#480

I’ve thought the same thing many times about this line of pedals. Seems amazing on so many levels, but I also wonder about the additional points of failure in oder to accommodate what is ultimately a neat visual trick. Perhaps that’s overly reductive on my part. That being said, the CBA folks make amazing hardware and stand behind it 100%.

#481

It sounds great - I don’t think it sounds $400 better than BAM great though.

Also the noise/hiss is kinda concerning?

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#482

It seems, to me, that the CXM78 is not aimed at the casual user. 900 bucks (nevermind tax and shipping) is a lot for any type of device, and especially for a reverb – a market where there are so many options. That includes the excellent (in my opinion) Mercury 7 from Meris. Chase Bliss appears to be drifting toward lifestyle brand territory. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. This product is a corner case. I hope they sell plenty, maybe the price will come down, but I doubt it.

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#483

I’m sure they’ll stand behind it, but I think it is more likely that this will have some kind of issue than any of their “normal” pedals. Also, what’s the price increase for what really is just an unnecessary feature? I mean the sliders are cool, but the automated sliders? It’s really just the automation that keeps me away from this, and I think that’s got to be at least $200 of this pedal.

Edited to say: also, I can’t imagine how annoyed I’d be to send the thing back because the automation isn’t working. Which I’d do simply because I paid so much for the pedal that I’d want it to work perfectly.

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#484

Well, nice controls and approach but definitely not 224 or PCM 70 level. Much like the Mercury 7, cleaner and modulation less inside the sound (which you can really hear on short material).

BAM has more character, but also doesn’t blend as well as the real Lexicons.
Getting closer, but David Griesinger still on top.

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#485

These are great videos. I personally had a reverb mini-crisis a couple months ago and had to just bus up a couple instances of Little Plate and move on with life. I don’t use reverb as a performance tool, so I’ve actually moved away from it in pedal form (for the most part, not entirely).

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#486

Ditto this. I have so many inbuilt reverb options (summit, clouds, mimeophon, magneto, and es9 to ableton). I also have not been using reverb as a performance tool and, when I want to, I’ve not been motivated to move beyond Valhalla vintage verb. I should say I’ve kept my avalanche run for guitar though…

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#487

Little Plate is pretty great. Only thing I don’t like is the built in default pre-delay (which sounds like more than an EMT 140), but generally you want pre-delay anyway, so not bad.

My favorite reverb plugins are the Eventide SP2016 (which I would kill for in pedal form as the room algo/position control is far superior for shorter reverbs to Space) and Relab’s offerings. U-he’s Protoverb has a resonance model similar in concept to a Quantec’s-- sounds very much inside the sound with a little filtering.

Those all sound much more melded than any reverb pedal, so far.

I really like the Mimeophon halo effect and the overall darker DSP. That’s the sound character - liquid and emanating from the inside - lacking in a pedal. Probably because that on-top ethereal sound is so popular after Big Sky. Personally, I hate it. Too overrepresent for arrangement.

I’d say BAM is the best overall desktop reverb, but as I said, close but no cigar.

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#488

Prophet 5 is back!

Look, I’ll be honest with you. As a prophet 6 owner, this doesn’t really get me that excited, but it’s neat that it exists, and I’m sure the people who want 5 octave keyboards are dying right now. I won’t buy one and it doesn’t seem to have anything that my Prophet 6 doesn’t (nor is it much cheaper than an original), but it’s beautiful, and if it has a similar keyboard to the Prophet 6, then I could see why some who is more interested in performing than sequencing it would be into it (Prophet 6 has the best keyboard of anything I’ve ever owned). I don’t know what to say other than it’s cool, it looks nice, I’ll never own it, and I want to play with one!

(Edit. The prophet 10 is actually a more reasonable proposition, to my mind, amazing keyboard, beautiful case, 10 analog voices with VCOs and SSM filters, $4,500 isn’t bad for that.)

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#489

I’m not personally interested in these re-issues, but it is satisfying to see Dave Smith making it and beating someone like Behringer to the punch.

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#490

I mean, I think they are just a victim of their own success here. The Prophet 6 was such a wonderful modern version of the Prophet 5, this can’t help but seem a bit cosmetic. I can’t say how I would feel as someone who didn’t own a Prophet 6, I suspect I’d still buy the 6, but if money was no object, that might be a harder decision.

#491

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#492

That makes sense, I guess I just expected ‘standard’ mode to be a lot less noisy than it seems to be in the demo.

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#493

If that’s the general noise level of “standard” that gets a bit of a yikes from me. I obviously don’t mind some noise but it just doesn’t sound great here, especially in the context of the price of this thing.

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#494

For keyboard players, more keys, more voices (10 version), bigger knobs, and much more simple settings make this more appealing than the 6.

#495

given they have the seemingly pristine “hifi” mode i’m excited for a bit of noisy character in “standard” mode. i think that’s the part that’s meant to model the lexicon 224?

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#496

I have a reverb pedal problem and am drooling over this. Though at $900, it’s more than likely going to have to wait until next year. Decided this month to prioritize my gear budget towards missing pieces I’m waiting to be restocked (JF, 3Sis, and possibly Ansible/Grids?).

Hard to tell if my future self will be proud of or disappointed in my decision today. Lol

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#497

Received notification that signal sounds has the Rabid Elephant Natural Gate in stock, if anyone missed it in August: https://www.signalsounds.com/rabid-elephant-natural-gate-eurorack-low-pass-gate-module

#498

The main point of the BAM for me that is sound different to other modern reverbs.
I like when device has its own color/character/ux

#499

This post explains why it disappeared from my cart after I was filling it up and went to click buy.
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