Line 6 Verbzilla or not?

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Line 6 Verbzilla or not?

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i have thought about buying a line 6 verzilla, but does anyone have experience with it?
or what should i buy instead?
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I had the Behringer clone of it 'til this morning (the RV600) and that was great. And I'm planning on getting an M13, which has all the Verbzilla's 'verbs built in; they're really good. Much better than a Holy Grail, I reckon.
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benecol wrote:I'm planning on getting an M13.
Yeah? Not the M9 any more?
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Nah, for about £30 more I can go truly berserk layering things up. And look like a church organist while I'm at it...
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:D nice. Look forward to hearing about it.
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verbzilla is a solid pedal. Its got a lot of great features on it, I was at one point thinking about getting one just for the octave reverb effect. that pedal can do some super cool verbs.
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it's a really good pedal. I sold mine to buy a cathedral, because of the presets. They're very similar, i don't think the cathedral costs a lot more, so you might want to get one instead.
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the isaac eaton wrote:verbzilla is a solid pedal. Its got a lot of great features on it, I was at one point thinking about getting one just for the octave reverb effect. that pedal can do some super cool verbs.
this.

about two years ago i was looking for a reverb and the verbzilla was one i had a nose at. i eventually went with the marshall reflector but that octave reverb effect has been in my head ever since.
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Reece wrote: but that octave reverb effect has been in my head ever since.
actually it gets really annoying after some time. it was ine of the features that made me buy it, but never used it that much. But i kind of got tired of 1 octave up delays and stuff like that, it sounds to... pretty?!
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the isaac eaton wrote:octave reverb effect.
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so cool. That would be perfect for so many ambient parts, verbzilla is cool.
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i like that. kinda sounds like a POG on organ mode.
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sp3k wrote:
Reece wrote: but that octave reverb effect has been in my head ever since.
actually it gets really annoying after some time. it was ine of the features that made me buy it, but never used it that much. But i kind of got tired of 1 octave up delays and stuff like that, it sounds to... pretty?!
Its called the space mode on the RV600. Not my favourite mode but it sounds real cool with some fuzz. Like "To here no knows when" type sounds.
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Post by alpeperker »

does the cathedral provide you with the same amount of retarded long reverbs?
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Post by George »

Great pedal. Approve. All settings go from zero to retarded. I mainly use Spring and Cave.

Tip: If you use the Octo setting and put the Mix knob full (no dry signal at all) with high Decay turns your guitar into the most amazing huge-orchestral-floaty-organ.
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I have a RV600 (courtesy of benecol)... It has a great range of sounds, especially the spring. By all accounts it's almost identical to the Verbzilla (altho I've never tried one myself)...
The only minus I'd have against it is that there's a noticeable volume drop if you take the wet/dry mix past halfway, I don't know if the verbzilla has this as well...
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That's only if you've got 'Trails' switched on old thing.
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Post by George »

Mine does this thing where if you turn the trails on while the pedal is turned off the dry signal changes to have more volume, presence and bass and sound likes it's coming out of a box but then disappears as soon as you turn the pedal on. Quite odd.

I don't really notice a lot of volume drop in normal operation but it is there.
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Post by Mike »

That's because a buffer is being engaged into the dry signal, it is replacing a lot of the information lost in the cables between your amp and guitar (and between pedals)