| Bricasti has great sounding drum plates - tight, big and dense. My PCM-91 sounds nice too, but tiny bit less focused ... (it was also quite audible when listening just to 100% wet signal).
I tried vocal plates too, here it was a bit more difficult to distinguish between both. I sent few AB samples to a friend and he was not sure which he likes better, sounded similar.
For halls (I mean my favourite long "spheric" instrument halls), I admire the large field for adjustment options for each preset in Bricasti: modulation, density, early/late etc. which move the given reverb sound to all possible directions - from clean to more dense, spacy and "coloured".
The "halls" and "spaces" presets sound very clean, very well defined, with a great sense of (adjustable) depth. Yet, for my particular instrumental "fantasy" style, I found Lexicon reverbs suiting maybe a bit more, not being THAT perfectly defined and clean, but somehow a bit more "real" as if (maybe not good word) by their slightly "smeared" nature, not that "perfect", but quite pleasing (maybe because of that ?). But these differences are rather subtle. Both are great units.
One funny thing happened during my Friday testings : I played solo monochord tracks (from the newly prepared CD), listened to the reverb and thought this M7 sounds really wonderful - so smooth, natural, musical and spacy, simply perfect for this task (how could I miss it before ?). And only after some time I noticed that by a mistake I had the tracks connected to Altiverb :-)))) . When connected back to Lexicon and Bricasti, neither of them was able to recreate that space feeling I heard before ...
Anyway, the new Bricasti reverb is truly admirable unit, bringing something very new to the reverb world (not trying to be a new Lexicon clone).... I look forward to trying it later again (now I am off for other tasks and someone else is waiting to try this demo unit) |