Best Stereo Reverb?: Meris Mercury X or Chase Bliss CXM 1978

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[Music] hey everybody how's it going we are here today to discuss the similarities and differences in the sounds between the brand new uh Maris Mercury X and the collaboration that Maris did with Chase Bliss called the cxm 1978 um the Mercury X has uh basically in alluding to the same algorithms uh in the room plate and Hall that the 1978 has um and this video I'm not going to go through all of the faders and knobs and and how unique or uh similar they are in every capacity but I did want to just come up with uh three different presets and show you guys what uh they sound like so um here we go we're going to start with the room uh the room pre uh algorith gthm on the cxm 1978 this is the configuration of all of the arcade buttons and Sliders you can see what there is and what there isn't so here we [Music] [Music] go [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] so you can see there's some similarities for sure on I mean in my from my ears the way that I'm hearing it sounds pretty darn close to being the same sound um and again we'll go over this another time on How Deep The Mercury X can get uh as compared to the 1978 but let's move on to the next one let's see we got um this is my bank green for let me come on there we go we got to hold that down to get to the next thing there we go so um let's listen to the cxm [Laughter] I can already tell you the mix is a little high on this one so let's kind of put [Music] it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so again some differences on that um but very very similar um I'm going to go ahead and resave the setting since I changed the mix knob just want to make sure that I got it right so um that you know we come back to it all right let's move to the next one shall we uh red two so let's change that preset to Red um let's hit that to jump back to zero red two so here we go let's try this [Music] okay [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] h [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] sorry there you can see there's some differences um and similarities sorry like the differences and similarities that are held within each of the algorithms that Maris made um the the first one being um the room algorithm the 78 room the second being the 78 plate and the third being the 78 Hall um and just for a point you know obviously every uh signal every effect in the chain is going to affect everything so I kept everything the same between all everything um each of the different presets uh that you heard so the guitar being used was a a gnl US S500 um was going into a 29 pedals Yuna uh that was engaged but otherwise there was nothing else going on in the signal um no overdrive no delay uh nothing and aside from some of the effects you see on screen that are there for de ation um they are not in the audio path at all so um I hope you enjoyed it uh if you want me to go deeper let me know I'm happy to um I may plan to anyway but um you know how it goes hit like hit subscribe make a comment uh let's have some fun together thanks everybody take care