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What is it?
Erica Synths’ Nightverb is a reverb unit, built to offer hands-on control of every parameter, while being able to save and load presets.
The build is tank-like, with a full metal enclosure, high-quality controls and a lovely, bright and clear screen for the minimal menus.
While it may look like a stompbox-style effect, the Nightverb is more of a desktop device and as such, it is designed just right. It might be nice to have foot switches for bypass and freeze, but in reality, that’s a minor bug bear and actually would be counterintuitive to what’s a very playable effect.
You really want this under your hands, not your feet. That said, you can plug either foot-switching or MIDI control into the rear panel. MIDI works both ways, for extra patching options and you can configure foot pedals to do what you need.
That is down to the fact that the Nightverb is one of those effects that shines when you experiment. With pretty much a knob per function layout, you can dial in a sound or adjust on the fly, without the headache of remembering nested menus and complex settings. It’s all right out there for you to see and thoughtfully placed, too.
The big central size control dominates the fascia, flanked by LED meters. To the left, you’ll find controls for gain, pre-delay, spin, shape, damping and so on, while on the right, you’ll find an output volume, feedback, dry/wet and EQing, as well as a rotary encoder, labelled data.
That data control is used for navigating presets, naming and saving user settings (up to 70 can be stored), each of which contains every setting.
There are some extra features found in the menus, too, like activating dirty mode, which changes the emulation from tape to bucket brigade. We wouldn’t necessarily say it’s grungy dirt. More of a kind of lo-fi, almost bitcrushed sound and it’s very nice indeed.
Performance
The Nightverb is a sound designer’s dream. It’s a joy to use, placing your source in just about any part of the ‘space’ you want, dialling in the shape from long and thin to more of a cavernous square, all with the twist of the early/late knob, then choosing the speed of the pre-delay, which can generate some real depth with bounce back.
If you feel like you need to clean things up to preserve the incoming signal, you can just turn down the feedback or wet signal, but there are more options on the Nightverb. You can dampen the lows or highs by up to 6dB, allowing you to fine-tune and let the signal have more room to breathe. On the opposite side, the bass and treble controls affect the entire outgoing signal, so no matter what you are working on, there’s a way to control every aspect.
That dominant size knob transforms a small space into something expansive and beautifully rich harmonically, and similarly, the feedback has a huge range to it.
One other neat trick found in the menus is the ability to morph between two presets. We’ve found this particularly useful for the ambient projects we’ve been working on where evolution and modulation are key. It’s easy to do and can create some really interesting results, which don’t suffer from the clickiness you get from simply switching presets.
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Returning to harmonic content, the highlight of the Nightverb is just how rich it sounds. It can produce some very complex tones, which are easy to tame when needed, but also lead to a novel feature we’ve not seen elsewhere and that’s the ability to turn itself into a synth, of sorts. You can plug in a MIDI controller, freeze the reverb and play it chromatically. It might not be something you’d expect from a reverb, but it’s a nice addition and reinforces the whole idea of this effect being playable.
Heading back to the output section, it’s worth noting that this is a fully stereo effect. If you input a single channel, Nightverb will convert that into a stereo signal and output it as such. The stereo control is more than it looks, too, or at least what’s happening under the hood is, as it can widen your signal past the 100% mark, expanding the stereo field to provide some massive width.
A pair of good cans or monitors really showcases this. The overall output of the Nightverb is beautifully rich and complex, full of harmonic goodness and, while it’s perfect for ambient, it is more than capable of all fitting perfectly into any genre. We’ve lost countless hours simply noodling on our guitar, tweaking things and likewise have mic’ed up a piano and done the same thing. In fact, a pair of mics on a piano, delivering a stereo signal to Nightverb, just sounds glorious!
That exemplifies, to us at least, what Nightverb is all about. Experimentation and playability.
Verdict
Solid build, logically laid out and with some added depth, Nightverb is a simple to use reverb that delivers on quality and experience. The sounds available are easy to find and sound simply gorgeous. There’s lots of flexibility too from the preset system, to stereo IO, through to its ability to integrate into a studio space, with MIDI and foot controls. This is one reverb that could very easily be at home in any setup.
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Specifications
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Price |
£490 |
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Key features |
12 parameters for detailed reverb design All parameters are MIDI CC controllable 2-way MIDI communication (parameters can also transmit MIDI CC messages) Freeze function with chromatic tuning – playable via MIDI notes (MIDI keyboard) A configurable footswitch input 30 factory presets and 70 user preset slots Preset export via USB |
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Dimensions |
23cm x 14.5cm x 7cm (including knobs) |
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Weight |
833g |
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