Hi John,
I was thinking about a digital reverb and that price is what I was
looking at and I want a delay with it...
You're welcome.
I have a REX-50, and the reverb is quite good compared to digital
reverbs, and it's got presets - "hall", "room", "gated", "reverse", &c.
Each has parameters so you can customize it if you want to, but I pretty
much went with the defaults. They can all be assigned to their own
program number (so you can even make, say, 2 different "hall" reverb
patches), and it is midi-controllable. In its time, the Yamaha digi8tal
reverbs were considered the best (in that price range - around $600 new
- it ain't a Lexicon).
Thinking about it, a Midiverb is probably cheap now also, if you like
their sound (I think they suck chow).
What I don't remember, though, is if delay and reverb can be combined
nto one program patch. Most of the combinations have to do with
distortion plus "something else", and the distortion sounds are pretty
typical. I'll see if I can look it up for you, but I'm running out now.
The Zoom G1K (the "Brazilian Kiko Loureiro "version of the G1, or so it
says. The only difference I can tell is that it's green) is pretty good
also, and extremely reasonably priced. I bought one for my nephew, and
ended up getting one for myself as well - it paid for itself the first
time I used it.. There you can mix and match just about anything you
want and assign patch names as well, but no midi. It's also got some
drums, and battery (4xAA) life is around 4 solid hours (I use mine
outside sometimes). Not perfect, but really handy - my Moose amp can
sound a little dry without something, and on the sidewalk in NYC, it's
more than fine. I haven't tried it in a club or closed environment, but
I have very little doubt that it would sound fine. They also make a
G1-usb for around $100, but I know nothing about it.
At around $50 new, the G1 is great, and used it's got to go for even
less. You can get it with or without expression pedal onbpard (mine is
without, but I think there is an input for one - I think that's
overkill, but maybe that's only because I never tried it).
Having said all that, I would still opt for trying to fix your amp. Even
if you invest in these puppies, having a totally working amp is a thing
of beauty, especially if whatever caused the reverb failure is a ticking
time-bomb waiting to screw up another circuit.
best,
Bobby
