Generic Drum Reverb

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I am looking for a reasonable outboard reverb unit for when I record my drums. I am interested in a good standard/generic reverb that I can use for any style (but mostly rock, metal, and pop). Nothing fancy, just "reverb" for my drums.

If this matters...I use a CAD drum mic kit: 2 OH's in X-Y pattern, kick mic, snare mic, and tom mics > which goes to a behringer mixer > which goes to sound card line-in.

I mix my mic levels before I record because I cannot afterwards (seeing as I have everything going into one line-in jack). I would like to be able to adjust the amount of reverb for every drum, because the kick usually gets lost in the mix with reverb, and one doesn't need reverb on cymbals (or oh's), so adding post reverb isn't an option.

I guess that means I need a reverb unit (or pedal) to hook into my auxiliary jack on my mixer. By doing that I can manually adjust the amount of reverb I want going to each drum mic. What would be a moderately priced unit I should get? I've tried using my Digitech RP2000 pedal's reverbs but don't like 'em. I've also tried Danelectro Corned Beef (Garbage). Should I not use guitar pedals or does that matter? If I shouldn't, then are there such thing as drum effects pedals or units that would cost the same?

Sorry for such a long Q. I just wanted to give as much detail to narrow down the answers.
 
On a budget, an Alesis nanoverb or multiverb works very well. If you can find an old Yamaha SPX-90, those were great!

I haven't used an outboard reverb since going digital. I use all plug-ins now. I also used an Art, but it was crap. Anything by Digitech is noisey. Guitar pedal reverbs are designed for guitar. They are taylored to the freq range guitars use. The don't handle trasient freq the same way. Not to mention you don't get much room to play with things like room size, early reflections, reverb times, dampening and combos of all of these. These are very critical to drums.
 
would the Alesis Nanoverb be suitable for drums though? I read a bit about it and most people used it for guitar. I understand how some reverbs are designed for different things. ie: vocal reverb, etc.
 
I've used it on drums and thought it was fine. That was years ago and I've learned alot since then. Reverb isn't used the same as it was when I was a reverb-aholic. I generaly add it to fatten or smooth out the sound, or make it sound like I'm in a bigger room than I really am.

No, I don't think it's only for guitar. I've seen plenty project studios use them. There will be a reverb close to what you want.

A rack unit would be much better, though. Do some research on ez_willis' suggestion.
 
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