soft pedalled Baltimore Sonic Research Institute Soft Rains and the Smell of the Gro – Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center

soft pedalled Baltimore Sonic Research Institute Soft Rains and the Smell of the Gro – Chuck Levin's Washington Music CenterShape Space and Chaos with the Baltimore Sonic Research Institute Soft Rains and the Smell of the Ground Textural Reverb Pedal Soft Rains and the Smell of the Ground is a big washy textural reverb pedal that can sound pretty and lush and also sound brash and chaotic. It features a momentary feedback loop that can sustain reverb trails into a long evolving smeared pad or swell into blasts of feedback and walls of sound. Soft Rains is great for running

Shape Space and Chaos with the Baltimore Sonic Research Institute Soft Rains and the Smell of the Ground Textural Reverb Pedal

Soft Rains and the Smell of the Ground is a big washy textural reverb pedal that can sound pretty and lush and also sound brash and chaotic. It features a momentary feedback loop that can sustain reverb trails into a long evolving smeared pad or swell into blasts of feedback and walls of sound. Soft Rains is great for running into distortion pedals to fill out a lot of space in a mix and make the spaces between notes feel full of life and movement.

• Level sets the amount of reverb signal mixed into the chain
• Resonance cuts or boosts the low end of the reverb effect
• Air cuts or boosts the presence and treble of the reverb effect
• Soak sets the decay time of the reverberations
• Expand controls the signal amount recirculated during Expand switch activation
• Bypass footswitch enables true bypass for bringing the effect in and out of the signal path
• Expand footswitch activates momentary feedback loop for evolving decay or oscillation

The pedal was designed by Baltimore Sonic Research Institute to suit a project where fewer notes are played, but each one fills space with life and movement. The name references a Ray Bradbury poem—both fun and educational.

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