#394

These came up at our last Seattle Music Machine Salon w/ Sean of Valhalla. They were in so much great '90s IDM/ambient because they were all so many bedroom producers could afford.

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#395

Anyone here using the Earthquaker Avalanche Run v2? Tested it out with my skiff at a local guitar store and had a blast with it.

#396

Pretty sure the one Iā€™ve got it the V2. Itā€™s really amazing at what it does, lush soft pillowy ambience!
But thereā€™s a couple of weird things Iā€™ve discovered along the wayā€¦ the stereo in actually sums to mono for the wet fx (the original dry signal is preserved, but still a bit odd). Also it clips in a pretty ugly digital way, worth bearing in mind if youā€™re using it live anywayā€¦
Apart from that I really like it, wish the delay time could go a bit longer, but still, the sound is nice and musicalā€¦

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#397

woah interesting.

Have you been able to combat the clipping by any attenuation up front? Iā€™d be using it live/studio depending. Must have not been able to hear the clipping (if it was) since I was in a less than perfect listening environment

#398

I found that it clips quite harshly when attempting self-oscillation, to the point where I contacted ED and they ran tests on their own stock. The official word from them was that it was a limitation of the DSP- they suggested that I try to manage it with an expression pedal but the risk of it slipping into the clipping is obviously still there.

A bit disappointing as itā€™s a lovely device otherwise.

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#400

Okay Iā€™m sold now!! :laughing:

#401

I love how you started with knowledge and ended with insight <3

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#402

I have an empress reverb mainly for guitar and the erbe in my rack and I am more often playing guitar through my rack because I like the erbe so much. I really like the empress, but the erbe is really special. If you are in Seattle we could meet up and you could give mine a go.

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#403

I am in Seattle, so I might take you up on that. :+1: Thanks for your input.

#404

any pointers on how to get the lushness out of the verb ?

#405

Max size, lots of decay, absorb to taste (without any absorb the max size has a bit of an echo which can sound unrealistic, though sometimes wanted), modulation depth turned far to the left, slow speed.

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#406

This is fantastic. I keep wanting to think more about this line. Hmm, I wonder - is the countersurveillance also benign?

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#408

looking into chase bliss dark world
do you think the lack of stereo in huge considering iā€™m going to place it in a send/return loop into my CGM mixer? is it better to get for exemple a worng LRMSMSLR and place it between?

#409

Iā€™m not familiar with the CGM or what you might want to do with that routing.

Sometimes I patch Dark World as strictly mono. (And then sometimes, Iā€™ll run that into a mono to stereo effect (QPAS, Erbe-Verb, a plugin etc.) to give it width.)

Sometimes I mult a signal, with the dry version as mid and Dark World as side (or vice versa) and run that through MS to LR conversion in my DAW.

Sometimes I patch it inside a feedback loop with other effects, and tap the feedback loop in two places either as LR or MS.

#410

Yet another OTO Bam advocate here :slight_smile:

Figured Iā€™d share a little demo I did for a friend here to illustrate the scale of the BAM and how well it sits in a mix - itā€™s such a beautiful effect! Synth input is a Volca Kick, believe it or not :stuck_out_tongue:

I believe Iā€™m using the Hall algo in this demo, but an important note/trick about how I use the BAM:

I use the BAM in fully wet mode as an aux send, but I go from there back into another mixer channel so that I can feed the BAMā€™s wet signal back into itself! This reverb feedback serves two purposes - firstly, it allows the reverb to self resonate and achieve different frequency responses, and secondly it allows the BAM to become a diffused delay/echo once you turn up the pre-delay parameter! I highly recommend BAM owners give this a try, though I suppose this trick would work with any verb that allows for a fully wet mix, though youā€™re mileage may vary. On the BAM, you can even use the ā€œthruā€ algorithm for a more traditional delay/echo effect, added value! :stuck_out_tongue:

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#411

Again love the Valhalla and Eventide stuff here, although in full disclosure am a beta tester for Valhalla. I did sell my PCM70 when Valhalla Room came out though! These days I could probably do all my Reverb with Valhalla Vintage Verb although itā€™s great to have the Eventide 2016 plug too. That thing just sits in the mix like nothing else.

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#412

Wow! @Oneven the Quadraverb sounds great but sadly a little bulky for transporting. I sometimes use guitar FX pedals, such as Avalanche Run V2 and Supermoon Eclipse, but they clip too easily. I bought the BOSS SE-70 recently and I love it! Portable and sounds good. Here is a demo.

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#413

Really love my BAM but wishing that the freeze function had a better fade out when disengaging it - I donā€™t love the way the sample fades out really fast so it almost sounds like a cut.

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#414

I often crank the reverb time as I disengage freeze, so thereā€™s a longer tail.

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#415

I picked up an Erbe-verb yesterday and Iā€™m really impressed so far. I spent about two hours running the same sequence through and went it so many directions with the same base patch. Not the most pristine end-of-chain effect, but also not the real point of the module. Amazed at some of the sounds Iā€™m getting and how well it responds to modulation ranging from subtle to extreme.

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