NEW Reverbs from the Dr.!!!

[Blurillaz]

P.S. I call the prototype or Radical Big Berator #1

kk - dibs on mini berator prototype or #1

I get #2 :D


wait wut

[oinkbanana]

Hey ob, I'm sorry but no.. this bigberator will be months and months away still. I have a lot of conflicting ideas and directions for this sucker and I think the miniberators will be our only reverb offering for quite some time.. at least the next fewish months.

Sorry for the disappointing news!

how ever long it takes. no disappointment. just eagerness
but i'm a patient man!

P.S. I call the prototype or Radical Big Berator #1

kk - dibs on mini berator prototype or #1

yo gyz
i was calling dibs on the BBB!
get in line.

[Blurillaz]

yo gyz
i was calling dibs on the BBB!
get in line.

I have more Scientists than you so I get to trump your dibs.
actually I don't know about that, but I did come up with the name Bigberator...

[Blitzraptor007]

Any updates on the miniberator?

[Ryan]

Hey Blitzy, we're finally on the final stage of the process now... the screen printer has the boxes and we're just waiting for them to get set up and paint us up a first article. Hopefully within the next week or so we'll have the first batch ready to be built, I'm all set with everything else.

As soon as we get the boxes back and I make the first one I'll post here to show you guys!

[jrmy]

Hey Blitzy, we're finally on the final stage of the process now... the screen printer has the boxes and we're just waiting for them to get set up and paint us up a first article. Hopefully within the next week or so we'll have the first batch ready to be built, I'm all set with everything else.

As soon as we get the boxes back and I make the first one I'll post here to show you guys!

Excellent!

One question: I know that you probably want to wait on having a big reveal, but I was wondering if the miniberators will have a master volume. I've been noticing that a lot of reverbs out there don't, and I personally need a reverb boost on a couple of songs that my band plays. At the moment, it's the one thing keeping my EHX Holy Stain on my board...

[Ryan]

Hey Jeremy! The minis are exactly the same as the regular version of the RRR, there's no functional difference at all between them, so no, there's no master volume on them. The level control starts at unity and only goes up from there to a boost of about +15-20dB. This is how RRRs have always been and something that so many people have commented on liking over the years that I didn't want to change a thing about it.

[Nychthemeron]

Any chance of showing us what the graphics will be? It wouldn't be a Dr. Scientist pedal without something spacey.

[Ryan]

Nychy, I would flippin' LOVE to be able to show you what the first batch of minis is going to look like! We just received word today though that the progress with the screen printing isn't really progressing as much as we'd hoped... I think we're very close to seeing a first article but I couldn't say if it will be this week or next week or what and it's stressing us out bigtime.

The first ones aren't going to look too spacey though I don't think.. they're black and green and really neat but they look more fun and wacky than spacey, I'd say. The next 125 might have a laser grid finish though, like the very first RRRs did... I've been pushing for that... and we'll definitely do something spacey in the not too distant future. We get the drilled boxes shipped to us in batches of 125 so we plan on doing a different finish for every batch we receive. Keeps it exciting for us and I think people expect our pedals to have different looks pretty frequently.

I'll definitely keep you posted!

[oinkbanana]

wow!
I'm really happy to read that the miniRRR's are going to be the same as the discontinued RRR's, just smaller box.
i was worried that there would be less features, less reverb, less mojo.

glad i'm not gonna have missed the boat on a great pedal.




first batch is going to analoghaven? shawn is the best!

[Ryan]

You betcha, Kevin! We didn't want to make a single change about the RRR, we just knew we had to find a way to make it more available. It's not really reasonable for us to teach somebody else how to do Tanya's particular style of finishing, she's like a one of a kind artisan with the vinyl work and it ain't easy at all to do. So we decided to change how we finish them but still keep them very Dr. Scientisty looking.

Same with the builds.. we could have trained a person to populate pcbs but that's just a waste of a human being, so we have a place in Ontario make them for us and they made them very well. Then I can still hand assemble them all and properly check them out like I like to do.

That frees up the time spent for Tanya doing the finish and the time spent by me on the pcb and voila, we can get more Reverberators out there without changing any of the things we think are important. (awesome looking, top notch components and hardware, hand built and tested by the designer)

And it also will hopefully give me time to get into the software side of the reverb patches and have some new tricks ready for the full size version later this year.

I'm pretty sure the first batches will be going to Analogue Haven, Music Toyz, and the Acoustic Music Shop here in Edmonton, but yeah, you said it.. Shawn is awesome! Couple more weeks to go barring any more finishing surprises! *knocks on wood a thousand times*

[Blitzraptor007]

[jrmy]

Hey Jeremy! The minis are exactly the same as the regular version of the RRR, there's no functional difference at all between them, so no, there's no master volume on them. The level control starts at unity and only goes up from there to a boost of about +15-20dB. This is how RRRs have always been and something that so many people have commented on liking over the years that I didn't want to change a thing about it.

Huh - well, that might be enough for my purposes. I don't need a huge boost, just enough to make my signal pop up a little bit when I click the reverb on. I'll keep my eyes open for developments on these little boxes of science...

[Ryan]

Right on, Jeremy! I think you'll find that on an amp with lot of clean headroom the +15-20dB boost is pretty significant... it can make your signal way louder.

Not a lot of finish news this week which was pretty disappointing for us... I don't know if we'll get the boxes back next week either.. but I do still think they're going to look awesome when we get them! You guys will be the first to know too!

[yellowecho]

Hey Ryan,
Sorry if this has been asked before, but do you have any plans on accepting mailed in RRRs for upgrade overhauls? I may be interested in stereo ins/outs and/or the additional spring setting in the future.