All user reviews for the Truetone H2O V1

This is a great pedal. It contains an echo and a chorus effect. Each effect has it's on footswitch so you can turn on one of them or both of them. It also has a switch on the Echo side to switch between long and short delay trails.
It has three knobs on each effect to sculpt it to your tastes. It also has an effected out, and a dry out.

UTILIZATION

This pedal is easy to use. Just plug in, figure out where you want the knobs set, and play.
It can take some tweaking to figure out where you want to set the knobs though. The chorus especially.
I can't comment on the manual since mine was second hand and I wasn't given the manual.

SOUND QUALITY

The chorus on this is VERY good. It's a nice, thick, lush, watery chorus. It can easily go from subtle to alien like warbles with the turn of a few knobs. I mainly use it too add depth and to thicken up my cleans, which it does VERY well. It does color the sound a bit, but I don't mind it, and actually like it a bit.
The Echo is decent. It's not the greatest echo in the world, but it's not the worst. It works well for what I need though. I mainly use it with short delay time, and long repeats to thicken up my leads and cleans, which it does well.

OVERALL OPINION

This pedal is great. This is easily one of the best choruses I've tried. Thick, Lush, and watery. The echo is decent. A bit dark, but still decent. I got it mainly for the chorus channel since I'm not much of a delay guy.
I think it was well worth the one hundred and ten dollars I paid for it.

The V1 H2O is a fairly simple and very manageable chorus and delay. The chorus is analog and the delay is an analog voiced digital effect. It has mono in and stereo outs and a 9VDC adapter. Very heavy duty pedal, feels like it could withstand a hurricane. It's not very large, but it certainly isn't a space saver. The switches are close enough together that you can turn both effects on and off with one step, which is very convenient.

UTILIZATION

The controls are very simple on the pedal. Chorus has a speed, depth and delay time knob and the delay has an echo time, repeats and effect level knob. There is a switch for the delay side to make the delays short slapback delays or long trailing delays. It's fairly easy to switch with your foot which was really useful for me. I found that I wanted a bit more repeats from the delay of this pedal.

SOUND QUALITY

The chorus can be very subtle or you can get it more lush just using the controls. The delay sounds nice but lacks repeats. No self-oscillation or anything fun here. With that said the delay side still has it's uses and is still very nice sounding. This has been one of my favourite chorus pedals that I have owned.

OVERALL OPINION

This is a very good pedal if you are looking for a good chorus and delay for relatively cheap. They can be found for a very good value used. The build is strong and the effects are truly nice. Very, very lush chorus. I would recommend this pedal to anyone looking for a decent starter or intermediate chorus pedal with a bonus delay feature. I just wouldn't recommend it to someone looking for a stand alone delay. Very nice pedal for the money.

Visual Sound's H20 is a chorus and echo pedal that I have used with electric guitar. While I believe it is designed for use with the electric guitar, like all pedals it can be used with other electric instruments if you so choose. However, since my experience with the H20 pedal is with electric guitar, this review will focus it's attention to this application alone. The pedal contains 1/4" connections for input and output, and requires a power supply which I believe is of nine volt power. It isn't a rack mountable piece of gear being that it is a foot pedal.

UTILIZATION

The make up of the Visual Sound H20 is generally consistent and easy to understand. The pedal is split up into separate sections for chorus and echo, each having it's own buttons to engage their sound. The chorus section contains parameters for speed, width, and delay time, while the echo section has some for echo time, repeats, and effect level. The delay also has a switch to choose between either a long or a short version of the effect. I haven't seen a manual for the H20 pedal, but don't believe that one is necessary to use the pedal anyway.

SOUND QUALITY

The Visual Sound H20 overall has a pretty impressive sound that is clear and quite luscious. There is definitely a reason that they call this pedal H20, as the chorus can definitley remind you of running water at times. I've used the pedal for recording sessions, mostly with a custom Fender Stratocaster a '65 Fender Deluxe Reverb, but we did do some mixing and matching with different guitars and amps to try to get the sound that we were after. While I like the chorus sound more than I do the echo on the H20, both a formidable effects that are worthy of use. Chances are that if you like one of the effects on here you will like both, as they do share a similar type of quality.

OVERALL OPINION

While they now have out a new version of the Visual Sound H20, known as the V2 H20, I've yet to have a chance to use it so I can't really compare the two. However, if they have succeeded in making a better version of the H20, it must be a very good pedal. The good news about the H20 is that now since they have the newer one out, this pedal can be had for a considerable amount less than before. While I would certainly understand wanting to go for the latest and greatest, the original H20 is a high quality pedal in it's own right. When compared to other pedals in it's price range, the H20 seems to have more versatility and definitely has an admirable sound even when compared with the best. In my opinion, you can't really go wrong with the Visual Sound H20.