Danelectro: Spring King Junior. REAL Spring Reverb

[@heavybrett-al4082]

That's soooo springy, I can picture baby lamb's prancing around it within a summer field. Very nice.

[@clairelodge72]

Wait, what?

[@heavybrett-al4082]

@@clairelodge72 who? why?

[@roughcutguitars]

Analogy; it's not for everyone ​@@heavybrett-al4082

[@jamesflack8624]

Kicking myself that I didn't score one of these back in the day. I did use the Dan-Echo for a long time... Set up for 'verb mostly. As always top notch demo. Cheers 🍻

[@NoahTJonesMusic]

Straight to the NEED list

[@jenniferlawrence2701]

That's pretty cool for such a small pedal

[@andrewksadventures]

Great stuff Brett! Sounds good. Lovely playing also. 👍

[@jamiemorgan4146]

Another cool little pedal that was “ needed”..👊🏻

[@williamdevlin366]

Hey Brett!!! What a great video as always!!! That might just literally spring right off a pedalboard. Nice playing as well, of course. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from NC!!!

[@johnkadell6319]

Great job Brett.

[@ciclosonico]

I love it, now I want one!

[@RICO_SUAVE21]

Sounds killer!

[@user-nu7xx7pc1d]

I need it!!!!!!!!!

[@Fender420]

Cool

[@sheerheartattack6701]

New Song: Slinky!

[@cowboygypsey]

Very tasty blues.

[@michael_caz_nyc]

Great Sound = Legit for sure. (however) Brett can make a can-of Tunafish sound like a Lexicon.

[@Sea_Dove]

💯

[@jamiemorgan4146]

That’s very true. Brett can play his a$$ off!

[@NintenDub]

ive wanted to original for a while, despite it getting quite a bit of flack. i didnt even know this mini was a thing. i still gotta get a surfybear tho. so id probably get that first. ive been wondering when wed see useable, miniature spring pans made just for reverb. i always figured it was possible to downsize a foot long pan, into just a couple inches. hope to see more of this. i love spring reverbbb

[@Riley880]

Hey finally not another distortion pedal lol.

[@danielbarbieri8199]

The pedal that Princeton reverb 65 owners do not need 😆

[@I.M.Guitar-Nerd]

Sounds like it's still has a delay chip to supplement the springs.

[@roughcutguitars]

Really like it but in the same $ range, the jra Boing is luring my ears. Not the same I know. The Boing is way more 'tempered'. I kinda like that smooooth touch, but I'd probably STILL want a true spring reverb 😀 and around and around

[@ryanyt6971]

I think the original big one actually had a digital chip in it to generate some of the sound, so really wasn't all real spring reverb? Do we know if that's still the case with this one?

[@darwinsaye]

I can hear that it does. It’s a fast delay added before the springs to help excite them more. I’ve heard modified versions of the original pedal where people remove the digital delay from the signal path, but when they do, the reverb from the spring becomes much more subtle.

[@ryanyt6971]

@@darwinsaye 😕 If that's the case, they should definitely be a lot more clear about it. Implying it's a real analog effect when it's actually DSP is pretty shady. There are loads of small digital reverbs/delays that sound great (some of them doing a pretty good impression of a real spring reverb), so the only advantage of this (still fairly large) pedal over those would be if it's a 100% real spring reverb effect - especially when there are already some great-sounding genuine spring reverb pedals out there that are (relatively) pedalboard-friendly.

[@darwinsaye]

@ Well, while I too like the idea of a 100% analog pedal, it’s a bit of an overstatement to say that this effect is “actually DSP”. To be clear, the digital chip is not in any way modelling a spring reverb sound - it’s just creating a subtle, fast delay in order to keep the short, pedal-sized springs shaking longer than they could on their own. Most of what you hear is the analog effect of the vibrating strings, and you have to listen hard, and hit the guitar strings a certain way, in order to hear the faint delay happening underneath all the spring reverb noise. I don’t think it’s a bad solution to the problem of trying to get a “big-spring” reverb sound from short, pedal sized springs. The Danelectro actually has a bigger, more full sounding reverb than some fully analog small-spring reverb pedals that cost over twice as much. If you want a fully analog, big sounding spring reverb, you could get a Surfy Bear unit that uses full size springs, but they start at around $400, and would take up half the surface of the average pedalboard.

[@saba2655]

I picked one of these up and the delay is very audible. if it were possible to hear it without the delay I’d try it before returning it, but it looks like it requires some soldering.

[@HEZ63]

I had been disappointed from the big Spring King, as it only offered a very decent reverb, this one seems to sound more intense, but too thin and sterile for my taste. Even the small Surfy Bear does a better job in my opinion, if I looked for a real analog spring reverb with a real spring tank, the big ones anyway, but meanhwile there also are really sounding springless pedals around, which do a good job. Always depending on, what you really are looking for and how much money you want to spend. Nice demo nevertheless!

[@ItsaCatsLife]

For USD$!99 (AUD$320) I'll stick to digital thanks.

[@davidkastin4240]

Sounds just as great as it's father. The bad is the ridiculous price. I currently only see one for sale in the US @ $200+ Uncle Sam. Not worth it.

[@jamiemorgan4146]

They’ve produced something that no one else has. Can’t blame them for trying to make as much as they can.

[@darwinsaye]

@davidkastin4240 That seems odd. The old larger version was available up until about a year ago and it cost only $170 in Canadian dollars, which is only about $120USD. I don’t know why they would offer a cut down version and then charge almost double the price.

[@darwinsaye]

⁠@@jamiemorgan4146 They’re not the only company to have produced a real spring reverb pedal - but it is the cheapest. There are about a half a dozen on the market, but most of them start at well over $300, up to around $700.

[@EdVanMeyer]

One failing, no Gain volume, common fault with most Delay and Reverb pedals I have found

[@snörre23]

7 Minutes and you could not show minimal settings like in the first quarter/third of the range ?