Meris Mercury 7 Review and Demo | Secret Weapons

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The Mercury 7 from SoCal based builder Meris is a digital reverb said to be born from a love of the Blade Runner soundtrack. But it is so much more than that. Today on Secret Weapons we sink into the lush, expansive ether of the Mercury 7. Whether it’s the tight and quick Ultraplate, perfect for rhythm guitar parts and allowing punchy delay lines to take from and center, or the almost angelic Cathedra mode, the Mercury 7 has proven itself to be a modern classic. It’s ability to handle wild pitch shifting and stacked delays without faltering is a testament to design and it’s usefulness in nearly any context surely solidifies it’s place on my board for the long run.

[@Glicksman1]

Of course, the Mercury 7 is divine and I will have one. However, just another word if I may. It’s so refreshing to hear someone playing music on the guitar and not just playing the guitar.

[@markjohnstonofficial]

Thats very kind of you, thanks.

[@badgenes123]

agreed

[@rhymeskill]

I agree. Man I’ve had it with the endless blues licks and showing off in demos.

[@richnewman]

The Ultraplate algo on the M7 is one of the best plate reverbs ever for recording vocals. Seriously. The only other pedal that I'd recommend as an alternative is the Catalinbread Talisman.

[@Gadrun]

Oh man, I love that you started doing reviews as well. Absolutely love the sounds you get out of these pedals. Cheers!

[@markjohnstonofficial]

DaveGadrun thanks so much, I’m glad you’re finding value in these types of videos here.

[@moomooclark7987]

he is really good could listen all night

[@expandingknowledge8269]

I'm not a guitar player, but your explanation and demo really was very well done! I just purchased this pedal for my synths! Great presentation my friend! 🎹 🎶 😎

[@masmachina803]

"dense, in all the right ways". NAILED IT.

[@jw112mail]

GREAT Review! Love how you described it. I also think more reviews should include critiques. It is important for users and the pedal developers to hear. I'm a reverb junkie and this is one of the best out there.

[@hotwheelz20072]

Hands down favorite pedal reviews are yours bro! Keep it up! I’d love an Avalanche Run by Earthquakes Devices review! Or some Chase Bliss Audio stuff!

[@barukpj6020]

One of the best guitar channel I ever seen!!! I'm subscribed and am brazilian

[@chargrove217]

So glad you mentioned running Thermae in front of it, I have a mercury7 on the way and I was wondering how they would work together. Thanks for a very helpful review!

[@neve1064]

Marris must be selling a lot of units as their website says “out of stock”. Good for them. Looking to pick up a pair of 500 series.

[@quintondeanmusic]

Wow that pairing with the Dark World is beautiful. I've been pairing it with my old Afterneath and it just makes those cascading delay lines even more massive.

[@colingentile]

Insanely beautiful ! Thank you so much !!

[@moomooclark7987]

im your newest fan you helped me out so much ...hope to learn much more from you real soon

[@mrblablablabla]

That last part was absolutely glorious!

[@aaronabubo]

Sick vid, bud. Makes me want a Mercury 7.

[@stevenwang3396]

Incredible, just sold me on this as my next reverb pedal. Looking forward to running this after my Walrus Audio Fathom

[@Banquet...]

I have this pedal for my synths and it's amazing, but damn I wish I could play guitar because she sounds so heavenly it hurts

[@VirginiaWolf88]

Very Very Nice Sounding!!! Thank You for sharing. I subscribed. Look forward to watching some of your other videos.

[@analognoir7398]

Holy shit. Best description ever!

[@wheresallthezombies]

Listening to this pedal made me feel like I was sleeping in a cloud

[@vibratrem]

great tones. thx for sharing, happy to know how the swell function works.

[@brendankoch3978]

So close to 1000

[@nogoogleplus]

Really dig your music and channel...keep it up and I'm sure you'll rack up the subscribers

[@asynchronicity]

Beautifully done. Is the pitch vector continuously variable or are you locked into specific intervals?

[@dflynn15]

Beautifully done! My only super minor, don't take this as a real criticism, but yeah, "idea" for the videos would be to outline where the knobs are at. It'll move the videos a little more into the "education" space which you may or may not want to go towards but I feel like everyone is drooling for. Plus, I know that just takes freaking more time and memory to write things down during playing 😭

[@markjohnstonofficial]

Daniel Flynn that’s a totally fair request. I’ve thought about it before but, weirdly, I play knob placement pretty fast and loose so I’m not sure how accurate of useful it would be.

