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[littlehat]

Zoom rackmount reverb/delay...

I WIN!

[Tomas Danko]

littlehat wrote on Mon, 22 January 2007 08:38

Zoom rackmount reverb/delay... I WIN!

As ugly sounding as their usual stuff can be, they once made something called the Zoom 1201. It had some great algorithms, reverb, delay and modulation. And it had knobs to tweak and no values to look at. I had several of those and used them a lot.

Then again, among all the reverb algorithms only two worked. But for drums it was the bees knees sometimes. And the delay was great.

It turns out a lot of studios in the UK had lots of the 1201 stuffed into their racks. Kind of a dark horse, that one.

There were some brilliant minds at Zoom, since they originate from the FX-department at Korg that made among other things the build-in effects in the Korg M1.

It's just that they decided to make cheap junk and flood the market, to the envy of Behringer.

[littlehat]

Off topic,
In the world of guitar overdrive pedals, I've owned a ton. TS808, TS9, BD2, DS1, Centaur, RAT, Soldano, Boogie... blah blah blah
The BEST overdrive pedal I've ever had is the ZOOM Power Drive. I swear to heaven, it rules over all low-medium gain guitar pedals.
You have my word, it will rule you.

All analog, true bypass, standard issue stompbox from Zoom.?!

[Tomas Danko]

Another dark horse is the large Danelectro pedals as of previous.

The Danelectro Fabtone is awesome.

And if you don't want the high gain (WITH mid range!) there's the Danelectro Daddy'O. The cool think with this one is that you can actually find a spot with the setting where turning it on and off doesn't do much at all with your sound.

And then you increase the gain and/or top a tad bit.

For anyone with a vintage tube amp that is precious, wanting a bit more boost, this is a secret weapon.

[eightyeightkeys]

Yeah, I agree with the Rev 7. Never liked it at all. I think it's a spring reverb masquerading as a digital reverb. Boy-oy-oy-oying.

[animix]

Heh!!!.I was getting ready to post up about the LXP1 you modded for me. I think this unit can play in the same ballpark as my PCM-91.......but since that seems to be getting slagged here as well.....hmmm........I suppose that my Quantec Yardstick, Sony V77 amd Roland R-880 all are trash too.

Funny how they all see to be useful though. I think I saw where someone was still making real plate reverbs. I'll start building an add-on for it as soon as I finish digging out the big hole in the ground where I'm going to bury the giant oil tank that's coming UPS next week.

[Ali Moniack]

dcollins wrote on Thu, 22 June 2006 06:42

thedoc wrote on Wed, 21 June 2006 15:48 "50 feet of my dads garden hose" Take that to the "best band names" thread! DC

OT, but there was actually an excellent late 60's experimental psych outfit called "50 Foot hose". Up there with the USA. Great band. Info here -

http://anthologyrecordings.com/release.asp?album=SzKUM4yENNv


Also slightly OT, but about the Time Cube - Bowie turned up to mix The Stooges Raw Power LP with a Time Cube. It was used on the guitar on "Gimme Danger" and the drums on the utterly awesome "Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell". The originally released mix of course.

I've actually still got a working Zoom 1201, hehe. Cheesy lil' box o' fun. Unused for years due to dirty, grainy lo-fi sound.

[Chad Irschick]

What about the Ursa Major. "Take me to your leader"

[Blas]

Those car spring reverbs!  Came out in the 60's to open-up the mono AM station music. Had an uncle that put one in his car. Every bump in the road gave you thunder. Then the jocks back sell sounded like a cave, couldn't understand half the words.  Later in the early 70's, I got the great idea of putting two units I got a hold of into my car system (which of course was stereo FM)...hit a bump, and all hell of a thunderstorm screamed out the speakers.  Removed 'em a week later!

Blas

[TJ]

Dave @ D&D wrote on Wed, 24 January 2007 21:25

Yeah, I agree with the Rev 7. Never liked it at all. I think it's a spring reverb masquerading as a digital reverb. Boy-oy-oy-oying.

I have a Rev 7 and only use it for the Flanged Reverb patch.
Other than that it sucks.

The Yamaha R1000 also sucks.

[Alan Meyerson]

tom eaton wrote on Fri, 16 June 2006 16:11

Wait...Ross you don't like the Lex 300?  I find it to be one of the easiest verbs to lay behind a track.  I never take mine off the Warm Plate patch, tweaked for pre-delay, hf cut and RT for the tune.  I use it on almost every mix... it tends to add depth without shmosshing up the foreground with mush.   Different strokes, I guess! -tom

Gothic Hall  mmmmmmmm

[Bryson]

Back in my teens with my Teac 3340/ Shure M67/M68 setup at mom's house, the Pioneer stereo reverb unit I had was the worst piece of crap ever.

[Alan Meyerson]

I gotta go with the Orban spring.

[tripit]

#1 Yamaha REV-7. God awful and everyone and their brother slapped it on the snare.
#2 Lexi PCM-xx. For the money, some of the worst verbs going.

[max cooper]

rnicklaus wrote on Sat, 24 June 2006 10:09

Are you guys of the mindset that the Midiverb II was worse sounding than the original Midiverb?

The RCA interface was quaint.

Blas wrote on Wed, 21 February 2007 13:19

Those car spring reverbs!

Good thing nobody told King Tubby the Fisher reverbs didn't sound good.