breakdown wrote:Blood_mountain wrote:popvulture wrote:I love the RM1N but would stay away from it if you're looking for pretty.
One that could be an option, and probably something you could get for fairly cheap used, is an EQD Dispatch Master. I love mine—there's not a lot of tweakability, but it does big/pretty/atmospheric VERY well without adding any kind of dumb shimmer. Of course that last bit of disdain for over sparkliness just based on personal opinion, but all in all I'd say the DM does a great job of pretty without being fussy.
I do have an avalanche run but am actually selling it because I have the empress echosystem and reverb pedals and feel like I can do 99% of what the avalanche run is capable of with them. The one sound that I love that I haven’t got from the empress reverb is that dirty, overdrive reverb a la Meteore. The RM-1N seems to have a similar sound, but can go way more extreme. I’m maybe better off exploring other less expensive more accessible options.
Maybe a cheap dirt pedal after your empress?
Haha, that would be the easy answer hey? I don’t know, there is something about the sound of the drive on those pedals in particular that I quite like. I can’t say I’ve reeeaaally tried to replicate it tho. Maybe just a dirt pedal in the effects loop would work well.