HOF vs HOF mini

mellowsun

Which one should I buy? The regular HOF has stereo in/outs which might be useful for recording, particularly with my Strymon Timeline. But the HOF mini is half the price. And I only really want hall reverb. Shame the HOF mini doesn't do stereo.

thisisguitar

The plate reverb is quite nice on that actually… and on the fly changes are pain live with the smaller pedal (you'd have to have a volume pedal at the end of the chain live to do tone prints in silence). 

mellowsun

Thanks, I'm leaning towards the full HOF. Unfortunately, they seem to sell second hand on ebay for close to the full retail price so will probably buy new.

thisisguitar

The Neunaber Stereo Wet seems to be the one people go for if you need the best (other than a Strymon BigSky anyway). 

I actually bought a Catalinbread Topanga just last week… not stereo but it was much better than the HOF.

littlethoughts

I'd be tempted to wait a little while for an offer on the big pedals (tc loves a pedal offer), or get the HOF mini since there is the 3-for-2 rebate deal on at the moment. For £145 you could get the HOF mini, a modulation and a spark booster compared to about £115 for the regular HOF new. I mean, you could get the three minis, sell the spark and the modulation on here for over/around £100 quite easily with no shortage of takers.

edit: speaking as someone who already has a spark mini, a flashback x4, a trinity (HOF) reverb and a shaker vibrato, they are very nice pedals and either way it would be a good purchase!