Shitty Reverbs and Lush Phasers

[Chuckchuck]

Dano FAB Echo (slapback) is a cheap p.o.s. plastic one trick pony. Recommended.

[fcknoise]

I don't even consider an RV3 "shitty", imo it can hang with the best of 'em. Sure, there's more pristine sounding, "studio" quality reverbs out there, but when if you're after gritty/lofi fucked up reverb sounds, something like the RM1N or Midiverb might do the trick a lot better.

I've got an Afterneath, which is a whole other animal imo. It'll chop up whatever you feed it , in an eery ambienty way, different from even the mosted washed out sounding 'classic' plate reverb emulating pedal. I highly recommend it, though not for conventional reverb effects or synthy/glitchy/modulated stuff. It's small, top jacks, not too pricey nor unobtainable...

I mean. I don't say shitty in any way demeaning, but it has a certain quality of lofiness imo. I feel it's got that choppy kind of sound to it if that makes sense? Also, afterneath seems really cool, and I think the texture it would at could be of interest to the OP so that's why I mentioned it. You description made me GAS even more for it

[Chuckchuck]

Look what I did to my HOF mini
https://instagram.com/p/BBU_LywDNVROTDc ... jwH42LfE0/

Good amt of options on the preset zap-app

[CyaNitrate]

So, I recently tried phasers for the first time, a vintage DOD Phasor 490. Man. It's so much fun, and apparently the Grand Orbiter was inspired by it. It is not subtle, even with both controls all the way down. But lush, oh yes. I like it. I kinda wanna get an Orbiter to compare and contrast.

[Andrew]

As someone that is currently using both a RV-2 and a Bitquest, they're both great pedals.

I do kind of prefer my reverbs to not be so pristine and pad-like, high end reverbs sound so cheesy to me now

[oscillateur]

I mean. I don't say shitty in any way demeaning, but it has a certain quality of lofiness imo. I feel it's got that choppy kind of sound to it if that makes sense? Also, afterneath seems really cool, and I think the texture it would at could be of interest to the OP so that's why I mentioned it. You description made me GAS even more for it

About the Afterneath : try one of you can first. It is a neat effect but it tends to always produce the same patterns of repeats with its delay lines and this can be annoying or not depending on how you use it. This and the fact that it does not do normal reverbs at all (I wanted to tweak it live from normal to weird) made me trade mine.

[sergiomunoz74]

Yeah I was listening to a bunch of different demo's from all sorts of recommendations. the rm-1n was interesting but honestly a bit too much on the chaotic side to be honest, and although cool, it'll slowly go into one setting and never move from it. The afterneath was rad but like oscillateur said it seemed like it didn't do any actual verb and just kinda delays that sort of wash out with extra grittiness. I feel like I can sort of get that out of my 104m.

The midiverb and rv-2/RV-3 sounds more my speed. Just relatively lo-fi reverb although the RV-3 sounded way cleaner and crisp so I might skip that. I definitely don't like those chesesy pad like verbs. I really don't need dirt/verb combos as I run my amp relatively dirty anyhow so it's gonna sound relatively trashy. Although these were all good recommendations!

I'll be in Japan in a couple months maybe I will just try and score some MIJ RV-2 or RV-3 there

[oscillateur]

I'll be in Japan in a couple months maybe I will just try and score some MIJ RV-2 or RV-3 there

They can be found quite easily but the price is not always great (though it might be better than in the US, I have no idea how much they cost there). If you're in Shibuya at some point try the Ishibashi shop there, they have tons of secondhand pedals and there's a big display full of Boss pedals ordered by type.

[rfurtkamp]

Exchange rate is pretty favorable right now so could be a relative bargain.

I got a Roland GK3 synth pickup NIB for almost a hundred bucks less than US prices a couple weeks ago. They're profoundly overpriced here, but....

[sergiomunoz74]

I'll be in Japan in a couple months maybe I will just try and score some MIJ RV-2 or RV-3 there

They can be found quite easily but the price is not always great (though it might be better than in the US, I have no idea how much they cost there). If you're in Shibuya at some point try the Ishibashi shop there, they have tons of secondhand pedals and there's a big display full of Boss pedals ordered by type.

I'll probably try to find some stores but if you can give me a good amount of choices that would be rad. My girlfriend is native so she'll help me navigate my way into anywhere. From what I can tell looking at online stores for stuff like synths, the exchange rate definitely makes it worth it on Japanese made stuff so I guess I just assumed I could get one for a relative deal. Maybe not a super deal unless it's straight up luck.

double edit: just looked up on the ishibashi site and definitely way cheaper by like 40-80 bucks cheaper than what can be found online. BUT the rv-3 is about the same price that could be had here in the states

[SoaringTortoise]

You can't get anymore lo-fi than the CheeseVerb.

