I am planning on changing my setup to just the OT. Unplugging the midi and rack stuff and going with only the OT. What I am looking for is a simple true stereo reverb pedal. Just to get some light ambience before the mixer. I don’t need shimmer or the halls of Valhalla, just some high quality stereo reverb. All the cool stuff needs to happen in the OT. I want true stereo because that is why there is active panning, etc. I also want to do this because its time to really learn the OT and I keep on getting distracted by the other toys.
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If you can find it for a decent price, the plate on the Hardwire Supernatural is really quite nice. Does other types too but the plate is the one I regularly use.
OTO Bam.
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Alesis micro/nano/picoverb? I think they mix the stereo signal into mono for processing but both the dry signal and reverb are stereo.
Something with filter would probably be a good choice so that you can filter out the low end of the reverb.
Oto Bam seems like a good choice
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It was a couple of years ago now but I was using the Supernatural for this exact purpose. Can’t remember how I did it but you can set it up as an aux send. So then you could do filtering of your verb within the OT, I presume?
Doctor A
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I have OTO BAM
Highly reccomended
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TC’s Hall of Fame does stereo, and has a slot for designing your own crazy custom reverb.
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The zoom cdr70 is not bad for the price…
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Boss RV5
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@AdamJay you still using the Blackhole pedal for this?
Im gonna iterate my answer a bit.
Do you want a simple stereo reverb or do you want a simple stereo reverb where you also can modulate the midi clock of your Octatrack via a low pass filtered envelope follower and have granular burst´s triggered by an onset follower which is set off by the envelope follower
if the second option sounds interesting, then get a ZOIA
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Had a zoia- with similar reverb purposes in mind. Found it fiddly, and the small screen didn’t work my slightly bad eye sight. Replaced with an empress reverb and vey happy with this. Easy to modulate in all sorts I ways via OT midi.
Ymmv on the zoia of course! It’s a cool concept for sure.
Yup.
The eq knobs on it make it ideal for this.
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Why don’t you like the built in reverbs? They sound good. Also you get 8 of them at once at different settings. That’s a big strength of OT.
I’ve been drooling over the Meris Mercury 7 myself.
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the small screen is only for programming. i get that it can be a problem if you have bad eysight. but you can very easily set up macro trigs for any function you want… you can make a really cool performance board for the Octatrack for instance.
I think they stopped manufacturing them last year, but if you’re aiming for a stereo + budget combo you can still find Digitech Polara Reverb pedals fairly cheap these days. Nothing fancy but gets the job done for me.
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The power available in the OT would play well with a Zoia. And, actually make the Zoia easier to use.
For more straightforward reverb, BAM or Empress depending on whether you want modern or vintage flavour. It might depend what you are sampling. For acoustic samples of real instruments like guitars etc… I think I’d prefer the Empress. For drums, I’d probably go BAM.
Below that, Specular Tempus is really quite nice for the size and cost. Source Audio Collider might be an alternative dual effect.
Cheaper than that, I like EH Oceans 12 or Boss RV-6. Then NUX Atlantic.
Personally, I’d almost prefer a Quadraverb or Midiverb to the Zoom. The Zoom is a swiss army knife, but where each tool isn’t exactly great imho.