Jwar wrote:Jack, just get a Ventris. It destroys almost everything on the market IMO. Of course, I've never owned a tank and am talking purely out of my ass here.
SA now has a standalone, stripped-down verb called True Spring. It has several customized lo-fi verbs like Trash Can, Mini Tank, and Triple Spring. I love lo-fi reverbs, but I couldn't be bothered to maintain and repair old units. That's why I use the Catalinbread Adineko or an Empress Reverb set to lo-fi (with fuzz running into it).
FF to about 1:44 to see/hear a quick walkthrough of the bonus spring algorithms.
The stuff in the SA True Spring is acceptable, don't get me wrong. I burned the algos into my Kingmaker (Yes, you can hack the thing to run ANY of the SA One series pedals, just one of them at a time) to test when it came out. For what I want, I already have it - so back to Mercury Flanger settings it went.
For spring, I got one before the price took off (and they were available new) so not necessarily going to recommend it unless you want an idiot-simple, bulletproof Fender outboard tank in a box - the Boss FRV-1. Other than the ability to kick it to get the springs to do stupid shit - which given how expensive the things are to fix, I wasn't prone to do anyway- I'll kick my Jazz Chorus for that, the FRV-1 sounds stupid good.
Don't get me wrong, the Ventris and True Spring aren't bad, but they're a hair too clean and don't have that murk.
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My pedalboard costs approximately 191 Metal Zones.
I made a post about it a few weeks back. It boils down to very simple: you open the firmware for whatever pedal you want yours in a text editor to become to match the actual hardware ID of your unit.
I only own one of their pedals (I want a second now, bottom feeding for ANY of the SA One series now).....so I'd like to have two so I can have one as a "permanent" unit, and a second to screw around with and swap (mostly so I don't have to keep restoring and restoring the patches too)....but it's lived as a Mercury Flanger (which does any of the mod effects) since I discovered you can do this.
It started life as the superior purple Kingmaker fuzz, which is a fine Swiss Army knife...but...the Mercury does stuff I don't have otherwise, so....
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My pedalboard costs approximately 191 Metal Zones.
Listened to some surf rock and now I'm jonesing for a reverb tank: https://jonnyangle.bandcamp.com/album/twelve-below-2
My Twin doesn't drip. It actually kind of sucks. I want to sell the amp rather than trying different tank, speakers, and tubes.
codetocontra wrote:Listened to some surf rock and now I'm jonesing for a reverb tank: https://jonnyangle.bandcamp.com/album/twelve-below-2
My Twin doesn't drip. It actually kind of sucks. I want to sell the amp rather than trying different tank, speakers, and tubes.
Yeah -- I fucking loved the verb and echo sounds jack is getting out of his gear in these tracks. I was a lot more into this than I thought I would be.