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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that is all
Re: Hardwire Reverb
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:43 pm
by Nick
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:56 pm
by James
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".
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:10 pm
by Mike
Liveliness = Treble, I'm guessing?
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:13 pm
by James
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:32 pm
by Haze
Digitech's Owner's Manual wrote:Liveliness Knob - controls the amount of high frequency response in the Reverb's effect signal.
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:41 pm
by James
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:48 pm
by Haze
yeah, the knob names are shite, but the fucker sounds good, so i'm not too bothered
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:51 pm
by James
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?
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:52 pm
by Haze
possibly, it'd be complete shit, but yeah i'll head up and give it a whirl
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:53 pm
by James
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:09 am
by nomorebridge
had my eye on this for months
Fuck me for $94 you can't complain
sadly £109 pounds makes me feel a little sad
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:19 am
by James
Watching the PGS demo the 'level' knob is actually a 'wet/dry' or 'mix' knob, not output volume. Sort it out boys.
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:27 am
by Haze
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
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:56 am
by Haze
and i clipped the camera
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:10 am
by william
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:20 am
by Mike
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:59 am
by euan
The reverb is meant to be the shit hot one of the series.
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:34 pm
by william
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:12 pm
by terronado
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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