| What I heard at the AES show was amazing. They had a true stereo hall running and the tail was smooth and transparent. Anyone who's using Altiverb needs to listen to this box to see what the high end sounds like. I was listening in headphones, but it sounded like the source was right in my head and the reverb was 10 feet in either direction. I'm not a professional engineer anymore, but I've worked on a lot of reverb units over the last 10 years. In my opinion, if the unit did only this hall program it would be worth the cost.
They also had a unit opened up in the Analog Devices booth to show off the six Blackfin chips they're using for DSP. For what it's worth, TC's Megareverb in Powercore can run on one SHARC chip, which is roughly equivilent in DSP according go the AD engineers. (Something about floating point versus double, it went over my head.) Six chips just sounds impressive, like a V6. They had an ambience program loaded in this unit, but I didn't get to hear it.
The LED display looked bigger than I expected from looking at their website. I expected a slightly bigger version of what's on the 480, but this was much bigger, filling the height of the rack space. Very readable. They're still on target for the remote as well, but didn't have one or a picture of it.
I had been thinking seriously about a TC Reverb 4000 for my studio, but now I'll be waiting to audition the Bricasti. |