What does the Microcosm pedal actually do and why am I selling mine???

What does the Microcosm pedal actually do and why am I selling mine??? Well settle in and I will explain what this pedal does.
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[@dougtolley]

The word Behemoth is the best description for this pedal. It's an absolute beast in every regard. Nice video Nick, it's a fitting farewell and you explained very eloquently the reasons for selling. I share those reasons, I have to admit.

[@nickreesyt]

I love the word behemoth

[@TheTom7878]

I also think this pedal is more useful outside of the realm of guitar. I play guitar also, but anticipate using this with synths, drum machines, and samples for sound design. I completely get not wanting to integrate it into a guitar setup though, especially for gigging reasons.

[@nickreesyt]

Yeh totally agree

[@lukepiercy7171]

I totally get and appreciate your reasons, I just want this pedal so much almost as a therapeutic sound dive whenever I have a spare few minutes/hours. There's something so relaxing about it

[@nickreesyt]

You are not wrong!! I had four years of therapy from it

[@johnduval482]

I understand the logic of your decision. For myself I’ll never sell mine as a matter of fact I’ve been considering buying a second one. I like the unpredictability of the algorithms. I refuse to work with a pedal that has graphical/building block interface Ike the LVX, way too much tweaking and dinking around rather than composing. But that’s just me. Again, i think your logic is sound and i always enjoy your posts and your perspective; much respect. Carry on!

[@nickreesyt]

Hey John. Very interesting perspective thanks for sharing it. Totally get what you mean. I think microcosm is a lot less random than some people make out once you really understand how to manipulate it, but still more unpredictable than say the LVX. I kinda like having a dedicated menu system that I can manipulate at speed, I feel like it enables me to get to sounds I want faster and actually gives me more composing time.

[@ingreynelg]

I’ve been thinking about selling mine for quite a longtime now. It offers some really good sounds, but I have been feeling I can’t really control what it does or how it does at the level you can with other pedals like the LVX or the Synesthesia or even the Enzo, which are three very nice pedals in my collection that I can get the sounds I want when I need them. None of these is necessarily in the Microcosm category and, to be honest the microcosm is in a league of its own, but that is maybe the problem, it is a very specific niche, which I guess you can’t know until you play with it for sometime. Your point of view makes me think I would be good selling it as well, as it has been maybe 4 months since I plugged it in last time. Thanks for sharing.

[@nickreesyt]

Damn man I feel your dilemma, I sat in that same space for about half a year myself

[@DavidJohnson-mc1yu]

I very recently (like a couple of hours ago) acquired a Microcosm. I am not a guitarist. I plan to use this in an electro-acoustic setting with flutes kalimbas and a Roland AE-20. I'll let you know how it goes. My initial experiments with a MicroFreak have been fun. I speak fluent MIDI and I plan to exploit that aspect of the Microcosm a lot.

[@alvinpietzsch1534]

Awesome! Question for you. I have numerous things that do MIDI. But I don't even casually speak it. How does one dive further into this language?

[@NNYz]

Nice informative vid! I've got one on the way to me and there's one question I. can't seem to find the answer to.....will it take a microphone (sm57) direct into it? I realise it's a dynamic mic so the signal will be a lot lower but with a cheap phantom powered preamp in between, that should do it? shouldn't it?

[@nickreesyt]

I would say yeh and yeh it’ll sound amazing with vocals! Loads more microcosm videos here on the channel and if you want any help don’t hesitate to say. Feel free to DM me on IG too

[@NNYz]

@@nickreesyt 'cosm arrives in a few days so I may well do that!

[@NNYz]

@@nickreesyt just subbed on both!

[@nickreesyt]

@NNYz spk soon

[@Itaketoomanypics]

i thought about selling mine but then i bought a couple small synths last year and now its just glued to them

[@nickreesyt]

Awesome how are you using it with them

[@TheGreenKingdom]

Great pedal, but i just sold mine for many of the same reasons. I have a lot of reverbs as well as the Pladask Baklengs and Habit which I find to be a bit more interesting for ambient granular/pitch/delay effects. Plus i never used the looper.

[@nickreesyt]

Bakelngs is a beast I loved demoing it here on the channel a while back

[@wesmitchem825]

I just finally bought one I finally found one for less than the price directly from the company I don't understand why people are charging so much for these used are they always out of stock?

[@gwislomezable]

No at all, it was just for the first montjs after release. Past that, flippers simply think people won't realize it is always available straight from the brand at a better price 😂

[@Andreas_tropicalwinter]

I won´t get rid of mine anytime soon, but totally understand why you´ve sold it. I made the decision too, to sell stuff that simply doesn´t get enough use. Even if I loved the gear I´ve already sold, just having them sitting on a shelf isn´t worth keeping them.

[@nickreesyt]

What have you sold in the past

[@Andreas_tropicalwinter]

@@nickreesyt I had the Apex100 from Ibanez. It was a KoRn signature guitar and to me the best looking guitar ever. I never got warm with it really, so I decided to let this one go. I still miss it from time to time, even years after. Than my Ibanez ES-2 delay. It was so good sounding, but didn't got enough use. My eletronic drum set had to go too. It was fun and I've learned a lot, but then space became a thing...

[@andsoistopped]

It certainly does some cool stuff.

[@nickreesyt]

Very cool some might say

[@Minnaarsarelovers]

Mosaic sounds like its been lifted straight from the empress super delay rev mode C, or the Boss PS-3 mode 7.

[@nickreesyt]

Hey Gav..welcome…yep it does…it’s also very close to the new chase bliss reverse mode c which I’ve just finished shooting a mini series of videos about. It really does sound brilliant through the Microsoft in stereo. Definitely got better examples in other videos in the MC here on the channel than this video of that setting too

[@Minnaarsarelovers]

PS-3 has been on my board forever for that exact setting, and will never ever leave

[@nickreesyt]

Yeh I owned one about 15 years ago. I think an often overlooked pedal

[@advenchr_us]

Hologram needs to put out a smaller form factor Mosaic and expand on it. It’s why this pedal sells.

[@nickreesyt]

I’d be lining up for that as would many, hard agree

[@johnbryan1049]

It does seem to be a recurring theme I hear in reviews of this pedal. I’ll see it on some KZbinrs board and they always say it’s just there for the mosaic setting.

[@advenchr_us]

@@johnbryan1049 Yep! @hologram are you listening!

[@tigerdrum4645]

I want two pedals in my life ... Cloudburst which i already have and the microcosm .

[@nickreesyt]

Your life is 50% complete

[@robert1969woodstock]

The “stereo” part of this pedal was a bit of a disappointment. Every program just sounds like dual mono to me … 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@nickreesyt]

Personally I thought some of the settings were good in stereo…but yeh definitely stuff out there with a more defined stereo spread I would say

[@terryallancole91]

Traded mine so fast…. Got something ese that felt like $500

[@nickreesyt]

What did you get?

[@savoirfaire8979]

Trends come and go. People will laud the next big release and forget about it months later.

[@nickreesyt]

Tbf this pedal has been around for years now but yeh I know what ya mean

[@Subtronik]

Meris LVX.

[@nickreesyt]

What’s that

[@Subtronik]

@@nickreesyt 🙂

[@sharihsn9692]

cant you just take it off the board and keep it?

[@nickreesyt]

Financially no but I wish

[@sharihsn9692]

@@nickreesyt i understand. well hopefully your channel grows always more and gets the attention it deserves soon and next time around you wont have to make a financial decision like this. i think you make really quality content.

[@nickreesyt]

@sharihsn9692 thanks friend appreciate your kind words.

[@boimesa8190]

It's for repeats...

[@nickreesyt]

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