BSRI Soft Rains and the Smell of the Ground Reverb

It's been a while since we've been this hyped on a new Reverb; and with good reason! BSRI have hit absolute home runs with their last 3 releases (Floriography, Everything We Don't Know About the Ocean Floor, & Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter) and Soft Rains and the Smell of the Ground picks right up where these releases have left off. Beautiful, lush reverb that blankets your sound in a very natural way, but with additional features that allow you to really explore and experiment with different sounds. We always like to say that there are pedals that you can plug in to achieve a desired sound for an existing song, pedals that will inspire you to write new songs, and those rare ones that do both; this one does both. 

Soft Rains and the Smell of the Ground is a big washy textural reverb pedal that can sound pretty and lush and also sound brash and chaotic. It features a momentary feedback loop that can sustain reverb trails into a long evolving smeared pad or swell into blasts of feedback and walls of sound. Soft Rains is great for running into distortion pedals to fill out a lot of space in a mix and make the spaces between notes feel full of life and movement. Its the pedal I wanted for a new band where I want to play fewer notes but have them feel like there is much more going on. Plus the name is a reference to a Ray Bradbury poem and that's fun and educational. Lets look at the controls:

Level - Sets the level of the reverb signal that gets mixed into your chain

Resonance - Cuts or boosts the low end of the reverb effect

Air - Cuts or boost the presence and treble of the reverb effect

Soak - Sets the decay time of the reverberations

Expand - Sets the amount of signal that is cycled back through the processor when you press the Expand switch

Bypass (left foot switch) - True bypass switching brings the reverb effect in and out of your signal path.

Expand (right foot switch) - Activates a momentary feedback loop that cycles signal through the processor repeatedly. The Soak and Expand controls are interactive and can be set for a reange of effects from controlled infinite decay to instant screaming oscillation. Go wild!