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Meris Mercury X (hardware reverb pedal)

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vitocorleone123

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EDIT: meant to post this in Gear Talk

I'm soon receiving a Mercury X as a gift to replace my Mercury 7, which was also a gift (I do so love my wife).

As a virtual and hardware synth person, I plan to spend a fair bit of time with it - and definitely be using the MIDI mapping in Studio One so I don't always have to stand up/lean and reach for it. I have my Meris Polymoon and Mercury 7 on a send FX, and will do the same with the X, with the Polymoon before it.

It's "limited" to 48K and stereo, so it won't replace anyone's surround reverb, though I don't use surround, myself.

I'll also try it out with my few sample libraries, mostly from Audio Imperia when it comes to orchestral or related.

It is not designed for realism, though I'm curious if it can sound real (I'll compare vs. Cinematic Rooms Pro, my current favorite reverb). I suspect I'll end up deleting several of my reverb plugins - not CRP! - over the coming weeks.

I don't do videos, but I'll post sound samples.

In the mean time, here's a couple of my favorite YT videos that show it off with synths (and more).





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It's now all set up and MIDI mapped, etc.

It's incredible and is a genuine studio reverb tool.

The only thing I don't like is that it can't ignore MIDI clock and that sets the predelay, which makes it sound weird. I had to set it up on its own MIDI port on my MioXM and not send clock to it.

Finally trying it out with my OB-6 (first). Haven't made it past Preset 19 yet ("Gothic Hall").
 
Congrats on both the awesome wife and the Mercury X :)

I have one too, along with the LVX and a H90 on my big pedal board. If I could have just one of those three it’d be the Mercury X no contest. Meris knocked it out of the park.

I don't have my setup configured for processing PC audio with the pedal board. I’m interested to hear how you like it compared to in the box options.
 
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Congrats on both the awesome wife and the Mercury X :)

I have one too, along with the LVX and a H90 on my big pedal board. If I could have just one of those three it’d be the Mercury X no contest. Meris knocked it out of the park.

I don't have my setup configured for processing PC audio with the pedal board. I’m interested to hear how you like it compared to in the box options.
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Thanks! 20+ years together.

It needs an editor program like the other Meris pedals have. Hope someone makes one!

I use Studio One, and I mapped all the dials to all the features via MIDI CC, but you have to change presets on the hardware, and you cannot tell what all the parameters do without looking at the hardware. I'll need to create some favorites to use the buttons to switch between (eg room, chamber, hall and then some weird ones on the other bank of 3).

I wish I could have it in front of me - I need to stand to really use it. Suppose that's not a bad thing to get me standing more. Ha.

So far I've deleted some reverbs I rarely use: Valhalla Vintage Verb, Symphony 3D, and Seventh Heave Pro. HD Cart will probably also go.
 
I'm not good at random demos. Here's a short sample of my OB-6 with and without the MercuryX (modified preset - very large/cavern).

Side note: I like dark reverbs so always change settings to make them darker. This can be very bright, too.
 

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A rather large space for a synth, very wet.

And then very dirty (note: big volume difference) - yes, this reverb pedal can be used as a digital fuzzbox and bitcrusher, though the total flexibility within each is limited.

It's going to take me at least a year to learn the ins and outs of the Mercury X.
 

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Roomy marimba, dry then 50% wet. Dialing it down to about 25% wet is pretty subtle on this one I created from scratch. Just didn't want to leave it weird after the two above :)
 

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While I had hints (see above), what I didn't understand until today is that the Mercury X is far more than "just" a reverb pedal.

I just created a preset that combines chorus (dry+wet), delay (wet), saturation (tube), filter (wet, gentle sweep), micropitching (feedback+wet), a gentle 3:1 compressor, and even one of the modulators gently sweeping the chorus depth.

The pedal COULD be used as just a chorus, just a delay, just a compressor, just a tremolo, just a vibrato, just an xyz... It can do all those and more, but that'd be a waste! It's pretty basic overall on each of those, but you can combine so many things and then also assign 2 LFOs, a sample and hold, a pedal button and a step sequencer to pretty much anything.

I called it "summery" because it has that vibe to it. Just noticed I misspelled it on the sample - oops!! This example goes from 100% dry to 50% wet. No other effects except the Mercury X. The 50% wet is a bit louder - I can fix that in my preset I saved.
 

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