So when ARE you going to make music for a video game? I'd buy that game and its soundtrack in a heartbeat

It's really strange to have someone say "This is my clean tone" and not play some cheesy blues lick. I never knew I needed this lol

Dead on accurate, that first sound on the first pedal was definitely reminiscent of Castlevania. I loved the second pedal too, seemed like you could do a full film score with just that one!

When you started playing Ravish on bass and Mel9's flute on treble, there was a large geeky part of me willing it to turn into King Crimson's "Moonchild."

Mellotron and Sitar are 2 of my all-time favorite sounds and what you did here is very lovely!

Hello Emily, Thank you for showing all of the pedals. I'm a guitarist that used 11 pedals back In the 80'. I still have my Mu-Tron Biphase and Pedal Flanger. I also have a Volume wah from Mu-Tron also. I'm using Ampero. it is fun but not what I really like doing. Over the years I have had health issues and had to get clean and sober. The 80' were rough lol. But after 26 years of being clean and sober. I need to get back to my sound groove. Thanks for being you. Still great nose. Peace and Love Jesse.

Im going to go broke watching this channel! Ive never been much of an effects guy, but the sitar and digital orchestra are amazing.

Such a big fan of the Ravish and Mel 9! I'm so glad you made a video with both of them! :) definitely brought some inspiration

Ravish sitar is awesome! The mel 9 sounds like ff7 thru and thru! Hit me right in the nostalgia. ❤Digital sounds have come so far its incredible. Thanks again guys for great stuff!!!

The Ravish Sitar pedal sounds sick!..Thank you Emily💯

The Mel9 is one of the coolest pedals i've ever seen

Beautiful stuff! I liked the blended sound of the mel9 with the harp in the jhs session even more than the full mellotron sound

That Mel9 sounds so good! Thanks for the good tones, as always. And rad septum piercing.

I love sitar it makes such a magical sound, I assume the namesake for it is the sitar player Ravi Shankar. sounds really cool. The Mel-9 i'm playing a rpg from the 90s right now with an orchestral/opera soundtrack and its literally just that. You could do so much with these pedals omg your giving me the urge to go and get some instrument and a bunch of pedals not even to play it properly but just to make a bunch of random noises. "I want to be cool! i want to sound like that!"

Sounds like some good, creepy horror film sound track music.

Love the cello setting on the Mel9 (It needs more rosin though)

So great. Love hearing these 2 pedals together like this! I love my Mel9 and use it all the time. It's such a cool, weird, kinda lo-fi effect. I have eyed the Ravish Sitar for years but could never pull the trigger. These demos are great, and I too am excited to see who wins the giveaway! :)

I'm a huge sucker for choir effects! There's something surreal about a harp producing all these different sounds. I know guitar people have been doing it for decades but hearing it come from a harp is something else. Harps have a very pleasant timbre to begin with so it's perfect for pedals. Reminds me of PS1 games growing up. Great job!!

Hey Emily Hopkins and Russ! I'm excited to hear what you can create with those awesome pedals! Ride ride ride!

At the four minute mark, I got some serious Blackstar Bowie vibes. It's so ethereal sounding but with a darkness approach.

Huge Mellotron fan have like 10 different VSTs for it haha The sitar pedal was dope too, I'd be all over that 1st setting. Very cool video!

Wow i absolutly need this pedal!! Thanks Emily

Sorry, but you are so freakin adorbs and talented and fun and the accent just pushes it over the top. EHX appreciates the shout out. Harp and pedals is the best channel since sliced bread. Now... if we can get a cellist to start in on the pedal game the world will be conquered! Congrats on hitting 100k+!!! Onward!

Always wondered about the ravish sitar! Sounds lit 🤟

Been looking EH key pedals for a while now. All have some settings that would definitely be useful, but also a lot I'd probably try once and never use again. The MEL9 probably the most useful overall, especially since I've been looking for something with that orchestra/pad sound that's not too "digital". Amazing how these guys have reproduced them so well!

