New Wampler Pedal - Catacombs

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This looks like a lot of pedal in a small package. I ended up not keeping the Metaverse I had, but had it been this, it would have been far too useful! I always like to have a good BBD, Tape, and Dig delay on tap, having several reverbs makes sense. The reverbs sound really nice in the video Brian put out.

Link to Wampler page with details:

https://www.wamplerpedals.com/products/delay-reverb/catacombs/
 
This looks really cool. I've been thinking it would be nice to have something like this to run in the loop, on some of the amps i play at home a lot.

I'd considered the UA del-verb previously, but wasn't crazy about the price or user interface.
 
GuitarGuy08 said:
This looks like a lot of pedal in a small package. I ended up not keeping the Metaverse I had, but had it been this, it would have been far too useful! I always like to have a good BBD, Tape, and Dig delay on tap, having several reverbs makes sense. The reverbs sound really nice in the video Brian put out.

Link to Wampler page with details:

https://www.wamplerpedals.com/products/delay-reverb/catacombs/
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Yeah looks good. I went this route with my smaller board and the Source Audio Collider but it has a latency issue switching between delay and verb, couldn't deal with it so I went in another direction. I like what I'm hearing from the Catacombs.
 
The thing that threw me a bit is that the reverb sounds pretty lush but the modulation depth in the delay repeats feel a little shallow. I find it funny that Brian cranked it up to max, played a bit, and then reached as if he were trying to turn it up more and realized it was maxed out.

The delays sound ok from what I have heard, will look at some more demos for sure.

Reverbs sound pretty large and have some dimension to them, so I dig that.
 
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Interesting. I had a Collider. Loved the idea but I didn't really care for the reverb side so I used it as a dual delay. The reverbs in this sound pretty good.
 
MatrixClaw said:
Interesting. I had a Collider. Loved the idea but I didn't really care for the reverb side so I used it as a dual delay. The reverbs in this sound pretty good.
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Love Source Audio's delays, I've had the Nemesis on my big board for several years. I have the Ventris on the big board as well but it's overkill for my Reverb use. Collider was ok, but really like what I'm hearing from the Catacombs. Verbs sound great, easy to use for a guy who doesn't like verb all that much.
 
jabps said:
Love Source Audio's delays, I've had the Nemesis on my big board for several years. I have the Ventris on the big board as well but it's overkill for my Reverb use. Collider was ok, but really like what I'm hearing from the Catacombs. Verbs sound great, easy to use for a guy who doesn't like verb all that much.
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Yeah, until I got a blue sky, I thought that I'd just been searching for the perfect delay for a long time. Turns out I actually wanted a great reverb. SA makes great pedals but you have to use their app to get the most out of them and I hate that experience. I eventually moved to a Big Sky with the Collider but then sold both and now use an HX Stomp for time effects and modulation and it works well, plus serves as a backup amp if needed. This Wampler looks really cool. I like the simplicity of their pedals.
 
MatrixClaw said:
Yeah, until I got a blue sky, I thought that I'd just been searching for the perfect delay for a long time. Turns out I actually wanted a great reverb. SA makes great pedals but you have to use their app to get the most out of them and I hate that experience. I eventually moved to a Big Sky with the Collider but then sold both and now use an HX Stomp for time effects and modulation and it works well, plus serves as a backup amp if needed. This Wampler looks really cool. I like the simplicity of their pedals.
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BlueSky is my favorite all around reverb pedal. You can score them for $200 used, they sound terrific, and the layout is stupidly simple.
 
MatrixClaw said:
Yeah, until I got a blue sky, I thought that I'd just been searching for the perfect delay for a long time. Turns out I actually wanted a great reverb. SA makes great pedals but you have to use their app to get the most out of them and I hate that experience. I eventually moved to a Big Sky with the Collider but then sold both and now use an HX Stomp for time effects and modulation and it works well, plus serves as a backup amp if needed. This Wampler looks really cool. I like the simplicity of their pedals.
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As for the app it depends how deep you want to go. For my delay settings I've never gone to the app, I dial everything from the from the pedal. Same with the Ventris. Only time I have used the app was to download a preset from another user. My biggest beef with the Nemesis is no display and you have to have an external pedal to scroll through presets. Same with the Catacombs. Not a problem on my midi board but on my non midi board I used the Timeline as I can easily recall presets. Head to head though, I prefer the Nemesis.
 
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