I compared these two at a guitar center. The RV6 is far and away a better sounding pedal. The Hall of Fame sounds dead in comparison. The real question is how well it stacks up against the Marine Layer which seems competitive with the Big Sky in sound quality, but less flexible. The RV6 does suck some bass out of your signal though.
So impressed by the RV-6. Very well detailed, excellent voicing. Probably best value in the reverb pedal market. Would definitely tie you over until you save up 6 bills for the Big Sky.
RV6 has more treble content, which people perceive as "richer" sounding. HOF works great for me with its darker voice, but I use it for synths exclusively.
Yo tengo los 2 y cada uno tiene lo suyo, pero en Hall y los reverbs que uso el Hall of The fame es muyuyyyy pero muy superior. Yo que toco un instrumento acústico noto que no enmascara el dry y eso es genial.
TC HOF sounds thicker but somewhat muddy to me... although I find trackings on MV-6 kind of out of control... Hard to tell which one I prefer... but I'm actually learning a lot about reverb pedals. Thanks!
At Spring Reverb, tone mid mode (2:24 and 2:42), you can hear a big difference between them, RV6 obviously sounds better to me. At first, I always hankered after HoF, because It has a good design (thin shape, all the angles and edges look perfect). But after watching your video, I will go for RV6 for the sound in spite of the bad design of Boss compact pedal.
Agreed. I was referring the tones as compared to the dry signal. The HoF to me has more of the dry signal tone print. But hey, that's just to my ears. The HoF is also 2/3's the cost of the RV-6.
Any chance you could to a comparison of the Hall of Fame 2 vs. the Boss RV-6? Curious to see how their Shimmer tones compare along with the other algorithms. Great videos by the way!!!
Not comparing apples to apples, the reverb times are different on these units so of course they will sound different on the same sort of reverb. Setting them by looking at the pot position is not accurate, you have to listen with your ears to set the reverb time to the same amount.
I agree Manuel. I've had my RV-6 for about three weeks and a couple gigs now. Got it specifically for my acoustic--a Taylor 816ce. LOVE it! I listened to every side by side demo of these two I could get my hands on. You will love it.
Really had to listen both have good things going. I cant help but thing tc is just better at reverbs- they make top pro reverbs for studios for years and years now- I can see how the boss could start to sound metallic after awhile but there is a charm to its swirling reverb tails. On the other hand the hall reverb setting I definitely prefer the tc- way more natural sounding and huge. anyways both are nice. ty
That's cause he had it set to true bypass mode. You can change it to buffered bypass which also allows the reverb to trail even after the pedal is turned off. Do your research.
