[linux-audio-user] Spring reverb?

Folderol folderol at ukfsn.org
Wed Feb 7 16:24:51 EST 2007


On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:53:42 -0800
Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:

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> I am working on a tune that needs surf guitar. The CAPS AMP IV does a great Fender Twin, and the #4 cabinet in CAPS Cabinet II seems to do pretty well as a 2x12 open-back Fender cab. But the classic surf guitar sound of course includes the high-pitched plinking of a Fender Twin reverb spring slapping against its metal case. If you haven't heard it, it's kind of like entering the V'Ger central core, but really high-pitched and fast, and in 16th notes while double-picking.
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> Picking out a muted barre chord into a spring reverb turned up way too high, you can definitely *hear* the springs.
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> This post hints tantalizingly about someone having created a Csound orc that emulates a spring reverb:
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> http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/2002/07/0252.html
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> Anyone know if this is true, and where I could find it? 

Mmmm spring reverb. Brings back memories :) (incidentally they are
usually quite easy to repair).

Now anyone who can *truly* emulate that is some form of god!

The all time classic for me was the instrumental Pipline by The
Chantays circ. 1963 I think.

-- 
Will J G



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