Surfybear Reverb?

[Chistopher]

Any experience with these? I've heard they are the holy grail of spring reverb.

 

[Chistopher]

Well you guys have failed me. I have gone and bought one

 

[Hiwatts and Gibsons]

Well you guys have failed me. I have gone and bought one

Cool. I've heard good things on forums, and the clips sound pretty good.

 

[Mincer]

I hadn't heard of these, so I look forward to the review.

 

[Chistopher]

It's supposedly an evolution of the old Fender 6G15 units, with FETs instead of tubes. Apparently they made a few other tweaks to it, but the important thing is that it's a full size analog reverb tank minus the drawbacks of bringing an entire extra cabinet with you.

 

[GuitarStv]

Looks like the pedal for people who hate small pedals! Maybe you could use it as a pedalboard and fix your other pedals on top of it.

It has a full spring reverb going on, and all the circuitry needed to drive it. I bet that thing sounds amazing.

 

[Chistopher]

I've been playing around with surf sounds in preparation for the reverb to get here, and I'm kinda digging reverb->distortion->tremolo

 

[Mincer]

The UA Dream '65 has one hell of a spring reverb emulation, too.

 

[Chistopher]

Anyone know how they actually emulate spring reverb? I don't imagine it's easy.

 

[Bill Dennis]

Anyone know how they actually emulate spring reverb? I don't imagine it's easy.

They don't emulate it. The SurfyBear is a real spring reverb

 

[Seashore]

Reverb into tremolo is a classic sound. Spring reverb is my favorite guitar reverb. Little jealous. I hope you have (or can get) a good trem box to go with it.

 

[Chistopher]

They don't emulate it. The SurfyBear is a real spring reverb

I meant the UA

 

[Chistopher]

Reverb into tremolo is a classic sound. Spring reverb is my favorite guitar reverb. Little jealous. I hope you have (or can get) a good trem box to go with it.

Yes:



I've got plans in the works to get a custom repaint on the Surfybear too.

 

[Mincer]

Outside of the actual springs and computer modeling, I haven't heard very good spring reverb emulation. Plates and halls seem a little easier.

 

[GuitarStv]

Outside of the actual springs and computer modeling, I haven't heard very good spring reverb emulation. Plates and halls seem a little easier.

Agreed . . . there are a few that do passable imitations, but the part where spring reverb simulations all fail the worst seems to be in the drip sounds. I haven't heard any without springs that nail a proper drippy surf kind of sound. Something about that is really hard to emulate well.

 

[jeremy]

my buddy has a surfy bear and loves it. uses it with his old tweed amps and it sounds great!

 

[Artie]

Outside of the actual springs and computer modeling, I haven't heard very good spring reverb emulation. Plates and halls seem a little easier.

Me too. The good news is, the "plate" setting, on everything I have, seems to be the most pleasing.

 

[Mincer]

Me too. The good news is, the "plate" setting, on everything I have, seems to be the most pleasing.

Yeah, I tend to use plate or hall. You can get some spring emulations to sound good, but you have to EQ the reverb itself, ideally on a parallel path, and I ain't got time for that.

 

[Chistopher]

Yeah, that's the only complaint I have on paper with the Surfybear. Only one output, so if I want to handle the reverb seperate from the rest of my signal I have to split it beforehand. Lucky for me that's mostly nerd stuff so it doesn't bother me too much.

 

[jeremy]

ive had a fender outboard unit for years so im used to having things in series, but it would be cool to have an in-phase direct output in parallel with the effected output