DigiTech Digiverb

I bought the Digiverb in order to have the option of supplying my own reverb rather than relying on the sound guy. I normally use a hall reverb program. With the Digiverb I'll sometimes use the church program when I want a bit more space.

I play a pair of Koll DL Thinline guitars (one with humbuckers and a hard tail, the other with P-90s and a Bigsby). I play through a DI straight to a venue's PA, or through my AER Compact 60 amp. Normally I play clean with minimal effects - normally just reverb.

The Digiverb's programs are very good, especially considering that this is a $99 stompbox.

I've only had the Digiverb for a few weeks. No issues so far.

I have no expectation of needing support from Digitech.

I play whatever comes to mind. No specific genre or artists. It's pretty much all improvisation. I use a lot of fingerpicking and voice leading.

I started playing many years ago, quit for about twenty years, and have been playing "seriously" for almost eight years since I started again.

I played a number of other reverb pedals while considering the Digiverb. I prefer the Digiverb to the Boss RV series (I tried the latest model as well as a couple of older versions), the Line6 Verbzilla, all of the Electro-Harmonix Holy (-er, -est) Grail pedals, and one or two others that didn't leave much of an impression.

A hefty metal chassis carries four rotary control knobs, one input jack, two output jacks, a 9v power input socket and a stomp-plate switch activator.

The manual was OK as far as it went but as with most FX pedals it's your ears that determine what's actually happening. The Digiverb is pretty intuitive to use and the reverb mode descriptions alert you to sonic ballpark you're entering.

Beware - this pedal eats batteries at an alaming rate. Mine is mounted on a pedalboard with a stabilised 1.5 amp 9v supply so no problems. I would be very wary indeed about using this pedal in live situations if it relied purely on battery power for operation.

The room type reverbs are quite natural sounding, although I do tend to avoid the larger more 'cavernous' options. Plate setting is OK but I don't care for the spring reverb mode with its tizzy artificial spring aftertones. I think the attempt to fully recreate a spring reverb has spoiled a potentially useful option.

I do not find this pedal particularly noisy in use and it appears to cause little degradation of sound quality in bypass mode.

For what I want the Digiverb does a good job, although I would never be tempted to use more extreme settings anyway. It adds the richness and lustre that I want from my sound especially when using my Hiwatt top.

I haven't used the speaker emulation option so cannot comment on it. It seems like a good idea but unless it delivers what it promises what is the point apart from being another marketing ploy?

The chassis seems solidly built but unfortunately the control knobs feel a bit flimsy. Certainly not as solid as ProCo or Boss. I find it takes a solid whack with the foot to engage the pedal as the stomp-plate spring is unnecessarily over-tensioned. It could just be I am over-familiar with Boss pressure plates but it still feels like taking a sledgehammer-to-a-walnut to me...

No problems with the DigiVerb so far. But there again I do use it mains powered, so no danger of PP3s dying mid-gig. I do not have the same blind faith in this pedal's reliability as I do in, say, ProCo or Boss units. It's irrational I know, but it is too easy to overlook the significance of instinct in these matters.

UK customer support is better than OK. I found them helpful and quick to respond to queries.

Play bluesy rock, with bits of jazz, pop and soul thrown in, so I need a pretty versatile set-up. The DigiVerb has really improved my sound from my Hiwatt which has no integral reverb.

Pedalboard comprises Boss TU-2 >> Guyatone ST-2 compressor >> Morley PWO >> Keeley SD-1 >> Highly modified ProCo You Dirty Rat >> Digiverb. All pedals are powered by 1.5 amp stabilised 9v power supply.

Amps are Hiwatt DR103, Lab Series L7 and Marshall MG30. Guitars 2 x Les Paul, 2 x Hamer double cuts and a WD Music HSS component Strat.

I won this pedal as a prize so I can't say I chose it. That said it did make a significant improvement to my sound. However I prefer the Boss RV-5 which just seems to be a tad sweeter and more natural sounding. If the DigiVerb was lost or failed I would not replace it with another.

Seeing as the Digiverb effectively cost me nothing I have to give it full value marks. HAD I actually bought it.0.. well that's a totally different story....

It is EZ to get a horrible sound.

This pedal is unusable. There is either to much reverb or none at all. It takes me about 8 min EVERY soundcheck to get something that I can kind of use. I am not a tone snob. The level knob is at 3 and I have to spend time micro tweaking it. If you power down you have to start all over. This happens everytime we play. I lose my will to live tweaking this pedal.

Never had a problem getting a bad sound out of it.

Never tried.

Why can't a company make a reverb pedal that has ONE good sound?? Why do I need 8 bad sounds? Put the R&D into coming up with one good sound.

Quite easy to use - turn some knobs and you will get a great tone soon!

