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Old 26th June 2009   #143
seancostello
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Originally Posted by zmix View Post
I think that you've come very close to some of the 'prettier' reverb sounds I tend to gravitate towards with your Eos, but to my tastes it's the Plate 1 algo that has the best magic.
That algorithm is less Lexicon, more EMT. It isn't really EMT, any more than Superhall is Lexicon, but it shares some design goals. I've never heard an EMT-250 in person, so my understanding was based on impulse responses and the like.

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I have several early Sony reverbs. The R7 is the only 'modern' one. They are incredible. SONY put - so - much R&D into these algos.. and they are fantastic. Nothing in them is modulated or randomized, they are simply tweaked to perfection.
I am reminded of the Bricasti samples / impulses I have heard. Super high echo density (almost like convolution with noise), but with no ringing at all. The decay does not sound entirely exponential to me, which I am sure is by design.

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The DP/Pro has the famous "Dattorro algorhythm". I pleaded with Jon to give me access to modulation for some of the taps and we did end up with a very powerful device.
Is this "the" Dattorro algorithm, or "a" Dattorro algorithm? The Halls on the DP/2 I have sound considerably different from the Small and Large Plate algorithms, and much closer to the Lexicon PCM70 Concert Hall algorithm I have heard.

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I used the DP/pro with a factory preset I created called "Black 224".....
Which algorithm? One of the Expert Reverbs? Did the older Hall algorithms from the DP/4 and DP/2 make it over to the DP/Pro, or was something else used for the Hall presets?

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Note the low density, high modulation and late 1970s primitivism....
Nice. It doesn't sound low density to me at all, but that could be the modulation masking this.

Sean
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