[sdiy] [OT] choice of reverb

[Robert Lorentz]

On this off-topic topic,

For a while now I have been looking for a reverb setup for my studio
and haven't found anything satisfactory.  Right now I temporarily use
some 70's sansui REVERBERATION AMP which is a bit silly for serious
use of course

What I have wanted is a rack mounting 4+ mono channel (ideal 6-8)
reverb all working independently from each other.

I love analog gear and thought about buying some spring tanks and
building around those, and while analog reverb is wonderful sounding,
it is limited and often not really what you want with electronic music
composition anyway.  So I'm ditching that approach...

Considering that digital reverb just consists of a/d -> dsp -> d/a, I
see building a multi-channel unit like I want being economical, if I
could only get a good algorithm going.

Is there a good starting point for what I'm talking about doing here?
It seems like reverb is a black art and all published information I
have seen online is hand-waving around the fact that it's extremely
proprietary.  If there's prior published (free) DSP code to do reverbs
it'd be nice to start there, but if none really exist that'd also be
nice to know so that I am not "reinventing the wheel"... would be an
enticing project though and a good learning experience, although I
hesitate slightly because obviously companies take a wag at this and
come up with crap often


Alternately I consider just cannibalizing some of these cheap
behringer stompboxes and putting them into a rack format.


TIA for thoughts and hope I am not hijacking


On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Andre Majorel <aym-htnys at teaser.fr> wrote:
> [That was meant for the list, I think.]
>
> On 2008-09-06 10:12 -0700, thomas white wrote:
>
>> behringer reverb Machine rv600 sounds awesome for 40. Bucks.
>> Algorhythm based reverb with long tails and the space reverb
>> makes guitar or synth sound, well, out of this world. Hope this
>> helps!
>
> No samples on Behringer's site. Can you spare one ?
>
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