Meris MercuryX Modular Reverb System – Studio Reverbs in a pedal
Advanced reverb pedal with insane amounts of user control available
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The Meris MercuryX Modular Reverb System follows the same form factor as the LVX, but this time focuses on reverbs. Combining 8 studio reverbs and with plenty of control options available.
MercuryX
The Meris MercuryX combines 8 custom Meris reverb algorithms and incorporates them with what they describe as a modular system UI.
Designed and built in California, this is a very nice-looking premium reverb pedal. Those reverbs include Ultraplate, Cathedra, 78 Room, 78 Plate, 78 Hall, Spring, Prism, and Gravity.
Each is powered by an advanced ARM Processor at the heart of the pedal, which allows for lots of control and control options for these reverbs. If you like reverb, then this will be one to check out for sure.
Advanced ARM based Reverb effects
Signal Path
The premium analogue signal path uses a JFET input section and a 24-bit AD/DA w/32 bit floating point DSP should ensure great tone throughout and it has stereo input and output with separate jacks for each.
Plus, there are switchable Instrument or Synthesizer/Line levels available for both input/output headroom levels.
Users can also opt for either a True Bypass (Relay) or an Analog Buffered Bypass.
Modular Reverb System
User Interface
It uses an intuitive (dimmable) colour screen-based user interface for simple navigation of the reverb effects and their various options.
With controls on the front panel for Decay, PreDelay, Mix, Mod, and Preset/Pages encoder, plus two assignable controls and four footswitches.
It also has 99 preset locations arranged in 33 banks, plus a Favourite Preset Bank for the user’s three favourite presets.
Rear panel
Deep Modifier Section
The Deep Modifier Section is used to route control signals to processing parameters, making this more than your average reverb pedal. There is also an Independent Stereo Freeze alongside the reverb and a Gate Envelope Control for every reverb type.
Plus, various Processing Elements including 79 Chorus, Vibrato, Vowel Mod, Tremolo, Hazy Lo-Fi and more. The reverbs themselves also have Note Divisions for each side of the stereo Predelay.
Full-sized MIDI In and Out ports, plus an input for an external assignable expression pedal offer plenty of control options for users. Finally, there is a USB-C that is used for firmware updates.
Verdict
This could be a very creative tool and it has plenty of control options and parameters that can be tweaked via either MIDI or an expression pedal.
Much like the previous Meris LVX * delay this new MercuryX reverb could be a huge winner for a lot of musicians. It certainly, on paper, has a lot of options and the official demo below sounds promising.
MSRP – USD 599
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- Advanced ARM based Reverb effects: Meris
- Modular Reverb System: Meris
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