Your favorite reverb type and pedal - Poll included

Yep, I put mine in front of any amp I play through. My reissue was stolen last year but I am negotiating on a '64 right now, no reissue.

 

I voted spring and my most used reverb pedal would be the EHX Cathedral.
My only amp with wonderful reverb is my 1965 Gibson RVT-20 Minuteman.
It really has a dark drippy sound that none of my pedals can recreate

 

I voted Spring but I sometimes need other styles, plate or longer more ambient ones...
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the MXR Reverb. It's small, powerful and versatile.
3 pots, very simple to find a good sound, no rack tweaking but studio approved quality.
I usually don't like shimmer but the PAD mode is very musical.

 

I rarely use reverb. In fact, for the first fifteen years of my “playing life,” I turned on the reverb effect less than ten times, and then it was only because somebody demanded reverb on a song...same thing with delay/echo.

Now, when the song calls for it I’ll gladly turn on the reverb on my amp (63-reissue Vibroverb), but I don’t generally do it right off...

But that ^ is my favorite reverb.

 

None of my amps have reverb.* Usually it isn't needed for live work unless the venue is fully carpeted and sound absorbent. When I do use reverb, I like very subtle settings so that you can't really hear distinct reverberations but when it's turned off the guitar just doesn't sound as good.

The cheap Biyang Tri-Verb sounds nice, but I recently got a used Hermida version 3, which is a big step up. Sounds warm and smooth and just plain gorgeous. The Biyang is a bit bright in comparison. I often add a touch of analogue delay to thicken things up. Again using very subtle settings.

*Actually I do own one amp with spring reverb - a 1980s Fender Sidekick Reverb 30 - but I've only recently bought it and it hasn't been delivered yet.

 

I only have one reverb pedal, the TC Hall of Fame, and my favorite of its models is the hall reverb. If I had a different pedal or a good reverb amp, I might have a different answer.

 

Spring reverb, but there's a time and a place for Hall and Plate. And the pedal: EHX Oceans 11

 

Anything with a decent "Hall" algorithm will give me anything I want.

 

I'm loving the Source Audio Collider. Some serious algorithms in this box. I'd love it even without the excellent delay side.

 

A super drippy Spring reverb is my most favorite reverb....I have 4 amps with built in spring reverb tanks in them and each amps reverb sounds different from the next. I also have an EHX Oceans 11 pedal that sounds pretty darn good but is another flavor of spring. The last few weeks I've been running 2-3 amps at a time to try to really tune into each amps different reverb character and also to try to get my Ocean11 to recreate each amps reverb tone.

 

The spring reverb in my Fender amp.

 

None of my amps have on board reverb, the spring and plate reverbs in my Strymon Flint do everything I need....

RJ

 

I have a Mad Professor Silver Spring Reverb. There are no bad settings on it. Not an ambient pedal, but for great plate - hall sounds, it gets the job done really well.

 

I love reverb. The long delay spring tank in my amp is all I need.

 

Strymon Flint

 

Spring is my favorite for sure.

Current favorite is the Fender Tre-Verb. My main amp has no built in reverb. I don't think I will buy another nice tube amp without it having at a minimum a real spring tank, and possibly having a real Tremolo circuit built in as Tremolo what I voted as my favorite/most used modulation when the poll about that came up last time.

I have the Digitech Polara as well.. it's Spring is very nice too but it's definitely different and somehow synthetic in the way it responds.

Had the Oceans 11 as well.. it acts like the 63 external Fender tank. The Tre-Verb model of that is better IMO. But you need to really want splashy reverb to use that, so it's weird to me EHX put that in the Oceans 11. Overall I don't like the Oceans 11 though. On the Tre-Verb I prefer the '65 model which is I think a model of the Deluxe Reverb internal spring tank. It's more appropriate across a wider range of reverb levels IMO.

 

Either spring or plate does it for me. I’m super happy with my MXR Reverb. Everything I need in a reverb pedal.

 

I wish I still had my twch 21 Boost RVB. It was a bit of a one trick pony. No presets and tricky to dial in. But the shimmer was very spring~like. Also, having the boost at the end of the signal chain was very useful!

 

Have a Neunaber immerse with a whole bunch of settings...but I just leave it on "Wet" with light modulation, dark tone, and like 50% mix. Have a reverb knob on my blues jr...never even bothered to turn it past 0. Seems to work for nicely for a gentle verb.

 

surfybear reverb ftw