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Does anyone have one? I just got one and honestly after playing with it I'm a bit intimidated... I've never had a reverb before and there are so many different sounds I can't seem to zero in on just a nice warm lush reverb sound. Though I can get done awesome space sounds out of it.

What settings do you guys use on it? Any suggestions?

Found my setting woot!

hold on, I'm doing a big write up on reverb that I'll post in a few.

I don't have an RV600 but I can tell you a little about reverb and what I know about the different reverbs it has. maybe this will help you find the sound you're going for. so reverb effects, whether digital or analog, are all imitating the real world phenomena that is created when sounds occur in any enclosed space. specifically spaces like churches and concert halls. so this pedal gives you emulation of many different types of reverb effect types that have been created over the years to imitate this real world phenomena. here is what I know about these different kinds of reverbs:


Echo: echo first came about from tape delay units such as the echoplex. it is basically a limited delay that gets darker and a little "dirtier" sounding on each repeat. while a lot of people still like to use the tape units this is an effect that can be very suitably approximated with digital technology.

Tile: a popular technique used by recording studios in the '50s would be to play a track back in a bright space, often quite literally the bathroom down the hall. this gave a real lively short reverb.

Cave: a digital emulation of reverb occurring in a cave. I imagine this is similar to what most reverb units would call church reverb. usually a long, relatively dark reverb. of course, music has been played in churches and cathedrals for thousands of years and it's a popular place to record music as well because of it's a very musically complimentary reverb. naturally it was a very popular reverb to emulate when digital reverb units came about in the '80s.

Space: these kind of exaggerated reverb effects came along with digital reverb units in the '80s. Lexicon is the most well known for these kind of fantastical reverbs.

Ducking: a compressor is put on the reverb and is triggered by your guitar playing. this makes the reverb signal go down in level while you're playing but come up when you stop giving you reverb without clouding your playing.

Hall: a digital emulation of reverb occurring in a concert hall. usually a mid-length, relatively evenly balanced reverb. this is another natural place you would hear reverb on music in the real world and is often a place where music is recorded. for symphonic music the reverb of the concert hall is a necessary part of the instrumentation. so again, this was another popular reverb to emulate when digital reverb units came about in the '80s.

Chmbr: one of the earliest reverb techniques was recording studios would build chambers that they could pipe music into and would be picked up by a series of micophones placed at different distances from the sound source. I think there were some chambers that were built at abbey road in the '30s and there are some famous ones in the basement of the CBS studios in LA.

Room: an digital emulation of reverb occurring in a room. usually a short mid-rangey reverb. this is another kind of effect that has been popularly digitally emulated starting with rack units in the '80s.

Plate: this effect is created by sending an electric audio signal to one side of a large metal plate and picking up the diffused signal from the other side of the plate. found on countless '80s recordings.

Spring: this effect is created by sending an electric audio signal to one end of a spring or series of springs and picking up the diffused signal from the other end of the spring(s). due to the relatively compact nature of the spring unit it was used popularly in many guitar amplifiers of the '50s and '60s.

'63 Sp: likely a fender spring reverb emulation which are one of the most well known guitar spring reverbs.

heres a video i did on the verbzilla
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the best is easily the octo/shimmer
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I literally spent about 2 hours last night just hitting single notes with the cave setting set really intensely. This is what my board has been missing all along.

I use my rv600 solely for the space/shimmer sound which is really cool, although you have to play around with the mix otherwise i find it can drown out the guitar signal.

ploppy wrote:I use my rv600 solely for the space/shimmer sound which is really cool, although you have to play around with the mix otherwise i find it can drown out the guitar signal.

I actually was playing with this and had the mix at near 100% with the modulation from Creature. It was making CRAZY sounds.

ploppy wrote:I use my rv600 solely for the space/shimmer sound which is really cool, although you have to play around with the mix otherwise i find it can drown out the guitar signal.

That's a good thing, right?