EarthQuaker Devices follows up its Aurelius Chorus with the Ledges 3-Mode Reverb in the same format

The ’Ledges’ moniker is kind of derived from the fact that each of the 3 Reverb modes kind of extend one on top of each other - meaning that the Longest setting of Room is equivalent to the Shortest setting of Hall, which then extends into Plate at its extreme.

So you go from short sharp 80’s slapback reverb through to big boomy cathedral and cavernous styles.

If you check back to the Aurelius Chorus you can see that the topology here is identical - essentially with 3 Modes, 3 main controls, and then a 6-Presets rotary as the 4th control. I would expect EQD to roll out a slew of these now - much like OBNE is doing with its Clock-Slider Modulator format (3 varieties so far).

Much like with the Aurelius I wish that the Ledges could have been stereo in output. For my rig and my own preferences - Reverb has to be fully stereo - as the last 3rd of my pedal-chain is fully stereo - and what’s more you only get proper spatial immersion with a stereo soundstage - so Reverb isn’t properly reverberating if it doesn’t have a spatial dimension to it as far as I’m concerned.

Otherwise these devices are obviously really easy to dial in, and the pricing looks identical to the Aurelius and rightly so - $199 | €259 | £225. I often find it a touch odd how within the same range that the Digital Reverb pedals often have a much higher price tag than all the other genres - supposedly because of the greater complexity of the algorithms and calculating all the reflection vectors! Good to see the price holding here - which makes this pretty decent value.

I still see this as something of a basic / beginner’s reverb - with those extra helpful presets onboard too. I generally have a preference for a little more granular tweaking including some pre-delay - while for many this will be exactly what they need / want.

Here follow the main features :

• Reverb effects pedal
• Goes from classic, standard reverb tones such as 80s slapback reverb to bigger room everb styles and truly big, boomy and echoey cathedral-like hall reverb sounds at the turn of a knob
• 3 effects modes
  
  • Mode R : The Room setting at its shortest achieves a small, boxy room sound that gradually gets bigger as you turn it up
  • Mode H : The Hall setting becomes really big, boomy, and echoey with distant reflections
  • Mode P : The Plate setting creates bouncy reflections that recycle and reverberate forever
• 2 modes of operation:
  
  • Live Mode – Green LED-  pedal will operate exactly where the controls are set, any changes will have no effect on the presets unless saved
  • Preset Mode - Red LED - recalls stored settings for each control, actual control settings will be ignored
• 6 easily user-editable and accessible preset slots
• Silent soft-touch relais-based switching with Buffered Bypass and trails
• Flexi-Switch Technology for latching and momentary operation
• EXP jack with user-assignable expression pedal or Voltage control pedal control over any parameter
• All-analog dry signal path and digital effect signal path
• Made in Akron, Ohio, USA
• Powered by regular 9 V DC PSU (centre -, 2,1 mm, 75 mA current draw)