preset halls

[robjh22]

I've been putting this off -- would someone explain what the purpose of the various halls is (L01 - L39, or whatever it is)? It appears to me that you can go into any of the halls and adjust the levels to effectively make one sound like any other. Do you really get anything in one that you cannot easily duplicate in another? Same question for these microphone "varieties."

 

[a12stringer]

I think basically the designers planned it that way to make it as easy as possible for someone to remember the settings and to give the user some basic reference points.
Remember these are the same people who did not provide us with basic necessities such as tracking sheets. (I don't know if Yamaha still provides them in the owner's manuals for their digital studio-in-a-box units, but it was one in a user manual for one of their analog 4-track cassette portable studios that inspired me to develop tracking sheets for the MR-8 and the VF-08/80.

 

[billisa]

You're right, you probably can make one sound like another, but there are some significant differences when using the factory preset settings. I think having to take one setting and adjust all the parameters every time would be a pain. So I assume that's why they did what they did. Actually, the flange/chorus/doubling effects are quite different from the rest.

 

[glynb]

Vf160 Halls....

There are various pre-sets provided with the vf160 too, I find them really useful and rarely have to go in to edit them. They also give a flange setting and a couple of variations on delay. Basicaly they are the same reverb but with different pre-sets to make life easier for the novice.