#698

apropos of nothing but shout-out to the Intellijel 1U Multi-FX. I’m used to super colored FX like Strymons, and the MFX definitely doesn’t have that level of character, so I hadn’t gotten too deep on it. also IMO the tone knob has a very small sweet spot.

But last night I was running monosynth lines thru a long verb to make a big wash of sound, and the range of the time knob and quality of decay is really superb. Great bread-and-butter reverb to have in the rack (and conserve 3U space)!

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#699

Missed out on the latest Draume batch, and scored a Mercury7 for a great price, which is exactly what happened in the very first batch of Draumes. :man_facepalming:

It’s pretty much as I remember it - super powerful and complex sounding, but kind of thin and cold. That said, it does do wonderful Basinsky things into a ss/bs fuck, especially with the autoswell.

I have a better midi setup now though, so I’m pretty excited to see how the m7 plays with some new toys that I didn’t have previously, like a Rucci drone synth.

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#700

I’m thinking through the pros and cons of building a system with multiple spring reverbs in euro vs something rack based like the Vermona DSR-3. Does anyone have experience with the DSR-3 or general thoughts about this?

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#701

Would love to hear some examples @pugnax . I have an M7 - fell in love with the sound of it on a poly synth for epic sci-fi sound track vibes but would live to broaden my ideas of how to use it with more complex/diverse material.

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#702

I’m thinking of Styrmon Night Sky, surprisingly no one talk about it here :thinking:

#703

Tried one briefly.

  • It doesn’t do short reverbs - the minimum is still fairly long, maybe 0.5–1sec.
  • There’s some (very intuitive) hidden functions that make it even more versatile.
  • The filter is great to have but a bit steep, and the high-pass or the input filter setting are not affected by resonance if memory serves. It does have numerous sweet spots that sound great.
  • Glimmer and Drive were great, maybe my favorite part of the NightSky.
  • I wish the modulation had smooth S&H as a shape.
  • The shimmer and sequencer are something I don’t really look for in a reverb, so it felt superfluous. YMMV.

I think that if you’re looking for an ’ambient reverb’, (which is not a pejorative term here) you’ll be pretty happy. I want one unit to do it all, including short reverbs.

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#704

Got my Nightsky today, played with it for a couple hours, love it so far. Love the post distortion very much, and most of the settings are directly controllable with some ‘press and hold + reverb knob’ for pre-delay and such. This is my first Strymon pedal, and the best reverb I have/ had by far.

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#705

I have been very close to buy a NightSky a few times. The thing that had me holding back is that I did not think the demos (with synths) were very “musical”.

I also own a H9 and I was wondering if anyone here have both pedals (or tried both) and cold chime in with some comments on how the twos relate / differ sound wise.

#706

Hey folks I’ll be posting a demo of the CXM1978 soon but here’s a little clip of piano through it for now https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJzZ8ng_NL/?igshid=30wux6z1552a

#707

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I’ll give it a shot since I haven’t heard back from the manufacturer.

Unfortunately, I’ve broken two springs on my Ekdahl Moisturizer’s spring tank. It looks to be an Accutronics / Belton N8EB2E, but I can’t find this product anywhere online for purchase. Does anyone know if there is an equivalent spring tank I could pick up? Or if there could be any issues connecting basically any other spring tank I see online? I’d assume coil length / count will change sound, but am wondering if something… worse could happen :stuck_out_tongue:

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#708

Try to contact, Belton.
http://belton.biz/eshop/contents.html?layout=agency
i purchased spring tanks there.

#709

Have you contacted Knas directly to see what they use? These tanks are often used in guitar amps so check those kinds of parts places.

There is a good decoder here:


If anything it looks like it might be an 8EB2E1A (mounted horizontally) though I think it might be easier to find an 8EB2_1A and just remove the metal housing (either way, check my math! haha). You’ll want to confirm and match the input and output impedances and there is some physics behind how the tanks are made to be mounted but I couldn’t say how much this affects the sound or if upside down is “better” than turned 90 degrees, for instance.
#710

I needed new springs for my Moisturizer last year and got a new one from Knas directly for a very reasonable price, and wired up ready to go… Maybe try emailing them again? It wasn’t the fastest, but they did come through.

#711

anyone have any thoughts on death by audio’s Rooms? i’m pondering getting a new HW reverb and torn between rebuying BAM, splurging on the cba/meris box, or checking out rooms

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#712

The demos of DBA Rooms mostly all seem too ‘epic’ to me. I’ve thought about an Eventide H9 max since it also has tons of other algorithms.

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#713

I just gave @sunbeamer’s rooms a new home and have taken it for a couple spins. This is certainly not a tech demo or even a deep exploration. Just a noodle session that got short by democracy in America nearly collapsing.

My initial impressions are that it’s capable of being huge while also staying out of the way, which I like.

It will rage if you want it to, but that’s not really my style.

On the back end, BAM and Rooms are both running on a Spin FV-1, whereas the Meris is ostensibly a newer platform. I’m not sure which one, but they’ve mentioned in the past that their other pedals are running on newer tech than the SHARC.

Yeah, you certainly can’t go wrong there. Tons of great verbs on that platform. Blackhole is awesome. Mangled verb is nice too. I seem to remember that the plate was pretty good.

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#714

Rooms is awesome and I’m slightly sad I sold it, but it could never replace my BAM. I do think it’s incredible for drone synths in particular (which @mattlowery has done a great job demonstrating), it has some really cool modulation modes and a nice stereo image.

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#715

Sounds great! Are you sure BAM is FV-1 based? That seems unlikely to me based on the feature set.

#716

Yeah, or at least partly (though it surprised me too). Though I’m not an engineer and have no idea how much lifting each of these chips does on its own.

Test & Interview: OTO machines BAM, Hall-Effektgerät - Seite 2 von 3 - AMAZONA.de

Translated:

Denis:
BAM has 2 processors. The first is a Microchip DSPIC33 (16 bit) with a 24 bit CODEC. The signal is reduced to 16 bits, which in my opinion sounds almost exactly like the old converters that were used in the early digital reverb units. The DSPIC calculates the pre-delay, the input filters, the diffusers and a lot more. The second is a SPIN FV-1 (this chip was developed by Keith Barr, founder of Alesis). The FV-1 works with 24 bits, but I limited this to 20 bits to simulate the CPUs of the older reverb devices. The reverb tail is calculated in this chip. After the FV-1 there is still a lot of analog processing. Compared to other DSPs or microcontrollers, the sound of the FV-1 was closest to that of the early digital reverb devices. It’s a rather unusual way of designing a reverb device in 2016, but I was very happy with the sound (and so are our customers).

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#717

That’s fascinating in 20 characters! :slight_smile: