Surge Wave Compact (Dual Tank) Spring Reverb Unit

 No waiting on this one! It is built and ready to go. It's housed inside a vintage "Dual Loco" model train transformer with copper acid-etched labels. Get it while you can!

This vintage model train controller houses 2 real mini spring reverb tanks driven by an original design drive, recovery, and pre-amp circuit. Though it uses almost the same circuitry as our Long Wave Reverb, the filtering is a little different for this obnoxious little guy. It was designed with the idea of sitting beside a pedalboard to connect at the end of your pedal chain and run off an outlet of your pedal power supply. It can run off a 9 volt up to 18 volt output from your power supply and uses less than 100 ma of current. I recommend 18 volts for this particular unit.
       The Surge Wave is equally at home in front of your amp or in the effects loop. It handles overdrives and fuzzes in front of it just fine. If you turn the mix and depth down and turn the volume up, it can also make a really pleasant pre-amp in front of your amp.

This unit features 2 different spring tanks. The Standard tank (labeled Short) has a traditional, surfy, springy kinda sound.
As you pass 2 o’clock on the mix control, the sound goes from subtle thick reverb to bright, metallic clangy craziness. The sweet spot for most music is with the depth between 10 and 3 and the Mix between 9 and 2 o’clock. For surf music, of course, you can crank the mix higher, though surf is not exactly right in the wheelhouse of this unit (that’s our Long Wave territory). Roll the tone way back to tame the brightness as you roll the mix up.

The 2nd tank (labeled Long) has a longer decay, less drippy, spring sound and is darker. I think of it like the reverb you might get in a long cave tunnel: it has some early reflections from the rough walls, but also a really long tail from the late reflections coming back down the middle of the tunnel.
  The mix control is tuned to allow for a wide range of adjustments, but to keep a lot of it in the commonly used range.

Rather than bouncing with the guitar signal, the vintage meter moves with the mix control to indicate relative strength of the Reverb Effect.

Features:
2 Mod spring tanks
DeMont premium Smooth-Click footswitch
Switchcraft (Made in USA) audio Jacks
Acid-etched copper label tags
Mixture of vintage and new knobs
Stainless Steel hardware
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