![]() It affords you excellent control over the light and shade in the reverb. You can take treble beyond brightness into something more artificial and metallic. Rate and Depth controls are on-hand for dialling in some modulation. Used sparingly, and it'll give your reverb a gentle chorus effect, while at more extreme settings you can send it through the floor with a supernova of detuning. Where you take your sound is really limited by your imagination and what you need musically. Have you already have your conventional hall/plate/spring reverb sorted? If so, that's great news. Indeed, if reverb is all about adding a sense of space to your tone, the Blackhole is about changing how you think about that space and, indeed, how it can be represented sonically. ![]() The Freeze effect can be a little bit sobering to hear the contrast of your dry signal and some intergalactic ambience but there is no doubt that some occasions and ambience settings will make this a very fun feature. You can also access presets via the footswitches. Press down and hold the Freeze switch and you enter preset mode, where you can scroll through the five then hit the Active switch (bypass, on the left) to choose which one you need. An expression pedal can also be welcomed to the party – just assign it a parameter and it can warp your sound live. Just think what you could do with the Size control. If you want external control of your presets, simply attach a triple footswitch via the Blackhole's EXP input. ![]() You can similarly use the EXP socket to set a tap-tempo for the pre-delay. What's more, this is more than just a guitar effect. Plug your keyboard into it, process your percussion with it, get creative. The sky is the limit, or at least it used to be. MusicRadar verdict: As those who own a Space or H9 will tell you, the Blackhole reverb sound is not of this Earth. To have it in a standalone pedal, with knobs to turn plus programmable presets, will have today's seekers of soundscapes all starry-eyed. “While this reverb is not for everyone, Eventide has captured what makes the Blackhole so special and adroitly translated it into a pedal with plenty of tricks up its sleeve.” "This pedal sounds nothing short of amazing on all form of keyboard instruments – I found that it even turns screaming analogue lead sounds into beautiful textures that can almost be used as pads with a bit of EQ.For those who are unfamiliar with the Blackhole reverb, please note, this is not your typical, plate, small room, hall or even cathedral reverb, this is, as Eventide describes it, “otherworldly” and “an alternate dimension of ambience.” Our reviewers agreed. What precisely makes the Blackhole reverb algorithm so special? It’s not easy to do big reverbs. Many sound grainy, granulated and polluted, or worse, thin and tinny.
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