One of the more interesting points that Mayer makes concerns the (what he feels are) audible differences between digital and analog delays. In his otherwise flawed book on guitar effect pedals, Dave Hunter includes interviews with a number of notable pedal designers (Cornish, Vex, Fuller, at al.), one of them being Roger Mayer. Maybe not easily accessed, but I think they are there. He does tend to use the same Ibanez guitar for demos.Īnd I believe it does have user-saved presets. The near-exclusive focus on his fret hand, and long spidery fingers, tends to make almost everything he plays look studied, academic, precise, even though sonically there is lots of emotion. He might simply be someone on a retainer that they hand a pedal to now and then to demo, or he might be in touch with the product-development people along the way, and be able to get a jump-start on thinking about how it could be used. I have no idea what Bill's role in or during product development might be, given his close attachment to EHX. Of course, Andy is demoing any and every brand product that comes through Reverb, while Bill is concentrating only on EHX's, which I suppose gives him more time to study and think about their possibilities.
Andy's are more in the realm of "here's what it does", while Bill's are more "here's what it could do". I like Andy Martin's demos for Reverb, and they both make a point of selecting tunes that one might normally and optimally use the effects with, but Bill's demos often go just a bit further and combine one or more other pedals to get exotic effects.
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