Not For Me
I bought this mainly for the 'drip' on the spring reverb setting. I like playing surf, spaghetti -western, blues and Americana. While delivering killer sounds, vintage spring reverb units are not always practical for various.
reasons. The trem and echo features
seemed like nice bonuses on the Oceans 11 too. The 'drip' part of the
spring reverb sound is really good but my big problem with all the settings on this machine is that it kills my guitar sound. It makes my Vintage Jazzmasters and P90-goldtops through my original tweed, brown and Blackface amps sound like I'm playing through something digital. I'm not stuck on expensive vintage gear. I've been using a cheap Biyang RV10 reverb pedal and it sounds tremendous with my vintage rigs, no drip though. Its got an amazing fat, yet transparent warmth that is totally lacking in the EH pedal. The EH seems to filter out pleasant low frequencies.That classic 'wump' on the bottom strings, that I love for surf tunes, just disappears.
Even if I did like the sound of the EH, the tiny print font means it would be virtually useless on stage if I wanted to change settings. I'd need a flashlight, a magnifying glass and very patient band members.
If you are just looking for a great baseline reverb for an already great sounding rig, I think you can do way better for a lot less money. Perhaps if I hadn't heard the cheap Biyang first, I may have thought "yeh, its good value and kinda does the job" but I still dont think it would've lasted long. Don't get me wrong. If you need stacks of different reverse, gated, modulated and shimmered reverb in your songs, then its probably great value, but for me, it affects my sound in a way that makes me not enjoy playing.
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