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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
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Subject: Re: Digital reverb and other gripes
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Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 09:05:33 EST
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> ...and [a spring-reverb] can occasionally make a horrendous racket when you
> don't want it to. (Ever bumped your amp when the reverb was on 9?)

I always thought that was a "feature" rather than a problem!  You can make
"thunder" with it.  (I'm thinking more in terms of a spring-reverb module
in a synthesizer, where you can put a low-pass filter after it, than one
that's built into an amp.)

Another feature/problem with the spring-reverb units, though, is that they
have these resonant peaks and valleys.  The advantage is that this to some
extent sounds more like reverberation in a real building.  The
disadvantage, of course, is that it sounds terrible if you hit one of the
sharper peaks with a sustained note.  (Probably this is less of a problem
with a spring-reverb on an amplifier where you have more than one instrument
being played through it at the same time.)

And now for a different subject...

>I think Laurie Anderson is suffering ...

I don't read net.music, because there is too much junk in there to wade
through, but have seen a lot of comments on Laurie Anderson in here
(net.music.synth), and so bought one of her albums.  I must admit that I
can't see what is so appealing about her.  For most of the album she just
chants fairly empty phrases in a detached and disinterested tone.  Am I
missing something, or what?
-- 
E. Roskos

"It's Halley's comet!"