Reverb can be awesome.

[upstateface]

My garage has THE sickest giant natural reverb ever, gonna have my friend bring some drums over next weekend for some sick samples

get some chicken wire & chuck it around the walls & mic it too bro!!

!!chea

Good idea, i just spent like half an hour kicking throwing and stomping things

last year (first year for my audio production degree) I had to pick a producer & give a presentation to my class.
I was going to do it on Mala, but alas... his techniques aren't widely known,
so I chose Lee Perry!! This man was a master in his time at the Black Ark studios.

I suggest you search out the quirky techniques that defined his sound!

Using a Tascam 4 track, he created better sounding audio than his comrades that used 16 tracks.

Experiment with the techniques of those days using the technology of now!

sorry for the spiel... I've been awake for 2 days!hahahhahah

!!chea

I wrote a big paper on dub in school, did loads of research, I love those techniques/sounds

[cloak and dagger]

Although I agree with the original post, thread should be renamed to "White noise can be awesome." I'm always sooo impressed with James Blake's use of white noise. Can't think of anybody else these days that uses it as well or effectively as he does.

[street_astrologist]

NO SHIT!

I own that Pioneer spring reverb unit SR-202W.
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if you tap that thing hard on top, you get one of the trippiest noises known to man. It rattles the spring inside and verbs. It's truly fucking trippy.
...
So, did my dad use this to reverb his 33's while listening or what?

Yeah I love those FX you can make, I have some recordings of thumping and slapping the sides and top of the box.

If you want, it is possible to feed just one channel with a dry signal, and the opposite channel's output will have just the wet sound (example send a dry sound Left channel IN, in that case Right channel OUT has only wet Left, Left OUT dry Left). Supposedly any single spring tank reverb will behave this way.

Regarding actual home use - You can turn the reverb to a barely noticeable setting and it's decent for listening to music. I used to do that sometimes. Seems like a lot of the recordings that were out when these home-stereo reverb tanks were built were pretty lo-fi, many not even recorded in stereo, and anything that would jazz up the sound probably was more hot back then compared to the '80s forward, when EQ presets are built into most cheap stereos.

[gr0nt]

Regarding actual home use - You can turn the reverb to a barely noticeable setting and it's decent for listening to music. I used to do that sometimes. Seems like a lot of the recordings that were out when these home-stereo reverb tanks were built were pretty lo-fi, many not even recorded in stereo, and anything that would jazz up the sound probably was more hot back then compared to the '80s forward, when EQ presets are built into most cheap stereos.

Yeah, makes sense. I didn't think about the fact that many albums recorded before 1980 were recorded on super lame gear. After listening to my parents records, i could see why they'd wanna drown out that redneck noise with as much verb as possible.

Hey, on a side note.... I recently acquired BSR EQ-3000 which is labeled as a "Spectrum Analyzer/Equalizer".

Buddy said when he gave it to me that I can use it to flatten my monitoring environment. Any tips, or a breakdown on how to do this?

[mks]

Yeah, makes sense. I didn't think about the fact that many albums recorded before 1980 were recorded on super lame gear. After listening to my parents records, i could see why they'd wanna drown out that redneck noise with as much verb as possible.

[Sharmaji]

Extremely glad that this thread brought out the nutters Let the kids play with their multiband resampling malarkey... we've got far weirder shit to deal with.

i love the huge wash of verb in this performance... reminds me of the overwhelming cacophony in "A Day in the Life."

[nowaysj]

Although I agree with the original post, thread should be renamed to "White noise can be awesome." I'm always sooo impressed with James Blake's use of white noise. Can't think of anybody else these days that uses it as well or effectively as he does.

Disagree with this. I think there are and have been a grip of people to use noise (not necessarily white) to great effect. I agree with you though, jb's noise use is tippity top notch.

I've had a change in thinking with jb here. I tend to listen down into a track, through the highs, if you know what I'm saying, and excessive hats and other fizzy things can make a barrier that I can't get past, and so can't get down into the lower sounds. JB was doing that to me for a while on some tracks. I don't know, it seems to have gone away. I'm taking some meds though and it is fucking with my hearing (maybe making it better).

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For the love of reverb, want it on my tooooooooooomb stooooooooooooooooone.

[rubiconguava]

Although I agree with the original post, thread should be renamed to "White noise can be awesome." I'm always sooo impressed with James Blake's use of white noise. Can't think of anybody else these days that uses it as well or effectively as he does.

me too man, klavierwerke is an EP that is basically a mastercalss in white noise, really brings a lot of the samples to life with the layering of white noise etc. I dontfind it hard to listen through either it just sorta blends for me. took me a while to even notice how much of it there is in there.

[cloak and dagger]

Although I agree with the original post, thread should be renamed to "White noise can be awesome." I'm always sooo impressed with James Blake's use of white noise. Can't think of anybody else these days that uses it as well or effectively as he does.

me too man, klavierwerke is an EP that is basically a mastercalss in white noise, really brings a lot of the samples to life with the layering of white noise etc. I dontfind it hard to listen through either it just sorta blends for me. took me a while to even notice how much of it there is in there.

Yeah that's what's especially amazing about it...the fact that it adds so much to the track yet blends in so well and isn't noticeable. Either one of these things is incredibly hard to do with white noise, let alone both

[disco.infiltrator]

natural reverb is nutty, how many of yall find mad spots & start clapping enjoying the verb??
I do it all the time... & yeah I know how stupid I look to the public, but shit just sounds so great.

!!chea

Haha wow I do the exact same thing. My friends think I'm insane or a nerd, but natural reverb is the bomb.

I need to find some better free plug ins.