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My all-time shittiest reverb: Pioneer SR-9

The signal strength indicator is really cool, the green rings light up in sequence corresponding to the level. The reverb sounds like ASS, though...and the mix level is so weak that it's useless as far as instruments go.
It's kind of entertaining for a minute if you're running stereo equipment through it.

Achtane wrote:My all-time shittiest reverb: Pioneer SR-9

The signal strength indicator is really cool, the green rings light up in sequence corresponding to the level. The reverb sounds like ASS, though...and the mix level is so weak that it's useless as far as instruments go.
It's kind of entertaining for a minute if you're running stereo equipment through it.

wow, was that early surround sound for the home theatre

I don't have my SGE hooked up currently or I'd run you something up. $50 tops IMO - it's far below the Qverb in both usable and nasty sounds (and editing). I pulled it to make space for my Lexicon Vortex that came in recently.

The one thing I can warn you on in any of that era's stuff - editing is a chore sometimes. You *can* assign anything anywhere to midi on any of them for realtime control but what you can/can't do is limited by hardware design in spades.

Of the bunch for pure $$/benefit relationship I'd get a basic Quadraverb, shell out the $15 for the Q+ upgrade eprom (ebay has them all day, it's a simple in/out swap), and be on my way to making rindmod'd badly EQ'd verb all day.

I think what we all need is something like a cheap Pawn shop amp reverb in a pedal.
I had an old Holmes Mississippi Bluesmaster, and that reverb just sounded...haunted.
I wish I had that sound again.

The Realistic Reverb is a noise machine - it has two ins and outs (RCA and 1/4").

1. Run a fun pedal in a loop, with your normal in/out (I use it as a source though... no input)
2. ?
3. Profits!
(Don't pay more than $25)

The Behringer reverb is easy to get harsh and unpleasant. I think the Mooer Shimverb can sound pretty lousy too. Anything cheap with Spring reverb can probably sound awful, if you want it to.

Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D. wrote:i always thought the boss half rack thing sounded particularly evil.

that wedge is funny looking. i bet it sounds craptastic in the best way possible.

do they make any reverbs w/ an effects loop? or something like that only has effects on the wet?
if not, there should be.

I actually own a wedge, and I find it really detailed sounding. A lot of the reverb+modulation patches get really crazy. It also hates volume boosts. Nice and roboty. Doesn't get real trashy by itself though.

Any kind of real springs???



You can get those stand alone tanks that go in heads and mess with that shizzz...

Large sheets of copper with a speaker in front and a mic in back sound good...

rfurtkamp wrote:I don't have my SGE hooked up currently or I'd run you something up. $50 tops IMO - it's far below the Qverb in both usable and nasty sounds (and editing). I pulled it to make space for my Lexicon Vortex that came in recently.

The one thing I can warn you on in any of that era's stuff - editing is a chore sometimes. You *can* assign anything anywhere to midi on any of them for realtime control but what you can/can't do is limited by hardware design in spades.

Of the bunch for pure $$/benefit relationship I'd get a basic Quadraverb, shell out the $15 for the Q+ upgrade eprom (ebay has them all day, it's a simple in/out swap), and be on my way to making rindmod'd badly EQ'd verb all day.

Weirdly, maybe 7-8 years ago I was looking into a Quadraverb because I wanted really beautiful, "Corpus Christi Carol"-style big reverbs. Now I'm revisiting it for basically the opposite purpose!

You can get big, nice verbs that aren't infinite but are quite stupid. It's editable enough you can do both.

The + update is huge for delay options though, it adds multitap and a very, very nasty ringmod.

(and I should add that the multitap remains one of the most configurable ones I've ever used - it can get within inches of my Space Echo, and in some ways does it better in individual head management/mix)

Oh man, can the ring mod effect only the wet reverb signal? I want to design some non-Euclidean spaces.

Can set it to go to the ringmod and the delay in various amounts, and cut all dry signal.

wfs1234 wrote:In my search for bad reverb I came accross this. It's not bad. It's amazing. Everything about it is amazing. All effects should be built like this. I DEMAND MORE LEVER CONTROLS!

WHAT THE SHIT IS THAT AND CAN I HAVE SEX WITH IT?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQZYDsgx4iQ[/youtube]
Apparently it's a really big effects unit. With a wicked echo.

Edit: oops not the same. I knew I found the plugin, but I didn't notice it wasn't modeling the same unit.

Anyone hear of the Alesis XTC? Can't find much info on it, other than being mentioned in this article.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_ar ... fects.html