#310

It’s incredible to me that there is a lack of good reverb effects in eurorack format. I find the options for delay are plentiful, but reverb it’s lacking. The only one I’ve found that I like is the 2HP verb. It’s pretty simple but it sounds great to my ears. I had an MN Erbe Verb and I really could never dial it in to sound good to my ears. I have a Strymon Blue Sky (and Bigsky) and I just use a XAOC Sewastopol to send and return to my pedal reverbs.

#311

the new firmware for grand terminal has some brilliant reverbs - best ive heard in euro by some way
er301 verb is quite nice too

#312

just armchair thinking… but I wonder if part of the problem is if you make an effect a module, the user’s gonna want some CV control to go with it. and if you give it some CV control, the user’s gonna want some idea in mind of what kind of modulation would be cool to use. and when yr effect is a reverb, modulation of the reverb parameters can sound really weird.

Having said that, I kinda see the appeal of something like the Dark World: you get your “reverb will make it sound good” cake AND get to eat it too in the sense of “I wanna be able to make it sound weird”…

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#313

You got me thinking - if the Bigsky had cv what exactly would it control - the main parameters I tend to only tweak a little during a performance - mix, delay, pre delay - but the more in-depth elements would be interesting under cv. However, I think Strymon would clean up if they just put out their pedals in Euro format as is with the Exp input for cv and the existing midi sockets on the front.

#314

That is exactly what excites me about it :space_invader:

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#315

^^ if they come out with a reverb module :heart: :heart: :heart:

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#316

… although I will say that with $260 to get the https://www.modulargrid.net/e/intellijel-audio-interface-ii, any pedal can be used in Eurorack and at that point effect modules themselves aren’t as necessary.

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#317

In some ways you don’t even have to go that far. I attenuate the modular signal to my external mixer and then use a send to the Bigsky and DiG. However, a magneto style Bigsky would be fantastic.

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#318

The Folktek Alter has some nice reverbs

#319

After big doubts (I don’t like almost all demos on YT, but some Instagram tagged clips are really good) I’ve ordered and received OTO Bam. I can say that this sounds very interesting. There are no crazy modes like shimmering, tremolo verb,etc but each mode provide something unique especially with finding sweet spots with gain/chorus/size and time. Small minus that mix control is quite discrete (almost no reverb, dry and some reverb, dry and reverb 50/50, almost no dry). Ordered BIM :slight_smile:

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#321

I’m curious about your dry/wet mix experience. I have mine set up as an aux effect and haven’t tried spill and the other Activr mode but I can get pretty continuous mix results. How is your gain stage?

#322

from my experience this is not related with gain parameter but just interesting way of mixing dry and wet. Some guys of MW found that OTO mixed dry and wet in a different way than Eventide and I really like it (maybe because dry signal goes not through ADC/DAC (?) stages and after this mixed with wet signal).
my experience: near 12’ - 50/50 and after this - to much verb (like 20(dry)/80(wet))

#323

I gave this a try this afternoon, and I’m pretty well impressed. I wound up buying a license and thinking about selling my Field Kit FX. (Honestly I was half expecting to sell it after my Dark World arrives; now I might not wait).

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#325

i’m such a sucker for all things springverb related. i may need to check this out.

#326

a few tracks I recorded with the heavy use of (marbles and plaits) > DarkWorld > OTO BAM.

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#327

the “BAM fam” is growing. i just ordered a used BAM, along with a BIM. i’ve had a strymon bluesky reverb that’s served well for several years (whether used subtly or significantly, on about a couple of hundred tracks), but i need to explore new reverb types and applications.

BAM seems to have wide sweet spots in all of its modes; inviting playing and experimenting with every instrument. i’m especially looking forward to putting modular and harp through it.

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#328

Weird… Anyone ever crash their Bam before? Last night mine started to cut out and become distorted and then just stopped reverbing. Had to unplug it. Seems ok but was rather odd.

#329

I bit the bullet on a Z-DSP for Valhalla. Why TipTop hasn’t made a smaller standalone HoV unit is beyond me.

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#330

My Dark World finally arrived. It was worth the wait! All the dip switch stuff wasn’t too hard to figure out after all, though I do wish the jacks were on the back instead (so it fits closer to other pedals) and there was some other way of assigning modulation targets (hold a button and wiggle a knob, maybe).

The reverbs themselves aren’t blowing me away next to Valhalla and Twangstrom – probably because it’s mono – but the quality is there. The spring does sounds great if you patch the pedal in a feedback loop, and of course the real joy is combining it with the dark side.

I do wish it was stereo, but pop a stereo chorus on the output and it’s close enough. Or mult through a different reverb or a plugin and do mid/side.

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#332

this video literally made me go back and turn my synth on again

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