[sdiy] [OT] choice of reverb

[m.bareille at free.fr]

Hello,

My favorite reverb is a little vintage thing named MIDIVERB and MIDIFEX
made by Alesis in the middle 80's ... I mean the first FX boxes made by Alesis,
housed in a black plastic box with rounded corners with blue or yellow stickers
with preset names  table on the top. Do not confuse with  the other Midiverbs :
II, III or  IV  who sound really crappy , cold and 'digital' compared to those
little ones ...

For those of you who were not yet born at this time ;) It is a 12 bits digital
reverb with  63 presets and a 'discrete' DSP inside made around a 8031, two
eproms + DAc and a pile of classic TTL/CMOS , so it is possible to repair it too
:)

 I have 'modified' one of the eprom to get all the 'Verb' and 'Fex' effects on
the same box, for a total of 126 presets so, selectable by a switch ... the
sound is REALLY great and i feel it is much more 'musical' than most of 16 bits
racks, at least for instruments ... There is alway a good preset ready for any
situation = no loose of time to setup dozens of parameters ...This is precious
when you need to go fast ...

And best of all , they cost almost nothing on the second hand market : between
$10 and $30 usualy ! :)

Now if i need a BIG  reverb, something super clean, transparent , etc, etc :
i use plugins on my PC ...

I also 'have' another favorite reverb:  a perfectly natural one, something
absolutly fantastic , yes yes believe me :)

The problem is that today the access to this 'reverb'  is closed for security
reason ...

In Toulouse City  there is a big hill named 'Rangueil' ... Under the hill,
invisible from the external , there is a huge water tank since the WWII... 100%
made of cement and high like a building with many level of hundreds of meters
squares each ...Well you can see rooms end when you are inside... This tank is
no more used since a very long time and when i was a student, with friends we
have found an open access to the tank and went there to explore it a little bit
and play with the reveb ... We bring wisthles , perc, flutes and other small
instruments to make noise ... It was quite dangerous because of holes everywhere
and perfect dark...

But this place had the most beautiful natural reverb i have heard ! :) Super
long decay ,perfectly damped and spacialised sound ... A 'dark' decay impossible
to imitate with the digital thing , or may be in 20 years with a 65536 bits
resolution technology may be ;)

Sadly i have never recorded anything inside but i will alway remind me this
perfect FX :)  Well this was my little story of the day , and pologise the
little OT shift...

Cheers,

Marc B.

Papareil Synth Labs
http://m.bareille.free.fr









Selon jbv <jbv.silences at club-internet.fr>:

> Hi list,
>
> Could someone be kind enough to give me advice on which reverb
> to choose : I'm looking for an fx box, not too expensive, that can
> produce warm and realistic long cathedral-like reverb...
> I'm actually looking for the best price / quality ratio...
> I guess there are plenty of dsp boxes to choose from out there,
> anf many of you must have some experience on this...
> Other dsp fx are welcome too...
>
> Thanks in advance for your time.
> JB
>
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