Winterfylleth Green Cathedral Reverb
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The Green Cathedral is an atmospheric dynamic reverb, designed for and with Chris Naughton of black metal legends Winterfylleth to add ambience and depth to his sound. Covering both sonic spaces of clean passages and pairing perfectly with high gain all out metal, it couldn’t just be an off the peg solution.
The onboard controls Mix and Dwell are there to tailor it to your tastes, both the ‘size’ of the reverb and how fast it dissipates via the Dwell control and how much of your signal you want blended into the reverberation via the Mix control.
For a small space room style reverb, dial the dwell down for a shorter decay, mix to taste.
If you want cavernous reflections that go on for days? Crank the dwell and mix to get lost in the ether. This reverb has a subtle modulation to invoke a change in the sound reflections to liven the effect, when compared to often dull sounding larger reverbs.
The Green Cathedral has an internal volume trim pot to precisely match your dry signal – or to give it a boost for some ethereal passages, this reverb is made to compliment your rig and playing no matter the genre or gain levels.
Chris Naughton of Winterfylleth
demos the Green Cathedral
The pedal is called Green Cathedral because we have a track from our 2016 album, The Dark Hereafter and there's a track on that album called Green Cathedral.
It's really interesting because we were doing some interviews for the previous album, Divination of Antiquity. The guy that was interviewing us has now become quite a famous author, Ben Myers. He was talking to me about this concept of nature that we had and this idea that you can find spirituality in nature rather than the cathedrals of man.
So he came up with this concept, which we kind of robbed, with his permission, called the Green Cathedral.
Sound Samples played by Chris Naughton of Winterfylleth
Amp - Peavey 5150
Cab - Orange 4x12
Mic - Shure SM57
Chris explains the “Green Cathedral”
It's about how you can climb a mountain, stand with the wind in your face and you can feel a sense of personal spirituality and a connection with nature. The idea was that, in the modern day, you don't really need the cathedrals of man.
Religion, spirituality in that sense, proscribed doctrine, proscribed religion, you can find that in nature.
We love this concept that he wrote about the Green Cathedral, so we did a trackabout that concept and it was one of the more epic tracks on the on the album and on many of our albums, to be honest. It's definitely become a fan favorite over the years.
Ben wrote a poem, an ode that described what the Green Cathedral was in the album liner. It’s become this cornerstone of our more epic sets. When we play a big arena or hall or latterly in some cave venues like in Prophecy Fest in Germany.
The Green Cathedral pedal is based on the reverb and delay settings from the solo and the clean part from the album. So the guys at Technavolt pedals, modeled it based on the sounds we had on the album.
What you have in the pedal is this amazing piece of kit that captures that essence.