[sdiy] reverbs (201 and digital)

[JH.]

Hi Bill,

>I was using an
>RE-201 for pseudo reverb(set properly it worked great,
>in fact when the digital reverbs became affordable I
>resisted them because they sounded too sterile),

Hmm, I don't know ...

I have a RE-201. The echo section is fabulous.
The reverb section is one of the worst spring reverbs I've heard, IMO.
Very thin sounding, compared to other spring reverbs.
I start to think there must be some damage on my 201's reverb tank ...

I have just restored a Dynacord DRS-78 (now I have two!).
It's from 1978 - must be a very early digital reverb. It sounds "crappy"
in a pleasant way. It's good for some Klaus Schulze type stuff. (I think
he had some of them, too.)

I also have a Quantec QRS. It's from 1982 and makes awesome room 
simulations.
Probably not by modern convolution reverb standards, but by anything 
algorithmical.
The rooms are so convincing that, playing with headphones in the midlle of 
the night,
I sometimes was fooled to believe I had the speakers left on.
It's not so good for plate reverb sounds a la early Tangerine Dream, though.
(I have a great EMT plate reverb emulation on the SIR VST, but I really want
something plate-sounding in hardware, that allows me to play without 
starting the
computer.)

JH.