Decent Reverb

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Anybody know of a decent reverb unit for a good price for home recording?
 
Check out the Lexicon line of signal processors.
Starting with the MPX 100 ($200) to the MPX500 ($350)
These are fne "verb units.
What is your budget?
 
I like the T.C. Electronics stuff better than the Lexi. I like the Lexi stuff better when you can get something from the PCM series. The Lexi verb is not as plush to me in thier cheaper stuff.
HTH's
 
The Roland SRV-3030 is selling for $229 and that's a great price for a dedicated reverb. I think www.americanmusical.com has it for that price. The user interface looked a little confusing to me, but it still seems like a good piece of gear.

I have the Lexicon MPX-500. Like the reverbs, delays, and rotary speaker effect. The plate reverbs seem pretty realistic and natural. The MPX-200 doesn't have the same level of programmability but it has some nice features and it doesn't have a wall-wart power supply. That's important to me.

I was going to recommend the TC Electronic M2000 until I saw your price range. It's the one that I would want to try first. It has a reputation as the "verb to own under $1,000.
 
Will a super high quality plug-in work for ya? If so, this will beat any compartively priced outboard pretty easily...
www.sonictimeworks.com
Its called ReverbX and it has a free fully functional 2 week demo.... it is a serious resource hog, so print your effect when you have it where you want it. I seriously recommend trying the EQ while you are there, too.
Peace.
 
tubedude,
Can you run plug-ins in a live manner? I mean can you record vocals and hear the reverb as you're recording? The only reason I was interested in an outboard reverb unit is because I wanted the vocalist to be able to sing with reverb rather than add it later.
Thanks,
Jamie
 
i'd go software for a good reverb. i like tc native verb for instrumentation and over all reverb, however for vocal reverb i prefer the timeworks 4080 reverb.. both reverbs are not terribly expensive and are quite useful.
 
Jamie, I dont know your gear but if you are using a mixer you can certainly use a plug-in for playing live. You would just need to send the signal you were recording back to your monitors (headphones or speakers).
Personally I am trying to use plug-ins for recording (to keep everything digital) while I use an old Peavy rack effects just for putting some reverb on the monitor siginal, because my singer also likes to hear his voice "wet". It gives him the illusion that he is singing better than he is!
 
Unless you have DSP cards a good reverb will take up most of yuor reasourses. The good thing about outboard reverbs is that they've been programmed to get every last drop out of the on board DSP. Anone like the M One, i know its not just reverb but still.
 
I'm a bit new to hardware, I only have 1 synth (Roland JX-305), and I've been producing since '95 only with software.
And now I want a good reverb! So, if I buy a hardware reverb unit, do I just put it somehow in between my synth and CPU?
Or do I need some other external gear?

Also, I'm interested how the software reverbs work since I'm not pleased with the one's in my synth or Sound Forge 5.0...
They're crap to me, I want the best possible quality.

Club Zero
 
TC electronics.

Not the cheapest, but they sound really good. I have the M-ONE and i also use the M2000 and M3000 frequently.

The M-ONE is maybe a little expensive for your budget but I suggest you go for one anyway.


fim
 
I had the alesis midiverbIII a while ago. Didn't like it a bit. I was using it as guitar effects... Don't know for other stuff...

The M2000 is really sweet. Used it on our latest demo. Very nice. The reverbs in the VS1880 aren't even close. Sigh. :(
 
how about the alesis midiverb 4??? i'm thinking about that one..
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I have one that I'm trying to get rid of. I wouldn't buy a midiverb. It isn't THAT bad but you can get better...


fim
 
I have a midiverb 2, its mostly presets and kinda grainy, worked well for live but I wouldn't consider it
somethings studios should use. I also bought a ART Multiverb LT, its suppose to be presets b pro studio's engineers and producers, problems is thats its very noisy, I have Hush units after the reverb/multi effects because of the noise. I used to have the Lexicon LXP-1 and LXP-5 and I thought those were a little grainy too, maybe its because they are all 16 bit in, 18 bit math and 16 bit out, a little bit of truncation going on. I heard some rocktron Intellifex in a studio once it seemed ok, Id try the MPX-100 myself if I could afford anything, Im saving for some nearfields right now. At 10 dollars saved per month It will probably be in the 2005 time frame. How come no one talks about using ZooM multieffects processors?

Peace,
Dennis
 
Zoom??? plastic hell?? :D
anyway.. seems like i'll be looking at a Lexicon reverb then or something like it... still considering buying a few analogue mono reverb units...
 
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