CATHEDRAL
Stereo Reverb
Congratulations on your purchase of the Electro-Harmonix Cathedral Stereo Reverb. The Cathedral is a digital reverb pedal with seven different types of reverb plus digital echo, all of which work in true stereo.
Special Features of the Cathedral Stereo Reverb:
Two SPRING modes including the Spring reverb taken from the Holy Grail and a new Accutronics Spring tank emulation.
Top notch, professional HALL, ROOM, PLATE and REVERSE reverb algorithms.
GRAIL FLERB mode is the Holy Grail Flerb with greater adjustability.
ECHO mode makes the Cathedral into a versatile two second digital delay.
Up to two Seconds of Pre-Delay, with Feedback allow for reverberant echoes.
Tap Tempo Footswitch sets the pre-delay time with your foot.
Instantaneous infinite reverb by pressing and holding the TAP FSW.
Tone controls on the reverbs allow for further refinement of the sound.
True stereo in and out.
Ultra low noise and transparent signal path
Studio quality A/D and D/A converters.
Save and load up to 8 presets: 1 preset for each different mode.
WARNING: Use only the US96DC-200BI adapter the Cathedral Stereo Reverb comes supplied with. Do not use any other AC adapters. Using other AC adapters, even those made by Electro-Harmonix, could cause harm to the unit, the adapter or you. The Cathedral does not use batteries.
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- Quick Start Guide -
Basic Spring Reverb Setup
1.Connect the output plug from the AC Adapter into the 9V jack at the top of the Cathedral. Plug the AC Adapter into a wall outlet.
2.Plug your instrument into the MONO/Left Input Jack.
3.Plug MONO/Left Output Jack into the input of your amp.
4.Press the BYPASS footswitch so the STATUS LED is on
5.Turn the MODE knob so that the top LED, GRAIL SPRING is lit.
6.Turn the following knobs to 50% or 12 o’clock: BLEND, REVERB TIME and DAMPING/TONE.
7.Turn the FEEDBACK and PRE-DELAY knobs down to fully counter-clockwise.
8.This will give you a basic spring reverb sound.
9.Turn the BLEND knob to obtain your ideal reverb/dry signal mix.
Changing the tone of the reverb
10.Now that you have your basic Spring reverb sound setup, turn the DAMPING/TONE knob up or down.
11.As you turn the TONE knob up (clockwise), the sound of the reverb will get brighter. As you turn the TONE knob down (counter-clockwise) the sound of the reverb will get darker. This is true for every reverb mode and even the ECHO mode.
Changing the reverb time
12.Return the DAMPING/TONE knob to the 12 o’clock position.
13.Turn the REVERB TIME knob clockwise past the 12 o’clock position. As you turn it further up the reverb time gets longer and longer.
14.When you turn the REVERB TIME knob clockwise as far as it will go, the reverb time will be infinite, meaning the reverb will not decay.
15.Now try turning the REVERB TIME knob down below 12 o’clock. This will yield much shorter reverb times.
Basic Hall Reverb Setup and Pre-Delay Use
1.Use the same connections as in the steps above.
2.Turn the MODE knob so that the HALL LED is lit.
3.Set BLEND and REVERB TIME to 12 o’clock.
4.Set the DAMPING/TONE knob to the full clockwise position.
5.Turn the FEEDBACK and PRE-DELAY knobs down to fully counter-clockwise.
6.A basic HALL sound is now ready for use.
7.Adjust the BLEND control for your ideal wet/dry mix.
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Using Pre-Delay and Feedback
8.Now that we have the basic HALL sound setup, we can make the reverb sound larger just by increasing the Pre-Delay time: the time it takes for the reverb wash to begin after you have a played a note.
9.Turn the Pre-Delay time clockwise to increase the delay time. You will hear, as you increase the Pre-Delay time, after playing a note it takes longer for the reverb wash to kick in. Having a longer pre-delay time can give the listener the impression of a larger space.
10.As you turn the PRE-DELAY knob past 12 o’clock you will notice that the predelay time gets quite long, up to 2 seconds at the maximum setting. Leave predelay set to a longish delay time, maybe 2 o’clock.
11.Now turn the FEEDBACK knob up to about 12 o’clock, you will hear the reverb wash repeat numerous times. In this case the same note is being repeated through the delay block many times, each time being fed into the reverb block.
12.Try turning the REVERB TIME knob down to full counter-clockwise, with this setting you can hear discrete reverb echoes.
13.In addition to using the PRE-DELAY knob to set delay time, you can tap in a delay time using your feet. Tap the TAP/INFINITE Footswitch two or more times and the delay time will be set to the average time between taps.
Accessing Infinite Reverb Instantly
14.Now turn down both the FEEDBACK PRE-DELAY knobs back to full counterclockwise.
15.Set the REVERB TIME knob to 12 o’clock.
16.Play a note, the reverb should decay after a couple of seconds.
17.Now a play another note. While sustaining the note, press and hold down the TAP/INFINITE footswitch. You should hear the reverb wash does not decay.
18.At this point you can play new notes over the reverb wash, without adding to the reverb.
19.Release the TAP/INFINITE footswitch to allow the reverb to decay.
Basic Echo with Tap Tempo Use
1.Use the same connections as in the steps above.
2.Turn the MODE knob so that the ECHO LED is lit.
3.Turn the following knobs to 12 o’clock: BLEND, DAMPING/TONE, FEEDBACK and PRE-DELAY.
4.Turn the REVERB TIME knob down to full counter-clockwise.
5.At this point, if you play a note, you should hear discrete echoes follow your note instead of reverb.
6.You can set the delay time by turning the PRE-DELAY knob, clockwise for longer delay times, counter-clockwise for shorter delay times. The maximum delay time is 2 Seconds.
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7.If you prefer you can tap in the delay time. To do so, tap the TAP/INFINITE Footswitch two or more times. The delay time will be set to the average time between taps.
Filtering the ECHO Repeats
8.Set the delay time for a long delay.
9.Turn the FEEDBACK knob up to 3 o’clock so that you hear numerous echoes from one note.
10.Now turn DAMPING/TONE counter-clockwise to approximately 9 o’clock.
11.When you play a note, you will hear that the echoes sound filtered and each echo is more filtered than the previous one. The filtering is reducing the high frequencies in your notes, filtering out the treble.
12.Turn the DAMPING/TONE knob clockwise to 2 o’clock.
13.Now when you play a note, each echo will again sound filtered but this time the low frequencies will be filtered. Each echo repeat will have less bass than the previous echo.
Saving a PRESET
1.When you create a reverb space that you like, you can save the effect as a preset.
2.To save a preset, press and hold down the MODE knob. You will need to hold down MODE for at least 3 seconds.
3.After holding down the MODE knob for 2 seconds, all of the MODE LEDs will blink for 1 second. After they stop blinking, the preset is saved and you can release the MODE knob.
4.Upon releasing the MODE knob, the PRESET LED will light up to indicate that a preset is currently loaded.
Loading a Preset
5.Turn the MODE knob to the mode LED where you saved the preset.
6.Press and release the MODE knob. The PRESET LED will light. Your preset is now loaded.
7.The knob positions no longer represent the effect you hear.
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