New Tape Op article - DIY reverb

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Anyone else checked the new Tape Op out? There's a two page article on building your own spring/plate 'verb from a slinky, and old speaker, a piezo transducer and a bit of soldering.

I'll scan/photo the article soon for everyone who doesn't subscribe to the magazine, but is anyone else thinking about building one?
I've been looking for a simple electronics project to do, and am going to attempt this along with a dub siren some time!



article photo:
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/9886 ... ngverb.jpg

[contakt321]

I am really interested in this, looking forward to the PDF.

[Pedro Sánchez]

Anyone else checked the new Tape Op out? There's a two page article on building your own spring/plate 'verb from a slinky, and old speaker, a piezo transducer and a bit of soldering.

I'll scan/photo the article soon for everyone who doesn't subscribe to the magazine, but is anyone else thinking about building one?
I've been looking for a simple electronics project to do, and am going to attempt this along with a dub siren some time!

Yeah Iv'e been looking a DIY project that isn't too extreme, i'll be on this.

[NRHc]

Nice,Thanks!

[wayoftheworld]

cool post, thanks

[gnome]

Yeah I have been reading it. Looks easy enough and cheap!

[alphacat]

Yeah, I referred someone in another thread to it too - there's some cool links & Youtube videos for DIY 'verbs if you just go there too... aw, fuck it. I'll repost 'em here.

I totally wanna try the slinky reverb in that article!

http://www.hometracked.com/2007/08/05/diy-reverb/

http://nicksworldofsynthesizers.com/springs.html

[gnome]

Yeah Alphacat they show you how to make the spring reverb with a slinky in tapeop

[back2onett]

this looks interesting, how much are the parts going to cost?

[gnome]

this looks interesting, how much are the parts going to cost?

If you make it all from scratch about £7. You probably have most of the stuff lying around the house. I can't find anywhere to buy a Rolen-star audio transducer for the plate reverb

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http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/9886 ... ngverb.jpg

^ can't post an image taller than 1000 pixels in this forum
sorry for the bad quality. its readable, I just couldn't be bothered to set up the scanner.

[alphacat]

Props for posting that!

[collective]

I have made a Plate verb, and its pretty nice, I will make another one with a nicer metal, and better pickups.

DIY gear is the best. I recently came across an old tube mic pre that had been discontinued, replaced the tube and the pots and actually got a nice (although very colorful) mic pre thats great for beefing up basslines, even good for moderate amounts of tube compression.

[gnome]

I have made a Plate verb, and its pretty nice

What speaker did you use? Did you build your own?

[alphacat]

FYI, on the tactile transducer tip - here's a comparison of the various models, Rolen-Star included:

http://www.baudline.com/erik/bass/tactile_report.html

Some cheap, well-rated tactile transducers:

http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdet ... er=309-148

And from the same site, the whole selection of tac. transducers:

http://www.parts-express.com/wizards/se ... D=28135408

Edit:

So it seems the Rolen-Stars aren't for sale to the general public, so if you were to score one it'd likely be from a contracting job where someone had 'em and was getting rid of them for newer, better models. But there's enough other options on the parts-express link above that it shouldn't matter.