This is pretty awesome. I actually have a stratocaster with a separate bass pickup with its own output jack. Like a dope I never thought of using my Mel9 with it. Welp here I go.

What else can I say about your weird musical trip? It's phenomenal! I love it! Keep on searching. As we say here in Argentina, a big hug to you girl! ❤️❤️❤️

You need the Electro Harmonix String 9, it’s amazing! I’ve wanted the Ravish for ages.

Fun video! I own both and they are great and brilliant pedals! I use them with synthesizers (usually modular) and also with percussion instruments (both tuned and non-tuned, usually only the Ravish on non-tuned). There is a new EHX pedal out called the STRING9 String Ensemble that you might like for harp processing, it's similar to the Mel9 but mainly just various string ensemble sounds.

That dope sound as you toed the switch perfectly matched to your joyful smile confirmed my decision to listen to this directly after Niladri Kumar.

RAVISHSITAR! At last! Nice to see you play around with these pedals, they're so cool and Different. There's a lot vintage game/vintage synth or string machine sounds happening here, and dare I say perfect for a chocobo ride in the desert. That JHS show was so fun, hope the corporate takeover's going okay. Thank you anonymous viewer, we

Great combo!

I more and more want to play a game scored by you. It would be really cool.

I miss my old Mel9. Glad you tried the Ravish.

I am convinced you should be making, with the harp and those two pedals, the soundtrack for the next '90s instalments of the Zeldas and the Castlevania metroidvanias. Because there *are* going to be more '90s instalments, right...?

I LOVE the mel9! It was actually the pedal that kicked off building an arsenal of pedals at tippy toes instead of just a digi delay and big muff. Love the snes final fantasy vibes and sounds sooo good with the ravish :)

Love the Beatlesish bass and drums on the Mellotron. 👏🏻

Some extra-intriguing pedals today. Guitar players know about the Coral Electric Sitar, made famous on lots of 70's era hit tunes in various genres. Most famous might be Steely Dan's "Do It Again", on which Denny Dias goes totally wild on the thing. The pedal seems to approach that tone at least. Sounds like fun for sure! The Mel9 is a pedal I've imagined but didn't know existed. My frame of reference is again old music from the 60s, specifically that wonderful "flute" sound on "Strawberry Fields Forever". I didn't hear that sound really but some of the settings definitely sound intriguing. Thanks Emily and Russ for doing what you do! Always fun, every time. Even though I have little interest in video games (I think my favorite is Little Inferno, in which you simply burn things and solve simple puzzles). And Doom, the old ones from the 90s. Ok, medium interest...

Ooh, i love the Sitar one, i might have to get one!

I learn so much about fx and sound manipulation from this channel.

Oh I didn't know you were on the JHS show, I'll have to check that out afterwards!

I have my Mel 9 on my acoustic board are use it with earthquaker Afterneath ultimate Reverb Pedal. absolutely epic sound!

Lovely experiment, that wonderful harp and guitar effects.. 👍👍👍 You’d definitely need to explore the electro harmonix “ attack decay” too (the previous version , not the new nano version) i think..

Great job Emily! I wish I had an event coming up that needed a Harp player, I would choose you! You are cool, and you play a mean Harp…I think. Honestly, I haven’t heard a lot of Harp players, but you sound like you know what you’re going. Someday, someday I’ll hire you. That is, as long as you travel to Connecticut.

Listening to your first clean sound on the video, for some reason it reminded me of Closer to the Heart by Rush... that might sound great as a harp cover!

I was looking at a few used Mel 9 pedals on Reverb. I'm going to leave it a while, I'm sure you're excellent video is going to cause a price spike. Keep up the great reviews.

Getting some clockwork orange vibes on that last clip, awesome

I've bought mel9 from this one guy. After I tried out the pedal and, of course, bought it, he told me he's a guitar teacher as well. So I've got a great pedal and found a cool teacher in one place 😎

I need all of these!

You are very experimental, cool!

