The Sultan of Sproing

Digitech’s X-Series… were we ever so young?

The Hardwire RV-7 gets shoegaze-taxed pretty hard these days, BUT, bang for your buck? I actually prefer the Digiverb’s more lo-fi, digital-grit aesthetic countenance…. I see it as a feature, not a bug. There’s nothing else quite like this. The super pristine ring of a Strymon Big Sky, Meris Mercury 7, or Source Audio Ventris the Digiverb is most certainly NOT. But it’s gnarly stuff! Solid state or tube, this thing just does not care.

And, yeah, let’s address the dancing elephant in the room: the infamous volume drop once you start dialling in the ‘Reverse’ reverb past 12 o’clock… but that’s just the nature of the beast with a blend/level knob that kills your dry signal the more your dime it. Eh. Stick a compressor or boost in front, tweak the EQ to taste, and enter a new, exaggerated, swooshy, spaced-out nether region of your own device. In stereo!

The ‘Gated’ reverb here…. it’s deeper than you might think… in fact, I’d go so far as to say this is my favourite ‘Gated’ reverb sound in pedal form ever. Simply irreplaceable in my rig. The decay knob — mega sensitive, but it’s got that extra gear, get it justttt right and there’s a second and even third act to this thing (for ears that are willing to hear…) Unlike the RV-7’s half-wet fixed mix, we’re talking full on “I Need No Trust” – My Bloody Valentine vibes.

100% Wet ‘Church’ reverb before your favourite dirt pedal? Best of breed.

Not very good

Although has some cool features the Digiverb sounds very electronic and grimy. When bending a string the sound gets very distorted similar to reverb sound but taken to an extreme. Paired with some delay the Digiverb is tolerable but otherwise is a waste of money.

Good

works well. does take a while to dial in though. once you get it set up for what you want our golden.

no no no

I bought this before the boss to get a hall sound. it sounded very poor to me so I got the rv2 which is somewhat more tolerable. I eventually just used a quadraverb or spx90 for hall sound on guitar back then. Much better.

Fantastic selection of reverb types with rich realism and brilliant clarityGood Decay

Fantastic selection of reverb types with rich realism and brilliant clarity

It'll Do

Does a nice job, mostly. I like the plate reverb settings for that early rockabilly slap-back sound, and hall settings for most other things.

Somewhat Lacking

Controls are somewhat lacking, the sound is ok i guess

Not bad nor good

A generic reverb pedal. Actually it does what it's meant to, but I guess I will replace this one for Supernatural by Digitech very soon. Digiverb lacks 'huge' tones, which I need. Good for solos and traditional tone builds though.

Good pedal

This is a really good pedal, you can make really cool sounds and it allows you to be creative

its ok

It ok, and has some nice features, but is not as clean or powerful as many others ive tried. honestly thinking of trading it in.