Pretty forgettable and underwhelming pedal

This was one of the first pedals I've ever bought, so I was quite excited. The reverb has 3 modes with 2 types each (so 6 in total), besides the shimmer, they are very weak. The sound quality is decent, but the shimmer, personally, to my taste, does not sound very nice. One thing I was really disappointed with was that in just 6 months, the bypass suddenly stopped working (no, it was not the dry kill switch, which is pretty useless), I really hope my unit was faulty because I rarely used this pedal. Despite that it looks solid.

A Great, Affordable Every Day Reverb

As I've mentioned in other reviews, reverb is my favorite effect, and I currently have 3 on my board--this, the Afterneath, and the Catalinbread Soft Focus. The selling point of this one for me was its shimmer feature along with all the standard room and hall settings. As it turned out, I wasn't a fan of the shimmer. I find the octave up on the trails to be way too pronounced, and once I got the Soft Focus, which has the best shimmer I've found, I switched off the shimmer on this pedal for good.

However, I still love this pedal and use it as a basic, subtle reverb for when I'm not trying to go wildly over the top. Whether you crank up the reverb level and time, or dial it down to something much more natural, it always sounds good. It doesn't murk up your clean tone, and it doesn't get too crispy when you hit it with distortion or fuzz.

That's the good. The bad (aside from the problems with the shimmer I mentioned) is that there isn't a great deal of difference between the settings as far as their character. That's fine for me and how I use it, but you probably don't want it as your only reverb. In the same vein, there are no spring or plate settings, which seems like an oversight. Again, not a huge problem for me as I rarely use spring reverb, and the Soft Focus has me covered for plate sounds, but another reason to look elsewhere if you only want one reverb on your board.

Still, the sound is high quality even if the options are somewhat lacking, and the price is right. If you don't mind tinkering with software, something like the HOF is probably a better choice, but I'm a fan of the sound I get from this, and anyway, I'm always looking for an excuse to cram another reverb onto my board.

From Gear Setup

it doesn't do very much

Takes a lot of place in the pedalboard, doesn't give much of an effect. You can't really tell the difference between the presets, the level knob has to be maxed out all the time, the only moment when reverb is actually hearable, is when you max out the reverb time, but oh well, then it starts to be annyoing. Buy a Polara instead. Oh, and the fucking "dry kill" option, jesus christ. It would be a great thing if not for the fact that it is absolutely impractical. When you bypass the effect with drykill on, it cuts your whole signal, so when you want the effect to stop, you need to get down to your pedalboard and turn it off (why not putting it ON the pedal instead?). Piece of garbage for a quite amount of money. Skysurfer from TCE would do much better for smaller cost.

Beautiful

This is an absolute astonishing pedal. It is so versatile! The room, hall and shimmer are all incredible and the exclusive wet signal is very interesting.

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Amazing sound, cheap price!

This pedal takes you from basic room reverb to the most amazing almost forever going reverb shimmer thingys!