WhoDaF0ok1sThatGuy]

This could be used to play Walking on Glass by Iron Maiden! The Hall effect works perfectly

[@mistube]

Very Nice with the explanetory teXt. Great examples

[@twofiveone68]

Just bought one today and TBH for an inexpensive reverb pedal it sounds excellent. I don't play ambient music and this does everything very well. Good review!

[@lorenzogv8810]

Just bought mine and it stopped working after an hour or so, I'm using a 9v battery and I don't understand what is happening

[@Soupia16]

@@lorenzogv8810 hey do you fixed it? What was the problem?

[@lorenzogv8810]

@@Soupia16 yeah it's just that the pedal drains battery very quickly so i got a cable and it's been perfect ever since👍

[@jeanpat8946]

I own this pedal for the price its absolutly amazing

[@robyoink]

Great reviews on this line. Subscribed!

[@DeuCeNTX]

great video brother... would you recommend this one over the Caline SnakeBite? I just saw that video (cheap reverbs) and the Caline was the one one worthy of a board in my opinion unless you just like that digi sound of the others. But I'm just wondering if I would miss having some of the other functions such as predelay on the Caline if I went for the TC... but dang, this TC sounds beautiful.

[@sammyoso1876]

Was that first bit of the vid sleep walk?

[@tor-arnejohansen822]

I love your demos of TC Electronic "smørgåsbord"-series pedals! Great work! BTW: In which order would you use Skysurfer Reverb, Prophet Digital Delay, and Gauss Tape Echo?

[@fredpg]

I owned this pedal for a few months. Cheap sounding, not recommended, HOF pedal by the same brand is way better for just a little more money.

[@vladimirpavlovic9488]

I want to use this pedal in a high end pedalboard, which already features high end ambient reverb, so this one I would use just to wet-up my signal a little bit with nice dark, roomy reverb, when playing subtle, simple cleans or distorted riffs (which I usually want to soften up a little bit so they just sit in a mix nicely). Also, I dont want any signal loss and have a buffer there in signal chain. Do you honestly think it might be a good choice for me? Thanks in advance

[@thanosraksen9905]

That's the way I wanna use it too. Did you get it after all?

[@vladimirpavlovic9488]

@@thanosraksen9905 I've tried it for a few days. Algorithms sounded better than expected but when engaged there was some noise in the signal when engaged that I really did not want with all the other high end pedals. It was there with the clean sound and there might have been even some tone suckage (and I am not too nerdy about that stuff, really). So I ended up returning it. No regrets although I would consider it a good option on a budget board for simple reverb sound.

[@alext8218]

gonna buy it! good demo.

[@JoseHenrique-xg1lp]

I bought one and had to spend some time figuring how to make it sound good in my setup. I had to flip the delay / reverb a few times around but that's okay :) It's very well built and functional.

[@stevenfarmer1477]

What order did you prefer?

[@evanturner7880]

this demo is great!!!

[@nichtimmer9134]

That plate reverb with that price and sound + spring (realy deep) + room ! Is my ground to buy it! Its one of the best or the best reverb for the money you can get!!!! ...in europe approx 33€ (36$) thats nothing thats 11€ per reverb :D thats nothing!, nothing!!!

[@NoahJaora]

What's the song at 4:09? Funny theme

[@humbucker1414]

It's kinda like the beginning of Pipeline but with that walk down. From Ryan's surf band?

[@tomblaze2]

Sounds amazing

[@MeatyController]

🎶😇👶! My👼! Oooo I 💜 U! Oooo I do! No one could love you Like I do!🎶

[@senditffh7919]

Where would I turn the knobs for a country sound like for Alabama or Conway?

[@MawSlithroat]

Great review btw!

[@mrbunghole]

I’m looking for a spring reverb to actually sound like Dick Dale. What’s out there?

[@noahchristytv]

I feel like they tailored the controls on this one so that the newbs couldn't get too crazy - sounds like you couldn't dial in a crazy decay, which makes it almost idiot proof when it comes to the short-med trails department

[@60CycleHumcast]

embermarrow that's possible. At a certain point I wonder if they were trying to not self compete against the many other full featured tc reverbs. It's just enough reverb to have some fun at $50

[@StormJH1]

Possibly. There aren't a lot of reverbs (even Chinese ones) that can compete at this price ones, but the ones I have tried seem to have different variations on a Hall reverb sound, and this one isn't much different. The "Spring" sounds fine, but not very "springy". Don't hear that "pling!" noise when you hit a hard rake or attack a note. Nothing seems to be WRONG with it though, and that's quite an accomplishment at $50.

