[sdiy] Reverb opinions, please

[harrybissell]

I use two 3630s as four hard limiters in my live rig. They work well for that
application...
Maybe folks are trying to compress with them ???

H^) harry

"R. D. Davis" wrote:

> Quothe Tim Ressel, from writings of Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:55:20PM -0700:
> > Hmmm...
> >
> > I get to say the 'A' word because I used to work at
> > the 'A' word!! In fact I was there for the
> > MidiverbII/Microverb development.
>
> I have heard some good things about some of the Alesis products.
> Perhaps you can give us the inside scoop on design work, quality of
> products, quality control, etc. as viewed from inside Alesis.  To be
> honest, I've never tried using the 3630 yet and can't comment on its
> performance from a personal perspective, since the one that I
> obtained, very inexpensively, had a broken wall transformer (after a
> procedure involving a hacksaw, I got the case open and see that one
> solder connection might do the trick after adding a power cord to it).
>
> Do you know if lots of corners were cut with a "so what" attitude when
> it was designed, or was it an honest attempt at producing a good
> compressor for certain non-studio applications at a low cost, which
> just happened to have a few flaws that were magnified by some because
> of its low cost?
>
> At the present time, I'm torn between trying to accentuate/magnify its
> reported flaws to use them in some way for special effects or to go
> ahead with the planned modifications to make it more useful as a
> compressor.
>
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