FRV-1 '63 Fender Reverb Pedal

30 years of playing classic sounds! This is the real deal! for the Stones, BB King, Freddie King, Hubert Sumlin, Dick Dale, Beach Boys, Buck Owens, James Burton, Roy Bucahnan, "The Nashville sound" thing. No new gain sounds welcome here, sorry!I also would like to say, it's hard to beleive this thing is digital (very clean). Great job Boss!

It's Boss, I can't imagine any issues.

This is more than just a spring reverb pedal. It yeilds tone, gain & presence when dialed in w/amp eq correctly. To maximize it's full potential it will require someone to understand this, when they do it's an amzing addition to a so so amp, and even better for a great one.

Sadly, I learned that mine had to come from Koria, because Boss questioned weather or not enough would be sold in the US. Get your's while you can! Too bad Boss doesn't know where I live, They could pay me a commission check for this endorsement!

I'm planing on picking up another one in the event Boss decides they're going to stop producing it.

This pedal emulates the Fender spring reverb sound.  If you want other types of reverb sounds, look elsewhere. I plugged it into my Fender Twin Reverb amp so I could do a side-by-side comparison to the amp's reverb.   I could dial the pedal in to sound pretty much identical to the amp's reverb.  I think the amp's reverb sounded a little better, but I don't know how to express the difference.  Perhaps the amp's reverb was a little warmer?  I probably wouldn't notice the difference if I wasn't doing a side-by-side comparison. I actually bought it for use with my Marshall 6100LM amp that doesn't have reverb.  The Marshall has an effects loop that can be run as either a serial or parallel loop.  The pedal has a "honky" tone when used in the amp's parallel loop mode.  Perhaps when used in a parallel loop, I should turn the mix knob on the pedal all the way up to get a mostly wet sound and control the wet/dry mix on the amp instead.  So the problem may be user error, but I thought I'd mention it anyways. Caveats: - I've only owned the pedal for a day - I've haven't gigged with it yet - When I use reverb, I use very little unless I'm "surfing".

Easy to use. Three knobs: - Dwell controls the amount of signal sent to the "springs" - Tone controls the brightness - Mix controls the mix of the dry and reverberated signal at the output

I bought the pedal to use with my non-reverb Marshall.  I bought this reverb pedal over others because, to me, Fender reverb is the standard against which all others are measured.  But I'm beginning to think that it may not be a good match for the Marshall distortion sound.  I think I'll explore using other reverbs that aren't trying to emulate the spring reverb sound.