What is it?
The Mr. Black Supermoon Chrome is an exclusive, modified version of the Mr. Black Supermoon Reverb. This model has a few tweaks and is exclusively available at Proguitarshop.com.
Construction
Feels very sturdy and the finish looks fantastic. I have a feeling the chrome will whether and tarnish in time, but I imagine it'll age like a thin skin nitro guitar, or shit depending on your stance on relics.
Sounds
The differences between the chrome and the regular Supermoon, from what I've read on the website are that the decay of the chrome is increased (to around 30 seconds by the sounds of it) and the ability to fully blend out the dry signal is now available.
Turning it on with everything at noon revealed that this reverb pedal definitely does like to live on the ethereal side of things. Dialing the sway (pitch modulation) to try and hear the basic characteristic of the reverb reminded me of the 'Cave' setting in my old Line 6 Verbzilla, endless trails that just gently fade off to nothing. However, the one difference I noticed is that with the reverb knob dialed anywhere but cranked, note separation in the Supermoon was far superior.
I bought this primarily to end the chain in my ambient, soundscape, minimalist pedalboard and I was looking for a modulated reverb but wanted to avoid the Boss RV-5 as a friend of mine had so reliability issues with it and is on his third. I found the sweet spot for the sway control was about a third up, this gives the reverb just the tiniest bit of movement and keeps it interesting.
It's not the modulated reverb that I'm used to however, as from my own experience, most modulated reverbs apply chorus to the trail of the reverb to give it a shimmering effect. The modulation of the Supermoon is like a very slow, pulsing vibrato that can get really whacky and evil sounding when cranked.
Despite all this, the sway, reverb and decay can all be pulled back to let the pedal double as a quite nice room reverb for more 'regular' styles of playing.
The 100% wet and huge decay make swelling a treat and backed up with an analog delay (in my case an EHX Memory Boy) give some rather epic, lovely sounds.
Conclusion
The Mr. Black Supermoon Chrome sets out to do one thing, make some bizarre reverb textures and it does just that and then some. It's going on my board and I can't see it leaving for a while.
I don't do scores but here's a video:
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Mr Black Supermoon Chrome full written review and video demo
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I'll agree that it's a very niche pedal and one that has a rather small market. However, there aren't many pedals that do what this does and the ones that do are either more expensive or are just so feature laden that I wouldn't use even half of what they offer.stewart wrote:These look amazing but as with most non-dirt pedals, I wouldn't use it nearly enough to justify coughing up that much money.