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Unless you’ve been marooned on a island, entirely apart from guitar-nerd media, you may have noticed that we are mired in a reverb arms race. Around the globe, pedal weirdoes are tweaking algorithms and stuffing knob upon knob of fine-tuning power to create the most distantly spacy, authentically springy, and perfectly plate-y reverbs.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the extreme, unnatural, and super-authentic sounds conjured by these tone obsessives. But how does the more practical player get in on the fun without devoting a whole season to a user manual and triggering episodes of knob navigation anxiety? The answer may be MXR’s new Reverb, a sample platter of reverb tones that run from very convincing spring emulations to cosmic-scale echoes—all in a compact, three-knob package.
The knobs are a familiar and conventional set: decay, tone, and mix—essentially the same controls you see on a basic Fender Reverb stompbox. The key to the wider universe within the MXR Reverb is the tone knob, which doubles as a push-button voice selector. Pushing the button illuminates one of the three LEDs in ether green or red. The color—and LED that is illuminated—indicates which of the six voices you’ve selected. One note of warning: You’ll have to use a light touch when making tone adjustments. The push switch is sensitive and it’s very easy to accidentally switch voices.
The six voices are familiar variations of what are now common reverb types in the digital reverb sphere. Plate, spring, and room emulations are more or less self-explanatory. Mod adds a dose of pitch and phase modulation to the plate reverb sound. Epic combines the reflections of multiple modulated reverbs—an effect not unlike watching light bounce off fragments of mirror. Pad adds octave-up and/or octave-down content in the fashion of a shimmer reverb.
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