Each knob has two functions, and secondary functions are accessed via a small, LED-illuminated push button at the upper right of the pedal. But it's still very powerful, and its features have been distilled to a functional, practical group that facilitates intuitive, creative experimentation, reveals tremendous textural range, and is easy and super fun to use.Īny player that has messed with the Space-or Eventide's other larger-form stomps-will recognize the basic functionality of the Blackhole's control set. Thanks to a well-conceived control interface, Blackhole isn't much more complicated than, say, a Boss pedal. What is striking is how functionally streamlined the Blackhole is compared to the Space and H9 processors that are also home to Blackhole-mode sounds. So the fact that Eventide elected to give the Blackhole a dedicated stompbox of its own is no surprise. Later, out in the wider world, I started running into engineers that were using the Blackhole mode in the studio and even in live settings to add ambience to mixes. I was happy that the Blackhole settings sounded fantastically, cosmically expansive without relying on some of the more overt “shimmer" tricks that can be a big-reverb cliché. But I also distinctly remember spending more time in the Blackhole mode than any other. I won't be getting rid of the blueSky though.Reviewing Eventide's Space reverb back in 2011, I was impressed with how many shades of ambience had been stuffed into one box. The pedal sounded great and was a lot of fun to mess around with. I do want to pick up another Space in the future. Like you said, I'm saving my favorite sound under the preset switch and using the normal mode for whatever I feel like, and it's enough for me for now. I've got a modulated plate reverb with lots of decay saved in my preset, and a huge room reverb right now under the normal mode. The simplicity of the pedal was definitely nice for what I was looking for. When I got the blueSky, I was able to dial in a plate sound that I really loved almost instantly, and I wasn't too tempted to go back and constantly play with it. While I loved that preset that I made, I found myself constantly going back to it and tweaking it to see if I could get more out of it. I gave it a cool name and added a hotswitch feature where it gave the reverb a really long, ambient trail. When I first got the Space, I made what I thought was an awesome sounding plate preset. I feel like with a space I would either endlessly tweek and never be satisfied, or go "well there's already 100 sounds that someone more experienced with reverb made in here" and then I'd never bother making my own and I'd always be second guessing myself. If I want to tweek with something thats what delay is for imo. Thats kinda what I figure, I can set one normal reverb sound and forget about it and then mess around with shimmer and mod when I want. But what I don't know is if having the ability to save everything I come up with would be worth getting the Space for. I generally leave my verbzilla on the octave shimmer sound, I figure with the Strymon I could make that my favorite and then use the manual setting for more normal sounds. Smaller footprint, really nice sounds, less intimidating controls, 200 bucks cheeper (makes a new verb more justifiable.ĭo people have opinions about which actually sounds better? I am looking for a new reverb pedal because I don't feel like the sound I'm getting from the verbzilla are as good as I would like, and because I think I would actually use reverb more if I could have some presets (or a preset) because otherwise I just set it and forget it because I don't like turning knobs during a set.And I also am upgrading my delay so I'm GASing on reverb too. Let me first state that yes I know these are very different pedals. So I am looking for some pros and cons and general input on my new reverb pedal decision: Eventide Space or Strymon blueSky. I think the time has come for me to ditch the Verbzilla.
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