[@nichtimmer9134]

3:37 yeah...

[@michaelangeloh.5383]

I'm impressed with this pedal for such a low price. Great if you're looking for something to the point. But again, like most pedals, it's unfortunate you can't change any of the settings by foot. Like a toggle feature by foot would've made it instantly more versatile. Nobody wants to have to mess with their pedalboard by hand when they're playing... Designers should learn to either add a second stomp-switch or do a hold-function to toggle settings. They could leave out the toggle switch and since it's digital anyway just make it toggle modes when you hold down the on/off stomp switch. - The Vox Time Machine (made with Satch) has one to toggle between two modes for example (although, that one has the problem that it doesn't remember the last used when turning off, but anyway).

[@zachary963]

They do, but that requires either digital additions or essentially a whole second pedal, controls and all. Which is why those (like TC electronic’s own are always so much more expensive).

[@fortheloveofnoise]

Synth players who keep them beside their keyboards do.

[@MawSlithroat]

Hey, I heard some TC pedals add the reverb effect without turning the dry signal into digital, which keeps your tone. I don't know much about it, but I wonder if that's the case with this pedal... or if there is any other cheap pedal like Triverb or the mooer ones that have that feature. Also, do you think that with a additional analog delay slapback, the skysurfer can nail a good surf drip?

[@smartacus88]

Maw_Cohen Damned good question. Wish they'd answer you.

[@tosuismyu]

It is true bypass, can't say for sure though when it's active. From experience it does have a very "real" feel

[@FabioCuccuMusic]

This one is not analogue dry-through. However, the Analogue to Digital conversion doesn't really affect your tone at all... No human being would ever recognize the difference, because of the high resolution. The only issue you might have, if you use a lot of digital pedals in your effect chain, is getting a noticable latency.

[@fortheloveofnoise]

​@@FabioCuccuMusicDid you just assume my species?

[@tessricco6229]

how do i connect this pedal with another pedal?

[@tueseptlikha7274]

how dose it sound with acoustic guitar

[@verinmandingbam3001]

I bought it and it's not working. I tried for couple minutes and then a repeated dud sound came. I turned ot off it works fine in bypass but when its on no guitar sound only dud sound. 😢

[@simon01ize]

Very cool

[@upside-down6211]

the Sky Surfer are rehoused Behringer circuits.

[@settleformetal3763]

Updated circuits

[@MatasMo]

great demo! what was the song at 4:10 ?

[@123joelad456]

did u find out >?

[@MatasMo]

@@123joelad456 nope. Maybe try Shezam app

[@choogiesaur]

Anyone know the lick at 5:50??

[@mijocee9084]

Its sleepwalk by Santo n Johnny :)

[@choogiesaur]

@@mijocee9084 it's beautiful :')

[@mijocee9084]

@@choogiesaur i know!! Such a beaut song

[@neiljones3855]

What is the piece of music you play right at the start of the demo please

[@robertreynolds1489]

The song at the end of the demo is the same tune. A 50's love tune; just a guess...."Sea of Tranquility " ? Do a yT search for the period. Hope this helps.

[@jakeanthony93]

Sounds like it could be 'Sleepwalk'.

[@neiljones3855]

Jake Anthony yeah checked it’s definitely sleepwalk I also bought the pedal😂

[@jakeanthony93]

How are you finding it? Is it a decent pedal? I'm thinking about getting one :P

[@neiljones3855]

Jake Anthony yeah it’s really cool pedal it’s a great pedal to play surf rider by the lively ones and it’s decent price as well.

[@brandoncostner7437]

Skysurfer vs mosky spring? For surf

[@jay_thedog_man5169]

You need to get the TC Drip spring Reverb. It’s supposed to be for surf. There’s no demos currently of it. On Guitar Centers app it says it comes out 06-6-18. I’m extremely interested in it.

[@aranyaofficial7082]

Is it good for surf bro?

[@60CycleHumcast]

No

[@Cougar139tweak]

I need to stop watching your channel, you make me buy things Thanks for nothing.... :D

[@donjohnson7550]

Do the better call Saul thing

[@BrannonHancock]

I was disappointed in this pedal. Experienced some tone loss (volume and high end), a bit of hiss introduced, and reverb sounds that were mushy, cloudy, undefined, even at low settings. YMMV!

[@alxdrksoul]

by the time have you got another reverb pedal? which would you recommend?

[@BrannonHancock]

@@alxdrksoul - I have several. The TC Electronics Hall of Fame is a great, versatile pedal. If you just need a cheap (super cheap!) spring reverb sound, the Mosky Spring Reverb micro-pedal is a clone of the Malekko Chicklet, and sounds great. The Boss RV-5 and RV-6 are old faithfuls as well.

[@alxdrksoul]

@@BrannonHancock thanks man, guess what, just today I saw the digitech polara for just $85, WTF !!! I think it's the black friday thing but omg that's luck haha I just bought it. If anything I'll keep your recommendations in mind :)

[@BrannonHancock]

@@alxdrksoul - sweet. congrats! Never tried it, but I've watched some demos of that pedal and it seems pretty cool! (Seems more versatile than the pedal in this demo - if you listen closely here to the Skysurfer, you can hear the volume / tone loss when the pedal is engaged. No bueno.)

[@drewstathakis2984]

I’m looking for David Gilmore kind of reverb. Would this be a good choice?

[@danielgallagher8713]

Not at all. I think you'll find if you seek out a nice rotary/univibe pedal and an solid tape head echo pedal you'll get much closer than with a reverb. Op Amp based fuzz as well. Which exact ones you go with is largely budget dependent of course. Edited for usefulness.

[@MalcolmO]

Won't do. HOW DO I SOUND LIKE DICK DALE?! (The company's own videos on this pedal keep turning off the reverb and rarely getting past noon on the mix. What's up with that?)

[@Ys-xd1zg]

Tape echo ..60s back again..

[@JayTheLane]

Anything past 9 o'clock on the mix knob and this pedal becomes very mushy and indistinct. I have it. Its okay set low beyond that not good for anything else.

[@dss618]

Good Demo ! Bad Pedal ! The Mix knob has little control making it sound full on at its lowest setting. You could get by with this pedal using a clean sound only but with an amp that's pushed there is no control on the mix. Most demos of this pedal are without an amp that is overdriven. I bought one on a whim and took it back after using it for a few minutes.

[@60CycleHumcast]

Mike Hawk yeah, I don't recommend this pedal. Tc has so many great reverbs, there is no reason to buy this one.

[@jeremyschep3589]

what if we want reverb that's not $150?

[@dss618]

Try the TC Electronics HOF new $99 - used on reverb.com about $60 or less. Even $60. is not cheap for any pedal but it is what it is. Peace !

[@60CycleHumcast]

Jeremy Schep used holy grail

[@dss618]

That's what I use too $120ish new - $75 used. EHX makes great pedals.

[@Alang_492]

This thing has pretty bad reviews watch out

[@frankb5728]

what's up with TC and their spring reverbs.. especially for a pedal with this name... the hall of fame spring reverb setting is pretty bad too, they can't seem to nail the tone that people want.

[@60CycleHumcast]

no idea, I like the HOF for hall/plate/etc type reverbs, but they don't get anywhere close with surfy spring sounds. the Drip was an interesting try, its so wonky though that it becomes a curiosity just for being a different.

[@neoalexander7534]

was thinking to get this since im on a tight budget, once i saw "dont expect to sound like dick dale" nope im out! thanks anyway

[@killerashtray1396]

Thing costed me 70

[@tehjokur3344]

U got scammed

[@killerashtray1396]

Teh jokur indeed I did but I still love it

[@tehjokur3344]

@@killerashtray1396 dude do u also love the sound it has when you kill the tone?

[@tehjokur3344]

@@killerashtray1396 3:40

[@tehjokur3344]

@@killerashtray1396 mean kill the mix signal

[@DaDamuse]

reboxed behringer trash

[@Sora-o]

Everyone sounds the exact same when playing the guitar it's so cringe.