Electro-Harmonix Oceans 11 Reverb Pedal for Electric Guitar

The Catalinbread Sinkhole possesses rich harmonic reverb, deep chorus, tunable modulation, and extended decay, creating otherworldly sounds and warm pads. It is perhaps Catalinbread’s most ethereal reverb unit to date. They have combined a harmonically-rich ‘hole’ reverb with an impossibly deep four-voice chorus that’s been outfitted with a feedback control and a gentle high-cut filter. Within this arrangement, the feedback control allows the Sinkhole to reach deep within the reverb to extract some truly otherworldly tunable modulation, featuring everything from comb filtering to pseudo-phaser to haunting auto-filtering. That aspect never gets out of control; it’s all wrapped up within the confines of the reverb. Catalinbread has stretched the reverb trails out to their absolute limit, with the maximum decay time almost freezing your signal in space. Extreme settings evoke warm synthesizer pads, reminiscent of vintage analog-digital hybrids, holding your modulated note indefinitely. Combine all that with a full wet-dry blend and a warm preamp circuit, and you’re beginning to feel the gravity of the Sinkhole.FDBCKThis control has a dual function; in addition to adjusting the amount of feedback in the chorus circuit, it also controls the depth of the chorus. There’s a lot going on within this one knob both in terms of individual function and interactivity, and different settings yield much more varied results than normal. It invites you to step into the hole and shut the door behind you.MIXThis is your standard wet-dry blend; all the way down is your clean signal run through the Sinkhole’s onboard preamp, and all the way up is all reverb, all the time.MODThis controls the rate of the chorus modulation. Setting this control to the minimum slows the LFO down to a barely-discernible rate. Increase for a more dramatic effect.VERBThis adjusts the decay time of the reverberated signal. Turning this up to the maximum gives you near infinite sustain.VOLAdjusts the gain of the onboard preamp. You can use this as a fine clean boost with or without the reverb, if you wish. At very high settings, your particular combination of guitar and other pedals may cause the preamp to slightly clip. If you run the Sinkhole at 18v, this is not an issue.True Bypass and Buffer SwitchThis switch is internal and requires removing the backplate to access. Do you want your reverb trails chopped off the second you switch the Sinkhole off, or do you want them to continue ringing out even after the pedal is disengaged. For the former, select true bypass (T.B.). For the latter, buffered (BUFF.) mode. The unit ships as stock with buffered mode selected.

The Catalinbread Sinkhole possesses rich harmonic reverb, deep chorus, tunable modulation, and extended decay, creating otherworldly sounds and warm pads. It is perhaps Catalinbread’s most ethereal reverb unit to date. They have combined a harmonically-rich ‘hole’ reverb with an impossibly deep four-voice chorus that’s been outfitted with a feedback control and a gentle high-cut filter. Within this arrangement, the feedback control allows the Sinkhole to reach deep within the reverb to extract some truly otherworldly tunable modulation, featuring everything from comb filtering to pseudo-phaser to haunting auto-filtering. That aspect never gets out of control; it’s all wrapped up within the confines of the reverb. Catalinbread has stretched the reverb trails out to their absolute limit, with the maximum decay time almost freezing your signal in space. Extreme settings evoke warm synthesizer pads, reminiscent of vintage analog-digital hybrids, holding your modulated note indefinitely. Combine all that with a full wet-dry blend and a warm preamp circuit, and you’re beginning to feel the gravity of the Sinkhole.FDBCKThis control has a dual function; in addition to adjusting the amount of feedback in the chorus circuit, it also controls the depth of the chorus. There’s a lot going on within this one knob both in terms of individual function and interactivity, and different settings yield much more varied results than normal. It invites you to step into the hole and shut the door behind you.MIXThis is your standard wet-dry blend; all the way down is your clean signal run through the Sinkhole’s onboard preamp, and all the way up is all reverb, all the time.MODThis controls the rate of the chorus modulation. Setting this control to the minimum slows the LFO down to a barely-discernible rate. Increase for a more dramatic effect.VERBThis adjusts the decay time of the reverberated signal. Turning this up to the maximum gives you near infinite sustain.VOLAdjusts the gain of the onboard preamp. You can use this as a fine clean boost with or without the reverb, if you wish. At very high settings, your particular combination of guitar and other pedals may cause the preamp to slightly clip. If you run the Sinkhole at 18v, this is not an issue.True Bypass and Buffer SwitchThis switch is internal and requires removing the backplate to access. Do you want your reverb trails chopped off the second you switch the Sinkhole off, or do you want them to continue ringing out even after the pedal is disengaged. For the former, select true bypass (T.B.). For the latter, buffered (BUFF.) mode. The unit ships as stock with buffered mode selected.

The Electro-Harmonix Oceans 11 Reverb Pedal for Electric Guitar is a compact, affordable pedal packed with advanced functionality and 11 reverb styles ranging from essential to exotic. The Oceans 11 features powerful, yet intuitive ‘hidden’ parameters accessible thru its Secondary Knob Mode that let the player take greater control of its effects. An internal Tail switch also provides a choice of whether the reverb effect fades out naturally or stops immediately when the pedal is switched to bypass. In most settings, the pedal is also capable of producing infinite reverb which can be played over with a fresh reverb effect complete with adjustable parameters.HallIt has a rich reverberant sound of a grand concert hall.SpringIt pays homage to the classic Fender 6G15 tube spring reverb.PlateThe lush, warm reverb got its name because a large metal plate was originally used to create it.RevrsIt emulates the quirky reverse reverb effect where a note’s reverb fades in backward.EchoIt sends a recirculating echo through the Plate reverb. The crisp clear delays get tastefully smudged by the airy plate reverb.TremThe reverb plus tremolo that’s applied to both the wet and dry mix of a Hall reverb, your choice of three different tremolo shapes.ModThe Chorus laced onto the reverb tails creates a luscious atmospheric effect. The Flanger wraps around the reverb tails and weaves a hypnotic tapestry.DynaSwell, gate, and duck. Swell silences your notes’ attacks before blooming the tails back into the soundscape. The gate passes the reverb tail thru a noise gate that opens when it detects playing. (Phil Collins popularized the technique by applying it to drums) Duck compresses the reverb tail while you are playing and fades it back in when you’re resting.Auto-INFThe Auto-infinite reverb triggers a reverb wash for each note or chord. When a new one is struck, the previously resounding reverb crossfades to the new one.ShimShimmer generates a rich octave-shifted reverb wash that modulates and blossoms behind your signal.PolyPolyphonic reverb, two configurable bi-directional pitch shifts operating on your pre-reverb signal. Combine dissonant intervals with near infinite decays to create disorienting soundtracks, or choose perfect/major intervals to generate creative harmonies when jumping around a key signature.