The Oldest One I Still Enjoy

Afterneath V1 is probably the oldest pedal I still keep on my board. And yet, after all these years, I still reach for it with the same excitement I had on day one. It doesn’t behave like a traditional reverb; it’s more like a blend of reverb and delay effects. It isn’t just a utility pedal; it’s a creative instrument in itself, and I still love using it.

Wild

If you’re looking for regular, nice, reverbs, buy something else. This thing is wild and highly tweakable. It can go from almost nothing to huge ambient blankets with very little knob adjustment. I’ve had it for a while and still don’t think I’ve truly figured it out. I have another, more traditional, reverb on my board, but this adds a great supplement of unpredictability that I love.

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Ethereal

A really nice tool for haunting ethereal ambience, very unique and hard to replicate with other devices (this is NOT a reverb but a chain of six cascading delays). Pros: Instant ambience, really nice modulated echos with the ability of smear them as a kind of reverb, damp, self ocilate, and even pitch shift with the tweak of a knob (drag, acts like a time knob in a delay pedal). Cons: Nearly impossible to sync as a delay, very limited maximum time between repeats. It's not functional as a clean delay, and it doesn't mix smooth and compact as a reverb. Only three of the six knobs are worth (drag, lenght and mix although it can't go 100% wet). All in all, it's a great sounding reverbertator, but a one trick pony, everything sounds in the same cold and cavernous mood.

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If you like crazy stuffs, it's your thing

Different textures, as the box sells it to you, is like a wizard doing sorcery in a cave. The idea fascinates me because that is exactly what it achieves. If you are conventional, clearly this is not your thing but, if like me, you like to end a concert with the delay and reverb at full blast and with crazy sounds you must have this pedal.

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AMAZING EVEN IF YOU'RE DUMB LIKE ME

The Afterneath can create any kind of vibe, from feeling like youre inside a cave or in the space, it has a lot of knobs so you can be really creative with it and even if youre not creative the pedal does the job for you, i really like the "drag" knob, where you can move it mid songs and creates a cool effect.

another crazy ambient guitar pedal I should ahte

but I liked the transmisser so much on synths, electric piano and for use as a mono ethereal verb when mixing (break out your reamp gear kids) that I bought an afterneath without trying it first and was equally impressed. Again, not my thing on guitar, but a great tool with older synths and also during mix-down (especially on vocals where there's space). I could explain the control set and give my impressions of it, but the afterneath creates echoes so out of this world that it is better experienced than spoken about.

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If I want a real spectral cavernous ambiance, I may stick my amp in the bathroom. Or, I might use this pedal. I love it. Holy hell I use it everywhere.

Needs a fix

This is the most amazing sounding pedal on earth.

The ONLY thing though is that the drag-knob/pre-delay needs fixing so that there is ZERO pre-delay between when you play and when the reverb "activates."

Love this pedal's sound. Functionality/versatility needs tweaking.

Great for shimmering sustain

The Earthquaker Devices Afterneath is great if you want to sustain forever. It gives a great aura of a chord or note and really fills out the nooks and crannies of reverb. Great when paired with a reverb pedal and/or a light drive.

Haunting and beautiful

I never want to turn this off. I want to strike a note or chord with this thing in the morning, and be able to have this pedal's magic work on it in the background of my whole day. It would be Brian Eno's most effortless album, but it would probably also be the best.