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I have the RV-6 currently, and it’s really good. It was actually my first ever pedal, and a gift from my wife. So I’ll never sell it but I’m ready for an upgrade, and looking for suggestions on something premium, as it’s one of the final pieces of the board I’ve been working towards for a while.

I’m a home player, and been gassing for the Cornerstone Nucleo ever since I saw it on TPS, and then watched the vid at the reactor. Incredible, it sounds amazing, I love the back story, but very importantly, it seems to have a huge amount of functionality but with a very intuitive interface.

BUT, a friend pointed out the Empress Reverb is probably the absolute top of the mountain and has been for a while. I watched some reviews and blown away by how many incredible sounding options it has, and the ability to save several presets, and again a simple interface.

My use case is broadly what I have with the RV-6: three or four main presets which I use and can tweak a little bit. move between a few options, and then mostly forget about, but very easily adjustable when I’m in them. And then a little weirdness when i want it. ideally a bit more weird than I’ve got now, and all round just a far higher quality of effect.

Has anyone got and played the Nucleo or the Empress reverb? How’s your experience been with them? How do you use them? Which is the one to go for? Or, does anyone else have a lesser known (by me!) premium option which I should check out? Not really interested in Strymon and menu diving in general, i prefer a more hands on the pedal experience.

Any thoughts feelings emotions about these/your fave ‘verb pedal very welcome. TIA

I have no experience with pedals, and I’ve finally reached a stage of understanding music well enough to explore on guitar and create which I will be looking to do but secondly I need to work on rythyms a lot.

My question is which pedal do I get that will allow me to take a song I like, it’s drum and /or bass track from beginning to end of a song I like even if it’s a complex rythym and have it so I can play full songs and improve my reading and listening of rhythm?

I find I often don’t finish learning songs because I get flustered with tab/music notation, I do understand it for the most part but I’ve found a lot of wrong tabs at times also. It maybe some kind of dyslexia or something but I tend to pick up stuff by watching other players or videos and sounds, but I want to grow the areas that I’m weakest.

So that’s a big thing I’m looking for and than secondly, a pedal that I can use to freestyle/create and practice my scales. I find I can think of lyrical ideas easy but I need a looper to help me create my melodies that match the words. I was looking at an RC10R but it seems that an RC5 might be capable as well.

Budget is no more than an RC10R. Hopefully this all made sense. And thanks for your input.

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Hi, first of all I apologize for my English (I use Google translation so it’s not perfect at all) I bought a timeline from strymon 8 months ago, and for a few days there has been a blowing noise and sizzling but only on the L output. I changed the cable jack, I tried everything but the noise remains on the L. I noticed that the noise appears when the cable is pressed all the way down. Also, when I change preset there is a little noise that can be heard. I have a festival in a few weeks and I absolutely need the pedal to be functional, if someone ever have any ideas it would be of great help!

I was hoping I could get some recommendations for a versatile fuzz. I’m a big David gilmour guy and tend to use his sound as inspiration but do not want to just copy his gear. Something that can do both and open and gated fuzz would be awesome.

I liked the tones I could get out of the chase bliss preamp mk2 but don’t want to spend 1k on a pedal.

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Really looking for some cool distortion/drive pedals to stack with my walrus audio voyager. I’ll stack it with a big muff sometimes which sounds good for some stuff but I was wondering if you guys knew of anything fun that wasn’t a fuzz to stack it with. I have a walrus audio fundamental distortion right now and I honestly hate it. Just lacks personality.

Totally open to wierd pedals too. I like making interesting sounds.