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I own a marshall MG-15dfx. It has like a built in reverb, and delay, and stuff like that.
Anyways, I dont really like the Reverb I have on my amp, its kind of harsh, and somewhat dead sounding. But I was at guitarcenter yesterday, and I played on a DSL-50h, and it had reverb built into it. And I tried out its reverb, and its a nice, smooth, sort of pleasant reverb.
I was wondering what exactly makes that difference?
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Spring reverb, my friend. It's a beautiful thing.
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how exactly does spring reverb work?
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"The operation of a spring reverb is pretty simple - the audio signal is coupled to one end of the spring by a transducer (a transducer is simply a device that converts energy in one form to another - in this case, electrical and mechanical energy. Some other familiar transducers are the pickups on a guitar, microphones, and speakers). This creates waves that travel through the spring. At the other end of the spring, there is another transducer that converts some of the motion in the string into an electrical signal, which is then added to the dry sound. When a wave arrives at an end of the spring, part of the wave's energy is reflected and stays in the spring. It is these reflections that create the reverb characteristic sound."
-from Harmony Central
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the cool thing about spring reverb is that it truly random sounding (even though it isn't as random as true room reverb). on cheap digital reverbs, eventually it gets boring because the repeats aren't as random. also, spring reverbs tend to change in tonality based on how heavy you're playing because the physical shaking of the amp may change.
lastly, spring reverb is awesome because if your reverb send is high enough and you kick your amp you'll get totally awesome reverb crash.
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Originally Posted by thesteve lastly, spring reverb is awesome because if your reverb send is high enough and you kick your amp you'll get totally awesome reverb crash. I would never want to kick my amp.
But I do love my spring reverb. Much more natural.
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thesteve, you can also do that if you slap the pickups.. <-- That's the way if you don't want to scuff up your amp.
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Originally Posted by Building429_Boy thesteve, you can also do that if you slap the pickups.. <-- That's the way if you don't want to scuff up your amp. eh...i know what you're talking about...it gets washy, but it's not nearly the same.
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ok, how it works sounds pretty simple. and are there spring reverb pedals? that's what i want to know, all the amps i'm looking at hvae no built in reverb.
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I was about to say no, but apparently I'm wrong: Little Lanilei Reverb. Might be interesting to have a spring reverb on the floor where it can be affected more by floor reverberations.
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How large exactly is the spring-reverb unit in most amps?
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Originally Posted by demon_hunter How large exactly is the spring-reverb unit in most amps? i'm guessing 8-16 inches, but i've never measured one.
regarding "reverbless amps"...you can always get a Fender external reverb tank, or you could probably buy an Accutronics like this and find a way to wire it into an amp's effects loop or even put it in a pedal form.
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Originally Posted by thesteve i'm guessing 8-16 inches, but i've never measured one.
regarding "reverbless amps"...you can always get a Fender external reverb tank, or you could probably buy an Accutronics like this and find a way to wire it into an amp's effects loop or even put it in a pedal form. i can see a rack mounted form of that really well. interesting idea....
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Originally Posted by What5647 i can see a rack mounted form of that really well. interesting idea.... i'd imagine you could look at the general design of an amp with built-in reverb and figure out how to do it too.
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Just taking this moment to say that...
My amp has absolutely beautiful tube driven spring reverb.
anyway...