Ocean Machine Pedal Stompbox Review
Ocean Machine – For more than 25 years, Devin Townsend has graced the world of progressive rock/metal music. Not only famous as a guitarist, but his singing skills also made virtuoso Steve Vai hook Devin Townsend to fill the entire vocals of his fifth album Sex and Religion (1993).
From my point of view, after Townsend provided vocals for the album, there was an exchange of energy between him and Steve Vai. After they “collaborated” to work on the album, it was as if Townsend’s guitar playing was heavily influenced by Vai, and vice versa.
I saw on their next albums how Vai sings a lot using Townsend-style vocals. On the other hand, his guitar playing uses a lot of Vai-style phrasing. Of the several sounds produced by this Canadian musician, the use of echo, reverb, and delay with a very rich, classy sound is dominant.
In an interview, Townsend said that his background on this pedal is that of the 30 albums he has produced, he uses a lot of echo, reverb, and delay. The use of echo and delay are used in the initial process of making a work. However, this uses a lot of tools in it, for example when creating the work he uses at least two delay effects and one echo pedal, which are sequentially starting from delay to echo to the next delay.
This becomes a problem when he’s performing in a very small venue, or at a family event which of course requires a lot of cables and a few other devices. In the end, he worked out how the sound echo or delay he wanted could be played on one pedal. Although it was initially estimated that the research and production costs of the instrument would cost a lot of money, in the end, one of the manufacturers of musical instruments/instruments that are very well known among guitarists realized Townsend’s expensive dream.
Audio brand Mooer accepted Devin Townsend’s offer to collaborate on a signature effect called Ocean Machine. Prior to using this product, I was a firm believer that this was a very interesting effects pedal for a guitarist to own. I’m sure you guys don’t need to bother and think a lot because this product is indeed something really brilliant, and the fun starts when we activate it.
First Impression
Mooer as a producer usually makes small effects, this time they made larger dimensions than usual. Dimensions of 8” X 5” X 1.5” dimensions that are not small are not the identity of Mooer’s products, but Ocean Machine has proven to be very efficient.
The first impression of this effects pedal is its very modern and eye-catching design as if we can see the character of a Devin. A large number of knobs lure us to always play and explore. The blue design, black knobs, and LCD screen in the middle will really be very eye-catching when placed on a floorboard when paired with other effects pedals.
Deep See Digital
The two basic things this product uses are two separate delays, one reverb, and a looper. We can get 17 types of delay, 9 types of reverb, and record for loop process for 60 seconds.
Ocean Machine has two models, namely Pay and Patch. In Play mode, the setting of the knob will reflect what we are hearing just like a regular analog pedal. While in Patch mode, we can save and recall the presets that we have created. All 24 effect combinations and all presets will be sent into one footswitch. Another advantage, we can still tweak the settings while playing in the Patch. Don’t worry when we operate in Patch mode, because the LCD pedal will provide a lot of information about what is currently operating.
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Conclusion
The basic idea of this pedal is that we can create atmospheric ambiance sounds simply, and only by randomly playing all the currently active buttons.
This provides many solutions because we can create many opportunities to play very rich sounds with just one small instrument anywhere. This will have an impact on efficiency when we play and create work.
This pedal also has a very helpful practical function: we can create several mood-supporting sound atmospheres as we practice playing melodic notes.
The cleverness of Ocean Machine is a great legacy from a Devin Townsend that will make us play without having to think.
