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all right guys how you doing it's Revere
I hope you're all good
so hopefully saw a video I did recently
on the mower preamp live pedal which I
was absolutely blown away by it's just
an awesome product you should check out
that video put it in the description box
well today we're also going to be
looking at another mower pedal and this
one is to be fair a really really
awesome useful tool that I'm sure many
of you will find incredibly useful
including myself we're looking at the
mower radar so what the radar is if you
can see on the close-up campus is tiny
little pedal is literally miniscule and
it's a it's a cab simulator in a pedal
and essentially how it works is you've
got 30 different cab models that are
both bass and guitar there are 11
different microphones to choose from and
there are four different power amp
simulators to choose from select el34
6l6 6v6 all that kind of stuff and then
you can also store up to 36 user presets
and that is if that wasn't enough then
you can also load your own impulse
responses on it which for me is really
awesome and that's what makes this for
me such a useful tool because I can take
this on tour and it takes on the road I
can do remote recordings with the same
eye as I use at home it's just I mean to
be fair it's the size of something you
can fit in your back pocket so I mean
I'm just already blown away by that and
that was already blown away before by
trying out the mirror preamp life if you
can also hook this up to your computer
there's a there's an interface that you
can download from the Mooers website
that helps you control load in and load
out all sorts of stuff like that
and finally there's a whole EQ section
you can choose between parametric or
graphic EQs and you can fine tune the EQ
to the enth degree by pinpointing
whatever frequency it is you want the Q
factor and then the boost or cut so the
signal chain you're gonna hear today is
my guitar going straight into the
victory v4 series crack and preamp pedal
straight out of that into the radar and
then out
the radar into my Universal Audio Apollo
8 P all captured and logic so let's
check it out okay so my signal chain is
going to be PRS straight into the crack
and v4 series preamp and then out of
that into the radar and as you can see
on the close-up cam we're going to start
I'm gonna go through a few different
cabs and then we'll try out the EQ and
then I'll load in my own impulse
response so you can hear how that sounds
but basically how it works is you can
see on the display here these three tabs
on the bottom say what's engaged on that
patch so we actually do have power amp
emulation already on we've got a cab
emulation on and we've got EQ all on so
at the minute this is like a 1 1 by 8
champion so it's like some sort of
little blues champion or whatever so if
I press it first thing that happens is
it gives me a master level of the IR and
then so that's cool because it depends
on what the signal is you can boost or
reduce the volume there but then if I
press and hold it we're gonna go into
the menu and it's really easy to
navigate
just the one knob essentially allows you
to scroll through and then when you want
to access that parameter you press it
down and then changes so so power amp
emulation we've currently got set to on
so this is what it sounds like on and if
I turn it off
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so of course I can also go ahead and
mess around with the tube saturation the
different presence and different output
levels and all that kind of stuff anyway
move across to next so this is my cab
area and as you can see here you've got
loads of different parameters like at
the type of cabinet the type of
microphone you want to use the volume of
it and then of course the distance so
like that's see edge means cone edge and
then distance is how far away from the
speak you actually are so let's just
have a quick listen so we'll start out
now
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so that sounds pretty good that's a
looks like a UA e7 so I'm going to do is
mess with the positions
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worth pointing out if you new to making
up a cab the closer to the center you
are the more brittle and harsh it's
going to be so when it when you're
adjusting this see edge what it means is
the higher the number the further away
from the center it is the less high-end
you're gonna have the less sort of high
frequencies you're gonna have
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it's pretty good and then distance
another thing that would with distance
depending on how far away you are from
the current in the real world
there's you're gonna capture more air
and more intense resonance and that kind
of thing the closer you are the more
direct and maybe alternately punchy it
might be so this is how it'll sound
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so I'm liking the way it's sounding
around sort of Ted for me that sounds
pretty decent but the only thing is that
for me it's still missing a little bit
of something so the beauty here is that
we can go ahead and start your cueing so
if we go to next now I can choose the
different types of EQ by clicking it and
then scrolling along as you can see for
me my favorite is parametric because I
can see exactly what I'm doing I know
the three I can pinpoint which frequency
I want boost I'll cut it and why not
narrow the Q factor so that's my
favorite but each to their own so let's
go ahead and have a little EQ so
everything set at forty Hertz but of
course you can click it down and it's
pretty easy to scroll right through into
the thousands but for this I'm gonna go
for something like I don't know what we
got might give a bit more low end so
let's say 180 go a long boost that a bit
actually it's made that lower that's
make like like 130 bit more rumbly and
I've boosted it I'm just gonna do this
reasonably quick so that we can get
through it but yeah that's widen the Q
factor bit more speaker sort of
resonance going on there I'm not gonna
use them all but let's now look at maybe
some high mids so like 1k six and where
are we yeah
1k six let's boost that
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sounds pretty good and now finally let's
go for something like five and a half
for a little bit more of that sort of
sparkle as it were
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cool and then once I've done all that I
can click Save and then I choose where I
want to save it I'm gonna save it over
and there we go now it's saved with all
those EQ settings set in stone
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it sounds great it's so small anyway
let's try some different caps
I think something as standard is they're
all gonna have power amp emulation
on which isn't necessarily a bad thing
because I'm using a preamp pedal so it's
going to color it a bit but sometimes
it's nicer just to hear it direct it
really depends on the sound you trying
to get sometimes the power amp emulation
can be a bit too strong so it really
depends but in any case you could run
this straight out of an effect send into
there so you could hear it from an
actual amp and then layer the cab over
the tops up to you anyway let's move on
sounding pretty phat
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it's telling me that I'm clipping on
