I want junky, bad reverb

[friendship]

Stuff that sounds unnatural and has artifacts. Lo-res digital shit. Units that might be trying to create realistic spacial acoustics, but fail miserably and delightfully doing it. What kind of units should I look for? Can be pedal, rack, desktop whatever.

[Uncle Grandfather]

in my experience most any digital reverb should suffice.

[tremolo3]

The alesis midiverb i, I think it's 8 or 16 bits.

[friendship]

in my experience most any digital reverb should suffice.

I disagree. Most of the digital reverb I have experience with is very adequate in creating realistic space (especially convolution based stuff).

edit: oooo Alesis. I also heard about their Wedge. I wonder if that's any good OR SHOULD I SAY BAD

[skullservant]

Nothing really gets it for me quite like the EHX Holy Grail. It's noisy and quirky and sounds like an old worn tank and I love it

[UglyCasanova]

in my experience most any digital reverb should suffice.

[nevada]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwX-HsQN7f8[/youtube]

[01010111]

That DBA Reverb looks like it'd be great for this, old 80's digital reverbs ought to be good too. This one's on ebay right now for $95:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1980s-K ... 43cfb16a92
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-GtTvkbCZo[/youtube]

This one looks pretty good/bad too:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbtuSj2Wp08[/youtube]

[Ugly Nora]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwX-HsQN7f8[/youtube]

I got one of these. I throw it in the loop of the Meet Maude sometimes.

[rfurtkamp]

REX 50 is a SPX90 in a tabletop unit. It *can* sound awful.

What you want is a unit that offers adjustment of parameters so that it's capable of sounding godawful.

ART SGE Mk2 will do it in spades - grating, nasty, marvelous. Get the one that you can edit, not the preset only one. Be aware that they run VERY hot. It's got a Z80 in it, I shit you not, and a heatsink the size of a Boss pedal.

Midiverb 2 will do grating nasty if you crank it to max wet on a few settings.

Quadraverb you can induce kernel panic with a variety of settings, and artifacts abound if you EQ it "wrong."

That Radio shack unit was no fun, that's *all* it did. I remember getting one at a yard sale and thinking, "this will be fun."

IT was more fun watching it hit the bottom of the dumpster than any sound I ever got out of it.

[Ugly Nora]

Should have sold it on ebay. You could have bought a pizza or something.

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

i always thought the boss half rack thing sounded particularly evil.

that wedge is funny looking. i bet it sounds craptastic in the best way possible.

do they make any reverbs w/ an effects loop? or something like that only has effects on the wet?
if not, there should be.

[01010111]

In my search for bad reverb I came accross this. It's not bad. It's amazing. Everything about it is amazing. All effects should be built like this. I DEMAND MORE LEVER CONTROLS!

[rfurtkamp]

Should have sold it on ebay. You could have bought a pizza or something.

Well before ebay.

That was when you'd tip your delivery driver in shitty DoD pedals and he'd sneer at you.

[friendship]

That REX50 sounds up my alley!

REX 50 is a SPX90 in a tabletop unit. It *can* sound awful.

What you want is a unit that offers adjustment of parameters so that it's capable of sounding godawful.

ART SGE Mk2 will do it in spades - grating, nasty, marvelous. Get the one that you can edit, not the preset only one. Be aware that they run VERY hot. It's got a Z80 in it, I shit you not, and a heatsink the size of a Boss pedal.

Midiverb 2 will do grating nasty if you crank it to max wet on a few settings.

Quadraverb you can induce kernel panic with a variety of settings, and artifacts abound if you EQ it "wrong."

That Radio shack unit was no fun, that's *all* it did. I remember getting one at a yard sale and thinking, "this will be fun."

IT was more fun watching it hit the bottom of the dumpster than any sound I ever got out of it.

How'd I guess you might have some insight in this matter.

Yeah I think I do want something with a lot of crazy parameter control, particularly something where I can mess with those parameters in real time. I'd be using this for recording and mixing, not live performance.

Don't suppose you have any clips of the ART SGE, do you? Youtube appears to have one unlistenable one and one that just runs through a couple generic presets.