KEELEY OMNI REVERB
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| $130.00 USD |
With prices falling every year on powerful new digital chips pedal makers have gone crazy offering new reverbs every two and half minutes. Throw in some modulation and a few filters and the reverb becomes a side show by itself. Having one of these can be a lot of fun. I have a Nuenaber and my Flamma has few tricks as well.
BIG BUT!
If you are in a band playing your average tune in all but a very out there fringe ambient music like 99% of all bands anything creeping pass a spring reverb does not get a lot of use.
THE NEED TO KNOW TECH ONLY
It is good to know about some tech differences. A reverb pedal is basically a small computer specialized with some serious memory and processing chips to hold a reverb program or as the industry likes to say an algorithm or two of a two hundred lol. Each of these is basically software holding a sound. The better the hardware the more detailed the instructions sent to the program can be. A killer algorithm in high end reverb can sound amazing but a killer algorithm in a medium priced reverb can sound as good. WHY?
Two things are going on here. First 10 year old tech sounds amazing. Strymon uses it!!! Strymon sounds killer because the algorithms are killer. The sound has sufficient detail and the tech is sufficient enough to deliver. One last even if obvious. When offering a reverb at a budget price you can give the user a dozen mediocre sound or three studio ready ones.
CONCLUSION
So the Keeley is all about 3 simple choices of reverb sounds. Critics would say the Spring doesn't have that springy rattle sound that screams spring reverb. No it doesn't but all but 'Surf' music guys go out of their way on their Fender amps with built in reverbs to get rid of it. The small room is ideal your guitar will not get swamped. The Plate is to die for. Bullet proof !!! Not only clear and bright but a lot fatter than most. About 99% of all the classic great guitar sounds ever recorded used a Plate reverb!!!!
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