IK MULTIMEDIA AMPLITUBE X-GEAR X-SPACE
Ambience aplenty
With no tap tempo footswitch needed for reverb, you get instant footswitch access to three presets rather than the two found in the delay and modulation pedals which means you could perhaps have instant access to three different reverb types or three instances of the same reverb each stronger than the next. Many will be looking for a decent spring emulation and the one here is a viable substitute for inbuilt amp reverb and has plenty of parameters to mess with for some deep surf twang. Plate is also great on guitar and the one here is naturally tweakable to meld with your tone, having different damping parameters for the low, mid and high frequencies. Also onboard are a decent range of conventional reverbs – the type of bright chamber that gave many recording studios a distinctive ambience, plus real-word spaces of varying size; room, hall and church. There’s also an early reflections algorithm capable of constructing the sound of very small spaces. For reverbs with altered envelopes, there’s gated reverb that cuts off suddenly, one that swells in naturally and a ducking reverb that you can set to be subdued while you are playing to reduce clutter but come into prominence at the end of phrases. The rest of those here create larger altered ethereal and floaty ambiences, either employing modulation or pitchshifting for a sense of movement or otherworldliness. Of these, there are two types of shimmer, one where a single shimmer pitch can be set and the other with two pitches so you can set up harmonies. The X-mode feature works to ramp up to the longest possible tail length so you can get into some infinite reverb stylings or build up massive crescendos. Overall it’s a pretty comprehensive array of reverbs that shouldn’t leave you wanting.