AlbertA
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I hate shimmer reverb
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deadpool_25
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I like Shimmer Reverb.
Unlike so many others, I can respect an opinion even when it's different from my own.
You're still wrong though
GuitarBilly74
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I don't hate it but I have zero use for it in my music.
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deadpool_25
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I could live with a tuner and delay.
ragingplatypi
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I’d shimmer the f**k out of that tuner.
david57strat
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To my ears, many shimmer delays and reverbs sound hokey/cheesy, and not very musical. They sound more like a gimmick of an effect that doesn't really serve the music in an enhancing way, other than to provide the sonic illusion (?) that you're in a larger, bigger-than-life space, playing multiple instruments.
There's nothing wrong with that, but I think some shimmer effects sound way better than others, as long as they're not over-dialed, and mixed in so they're merely an enhancement, rather than the main event - just like chorus.
It's easy to go to extremes with the effect, making it more distracting than musical.
Just my opinion - and you know what they say about opinions LOL
There's nothing wrong with that, but I think some shimmer effects sound way better than others, as long as they're not over-dialed, and mixed in so they're merely an enhancement, rather than the main event - just like chorus.
It's easy to go to extremes with the effect, making it more distracting than musical.
Just my opinion - and you know what they say about opinions LOL
AlbertA
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I didn’t like shimmer at all until I got the H90. They have a bunch of great anti-shimmers, which seemingly are just focused on down pitching and filtering. Shots fired at the P&W crowd by the Eventide devs with shimmer algo’s named Demons Call, Dark Angels, Hells Gate etc. 
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I've told you this before, but I was shot with an air rifle by crazy pikey farmers as a kid.
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My nickname for you.
Cactusprick
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shimmer reverb is bad as peanut butter slapped on a nice grilled juicy steak.
now shoot me
now shoot me
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Aww,
some of my best friends are - well - Satan.
Sascha Franck
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Well, while I love that, I think that all these companies should be eternally (hah!) grateful to the P&W community as there's likely no bigger market for whatever kinda big, lush, etc. delay/reverb devices.
Doesn't mean P&W doesn't suck balls, though.
On an interesting sidenote: I only learned something like P&W actually exists when the Strymon pedals got a bit more wellknown. All of a sudden tons of videos showed up, many of them being of the "Here's my "the lord is my anchor" playthrough and here's my big ass pedalboard with all the Timeline. Bigsky and Moebius stuff on it, you need them as well for the playthrough to work" kind.
So I wondered what P&W was all about and found out that it's really, really huge in the USA - and apart from a handful of folks, nobody in all Europe doesn't even know something like that exists.
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Huge number of smaller towns in the USA. Many have a few chain stores and a church which really is vital to much of the community in this age of dissengagement and loneliness. That church often uses some kind of a rock/pop worship band to support the singing of the congregation - rather than an organist playing just old school hymns. So for many, being in a band at church is the number one opportunity to play in a band and that gig can be ongoing decades for some. These churches can scale up to 20,000 seat mega-church auditoriums near the major population centres and many have all the sound reinforcement stuff required to rock the house.
Huge number of smaller towns in the USA. Many have a few chain stores and a church which really is vital to much of the community in this age of dissengagement and loneliness. That church often uses some kind of a rock/pop worship band to support the singing of the congregation - rather than an organist playing just old school hymns. So for many, being in a band at church is the number one opportunity to play in a band and that gig can be ongoing decades for some. These churches can scale up to 20,000 seat mega-church auditoriums near the major population centres and many have all the sound reinforcement stuff required to rock the house.
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I had the same revelation (hah!). It seemed like a very foreign concept for me. Christian church is absolutely the most boring damn thing over here.
I was in New York in 2009 and walking at the edge of Harlem, started hearing music and decided to check where it was coming from. It was a little gospel church and the music was grooving, people were dancing etc. If I was religious, I'd go for that kind of thing.
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Yeah well, Gospel stuff has been what I knew about american church music (I've even played in a band for some Gospel workshops over here), I'm also aware of some killer musicians coming out of that scene (Cory Henry anyone?) but P&W was completely new to me when I found out about it - and it's been a very big thing already.
And yeah, @Antipodes - I'm buy now pretty aware of that. It's kinda like the evangelican, protestant equivalent of Gospel, from all I know. But really, I was really astonished when I found out it was that big of a thing.
Personally, I'd still choose Gospel over P&W any day.
Gospel stuff can be quite amazing - lots of rhythmic figures and other musical aspects from that genre has found its way into more mainstream stuff and lots motown and soul vocal styles rest pretty heavily on gospel music. The Blues Brothers goes out of its way to make the heritage clear.