Wooooooooooooo(...)w! Turn it up to mode 4 and you will get blast by this reverb!
It's way better than the RV-5 from Boss, even better than the overrated Holy Grail (all forms, from standard to Holiest Grail). You can geat VERY HEAVY reverb out of it - and for those of us, who like to shred in big rooms - the new Gate Mode is perfect for you!
Very real sounding Spring Mode! Another toy is the reverse mode - check it out, i can't explain it...

Step on it how often you want to...

3 Years guarrantie

I play mostly Modern Victory Rock (a music style with a lot of delay, reverb and distortion, so the reverb is very important to me) and Funkrock, also Blues and Hard Rock.
If it were stolen i would run amok...

It has 4 knobs a monkey could use it!

Lets start with i love reverb! but not this reverb, i like it warm and lush this is anything but. Ifound this unit to be very sterile and just plain old not fun, if your looking for that van halen first album big sound FORGET IT!! Im looking into the marshall reflector or line 6 verbzilla both of which you can check out sound clips at musicians friend. I tryed this with my live rig which consists of an 83 strat, modified peavey windsor, bbe sonic stomp and a ns 2 noise supressor ran this through the fx loop and in front of the amp with the pre amp gain very low and it sucked my tone dry.

Seems to be built pretty good its as beefy as a boss pedal, my concern over time would be the on-off switch it seems kinda flimsy and you have to remove it to access the battery compartment.If they correct this it would be as durable as a boss or any other, no i wouldn't gig without a backup.

I've been playing over 25 years and i've played my share of road shows and i've gone through alot of gear, this is one of those bone headed choices that we all make sometimes. bottom line? look else where.

Your a retard if you can't use this thing.

I use this to add a soft touch to my Taylor. My iem's sounded dry and this can really add a natural feel to it. Chain: TU-2 -> Boss CH-1 -> DigiVerb -> House.

Respect the equipment and it will hold up. Beat up your pedals by tossing them around, stomping on them hard, take em off your pedal board after gigs, loan them out to friends and guess what, they'll go to sh*t! I take care of my gear and don't expect it to take a tornado hit. By the way, I know where all my TV remotes are.

Haven't dealt with them.

I have been playing guitar for over 8 years now and have been playing professionally for about 4 years and in a short time have been able to use a lot of gear and hear a lot of rigs/setups. I am really tired of the bullsh*t about digital equipment not being as good as analog. Quite frankly, the tone similarities are so close that most pro's can't even tell unless they are being played simultaneously. Their are some exceptions and some junk out there, but this pedal is a good one. This pedal does what it is supposed to do. Buy this pedal confidently knowing it will do it's job.

It takes a little fiddling to get the tone you'll be looking for, whatever that may be. But it's surprisingly fun to mess around with the settings on the pedal. It has seven different types of reverb, which seems daunting at first, but you'll quickly figure out which settings work best for your preferred songs/style.

It sounds pretty damn good. It sounds like digital reverb, but I'm not an analog-snob. You can get some kickin' reverb from this pedal, and, should you so desire, it certainly gets cavernous enough.
It's not a noisy pedal, in fact, the effects are remarkably pristine in their lack of noise. When the pedal is switched off in my effects lineup, it does nothing to decrease the tone or signal of my guitar.

I've only had it for a few weeks, but I bought it used, and it shows no signs of slowing down. It's not quite as tough as a Boss, but it's made of solid metal, so I've got no complaints.

I haven't needed any customer support yet.

Analog reverb obviously has certain advantages to digital reverb, but if an analog reverb unit is a little out of your price range (as it certainly is for me) then this pedal is a damn good deal. It has a wealth of settings, and any type or level of reverb is attainable with this pedal. And that's really everything you can ask for from a reverb pedal. Highly recommended.

Straight out of the box, the DigiTech Digiverb is pretty easy to use...BUT - if you read the manual, and play with the settings some, you can produce a surprising variety of reverberation sounds from subtle to almost nauseating....in a good way.

I don't know anything about editing patches or firmware revision numbers....

Bought mine from an eBayer - near new, and with an AC adapter ("wall wart"). Works fine.

I like the hall and church reverb emulations best, they're as organic as you're gonna get from a digital box; the gated and reverse I haven't figured out a use for. Gimmicky.

My standard of comparison is this: In 1967 I heard Jorma Kaukonen play his song Embryonic Journey on a Gibson (?) acoustic guitar w/DeArmond soundhold pickup into a Deluxe Reverb (? - it's 40 years ago!)onstage, and I was LOST forever. A lusher, dreamier, more psychedelic sound was never played with such taste and emotion.
I learned to play the song myself, and the Digiverb's "church" setting, with a fairly long decay, is just the ticket. Maybe not quite as ORGANIC as the Deluxe Reverb, but just as lush.

