Tone City Heavenly Lake - Reverb / Echo

I bought this pedal for its capability to separately do both delay and reverb from one box. I like the fact that it is simple, analogic, and the two effects can be used both independently and together.

Its build quality and aesthetics are impeccable. Its tone is great: has great vintage sounding effects, neither too bright nor muffled. The volume balance between the dry and wet signals is spot on. And has a delay time up to 1200 ms, which is sufficient for certain compositions.

What I dislike about it is the functionality of the reverb side. For one thing, the Tone control affects both the wet and try signals. You can't just tweak the reverb to your taste, this makes your entire sound darker. Then, although it is provided with a Decay control, the reverb trails are very long even when it is set at a minimum. It basically sweeps between long and extra long reverb. The isolated reverb also has a certail modulation and a noticeable slapback doubling that cannot be dialed out. While this is understandable when emulating a spring reverb, it makes the pedal less flexible, considering that it already can be combined with separate, builtin delay and modulation.