I absolutely love your channel! 🙂 I'm probably your oldest subscriber, turned 72 this year, so when the subject of spring reverb comes up, I had to kick in my old boomer geezer two cents. I started playing guitar in 1965, had a 15 watt (approximately) no-name tube amp that I thought was wonderful and a very weird Kingston guitar with 4 (!) pickups that my younger brother and I shared. I made a fair amount of glorious noise with them back in the day, but no reverb. I did add a fuzz effect to the amp using a schematic I found in an electronics magazine, and I loved it, parents hated it. 🙂 I loved reverb that I heard on commercial records of the day, but that was usually plate reverb or sometimes done with an actual reverb room. The surf groups probably used spring, and early on, I was a huge fan of The Ventures, so I had to have me some reverb. I saved up and bought a little outboard spring reverb unit from Lafayette Electronics, sort of a Radio Shack kind of outfit, sent out a big catalog of goodies every year. Anyway, it was a real spring reverb, and I loved it at first but I got tired of that boingy spring sound, and it was a cheap unit, not the best. By 1970, I had a decent job that allowed me to buy a used Kustom 200 guitar amp (I was a John Fogerty fan and I got the same amp he used) and the spring reverb in that was about as good as it gets. By 1978 or so, I had a rack-mount Tapco 4400 stereo spring reverb unit that was even a bit better than the Kustom reverb, used that with guitar and also an Arp Odyssey synth I got back in '76. But by the early eighties, I was fed up with trying to get the smooth sound that plate reverb was capable of from springs. To this day, spring reverb just annoys the hell out of me. I don't get what younger players like about it unless they're neo-surf dudes. Same with delay. I had a Fender tape-echo unit with a movable playback head that I used all the time in the garage band I was in back in 1969-1972, loved that thing. In the mid-eighties, I first got to play around a bit with digital reverb and delay, and I've never looked back. I got an Alesis Quadraverb in '94, loved it, still have it. I love the digital stuff. I still have a cheap guitar amp (Fender Frontman 212R) with real spring reverb, but I don't use the built-in reverb. Anyway, that's my contribution to the comments!
Note to sneaky pedal builders: I'll buy anything with a VU meter, even if it just goes on the board for the pose and never gets used. In the case of this pedal, I can see uses for it, but for that Lee Hazelwood/Duane Eddy 500 gallon tank sound... I think I'm still looking. Hey, Origin Effects, are you listening?
This channel is so, so, SOOOOOO GREAT. Buddy, you are one heck of a player.
Thank you!!!
Buddy, came here for the new pedal. As usual listening to you play brings a smile and washes a less than stellar day away. THANK YOU
Thanks so much my friend! Always good to have you here
I absolutely love your channel! 🙂
I'm probably your oldest subscriber, turned 72 this year, so when the subject of spring reverb comes up, I had to kick in my old boomer geezer two cents.
I started playing guitar in 1965, had a 15 watt (approximately) no-name tube amp that I thought was wonderful and a very weird Kingston guitar with 4 (!) pickups that my younger brother and I shared. I made a fair amount of glorious noise with them back in the day, but no reverb. I did add a fuzz effect to the amp using a schematic I found in an electronics magazine, and I loved it, parents hated it. 🙂
I loved reverb that I heard on commercial records of the day, but that was usually plate reverb or sometimes done with an actual reverb room. The surf groups probably used spring, and early on, I was a huge fan of The Ventures, so I had to have me some reverb. I saved up and bought a little outboard spring reverb unit from Lafayette Electronics, sort of a Radio Shack kind of outfit, sent out a big catalog of goodies every year.
Anyway, it was a real spring reverb, and I loved it at first but I got tired of that boingy spring sound, and it was a cheap unit, not the best. By 1970, I had a decent job that allowed me to buy a used Kustom 200 guitar amp (I was a John Fogerty fan and I got the same amp he used) and the spring reverb in that was about as good as it gets. By 1978 or so, I had a rack-mount Tapco 4400 stereo spring reverb unit that was even a bit better than the Kustom reverb, used that with guitar and also an Arp Odyssey synth I got back in '76.
But by the early eighties, I was fed up with trying to get the smooth sound that plate reverb was capable of from springs. To this day, spring reverb just annoys the hell out of me. I don't get what younger players like about it unless they're neo-surf dudes.
Same with delay. I had a Fender tape-echo unit with a movable playback head that I used all the time in the garage band I was in back in 1969-1972, loved that thing.
In the mid-eighties, I first got to play around a bit with digital reverb and delay, and I've never looked back. I got an Alesis Quadraverb in '94, loved it, still have it. I love the digital stuff. I still have a cheap guitar amp (Fender Frontman 212R) with real spring reverb, but I don't use the built-in reverb.
Anyway, that's my contribution to the comments!
Thanks so much for sharing this! And thank you for watching. I guarantee you you are not my older subscriber!
That’s definitely a sick reverb man. Especially coming from that Marshall.
Great playing. Loved hearing how the pedal went with some low gain slow blues
Thanks so much! Yeah it can do everything!
Immediately fell in love at 4:57 😍
Sweet take on the EF-P2!
It has the cool factor-no question about that.
it's about time I hear surf guitar from you
🎉great sound🎉
It creates amazing sound …. Even for being digital Kidding 🙂
VU meters are soothing.
I’m torn between this unit, and the Strymon flint, I know they’re both totally different beasts, but I’m torn!
How much of a boost can you get from the drive?
This pedal is exactly what I want. Springs in a can. I like the control options. Don't care about the window dressing VU. Rock on, bro.
What I’m hearing is you still have the guitar original guitar tone intact.
A lot of digital verbs color the original sound of the guitar.
A JTM 100w amp?
Yes. Also known as “a bad idea” also also known as “the best idea”
if you don't end on a sweet child o mine riff how do we know if it will do the job?
😂😂
Note to sneaky pedal builders: I'll buy anything with a VU meter, even if it just goes on the board for the pose and never gets used. In the case of this pedal, I can see uses for it, but for that Lee Hazelwood/Duane Eddy 500 gallon tank sound... I think I'm still looking. Hey, Origin Effects, are you listening?
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No... analogue is better. It's less convenient... but it sounds better.
Reverby.............