I really like these:
Especially the diffuse reverb.
I use the max4live versions in Ableton and they are awesome.
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dude
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somewhere up here, maybe this thread? maybe anotherā¦ somebody posted about fairfield shallow water. and mine finally showed up yesterday. it is a great teammate to the two strymon (flint and el cap) that stay permanently out on studio desk. iām not sure it is a need all the time. in fact iām sure it isnāt. but it pairs superduper with those two and oozes character very subtle all the way to tape disintegration.
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You use it for synths? I have been planning on this for guitar but if itās good all around Iāll jump in straight away
dude
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i havenāt explored deeply on synths yet. but itāll be good with them i have no doubt. guitar and rhodes were my first go to.
dude
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it works exactly as expected on any input iāve tried (synths too). it is kinda like a mix of the ātape ageā and āwow and flutterā knobs on the el cap only they are in almost real time (chorus) rather than applied to a further delayed signal and envelope as well as random modulated.
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Thanks, thatās exactly what Iād hoped. All analogue too I think
Just added modnetic to buddy up with the diffuse vst from surreal machines. Canāt wait to play around with it.
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Iāve been interested in their stuff, but havenāt ponied up for anything yet. Make sure to update us!
Iāve been a fan of diffuse for a while. Modnetic has been a bit more opaque, or moreso the presets arenāt what I expected. When I started just setting up my own sound from scratch itās become much more what I expected in a tape dirt warming delay box. Iāll try get something recorded this afternoon. Theyāre both quite dirty, which suits me as I alternate between those and the Valhalla plugins
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So I tested (and bought) the noise Ocean Machine on Saturday. I have never been so impressed with a pedal in my life. It has a selection of reverbs, plus 2 delays and a looper. Itās an ambient guitarists dream.
I plan on using it mostly with guitar, but also bought it to use as an end of chain effect. Will post sounds.
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The Ocean Machine looks wonderful for sure. My band actually recently got sponsored by Mooer, and weāre using a lot of their stuff now. Very useful small pedals. I would love to own a new reverb- might just have to talk to them about this haha.
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prms
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Lotsa good info in this thread! Esp the Tom Erbe PD patches/Erbeverb abstract, and the convolution stuff! The BAM does sound worth investigating, if the bank would agree 
- quite a lot of older rack units that you can get cheap as well.
TL;DR:
Been using the Intellijel SpringRay with different sized tanks in the eurorack, springs and oscillators are a wonderful match, like the Synthi which has such a wonderful combination of the osc/vcf/spring reverb. The springray does take a bit of effort to find a sweet spot tho, but trying to work around that. Typically would use a large tank for longer drones and the small one for percussion/short hits etc. Does get very muddy very fast. 
Speaking of percussion, been using the EHX cathedral on spring emulation mode a bit as well, seems to do that job okay.
Plug-in wise was using the āfreeverbā algorithm quite a lot for super long drones and stuff within ppooll, did that job well but probably isnāt ideal in most use scenarios Tried out the Soundtoys Little Plate and been using it a lot for mixing recently, and the Valhalla VV. BigSky on the mixer aux as kind of a master send.
Donāt own an ErbeVerb but managed to recreate some of that rhythmic inputs by feeding gates/cvs into the coloring controls and reverb/dampening amount of the Elements. Never got along with the Clouds reverb 
Go for it. Itās a glorious pedal. And really easy to coax lovely drones etc from.
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The Eventide pedals are fully remotely controllable via MIDI, and are absolutely incredible. A stack of H9s is an extremely powerful combination, since you can change their routing dynamically (in mono they can flip between pre- or post- chain depending on the type of preset or your own determination, without rewiring), and because an H9 can be any major type of effect you want - pitch, modulation, delay, reverb, and certain combinations thereof too. These are immensely deep algorithms, each of them comparable to a full plugin, and youāve got about 48 of them in each pedal, with customization, presets, remote control, automation, CV control (via expression input 0-+5V), gate for tempo, etc.
Edit: didnāt realize this thread was so old! Saw it pop up, thought Iād reply to a few thingsā¦ wow. There are a ton of great reverbs out there, though, for all budgets and categories. If youāre not into menu diving but you want some of the depth and control that digital reverbs can offer, look for ones that are MIDI controllable and use a MIDI interface, that might save you some bucks and be a nice compromise between hands-on intuitiveness and the flexibility and depth of a good deep digital setup.
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I recently got a Meris Mercury7 (also a Polymoon from them, which isnāt a reverb, though it can do the sort of tiny delays building on top of each other to create a weird reverb like the EQD Afterneath or something).
These pedals are very cool and they are really fun to tweak. The Mercury 7 has a bunch of pitch settings, and you can dial them in by holding the alt button and turning mix. This is really useful for getting say, a shimmer in your mix but not overpowering the non-pitched part of your signal. The mod is awesome as wellāreminds me a lot of the Valhalla Vintage mod which I love!
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joshhh
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I hadnāt come across these before. MIDI control/stereo/$300 is pretty great if it sounds good! The demos are ok and it sounds potentially awesome, but itās hard for me to get a good feel for itā¦also, hard to compare to Strymonās synth demo videos with Peter Dyer if youāre looking to use the pedals with synths.
I really wish all pedal/effect videos had clear dry/wet comparisons, just so you are sure you are hearing what you think youāre hearing. Thatās part of what makes the Peter Dyer videos so helpful.
Recently, Iāve been a little more lenient about buying/selling gear. Iāve realized that things sell pretty quickly on Reverb for pretty good prices, and the shipping process is pretty easy for me (thereās a post office a block away and pretty much all pedals* will fit in the smallest priority bubble mailer, which is a flat rate of $7.10), and so far, everyone Iāve sold to/bought from has been really friendly and responsive.
*just a note if you want to try this, make sure to incase the pedal in a few layers of bubble wrap too and donāt just put loose in the bubble mailerā¦they are a fairly good outer layer of protection, but I wouldnāt trust them alone as they can be considerably bigger than the pedal and the pedal might bounce around inside.
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andrew
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Anybody have some recs for good MAX/MSP reverbs? Or free MAX for Live ones (which I could gut and use in max)?
