DigiTech X-Series Digital Reverb

Fairly easy to use. Especially since this pedal has the helpful control knob that allows the user to set the reverb of his/her choice. I'm personally not a knob freak, but on reverb, especially with different reverb types, it's nice to able to control the feedback level and eq level. Not hard at all. It will take some tweaking though for you to get your personal sound.

A friend of mine at Guitar Heaven in Nashville turned me onto this when I bought a Bassman. I was looking at the Holy Grail, and he also showed me this one. I was really impressed. I also A/Bed the unit on a Delux Reverb going back and forth, and to be honest, this little pedal sounded really good next to the actual real deal.

Once I had it home, it has taken some adjusting to get the right sound for me, but overall I'm happy with the sound. It beats the heck out of buying a reverb tank for much more and having an extra piece of musical furniture to cart around with you. While I'm sure a reverb tank and other devices might sound better, this unit does a really nice job and I'm happy with the sound.

Haven't had it long enough, but seems to be built pretty sturdy. I'll leave this one open for down the road.

Same as above.

As far as an easy to use, compact great sounding reverb pedal, I personally don't think you can go wrong with the Digitech. I've not been a huge fan of Digitech in the past, but the X-Series product line seems to be up to par when competing with Boss and some other reputable pedal manufacturers. In addition, the Digitech seems to edge Boss out on price while not compromising sound. I don't use a ton of reverb, but at the same time, I almost always use just a little bit to warm my sound up. I'm surprised at some of the negative reviews about this pedal. The only argument I can possibly see is some of these folks max out all the knobs thinking that's going to sound like a reverb on an old fender amp. I think people complaining about the poor sounds from a good pedal either need to look at their power supplies, their chord connections or their playing ability. In addition, like an old analog delay giving up to 400ms of delay and a new digital delay going up to 2400ms, it's not necessarily an apples to apples comparisson and I think some people loose track of that.

At any rate, this pedal does a fine job of emulating several different reverbs. True it's not exactly like a Fender Reverb Tank, but then again, it doesn't cost as much as one either. A little does go a long way with this unit. A little tweak of the knob and a little patience, and you'll be quite pleased.

Very simple - labelled dials and a Boss-style foot pad. The pads on these new Digitech pedals seem a little stiff to me, but they press on and off easily enough.

Very good reverb , with lots of different settings to try out. A little of the 'Hall' reverb will help you get a nice solo sound, while the 'Church' is great if you like tons of atmosphere. Don't care for the Spring reverb too much, but then that's a personal thing.

Best reverb I've tried, and in a solid, Boss-style box. Maybe not as indestructible as a Boss, but providing you're not going to chuck it at the crowd, you should be alright.

I play a real mix of music, from 60's (Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Clapton) to 70's (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin) to 90's (Radiohead, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins). My own personal style usually involves plenty of one string riffs and solos - similar to mid-70's David Gilmour. This pedal is great for adding colour and atmosphere to solos, but I wouldn't use it much for rhythm playing. I'll always make sure I've got one of these pedals. I just love the echo.
This pedal also works really well if you feed Digitech's Digidelay pedal from the same series into it - you can achieve some very cool, haunting, echoey effects. If you have both pedals, try this: Set the volume on both pedals to mid. Set the delay to a second or so, then extend the repeat as far as possible. Set the decay on the reverb to maximum, and select the 'church' reverb effect. Run a distortion pedal into the delay, with very high gain. You'll get a really eery, atmospheric hum in the background as you play, which continues to build. If you're soloing, you'll get an immense wall of noise behind you, but because of the delay, it won't interfere with the main guitar sound. It won't make you popular with the neighbours, but it's certainly very striking. Try playing something like 'Sorrow' by Pink Floyd.

As an update to my comments below: while the amp's tone isn't colored, as many other Digitech pedals tend to do, I have discovered it is noisy, relative to my Boss CE-3 chorus and DD-3 delay. It is, however, quieter than the Boss reverb-delay pedal I have. It didn't matter where I put it in the signal chain.

I think I'm going to look for something at least as quiet as those.

I tried out the Spring King. While I hadn't tested it for its noise factor, the Digiverb seemed more flexible.

The pedal is really easy to get a good sound out of it. There are 7 types of reverb to select from ROOM, PLATE, HALL, CHURCH, GATED, REVERSE,and SPRING. I keep the LEVEL knob at 50% or less. If you turn the LEVEL knob up too high the sound level from your amp decreases big time.

I love the reverb sounds I can get with this pedal and it's extremely quiet. I especially like the ROOM, PLATE, HALL and SPRING reverbs. The SPRING reverb sound may be a little exaggerated but it's kind of neat. I place it at the end of the pedal chain in front of the amp or in the effects loop, either way it sounds great. I use it with a Crate tube hybrid amp or a Fender Blues Jr.