output so I have to bring that down that
little arrow did you see that let's try
now
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cool sounds great
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so there are loads of different ones as
you can see on the closer we've got a AC
15 112 sounds pretty nice
sounds wicked it's just there we go Twin
Reverb try that
straight without power amp emulation on
so to turn off
that's really really good and you know
the thing is that of course it is really
easy to use and navigate with the only
one knob that's the cool thing it's just
straightforward and I should point out
that one of the most satisfying things
for me is the little color screen I mean
you know they didn't have to do that it
could have just been a normal LCD LED
screen or whatever but the fact they
went for a color screen it's so nice and
easy to see and easy to read so they're
definitely kudos for that anyway moving
on to try this one as base cab for 10
publishing use that for 12 this is a
1960s be like I guess like a Marshall
Capitol
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sounding wicked but I'm gonna get the
baritone out and play something a little
more filthy
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Oh sounds really really good
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scarily good
scarily good sounding that is fear
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sounds insane the cool thing is they're
actually with the power amp annulation
it gives you a bit more like intense low
end because that's without it doesn't
sound bad but it's very direct but when
you put it in suddenly it's got like
just a few
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it's not liking it in certain areas
right moving on
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cool rectifier okay German V I'm gonna
guess this is maybe like a diesel
awesome
sounds pretty good but let's go ahead
into the EQ section and see if we can
influence the sound a little more I'm
gonna take out some 1k because it's a
little bit a little bit harsh right
let's try that
so this is and then if we pull bit out
it sounded pretty good and then I'm
gonna get some one 100 Hertz for a
little bit of like Rumble just cars
and then finally let's throw in a bit
more of that sparkle around so five and
a half K H we'll go we'll just do six
why not why not this is a little bit too
high but you get the picture
and I just want to reiterate one thing
that again this is the tiny little
pocket-sized pedal that's carrying this
kind of quality of speaker impulses on
it because again I'm running a preamp
pedal into it you can run any preamp
pedal into it and you know if I'm
traveling and I want to record something
quick and I need something half decent I
can throw this and into the chain and
I've got my impulses on it with EQ and
all the rest of it it's a really really
good idea great technology in such a
small footprint I'm digging it anyway so
we're racing through
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anyway moving on base Oh God definitely
don't want to be using you know these
are all base cabs so now we're through
into the back end so this is 34 get
another German V let's try just mess
with this one see what the parent sounds
like
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sounding pretty good but again these are
all EQ able I'm getting the cool thing
as well just to jump back into some
conversation is when I'm landing on an
impulse I'm going oh you can just EQ
elements of that that aren't as great as
other elements from different cab let's
say one's really brittle I can just pull
out some of the high end or this one
sounds really good but needs a lot bit
more low-end just jump in and boost the
EQ and good to go
right so now we're onto an AC what is
this AC 32 12
it's got a 212 vibe about it it's a
little bit boxy but tighter in the
low-end
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so there you go there's a load of
different impulses that are built into
the radar and I've got a head and loaded
on my own impulse response on user
number 36 and it's a it's a MTR
capturing a V 30 speaker from a Messer
cab so this is what it sounds like and
this is just straight in with no power
amp saturation or anything and I can
obviously go ahead and EQ this depending
on how it sounds cuz normally I like to
blend impulse responses especially on
something like the torpedo studio where
it can load to in I like to blend them
together so I might use NTR ribbon with
a 57 or something but because you can
only do one right here I'm just going to
show you what it sounds like and we can
maybe EQ it and get it to sound a bit
nicer so this is how it sounds
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so I'm liking the way that that sounds
immediately it's kind of it needs more
brightness definitely a ribbon mic but
the best part is that I can jump in and
go ahead and mess with the EQ so what we
got parametric so let's just brighten it
up to start with I'm gonna go ahead jump
right up to I don't know
yeah around five let's just do that
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cool and then might need a little bit
more actually and then I'm going to go
ahead and find my high mids so like 1.5
2k area there's two 1.75 pretty good and
then I might want to pull out a little
bit of flubbing us so let's go round
here pull a little bit out
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and then finally I might want to add a
little bit of that low-end again so
let's just grab one 15 and then one last
thing I want to do is just
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sounds so good right let me just go
ahead and try mess around with the power
amp at least see what that has to offer
so let's try yellow 34
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6l6 sounding tasty that's a little bit
more presence what's cool is they're
almost both usable so this is without
who sounds sick and then with it on
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so there's a quick look at the mobile
radar I have to admit I'm completely
blown away with more in terms of the
quality of the products I've just
reviewed like I took a look at the pre
I'm live and now the radar and both of
them I'm genuinely genuinely impressed
not only are they affordable they're
small they're portable they're easy to
use they're really straightforward and
the quality seems great the sound
quality is great I don't really know
what if there is anything to say bad
about what I've just witnessed which is
too great quality products
yeah the MU of radar like being able to
take this on the road for recording
purposes in a last minute you know
situation and live atmosphere where for
some reason something's gone down and we
need to be able to do a line recording
of some sort or Ben needs a in-ear feed
I can take this and then he's got a feed
and it's just like yeah I don't know
that's how I'd use it on the road I
definitely see it coming with me on tour
just in case kind of thing and also from
traveling I'll probably put it in my bag
so that I can record stuff as well but
either this all the pre on live or both
to be honest because it's just so
portable and easy to use anyway I hope
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