GFI Solis Ventus

[slip]

Hi all, new here. I did a search, but haven't found any posts about the GFI Solis Ventus. I am wondering if anyone here has been able to try it out yet. How does it compare with other combo reverb & delay pedals? It looks pretty interesting in the demos.

 

[Aleksi]

The reverbs in the Specular Tempus are supposedly among the best you can find in pedals and I'm curious to try the improved ones in Solis Ventus, buuuuuut I already have a Mercury X so...

You'll get a bunch of "just get a VP4" answers here, but the Solis Ventus has a HUGE advantage: analog dry through, meaning zero added latency on your dry signal.

 

[laxu]

It has some lovely features like ducking and sounds really nice.

But the user interface is annoyingly dated. I don't think I'd be happy having to go through settings of any delay two parameters at a time.

I'd rather pick the Source Audio Collider over this.

 

[slip]

It has some lovely features like ducking and sounds really nice.

But the user interface is annoyingly dated. I don't think I'd be happy having to go through settings of any delay two parameters at a time.

I'd rather pick the Source Audio Collider over this.

Are you referring to this interface?

 

[laxu]

Are you referring to this interface?

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Nah, the one on the pedal itself.

 

[Desertdweller]

Just learning about this today. I was a big fan of the Specular Tempus. Is this an addition to their lineup or a replacement for the Tempus? I can't see why I'd choose this over the Tempus or the Tempus over this one.

 

[slip]

Just learning about this today. I was a big fan of the Specular Tempus. Is this an addition to their lineup or a replacement for the Tempus? I can't see why I'd choose this over the Tempus or the Tempus over this one.

Yeah, this replaces the Tempus.

 

[Desertdweller]

Was this thing a paper launch? I'm not seeing it available anywhere.

 

[david57strat]

I was going to say they're available at Perfect Circuit, Chicago Music Exchange, and on the GFI site, but they all seem to be out of stock :|.

I love my Specular Tempus and Skylar, though. Not really in need of any more reverb pedals at the moment. I seem to have a ton of those (and even more delay pedals).

They're my drug of choice, for guitar pedals.

The Skylar is dead simple to use, but powerful and modestly-sized, for all that it offers up.

Messy (as usual) wiring. These experimental boards always have pedals flying on and off of them.

 

[ericbr1]

Was this thing a paper launch? I'm not seeing it available anywhere.

It was released months ago. Some people had issues with certain power supplies creating noise with it , or not working correctly. I'm suspecting GFI is re-designing it so those issues don't exist, hence no more for sale currently. I could be wrong, but that's what I think.. Here's a long thread on it: https://www.thegearpage.net/board/i...olis-ventus-specular-tempus-v2.2608282/page-9