What's your favorite reverb build?

I always thought highly of the madbean moodring when it came to the brick

I think the weber revibe is as good as it gets wrt tube reverb and the surfy is as good as it gets for solid state analog reverb

diy plate does seem like a bit of a whiff until I consider the form factor of all those studio plates

I haven't even really thought about fv-1 reverb ... I feel like the engineers at lexicon, roland, strymon, etc. will have a better algo than I will so why bother?
 
ICTRock said:
I feel like the engineers at lexicon, roland, strymon, etc. will have a better algo than I will so why bother?
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You are not wrong, fv-1 just doesn’t have the processing power and memory I think to hold a candle to the stuff that’s out today, ether pedals like strymon or VSTs. And what’s the point of running a digital pedal at the end of chain when running into a DAW. Even most of the free reverb plugins are superior to anything fv-1 I have played with. Not trying to be a downer here.
 
Thanks for all the input so far. Seems like fv-1 doesn't get lots of love, and the belton, while not universally loved, has some fans.

I checked out demos of both the Spirit Box and the Gravitation, and I like them both. The Sproing looks less interesting to me but Sproing Deluxe looks kinda fun. My goal was not to build them all but it's starting to look like I need to build them all.
 
I’ll throw my lot in with the Spirit Box crowd. Though I ultimately prefer my amps reverb, the spirit box is my go to for deep ambient verb. I recently completed an FV-1 with a custom eeprom of mostly verbs (I needed a shimmer verb specifically, but included some hall and chamber) and I just find the FV-1 stuff pretty sterile.
 
Whenever someone asks me about making them a reverb. I say find a used rv-6 not going to be a whole lot cheaper and the rv-6 is going to blow it out of the water for everything ive tried. Ive got a surfy bear clone board i need to put together. But most everything ive tried fv-1 based or belton is like paradox said.. their team of engineers is going to win. Sproing deluxe is probably my favorite so far. But still by the time youre done youre 2/3rds of the way to a used rv6 and youve got 1/10th of the pedal.

All that said my fender 75 from the dark ages of vintage fenders has about the most amazing spring for me and if i want reverb i just use that. Tube driven amp spring 👍👍👍
 
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Paradox916 said:
You are not wrong, fv-1 just doesn’t have the processing power and memory I think to hold a candle to the stuff that’s out today, ether pedals like strymon or VSTs. And what’s the point of running a digital pedal at the end of chain when running into a DAW. Even most of the free reverb plugins are superior to anything fv-1 I have played with. Not trying to be a downer here.
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For a recording, no point. But for just playing and noodling, I find having physical pedals (or a good patch on a multi-FX pedal) is much superior to a lot of plugins. It's a much bigger pain to set up plugins in my experience. Single plugin suites are fine though. But that's just my experience, YMMV.
 
i haven’t done many reverbs.
my last one was a clone of the spaceman effects orion analog spring reverb (with a mini accutronics spring tank).
DEFX has a PCB for this - ‘Hooke’, but i did my build with vero, cos i didn’t wanna have to use DEFXs weird switching setup.
i’ve never played a real fender reverb amp to know what a proper tube spring reverb should sound like, but i thought it was alright considering it’s running off 9V and a relatively small spring tank.

definitely keen to do the gravitation reverb and spirit box, they sound like fun.
 
spi said:
I'm thinking I need to build a reverb. Given they need belton bricks or fv1s, the cost is more than the average build, so I'd like focus on one or two good ones.

What's your favorite and why?
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I've only done one, my own design using the new Cabintech "digital BBD" board. I set it up more for use as an analog delay and chorus, which it's great for, but the verb is not bad at all even with my very basic feedback scheme.
 
Locrian99 said:
Whenever someone asks me about making them a reverb. I say find a used rv-6 not going to be a whole lot cheaper and the rv-6 is going to blow it out of the water for everything ive tried. Ive got a surfy bear clone board i need to put together. But most everything ive tried fv-1 based or belton is like paradox said.. their team of engineers is going to win. Sproing deluxe is probably my favorite so far. But still by the time youre done youre 2/3rds of the way to a used rv6 and youve got 1/10th of the pedal.

All that said my fender 75 from the dark ages of vintage fenders has about the most amazing spring for me and if i want reverb i just use that. Tube driven amp spring 👍👍👍
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This but DigiTech polara
 
Locrian99 said:
All that said my fender 75 from the dark ages of vintage fenders has about the most amazing spring for me and if i want reverb i just use that. Tube driven amp spring 👍👍👍
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I used to own a Fender 30, which was the smaller version of the 75. I think it may have had a 4 spring tank, but it's been ages. Sounded even nicer with a 12AU7 driving it, FWIW.
 
I still think the Deflector is the bomb. I really don't like spring reverb and I'm more into the cavernous digital ambient stuff so it does it for me. I've resisted even trying Strymon stuff because I don't want to spend the money. Is it really that much better once it comes out of an FX loop?
 
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