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The only dedicated spring reverb I've tried is the spring chicken. It is also the only pedal I have ever tried I like so much I have never considered flipping or anything. Everything else comes and goes, the chicken remains forever.

Deltaphoenix wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nIMKzU5Dko[/youtube]

Someday.
Someday I will get one of those.

Malekko Spring Chicken yo.

I would recommend the Supernatural's spring mode too.

I owned a Ghost Echo for awhile and found it to produce a lot of hiss. The effect was good but it couldn't replicate a spring sound and was very limited in scope.

It's funny to me that all the digital sims are chasing the ugly twangy, sproingy artifacts that I hated about real Fender reverb. (If I had that amp back, I would so tweak that part of the circuit.) My favorite actual spring unit (two-pan unit in early Boogie Quad preamp) is light on those bits. I never linger long on digital spring emulations. Ghost Echo demos have a certain pull for me, though.

The Ghost Echo is great, I wouldn't call it versatile though. It's sort of good at one thing IMO. I also find it dark and murky (a plus for me). Good with fuzz too, IMO.

The Line 6 Verbzilla is really versatile. I haven't really tried the spring reverb on that, to be honest. I use the Cave setting mostly.

retinal orbita wrote:

doommeow wrote:

kbithecrowing wrote:The Cathedral's spring modes are pretty good, plus having the delay time and feedback tweakable gives it a lot of flexibility and potential for weird sounds.

The spring is probably my least favorite of the Cathedral modes, but a) I'm not a spring guy unless it's a real outboard tank and b) it's still miles above any of the other EHX spring reverbs. Plus you get the footswitchable infinite reverb/hold/drone thing, and it's a discreet 4-holer so you can run stereo, do feedback loops, cascade one channel to the other, run it in multiple places in your chain etc. If you've got a local store that carries EHX, it's worth sitting down with one and seeing if it'll roll you socks up and down.

I really regret selling mine.

Especially after reading this

I do too, but I sold mine mostly because I have super clumsy size 14 feet and would always accidentally hit the preset button / selector wheel whenever I tried to press the bypass. Drove me crazy.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Catalinbread Topanga reverb. It seems like one of the best spring reverb pedals around.

http://www.catalinbread.com/topanga-chrome.html

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it wins SO HARD.

Has anyone tried those Van Apps Sole-Mate spring reverbs? I was a bit curious of how they sound in person a while back.

lordgalvar wrote:Has anyone tried those Van Apps Sole-Mate spring reverbs? I was a bit curious of how they sound in person a while back.

I have one (the two part one), and really like it. I did not end up on my board though as it is a bit too big to fit together with my power underneath.
Also it is not quite as deep as I need sometimes.

I have one too and really like it. Also +1 on the Knas moisturizer.

Exclaimed wrote:

retinal orbita wrote:

doommeow wrote:

kbithecrowing wrote:The Cathedral's spring modes are pretty good, plus having the delay time and feedback tweakable gives it a lot of flexibility and potential for weird sounds.

The spring is probably my least favorite of the Cathedral modes, but a) I'm not a spring guy unless it's a real outboard tank and b) it's still miles above any of the other EHX spring reverbs. Plus you get the footswitchable infinite reverb/hold/drone thing, and it's a discreet 4-holer so you can run stereo, do feedback loops, cascade one channel to the other, run it in multiple places in your chain etc. If you've got a local store that carries EHX, it's worth sitting down with one and seeing if it'll roll you socks up and down.

I really regret selling mine.

Especially after reading this

I do too, but I sold mine mostly because I have super clumsy size 14 feet and would always accidentally hit the preset button / selector wheel whenever I tried to press the bypass. Drove me crazy.

Oh fuck. You're right. I forgot about that part actually. The presets were kind of a pain to dial through, and every time I got a setting I liked at band practice it would sound like a dogs butt at home. And then vice versa. I kind of hate presets on pedals.

I also felt like with a lot of EHX pedals there is just too many controls. Knobs are great or whatever, but sometimes it just makes dialing in things a chronic pain.

I sold it and got a Hall of Fame, and I really do love that.

I'm happy with the Boss FRV-1 (fake spring tank, not the Deluxe Reverb in a box).

I cut my teeth on real outboard tanks and the only one I ever loved was the actual Fender one - I don't think I ever used a SS spring outboard cheapie that I kept more than a night.

When the Boss came out and the comparison videos started between it and a real tank, I couldn't justify buying a real one again.

It's close enough when I want a couple of my typical sounds, and while no ILFindiecred involved...it does exactly what it says.

If I want anything else in verb, I want old rack stuff. I'm using both a Quadraverb+ and a Midiverb 2 still because well, they're gnarly and nasty and *not* spring.

But if I want faux spring, the Boss makes me happy.

Rob, since you've got other Boss/Roland stuff in spades, is the FRV-1 reverb significantly beyond/different from the spring emulation in their other gear? Curious because I know Raveonnettes is all RV-5 spring all day long, and they seem like they're serious about such things sounding right. At the same time, I hear about flagship multi-effects units like the GT-100 and 001 not having all the algos, bells, and whistles that are in some of the individual pedals.