Oh I did check out Boss reverb demos, and a bunch more that I didn't mention in the long post like Matthew Effects Astronomer/Cosmonaut, Foxgear Rainbow, EQD Transmisser and the Empress Reverb, but except for the Empress none of these piqued my interest as much as the Strymon Volante (and later the Zoia), and I felt like the Empress Reverb sounds were represented well enough in the Zoia.fcknoise wrote:Very nice rundown but I feel like if you were after a modulated reverb and nobody mentioned the mod setting on the RV-5. But zoia should be super cool for not only reverb but all kinds of stuff
What ultimately appealed most to me about the Zoia as opposed to the Strymon Volante/Empress Reverb is that, since all these options are digital anyway, it's a multifunctional €500+ pedal instead of a €400/500 pedal with only a few uses (reverb, delay, or both at the same time). From demos I gathered that Zoia has good-to-great sounding reverbs and delays, that you can tweak further because of it's modular nature, and also has very decent sounding phasers, flangers, etc., all sounds that I can use within this band, but probably not on more than one song, and this could theoretically save me from having to assemble a second large pedalboard counting over a dozen pedals that on average cost €200/300 or something each (as will the board itself and a power solution) while only getting used for 1 or 2 songs each.
