what the skinny on the Yamaha proR3

effectsnut · 7th April 2006, 01:32 AM

i can get one new in box for 400.00 ..is that worth it?..i know a few people really like it....i was just going to toss it in a guitar rack for dedicated reverb

effectsnut · 9th April 2006, 05:02 PM

well i bought one>> tell me more

gainreduction · 9th April 2006, 05:09 PM

Mine stays on the "Wood room" program for ambience.

It can do long verbs quite well too.

A very cool feature is the PRE-effect eq on the front panel. Saves you an eq on the desk if you like to filter your sends.

Definitely worth the $400.

effectsnut · 9th April 2006, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by gainreduction

Mine stays on the "Wood room" program for ambience.

It can do long verbs quite well too.

A very cool feature is the PRE-effect eq on the front panel. Saves you an eq on the desk if you like to filter your sends.

Definitely worth the $400.

thank you do you know how much they went for new in the 90's

thethrillfactor · 9th April 2006, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by effectsnut

thank you do you know how much they went for new in the 90's

$695-$750.

It a good reverb for the short and blend stuff.

The long wrap you around/push the sounds back type stuff ala Lexicon is not its strong suit.

$400 is what they go for these days.

effectsnut · 19th April 2006, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by thethrillfactor

$695-$750.

It a good reverb for the short and blend stuff.

The long wrap you around/push the sounds back type stuff ala Lexicon is not its strong suit.
.

your right!! pretty cool box though

effectsnut · 19th April 2006, 06:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gainreduction

Mine stays on the "Wood room" program for ambience.

Definitely worth the $400.

i really like tile room also..i tracked some distorted guitars through it and made a few perameter adjustments and WOW

Synth80s · 19th April 2006, 08:28 AM

I'm a big fan of the ProR3 and its sister product, the REV500 -- I've owned my ProR3 for almost 10 years and I doubt I'll ever part with it.

It's not a glossy unit that pretties up the source material nor is it a bombastic "reverb everwhere" unit. To me, it's an excellent ambience/thickening reverb and a realistic room/hall verb. I find that I use the ProR3 a lot on piano and other natural instruments where I want some ambience, but I don't want the verb to overtake the instrument or the mix. The rooms are great and highly tweakable without resulting in that nasty metallic noise that plagued early Yamaha units (and many other vendors' units) like the SPX-90. I like the medium to long halls for vocals as well. The plates are interesting, but I sense that they're not too realistic -- then again, I've never used a real plate, so what the hell do I know?!!? ;) The digital compressor can be interesting when applied mildly and the pre and post reverb EQs are useful. The filter is actually very cool.

Since I don't see alot of these around, I hypothesize that the model wasn't wildly popular for two reasons: 1) It's basically dedicated reverb with no multi-effects -- sure it has some minimal delay functionality and the chorus is fairly nice, but it's really a deep reverb unit (nothing wrong with that) so it looks expensive for its feature set, and 2) it doesn't have the Lexicon sound that was popular when these were being sold (the ProR3 competed with the PCM 80 and MPX-1).

The only downside I find is that the converters are kind of dull IMO (20-bit each way, I think) compared to more modern gear, but not bad for the era. At one point, I contacted Jim Williams to see if he could work on the analog audio path and/or converters, but it would have been an expensive one off. It's not a big deal anyhow since the unit is best used for realistic timbres anyhow.

The REV500 is the sweetheart deal. It has the same algos and processing power as the ProR3 (and balanced I/O) but it lacks some programmability and I think it's missing the EQ and modulation circuits. If you want a quality, realistic, true-stereo Yamaha reverb, you can get 80% of a ProR3 for ~$150-200 in a REV500.

-Synth80s

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9th April 2006, 05:02 PM	#2
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gainreduction Lives for gear Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,705	Mine stays on the "Wood room" program for ambience. It can do long verbs quite well too. A very cool feature is the PRE-effect eq on the front panel. Saves you an eq on the desk if you like to filter your sends. Definitely worth the $400.

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Synth80s Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Beautiful Southern California (cough, choke, honk) Posts: 753	I'm a big fan of the ProR3 and its sister product, the REV500 -- I've owned my ProR3 for almost 10 years and I doubt I'll ever part with it. It's not a glossy unit that pretties up the source material nor is it a bombastic "reverb everwhere" unit. To me, it's an excellent ambience/thickening reverb and a realistic room/hall verb. I find that I use the ProR3 a lot on piano and other natural instruments where I want some ambience, but I don't want the verb to overtake the instrument or the mix. The rooms are great and highly tweakable without resulting in that nasty metallic noise that plagued early Yamaha units (and many other vendors' units) like the SPX-90. I like the medium to long halls for vocals as well. The plates are interesting, but I sense that they're not too realistic -- then again, I've never used a real plate, so what the hell do I know?!!? ;) The digital compressor can be interesting when applied mildly and the pre and post reverb EQs are useful. The filter is actually very cool. Since I don't see alot of these around, I hypothesize that the model wasn't wildly popular for two reasons: 1) It's basically dedicated reverb with no multi-effects -- sure it has some minimal delay functionality and the chorus is fairly nice, but it's really a deep reverb unit (nothing wrong with that) so it looks expensive for its feature set, and 2) it doesn't have the Lexicon sound that was popular when these were being sold (the ProR3 competed with the PCM 80 and MPX-1). The only downside I find is that the converters are kind of dull IMO (20-bit each way, I think) compared to more modern gear, but not bad for the era. At one point, I contacted Jim Williams to see if he could work on the analog audio path and/or converters, but it would have been an expensive one off. It's not a big deal anyhow since the unit is best used for realistic timbres anyhow. The REV500 is the sweetheart deal. It has the same algos and processing power as the ProR3 (and balanced I/O) but it lacks some programmability and I think it's missing the EQ and modulation circuits. If you want a quality, realistic, true-stereo Yamaha reverb, you can get 80% of a ProR3 for ~$150-200 in a REV500. -Synth80s