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Topic: TC Electronic hall of fame verb pedal

I accidentally deleted my original post and the one subsequent user reply that luckily I saw before it got erased.

The original post...Long story short: Bought a TC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb so I can add a touch of verb/ambience to my amp to make it a little more forgiving to play thru.  Read great reviews.  TC Electronics is very respected name so foresaw absolutely no problems....Well the pedal sucks up guitar tone and spits out a dull turd...ok thats extreme.  It has an extremely noticeable muffling affect on the treble of my tone.  Even when I pull all the knobs back and essentially remove the "effect" and go back and forth between OFF ON OFF ON etc  The difference is crazy.   So I am going to return it right now.  Just curious if anybody else ever noticed that and if so do you find a better alternative???


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To the Person who replied before I accidentally deleted the post, I saw your reply really quickly and I think you were asking if I had tried thru a FX Loop. 
Ans: NO, my amp doesn't have an FX Loop, but I really don't think that would help since it does it even without there actually being any reverb dialed in.  Its like its simply just a function of the signal path physically encountering the wiring/small circuit board/etc inside this pedal and as a result looses some tone.

Who knows might just be something wrong with my actual pedal or could be a really tiny unnoticeable affect on most peoples tone and for what ever reason my rig just happens to really accentuate that frequency range....Niner....I Don't know

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Re: TC Electronic hall of fame verb pedal

The trouble with pretty much any reverb in front of an amp is that, unless you keep it subtle, it will muffle out your tone..particularly the high end.  Even in the loop, when going for a deep reverb effect, you can still suffer some tone loss if you try and make it too rich.  Thats when its nice to have a dual amp setup so you can soak one in reverb and the other clean.  Electro Harmonix Cathedral reverb I believe is designed to sit in front of an amp.  I really like that pedal myself.

Having a reverb in front does give you an advantage since your tone doesn't blend right into the echo as long as you keep it subtle, so when you hit a note it stands out for a split second before the reverb washes the rest of it.  I'd play around with it a little bit and see if you can make it work and if not, by all means try something else.  I do like the

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Re: TC Electronic hall of fame verb pedal

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The trouble with pretty much any reverb in front of an amp is that, unless you keep it subtle, it will muffle out your tone..particularly the high end.  Even in the loop, when going for a deep reverb effect, you can still suffer some tone loss if you try and make it too rich.  Thats when its nice to have a dual amp setup so you can soak one in reverb and the other clean.  Electro Harmonix Cathedral reverb I believe is designed to sit in front of an amp.  I really like that pedal myself.

Having a reverb in front does give you an advantage since your tone doesn't blend right into the echo as long as you keep it subtle, so when you hit a note it stands out for a split second before the reverb washes the rest of it.  I'd play around with it a little bit and see if you can make it work and if not, by all means try something else.  I do like the

You're right about everything, but the reason the pedal is officially dead to me is because I'm not complaining about tonal issues associated with trying to go full bore church mode 12sec decay time or something crazy like that, all I ever wanted the pedal for was to be a slight supplement to to the natural reverb present in any given room and besides I could hear the tone drop off just as easily with no reverb actually dialed in i.e. Both decay and fx level knobs turned all the way off (which doesn't completely shut it off, it just makes it almost inaudibly faint) and it still dropped the highs equally as much as it would with an overly wet setting

It's not a big deal. I'm not mad at tc elec. or anything. The use of fx pedals is in no way an exact science. Some pedals just don't work well in certain rigs and work like magic with a different rig. Especially when trying to fit modulating time based fx pedals in front of an amp. that's why I didn't even bother trying out the pedal in the store before buying it because sounding ok in front of a fender deluxe on the floor in the shop doesn't mean it's going to work the same in my rig in a gig situation at gig volumes. So I'll return it and either try my luck with something else they might have in stock or use the dough to try one of several OD pedals I'm interested in. As far as reverb, I really wanna try that verb pedal by Hermida audio (manufacturer of the famous Zendrive OD) it's A really stripped down basic pedal. It has one knob (level knob) and that's it. The demo clips sound really good. IMO the demos I heard sounded better than the good tc hall of fame demos which the hall of fame sounded really good in due to the fact that they had the pedal properly hooked up between amp and guitar giving a really pure clean demo. Before I ever played the tc elec for the first time I A/B online demos of each and I thought the hermida sounded superior in terms of clarity. But unfortunately the website says "out of stock"   So if they ever get some more I'm def gonna pay the ridiculously low 100 dollar price and get one sent my way. I'll post if I get something new.

