Mesa Lonestar Special reverb has died again!

ROOG

ThePrettyDamned said:

Stupid question but...

Is there any advantage to having a spring, amp reverb rather than a pedal? Or even a digital reverb?

Surely an effects loop and no reverb is better because you can either put a pedal of your choosing in, including something like the Danelectro spring king, or even a valve driven vintage reverb unit, or a hall, plate, cave etc emulation that sounds better. Plus you can have delays and modulations and...

I guess my main reason for replacing it is because I don't like that fact that it doesn't work.

 

Are there down sides or advantages to fitting a longer verb spring? Would it suit general guitar use?

IIRC the verb in my old Hammond was a long unit and sounded pretty good, I wondered if this was because Organ was aimed more towards a big church sound?