I've got a Mel9, and I like to run it into an EQ pedal with the highs rolled off to help get rid of the "digital-ness."

Oh ohh I've always wanted one of those Danelectro Sitar guitars but I never thought I could justify buying one ... even though they are awesome! I can definitely justify the Ravish Sitar! 😁

Dang another banger!

It’s really interesting how differently these pedals respond to harp vs a guitar. There is so much more resonance on the harp the pedals don’t know how to process it and you get those real cool 16-bit tones.

That was a cool pedal!

"it sounds like Zelda if you get creepy with it." thats ... surprisingly observant!

The Mel9 is one of my favorite guitar pedals I own, I recently got a Synth9 and have been blending the two together with the effect & dry knobs with a light shimmer delay on top and getting some really cool sounds. I'd like to get the Ravish Sitar one day as well, it sounds awesome!

Intresting! Im pondering if the theremin also begin to be a sitar! 😎

Oooh. These are nice.

I finally found the video where you tried my favorite pedal (Mel9). I wonder if they will put out another that has the famous "3 Violins" or the "Watcher" mix (3 Violins combined with Brass, famously used in "Watcher Of The Skies" by Genesis).

I feel like you could orchestrate the coolest D&D background music in creation.

That Pedal sounds crazy

Very creative and quite unusual. Not what I would listen to sitting in my car... or on a bench. But maybe while jogging.

I have the Mel9 and I love it; but it strikes me as funny that the pedal is a *representation* of a Mellotron, which itself was a *representation* of other instruments (the ones on its tape loops). Kinda like how plate and spring reverbs became their own desirable sounds, independent of the real world reverberation they were meant to approximate.

That Mel 9 sounds very close to the Beyond the Black Rainbow soundtrack.

You are more awesome than you realize ;^)

the Ravish Sitar sounded way cool 😎 and also I think the harp player is super cute

The castlevania vibe is just **chef's kiss**

The ravish sitar pedal is amazing

Very dark . I've got the ravish and will try some settings on the custom banjo I was given. Since scoring a few reverb pedals I've left the ravish go stale for lack of inspiration. Thanks for second wiff.

The way the Mellotron and the Chamberlain worked is really amazing. There's a tape based drum machine too, I think it's called the Sideman.

The tracking on the Mel9 (considering your strings are not completely dead) has amazing tracking.

Emily Hopkins... I never subscribe to channels. You are fantastic and I had to subscribe. I want to support your channel. You're musical, experimental and fun. Everything a channel should be. I wish you the best of luck and maybe one day if I follow my dream of making a film, I would love for you to score it your harp and pedals. Take care and please never stop making videos.

Forget video game - Strawberry Fields Forever / I Am The Walrus are next on the playlist.

Ravish Sitar has an amazing sound......!!!

When the pedal was first turned on I got some "Shifting Sand Land" vibes.

You had me at Sitar.

very nice

That third preset was 80s Doctor Who.

It's interesting that Emily managed to get quite usable sounds from the Ravish Sitar. I tried it on my ukulele, and it did not sound that good. I thought it was because of the nylon strings, but I think I might have to revisit the pedal and do a deeper dive...

Reminds me of playing King’s Quest VI on a Packard Bell in 92 on windows 3.1. Just struck a chord for me 😌

Love the way your heads screwed on , Not quite straight, Love your work !

Nice

Excellent, some of which is very much like the atmospheric GTA 4 sounds. Clever littke kits with loads of possibilities. I love the SiFi sounds too. You're problably communicating with Aliens and don't even know it 🤣

Both were dope, but I really liked the Sitar pedal. I think the Sitar preset with less resonance was my fav. Just needed more pierogies!! #thirdmonitor #russloveswalrus

Unbelievable …. I have the Ravish Sitar, it really is an instrument in its own right. I route mine through an EHX Super Ego to get quite incredible meandering drones. Not to everyone’s taste, but the Ravish is unique.