I have only owned it about a month but so far so good. Seems to be built sturdy.

No reason to deal with them yet.

I play blues, rock, and country. I have been playing guitar for about 20 years now and have bought a lot of musical gear and pedals (some good and some bad that I returned). Although, I have never owned another reverb pedal I am very happy with this one. I think you have to know the right songs to use reverb with not every song or solo should be played with a lot of reverb. I really like all the reverb choices and how quiet it is. It's a keeper.

As easy as most pedals to use.

I got this because I needed a good reverb unit and the hype was wonderful for this product. I gave up on this company a while back but decided to give them another shot 10 years later with this new X-series. VERY processed sounding. You can almost hear it trying to process the notes. Active pickups really make it worse. The "Room" setting was the best and that's only because it is the lightest ammount of processing. The Boss is much better and the EH Holy Grail is the best reverb pedal IMO. (If the little local store had either of these I wouldn't have even tried the Digitech). I gave it a 5 because if you are used to Digitech stuff then it will serve it's purpose...I guess.

I don't know. I took it back after one day.

Every time I have to enter a rating I go lower and lower so I'm gonna get out of here now. Spend your hard earned money on the Holy Grail!

Bought it. Took it to a "coffee shop" acoustic gig. Plugged it in at the end of a three petal effect chain, Tweeked the nobs and bingo, full, rich sounding reverb. Ended up using the spring, but the plate sounded very good as well. I read the manual after the gig.

I'll use the Digiverb with electric guitar and a Matchless DC30 primarily, but I also do this acoustic gig thing about once a month where all instruments and vocals go through a small PA. The sound quality for a stomp box reverb is excellent. The versitility of the sounds are good. The "eq" adjustment offers some nice tone colors on the verb. It's quiet from what I can tell so far. You get alot of bang for your buck here.

The only concern I have (and it may be that there is a problem with my unit) is the battery life. I went through three alkaline batteries in three hours. Not even three hours. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. I know that reverb algorithms are very processor intensive, but three batteries ? I did try a power supply when I got home with it, and it worked fine. I'll be investigating the battery thing with Digitech.

I'll find out very soon.

I play almost everything but metal. Acoustic and electric guitars. I did use the Digiverb with a G&L ASAT Classic with the aid of an original SanAmp stompbox into a PA. I got a wonderfull tone using the spring sound. I set the G&L pickup switch to the middle position and we played "Sultans of Swing" (my Strat is in the shop). I was aware that some guitar player in the crowd might bust me, and one did after the set. To my surprise he said he loved the tone. He said I "nailed" it. I believe this was because of the reverb sound. I have a few good reverb rack units and two or three high end TDM plug-ins for Pro Tools. For a stomp box the Digiverb is pretty good. You could use it for guitar on a recording in a pinch.

It's easy to use . It would be nice if you could change verbs without
there being a glitch, a momentary silence.So don't change midnote.
All the pots are effective.

For the money spent, and the gigging friendlyness, there is nothing
that sounds better. Putting this at the end of your chain really
contributes to the 3D sound' plus going out to stereo. I wish it had stereo ins.
I think the original In signal remains intact in all but over the top settings, which I never go to so...
The different models all have their thing going on, their own personality.
I think the spring sounds better than any of the modeled spring verbs
by Boss,Line6 ,Korg,Yamaha (the Yam is decent the Vetta sounds great). But the depth of theDigiverb spring is hard to beat.
I also enjoy the Room and Church with long decays for reflective cascades.

As far as the rubber foot goes.IT SUCKS.
My pedals reside on my floorboard. I use velcro on both surfaces, the pedal and the board. when you design a floorboard you might need to readjust pedal positions. as soon as I did this the first time, THE WHOLE RUBBER BACKING CAME OFF. I tell you, If the thing didn't sound
so good I would have brought it back. I just ended up super glueing
the velcro on and it sits on the board and is not moved. My rating
is only reflecting my feelings on this one issue. The rest of the pedal seems quite reliable

I've got to have this pedal so I have to fix the problem with the
rubber foot myself,which voids the warrenty.
But I'm going to put that aside and rate it as it sounds in my rig
and I,ve got to give it a 10.Cuz it just sounds sooo sweet.

Very easy to use. Selector knob for reverb types. Mix level knob, EQ knob, Decay (length) knob. Perfunctory manual, but since it's made in the USA there are no tranlsation burps to add any confusion.

I acquired a Top Hat Club Royale 212 with no reverb, so I've been looking for a fiscally manageable solution. I've always had concerns with Digitech pedals (Whammy, WhammyII, X100, blahblahblah) sucking the tone right out of my amps, so I have piles of 'em. I was beyond pleasantly surprised that this pedal does not affect the amps tone at all: clean clean clean!

