[sdiy] [OT] choice of reverb

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Robert Lorentz wrote:

> 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.

I had the opportunity to look into reverb development on my employer's 
time a couple of years ago. The target platform was a cheap mp3 player IC, 
so reverb quality was secondary to low resource usage. Two weeks of full 
time development produced something that didn't sound outright horrible. 
It also led to the realization that you'd need several months (or years) 
of full time work and access to good listening room to get actually good 
results.

My advice: Forget it and just buy one of the relatively cheap entry level 
reverb units.

Antti

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