Surfybear Reverbs

shaunm

Hello all.

These look great but I wonder if anyone has any experience of putting these through the FX loop on your amp? It’s really hard to find any clips of anyone using one of these reverbs with a driven amp, almost all of the videos are of clean ish amps pushed by pedals. 

Also, has anyone got any thoughts on why getting the full classic over the compact or metal is a good idea? I have a cream tolex amp and cab so it appeals. 

bbill335

unless your preamp is brutally distorted, i think the intention is to run these into the main input. you might want something more "hifi" for an fx loop.

Seziertisch

I tried mine both before the amp and in an FX loop and preferred it straight in for “that” Fender sound. 

In the loop it lost some of its character and became a bit more generic reverb sounding, albeit still quite good.

The Metal is true bypass while the preamp section is on all the time in the Tolex version. When you engage the Metal the phase gets flipped which may or may not be an issue depending on what else is happening in your rig i.e. if you are using two amps but only using the verb with one, engaging it would put your amps out of (or potentially back in) phase.

shaunm

No, there’s no brutal distortion going on. I’d say classic rock in the early 70’s guise. So you would think with this type of sound in the front of the amp would be useable? 

bbill335

yeah do it