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Originally Posted by seancostello  What are your favorite reverb algorithms, and why? |
Nice question Sean,
My favorites are:
The EMT 250: It's bright, wide and expansive at short decay settings, dreamy and ethereal at long decay settings, it is possibly the most useful single algorhythm ever devised. A "desert island" verb...
The Lexicon Concert Hall... all versions of this (except as noted above) have something beautiful and evocative in them, the later versions as found in the PCM-70 have controls for attack, definition and diffusion which can create some incredible rhythmic spaces and really transform a song. Lexicon have really captured the 'rolling spaces' of a real hall in this algo.
The Sony DRE2000 and the later generation (but nearly identical) versions in the Ibanez SDR1000 and Sony MUR-201. The basic algo ("plate" in the SDR and MUR) uses a novel layered reverb / sub reverb approach which allows for some interesting variations in the early and late width. True stereo and done correctly. These have always been my "anti-Lexicon" reverbs. Where Lexicon is dreamy, these are wakeful and crisp. They simply transform a lackluster performance into one with serious intention, particularly on percussive sources.