I play my Digiverb into one of three amps: a Crate Blue Voodoo 50 with a vintage, secret-weapon, heavy 15 inch AlNiCo speaker. A 1972 Peavey VT series Classic 50 (SS preamp; two 6L6GC output tubes) with two heavy Wharfedale 12 inch ferrites. Last, a Bogen CHB35 tube PA amp into a pair of vintage Rola 12 inch AlNiCos. The Crate has the best internal reverb of all - I replaced the short 3-spring reverb it came with by an Accutronics Type 9 (long tank; 6 counter-wound springs). The Digiverb makes the Accutronics sound subtle by comparison.

For some reason, on the Crate, it introduces a very slight solid-state-sounding hiss into the sound mix when the amp is switched to the overdrive channel, but otherwise, there is no audible extraneous noise.

No doubt recording studios have effects that would kill the Digiverb, but for my $65, this is pretty good.

I've had it a month, so I wouldn't venture an opinion here.

Have never had reason to talk to DigiTech about their pedal, or any other, for that matter. I don't use pedals, as a rule (rule proven by the fact that I now use one......moral slippage everywhere).

I play mostly fingerstyle folk to electric blues, with fingerpicks. If you're a geezer like me whose life was ruined by "Embryonic Journey", this pedal will do it in style. Lots of choices of reverb types, strengths, decays, etc. I'd say this pedal is the next best thing to playing your guitar though a good tube amp in a 16th century stone cathedral.

Been playing since I was 17.....I'm 57 now. If I weren't so senile, I'd tell you how many years that is. Own some tube amps, a rosewood Larrivee acoustic six-string; a rosewood ply Taylor Big Baby; a good cheap workmanlike Telecaster copy by Johnson; a Peavy Reactor AX Tele with blades (GREAT NECK); and my current delight: an Ibanez Talman 50 (shallow acoustic; single stacked humbucker at the neck).

If the Digiverb were lost/stolen, I'd just get another. It's become my current guitar addiction....I wish it were built into the amplifier, so people would think I had this awesome gear and godlike talent, instead of a piece of mass-produced digital schlock that anyone can buy and use.....no offense meant, DigiTech.

I have nothing else to compare it to, except the factory spring reverbs that came in my amplifiers.....the Digiverb is far more powerful......like comparing a small glass of wine to 500 micrograms of Owseley's best Orange Sunshine, if you know what I mean.

This is the main reason I love this pedal. Think about it. If you read the manual you will find that cabinet emulation can be enable on the pedal. I've used this same emulator on my Digitech Grunge for Live and recording. Its great because you can emulate any preamp signal. So Cabinet Emulation plus Reverb in a pedal, what do get? A bad ass studio guitar DI. In Stereo! A recording plus!!! Check it out!!!

Easy enough to get a good sound out of this thing. Just turn the knobs and experiment. If you're looking for traditional reverb sounds, that's easy enough. That's not where this thing truly shines though, in my opinon.

Sounds great. Hands down, the best reverb pedal unit I've ever heard. Certainly better than the EHX Holy Grail, which sounds a little thin to my ears (and has an annoying pop due to it's non-fet switching). This is the best pedal I've found for washed out reverbs, with the exception of the PodXT's "cavernous" setting which isn't a dedicated reverb unit. Sounds great clean, dirty, or totally blown out, although it can get indistinguishable at times. I use it with a JCM 800 and a V4, both cranked...it sounds like a huge, chilly wave of steam washing over drums and bass.

I usually mess with the hall setting. I've been so happy with that particular section of the pedal that I haven't needed to really use the others for any of my own applications and it would be impractical to try to use multiple settings live anyway. The church sounds like a smaller version of the hall to me, or a more muddy version I guess. The room would be really useful for doubling or thickening things up, but I prefer a short delay running to one side only instead. The reverse could be useful, and the gated is good when you want to sound big in a mix with another guitarist but you don't want your trails to fade off when everything is supposed to go quiet. It's also useful for some Swans-like percussive sounds to give a song an eerie vibe. Very useful, especially for the price and small package.

I've gone through two of these and one Holy Grail, but I decided to use these instead of the Grail immediately after trying it. Since this is a pretty heavily used utility pedal, you should try to be nice to it. They don't hold up too well over time, much like the XP series pedals (which had a problem with rockers breaking over time.) I've been having problems with mine lately, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Just take good care of them and buy a backup if you can afford it.

For anybody looking for shoegaze, psychedelic, or ambient reverb that can envelop your sound and make it murky and mysterious, this will get the job done better than a Boss RV-3 or a Holy(er, ist) Grail for a lot less. It's also great for anybody looking for a good plate reverb sound. I didn't mention that above, but that setting sounded good...I don't have anything to compare it to. The spring lacks the warmth of a good spring reverb to my fingers and ears, but most people won't complain. I think this pedal is best suited toward folks that want to get a huge, massive, long sustaining and washy reverb. That's what it does best, and it's exactly what I needed.