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Lone Wolf Reverb
Lone Wolf Reverb
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Chinaski
243 posts
Apr 06, 2013
8:23 AM
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Recently purchased this new addition to LW's pedals, so just some initial thoughts..
As a very general rule of thumb, most harp players tend to favour delay or reverb - after trying various pedals in the past, I've used a LW Delay as my only effect for a few years now and have always been very happy with its sound.
However, the demo video of this new pedal piqued my interest and I'm pretty impressed with it already. Very warm sounding spring reverb, a tone control allows you to dial in brightness of the reverb (I'm favouring it quite dark at this early stage), while the reverb knob adjusts the mix/volume of the after signal. Very simple and easy to use.
I left the pedal on for a full band rehearsal and it added a nice warmth and richness without being overpowering when reverb was at around 12 o clock (subjective, obviously). For slow blues and chromatic use, I found dialling in the reverb a little higher was very effective, making the notes sing out very nicely. Forum member Barbeque Bob has been involved with the development of the pedal, and I think he and Randy have done a great job. Despite being firmly in the delay camp for a long time, I'm certainly going to gig with this pedal for a while and see how it responds in different rooms etc. I may be a convert (still not selling my delay, though!). Very highly recommended if you're considering one.
Oh, and it looks cool too :)
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Kingley
2511 posts
Apr 06, 2013
8:29 AM
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I've never really been a fan of reverb for harp. I too was impressed by the demo video though. It'll be interesting to hear more demos and reviews of the pedal from people. I have a Harp Attack, that's the only Lone Wolf product I've tried so far and I love it.
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Chinaski
244 posts
Apr 06, 2013
8:33 AM
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Me neither - but I'll certainly be keeping it and using at at gigs for a while. Lot of festival stuff coming up in next weeks/months, so will be able to try in various settings and stages etc.
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barbequebob
2239 posts
Apr 06, 2013
9:15 AM
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Most reverb pedals really don't properly match the impedance of the mics well and sound kinda dead, even the ones with spring emulation. The way this works is that it's like owning a real pre-CBS Fender amp like a black face Super Reverb, Vibroverb, or Twin Reverb, where it seems like the amp gets louder when its on (this was something that usually happens with guitar players a lot and used to annoy me a lot, but with harp, you'd feedback if you put it past 4).
The tone control works for harp better than the dwell does and you can tame it for certain room acoustics. The tone at the 11:00 position is essentially like the default setting of the reverb that's built into an amp like the ones I've mentioned, and if you put it at the 1:00 position, that's the way it sounds on the reissue versions of those amps.
If you use tons of breath control, if you hit a note very softly and then hit a different note with a somewhat harder attack, that note will seem quite explosive.
If you use analog delays, which are darker than digitals, if you use this in conjunction with the analog delay, you can turn the tone on the reverb pedal a bit more trebly to compensate and do the reverse for a digital delay pedal.
When I A/B tested one of the better guitar reverb pedals with the spring reverb setting, the Digitech Digiverb, this LW clearly has more real presence, even when A/B'ing against the Digitech fully cranked in its settings, and having personally own a real '65 Twin Reverb as well as a real '65 Super Reverb, the LW reverb reacts more like that, but you should almost never have the feedback problem those have when cranking the reverb level.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
Last Edited by barbequebob on Apr 08, 2013 8:52 AM
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Chinaski
245 posts
Apr 06, 2013
9:32 AM
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Yeah, I'm liking the tone control at about 9:00 at the moment - sounds quite warm to me that way. Great pedal - nice job!
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barbequebob
2240 posts
Apr 08, 2013
10:31 AM
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Thanks!! Don't be surprised if you may need to use a different tone setting in different rooms because of the acoustics of the room and they can vary in huge amounts.
You can turn the reverb knob on this all the way up and should have almost no feedback because the controls only work on the reverb signal, NOT on both reverb and dry signal, which is often the way most reverb pedals tend to work, and even on outboard reverbs or amps with reverb already in the amp, which as I've said, anything past 4 would get you to feedback.
The controls affecting the reverb signal only are something that comes from two now discontinued Guyatone reverb units. One, is the Guyatone MR-2 digital reverb pedal, pictured below:
The other is an all tube spring reverb unit they recently discontinued but still available at http://www.musiciansfriend.com. and that's the FR-3000V and is definitely an outboard tank worth considering and here is a pictures shown below:
They both have a switch where you can have the unit affect both the reverb as well as the dry signal, or just the reverb signal only, and on the pedal, which I still own, I always switched it to affect just the reverb signal and the contrst control was a tone control and so doing it this way allows it to be deeper as well as now bright or dark I want it.
I fy you crank the reverb knob to the 5:00 position and the tone at 7:00, you get a dark, spring rumble that's almost like a slap back.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
Last Edited by barbequebob on Apr 08, 2013 10:36 AM
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Chinaski
246 posts
Apr 08, 2013
12:21 PM
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Yeah, I'm certainly going to experiment with the tone control depending on the acoustics of different rooms.
I have cranked the reverb all the way up with no feedback issues at all - currently I'm using it anywhere between 12:00 and 3:00. I will give it a try with the tone turned down low as you mention.
Got a custom wood mic from Greg Heumann on the way soon too, so looking forward to combining that, the Bassman and the reverb pedal for a few gigs! :)
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Pluto
262 posts
Apr 15, 2013
8:01 AM
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Randy does it again. His new reverb pedal is fantastic. Sounds great with a chromatic!
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Chinaski
248 posts
Apr 15, 2013
10:05 AM
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Pluto - it certainly does sound great with a chromatic. I like to crank the reverb control high when using the pedal with a chrom, very effective :)
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