REVERB- RED PANDA LABS Context v.2 ...incredibly powerful yet servile to the music

RED PANDA LABS CONTEXT|

$280.00 USD

The company started in 2009 to create high quality reverb, delays and other effects focusing on sounds that are rich in detail but not overtly busy with sonic complexity. 

Their aim was to enhance the source material which they saw as the picture that they needed to beautifully frame. Many modern effects often become the picture and the source is secondary. This in effect has the result of the tail wagging the dog.

This pedal was inspired by 1978 Ersa Major SST-282 Space Station. It was break through rack unit that took effects to a totally new level.

The layout is Blend, Predelay, Decay, both High and Low cut and Modulation. 

A second level gives you Balance between the reverb and delay, Delay time, Delay feedback, Ducking and the dynamics of it. This allows the source material to control the effect dropping when a note is played but rising in any space between the notes, and finally the modulation's rate.

Your choice of voices is Room, Hall, Cathedral, Gate, reverse, Plate, Spring and Grain.

The upgraded v.2 does not tamper with the voices but allows more control over expression.

CONCLUSION

I am 100% plus impressed. When you play a solo it could be wonderful to put it through such a dream land. At the end of that solo a listener should remember the music the not the effect. Having tried others and even bought two only to sell them. This is the first unit that leaves you remembering the man wearing the hat. Not hat the man wore.