Re: The Reverb Pedal Thread.
I wound up acquiring a Digitech Polara last week and brought it to rehearsal today. If I had some adequate method of making clips at home these days I'd demo something up. The spring 'verb is pretty damn fine for a digital unit; Chris from Garda and I were both impressed by it. An amp builder guy he works with has the Digitech Hardwire RV-7 Reverb and was similarly pleased with it. The amount of sproing-y-ness and slapback-ishness is controllabe through tweaking the pedal, for whatever that's worth. He brought a Fulltone Supa Trem he just picked up in trade for some speakers and between the two we could conjure up some convincing faux-vintage trem and 'verb sounds. Neither of which quite hold up to his actual '72 Fender Super, but for pedals, we were pretty pleased. We could coax a good David Gilmour on Shine On You Crazy Diamond impression out of 'em as well. And the room 'verb is pretty impressive. Overall I think it's probably a bit nicer than my old EHX Cathedral, which is hardly crap.
I found the effect 'verbs to be usable for my porpoises, but I like that kind of thing.
It's very application- and setting-dependent, though.
Re: Chris's earlier question about the better Digitech stuff being made in the US, apparently the first runs are US-made and later runs are imports, according to... I think the dude who designed the graphic on the Polara. Which, by the way, makes the text almost illegible.