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

"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."

Despite the way this should be a very non linear and random kind of
reverb, convolution reverbs with a spring reverb sample do this
surprisingly well.

There are plenty of convolvers around, and loads of samples out there
(noisevault is good).
I made my own stereo impulses by recording both ends (both in and out as
outs, impedances way off, but who cares) of a spring reverb tray and
giving it a thwack with a drum stick.

I use SIR running on ardour-vst on a computer dedicated to reverbs and
other heavy DSP. Connect via netjack, chuck artificial latency on the
sends so it comes back in time, and bob's your uncle.
(may not be as easy as it sounds, contents may settle in transit).

I've tried some other non vst native Linux convolvers, but have not
found one as efficient yet. Recommendations welcomed.
Received on Thu Feb 8 04:15:04 2007