Indeed, the Eventide and Strymon emulations on this little guy sound great. Not perfect replicas, but seriously good reverbs for the price.
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I’ve been pondering this unit for awhile. Have yall got hands on experience with it? im suspicious that it’s too good to be true…unfortunately i don’t live near anywhere where i can try it out.
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Yes I borrowed one for a few days to see if I liked it, along with a Zoom MS-60B (bass multiFX).
I liked them both.
The 70CDR was great for the stereo input capability and addition of a couple EQ algos to filter your signal going into the reverb…
For my uses it can take place of the FX tracks I use on Monomachine’s 6th track, as the 70CDR gives far better, and more varied reverbs, too. As mentioned the Eventide and Strymon emulations make for some really great dense shimmery reverbs. There’s a video on youtube comparing its shimmer reverb to a Strymon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Dgsz-1t30
So I’ve decided to get one (or probably the MS-100BT… more on that later) on the next round of heavy Monomachine exploitation (I’m currently in A4 exploit mode), at which point I’ll appreciate getting back some synth tracks by offloading the FX to a 70CDR. Or, I can use the regained MM track as a dedicated filter/delay/dist track for external signals. It’s really going to open up what I can do with the MM.
As for the 60B, this one has some great EQs, limiters, an exciter, and other fun bass synth stuff. Great for mono synths. It’s a bass pedal, so the reverbs aren’t the star players but there were a few serviceable algos. I was using it to beef up the mono output on my Nord Drum 1 and get some weird modulations as it goes into my A4.
Then there’s MS-100BT, which allows you to buy some algos for it and transfer via bluetooth and the Zoom iOS StompShare app. I believe that with the 100BT you have access to all the algos across the various MS series pedals. So you can use the bass limiter from the 60B plus the space reverb, from the 70CDR, and have a stereo input/output. The algos are $2. Many are free such as some space and strymon models. Pretty flexible for $150.