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offline Murray from Southend, Essex (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-02 08:07 [#00845962]
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We all know that SAW 85-92 is drenched in beautiful
beautiful reverb. But does anyone know what type of hardware
Mr Twin was using for Reverb?

If so are there any hardware reverb units like the one he
used?



 

offline princo from Shitty City (Geelong) (Australia) on 2003-09-02 08:10 [#00845967]
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"Reverb" was the 1st tword that came to mind when I first
heard that album.

Maybe he has a hand built one, you know, spring reverb? or
whatever!
That'd make a good lie if Richard was being interviewed ;)


 

offline rzezniq from gorzow (Poland) on 2003-09-02 08:10 [#00845969]
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no idea:(


 

offline J Swift from United Kingdom on 2003-09-02 08:12 [#00845972]
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Definetly an Alesis Quadraverb.
I used to have one a few years back, sounds nothing like
modern reverbs atall (Lexicons or plug-ins) - Autechre used
it all over Incunabula aswell - Is a very distinctive
sound.
I guess the closest I've found in software is the built-in
reverb in Renoise.


 

offline princo from Shitty City (Geelong) (Australia) on 2003-09-02 08:14 [#00845974]
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Hmm.. Interesting!


 

offline Murray from Southend, Essex (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-02 08:17 [#00845980]
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Quincy will get to the bottom of this!


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offline Murray from Southend, Essex (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-02 08:17 [#00845982]
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Cheers JSwift, i will have a look for one. i mguessing they
are quite rare


 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2003-09-02 08:19 [#00845983]
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:D!


 

offline J Swift from United Kingdom on 2003-09-02 08:20 [#00845986]
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Nah you should be able to find one pretty easy... I'd
probably look on the Sound on Sound readers ads
(www.sospubs.co.uk I think!).
Before '96 it was THE reverb to own if you were an
electronic producer - I wish I'd never sold mine! Should be
able to find 'em for around £70 now I'd guess....
Midiverbs are good too, just less programmable. Blackdog and
FSOL used Midiverbs I remember.


 

offline J Swift from United Kingdom on 2003-09-02 08:22 [#00845989]
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Yep, there's four for sale right now on SOS! And about six
Midiverbs... I might even go for one too!


 

offline aquagak from Berlin (Germany) on 2003-09-02 09:54 [#00846251]
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it might say something about it in here
page 1
page 2


 

offline Murray from Southend, Essex (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-02 10:01 [#00846267]
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Fantastic cheers aquagak and Jand :)


 

offline Paco from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2003-09-02 10:20 [#00846297]
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They are not rare. Far from it. If you really need reverb,
you'll want it to be as smooth as you can afford. Seriously.
You can always program it into a shitty reverb. Once the
novelty of funny fx wears out, you sit there and wish you
had a smoother one where the tail doesn't stick out in the
mix. Cheaper reverbs usually do this.

I've ordered a Lexicon MPX-1, which is a notch up from the
good budget fx units. Next step down would be the MPX-550(or
500) or the T.C Electronics M-One XL. Both the MPX-550/500
and M-One sound great. I already have an Alesis Midiverb 4
and the difference isn't that big so..

A good fx unit can work miracles on your sounds.

-P


 

offline Paco from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2003-09-03 13:02 [#00848338]
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God damn! I was looking at those prices on the Lexicons, S/H
on sospubs and.. £325 for an MPX-1?! I paid like £700 (for
a new one)..and £600-something for a PCM-80?! It costs
something like £1800-2000 here, new. Not to mention there
is no second hand market for those here. I would pick those
up right away if I was in the UK.

..faaan! dessa ocker priser i Sverige!


 

offline spika from Poland on 2003-09-04 04:06 [#00849220]
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It was a Boss SE-50 released in 1990. It is on one of
Ravestock picture.


 

offline WeaklingChild from Glasgow (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-04 04:07 [#00849222]
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isnt it some sort of roland reverb unit?
dont know why, but i remember reading it somewhere....


 

offline joakimlinden from Skövde (Sweden) on 2003-09-04 04:13 [#00849231]
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I had an Alesis Microverb that sounded like heaven. Not at
all a "professional" clean sound but more deep and...well it
sounded a lot like the early SAW verb.


 

offline Co-existence from Bergen (Norway) on 2003-09-04 04:28 [#00849241]
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I've heard that SAW I was partly mastered on good old Music
Casette! And I guess the sound - and especially the reverb -
might have been affected by that. I love the sound on this
record!


 

offline aquagak from Berlin (Germany) on 2003-09-04 04:33 [#00849244]
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yeah "Co-existence " i agree. it's the casette technique
gives it such an warm sound


 

offline Co-existence from Bergen (Norway) on 2003-09-04 04:42 [#00849253]
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Yes, I think the casette is a great medium. Does anyone of
you music-producing members of this board still use the
casette in your production? I'm going to buy a used 4-track
Tascam casette studio and I soooo look forward to that!


 

offline Co-existence from Bergen (Norway) on 2003-09-04 04:49 [#00849258]
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I think this is the studio that I've been given an offer to
buy:

The Tascam TAS424MKIII


 

offline Paco from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2003-09-04 12:29 [#00849917]
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The cassettes, like most tape, have a nice
compression/distortion thing going on and I think that is
part of the special sound. If you compress digital too hard,
all you get is Autechre.

I have an 8-track Yamaha MT8x. It's for sale too (3000
Swedish Krona). I bought it summer 95 and it's mostly been
acting as a mixer. I think I've got 3 cassettes made with it
:) Now I've got a Behringer MX2642, 4-bus, so I won't need
it anymore.

-P


 

offline Paco from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2003-09-04 12:34 [#00849919]
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Here's a pic I found on the net of it..



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