The Internet Has Thoughts About Premier Guitar's EarthQuaker Towers Review.
Premier Guitar said no one does reverb like EQD. The forum already owned one.
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“No one does reverb like EarthQuaker Devices. Towers is something else entirely.”
What the internet actually said
“I know there's not much love for EQD here but I don't care they are the GOAT for me.”
“I don't say this lightly but this box contains a similar amount of 'magic' as the dispatch master.”
“Loving LFO mode the most right now but all three modes are very distinct and different from each other.”
The Suede Read
Premier Guitar ran a review of the EarthQuaker Devices Towers and declared it something else entirely. The lead line was a statement: no one does reverb like EarthQuaker Devices. EQD has spent two decades earning that sentence.
Here is what the review could not know. Over at The Gear Forum, someone had already bought two. The opener made it plain: they knew EQD does not have the most fans on that forum. They did not care. They called EQD the GOAT and moved on to what the pedal actually does.
What it does, according to people who paid $299 and took it home, is something adjacent to magic. One poster compared it directly to the Dispatch Master — the kind of sentence you do not write lightly about any new release. Another got into the modes: Manual, Envelope, LFO. All three distinct. All three usable. The LFO mode got the most attention, which tracks — if you are paying $299 for a reverb that filters and modulates in stereo, the LFO mode is why.
Premier Guitar described a pedal warmer and more musical than EQD's other ambient experiments. The forum described a pedal that earns the comparison to a classic. Both are right. The difference is the forum had already plugged it in.
That gap — between what gets printed before the boxes ship and what gets said after — is exactly what we are here to close.
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