#333

I have a question for all the OTO Bam owners. While trying to clean up a muddy mix I was wondering:

Are OTO Bam’s low-cut and high-cut filters pre or post effect?

I’m going to guess post, It’s PRE. but would like to know for sure where i should place another filter before or after OTO Bam.

#334

They’re pre-effect, from the manual:

Filters. Low-cut & High-cut filters are located at the
reverb input. It can change the character of your sound
from airy to darker.

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#335

Thanks for this! I quickly scanned through the manual but obviously too quickly!

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#336

No problem, I think most reverb EQs are pre-effect but perhaps that’s not always the case. On your other question, I’m no mixing expert, but I would EQ / filter after the effect? Are you recording a wet / dry mix of an instrument with reverb, or just the fully wet effect (like an effect return)?

#337

Yeah I was going to put a filter or eq on both the pre and post of the effect. Now i know where to place an additional filter thanks to your help. Thanks again.

#338

this looks really interesting to me - though I’m a bit puzzled about how the two stereo effects are going to interact with the presumably mono spring reverb.

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#339

omg thanks for sharing! this is the first thing by Dreadbox that has caught my eye but it seems amazing.

strictly a guess, but I expect that the internal send/return to the spring tank is mixed down to mono, unless they have two tanks in there…

#340

Not a big fan of the graphics on this. Sounds cool, but would like to hear a raw sound source go through it before considering.

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#341

Yeah, as I was glancing through the thread, I thought that the Dreadbox unit was something made by ART in the 80s

#342

Just got the Kilpatrick REDOX reverb. Sexy beast. As a newbie here is my question.
Do you use reverb as an end of chain for everything? Or do you only use it for some voices.
I have a delay, and also want to see if i can fit a MI cloud as a pad. just trying to figure out if it gets too busy
if everything goes in. But reverb is so sexy!

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#344

have a WMD performance mixer. Right now I have voices going into a Magento DELAY through the 1st AUX. The REVERB is going through the master SEND/RETURN.

Figuring out if I should put the REVERB on 2nd AUX so I can choose.

#345

Sean Costello (the wizard behind Valhalla DSP) gave a great talk about the history of reverb at an AES PNW meeting in 2015 – this is a fun & interesting listen; slides & audio are still up on the AES site:

http://www.aes-media.org/sections/pnw/pnwrecaps/2015/costello_jun2015/

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#346

It’s the most self-consciously 80s look I’ve seen since the old ART and Ensoniq stuff, and it will look dated as hell in a few years, but holy carp, I love it. The Stranger Things-esque music was perfect, too.

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#347

Just wanted to add that I really hate that the Z-DSP won’t recall which of the 8 presets you are using. It’s not hard to mash the button to get where you want, but it’s also feels like an incredibly weird feature to omit.

Otherwise, Halls of Valhalla does not disappoint.

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#348

I recently traded my Strymon Flint off my guitar board for a Meris Mercury 7. I ran my Eurorack through it for a couple days and it did not disappoint. A very fun and inspirational pedal. I’d love to use a Polymoon as well!

Unfortunately I needed a reverb in my guitar band, so to the practice space it went. Right now Clouds is the only effect I have in my rack. It feels like a waste to use it for reverb and delay when the granular mode is so fun to play as an additional voice.

I did a random Reverb search for a piece of gear I’ve been interested in for a long time, the Alesia Wedge. Lo-and-behold I found one for <$100, so I bought it. I plan on using it as my synth reverb, and I’m really excited to have a big, stupid, dated effect unit propped up next to my modular. Once I get some furniture sorted out in my home office/studio, I’ll be recording my first solo record. I plan on using the Wedge on everything :grin:

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#349

anyone have any thoughts on BAM vs mercury 7? ill be getting one or the other fairly soon…

#350

I don’t own either but the BAM seems more versatile and sounds, across the board, better to my ears. The Mercury 7 is nice, but it seems fairly one-dimensional to me. The BAM also can do some beautiful crunchy stuff that I’ve never heard from anything currently shipping. I have some gorgeous Eventides and I’d still consider getting a BAM too.

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#351

I had the Mercury 7 for a while, and although it sounden very nice, I didn’t really gel with it. Sold it and have a BAM on the way. Like @equipoise says, I also belive the BAM is more versatile😊

#352

Most of my BAM exposure comes from @stripes and @fourhexagons music. Maybe I’m not hearing something, but they seem to use them for pretty realistic sounding space. I haven’t really checked out that many demos, can it do more out-there spacey stuff or does it just add that nice texture and and depth that I associate with it?

Now I’m wondering how a pair of Caroline Meteores would get along with synths :thinking:

#353

@emenel might be a good candidate to weigh in on BAM here. If you’re looking for heavily modulated reverbs or shimmer, I’d strongly suggest an Eventide Space which is the King of modulated (and glossy realistic) reverbs. If you’re looking for a flexible, beautiful vintage sounding reverb which can add some gentle warmth-all-the-way-to-crunch, which can put the shine and glue on your sounds, and which can still get HUGE and VAST then the BAM is pretty much your toy.

I’m an Eventide 'verb guy (although I’d love to have some vintage Lexicon units too) - I love deeply modulated reverbs and shimmers and stuff. Nothing else even comes close (not even Strymon’s stuff, as hard as they try), to me. But BAM has this beautiful analogueish sort of sound that’s just got something special to it, too. Both have their place, both are fantastic, but they’re each unique, too.

And then there’s pretty much everything else, like Empress, EHX, Meris, Strymon, etc. They’re fine. But I don’t hear anything special in them, personally. Which might be precisely what some people want - a good, clean, controllable reverb with one or two sounds they love and a couple other options. Space and BAM are deep. You’ll get huge range from them. But they don’t really overlap.

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