Meris Aims To Shake Up The Ambient Reverb Pedal Market With Its Mercuryx Modular Reverb System

Meris is asking its new MercuryX essentially the most versatile and and robust reverb in a pedal structure, and from one of the most brains who have been taken with Line 6 and Strymon, that more or less communicate carries the load of popularity.

It boasts 8 customized reverb alogorithms and combines the ones with the impressively complicated  LVX structure we noticed on Meris’s Modular Extend Device.  

The controls are reinforced by means of Meris’s shocking menu display screen graphics, with parameters that may be managed by means of the C1 and C2 knobs underneath. This turns into the gateway to deep-dive modifying along with your reverb sounds, along with scrolling thru presets and your personal favorite sounds with the C3 keep watch over to the correct of the display screen.

The important thing to the MercuryX Reverb’s energy appears to be how a lot you’ll customize each and every various set of rules’s ‘construction’ thru modular results, together with preamps, filters, pitch-shifting and modulation. There is pre-delay time and comments modifying too which begins to blur the traces between reverb and put off. It is an ambient tweaker’s dream gadget and the demo above sounds lovely impressive. 

Because the follow-up to Meris’s acclaimed Mercury 7 there may be are acquainted Ultraplate and Catherdra algorithms, however there may be six others too, together with 3 from the sector’s costliest reverb pedal, the Chase Bliss x Meris collaboration CXM 1978.

It no doubt feels like a house recording and bed room fiddlers’ paradise from those demos, moderately than the common gigging participant’s workhorse reverb pedal. However we might guess the marketplace for the previous staff is a long way larger, and this might be some severe pageant for the likes of the Strymon BigSky. 

The MercuryX is $599 and to be had now at Meris