Re: [linux-audio-user] Spring reverb?

Hummmm... funny... I can get the effects you speak of when I power up my
Fender Super Reverb... tube type of course... I bought the thing second hand
back in the 60's ... I use it as a driver for my homemade triode 5514 pair
in class B... would you believe and easy 375 watts RMS... true power not
those phony wattage levels specs they give today...

<heh>
vince

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 22:06, Folderol wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 22:48:31 +0100
>
> Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 22:24, Folderol wrote:
> > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:53:42 -0800
> > >
> > > Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
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> > > > I am working on a tune that needs surf guitar. The CAPS AMP IV does a
> > > > great Fender Twin, and the #4 cabinet in CAPS Cabinet II seems to do
> > > > pretty well as a 2x12 open-back Fender cab. But the classic surf
> > > > guitar sound of course includes the high-pitched plinking of a Fender
> > > > Twin reverb spring slapping against its metal case. If you haven't
> > > > heard it, it's kind of like entering the V'Ger central core, but
> > > > really high-pitched and fast, and in 16th notes while double-picking.
> > > >
> > > > Picking out a muted barre chord into a spring reverb turned up way
> > > > too high, you can definitely *hear* the springs.
> > > >
> > > > This post hints tantalizingly about someone having created a Csound
> > > > orc that emulates a spring reverb:
> > > >
> > > > http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/2002/07/0252.html
> > > >
> > > > Anyone know if this is true, and where I could find it?
> > >
> > > Mmmm spring reverb. Brings back memories :) (incidentally they are
> > > usually quite easy to repair).
> > >
> > > Now anyone who can *truly* emulate that is some form of god!
> > >
> > > The all time classic for me was the instrumental Pipline by The
> > > Chantays circ. 1963 I think.
> >
> > And what about the Watkins "Copycat" endless loop tape echo machine. That
> > was the cutting edge for echo effects in the 60's.
> >
> > Nigel.
>
> Pah!
>
> You had to change the tape loops about every couple of hours (cheaper
> to make your own from 1/4in triple play tape) and the heads gunked up
> damn fast.
>
> In only weeks you had tramlines across all the heads and the tape
> lifted and caught on these, giving some really strange effects!
>
> If you were *rich* you got hold of a ferrograph series 5 and ran a
> 10in (I think) tape at 15ips on it with the O/P fed back into the line
> I/P.
Received on Thu Feb 8 04:15:02 2007