Review by Bob Lanzetti / Guitarist, Snarky Puppy
One of the things I often look for in a pedal (and best guitar pedals) is its ability to replicate effectively whatever sound it attempts to recreate and when pushed to the extremes it performs wild and crazy things. Only one such pedal is the Strymon Blue Sky Reverberator.
Blue Sky Reverb Features:
- Decay controls with settings for small rooms, plates and short springs as well as huge arenas, massive plates and enormous springs
- Low and High Damp Controls for damping the reverberated signal.
- Pre-Delay for accurate and pleasing reverb.
- Mix controls for balancing the analog dry signal and the wet signal.
- Multiple Reverb Modes
- Normal Mode is unmodified
- Mod Mode adds modulation
- Shimmer Mode adds regenerative pitch shifting
I’ve been using this pedal for several years now and I don’t see it falling off my board anytime long. It can recreate classic spring reverb sounds found in ’60s Fender amps very convincingly, while also giving you the option to get an endless reverb bed, change timbres, and even change pitches with a knob twist. Perhaps not the most important pedal on my board but a favorite of mine.
The reverbs on this guitar pedal are lush and majestic. The processing is exceptional
