The Ours & Hours from LCO Industries is a lo-fi reverb pedal that puts two very different reverbs in one box and lets you blend between them. Delicious Audio, which covered the pedal at its launch, describes it as "an extremely versatile reverb pedal that offers musicians the ability to blend a subtle classic spring reverb with an immersive, extended ambient reverb"1. It sits in the wider field of reverb pedals and delay pedals, covering both effect types in one enclosure.
What it does
The heart of the pedal is the Blend knob, which mixes two different reverbs. Turning it to the left brings in more of a spring reverb, the traditional kind found in amplifiers; turning it to the right brings in more of a lo-fi, ambient-style delay and reverb. That lets a player move from a subtle, classic spring sound to a long, immersive ambient wash on one control1.
The pedal carries two footswitches. The first handles the usual on and off duty, while the second triggers a momentary effect of infinite self-oscillation: hold it down and the reverb and delay build on themselves until you let go1. Players who like ambient textures and sound-on-sound washes will recognize this as a way to create swells and drones on the fly, without touching a knob mid-performance.
Videos
60 Cycle Hum
Demos In The Dark
Sources (1)
- LCO Industries Ours & Hours Lo-Fi Reverb, Delicious Audio, 2023-08-21