[@Nrthrn]

Great review! I love your core tone too. I noticed you're using the GFI Cabzeus, is the Condor your preamp?

[@mpbenoit]

Brilliant

[@joshuabenton3785]

So this pedal sounds remarkable! I have some questions about the pedal. Can you set presets on this pedal and can it be controlled via MIDI controller? I see you have the MC6 on your board and was wondering if it can be controlled by something like that?

[@tomwind666]

There are up to 16 internal presets on this pedal, and yes they can be accessed via a MIDI controller. I personally use mine with a Disaster Area DMC-3XL Gen. 3

[@dewberry3043]

Can you suggest a good Shimmer setting on Mercury 7 ? I sold my Immerse because I plan to only have one reverb on my board. But cannot find the right mix and shimmering effect easily on the Mercury 7 compared when I owned the Immerse.

[@nathanricker1]

Excellent review man! Mines on the way! Very excited. Quick question. I’ve been wrecking my head over my pedal order as, coincidentally, I have a dark world on the way as well and also have an echosystem and a thermae. In terms of those four are you running the thermae into the dark world, then into the echosystem and lastly the mercury7. That’s what I was thinking I’d do. My only qualm might be running the dark world into the echosystem. Anyway. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

[@jasonmcgary]

Do you use the factory patches mostly or do you use your own settings?can you possibly share some of your settings?I have this pedal but I am having troubles dialing in settings.

[@markjohnstonofficial]

I don’t use any of the stock presets. My advice for dialing your sound is to set the “main” parameters as simple as possible (pretty much all knobs at noon with no modulation) and then spend time with each individual secondary parameter to find what you like.

[@jasonmcgary]

@@markjohnstonofficial thank you I really appreciate your response.i get a good sound from it just nothing like what you or other channels are pulling from it.i will try your advice I enjoy watching your videos your sound is amazing

[@sethmjcooney]

What pickups are in this guitar? Not usually a big humbucker person, but these sound full without getting muddy or lacking clarity.

[@dakotahrivers6640]

Hey man I’m really digging this vibe. What kind of guitar scale are you playing here? Just minor?

[@biolizard131]

Hey, weird question, what T shirt are you wearing?? Love it with the leather jacket and need one myself. Cheers

[@nafner]

Great pedal and great review!

[@markjohnstonofficial]

Correct 👍🏼

[@nafner]

@@markjohnstonofficial Cool! Such a great tone!

[@empathysgone96]

Wondering how it sounds with rhythm guitar. Haven’t heard any samples yet

[@seek4truth]

How do you compare this against tempus for ambient reverbs? Thanks

[@andeeee6050]

What else are you pairing it with at 8:08?? Great sound bro! Tone is amazing!

[@markjohnstonofficial]

That would be the Chase Bliss Audio Thermae

[@deankay800]

Spillover between presets?

[@marcinwieczorek485]

can you have the trail of previous reverb decay after turning the effect off?

[@marcinwieczorek485]

thanks for the awesome demo btw!:)

[@tendingtropic7778]

what guitar is that? beautiful

[@sandb1867]

Nice demo. People gush about the Mercury7 but I still don't hear any sonic advantage over my BigSky.

[@johnsonmonkeman5766]

it's the cost for me, mercury 7 is sub 300 rn

[@listentosilverfish]

It definitely sounds way more organic to me than the Big Sky. And I like the Big Sky

[@zachpelham4363]

If you could only pick one, Mercury 7 or Dark World?

[@francismcfadden3305]

I'm having the same debate lmao.

[@MrCowfood]

Simple, if you dont have a solid reverb or need that get the mercury, otherwise, darkworld as it is a coloring reverb, a lofi dark beast but lacking a stereo field. All depends on your needs and such.. Ideally get both. For me its darkworld as I have a gfi specular tempus to achieve the stereo field with subtle coloring from its algos.

[@jameshernandezzzz]

First?

[@markjohnstonofficial]

James Hernandez technically I was

[@jameshernandezzzz]

Mark Johnston 🥺😭😭😭😭 true 😩, enjoying the reviews, keep it up!