Atlantic Delay & Reverb : I just wish it were stereo in!

7 years ago

I love this pedal. It's such a small pedal for how much of a punch it packs. Every setting sounds good. Both switches work in amazingly intuitive ways, both as bypass switches or as tap tempo/expression switches for delay and reverb respectively. I love the hold feature on the Hall reverb. I love the shimmer on the Plate reverb. I love the warble on the tape delay. I love the warmth on the analog delay. I love the clean chaos that the digital delay can give when the repeats start bouncing back and forth. I love that it's stereo out. I love that I can arrange the two sides in either order and even in parallel.

You'll notice I gave this five stars in everything except features. I took that one star away for one reason, and it's the only gripe I have with this pedal. Without it, this pedal is still amazing and I would recommend it 10/10 times, but with it this pedal would be a no brainer.

The one and only drawback... I just wish it were stereo in! It has the capability to take a TRS cable into the input jack, but it doesn't use that as a stereo in. Instead it's used as a in/out to be plugged into a send/return of another pedal. I don' t understand the reasoning behind that because that functionality is covered by using the input and the mono output. The 'return' side of the TRS input is disabled if there's anything plugged into either of the dedicated output jacks, so it also doesn't allow for creative routing.

Now, put this at the end of a mono signal path and you've got probably the best bang for your buck delay and reverb combo you could ever ask for. Even taking a mono signal and using this pedal to break it into stereo at the end is worthwhile. The delays and reverbs both add stereo depth to the sound. If you want to use it as a start to a stereo signal path, that makes sense as well (I'm thinking of routing this into my Zoom MS-10CDR to take full advantage of both pedals' stereo capabilities). But where I think it would shine the most is the place where it doesn't play nicely: at the end of a stereo path.

Image Nux Atlantic Delay & Reverb

Technical Data

  • Manufactured by Nux
  • Released in 2018
  • Average price : $140
  • Dimensions : 115mm x 105mm x 57mm
  • Weight : 420g
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