IT'S GOOD
Mental good, in fact. Just spent an hour or so giving it a good run-through (at late night volumes though, sadly) and I'm pretty damn impressed. So glad I waited for it, as the Cathedral blows all other reverbs I've heard/tried/GASed for out of the water.
The reverbs are as lush as you like, and can be slathered with a wad of feedback to make them even lusherer though care has to be taken with some of the bigger settings as things can get a bit woolly or... er, marshmallowy sounding. And with capability to go 100% wet so all you can hear is the effect and not your playing this is like an ambient noodler's nocturnal emission. The funnest little hidden treat is that if you crank the decay time, the reverb effect becomes infinite. Boy howdy, this feature makes the Verbzilla's cave mode sound like slapback. Of course the effect becomes a massive (and deafening) wall of noise in a feedback-loopy stylee as you play and you end up inside some sick sonic maelstrom. The infinite footswitch mode is slightly different as that just holds the last bit of reverb in a drone and anything you play over it is dry/uneffected.
The "flerb" flanged reverb mode is where most of the patented EHX wackiness takes place, as you can tweak the speed and resonance of the flange in real time to get neato squeaks and bleeps. Ramp up the reverb time and pre-delay and you can get them R2-D2 noises into a loop. As well as the various reverb types, there's also an echo/delay setting so in a pinch you can dial in or save a delay of up to two seconds and then add reverb on top of it as well. Enough featurez for ya?
Happy!
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