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Re: Reverb Ramblings

10/23/2000 1:47 PM
Marco	Re: Reverb Ramblings Ray, your ideas about reverb placement are very clear, but "a point of relatively fixed signal level" is not simple to find, for example, in a SLO 100 circuit. If you tap the reverb send after the lead and clean channel masters you can have a near-constant (about 6 dB max. variation) signal level to work. Before the master the range is very variable, due to gain values (I love a very clear AND a very distorted setting all the time for the two channels). I don't understand you on this point: the "midrangish" effect from reverb level is a risk in this case (when you tap the reverb post-tone stack and master)? If you cut heavily the mids, for example, your reverb feed is mid-reduced and the reverb return is then pre-EQd (the springs aren't really linear, but...). This is the same principle of post-send (effect send) on a mixer. A bonus effect: with the post-EQ tap the reverb circuit (tubes, tranny, springs) works only on frequencies you use. But I feel you have another idea about. Can you explain a little better for me? Thanks m.

10/23/2000 1:47 PM

Marco

Re: Reverb Ramblings

Ray,
your ideas about reverb placement are very clear, but "a point of relatively fixed signal level" is not simple to find, for example, in a SLO 100 circuit.

If you tap the reverb send after the lead and clean channel masters you can have a near-constant (about 6 dB max. variation) signal level to work. Before the master the range is very variable, due to gain values (I love a very clear AND a very distorted setting all the time for the two channels).

I don't understand you on this point: the "midrangish" effect from reverb level is a risk in this case (when you tap the reverb post-tone stack and master)? If you cut heavily the mids, for example, your reverb feed is mid-reduced and the reverb return is then pre-EQd (the springs aren't really linear, but...).
This is the same principle of post-send (effect send) on a mixer. A bonus effect: with the post-EQ tap the reverb circuit (tubes, tranny, springs) works only on frequencies you use.

But I feel you have another idea about.
Can you explain a little better for me?
Thanks
m.

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Ray Ivers Marco,I feel an alm... -- 10/23/2000 8:14 PM