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Originally Posted by acreil  ...
The best hardware reverb I have at the moment is an Ibanez SDR-1000, which was very well received in this thread (anyone got the "+" OS ROMs?). While there's no modulation, it's a quite nice sounding constant density reverb, so I'm not really worried about making some sort of gold standard.
Part of what got me curious about reverb is pondering what makes vintage boxes so desirable, and if there was some cheap and overlooked shortcut to the "vintage sound"- turns out the SDR-1000 was a pretty good choice. I'm still perpetually intrigued by some other "underdog" boxes, the Dynacord DRP-20, Korg DRV-3000, etc. but if my synth buying habits have taught me anything, it's that obscure and overlooked items, while sometimes very interesting, aren't always the most useful. |
Don't be fooled. The Ibanez SDR-1000 was designed by Sony. They put thousands of man-hours into researching reverb, and their 'first' attempt, the 1979-80 era DRE-2000 is a work of art. The SDR-1000 was comissioned by Ibanez, and represents the next step: it utilized a dedicated VLSI reverb processor (Sony called it the "Presence Chip"). After a falling out with Ibanez, Sony released their own version of the SDR-1000 and called it the MUR-201. Both the SDR-1000 and the MUR-201 are "True Stereo" devices, too.