jomarie_de_metsenaere's Reviews

Swiss Army Knife Reverb

Best of bests. Nothing can beat this pedal. Not even a Strymon Bluesky. This is the farthest you will get in the Reverb Pedal League. Maybe you will find vintage gear that tops this sound (as it is a digital one). This, my friends, is one of the greatest I ever found. Will it help you live? Maybe not, there's too many options, I rather find myself using this in a studio or home recording situation. Rather than that, this is legendary.

Jimi Hendrix, Pearl Jam vibe

I got this one for 140 bucks from Facebook's Marketplace. The mode knob makes this vibe pedal stand out. The redlight vibe is my favourite: darker sound vibe that gets you really into that Band of Gypsys region. The yellow light vibe is more kind of John Frusciante or Eddie Vedder kind of style. It's far brighter and it almost sounds kinda phasery.

The wrong thing about this pedal is the 'marketing'. Everyone I met, claimed it was a phaser... It IS A VIBE, GUYS...

More of a vibe than a phaser imo. The phaser that's marked on here, quite sounds more of a flanger than a phaser itself...

So you got two dialing things on this pedal: Doppler (on this one i see intensity), but I got doppler and image.

Doppler makes your guitar go flange flange flange and the image, is yeah, the vibe sound for Hendrix stuff.

My first analog delay

I bought this one before, from Amazon, and I thought it was just 'ok'. After a while, I traded it for a prophet. Tbh, now 2 years later I got back to this pedal, and I really think it's never going to leave my pedalboard ever again. The sound is just tremendous. And it's got all you need in a analog delay.

My first amp at the moment

I use this one like: always. Really always. There is so much versatility to it. It's my beginner's amp, but I don't find quite my taste in other amps for the moment (cuz I didn't try others but the Boss Katana and Mesa Boogie) but the Boss Katana is like a superversion of this one I think, and the Mesa is well, too overpowered for the things I'mma doin', so that's that.

One of a Kind

As far as I'm concerned, a discontinued pedal with a high value. I mean high value as in: the tones it makes is out of this place. I luv me some fuzz, but this one is like a dazzle from a newfound monstrosity (in a good way).

Cuts through the mix like a MUST

So this RAT. The feeling 'Notorious' in a pedal. Yeah, you're right, this renowned pedal does what it needs to do as a parametric distortion pedal. Dial it in with a lot of filter? You got your subtle Overdrive tones, yeah right. Dial it in full distortion? There you go: distortion.. You max it out? Oh man, fuzz comes to visit your gig! I tell ya, this pedal is sooo versatile. In combination with my Hagstrom Condor switches, it makes the sounds I want from really sharp to really boomy. Really neat.

Cuts through the mix really gently

Tearing through the mix with ambient gentleness? This pedal is made for your piece of etherealizing a record in a meticulous second. A beautiful addition with 7 presets. Mine is foremost dialled to the Plate tone of the pedal. Clashing and crushing! Fab.

My first guitar

I bought this guitar for €550 at a pawn shop in Ghent. It has 6 tone switches. Three first ones, chooses your neck pickup, middle pickup and bridge pickup. This is followed up by two switches which make your tone very dark (kinda jazzy sound). The last one is quite a special one. It gives more (not sure), dimension to your tone. For this reason I always leave it on.