Playing starts around 2:00


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLZZVy06wk[/youtube]

[sergiomunoz74]

You can't get anymore lo-fi than the CheeseVerb.

Playing starts around 2:00


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLZZVy06wk[/youtube]

Interesting but definitely too big haha. I already have a space echo for stuff that stays at home although the verb on my space echo isn't shitty by any means!

[frigid midget]

I don't even consider an RV3 "shitty", imo it can hang with the best of 'em. Sure, there's more pristine sounding, "studio" quality reverbs out there, but when if you're after gritty/lofi fucked up reverb sounds, something like the RM1N or Midiverb might do the trick a lot better.

I've got an Afterneath, which is a whole other animal imo. It'll chop up whatever you feed it , in an eery ambienty way, different from even the mosted washed out sounding 'classic' plate reverb emulating pedal. I highly recommend it, though not for conventional reverb effects or synthy/glitchy/modulated stuff. It's small, top jacks, not too pricey nor unobtainable...

I mean. I don't say shitty in any way demeaning, but it has a certain quality of lofiness imo. I feel it's got that choppy kind of sound to it if that makes sense? Also, afterneath seems really cool, and I think the texture it would at could be of interest to the OP so that's why I mentioned it. You description made me GAS even more for it

Yeah I know, I meant 'shitty' the same way as you. The RV3 was considered pretty 'hifi' back in the day, but I get why you'd say it's lofi. I figured the OP was after something even more lofi sounding though. Or indeed something like the Afterneath. It has its limitations. You don't want to try playing shimmery p&w shit or dreamy postrock stuff with it. Which is kinda the reason I picked it over a "real" reverb pedal in the first place

[sergiomunoz74]

I don't even consider an RV3 "shitty", imo it can hang with the best of 'em. Sure, there's more pristine sounding, "studio" quality reverbs out there, but when if you're after gritty/lofi fucked up reverb sounds, something like the RM1N or Midiverb might do the trick a lot better.

I've got an Afterneath, which is a whole other animal imo. It'll chop up whatever you feed it , in an eery ambienty way, different from even the mosted washed out sounding 'classic' plate reverb emulating pedal. I highly recommend it, though not for conventional reverb effects or synthy/glitchy/modulated stuff. It's small, top jacks, not too pricey nor unobtainable...

I mean. I don't say shitty in any way demeaning, but it has a certain quality of lofiness imo. I feel it's got that choppy kind of sound to it if that makes sense? Also, afterneath seems really cool, and I think the texture it would at could be of interest to the OP so that's why I mentioned it. You description made me GAS even more for it

Yeah I know, I meant 'shitty' the same way as you. The RV3 was concidered pretty 'hifi' back in the day, but I get why you'd say it's lofi. I figured the OP was after something even more lofi sounding though. Or indeed something like the Afterneath. It has its limitations. You don't want to try playing shimmery p&w shit or dreamy postrock stuff with it. Which is kinda the reason I picked it over a "real" reverb pedal in the first place

Yeah all the recommendations were spot on, I just have to try and be real with some decisions especially if later on I start feeling certain pedals have a gimmicky sound. shimmery p&w or dreamy post rock are probably my least favorite sounds in this world haha. I had a post rock phase or as I call it "crescendo core" and I had a wet reverb and oodles of delays. Now I rarely use delays for anything other than a touch of ambience. 2 ps-2's and I probably can count the times I have used it in a band setting with one hand. I like the lo-fi sounds when I need them because the pitchfactor is pretty dang hi-fi and I use it pretty heavily so adding a little bit of lo-fi ambience helps make it more "me".

[backwardsvoyager]

if you're specifically wanting the lo-fi factor then RV-2 > RV-3, they're both fantastic pedals but the 2 has a more grainy feel and the EQ control seems to have a wider range, you can tune it to be really shrill or really deep. i haven't compared it to an RM-1N or anything new like that but it's definitely 'shittier' than the bitquest and any other verb i've tried (in the best way possible ).

finding cheap RV-2/3's in Japan is kinda hit and miss, from all the guitar stores i've been to over there they seemed to be some of the less common boss pedals and most places in Tokyo especially aren't really that cheap. some stuff is an amazing deal and some stuff is pretty overpriced so it depends on the pedal. Hard-Off stores are generally cheaper than Ishibashi or similar, it's worth checking their web mall https://netmall.hardoff.co.jp/ to see if there's anything not too far from where you are because some really good deals pop up on there from time to time.
(edit: i'm used to australian dollar exchange though so yknow what you'll probably be fine, haha)