What are YOUR essential rack effects?

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Blimey! Great minds think alike, eh? :D

I was thinkin' of sumthin' cheaper though.

Dr. V
 
Hardware............. springs....................... plates....................







I'm sooooo confused..................

Did I wake up in Wonderland???? :eek:


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dastrick said:
Hardware............. springs....................... plates....................







I'm sooooo confused..................

Did I wake up in Wonderland???? :eek:


:laughings::D:D:D:D:laughings:
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You should have not followed that rabbit!






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I was watching a documentary on how the old Fender amps were constructed. There are physical springs in there. I can't remember exactly how it works but it makes the whole concept of reverb more accessible to a budding engineer like myself, if not well versed in electronics.

Dr. V
 
Dr. Varney said:
I was watching a documentary on how the old Fender amps were constructed. There are physical springs in there. I can't remember exactly how it works but it makes the whole concept of reverb more accessible to a budding engineer like myself, if not well versed in electronics.

Dr. V
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They still are, build your own:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Accutronics-Typ...tem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a5b4785f8

You just need a driver circuit (basically a power amp) and a receiver circuit (like a mic amp). Yeah, you lose that much power through the springs :eek: :drunk:
 
After watching this I almost feel like a normal human being:

I said almost...
 
dintymoore said:
I have a few rack things that are "must have's" for me. Most are either homemade like my mixer or expensive, like my Summit tube eq and compressors. I have an old Yamaha SPX1000 reverb that sounds good to me, better than any plug ins I have.

The only cheap crap I use is a pair of Boss compressors that sound good to me.

Here's my basic lead "anything" trick, from one of my favorite producers, David Foster:

I take the lead vocal track out from the computer and put it through the Summit passive tube eq and crank the shit out of the treble, then put it through a compressor (in my case the cheap Boss) to squash that treble peak down. What it does is "adds a glaze" to the whole track, so there's this "AAAHHHH" sound on the vocals. It makes the vocals stand out, adds a shine. The sound I'm looking for is the same as when you see a Walt Disney cartoon and Bambi is stuck right on top of the background, if that makes sense. It's important to me that the vocals, or lead whatever, have more "shine" than the cymbals or anything else, or it makes "Bambi" blur into the background.

I started as a cartoonist... it could be that no one affected me more than Walt Disney, he's got to be the top producer of my lifetime.
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Dinty ....would that vocal track then be mixed back with the original or is that now the new vocal track?






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moresound said:
Dinty ....would that vocal track then be mixed back with the original or is that now the new vocal track?
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Normally that is the new track, but since I still have the original on Cubase, I could use them for doubling or echos if needed.
 
I see, so the flavor of the track can still be altered even further by blending the two.;)





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One time I put a guitar track through everything in my rack and made sure it was clipping every piece of gear that I had, it ended up sounding like a melodic alien space ship raping mankind as we know it. Its not exact "essential" but it was cool. :cool:

which pretty much sums up how I feel about rack gear

-Barrett
 
I guess mine would be my 2 Distressors and my Eventide H3000, transient designer is nice too.

control 2.webp
 
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