Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
hotone.com/products/NeonGLow/Verbera
I usually record one or two different improvisations to use bits of for video intros and outros. Here's one of the takes for the recent Verbera video. You can view my full chatty demo at youtu.be/zQly-HU05oE
Hotone's Verbera Convolution Reverb is a true 32-bit powerhouse of Impulse Response technology. Firstly, it sounds amazing, largely due to the 120 factory installed IR's that include 'standard' reverb spaces like rooms, halls and churches, through to obscure spaces like carpet rolls, concrete shells, arenas, domes plus a slew of echo/reverb hybrids that can transform the simplest of notes or chords into ambient soundtracks. The Verbera can handle and almost instantaneously load IR's up to 20 seconds long (about twice the length that much of the competition offers) and store up to 1024 of them. In addition to these IR's you will find a secondary reverb on call, which they call 'XR', which also doubles as a 'Freeze' facility for pads, soundtracks and chordal stuff. There are 200 preset slots for you to store your creations in and the 100 factory presets are pretty amazing places to start. MIDI and expression pedal capability are both built-in and you can even use the Verbera to clone reverbs from other machines you may have at your disposal (not demoed in this video, see link below). The Verbera is true and immersive stereo (or mono) and Hotone tell me that it's the first Convolution Reverb pedal to be built from the ground up in China, something they are understandably very proud of. The Verbera is the first pedal from their NeonGlow Series and after playing with this one, I sure am looking forward to seeing and hearing what else is on offer. Beautiful work, Hotone!
Reverb Cloning tutorial courtesy of Leon Todd - youtu.be/VsmliTnW4B8?si=U09Pi1BlwKb1MoXw&t=511
Today's tools:
Guitar: 2025 Fender American Ultra II Meteora - Texas Tea
Amp: Axe-FX III Turbo running Cygnus X-3 FW. 28.07. PRS Archon Clean Channel and Marshall 1959SLP models.
Cables: Various
Mic: Audix USA A231 - audixusa.com/products/a231
Camera: GoPro HERO10 + Sony ZV-1M2 x 2
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum 26x32
Desktop Monitors: PreSonus R80 R-Series Active AMT Studio Monitors - presonus.com
Monitor Control: SPL 2Control - https://spl.audio/en/spl-produkt/2control/
Headphones: Audix A152 - audixusa.com/products/a152
All Stands: Gravity Stands - gravitystands.com/en
Computer: 2025 Apple M3 Ultra.
hotone.com/products/NeonGLow/Verbera
I usually record one or two different improvisations to use bits of for video intros and outros. Here's one of the takes for the recent Verbera video. You can view my full chatty demo at youtu.be/zQly-HU05oE
Hotone's Verbera Convolution Reverb is a true 32-bit powerhouse of Impulse Response technology. Firstly, it sounds amazing, largely due to the 120 factory installed IR's that include 'standard' reverb spaces like rooms, halls and churches, through to obscure spaces like carpet rolls, concrete shells, arenas, domes plus a slew of echo/reverb hybrids that can transform the simplest of notes or chords into ambient soundtracks. The Verbera can handle and almost instantaneously load IR's up to 20 seconds long (about twice the length that much of the competition offers) and store up to 1024 of them. In addition to these IR's you will find a secondary reverb on call, which they call 'XR', which also doubles as a 'Freeze' facility for pads, soundtracks and chordal stuff. There are 200 preset slots for you to store your creations in and the 100 factory presets are pretty amazing places to start. MIDI and expression pedal capability are both built-in and you can even use the Verbera to clone reverbs from other machines you may have at your disposal (not demoed in this video, see link below). The Verbera is true and immersive stereo (or mono) and Hotone tell me that it's the first Convolution Reverb pedal to be built from the ground up in China, something they are understandably very proud of. The Verbera is the first pedal from their NeonGlow Series and after playing with this one, I sure am looking forward to seeing and hearing what else is on offer. Beautiful work, Hotone!
Reverb Cloning tutorial courtesy of Leon Todd - youtu.be/VsmliTnW4B8?si=U09Pi1BlwKb1MoXw&t=511
Today's tools:
Guitar: 2025 Fender American Ultra II Meteora - Texas Tea
Amp: Axe-FX III Turbo running Cygnus X-3 FW. 28.07. PRS Archon Clean Channel and Marshall 1959SLP models.
Cables: Various
Mic: Audix USA A231 - audixusa.com/products/a231
Camera: GoPro HERO10 + Sony ZV-1M2 x 2
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum 26x32
Desktop Monitors: PreSonus R80 R-Series Active AMT Studio Monitors - presonus.com
Monitor Control: SPL 2Control - https://spl.audio/en/spl-produkt/2control/
Headphones: Audix A152 - audixusa.com/products/a152
All Stands: Gravity Stands - gravitystands.com/en
Computer: 2025 Apple M3 Ultra.
