Analog reverb pedal

[ciledehcysp]

Hey,

I fell in love with reverb on bass when I played through a friends guitar amp.
Now I'm looking for an analog reverb pedal that will sound great on bass and will not cut volume or low end.

I already tried the new digital versions of the Holy Grail (XO and nano) and I hated it. And I tried a friends T-Rex reverb which just came out. In the "modern" setting the sound was rich and full without stealing volume.

Are there any other Reverbs (preferably analog) you could recommend me?

I am generelly into a more vintage kind of sound btw.

Thanks
Marcia

[whoatherechunk]

malekko spring chicken, hermida reverb, there's quite a few.....jsut gotta search.

[bigchiefbc]

Actually, reverb pedals are all digital (including the T-Rex and Spring Chicken). I do not know of any way to make analog reverb, although you can simulate reverb with an analog delay pedal.

You could also go the actual spring-in-a-box route, such as the Little Lanilei or Reverb-a-mate.

[ciledehcysp]

Originally Posted by bigchiefbc

Actually, reverb pedals are all digital

Oh, my fault. Didnt know about that.

Thanks for your suggestions!

[gnasher1993]

I've heard glowing reviews of the Van Amps Sole-Mate .

[JanusZarate]

If you're not entirely biased against EHX, try their new Cathedral. It appears to be an incredibly versatile reverb pedal. Try the Boss RV-5 as well. The older Boss RV-3 is a great one to seek out as well (ISIS' bass player, Jeff Caxide, uses two of them for many of the songs on Wavering Radiant).

Don't count out the "mainstream" options until you've tried them.

Spring reverb tanks and their kin are fun, but if you accidentally kick the unit, you get some funny results.

[DiscoFreq]

There were a few BBD reverb pedals (Arion SRV? DOD FX45), but they're not very realistic.

Cheap spring reverb:
http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/monacor/rev25 (or related models, but the Monacor is on eBay from time to time and usually under $50).


But the best reverbs are digital

[Jared Lash]

Yep, all reverb pedals are digital except for the few that went the full spring route. Funny thing though - spring reverb sounds nothing like natural reverb. I love the sound of it (especially on dub guitars and drums) but it doesn't sound at all like reverberations from an actual room/hall etc.

And Boo, Mad Professor used to intentionally kick his reverb tank when he wanted to simulate thunder.

As for pedals, the Dr. Scientist Radical Red Reverberator is the best I've tried. Oh the less expensive side the T-Rex Tonebug (what I currently have) is very nice and the Malekko Spring Chicken sounds good from the clips I've heard.

Personally I like the Holy Grail's sound, but a guitar player in one of my bands has had two of them die on him so I've been wary of buying one myself. The Cathedral looks great though.

[fivestringgecko]

I’ll throw the Digitech Hardwire Reverb into the mix as well. Some nice modes/features at a nice price. I compared a few reverbs not too long ago (EHX Holy Grail Plus, Holy Grail Nano, Boss RV-5 and the Hardwire), and the Hardwire easily won. I liked the sound the best (it didn’t sound digital) and the controls/sounds/modes were all quite usable.

I wanted to check out the Dr. Scientist Reverberator, but I don’t use reverb enough to warrant paying almost double the price.

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5sg.

[Taylor Livingston]

It's not true that all non-spring reverb pedals are digital. As Discofreq notes, it's quite possible to make a BBD-based reverb, but all the ones I've heard are somewhat limp. It doesn't have to be that way - digital reverbs just use asynchronous delays with filtered and sometimes modulated feedback paths - all of which is totally doable in analog circuitry. Haven't seen this done, though.

The "pedal" spring reverbs, like Vanamps, Little Lanilei, and especially the Danelectro, use springs that are too short to sound "good" (though, for some, in the realm of springs, bad=good, so it's a question of philosophy). The Dano supplements its tiny springs with digital reverb anyway.

I'm a spring reverb fiend, having owned or at least played through about 15 different models. For clean-ish but still springy 'verb, it's all about the Tube Work RT-921. Stereo, 3-band eq (necessary if you're trying to avoid mud), 6 springs per channel.

For King Tubby-esque grimey splashy verb (my favorite) the greatest is the Premier 90. Both of the above are tube-driven. This is an important part of the grimey sound. Neither of these are pedal format, though.

Digital reverb can also be cool, but so far no hardware digital unit can do the spring sound like springs can. The reverb plugin in Native Instruments' B4 is close, though, if you're in the studio.

[shineofleo]

I am in the same situation and really interested in the EHX new Cathedral. But it is quite new and rare resource about it can be found on the internet.

[drboyd]

Here's the best sounding reverb you're gonna get for three times the price...

http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/...=243&Itemid=26

[Taylor Livingston]

That would be the same module as in the Spring Chicken and Lee Jackson Mr Springgy. Doesn't do it for me, but some people seem to like it.

[whoatherechunk]

whoooops. i dont know what i was thinking ha. sorry. i eed mroe sleep.

[crapusername]

try the marshall reflector if you can.
they are reasonably priced and sound great. so much versatility in one pedal!

[lousybassist]

I really like the Hardwire RV-7, and look forward to comparing it to the new Electro-Harmonix Cathedral once they're released - and then buy the one that suits me the best.

Apart from those, the T-Rex Tonebug reverb seems nice, and the EBS DynaVerb, which I have, is a good sounding pedal, though a bit too subtle for the experimentalist in me.

[René_Julien]

Originally Posted by bigchiefbc

Actually, reverb pedals are all digital (including the T-Rex and Spring Chicken). I do not know of any way to make analog reverb, although you can simulate reverb with an analog delay pedal.

You could also go the actual spring-in-a-box route, such as the Little Lanilei or Reverb-a-mate.

+1

Very short delay time, below 50ms and lots of feedback.

The Malleko delay pedals are awesome at this.

[Godbody]

If price is a factor, eveery Danelectro reverb-type pedal I've used are excellent for the money. I currently use this: http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/p...ELAID=26018614 and I think it's great. It's worth a try; you're only out a whopping $30, and I'm sure you could immediately flip it for $20. But you won't. Because it does, in fact, sound great.

[Bofee]

Not a pedal, but a good single rack space, tube driven, spring reverb unit is the Peavey Valverb. And you get tube tremolo, too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i9gaxDUV6g

[groooooove]

a while back i was looking for a sound like jaco on the "brian melvin" trio kinda thing. big warm reverb + jaco fretless.

i tried the EBS reverb and actually thought it was perfect. could not have sounded better.