The Story: This spring reverb unit is built inside a vintage Airline tabletop wooden radio cabinet. When it came to me, it was missing all the guts, including the dial face and backplate. I made a new wooden bottom plate for it, a new aluminum backplate, and acid-etched a new dial face for it. The knobs are modern chickenhead style, but I dyed and aged them to make them match the aesthetic of the radio.
All the label plates are acid-etched brass. The dial face is a modified reproduction of the original. I modified the dial face to indicate wet/dry mix percentage. The hand-made pointer has been connected via a sprocket and belt assembly to the mix control pot so that the indicator arrow moves with the mix control.
This is a real Spring Reverb unit featuring a Mod® 11" spring tank and a solid state drive circuit. Designed to fill out your sound for amps with no on-board reverb or to add some Drip to your tone, this unit runs on a pedal power friendly 9-18volts and draws less than 100 ma of current. You can power it from any standard pedal power supply. Sit it along side your pedal board, add a patch cable and a cable from your power supply and you're in business!
Controls:
Mix: ratio of wet to dry signal
Depth: strength of the wet signal
Vol: overall output level
Tone: brightness of the output
Features:
- internal charge pump gives doubled head room
- solid state driver circuit with Class AB amplification to eliminate crossover distortion and eliminate unnecessary power consumption
- Mod® 11" 3 spring reverb tank (medium decay)
- Vintage wooden radio body
- full Faraday cage lining via aluminum plate and metallic tape to shield against external interference/emi
- Runs on 9, 12, or 18 volts and draws less than 100 ma
- High quality Carling true bypass toggle switch
- illuminated dial face
