Over the top reverb pedal

[scaesic]

I'm looking around for either a diy or comercial reverb pedal with a view to pulling off some of the more dramatic godspeed you black emperor/mogwai guitar sounds.

i've been looking around for a boss rv-3 as i used to have access to one and the delay+reverb sounds were quite good for this. I'm not too intreested in the holy grails as i don't trust e-h. I've also been looking at the digitech stuff, which offers bakwards reverb, which intrests me a lot...

[Antero]

It's not a pedal, but could maybe be turned into one... my main amp is a Silvertone 1484 head, and the reverb design on that thing is downright idiotic, if you want normal reverb.  It feeds back on itself, sustain forever, chaos, I'm not entirely sure why they didn't change the design as soon as they heard one but it's pretty damn cool.    

[Seljer]

you can make a reverb out of prettymuch anything, all you need is some kind of driver to shake it up, and some kind of pickup to get the signal back. Besides the regular spring reverb tanks (which you can get for like $20 from places that provide replacement parts for amps and such), I've even seen things like beer kegs used.

otherwise I've heard that the Digitech thing is pretty good for a basic digital thing (one of the better pedals from Digitech apparently), I've got a friend that owns one and is very pleased with it.

[zpyder]

in the case of something like a beer keg, what would you use to pick the signal back up?  A microphone?

[rmo]

It's not exactly usable in a live context, but I've always thought http://www.tank-fx.de/ was cool.

You send them 60 seconds of audio, choose your wet/dry mix ratio, and it gives you back a reverbed sample pretty quickly.

[Seljer]

in the case of something like a beer keg, what would you use to pick the signal back up?  A microphone?

piezo pickup I think?

We've got a 6000 gallon water tank behind our house, the reverb in there is awesome, the only problem is that its filled with water most of the time

[any]

Actually, for insanely wet reverb the Holy Grail is one of the best sounding reverbs out there IMHO. (in a pedal that is)
Otherwise get a second hand YAMAHA FX-500, it's as shitty as it gets BUT reverb can have decay times up to 99 seconds!!
An other contender is the Alesis Quadraverb (also cheap second hand), famous for it's textured reverb patterns.

No DIY reverb has rocked my ambient/postrock boat as of yet.... (and digital DIY is still way above my head)

Anyway, my 0.02