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Post by James on Sept 14, 2006 12:43:09 GMT -7
Having 3 Z's with no reverb and starting to realize I really miss it. Had a holy grail which became "hissy" and even if it was not hissy, I still never sounded as good to me as the tube reverb in my old Vibro King....
Anyway, I am wondering if the T rex Roomate would do the trick or would it be better to spend a few more bucks on an uncle spot stand alone unit. I really loved the reverb in my Vking which makes me lean towards the Uncle Spot. The roomate, however, is smaller, cheaper........
I am not going to be running it thru an effects loop so that doesn't matter.......
Any thoughts? I know there was a thread about this a while back.....
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Post by billyguitar on Sept 14, 2006 13:25:19 GMT -7
If you don't mind hauling another box, I always enjoyed my Fender reissue tube reverb. It was only about $300 new so there ought to be some around used for a good price. Peavey also had a rackmount thing, Valverb?. I think it had tremolo in it also. I may be wrong about that. I haven't seen the T Rex reverb yet in person.
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Post by Lefty on Sept 14, 2006 13:53:15 GMT -7
Believe it or not it's cheaper to build a stand alone reverb than to get a Fender. The Fender RI are going for 499.99, and you can get the soup to nuts kit for 425.00-450.00 and do it yerself. Acutally Weber has a kit coming out with Verb and Trem, all in one unit.
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Post by Telemanic on Sept 14, 2006 15:24:17 GMT -7
Cool, didnt matchless make one of those back in the day? Rings a bell with me. I think while it wouldnt suss with a real stand alone, i may soon stick it out in the wind and spring for a T-rex R-mate, compact, and seems to sound damn good for a pedal!
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Post by James on Sept 14, 2006 17:54:38 GMT -7
Building a stand sounds like a good way to go.........wonder if those kits will be idiot proof? I have very little experience really working with electronics. Learning to bias my amp with a biasrite is about all I can do now.
So whats the deal with the fender RI stand alones? I mean, are they ok? I have heard so many mixed reviews.
I think I would rather have a stand alone........
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Post by billyguitar on Sept 14, 2006 18:24:42 GMT -7
I didn't know the fenders were that much money. I paid $250 or $275 for mine, used but mint, about 10 years ago. To me it sounds great but I don't want any more stuff to tote. There's been a lot of good talk about the EBS reverb pedal. I've used my Holy Grail with my Stang Ray and it does what I want it to do. It makes a little buzz but I don't hear any hiss. I use a darker tone than most guys also so that may be why. I think I could get along with most any reverb since I don't use much anyway.
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Post by James on Sept 15, 2006 4:48:24 GMT -7
I am also wondering if a nice delay would be better to cover my reverb needs? There is always that approach.
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Post by Dr.T on Sept 15, 2006 5:29:31 GMT -7
I own a T-Rex Replica and EHX Holy Grail. In my experience delay can't replace reverb function, repeats aren't so close each other to simulate reverb... For those about missing it, it depends on music style. For country and some Surf I think reverb's useful.
I play funky blues and rock and when I bought my R66 I was disappointed by the idea of playing without rev so I got EHX Holy Grail (nice unit, doin'his job) but now I admit that pedal is off my board. When you play loud with the band I've noticed that you can't hear the effect, it only suck a little your tone. On stage, very often I had the opposite problem: a very resonating room with natural reverb...
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Post by billyguitar on Sept 15, 2006 5:33:57 GMT -7
Delay can partially sub for reverb in some styles of music but not for the stuff I play. In the jump blues and jazz standard styles the guitar chunks a lot of steady quarter notes and there's no way to uses delay but reverb will put a little glue between the beats, providing that the room isn't already doing that. If it is I just play dry.
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Post by Telemanic on Sept 15, 2006 11:03:47 GMT -7
Exactly! Billyguitar, I agree that ya usually wont miss it in a loud stage enviroment, particularly in a club with lots of hard surfaces. But ive played a couple of places that were like some kind of sonic black hole! Absolutely dry, i swear this one little place you could run a plexi marshall wide open and not even wince! it just ate the sound right up, very weird. Also, i think like infered before, that when the volume and intensity come down for certain styles (Robillard, etc.) a little verb comes in handy.
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Post by steveinnashville on Sept 17, 2006 21:36:45 GMT -7
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