Glad to be doing one of these again, I needed to do one of these again.
Usually seasonal changes don’t effect my vibe, but for whatever reason, this January/February was brutal. I’m so glad to be out of that. Music was a huge escape, and I couldn’t have done without some great noise....
...And Truant Minds practices. I’m so stoked for what we can do. The stuff that’s being written right now is a blast to play, I can’t wait for y’all to hear it!
Now, gear. With NAMM, you know I had my eye on some things. But if you actually know me, you know I’m incredibly impatient.
My guitar amp is clean and doesn’t have a reverb or trem. I love playing with funky spacey reverbs, but I was really after a solid always on Fender-like reverb tone. The Flint was really tempting at this point. That seemed liked a pedal that would solve both of my wants.
And then NAMM roles through, and Fender announces a sick new line of pedals, one of which is a reverb/trem combo. For me, Fender is the tone when it comes to amp style reverb/trem, and their basses don’t suck either. The end goal of my quest was to find a pedal that paired exceptionally well with my clean, reverb and trem-less Fender Bassman Ten. The Tre-verb pedal seemed like the winner, and it’s something that I’m going to own someday to test the above theory... but like I said, I’m impatient.
Mid-March seems really far away in January.
Now I have a different pedal, that was originally overlooked because I didn’t realize it did reverb and trem.
And I'm happy to announce that it is hella sick! The Source Audio True Spring does awesome things for my ears. The reverb can sound immense, subtle or however you want it to sound. It doesn’t do super immersive tones like the fathom, but that’s not the purpose. I don’t really want to dive into the depths of sound with this verb, I’ll just float on the springs. I was hesitant to write anything about this Pedal until I ventured a bit deeper under the hood.I haven’t used the editing app, so my experience with all the wizardry this thing can conjure is limited.The controls offered on the pedal are pretty easy to figure out after a few minutes with the manual. Out of the box I got exactly the verb/trem sounds I was after! That’s about as much as I can ask from any pedal. For a guitar novice, I’m having a lot of fun with the True Spring. It pairs beautifully with my Bassman. This is always on, and more often than not, it's the only pedal I'm running on guitar.
