“A very natural sound that works well with both clean and driven amps”: Mad Professor Silver Spring Reverb review

“A very natural sound that works well with both clean and driven amps”: Mad Professor Silver Spring Reverb review

Guitar World Verdict

There is excellent reason Mad Professor’s lineup of pedals stays an ever-popular pedalboard choice, with the Silver Spring Reverb normal of its compact, useful, and simple to utilize format– not to discuss the excellent noises. If you do not have spring reverb on your amp, your ship has actually been available in.

Pros

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    Easy to utilize with a basic control surface area.

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    Terrific sound quality.

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    Compact.

Cons

  • Like others in the series, side-mounted connections may distress some individuals.

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In some cases in nowadays of reverb pedals with several programs or those developed to offer mystical environments, all that some gamers truly require is an easy box to put a sense of area into their noise, particularly if utilizing a guitar amp with no integrated spring reverb.

The Silver Spring Reverb may simply be that pedal, although do not be puzzled by the ‘Spring’ in its title (you ‘d never ever get a genuine spring in a box of this size) since the reverb here is digital.

It does a really strong analysis of spring reverb, it can go beyond that. Mad Professor states that its bandwidth is “in between the dark heat of an amplifier’s spring reverb and the beautiful clearness of a studio reverb”– and we have no argument with that.

(Image credit: Future/ Neil Godwin)

The reverb is contributed to the dry noise by the Reverb knob which dry noise stays resolutely analog throughout as the direct signal course goes directly through analog amplifiers without any filtering.

This leads to a really natural total noise that works well with both tidy and driven amps. A Time knob looks after dialing in how big the viewed area is, while a Tone knob changes the treble material of the reverb path to taste.

Specifications

(Image credit: Future/ Neil Godwin)
  • RATE: ₤ 199
  • ORIGIN: Finland
  • TYPE: Reverb pedal
  • FUNCTIONS: Real bypass,
  • CONTROLS: Time, Reverb, Tone, Bypass footswitch
  • CONNECTIONS: Requirement input, basic output
  • POWER: 9V battery or 9V DC adaptor 80mA
  • MEASUREMENTS: 63 (w) x 111 (d) x 50 mm (h)
  • CONTACT: Mad Professor

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Trevor Curwen has actually played guitar for a number of years– he’s likewise mimed it on the UK’s Top of the Pops. Much of his working life, however, has actually been invested behind the blending desk, throughout which time he has actually developed a strong collection of the guitars, amps and pedals required to cover almost any studio session. He composes pedal evaluations for Guitarist and has actually added to Total Guitar, MusicRadar and Future Music to name a few.

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