Eventide releases Blackhole reverb pedal as stompbox

March 9, 2023 · 2 sources

Eventide has launched the Blackhole pedal, a stompbox edition of its reverb algorithm¹. Guitar.com reported the launch on September 16, 2020, and priced the pedal at $279¹. Delicious Audio's page on the pedal carries a March 9, 2023 update date².

The effect has been a regular inclusion on Eventide multi-effects processors since its introduction on the DSP4000¹. The pedal has six knobs, each with an alternate function². Gravity sets the direction of the decay, forward or inverse, and its alt function dials in PreDelay². Feedback lengthens the reverb, and its alt function Q adds resonance to a frequency set by the Lo and Hi knobs². The bottom left knob controls the size of the reverb and the depth of optional modulation, with its rate on the alt function of the Lo knob².

Guitar.com describes two "infinite reverb" modes triggered by footswitch: Freeze holds the effect indefinitely, and Infinite Mode cascades effects atop each other¹. Delicious Audio lists a Freeze footswitch for the momentary effect and a dual action active footswitch that is latching or momentary². Five presets are available onboard, with dozens more through Eventide Device Manager software; as many as 127 presets can be loaded via MIDI².

Other listed features include a rear panel Guitar/Line Level switch for guitar, synths, FX loop or DAW interface, parameter mapping to an expression pedal, MIDI over TRS or USB, and bypass options of Buffered, Relay, DSP+FX or Kill dry². A single Aux switch can be used for Tap Tempo, or a triple Aux switch for preset up, down and load².