by dubkitty » Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:49 pm
i have my sights set on a MPX-500 per Rob's recommendation.
my medium-term plan is to go to two racks, one for reverb/delays/multiprocessors and one for signal processing equipment (EQs, compression, and the like).
the reverb rack will (ideally) hold:
my current verb stuff:
--Yamaha GEP-50 "guitar procesor" with Yamaha SPX-90 in the effects loop. the guitar-centric patches on the GEP-50 are absolutely atrocious, but the reverbs/modulation are more or less the same as the SPX-90. i run them together with a reverb patch on one and an Early Reflections patch on the other which makes for some nice artificial room spaces. the Yamaha phaser patch is also highly underrated.
--Alesis MidiVerb II. what can you say about this delightful thing? people are still using it today in touring situations, most notably the outrageous acoustic guitarist Tommy Emmanuel. the best thing here is the modulation, though the verbs can be useful for a certain feel.
to this i plan to add:
--the Lexicon MPX-500 mentioned above
--Ibanez DE-1000 reverb/delay--8-bit 1980s digital delay
--Ibanez Harmonics Delay--1980s unit with some truly wack options for modulating and warping your repeats
--patch bay
--lighting/power conditioner
this will be in a transportable rack with locking panels (and casters if lower-case god is good) so i can take it out of the apartment for ambient and other weirdball shit, and is configured for live use. after reading about the Quadraverb it sounds like that might also be a thing.
the second rack will be for equipment to process signal for recording, whether when tracking instruments/vocals or re-amping from the computer. everything will run in stereo. it's planned to have:
--two 1-space mono 5-band Rane parametric EQs which will be run one to each side of the stereo signal; i have one already
--stereo compressor. at the moment i have a Rane MC 22 which is serviceable, but i don't love it--it's most useful as a relatively unsubtle brick-wall limiter--so i'm open to affordable suggestions
--2-space 1/3-octave stereo graphic EQ
--power conditioner
and other useful stuff TBD. again, suggestions for rackmount post-processing gear are most welcome.
this unit will stay in the recording area of the apartment and can live in an open-back carpeted case. if i don't add anything else--and it's hard to think of much else affordable that i want/need--it will fit the 6-space rack i already have, but i suspect things will expand. RMAS, here i come.