Which Reverb pedal do you use and why

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Which Reverb pedal do you use and why

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When I play though an amp that has reverb, that's the one I use.
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Earth Quaker Dispatch Master, reverb/delay. Because it is great sounding, and easy to use. I do not like the spring reverb in my Session 400. I do use the reverb/delay in the Katana Artist.
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Out of production Behringer DR400 re/delay. Because it sounds good to me.
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Zoom MS-50G. Because I have one and the reverb died in my NV400. I run it in the front panel effects loop. Sounds good.
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Depends on the instrument and genre. Overall my favorite is an original Fender ‘64 tank, then a Surfy Bear tank, as for a pedal on a small board a Source Audio True Spring Reverb. I like the “drippy” reverb effect, if you can get that you can get just about anything else out of your tank or pedal. I use all three for surf music to classic country.
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Neunaber Wet Reverb, becz it sounds good.
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.
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Post by Brett Lanier »

The end of my pedalboard is...
EHX Oceans 11-->
El capistan-->
Flint

This way I can easily switch between reverb into delay, or delay into reverb. Also, no matter what reverb pedal I use, I tend to get tired of the sound of it. Being able to switch between one or the other or blend the two keeps things interesting.
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Boss FRV-1
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Lexicon rack mount, almost all of them, because a) excellent and programmable verb/delay and b) with the exception of my Eventide H9 Max I dislike pedals and dealing with pedalboards
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NUX Atlantic reverb/delay. Cost effective, total control of all aspects.
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Wet reverb and sometimes the Source Audio Collider for more choices.
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Catalinbread Topanga. It's not as pricey as the SurfyBear, but still gives you that Fender stand alone spring reverb unit sound. I use it with psg and it goes into my Nashville 112. I'm particular about it as reverb is the only effect I use. I find when I bottom ou my volume pedal it goes into unpleasant transistory distortion. But that's the only caveat I've found with the Topanga.

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I use the Strymon Blue Sky reverb. It has a very deep and rich sound. Also, it is extremely variable and easily adjustable on the fly.
Highly recommend.

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My favorite is an older Zoom G3, I've tried about everything out there and I think the Zoom has the best reverb, chorus, and delay that I've ever used.
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Post by Gordon Hartin »

I mainly use the Strymon Flint, I find the 3 reverb year settings have enough variety for me, and also use the tremolo function on it for Organ Like effects.

I also have an older Nuenaber Wet Reverb that I like.

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TC Electronic Hall Of Fame. Detailed controls, pre-delay which allows the dry signal a split second before the reverb, programmable, downloadable other preferred reverbs.
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I'm using a lexicon mpx 110 with my evans preamp and I love it
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EH Holy Grail NANO

Small, sounds great (spring and hall), one knob.

It's all I need for bandstand playing with a country band.
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Post by Dale Rottacker »

Benado Steel Dream... I love being able to shape the Verb up to and including the Tone of it. And it adds a nice warmth.

I used the Lexicon MPX 1 for several years, and really liked it... it had a nice shimmer to it.

I'd also like to try the SourceAudio Collider which looks pretty interesting.
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I use this original Holy Grail with the old blackface Princeton. It sounds very authentic.

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I've been drooling over the Source Audio Collider for a couple of weeks now. Expensive, though. Has anyone tried it?

www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Collide ... verb-pedal
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Small footprint and its pretty darn good - NUX Atlantic- RVB and DELAY , one trick pony ! A real plus when attempting to downsize or take less gear to a gig.

I modified a small BOSS 3 space pedal board, it now holds 4 items


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Post by John Larson »

Walrus Audio Slo, it covers all the ambient bases that normal amp spring reverb doesn't.


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Tim Harr wrote:I use the Strymon Blue Sky reverb. It has a very deep and rich sound. Also, it is extremely variable and easily adjustable on the fly.
Highly recommend.

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Nice to know the zendrive is someone else's choice of od for steel :)
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