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Review by Gus Green
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his blue, rugged pedal is a digital reverb featuring four different modes: Spring, Room, Hall and LFO. It includes a stereo out and a useful red LED to indicate clipping if present, and it’s very straight forward in operation. The only knob that really affects the reverb is the Decay knob, while the other ones are dedicated to giving you the right mix of signal going to your amp. The Spring mode is very familiar to most guitar players, since spring reverbs are featured in many amps. This is a rather good recreation and with the Decay knob all the way up it reminds me of the spring models of the 60’s. What I like about having a digital Spring is that it is way less noisy, temperamental, and dirty sounding than a real Spring. Having control over the Decay is what makes this digital recreation very useful, since this setting can’t be adjusted on most amp springs. The Room mode is a very subtle reverb. It adds just enough effect to make the signal not sound totally dry. That said, I really like the Room mode on this particular pedal. It has a nice “slappy” characteristic that’s very usable. The Hall mode is an imitation of how the signal would sound in a large of various sizes depending on how the
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Decay knob is set, and gives you a natural yet big and deep reverb sound. This mode has again a nice sounding tone. The LFO mode is not your traditional reverb tone. The manual describes it as reverb embellished with chorus, perfect for acoustic guitar. I am not much of an acoustic musician these days so my use of this mode would be pretty limited, but for those seeking a warmer, feel good reverb tone for a Sunday morning brunch this is the go-to mode. The Roommate Junior definitely sounds better then a lot of digital
reverbs for guitar I’ve heard. I appreciate the minimal interface and simplicity of use. I ran my ES-335 knock off through this pedal into my stock Blues Junior and got pleasing results. I also tested it on vocals, drum machine and real drums. I mainly wanted to hear how the Spring mode reacted to these alternative sources - ands was very pleased. As the dynamics increased, the springs became more present and jangley. I would firmly recommend this pedal to anyone looking for a digital stomp verb. It’s as good if not better then pedals costing much more.
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