Topic: Reverb pedals

Hi,

I just bought a Marshall 6101 combo, with a Marshall powerbrake, it sounds great with my Sg, but the sound needs some "air", i think i need a reverb pedal or a delay.. any recommendations ? cause i dont know anything about pedals/brands etc....  Thanks

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Tons out there... poke around on youtube and harmony central. Here's a start anyway:

Main Stream: MXR Carbon Copy, Electro-Harmonix Cathedral

Boutique Analog: Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay, Analogman ARDX20 Delay or a Van Amps Reverb pedals

Digital: Strymon El Capistan Delay or Reverberator... of course Line 6 too

Hard Core: Fulltone Tape Echo or Dr Z Z-Verb

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havoc41 wrote:

Tons out there... poke around on youtube and harmony central. Here's a start anyway:

Main Stream: MXR Carbon Copy, Electro-Harmonix Cathedral

Boutique Analog: Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay, Analogman ARDX20 Delay or a Van Amps Reverb pedals

Digital: Strymon El Capistan Delay or Reverberator... of course Line 6 too

Hard Core: Fulltone Tape Echo or Dr Z Z-Verb


Wow , thanks havoc41, got some work to do then...

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havoc is right, there are a crap load of choices.  Its to the point where most of them are so similar, its not worth splitting hairs over..  Boss, Digitech are pretty good and wont empty your bank account.  If you want to go boutique, have at it..but most big names in the industry seem to have the same old standbys on there boards like boss, mxr etc..  Line 6 M9 is pretty good, and has a decent selection of delays and reverbs that are VERY useable.  I have one and really like it. -Seth

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Instead of reverb, I've been using a Boss Delay DD3 and have it always on... just "barely" wet to sort of mimic reverb.

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I have boss RV-5. Love it. I've had it a while but if I had to get a reverb pedal I'd probably get the hardwire RV-7. You could look into the line 6 M5. I have one and it is my swiss army knife pedal. Not so clever on my marshall numbers so not sure if that amp has a FX loop. You could run the M5 upfront or in the loop. Get 2 patches next to each other one with delay and one with reverb. Use reverb for general play and switch the patch to get delay for soloing. It also gives you 1 of just about every pedal you could want. I believe they have just dropped the price. My M5 is a octave pedal for my neil young pedal board and a phaser, rotary, tremolo, delay, octave fuzz, tube driver the list goes on. A great pedal that doesn;t take up too much room.

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Fuzzblues wrote:

I have boss RV-5. Love it. I've had it a while but if I had to get a reverb pedal I'd probably get the hardwire RV-7.

Not long after I got my Marshall Class 5, I went back to my favorite local gear store to pick up a 'verb pedal. Had fully intended to get the Hardwire, as I have a couple of their other pedals and like them very much. As it happened, the store had just replaced all the pedals in its Boss display, and put the old display units on sale. Picked up a basically mint RV-5 for $60, and have been very pleased. Hey, if it's good enough for Joe...  wink

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New Castle, DE

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I've got the T-Rex Room-Mate...nice Reverb... tube based.  Apparently the Room-Mate II is better but I have never tried it.

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I've danced around the boutique delay and reverb market for a while. I've had a Dr. Scientist Reverberator, Malekko Ekko 616 and Malekko Ekko LoFi 616, Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay, Boss RV-5 and DD-3, MXR Carbon Copy, Line 6 DL4, Ibanez AD9, and EHX Memory Man and Holy Grail. I ended up settling on the Boss RV-5 and MXR Carbon Copy, mainly because they held their own with the more expensive pedals. I kept the DD-3 for obvious reasons as it's from the 80's, and every now and then I swap it with the MXR for a brighter delay tone. For the most part though I think a solid analog delay and digital reverb will cover all your bases. The expensive "boutique" pedals really didn't justify their high prices when tested side-by-side with the "mainstream" effects. That being said, my choice of dirt pedals is an entirely different story!

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Amps: '88 JCM 800 w/ TV cab, Tone King Falcon
Effects: Fulltone Clyde, Monsterpiece Stud, EP Booster, Strymon El Capistan

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Thanks everyone for all the tips, sure got some checking out to do then. I am very pleased with al the responses, i am on the forum since yesterday and happy i subscribed! Thanks!!!........now of to the local music store....;-)

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Strymon Blue Sky is fantastic, but a little steep really.
I went for a TC Hall of Fame, it's actually really good, loads of different reverb types too.

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TC Hall of Fame is a really great reverb. It doesn't take up much room on the board and it has the Toneprints feature which is one of the coolest things I've seen in any pedal.

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Does anyone have any ideas of what settings Joe uses? Seen loads on all his other pedals but can never find much on the RV5.  I'm still experimenting with mine and curious to try other suggested settings.

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I've just grabbed a Malekko Chicklet...I will let you know how it goes in a few days!

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You'll not get any better than a RV-5 and DD3 in my books.  Certainly the DD3 is holding it's own in the 2nd hand pricing - as sought after as any of the newer models it seems.  I put the aforementioned FX through my amps series loop and then use a small amount of on-board reverb if using a 2nd amp.

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Re: Reverb pedals

mickieblue wrote:

Does anyone have any ideas of what settings Joe uses? Seen loads on all his other pedals but can never find much on the RV5.  I'm still experimenting with mine and curious to try other suggested settings.

If you watch some of the rig rundown videos, when he isolates the dumble style amps, (one that has reverb) it seems to be pretty well soaked in reverb.. And sort of bright, but not overkill.

My suggestion is if you're only using one amp, and going for a smooth, warmer tone I'd keep it dark sounding.  Not familiar with the boss reverbs, but if it has a tone control, roll off some of the high and keep the mix/output volume low but the decay long.  It won't jump out when you play a note or chord but with a longer decay, it will add some girth to your sound.  Then if you're using a delay, it won't compete in a bad way.  If you're going stereo, then do it like I said above.  Some old Black Sabbath recordings..and others too: if you pan your speaker to one side you hear a wash of reverb on the guitar to the point where its basically an entirely wet reverb signal.  Then the other side is dry.  Mixed together it sounds huge.

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Jimi_lp wrote:

I have been GASing for the Blue Sky for a few weeks now and don't know if I should pull the trigger or not.  I don't use crazy effects but the spring reverb on this is pretty great.  The SoleMate is an actual spring tank that sounds great but these are the same price.  It would be nice to have some other options for the heck of it even if you don't use them all of the time.   If I decide to save some money, I think EH Hall of Fame would be great!  I just played it last weekend and it sounded very useable.

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If you haven't purchased a D-lator, etc and need Reverb:

http://www.fuchsaudiotechnology.com/man … Manual.pdf