Delay deLVXe: 25 Unexpected Things you can do with a Meris LVX

Описание: On June 23rd, 2023, I bought a Meris LVX delay pedal, and went right to France to summer holidays with it. Basically a honeymoon ... the LVX is definitely my favourite pedal ever (and I bought my first pedal in 1986). So, most of the presets that you can hear in this video were programmed in a tent at the atlantic coast about an hour from Bordeaux. Welcome to a little no-talking demo :-)


00:00 - Pre-Credit (Anne Clark – Our Darkness)
00:29 - Intro: Granular delay
00:49 - Intro: Octave-pitched swells
01:04 - Intro: Empress Reverse Mode C style atmospheres
01:59 - Bucket brigade delay (The Police – Walking on the Moon)
02:43 - Digital delay (The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition)
03:02 - Tape delay (Billie Eilish – Lost Cause)
03:42 - Multitap delay (David Bowie – Let’s Dance)
04:01 - #1: Organ
04:22 - #2: Creating beats with the Multi Filter delay engine
04:44 - #3: Faux Bass (Daft Punk – Around the World)
04:56 - #4: Envelope Filter
05:08 - #5: Emulating a wah-wah pedal
05:30 - #6: Faux side-chain compression pad
06:02 - #7: Resonant low-pass DJ filter on the loop
06:24 - #8: Sequenced pitch-shifting melodies (J. S. Bach – Prelude in C)
06:41 - (Pink Floyd – On the Run)
07:16 - #9: LFO-controlled sample rate crushing
07:56 - #10: Reverb! (Jacob Collier – The Sun is in Your Eyes)
08:33 - (The Chantays – Pipeline)
08:42 - (The XX – ANGELS)
08:57 - #11: Whammy pedal (Kings of Leon – Closer)
09:25 - (Rage Against The Machine – Killing in the Name)
09:55 - #12: Auto-whammy a.k.a. Boss S-BEND (The Black Keys – Lonely Boy)
10:03 - #13: Actual analog tremolo
11:41 - #14: Leslie-style LFO ramping
11:56 - #15: Delay time sequencing like on the 80Tape Limbo ARP mode, or the CBA Thermae
13:11 - #16: POG-style polyphonic octaving
13:31 - #17: Autowah with reverb
13:44 - #18: Actual analog volume pedal (with digital reverb mixed in)
14:55 - #19: Touch wah (envelope filter) with tape delay, and tape slow-down effect
15:14 - #20: Diatonic harmonizer a.k.a. intelligent pitch shifting (Pink Floyd – In the Flesh)
15:59 - #21: Emulating analog and tube overdrive, with reverb
17:10 - #22: The LVX as multi effect: Compressor + chorus + EQ + delay (Nudes in the Pool – Brain)
18:06 - #23: Reverb-ish delay before overdrive
18:38 - #24: Resampling reverb tails into the LVX looper (featuring Pirate MIDI BRIDGE4)
19:12 - #25: Rhodes-ish e-piano tones from a guitar, with square-wave panning (Alicia Keys ft. Sampha – 3 Hour Drive)
20:02 - Outro

Several Meris LVX patches from this video are, or will be made, available for download on
https://patchstorage.com/author/thegu...


Disclaimer:
I’m not affiliated to Meris or any of their distributors, I paid full retail price for my LVX. This video is an independent production, nobody paid for it. Though I love my LVX and prefer it over my other flagship digital pedals (Strymon Timeline, HX Stomp and Eventide H9), the current LVX firmware version 1.1 still has quite some bugs and usability quirks, and still lacks some features that I would consider essential. Hope Meris will address those in future firmware releases.

Examples:
A. No undo/redo functionality on the looper.
B. No smoothing on looper punch in/out points, thus often clicking noises.
C. LFO timing is unstable.
D. No way to manually restart LFOs and sequencer.
E. You get a beautiful analog dry path, but you lose it as soon as you put the looper in the “Post Mix” position (Strymon solved this better on the Timeline).
F. [FIXED] You cannot un-sync the delay on individual presets from MIDI clock (like, on slapback echo or faux reverb presets which should always maintain a fixed delay time). EDIT: this was fixed in firmware 1.2.1
G. Envelope functionality is buggy; works well for envelope filter, but not for ducking delay/reverb trails.

But that is all fixable. I love the fact that the LVX allows so much more sound design flexibility than any other effects pedal that I know (except maybe the Empress ZOIA, which I haven’t held in my hands yet).


Gear used:
Meris LVX Modular Delay System
Roland EV-5 Expression pedal and Skinpimp Skinbender Mk. I fuzz
Reverend Club King 290 and 1973 Fender Stratocaster
Vintage Sound Amps VSA112 (a.k.a. Vintage 15), BF Princeton Reverb Clone with old 12" Jensen
Realtone JMI EF86, Vox AC15 clone with Celestion Blue
Sennheiser microphones
Elektron Analog RYTM mk. II (partially recorded through an IGS Volfram Limiter)
RME Fireface UC (indoor) and Babyface Pro (outdoor)
Cubase with FabFilter and IK Multimedia plug-ins
Canon 650D and Sony Alpha 7 III
Adobe Premiere Pro
My daughter’s skateboard


Thanks to ROOTS & ROUTES Cologne e. V. for lending me the cameras and the RME Babyface.


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