Guitar Delay / Reverb pedal advice needed

[Old School Steve]

I’d check out V2’s of Strymons, personally. There’s something I always notice with the bypass/buffer in the v1 Strymons (except the Volante). The ones with the jfet front ends seem to respond better to my playing. I’m in the minority here as some don’t hear that difference. I’m sure a small jfet boost would solve that issue. I will say after using the timeline and big sky live quite a bit, I don’t care about the buffers and nuances all that much - but at home I’m more of an analytical listener (to a fault). Wish they would quit dragging ass and launch the timeline 2 already.

- Collider: wouldn’t sleep on the Collider, as I see it mentioned a ton here. Had the Nemesis for a while and it’s very cool.

- Dig V2: if you’re primarily wanting digital it’s a beautiful sounding delay. I was able to get some cool Billy Howerdel Mer De Noms tones out of a V1.

- Big Sky: it’s cool and I played one for a lot of live stuff for a few years. Everyone uses cloud so I would typically go with a different engine. It’s all good for special effects but I prefer my reverb post amp and not so much special effects cinematic sounds.

- Flint: 80’s mode sounds wonderful.

- FTT Flight Time & Future Factory: both are on my shortlist. Something about the way these sound reminds me the most of the 90’s era.

- Volante: pretty flexible in studio mode for a clean digital-esque sound.

- Timeline: it’s a classic. I’m waiting for a V2 to come out. I’ve bought and sold it multiple times.

I will say I recently scored a blackface Intellifex for $100 and it’s killed all my delay/reverb gas.

What do you think of pairing a Flint (I love its Reverb + Tremelo voicing sounds) with a DIG or a Halo delay?

I just know that I won't have the patience to deal with dozens/hundreds of preset banks and large instruction manuals for the Big Sky.

 

[Shask]

After hours of YouTube videos and articles, I really like the tonal quality of the UA Del Verb and it simplicity (3 reverb settings, 3 delay settings) -- what could be easier? Pairing the Del Verb with a Cloudburst would give me the best of both worlds (classic reverb/delay plus modern ambient reverb/synth sounds).

Where this plan falls apart is the number of online posts (Reddit, The Gear Page, Rig-Talk, etc.) of Del Verb owners complaining about poor UA customer support and build quality compared to the Starlight and Golden. The Golden sounds superior to the Strymon BlueSky in terms of pure/weighty tone (great Anderton's video comparing them side-by-side) as the BlueSky sounds like it's adding digital tones that shadow the guitar notes behind the reverb.

I am trying to like the Collider, but the sonic tone quality seems (to my ears) a step under Strymon and Universal Audio.

Anyone had good luck with the UA Golden for reverb?

Looks like I'll keep searching & evaluating.

I have been debating on grabbing a Collier or Golden for like the last year, lol. In clips, I think the Golden sounds better, but I like the idea of having delay and reverb in parallel with the Collider. Don't know if I love the idea of the Golden needing Bluetooth to get more features.

I still haven't got the Golden, but I did buy the Heavenly and Evermore. Those are great sounding pedals also. They are basically mono versions of 1 mode of the Golden.

 

[heinz_57]

I have the v1 Dig and Blue Sky. They are easy to use and sound great to me. But if you are hearing a digital artifact, in the demos I think you will still hear it in your rig too.

I like the demos for the empress reverb. That might be worth checking out. No soft menus just knobs