Hardwire Reverb

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:28 pm

is fucking lush!!!!

seriously
so far my favourite pedal
and it turns out i get a discount at Guitar Center because i work at Circuit City

so for 94.22 i couldn't resist

the one thing i like about it is that Digitech actually looks like they care!!!! True Bypass, Custom velcroe in the box, and a Glow in the dark sticker over the footswitch for dark stages and mojo points
the spring isn't what i was hoping for [spring king] but it does the job
really shines in hall and pan, and reverse if trippy but could be useful
modulated made me take off my Behringer CE-600

if you're looking for a reverb, go buy

[will get picks of it on the board later]
EDIT
SHABAM!!!

[it's the red one

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[youtube][/youtube]

that is all

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:43 pm

Haze wrote:it turns out i get a discount at Guitar Center because i work at Circuit City

That must be new. I know your parent company bought GC a while back, but when I worked there (up until may 08) I hadn't heard of any discounts between stores.

James · Post by **James** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:56 pm

So it's this?

Liveliness? For fuck's sake I hate guitar pedals sometimes. Lexicon make some fantastic digital reverbs in rackmount form. None of them with nonsense terms like that (that I've noticed anyway). I suppose the point of it is that it will include a few controls (i imagine increasing it will increase the predelay, the size of the room in the algorithm and decrease the dampening). I long for the days when pedal companies will make a compressor that says "ratio" "threshold" and the like, rather than "sustain".

Post by **Mike** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:10 pm

Liveliness = Treble, I'm guessing?

James · Post by **James** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:13 pm

I'm thinking it has increased treble cut to the left, and increased reflections/size to the right, possibly with a bit of a treble boost on the far right. It's probably increase the pre-delay a little too, perhaps depending on which mode its in.

You can never tell with these ambiguous names.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:32 pm

Digitech's Owner's Manual wrote:Liveliness Knob - controls the amount of high frequency response in the Reverb's effect signal.

James · Post by **James** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:41 pm

Haze wrote:
Digitech's Owner's Manual wrote:Liveliness Knob - controls the amount of high frequency response in the Reverb's effect signal.

Just call the pot treble, or brightness, or something fucking simple. I hate you digitech. You and your nonsense terms.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:48 pm

yeah, the knob names are shite, but the fucker sounds good, so i'm not too bothered

James · Post by **James** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:51 pm

I am actually considering a reverb pedal, and I loved using lexicon stuff in the past, so i'm interested in this. Can you do a demo?

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:52 pm

possibly, it'd be complete shit, but yeah i'll head up and give it a whirl

James · Post by **James** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:53 pm

It's not about getting your malmsteen on. Keep it simple and play a few chords and single notes to show the range of the pedal. Make sure to give an example of the dry signal every now and then to keep in context and you'll be golden.

nomorebridge · Post by **nomorebridge** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:09 am

had my eye on this for months

Fuck me for $94 you can't complain

sadly Â£109 pounds makes me feel a little sad

James · Post by **James** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:19 am

Watching the PGS demo the 'level' knob is actually a 'wet/dry' or 'mix' knob, not output volume. Sort it out boys.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:27 am

James wrote:It's not about getting your malmsteen on. Keep it simple and play a few chords and single notes to show the range of the pedal. Make sure to give an example of the dry signal every now and then to keep in context and you'll be golden.

just finished the thing, don't think i even did a dry signal thing lol
oh well, you get the jist, it's a crappy digital camera so you get what you get
going to edit it up all nice and pretty and wait forever on youtube

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:56 am

and i clipped the camera

william · Post by **william** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:10 am

i had a digiverb not long ago, but i sold it. i miss it some, but it added a bit of noise to the signal that bugged me. good sound quality though.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:20 am

I think these Hardwire pedals are winners. I've heard a lot of them and they all seem to be pretty damn good to be honest.

euan · Post by **euan** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:59 am

The reverb is meant to be the shit hot one of the series.

william · Post by **william** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:34 pm

i might have to give this series another look. i kind of blew it off superficially, based on its line6 enclosure aesthetic. lame, i know.

terronado · Post by **terronado** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:12 pm

william wrote:i might have to give this series another look. i kind of blew it off superficially, based on its line6 enclosure aesthetic. lame, i know.

sure, but extremely hard to get passed. i did the exact same thing. +.75

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