But based on my own research and speaking with other people that have used some of these pedals, I've narrowed it down to these guys. Like I said, it all comes down to personal need.Īnd like I've said in previous posts, I'm just another guy on the internet, all I can do here is share my experiences with pedals I've tried and demoed for myself and tell you what I think. If you need a solid all in one pedal with midi capability then I would suggest the Ventris. If you want just a ready to go out of the box solution, then I would recommend the Mr Black Eterna . It all really comes down to how versatile and tweakable of a pedal you are looking for. Just gonna note, you'll notice the prices for some of these pedals range from inexpensive to pretty damn costly. There are a couple of pedals out there that do an amazing job of producing the shimmer effect and these are the ones that I think anyone looking to achieve this effect could benefit from. The shimmer effect will definitely help spark the creativity flame. This especially goes for musicians that are creating ambient music and just so happen to need an angelic choir section behind them. While it's a unique sound, shimmer reverb is not a new effect by a long shot - it's been around at least since the late 80's most notably used by U2's The Edge, but now seems to be back in demand after the popular Strymon Blue Sky brought the effect back into popularity.Īll in all It's a pretty cool effect and can be useful depending on the type of sounds you are wanting to achieve. As of late I'm definitely starting to notice a trend of pedal manufacturers jumping on the shimmer wagon. I won't be getting rid of the blueSky though."Shimmer Reverb" seems to be the new buzzword when it comes to reverb pedals. The pedal sounded great and was a lot of fun to mess around with. I do want to pick up another Space in the future. Like you said, I'm saving my favorite sound under the preset switch and using the normal mode for whatever I feel like, and it's enough for me for now. I've got a modulated plate reverb with lots of decay saved in my preset, and a huge room reverb right now under the normal mode. The simplicity of the pedal was definitely nice for what I was looking for. When I got the blueSky, I was able to dial in a plate sound that I really loved almost instantly, and I wasn't too tempted to go back and constantly play with it. While I loved that preset that I made, I found myself constantly going back to it and tweaking it to see if I could get more out of it. I gave it a cool name and added a hotswitch feature where it gave the reverb a really long, ambient trail. When I first got the Space, I made what I thought was an awesome sounding plate preset. I feel like with a space I would either endlessly tweek and never be satisfied, or go "well there's already 100 sounds that someone more experienced with reverb made in here" and then I'd never bother making my own and I'd always be second guessing myself. If I want to tweek with something thats what delay is for imo.
Eventide blackhole vs valhalla shimmer mod#
Thats kinda what I figure, I can set one normal reverb sound and forget about it and then mess around with shimmer and mod when I want. But what I don't know is if having the ability to save everything I come up with would be worth getting the Space for.
Eventide blackhole vs valhalla shimmer manual#
I generally leave my verbzilla on the octave shimmer sound, I figure with the Strymon I could make that my favorite and then use the manual setting for more normal sounds. Smaller footprint, really nice sounds, less intimidating controls, 200 bucks cheeper (makes a new verb more justifiable.ĭo people have opinions about which actually sounds better? I am looking for a new reverb pedal because I don't feel like the sound I'm getting from the verbzilla are as good as I would like, and because I think I would actually use reverb more if I could have some presets (or a preset) because otherwise I just set it and forget it because I don't like turning knobs during a set.And I also am upgrading my delay so I'm GASing on reverb too. Let me first state that yes I know these are very different pedals. So I am looking for some pros and cons and general input on my new reverb pedal decision: Eventide Space or Strymon blueSky. I think the time has come for me to ditch the Verbzilla.