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Looking for a good rackmount stereo spring reverb...

Supposedly the first use of reverb?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BIuX7IsdE8

Still available....

One sold, one available....

nag hammadi wrote:mic still available?

+1 crazy greek...

Whoops...just saw this....
"Yes" is the answer...
Bruce

If you use a real one you can get those attributes that made them famous, like warble, wow and flutter and all that tape hiss. Don't forget the time limits before the tape rewinds! The Pinder samples all replicate the wow and flutter, and the 8 second (?) time limit... It's very similar to having a...

I have an Alesis Fusion that I loaded with the Pinder samples, and it rocks as a standalone Mellotron/Chamberlin...

I've owned real 'Trons and Chamberlins, and the Fusion is a great tool to have around, without all the maintenance issues...

A.David.MacKinnon wrote:

tonewoods wrote: I mostly use it on bass and kicks, and it imparts a smooshy glue that just kind of melts the bass into the mix in a way that other boxes don't...

YMMV...

yep. I also use it as parallel compression on kick & snare. It's amazing.

Thanks for that...!

I've never really used outboard compressors, let alone vintage ones. Looking for thoughts on the utility of such a piece. I guess I don't really mean a limiter. I mean hammering down vocal outbursts and such. I know it can do that in spades. I use my Sta-Level more as a flavoring device than a limi...

dissonantdissident wrote:if you've got a blackface ashly in your rack, i'd open it up and check the condition of that foam/ clean it out,

Thanks, as I have 5-6 of these puppies....
All blaceface...

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:aural exciters and cocaine.

Really!?! Cocaine does that? I just always wrote it off after having put it in the same category as Sonic Maximeisers, maybe I'll take another look at it. Doesn't it thin the sound out to some degree?

A nice interview with Tony Visconti on Sound Opinions last week:

http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/ ... notes.html

^^^

Anywant have an AVRI Jazzmaster kicking around?

GooberNumber9 wrote:Never mind the amp, what's the deal with that six-course mando-tar or whatever the heck it is?? Piccolo 12-string? With a zero fret?

It's a Hammertone...
Wow, it looks like they might be making them again...
Here ya go:

http://www.fbass.com/instock/stock/122011

Deadly effective on tape...