Reverb and Echo pedals

[EdwardMarlowe]

I've been looking into sorting out my effects alongside revising my amp needs. Bottom line, a lot of the amps I'm looking at (including a couple on the way - in a moment of madness last week I ordered a B-Stock version of the Blonde Fly 3 LE stereo set on Thomann, as well as an HB minipedal headphone amp, and on eBay fell in with  deal on one of those Mooer Baby Bomb pedal poweramps.

None of these (and the tube amp I'm looking at buying down the track) have reverb. So in addition to my clutch of drive / boost pedals, I'm thinking a reverb pedal. I'm also looking for an echo and a tremolo (I already have a Guyatone Tremolo pedal from the 90s - I'm told that's vintage now - which is *lovely*, but I gather like my Sovtek / EH Big Muff Pi now becoming really quite collectable, so I'll probably pick up a cheap HB tremolo pedal to velcro to a board instead...). That's all the effects I want these days. 

Interested in hearing about what people would recommend for reverb and echo. For the echo, I'm looking for a short, rockabilly slapback-echo type effect, NOT a modern delay sound. Think the Johnny Burnette Trio, NOT the Edge! 

Bottom line is that Keeley Memphis Sunn pedal would probably (subject to the one drawback seemingly being you can't toggle between its effects with the footswitch?) be my ideal, especially sound-wise, but I just can't justify that sort of pend on a single pedal. Is there anything in term of the cheaper clones (Mosky, Harley Benton, et al) that would do the job? I've looked at the HB Sugar & Spice on Thomann - the reverb side of that would probably be good, but I'm not sure about the delay? The "digital" word they applied to it makes me wary, fairly or no. All steers gratefully accepted! 

[ezbass]

Because I was big fan of Robben Ford, I stopped using reverb and just went for a short delay (snapback, or thereabouts) because I read somewhere that he didn't use reverb as it could muddy things up too much. Also being a Brian Setzer fan, this all sounded to be what I wanted. I bought a Line6 DL4 and thoroughly happy with that. I've long since parted company with everything I had back then, as I was concentrating on playing bass. Fast forward to now and I'll still choose short delay over reverb (although both together can be OK, if used sparingly) and, to sate my echo needs, I bought a Behringer analog delay, works fine, albeit in a plastic case. All that said, if I were gigging regularly, I'd probably look at a Boss RE-2 as that would do everything I want, what with emulating the classic Space Echo (more Setzer influence).

[EdwardMarlowe]

On 31/01/2025 at 14:22, ezbass said:

Because I was big fan of Robben Ford, I stopped using reverb and just went for a short delay (snapback, or thereabouts) because I read somewhere that he didn't use reverb as it could muddy things up too much. Also being a Brian Setzer fan, this all sounded to be what I wanted. I bought a Line6 DL4 and thoroughly happy with that. I've long since parted company with everything I had back then, as I was concentrating on playing bass. Fast forward to now and I'll still choose short delay over reverb (although both together can be OK, if used sparingly) and, to sate my echo needs, I bought a Behringer analog delay, works fine, albeit in a plastic case. All that said, if I were gigging regularly, I'd probably look at a Boss RE-2 as that would do everything I want, what with emulating the classic Space Echo (more Setzer influence).

Thanks, that's helpful. I've looked at the Boss - Setzer is very much the kind of sound I'm after - though like the Sun studios pedal it's a bit pricey unless I ever gigged it (unlikely now). Might have a look out see what crops up used, though. Seems to be a short delay pedal is what I need.