FIRST SOUNDS // BSRI Soft Rains and the Smell of the Ground

It’s summertime and the heatwave finally broke. After the storm comes the cooler air and with that a gentle rain that reminds you everything will be ok.

]From Baltimore Sonic Research Institute: Soft Rains and the Smell of the Ground is a big washy textural reverb pedal that can sound pretty and lush and also sound brash and chaotic. It features a momentary feedback loop that can sustain reverb trails into a long evolving smeared pad or swell into blasts of feedback and walls of sound. Soft Rains is great for running into distortion pedals to fill out a lot of space in a mix and make the spaces between notes feel full of life and movement. Its the pedal I wanted for a new band where I want to play fewer notes but have them feel like there is much more going on. Plus the name is a reference to a Ray Bradbury poem and that’s fun and educational.

NOTE: The pedal in this video is an earlier version than the current production model. For the most recent version, check out the BSRI website: https://www.bsriaudio.com/product/soft-rains-and-the-smell-of-the-ground