'66 Vibro Champ
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My other home away from home is the steel guitar forum, and even a lot of the gnarly old grizzly guys are going Digitech for reverb. Their Hardwire RV-7 is the (great) dedicated reverb pedal, but it's using like 1/1000 of the chip that's in it - if you get a Digitech RP155-255-355, or used RP150-250-350 etc, you get the Lexicon delays, reverbs, choruses and a bunch of other stuff you can leave switched off or on, depending. Digitech is a Utah company, which means 99% chance they're Mormons with licenses incorporated under the state laws that give financial advantages to... umm, Mormons, surprise surprise. Put them wimmen and chillens to WORK.... :evil4:
Digitech used to be DOD, and you used to be able to pick up old DOD compressors for $25 made with the same things Keeley "discovered" to use in their $400 ones, the DOD graphic EQs already HAD all the quiet good chips that you pay Analogman $60 to put into a $80 Boss, etc. Put it this way, I never heard of anyone dumping a Digitech to go back to Boss or Electro Harmonix for tone reasons, and the QC is tops. Reverb is the one thing I find it difficult to do without, especially at bedroom volumes - just a tiny bit, even, but it's just boring without it. There's a bunch of other fine ones too, of course - TC Electronics, Source Audio, Strymon, Eventide.... if I got a Boss for that amp it would have to be a FDR-1 or FRV-1, for obvious reasons. But the Bosses and E-H's just sound a little primitive these days.
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PS... psss... the reason the "Vanamps demo" video sound overbearing is because it's structurally impossible to demo anything on YouTube without over-demoing it. A reverb, a chorus, even overdrive needs to be controlled, subtle, musical.... but if you record that demo, it'll sound like it's barely working!
Eww - it's doesn't CRANK!!! :guitarplayer2:
arty07: :dontknow: Eww!
Great, because a CRANKED reverb sounds like shit - that's not what it's for. This whole process of staring at the computer, watching/hearing some "hip guy's" tutorial on the latest flavor of gummy earbear,... aak. There are 50 reverb pedals that will work just fine, just get the closest one and stop watching infomercials that by their functional structure CAN'T DEMO WHAT YOU WANT A PEDAL TO DO... eww :sad1:
Digitech used to be DOD, and you used to be able to pick up old DOD compressors for $25 made with the same things Keeley "discovered" to use in their $400 ones, the DOD graphic EQs already HAD all the quiet good chips that you pay Analogman $60 to put into a $80 Boss, etc. Put it this way, I never heard of anyone dumping a Digitech to go back to Boss or Electro Harmonix for tone reasons, and the QC is tops. Reverb is the one thing I find it difficult to do without, especially at bedroom volumes - just a tiny bit, even, but it's just boring without it. There's a bunch of other fine ones too, of course - TC Electronics, Source Audio, Strymon, Eventide.... if I got a Boss for that amp it would have to be a FDR-1 or FRV-1, for obvious reasons. But the Bosses and E-H's just sound a little primitive these days.
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PS... psss... the reason the "Vanamps demo" video sound overbearing is because it's structurally impossible to demo anything on YouTube without over-demoing it. A reverb, a chorus, even overdrive needs to be controlled, subtle, musical.... but if you record that demo, it'll sound like it's barely working!
Eww - it's doesn't CRANK!!! :guitarplayer2:
arty07: :dontknow: Eww!Great, because a CRANKED reverb sounds like shit - that's not what it's for. This whole process of staring at the computer, watching/hearing some "hip guy's" tutorial on the latest flavor of gummy earbear,... aak. There are 50 reverb pedals that will work just fine, just get the closest one and stop watching infomercials that by their functional structure CAN'T DEMO WHAT YOU WANT A PEDAL TO DO... eww :sad1:
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