Third Man Hardware and Reverb are excited to announce the Anasounds La Grotte analog reverb pedal. La Grotte is a mechanical reverb with an integrated three-spring tank, but there is also a very warm preamp with a strong character, and an ultra-effective two-band EQ (which only affects the reverb itself). Separate volume controls for direct sound and reverb sound give you access to the ideal mix you've always been looking for. Whatever your sound aesthetic may be, vintage or modern, blues or pop, garage or soul, you'll get that tone with this reverb. Jack White says:
It’s been a lifetime of searching for a small real spring reverb effect unit that could be used as a stomp box on stage or in the studio. The hang up is that you normally have to use really long springs to get a good sound, making the unit too large. With the La Grotte pedal, it was the addition of the third spring that really brought this sound alive and gave us the ability to have that long decay from a real spring in a small box. In addition the built in drive/boost feature you get from the “dry” knob is very impressive in how it elevates the signal you are sending to the springs.
Key points:
La Grotte includes new tonal sounds pulled from the Anasounds element pedal and le bon pedal in one single box.
100% analog and mechanic
Dry/Wet setting
2 band EQ
includes an embedded preamp based on Tampco’s Tone Oven.
High quality spring tanks from Accutronics/Belton in Korea
A gain control is available inside to crunch even more or even less.
A -10dB pad is available inside to plug any line input easily
You can activate or deactivate it internally
The EQ has a low cut of 700Hz and a high cut of 1.6kHz
Tons of headroom available.
The bypass has 2 modes : True bypass or buffered bypass
You can select them with a toggle switch in side.
On buffered bypass, when you bypass the pedal, we leave the tails die with elegance.
On true bypass, when you bypass it, you shut down everything abruptly.
Input impedance is very high and output impedance is very low which makes the system not sensitive to any other pedals. Then you can plug it anywhere in the signal chain, which is uncommon for such a vintage effect.
Sounds:
Versatile sound for any genre
Sounds more ambient than a classic spring reverb thanks to the 3 springs
Includes a fade in / fade out mix technique to avoid any splash from a wild and strong footswitch activation on stage.
Plenty of dB from the preamp to crunch either the Dry or the Wet section
Ability to choose the time of a crossover to kill the splash.
Pre-order limited edition yellow exclusively on Reverb, and the standard black now on ThirdManRecords.com. UK based customers can pre-order both black and special edition yellow on ThirdManRecords.co.uk.
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