Catalinbread Early Verb FX90: That Yamaha SPX90 Reflections in a stompbox
My Bloody Valentine style reverbs in a pedal
The Early Verb FX90 is Catalinbread’s latest preset algorithm in a pedal inspired by the Yamaha SPX90 rack effect unit. It is based on the famous Early Reflections patch used by many Shoegaze musicians, so it could be perfect for modern players.
Contents – Catalinbread Early Verb FX90
Early Reflections
The original Yamaha SPX90 has a few classic patches, and Early Reflections is one that gets used a lot. Think My Bloody Valentine, and you will get the idea of what to expect from this effect.
I can see this new pedal being used by modern guitarists who like dream pop and shoegaze, etc.
Early Verb FX90
The new Catalinbread Early Verb FX90 pedal distills the effect down to a stompbox with five controls to tweak as you go. The Delay control knob offers around 400 milliseconds of pre-delay to play with, then the Time control sets the basic spacing between the initial echoes, so it can get quite tight if needed or spread out more if desired.
Room sets the virtual room size (echo), and Mix sets the wet/dry balance of reverb and your dry signal. Finally, the Volume controls the output level of the effect and has been designed so that you can drive it hard into a distorted, clipped-out if you want it.
Who is it for?
If you don’t want to hunt down and maintain an old Yamaha SPX90 19″ studio rack effect unit, but you do want some of that dreamy reverb used by shoegaze bands, then this could be for you. They are still affordable used units, but they are large and bulky, so not really designed to be used on a pedalboard setup.
This Catalinbread pedal will run from a standard 9-18V power supply and is designed to handle a guitar signal. But you are limited to one variation of one patch from the original Yamaha rack effect.
Availability
The Catalinbread Early Verb FX90 is now available at Thomann and Sweetwater.
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