It used to struggle with decent spring reverb etc, but apparently there’ve been updates to the algos and even those more conventional reverb algos sound great now. Some would say it’s the only “professional” solution…but I think those people imagine that an Eventide Space is comparable to one of their rack reverbs which…it just isn’t (none of the pedals are in the same league with a quality Lexicon, Bricasti or Eventide rack…but they also don’t cost thousands ;))
Eventide makes awesome pedals, I have a TimeFactor and love it! Probably can’t go wrong with any of them, what luxury
Also, throw the Neunaber Immerse Mk2 in the mix, sounds beautiful to me and well priced also
Wow, thanks for the detail - much appreciated. In short, I love reverb (like everyone on this thread) and I suppose I will grab a Tempus and a Dark World over the next few months on Reverb.com (just to save $). I love my Ventris and some of the custom patches I created (by accident) sound amazing. BUT, I always look for a pedal with unique tonal qualities or capabilities and I suppose I will have 3-4 of them in my back pocket. Don’t let the “realistic” algos of the Ventris prevent you from exploring this pedal - the dual engines are super powerful. Like everything else, I have too many wants for my budget
Seriously, there are so many great reverbs out there right now. I went back and forth across the Specular Tempus, the OTO BAM, Empress, Mercury 7, Avalanche Run, and ultimately landed on the Mercury 7. I’ve only just scratched the surface, but it is great and definitely does what I want it to do. It’s still hard to avoid being tempted by the choices out there. I just found out about the AC Noises AMA, which is a combo Reverb / Bit Crusher, sounds interesting.
Polymoon has a way to do delays that go pretty close to reverb territories, the crazy ones at least.
Hard to dial back an interesting setting, same as the Mercury 7, but a very interesting pedal nonetheless. I like to put it in parallel with the Empress reverb set to reverse, got really insane tones out of such setup (with OT both mains as the sources).
I’m hunting for a reverb/delay pedal for my synths and was wondering if someone has used the Tempus on a bass station 2? If the Tempus is more lush than the more constrained Ventris, I’m thinking Tempus would match well with BS2. And the more constrained Ventris/Collider for more refined synths like the Minilogue, Mother32 or Digitone?
Does it make sense to start with Tempus for BS2 and then expand with Collider?
Somehow I expect Collider will be underwhelming after getting used to the Tempus
I had the pedal for about a year now, but was not aware of the new delay algorithms added with update 3.8. Does anyone else have the problem that they are not accessible via pressing view/edit button and then browsing dleay algorithms? I can access them by loading up a preset that has the algo in it. But I never use the preset system and would like to load the new algorithms in the way I described. Maybe I’m missing somethin?
Edit: Reached out to GFI and got the unfortunate response that the new algos can only be accessed via presets or the software.
It’s two completely different pedals that you can’t compare.
Specular Tempus lets you run a variety of delays or reverbs. You either choose a reverb algo or a delay algo. Some of them combine both but then you have even more limited control over parameters. The reverbs tend to be more modern, but there’s also a nice emulation of a spring and plate reverb. Same goes for delays. Some of the reverb and delay algos are a bit more experimental, but I didn’t find them very useful. To me, it was more of a “best of” pedal of good algos of different bread and butter reverbs and delays. The controls for them are straightforward.
Mood MK II on the other hand is a full on experimental pedal that has a very specific sound and is kinda hard to control/master from what I gather. Sure it has a reverb and is basically a delay, but it’s built to let you design weird soundscapes that sound unique.
Thanks for the write up. Thats exactly what I think listening demos for both. Hands on controls on the Mood are also a bit better suited for experimentation. Have H9 and I am not a big a fan using hardware thru an app if you do not want to use it for presets only.
(none of the pedals are in the same league with a quality Lexicon, Bricasti or Eventide rack…but they also don’t cost thousands ;))