While I tried a Holy Grail, and have been waiting to try a Dano Spring King, this 'verb sounds cleaner and is more versatile. That said, the spring setting gives that wet spring-reverb burp with each percussive attack or pick scratch and becomes annoying. The Room reverb is happenin', especially cranking the EQ (which adds more brightness than treble per se). I suppose I prefer the Plate setting as its tone is close to Spring without the corny burp.

I also own the Boss RV3, and I have to say that this Digitech does a better job for less money, made in the USA. Since a 10 would have to compete with the Real Deal (fender tube reverb, maybe?)--this is close!--it would have a solid 9, but for those goofy emulated burps.

Seems equal to any Boss pedal I've had for years and years and gigs and gigs.

I play rock through a Marshal DSL 100 halfstack, Carvin Nomad (yowza!) and now the Top Hat (celestial) as well. I usually play those tones dry, so I use reverb for effect (along with an occasional splash of chorus or phase or tremolo or slapback delay or wah). The gated and reverse reverbs sound really good, but setting the Decay at the lowest settings creates some useful, funky new tones. I'd likely replace it since it's compact sounds clean and sounds great!

I found it very easy to get good reverb sounds from this box. The controls are very simple and straightforward; the manual is mostly useful for explaining battery replacement and the "cabinet modeling" function.

I am using this pedal between my guitar and my amp, mostly with no other effects pedals. I've found it to be pretty much dead quiet. I bought it mostly because of the spring reverb emulation; the "hall" setting may be of some use to me, and it sounds fine. I had hoped for better from the "room" setting...pretty small room, if you ask me. I'm using it with tweed replica amps (Super, Bandmaster, Bassman). My guitars are Strats, Teles, Guilds and an old Harmony H74.

Not much to tell yet here... I went through the original battery (it was in the unit when I got it out of the box) in about 3-4 hours of use. I'm hoping for better battery life, but I'll be sure to have a fresh spare on hand when I'm relying on this pedal. A wall-wart type power supply can be used. The construction looks rugged enough; it inspires confidence.

I play blues and roots styles, and I've been using the venerable tweed and Fender outboard tube reverb combo for some time. There are times when you don't want to drag a lot of gear around, i. e. rehearsals, jams, benefits, sitting in, etc. Eliminating the big reverb box is very helpful in these situations, but I still want that sound. The XDV on the "spring" setting does a more than adequate job. The level, EQ and decay knobs are pretty much the same as the mix, tone and dwell knobs on the Fender box, so dialing it in proved to be very intuitive. So far I've used it for one set on a gig, at a jam, and to sit in with another band. I love needing only one AC outlet, and being able to carry everything in on one trip from the car. When I'm playing, I quickly forget that there's anything different about my rig, which is to me the ultimate endorsement. I compared it to the Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail and found the spring simulation to be superior on the XDV, and having the three knobs gives more flexibility than the Holy Grail's one. Plus, you can run the XDV with a battery; not so with the Holy Grail. If this pedal only did the "spring" thing, I would have bought it... let's just leave it at that.

This new pedal from Digitech is very easy to use and produces great reverb sounds. The manual is small, thin, and read in minutes

I use this effect in the effects loop of my Peavey Triple X. I plug my Jem 7vwh into my Triple X and my effects of course through the loop. My loop plugs into my Boss EQ-20, then through the digiverb. What I like most about this effect is that its quiet, but still produces 7 excellent reverb emulations. I primarily use the spring reverb as the triple X comes without a reverb option. The box is very sensitive to minute changes and is imop studio quality. Those familiar with some old "Dokken" tunes like " when heaven comes down " will have an appreciation for the sound I try to get. Distortion with clean quiet reverb. The box does not change my sound which is great considering the over the top distortion.

The housing is typical of floor effects boxes and seems rock solid. Its as sturdy as any of my Boss pedals.

Havnt had a problem with it or needed to deal with customer support. I did however have to wait four months for delivery after its debut.

The Peavey Triple X is imop the premier Heavy Metal god of tube amps. But as mentioned without reverb, you'll need a good reverb pedal if your doing Godsmack, or any metal that requires some reverb. I've been playing for about 20 years and run this through a marshall cab. I would buy it again, for the money its comparable to Line 6's 4 button floor pedals...ie the MM4, in its range of differant emulations at a fraction of the cost ! I love it because it does exactly what I need it to, provide studio quality reverb. I would not compare it to say an Electro Harmonix Holy grail as this pedal is more adjustable and quieter. Maybe their new Holier grail will be close, but much more expensive. Those that use it in studio will appreciate the cabinet modeling feature when sent through the mixer !