Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!hellgate.utah.edu!wasatch!cs.utah.edu!derhak From: derhak%cs.utah.edu@wasatch.utah.edu (Max W. Derhak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: WARNING: Gadget Alert! Message-ID: <3278@wasatch.utah.edu> Date: 7 Sep 89 20:50:18 GMT Sender: news@wasatch.utah.edu Distribution: world Organization: University of Utah CS Dept Lines: 48 Keywords: reverb, sound, amiga Hello all! I just thought that I would let you all know that there is a new gadget out that does wonderful things for our favorite computer. It's called a Microreverb II, and is produced by a company called Alesis. It is really only a digital reverb processor, but it makes everything pumped into it sound so totally terrific. About a month ago I was at a friends house, and he has a lot of audio equip- ment, including one of these reverbs. He had it hooked into the same stereo that his computer was hooked up to. My brother wanted to see if his disk of Artic Fox worked on his computer. (It doesn't on ours :-(.) It worked fine, but oh what a difference it made to the intro music. It actually sounded like the sound was comming from an organ IN A CATHEDRAL. We decided to save up our $$$ and get one ourselves. We just got it yesterday and it make just about EVERYTHING sound better. In essence it doubles the effective number of channels that the Amiga has, because even when a voice is finished with a note, the reverb takes the sound out further giving it a little bit loger decay. Meanwhile the voice can start a new note. Thus two notes are being heard from the same voice. In adition it also mixes to a small extent the left and right channels so the sound isn't so polar. We have spent a little time listening to demo's and things. To see how such and such will sound. It greatly improves sounds and instruments which are short and abrupt. One good example is drums. They come alive and sound more like real drums. Music isn't the only thing that is enhansed. Explosions now have DEPTH! The reverm comes with 16 settings which are adjustable with via a mix control. You can also control the input level and output level so it also acts as a pre-amp between the computer and your stereo. By turnig the mix control completely to the left you end up with no change to the audio output, so it's real easy to see the drastic difference this thing makes. The Microreverb II retails for $199, but we got ours on sale locally here for $149. I dont know about mail order prices, but you can only find these little black boxes in places that sell music equipment. We had a troublesome time finding one, because our friend bought his used from someone else. Last of all I'd like to say that I have NO affiliation with Alesis. I'm just a satisfied customer that thinks that this makes the Amiga's sound even better that it already is. ========================================================================== Lekarz THE //\/\ //| \ / # Max Derhak (derhak@cs.utah.edu) :^> od \\ // \ //-| X # Oh Yeah? If you think that was neat Raju! \X/ \// | / \ o wait till you see THIS!