Electro Harmonix Holy Grail Nano Reverb 3-stars Reviews

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3 years ago

It's just okay...

Doesn't sound one bit like my old Holy Grail. What happened????

12 years ago

Okay

Simple reverb. Three settings. Spring is quite nice. Hall is a bit too big for my taste. Flerb is pretty useless with a preset flanger on the reverb sound. Great build quality but haven't been blown away by it. Not much warmth, somehow. Will probably look elsewhere for reverb in the future.

12 years ago

Electro Harmonix Nano Holy Grail: so-so

This small pedal is catchy as it appears simple to use, with only one know to control to amount of reverb. However, I find that past 11-12 o'clock it sounds far too metallic and treably, almost like a fuzz / distortion effect. It seems to loose control of the signal. For my normal use, I do not go past 9 o'clock. The flange feature is useless to me, and probably to most people, unless one is interested in that particular effect. I prefer the Boss reverb pedal, with separate controls for MIX (dry versus wet signal portions) and DWELL (the actual amount of reverb). Besides, the Boss pedal keeps the original signal tone, without loosing control. One additional negative feature (for me at least): the pedal switch is hard to engage and originates an audible metallic clicking noise. I prefer a smoother switch action. I believe that one should go for either the Boss (a bit more expensive) or for the cheaper Beringher units, that are indeed quite satisfactory sound-wise.

88/100

based on 18 reviews.

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