| It's the designers.
For one thing the designers of plug in stuff are bringing a product to market that satisfies the "world class" world and the "bedroom" recording world at the same time.
Most really good sounding stand-alone boxes were/are designed for the "world class" world.
There is a huge differnce between even expensive versus in-expensive boxes built by companies like Lexicon. The difference between even a LXP-1 and a stock 224 is fairly pronounced.
It's all in the algorythms and design philosophies incorporated.
A Lexicon 224 still sounds pretty good and they only have high end going up to around 5K!!!! Then again, real reverb in real acoustic spaces doesn't have much going on above that.
Too much high freq. stuff is what makes a lot of the early generation digital 'verbs sound wrong to me. That'd be all of the Alesis boxes, Yamaha SPX90s, REV7s, and the Roland units as a whole. At least the SPX90 had a place as a snare drum 'verbs for a while, but I wish I could peel it off of a lot of mixes I did in the '80s!
We still have and use a Lexicon 200 and two 224xls.
They sound good and they are about twentysix years old!
Then again, when were the echo chamber that Les Paul built at the Capitol Records building in Hollywood designed?
People still use them!
Danny Brown |