"That" 60's, 70's REVERB sound ???

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i've been using SIR with a vintage spring impulse response found on Fokke van Saane 's website and it sounds amazing. i also use some EMT plate ir's and some AKG BX20 ir's. It isn't the real thing but and i can't hook it up to my analog mixer but it's the better than buying a crappy spring reverb .... and the best part is that it was 100% free!
 
acorec said:
A good useable spring reverb is going to cost you 20 times your $100 budget. Anything cheap will sound *really* crappy.
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You can have the Demeter Spring Reverb for $600. There's been a lot of good reviews on that one.
 
yeah, i dig SIR too. little kludgey to get rolling (at least to me) at first, but it's a very nice package--especially for free. only hazard is that you're relying on the impulses to actually be accurate and when dealing with "free" that's always a concern IMO.

but then again, i look at reverb as an effect and nothing more. i don't ever say "i put the Westminster Cathedral reverb on your voice".......b/c you're taking something on faith there (that it's actually accurate to Westminster and not really somewhere else, etc). as long as i look at reverb as an effect, i don't get hung up on the validity or accurateness of the impulses. it's a psychological thing....as my wife would (and does) say, "i've got issues". ;)

bottom line, if it sounds good, i go with it.


wade
 
I checked out the SIR plugin too and am impressed so far. Have any of you found an accurate imitation of an EMT 140 plate, you know .. the ones used in the 70's, that sound fat, thick and warm (not overly bright) ??

Thanks for the SIR link!

Daniel :)
 
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hi,

i don't have an impulse of an EMT 140 plate but you can find some EMT 244 ir's here http://www.noisevault.com . If i remember correctly, the guy who's gonna recap some siemens mic pre and eq modules for me owns an EMT 240 plate reverb. I might be able to ask him if i could run an impulse through that thing......

thomas
 
Look into a Roland space echo re-201 it is a tape delay and spring reverb and it is the bomb. I have 5 tape delays, (3 echoplex, 1 space echo and 1 korg that is reall cool) gonna sell 3 of them on ebay very soon.
I don't think you will find one for $100 but i have never paid more than that for any of mine, you just have to seize them when they come around.
here's a picture and specs
http://www.vintagesynth.org/roland/re201.shtml

Magnet
 
Fletcher said:
You guys are amazing... plates were the primary reverbs in NY... "Chambers" were more prevalent in LA... so let's say you're looking more toward that LA kinda sound ['cause it's a whole lot easier to do a chamber with a C-note than it is to do a plate]... take a speaker, put it in your bathroom, take a mic, put it in your bathroom too. Play the music/tracks on which you want reverb through the speaker, return the microphone to your mix.

Want stereo? Use two microphones.

Want the reverb to sound shorter? Add towels, close the shower curtain... want it a bit longer? Remove the towels, remove the shower curtain and compress the return.

This is pretty much how it was done before the "verb in the box" ... people actually used physical environments for all kinds of groovy shit.

Peace.
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I would like to thank you Fletcher for saving me from spending 45 minutes of my time responding to this thread. And you did it in much less time, too.


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