Took the lovely Tech 21 Boost R.V.B. for an enjoyable spin this evening. This not your normal reverb pedal. No fake sounding “room” or “cathedral” sounds here. Somehow, Andrew Barta and the folks at Tech 21 have managed to put a plate and spring reverb, along with a shower room echo chamber, in small package. This puppy nails the spring reverb sound for sure, it sounds better than the actual spring reverb in the Danelectro Spring Reverb pedal. In fact, it is much more flexible than most amplifier reverbs.
The reverb has several ways to adjust your tone:
1. Time – controls the decay time (length) of the reverb.
2. Tone – like a tone knob of the guitar it effects the high end of the reverb (wet) signal.
3. Feedback – This is really cool. It feeds back the reverb signal to the input to increase the amount of reverb. I was able to get some really cool sound right at the edge of oscillation. Letting it go over produced some neat feedback but I wouldn’t recommend doing this much.
4. Mix – 100% dry to 100% wet. Really cool feature I have not seen on other reverbs. Using the 100% wet signal sounded like you were listening to a guitar player in the distance. An interesting effect that could be put to good use.
5. Rumble- basically a tone control for the low end. Crank it up for baritone guitar like sounds.
6. Level/Boost signal – adjusts the overall output of the signal up to 9db.
7. Trails- this is a cool feature. If the “trails” button is engaged, it will put in natural reverb decay when you switch out of the effect. Avoids the abrupt effected signal loss common with most effects.
I ran through various surf (think Dick Dale) type riffs as well as Buddy Holly song. This baby was made for 50’s and surf music. This reverb is highly shapeable, which allows you to dial in various spring and plate reverb type sounds along with the shower room echos.
If you are a surf music nut, it is a must have. If you like digital reverb with lots of room options, look elsewhere.
Jack
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