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electro-harmonix Cathedral Reviews

5 4.4/5.0 based on 5 customer reviews
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Matt B.
from Birmingham, AL, USA
April 6, 2012 Music Background:
Music Enthusiast

Best verb for the price!

From thick, fat 50s blues to spacey, and far out, this pedal is incredibly extensive and worth every penny. A must-have, multi faceted reverb that adds an arsenal of awesome to your board. You can't let this one by!
Jon Mac
from Cadillac, MI
April 19, 2010 Music Background:
worship leader, 20 year musician

Top Notch

This is really top of the line for Reverb. I am a reverb freak and this pedal does it all.

For those looking for that ambient Radiohead/Coldplay/Explosions In The Sky sound and have tried all the Sustain pedals look no further.

This pedal sustains like crazy and its very ambient sounding.

What I love is this pedal is crazy easy, after 5 minutes of playing around with it knew how to do everything.

I have gone through maybe 30-35 pedals this last year alone, I feel my experience is warranted to say this is the coolest and most practical reverb out there. I use this alongside my Boss RV-5 to get some long sustained ambient sounds, but this Cathedral can do it all alone if you need too..
Sly
from Miami Ochopee FL
June 30, 2011 Music Background:
Guitar now a mixing engineer at my own studio greenhatstudio

One rocking pedel

If you collect reverb pedels this one you must have!
I look at this for a very long time before deciding to buy it.
But it's well worth it the real ness is unbelievable, nest reverb I bought so far!
Just wish this thing had more presets thats the only reason I gave it 4.5 rating but other then that it's great!
JHunt
from Richmond, VA
December 7, 2011 Music Background:
Performance & Recording

One to beat!

Well built with great features. A difficult act to beat!
Tom
from Salem, OR
March 12, 2010 Music Background:
Hobbyist guitar player of 40 years. In years past I was in bands, but not any longer.

EHX Cathedral Reverb

I received the Cathedral yesterday and have been trying it out since.
I use a vacuum tube buffered effects loop that works wonderful for time based effects.
I have my EHX Stereo Memory Man w/ Hazarai first in the chain, a Cool Cat Chorus, then the Cathedral.
The Stereo Memory Man is a very good delay pedal so I am very happy with that.

I am a bit disappointed in this pedal in regards to the reverb.
When the notes decay, there is a sort of stair stepping decay to the notes that just sounds too digital. I know this pedal is digital but I don't want it to necessarily sound like it.
If it was more natural sounding I would give it 5 stars.

I like a larger venue type reverb such as Hall or Arena for an overall ambience of reverb. I turn down the mix so there is just a bit of reverb audible.
This pedal acts more like a delay pedal and since I already have the Stereo Memory Man I have that covered.

The Infinite switch is a very cool feature as it sustains a chord or note you play for a type of drone tone to play on top of.

In the end I really wanted to like this pedal but I guess what I really want is more of a analog sound in my setup.
So I am still searching.

electro-harmonix Cathedral

Programmable Stereo Reverb Pedal

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