[linux-audio-user] Spring reverb?

[Folderol]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 22:48:31 +0100
Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 22:24, Folderol wrote:
> > 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.
> > >
> > > Picking out a muted barre chord into a spring reverb turned up way too
> > > high, you can definitely *hear* the springs.
> > >
> > > This post hints tantalizingly about someone having created a Csound orc
> > > that emulates a spring reverb:
> > >
> > > http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/2002/07/0252.html
> > >
> > > 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.
> 
> And what about the Watkins "Copycat" endless loop tape echo machine. That was 
> the cutting edge for echo effects in the 60's.
> 
> Nigel.

Pah!

You had to change the tape loops about every couple of hours (cheaper
to make your own from 1/4in triple play tape) and the heads gunked up
damn fast.

In only weeks you had tramlines across all the heads and the tape
lifted and caught on these, giving some really strange effects!

If you were *rich* you got hold of a ferrograph series 5 and ran a
10in (I think) tape at 15ips on it with the O/P fed back into the line
I/P.

-- 
Will J G