Rub-a-Dub "Vintage" Reverb

[pryde]

THanks to Josh (gtr2) for a great reverb project and pcb. Perfect fit for a 1590b (sans battery). One could probably work a battery into a 1590b with some very tight measuring but I did not want to bother.

I went for a very basic layout with a faux-vintage vibe. The chicken head does not have a set screw and it is not the best fit. I will order a proper chicken head next order. I used the short decay brick and glad I did. If you are looking for a snappy spring type reverb then use the short brick. Sounds just great with my little vox and a strat or tele.

[chordball]

Looks great! I'm about to start building one with the short brick as well. Hopefully I get my parts in before the weekend.

[gtr2]

Sweet!

Lookin good 

[whitebread47]

Nice!  Glad to hear that about the short brick.  I thought I had ordered a long brick from Smallbear, but accidentally bought a short.  All this means really is that I now need to make 2 of them. 

[juansolo]

I've got both short and long. The difference isn't that massive. Short brick decay time is 2 sec, long is 2.85 sec (med is 2.5). It's noticeable, but not as massive as you might expect. Long sounds a fraction bigger, short a little tighter. I think I'm going to label them room and hall on my pedal.

However short into long creates a really nice effect... It goes cavernous with an shimmering edge of modulation. I really quite like it and why mine with be a Dual RaDverb

When I get around to boxing it all up in a couple of weeks or so...

[pryde]

However short into long creates a really nice effect... It goes cavernous with an shimmering edge of modulation. I really quite like it and why mine with be a Dual RaDverb

When I get around to boxing it all up in a couple of weeks or so...

Cool. I like the idea of a dual reverb. I was going to maybe build a long brick version for a cavernous verb but I like your idea of a dually that can do both! So in your setup can run em independently as well as together?

[juansolo]

However short into long creates a really nice effect... It goes cavernous with an shimmering edge of modulation. I really quite like it and why mine with be a Dual RaDverb

When I get around to boxing it all up in a couple of weeks or so...

Cool. I like the idea of a dual reverb. I was going to maybe build a long brick version for a cavernous verb but I like your idea of a dually that can do both! So in your setup can run em independently as well as together?

Yep, haven't completely decided yet how I'm going to switch them. I like them in series (we tried parallel, it wasn't as good), short into long. Most sensible way is to just have a stomp on each, so you can get 3 different sounds from it without messing around. However we've found it's so quiet that if you wanted to, you could run one directly into the other, go single stomp and just use the pots to dial in one, the other or both.

I'll probably go twin stomps. It's a surprisingly tight fit in the enclosure mind you (the two boards are in there but nothing else yet). I'm out of jacks and stomps at the moment so the rest will follow, shame it's going to be a few weeks as I'd like to get this one done as I really love the effect.

[aflynt]

I love my dual reverb I built using the older Belton Brick. I use two medium bricks in parallel. I split the signal off of my active volume pedal and then combine them by running each into a separate channel on my Fender Showman head. The effect still has that cool tone to it, but is just more dense and lush. It sounded pretty similar when running in series, though. Maybe having dissimilar bricks just works better in series or maybe something with the different tone of the 2 channels fattens it up with my rig.

-Aaron

[LaceSensor]

Nicely done. I think this is a really nice project, simple and cheap reverb which sounds nice

[Jurassic]

Beautiful build! Nice graphics and layout.. works nicely with the chicken head knob!

[nzCdog]

Class.  Nice looking pedal, inside and out