Justin Delay, from Reverb, showing delay and reverb pedals... I'm confused....

Magic trick: if you raise your elbow and twist your shoulder while turning knobs the effect will be 10x

It is very true that using a reverb open-up the sound. My dad who's a sound engineer for over 40 years now, like to hard-pan a two-track from guitar or synth, with a different reverb on the right and a different one on the left, and a very subtle tremolo in the middle. This actually create a slight organic volume shift between both ears that mimics how sound organically reflects on the various surfaces of a room and how your left ear never pick it as 100% the same volume as your right as the sound comes first to one or the other. It really elevate a middle-based track or mix. A bit extreme on a summing bus but sounds damn fantastic on acoustic guitar and synth. Also my favorite reverb pedal is the Digitech Hardwire one. SO underrated. It got a Lexicon chip inside and switches with like, 32 positions :O Might not have the fanciest connectivity but, from a sound man perspective, it's the best I found.

Everything. Pair everything with everything. This is how it's been done and how it will always be 🤝

Love this guy. Knowledgeable, gives clear explanations, and his surname is actually Delay. What's not to like?

Always enjoy Justin's demos, not only are they informative; it's clear that he enjoys what he's doing. Keep up the great work, Justin!

When stacking effects I always love putting all the chorus and phasers after the reverb and delay. Since its modulating the reverb output you get huge beautiful sweeps.

Your approach is so warm and inviting. Reverb makes great videos. Thanks Justin!

I love and respect your passion man. Your understanding shines through the way you wave your hands while explaining them. AND you clearly see the music on a blank space.

Dude, I really like the way you are talking to us ! Not reading your script on the screen behind. Gold these days.

"well, right away, it's delay, you've heard it many many times..." HOLY PUN BEJESUS

20 pedals that pair well with tape loops and 4 track recorders

I killed my wah pedal with my keyboard but man that was the coolest sounding two minutes ever

This should be a series.

I Recommend the TC-electronic Hall of Fame 2! It just sounds amazing and has a lot of nice different colours in it. I instantly fell in love with the shimmer, church and Lofi reverb of it for my Synths (the other types are amazing to, I just don't use them that often).

gotta love the dude, his passion levels are so high

i never would have imagined a big muff sounding THAT badass on a synth

I could listen Justin all day, someone at Reverb please give him his own show!

love using the minilogue with eventide space

Thank you for making this video Justin and Reverb.

Wow, I learned a LOT from this one. Thanks, great post!

GREAT DEMO, love you comprehensive explanations and accompanying hand movements

11:28 awesome visual presentation of the delays, Delay :)

Great video, Great tips! My pedal chain, in order: 10 band eq -> distortion -> phaser -> chorus -> delay -> reverb. Like Justin mentioned in the start of the video, synths produce a LOT of unwanted low end, no matter what the sound is. Thus I recommend getting an EQ unit as the first unit in your chain, so you can kill a lot of the unwanted frequencies. EQ is also a great way to shape the sound in a very intuitive way. Generally I'd go as far as saying that a good FX-chain is as important as the actual synth, in terms of sound shaping. The next FX-pedal purchase(s) for me are most probably going to be a different distortion pedal and perhaps some filter-type of an effect.

Oh Justin...your facial expressions can lend themselves for so many memes 🤣 but we love u man. You know your stuff! I thought it was interesting that there was no mention of the zoom ms70 CDR which is one of the best pedals for synths. It actually does everything you mentioned in this video in one unit and it does it well. V2 of the firmware actually stepped up the pedals game by a lot. So maybe a “budget synth pedal” video soon where the CDR gets some love? Cheers!

Excellent and well articulated...Enjoyed it. Opened a whole world of possibilities for me........Off to the Test Bench !!!............

This was legit informative and interesting. Thanks Justin Delay and Reverb! The puns are too strong today New video from Reverb Just In about Reverbs and Synths

Great vid, Justy! 👌✨ I like using pedals with my outboard synths, too:) My fave is an Electro-Harmonix Tube Zipper. Great for tube distortion and funky wah-wah on basslines 😎 Another cool thing, for guitar sounds a la those on Jan Hammer's Miami Vice: put a long tail reverb on the synth + a heavy distortion AFTER the reverb. The tail then becomes a sound in itself 💫 Bonus points for putting another reverb after the distortion, so it has a space to exist in!

I just recently got an akai mini play and started messing with pedals yesterday. Sounds insane reversed through my Midiverb 2. Especially the drum pads.

Awesome video Justin and crew!

This is a really great video. Awesome job!

Good stuff. I played guitar for years and loved pedals. Starting to play with synth and this is an interesting reference.

Great insightful video as always. That pyramidz is looking excellent.

super well done - great help :) - I've been building up a pedal collection for my guitar, bass and keyboards, found new good ideas here

I totally agree, if you're going to use any effect on your synth, reverb is the best.

Great advise throughout, wonderful video

Really enjoy your stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Great tips on using reverb and delay with synths. Really helpful! I would add that for distortions and synths, the "sweet spot" is often "less" rather than more. You came in pretty hot with those guys!

Wow. I really needed this. A pedal video where I actually learn something : o Please make more inn depth videos about use of pedals with synths.

the ending is sick!!!! great job man!

I have a Monologue with a Polymoon and was disappointed to not see it included and then you recruited it into the sound orgy at the en - what a treat!

Wow. The best synth pedal tutorial I have ever seen in 30 years.

Really enjoyed this video,the presenter was great !!

I will consume every video you have ever, and will ever make with this guy. How are you not gonna make a delay/DeLay joke or comment though‽

This is seriously amazing.

justin always clear. simply the best!!

For what it's worth, I've had great experiences with a Boss TE-2 (echo/reverb hybrid weird squid thing) & a EH Small Stone phaser hooked up to both analog & digital synthesizers, various types & in various ways...

if you're plugging into a eurorack system the harvestman black locust gives you fx looping, and up to four effects pedals or inserts, level and wet dry controls. and it takes care of all the impedance and level issues via built in preamps, a great little peice of kit for mixing pedals with synths

Synthesizers + distortion = Retro-sounding NES/Sega-era video game

Very interestin and inspiring..thanks !!

Great video, thanks for sharing

I have had a tonne of fun with an Earthquaker Transmisser processing the sounds from a Korg Volca FM. Also string sounds from pretty much any keyboard or synth processed through an Electro Harmonix Mel 9 and then through an Earthquaker Transmisser next in the sequence sounds very fun too!

Great video. Any chance you could do a demo of mics going into pedals...not vocal pedals designed for that job, but guitar pedals....just to hear? Thanks man

Love this guys hang gestures

We used to run our snare drum through the line 6 with a volume pedal for gigs. Dub effects for days.

Really enjoyed the stereo on the phaser!!

Sequences/Patterns/Loops etc+FX=An arthritis sufferer's best friends. GFI Specular Reverb V3 is awesome with synth.

Really good video and info ....#36 Sigurros on the Eventide Space is a great pad reverb for backing keys when you want a long drone decay that just keeps evolving. You can simply crank the Mix knob at will and get a unique soaring reverb that's just as good as anything inside of Omnisphere that eeeeeeverybody is using these days.

Speaking of predelay, with my behringer XR16 (who was not intended as an effect kit went I bought it) I like to send signal to delay and send this delay to reverb. Lot of fun experimenting with long delay and big verb.

Justin, keep doing what you do. Informative, engaging and passionate best describe my perception of this presentation. Great job!

Really good video, dude.

Big Strymon Big Sky was the first Pedal for my Moog Sub37. A very good investment!!!

This dude cool af sweet review to show what's possible. I love it

When i watch this video i imagine that i’m in music/adventure movie and Justin’s character is tricky smuggler that can persuade anyone to purchase his music gear. I like when host is actually geeky , he can tell much more than those who just read the text from screen

Thanks--great video

You are crazy man. Cheers for that

Lol now I understand why musicians refer to the studio as “the lab” because a whole lot of experimenting is going on.

ive been running my drum machine thru the EQD Rainbow Machine lately, and ive been using the arpeggiator on my juno and running it thru the montreal assembly Count to 5 pedal

Fantastic!

Great and inspiring clip. I love how you also speak with your hands and gestures 😬 My favorite to get interesting stuff out of the synth are the Red Panda Particle and Tensor. They just fuck up the synth into a wonderful partly random glitch.. that’s delicious!

This man knows so much different gestures! I bet he's a good swimmer.

awesome video my friend.

Nice videp. I think that the Zoom MS 70 CDR multi Fx was worth a mention, its popular with Synth players, is very versetile, sounds good and only £70 .... I have 2 being used as FX sends on 2 different Synth sub mixers

Awesomeness!!!❤️

this guy rocks at presenting

Reverb pedals....Just like Heaven for anyone who makes and or listens to 1980s styled music...especially and more specifically Goth Post-Punk/Darkwave

That Plasma Pedal sounded hella industrial, so cool

It's like you read my mind making this video

I personally really needed this information. I learned a lot about the direction I've been wanting to go. Thank you

That RAT was nice!

Nice job Justin

Wow the HX Stomp is really cool! Had no idea it sounded solid on synths, will keep it in mind if I'm looking for a swiss army knife effect unit

LOVE THIS

This guy makes me laugh, I don't know why haha, but he should do this more often... You can feel his enthousiasm (I think)

Phaser? Jean Michel Jarre uses the Small Stone (70 Euro). Behringer made a clone, the VP1 (20 Euro). An emulation is also on the Zoom multistomp MS-70CDR.

You should do a pedal review for drum machines next!

For whatever reason I find this hilarious, but the best dirt pedal I found for the Minilogue is a klon-style overdrive (RYRA Klone). I don't like that style of drive on guitar but for whatever without synth it amazing

Thanks a lot!

Don't forget to connect your pedals to your mixing board,for even more delicious flavor.Configure your processors,in serial or parallel if they are applicable in there application.synthesizers really dig effects,especially if they are configured correctly.My absolute favorite connection from my synths,is into delay,then into reverb,these are analog for warmth,then to two multi effects processors,midi connected,so they are digital,right into my mixing board,which employs effects also.With the right amount of blending of signals from synths and processors,incredible textures can be created(Other-Worldly) comes to mind.I use a Roland 88 key RD-300,as my control board,love it.I also have a Korg dss-1 fully functional sampler,with 100 disks I have made myself.Also I have a Roland jv-90,love it,also a yamaha an1x,love the sequencer,also a M-Audio Venom,very sweet reacts well in all connections I have tried.Also have a Waldorf-Streichfett ,very atmospheric all by itself,but with effects WOW!Also have a dedicated FM module The Yamaha tx-81z,adds a nice harshness to the mix.Lastly I have a Korg wavestation A/D,very complex,also atmospheric textures.Anyway I have had much enjoyment from experimenting with these technology's since the 70's.One thing to remember with synths,analog as well as digital,is EFFECTS are key in sound sculpting,and of course knowledge of synthesis in general is necessary,so learn your synth my friends.

Nice one bud. Awesome overview for the time and has opened my own eyes quite a bit. I now understand more concerning phasers etc. I have an eventide featured here, an andoer delay which is very worth the price for its capability, an inspiring OS2 distortion but, I have something called a dub chamber which I suggest could give even more weight to your arsenal if you purchased one. I have yet to fully understand how best it can be used in conjunction with other pedals and boxes but, you have inspired me to have a go...........a point to note, I have the Korg Minilogue and while I quite enjoy it, it does seem to give off a signature that you can identify with as the minilogue. A pedal or two can rectify it. But which ones are best?

And now I want more pedals....damn you

FYI, G1Xon, has a pedal you can use as a pitch wheel, among other things. The G1on model doesn't have a pedal connected, but you can still use the knob for pitch bending, but it doesn't work nearly as well as the pedal.

I love & very much appreciate your enthusiasm and animation. You are a great explainer and hand-talker. Keep up the good work.

Righteous cardigan, Justin

I used to laugh at anyone who spent $300 or $400 or $500 on an effects processor for a synth. For a studio, sure, but just to run a synth through, nope, so many options just as good for far less $$$... Then I picked up a Fractal FX8 MKII, (which new cost almost as much as a couple of synths I've bought), and decided that I should just sit down and be quiet about this topic...

Please could we have more of these videos? I'd like regular in-depth demos of each pedal or pedals compared rather than just an overview.

Regarding pre delay: Do use it with some drums or sharp attack sounds like you described but also slap some compression on after. You’re welcome.

Best opening sentence ever. I am Justin DELAY from REVERB

I love reverb, Gimme analog spring or plate, tape or digital I love that wet sound, it’s just big on a good audio system, live or recorded. - An Audiophile.

Justin is quite a curious creature... I'm oddly fascinated by him.... I think its in a good way Anyway, thanks for clearing up the synth direct into pedals problem for me. Came for that... not sure why I stayed