The flute setting reminded me of some of the in game music from Final Fantasy 7.

the mel9 is super awesome and i ve had it for a while now, but do not play it that often, sadly will see if i can hunt down a ravish sitar :D

Great demo, those pedals gave some big -nostalgeeya,nosstalgee- they made me feel stuff😌❤️👍

Emily - speaking of video game sounds; one of my favorite retro soundtracks is the Sega Genesis’s Sonic 3 & Knuckles, which had compositional assistance from no other than Michael friggin’ Jackson, although ultimately uncredited. I have a 1980s Digital Guitar from Casio that replicates some tones from that - would you be able to find a pedal that encapsulates hallmarks of the Sonic 3&K soundtrack? It would make replication that much more easy on my Schecters, Fenders, etc. (Maybe I need to look at more synth related pedals?) Super interested. I love retro gaming and I play guitar/bass and have always wanted to merge the two. Love your work, girl!

@Emily_Hopkins i am wondering how you store all the pedals. Is there a room full of nothing but a great chaotic pile? Do you keep hem in your kitchen cabinets? In an elaborate filing system? In Tupperware bins? In a specially made Victorian solarium on the roof? In a box? With a fox? I gotta know.

Trippy.

The settings on 2:30 sound so much like the Longing OST 😮

Ravish Sitar - so much fun, thx for the demo! Wonder if you could mention which pedals are analog? & if you think digital vs analog makes a difference in general?

If you liked the Ravish sitar give try to the Source audio Multiwave 1 or 2, there is a version for bass and another for guitar

I have the Synth9 and the Key9. Love 'em. You gotta do another video with the sounds of these 2 pedals with the dry knob turned to 3 or maxed out. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaasssssssssssssssse!!! I'm curious if the sound is way more different than on a guitar with a full wet mix.

"Leaning into Old Cheesy RPG". You're right with the Old and Cheesy, but the sounds do not originate from RPGs. The mel9 sounds Old and Cheesy because it's emulating a Mellotron, one of the world's first samplers, which used strips of analogue tapes with prerecorded sounds, that made the resulting sounds so strange and vintage sounding and so unique/warbly/LoFi that they are still remembered and iconic on records by Prog, Metal and Rock bands to this day, for their disturbing and dark and quirky sounds that can't be replaced by a real orchestra, despite ot trying to sound like one. It became an instrument of its own. If anything, the sound of the tron reminds me of old cartoons and black and white films with their cinematic, but somewhat dark sounding strings, brass and other orchestral instruments. Ofc the most famous mellotron part was done for flute in Strawberry Field Forever by the Beatles, which at this point is so Overplayed it's becoming like Wonderwall for the mel9 pedal. That said Wonderwall also uses a mellotron sound. Whilst made in the 60s, the mellotron made a slow return in the 90s as bands began looking for these sounds again and the synthesis craze died down and sampling gained more prominence. Alongside the Britpop and Grunge, Industrial, Symphonic and Prog Metal became popular in the 90s and all relied on Mellotrons and Orchestral samples when real Orchestras weren't feasible, Bands like Opeth, NIN and later In Lingua Mortua, began using the samples of the tron in their works. Ofc trons are still pretty expensive and are a pain in the ass to handle and maintain and require decent keyboard skills to play. The Mel9 and other mellotron emulations have brought these sounds back again to the fingertips of guitarists and composers here and now in the present day. Very amazing and nostalgic sounds with a deep history that spans decades.

Ah the Buzzy Fret pedal! 💘

I use the two of these in conjunction -- the Mel 9 processes the harmonics from the Ravish Sitar. You can turn down the controls of the Ravish so that you only hear the original signal and the Mel 9 but it's fun to dial in jussssst enough of the New York Electro-Indian sound. Also, speaking as a four-stringed heathen, how much time do you spend tuning? Of course I'm jealous of a superior but dag, that looks like actual work.

Mellotron is fantastic! Did you try Streichfett? I mean, I only play drums, but I love old school sci-fi ambient sounds, so I know for that. Streichfett was used by Tangerine Dream, Vangelis and literally every artist and band from the end of the seventies and later.