Bought my SB metal three years ago, been using it a lot since. I noticed right away the decay was quite long and the reverb was a bit shrill. Not enough to be disappointing, but enough to bother me from time to time. Long story short, I just had to give the Surfy Pan a try. Did the swap last week, played around with it, made some recordings for comparison and came to the conclusion that it works exactly as advertised: splashier and warmer reverb, shorter decay. It's a great upgrade and I highly recommend it!
Amazing work. That Gibbs pan sounds so full and mellow without losing definition. The previous accutronics pan is almost too harsh. The Surfy pan leans way more towards the Gibbs, but with a little more definition.
I've put one of these into a Super Reverb. It didn't really make it 'drippier' per se, but it definitely changed the reverb tone to something broader. :)
Surfypan sounds excellent! A long needed improvement - consistent supply of good reverb pans. Can you tell us what element of the pan controls the decay? Is it the spring length? Diameter or number of coils? Something else?
You nailed it!!! I have the Surfy bear Classic I just got it a week ago, I love it however, the Decay is too long. I own two 6G15's one is a early Gibbs and the other is a Accutronics I want the new Surfy bear Accutronics unit!! Do I return my new Surfy Classic? Or do I just pay for a new reverb Surfy Bear pan?
No return is needed. We will offer a deal to the most recent buyers of SurfyBear units. Give us a few days. Please contact us at sales@surfyindustries.com
Great upgrade Lorenzo. The normal accutronics was kinda too 'washy'.. I love my compact durfybeat where I keep the decay around 5 and 5,5.. so lil less than my mix and swell.. I ll go for your metal one with the new surfy pan, as soon as it is available.. or I write you for a custom request if this not gonna happen soon!! Keep it up!
Is this expected to be incorporated in the SB Metal? I'm looking to buy the metal, but will hold off until the surfypan is wrapped into the stock version.
Thanks for such a good comparison. Accutronics is way too long, too muddy. Gibbs with 6G15 sounds instantly like surf music. Pure magic. SurfyPan has a surprising lack of top-end clarity. Since it doesn't have the overwhelming buildup of low-mids like the Accutronics does, it gets this emphasized boxed-in mid-range. I didn't expect that. Compared to the 6G15 the SurfyBear sounds like it moves that upper cutoff frequency even lower into the mids. The top-end is even less open, splash has less clarity -- apparent on both the Gibbs and SurfyBear. It's amazing how many times people like Fender got it right with the first iterations of things and in the 70 years since we're still struggling to match it.
Well... we cannot complain of the sales of the SurfyPan right now to be honest, and we are very happy of the feedbacks we are receiving. We cannot tell what the future will bring us, but right now we don't have that plan.
Hi! Definitely on a Fender Reissue Unit the SurfyPan will be a good upgrade. Some of the 90s Accutronics pans sounds very splashy and good but also very harsh. The SurfyPan will correct much of that. Give it a try!
@@SurfyIndustries OK! I am into trying it. Thanks. So there is one main model? No tricky stuff with ordering? I am so poor I have trouble paying attention.
Can your company build a smaller format pedal that houses the Surfybear Compact's electronics and keep the SurfyPan separate? It would be great if we could mount the SurfyPan to the bottom of a pedalboard and route the RCA cables to a more normal sized pedal on top of the board to controls the reverb settings - I know the Anasounds Element does this, but, I like the versatility of the Surfybear Compact's controls better and I prefer Surfy Industries' reverb! I have considered taking a Compact or Classic Surfybear and dissecting the unit so that I could integrate the electronics into my pedalboard (or fabricate my own smaller sized pedal housing for the electronics) and mount the SurfyPan underneath my pedalboard to save a ton of space - but, that would have to void the warranty haha!
Hi, thanks for your interest. Unfortunately we have no intention for now to develop simply a controller for the pan, we find this technology very unstable and weak since the connection between the box and the pan would be unreliable. We are sure this would generate a lot of issues that would not allow us anymore to honour a lifetime warranty and the kind of connection between controller and pan would be fundamental. Small jacks or RCA would not stand against professional use and we would have to end up using some kind of proprietary connector/plug in order to guarantee a stronger attach. Also, sharing ground between IN/OUT from the reverb pan is not recommended and could generate extra interferences. These devices are very sensitive to electrical and electro magnetic interferences and we are already working hard to reduce the noise the most we can with what we do :) But I can tell you we have been thinking many times to this solution. You never know for the future, if we will find a proper and safe way to do it.
Some SurfyBear Classic with the new pan will actually ship this week, the SurfyBear Metal units and the standalone pans will be available from around mid-July. The price should not differ from the current one of the regular accutronics. See at our web site www.surfyindustries.com
The biggest shortcoming of these surfy pans are the fact that they still have that damned modern decay that is just far too long. The drip is great,but the decay doesn't really work for that vintage tone. Staccatos become way too washed out,just like every other modern pan. Close to a gibbs, but definitely not there.
I guess you have already tried the SurfyBear Classic 3.0, right? With the SurfyPan extra. The main thing about SurfyPan is the production consistency, which is still the most important feature VS the standard production. Thanks for your feedback.
@@SurfyIndustries I should mention that the pan does definitely sound better with the surfybear units than it does with an outboard unit in my experience. That decay isn't as obvious on the SB stuff. I am very glad this was made, don't get me wrong. They are worlds better than just about any other accessible reverb pan you can get nowadays. I just think that if it is made again, they should maybe try modeling after a 4AB2C1B like Gibbs pan equivalents. Accutronics actually only makes those for a particular retailer specializing in Jerry Garcia tones, but I have not tried one yet. Apparently they are perfect decay-wise but nobody can verify how good the drip is because they've only been using them in Amps, not reverb specific units.
