Caroline Guitar Company
Météore
The Météore from Caroline Guitar
Company is the sort of the space-age
reverb pedal you never knew you wanted,
let alone needed. But in a sea of pristine
hall, plate, and spring reverbs it’s an
original and wildly inspiring creation.
Thankfully, “original and wildly inspiring”
is pretty much what Philippe Herndon
of Caroline Guitar Company does. The
Météore is perfectly capable of doing
“regular” reverb. And because it’s welldesigned and built like a fine automobile,
I could understand if that’s all you used
it for, but you’d be missing two clever
features that set it far apart from typical
reverb pedals. First, you have a fun little
preamp that allows you to boost the
signal hitting the reverb engine. It can be
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subtle, or it can be extreme creating a
fuzzy, thick wall of reverb. Second, there
is the “Havoc” switch. Holding down the
Havoc switch pushes the Météore into selfoscillation but in a more predictable and
more subtle way than what happens with
similarly equipped delay pedals. The only
thing that could make the Météore better
would be programmability, but then I’d just
switch between a few settings and forget
about the interactivity between the various
knob settings. And that my friends, would
be a tragedy.