Favoured Reverb Type for Guitar

skunkwerx

I have a Strymon Bluesky in the loop. Tbh I’m a bit whelmed by it. 

The shimmer mode seems quite one dimensional. Very much a one trick pony. 

The reverb itself, on hall mode, great, can do crazy self oscillations or be quite subtle. 

Switch to plate or spring though, the mix is up full which is unity, any further and it cuts the dry guitar signal a bit too much, and I prefer a noticeable reverb but not at the sake of guitar volume itself. 

Its fine on unity at long delays/decay, but turning the knob to make the reverb shorter, like a slappy sound, kind of makes the effect really really subtle, too subtle for me. 

Sure its there but its too subtle in a way even with the mix up at unity/max before the dry guitar starts to get lowered.  

I dont think its much different in the front of the amp as opposed to the loop, but I havent experimented really as loop is where its needed as I use amp distortion with it as well as cleans. 

thegummy

NorthernStomps said:

Sprrrriiing for me

although I do like a modulated hall also

a sprinkle of shimmer in small doses occasionally 

I find shimmer to be one of those things where the first time I try it and play a chord through it I'm like "holy shit that is amazing!" but then after a couple of times of actually trying to use it I find it's a bit like copy and pasting a very specific sound in to the song if you know what I mean.

Like, it kind of takes an input and outputs its own synthy sound that's pretty much identical each time but in the pitch of the input notes.

Having said that, I might need to look more in to the "sprinkle" idea and see if it does anything for me in very small doses.

NorthernStomps

thegummy said:

NorthernStomps said:

Sprrrriiing for me

although I do like a modulated hall also

a sprinkle of shimmer in small doses occasionally 

I find shimmer to be one of those things where the first time I try it and play a chord through it I'm like "holy shit that is amazing!" but then after a couple of times of actually trying to use it I find it's a bit like copy and pasting a very specific sound in to the song if you know what I mean.

Like, it kind of takes an input and outputs its own synthy sound that's pretty much identical each time but in the pitch of the input notes.

Having said that, I might need to look more in to the "sprinkle" idea and see if it does anything for me in very small doses.

I know what you mean. I think it’s easy to crank the effect all the way up and get that huge choral sound for a couple of chords, think “wow” and then immediately wonder how you’re gonna use it. 

Its certainly not a set and forget like say a room or perhaps a spring can be. 

 

GavRichList

Modulated here. I live for the wonk. 

Jeremiah

Spring for surf rock, hall or room for everything else

jdgm

Sassafras said:

Spring, and just enough to liven up the sound. Not too keen on reverb drenched ambient stuff.

HCDavies said:

Spring for me every time. That's the sound I want, that's the sound I grew up listening to.

Yes....yes!

thegummy

GavRichList said:

Modulated here. I live for the wonk. 

You would love the ladies of the night in Fife.

Voxman

Room, spring, hall and plate tend to be the main ones. Depends on the tone and feel I'm after.  

bingefeller

Plate ala VH.

Pabcrane

Spring! Preferably from actual springs.

thefez

Pabcrane said:

Spring! Preferably from actual springs.

Seconded. 
Though a nice hall reverb is good too

TTBZ

I used to be a bit of subtle spring reverb only, but now I want something in pedal form that sounds like the reverb pedal in Neural Plini. Not sure what it's based on but it sounds great as a special effect/pad type of thing to give some dimension and depth to leads. Lead-wise now I'm bored of the "widdly solo section after the 2nd chorus" sort of thing - instead I'm playing more of an accompanying melody layer. A nice reverb with some movement really helps with this.

samzadgan

Modulated for me

edenfield99

Spring or plate mainly...maybe a bit of room/hall reverb when I want a change.