I'm in the process of getting some recording equipment to do gear demos with. I wish I was already set up for that cus I would have included a demo of the TC hall of fame molesting my tone

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Re: TC Electronic hall of fame verb pedal

Ok, gotcha.  Thats sucks the TC isn't really working well.  I too thought they made good stuff, but I've never tried anything from them.  Yeah sometimes the simple pedals with little or few knobs work the best for people.  I like to be able to adjust the decay and high end of my reverb based on where I'm at, but I think if you're just trying as you said "to supplement" the natural reverb in the room then maybe the Hermida would be a good choice.  I didn't know they made anything other than the Zendrive and it's multiple versions. I'd maybe look into the EHX holy grail or something similar, to see if that might work (some of them have just a single knob) since they are usually in stock most places online if you don't want to wait for a Hermida.

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Re: TC Electronic hall of fame verb pedal

I bought a Hall of Fame reverb recently and have been very pleased with it. I am using it in front of my tweed twin (at the end of a fairly big pedal board). I originally set the internal dip switches to true bypass mode and also noticed a fairly significant high-end drop off. I switched to the buffered mode and found that the guitar tone was almost entirely preserved. I wouldn't be too quick to give up on it...especially with the recent Toneprint App.

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Re: TC Electronic hall of fame verb pedal

it's astonishing that they can continue to sell this defective product.
put in a new 9 volt and its history in 15 minutes. once the power below 8 volts the on-off switch is useless as the reverb will not turn on. plug it into a power supply and it will function.
also the tone control is a useless knob just there to take up space.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy-fQ7MgP2k
apparently this is a problem that is evident with many of these TC hall of fame turds.
i couldn't be more disappointed.
pick up a Boss FRV 1 for a vastly superior product for less $
THE END for TC products for this old wise man.

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Re: TC Electronic hall of fame verb pedal

Never had a problem with mine…

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Re: TC Electronic hall of fame verb pedal

Neither do I. It works fine here.

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Re: TC Electronic hall of fame verb pedal

1-4-5guy wrote:

it's astonishing that they can continue to sell this defective product.
put in a new 9 volt and its history in 15 minutes. once the power below 8 volts the on-off switch is useless as the reverb will not turn on. plug it into a power supply and it will function.
also the tone control is a useless knob just there to take up space.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy-fQ7MgP2k
apparently this is a problem that is evident with many of these TC hall of fame turds.
i couldn't be more disappointed.
pick up a Boss FRV 1 for a vastly superior product for less $
THE END for TC products for this old wise man.

The Hall of Fame runs on about 100 mA of power as it's a digital pedal, if you use a battery with it, it will die pretty quickly. Not a fault of the the pedal just the nature of the beast, I wouldn't think anyone would use a battery with it nor do I think they should have clip for the battery in the first place. That said, mine works perfectly on a nice plate setting on all time, never had any problems with it, although I don't like the feel of the footswitch (The new Flashback X4 switches feel much better), it hasn't caused me any problems.

Cheers, Alex.

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Re: TC Electronic hall of fame verb pedal

yeah, mine works like a charm.  Actually no tone suckage whatsoever.  Then again I run two buffers along my signal chain.  I actually turn the tone way down on it as I find it bright.  I run mine in front of the amp btw, into an amp "notorious" for being pedal unfriendly...

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Re: TC Electronic hall of fame verb pedal

No Tone change here either with this pedal.  Tried various others, Hardwire etc, this is most transparent though
may depend on rig.
Tried it both in loop and front end..

Very please with this pedal