What simple reverb pedal for huge atmospheric pads?

[SillyOctpuss]

As you well know, I love the Fractal reverbs - a lot. The delays too. The drives are really good too, and the VP4 does look a LOT simpler to use. I can also stack it with some of my other pedals, for those instances where I can't do what I need to do in just 4 blocks.

Godamnit. Ordered.


(that was a total 180 - I'm selling my Meris pedals and/or my Helix to fund it)

 

[david57strat]

I have a FreqOut pedal as it goes!! It is great. Never selling it.

I bought this pedal on the last day of 2018. I only paid $130 for it, through Zzounds.

This was just before it took a price hike.

No regrets :-).

I kind of wish I had purchased more of them, at that price.

Way back in the 80s (?), I purchased a BOSS DF-2 Distortion Feedbacker pedal. This was before DiMarzio subsequently sued BOSS, since I guess they had already trademarked the "Super Distortion" name, forcing BOSS to change the name to Super Feedbacker and Distortion.

I was vastly disappointed with the "feedback" feature on that pedal, but I hung on to it, anyway. The distortion was decent, and I used it for many years following that. But, the feedbacker portion of it left a lot to be desired. To me, the overtone portion of it sounded fake/contrived, and it tracked very poorly. Actually, it wouldn't track, at all, as I recall. It stayed stuck on the primary (octave) overtone.

The Freqout, on the other hand, is far more believable and musical, to my ear, and has several use-able adjustments to really fine tune what you're looking for. It also has kind of a cool aesthetic to it, as opposed to their Polara. I don't know what the hell they were thinking when they designed the artwork. Someone else mentioned this, but the labels are incredibly hard to read, on that box. It's just ugly as shit, in my opinion. Opinions vary, and you are more than welcome to yours.

This picture was taken before I bought my first board, when I was still using Grundorf rack box covers as a board, at home LOL.

 

[newpedals]

Friend had a Neunaber wet, and an EQD Ghost Echo at different times. He only has a delay pedal on board now. No reverb.

I had heard him play with the wet pedal activated. It sounded beautiful.

I have not heard the Ghost Echo, apart from youtube demos. It has a pre delay knob, which is theoretically supposed to be useful for cutting through the mix.

I hope you find the pedal you need.

 

[the swede]

Orv. You should try a Neunaber sometime. Just to try, like wine… and stuff…

I recently bought a simple Wet mono pedal, not the stereo Immerse or whatever the multimodw pedals are called, just the simple Wet algo. It’s great.

Imo afterneath and also the OBNE things tend to get very… digital/synthy and it’s often hard to make them sound like a huge reverb, it’s more a digital sound to me. Each to their own tastes and such. Not saying it’s bad… it’s all flavors.

Don’t sleep on sending a reverb into a delay either for that matter. It’s the antimatter that can turn ordinary pedals into supernovas.

Someone mentioned the famously infamous Polara. No, it’s meh on its own. But with certain other pedals it shines, kinda in the same way a simple old RV-3 can shine with other pedals.

It’s kinda the same with the Wet I guess, in an analytically listening situation it could sound very humble and smooth. But it’s beautiful. There’s something in that algo for sure, or most of Neunaber stuff I guess.

 

[dk_ace]

Go to’s for me would be the mxr or the wet if I want simple. The Ventris or HoF can be simple, but I’m leaving them out because I make the both of them super complicated…

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[dk_ace]

VP4 is gonna be awesome for this with your other stuff!

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[FuzzyAce]

Orv has the VP4 now.

 

[the swede]

Orv has the VP4 now.

 

[KingsXJJ]

I like this unit. It’s pricey and probably too complicated for your needs. But to me, it sounds like a super nice, modern, full blown dedicated rack unit. In fact I wish they made a rack unit for studio use. Just my two cents, I hope you find what you are looking for!

 

[Orvillain]

Orv has the VP4 now. And the Cioks DC7+Crux addon to power it with.