For the Price, Does Pretty Good

First off, the good: It has a button that buttons, knobs that knob, and a switch that switches quite satisfyingly. It's got three different reverb modes, "room," "spring," and "shimmer." It uses a 9v 100mA power supply instead of a 9v battery, so there's less waste. It gets really good sounds from two of the three reverb modes, and the third is fun to play with, and may be useful in certain settings.

Construction: It's built pretty solidly, it's in a metal chassis, metal stomp button, metal switch, and the big knob is metal, while the two smaller are pretty high grade plastic (or at least they feel like it). I was scared to drop it on my toe, it has good weight to it--my grandmother once broke her toe dropping a can of soup on it, this would likely yield similar results. Is built quite solid.

Button: The button buttons very well. It's got a satisfying click, if the barrel is somewhat loose (as these style buttons sometimes are). It turns the pedal on and it turns the pedal off. You can't ask for much more of a button than that.

Knobs: The knobs knob in the most satisfying way. The decay knob (sets how long the reverb tail is) is just a pleasure to turn, very solid feeling, very nice, smooth turning, and a wide range of reverb tail to set it to. The Mix and Tone knobs (which adjust the wet/dry signal and the well, tone of your sound, respectively) are also quite pleasing from a tactile standpoint, with a smooth and even turn. I find with the Room setting, everything set to noon, you get a nice general purpose reverb sound.

Switch: The switch switches. It does so with an audible click, it's not loose in the housing, and feels like it will hold up to hundreds of switchings over the life of the pedal. Not much more you can ask from a switch, really.

Sound: The room and spring settings are both very well done for this price point. The spring setting, with the right tweaking, you can get your Telecaster sounding like the James Bond theme. And really, isn't that what we all want a spring reverb for? The room setting is just a good all purpose reverb, adds depth and dimension to your sound.

The not so good: The shimmer. I just can't really find a place for this in my sound, and I'm a prog/jazz guitarist. It adds a harsh overtone that you have virtually no control over, and there's not a lot of finessing it. With the Collision Devices Black Hole Symmetry, you can set the overtone to be between a semitone and a whole 5th above your note, so you can dial in how it sounds, and really make it work. With the Ocean Verb, it just kind of is there? I mean, with some more playing around, I may can find a place for it, but right now, that setting is just kind of meh.

Outside that, it's a darn good pedal for the price, and the spring 'verb sounds better than the reverb tank on my amp.

You could do a lot worse than this'n, folks.