How much verbs is too much verbs?

[hbombgraphics]

Yesterday I was throwing some pedals on a small board and just messing around and I ran My digitech Digiverb (set to reverse) into a Boss RV-5 and then into my blues Junior with the verb cranked.

The combination was somewhere between complete Mud and complete happiness, I run a boost RVB on my main Board and just got a Ghost Disaster. Anyone running multiple verbs? Any tips for eeking out a bit more clarity? EQ perhaps????


Just curious I recently discovered how good the RVB sounds going into high gain distortion and letting everything feed back and I imagine I have really been limiting the possibility of reverb to this point in my life and I am ashamed


I am sure there are more reverb threads started but who is the most verbiest?

[Achtane]

Too...much?

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

i've got 4 reverberators going on right now....it is absolutely amazing what they can do when u stack. the funny thing is i kinda bought my first reverb (tech 21) on a whim. now i gots 4 of em! oh lawd.

i've got the boost RVB as well as the digitech hardwire (mainly for gate and reverse), ehx holiest grail, and recently picked up a big box RRR.
they all sound different when they are alone, and i think the magic really starts, atleast for me, when u stack them together.
the holiest grail is probably the one i like the most, cuz it has a lot of tonal options, plus the 2 preset buttons, which i usually set to the same style reverb, one supper duper long, and one normal). it sounds just so dark and evil, yet blissful and angelic at the same time, really open sounding.
a reverse reverb in conjunction w/ other reverbs is really something to see(hear?)

usually ppl come over, we smoke, i play ambient shit w/ gobs of reverb. they smile and ask if i've eaten any acid since they've been over. win-win!

[hbombgraphics]

That's about how my night went minus the smoke:

I started pushing an old ibanez DL10 and an empress tap trem into the front the wash of sound was absolutely insane, planning on stringing all 4 verbs together tonight with some delay and the wave canon in havoc mode

[devnulljp]

If you ask GMD, any is too much.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3YNW2a-llg[/youtube]

[hbombgraphics]

Yeah GMD has so much hatred towards Verb,

I used to feel that way about reverb pedals the "What's the point of a reverb pedal? My amp has reverb"
But then you get a few and you get addicted, reverb pedals work so well with other gear.

[Gozu]

ok y'all got me interested in some verbyness.... suggestions? (on bass)

[mordecainyc]

I think the TC Electronics Nova Reverb is really excellent (at least on guitar) and kindof underrated. I don't play bass but I recently traded it away to a bass player and he seemed to like it as well.

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

That's about how my night went minus the smoke:

I started pushing an old ibanez DL10 and an empress tap trem into the front the wash of sound was absolutely insane, planning on stringing all 4 verbs together tonight with some delay and the wave canon in havoc mode

yea!!! delay and trem are really cool in the mix. vibe/rotary is also pretty bitchin. i really dig sandwiching my dirt between reverbs so i can pre/post the verb. i really really love reverb before the dirt/fuzz/od/whatever. the dirt just makes it sound soooooooooooo goood then drench it all over again

Yeah GMD has so much hatred towards Verb,

I used to feel that way about reverb pedals the "What's the point of a reverb pedal? My amp has reverb"
But then you get a few and you get addicted, reverb pedals work so well with other gear.

yea i was pretty much teh same way. i never thought my crappy amp reverb did anything to the sound, so i was always like "wtf i need reverb for?"
stupid me

[Ancient Astronaught]

it sounds just so dark and evil, yet blissful and angelic at the same time, really open sounding.
a reverse reverb in conjunction w/ other reverbs is really something to see(hear?)!

Hmmm that sounds like when i stack the dispatch master into the ghost disaster delay/reverb into delay/reverb is funderful!!!

usually ppl come over, we smoke, they smile and ask if i've eaten any acid since they've been over. then I smile!

fixed for how it goes with me!

[new05002]

verb and delay is were I am, got something in the works on it. I like how that sounds with discrete repeats into a space

[Rob Fossil]

ok y'all got me interested in some verbyness.... suggestions? (on bass)

The two reverbs that work best with bass are the Iron Ether Nimbus or the Strymon Blue Sky. Both have a filter/mix knob to compensate for the low end. EBS also has a bass reverb, but I don't really know how well it performs. I have heard great things about reverb on the EDQ Dispatch Master, but I'm not sure it works in a live setting on bass. The problem with reverb on bass is that a standard guitar reverb does not have the capabilities to handle the low end and your tone ends up sounding too muddy. I have tried a couple of reverbs in the past with good results at home and recording, but not so much in a band setting. My next purchase is going to be the IE Nimbus, I am really wanting to add reverb to my live board.

[Rygot]

Man up and buy a space.

...then put it next to your other verbs because you cant have too many.

[Gearmond]

too much reverb = sum total of all reverb pedals in existence + 1

[Fuzzy Picklez]

Man up and buy a space.

...then put it next to your other verbs because you cant have too many.

Yep.

You can never have too much reverb.