Chiming back in–

I may or may not have bought an Alesis MIDIverb 1, Alesis Wedge, and Roland SRV-2000 all in the past week.

So far all I've got is the SRV-2000, and it is wonderful sounding. However, it's a bit too large to fit in the portable rig I'm building, so I think I'm going to sell my v-verb to clear up a studio rack space (unless someone can convince me otherwise).

The Dynacord VRS23 is lo-fi in the sense its reverb is a filtered multi-tap ping-pong delay, but it's the cleanest BBD I've heard and still sounds like nothing else.

I can try to convince you to sell me the SRV-2000 if you like?? My SDE-1000 needs his reflective brother in the rack next to him. :D

I think the DEP-5 is the one to get unless you really need those "further level" early reflections parameters.

Go figure a couple SRVs finally popped up on Reverb but Im outta space now. I scored a Furman RV-1 last week for $150 and it just showed up today. I am waaaaaay good on reverbs after hooking that thing up for now hah!

Anyone getting a DEP-5 should be very careful. I bought one 4-5 years ago and apparently they have some kind of mechanical switches in them that are prone to going wrong in transit. Happened to the one I bought and the tech I used at the time - who I don’t use anymore cos I suspected him of being dodgy, btw - couldn’t fix it because the problem had also caused some kind of short further up and had pretty much scrapped it.

Whether he was telling the truth or not I’m not 100% on - but either way I lost something like £60 on that purchase because I couldn’t be bothered going to war with the seller.

I got mine for $40 from an old German man on Letgo. Feels like I got a steal. Not sure I'm ready to sell it yet.

Hey, sorry but I only just realized you mentioned buying a Midiverb 1 right before I bumped the thread. How is yours holding up? Do you use it?

The one I bought on reverb was $35 total with shipping&tax, and was listed as-is, working internally but with a fiddly power connector that needs to be held in place to pass signal. I was going to recap and look for either a new mate-n-lok connector for the end of the cable, or just solder directly onto the board. Have you performed any of the mods featured on this website?

Yep, totally. I have a few BBD's and it's def the cleanest sounding of my bunch.
On the other hand, I also have Dynacord's earliest BBD (according to some the first ever BBD !), the EC280. It's like a simpler, mono VRS23, also has a reverb setting and that baby is by far the darkest, dreamiest, most lo-fi BBD I've heard, really gorgeous.

Didn't know about the EC280. Nice.
Thanks for sharing!

Zoom 1202 has some serious lofi sounding verbs and just plain weird effects

It's in kind of crap condition, but doing alright after I replaced the output jacks.

Mine was like $30 as is. A previous owner had replaced the power connector with a 4 pin DIN socket so it could use a Quadraverb power supply. I already have one of those, so that's fine.

I also did do the EPROM mod. It's pretty easy, and nothing bad happens when you switch between banks. I haven't used it all that much, but it has its place. I think it's partly more interesting than the Midiverb II.

It might sound like Yamaha SPX2000. Its Rev-X and other algos got quite grainy tails, not too dense, with tons of interesting color in them.

I've got one and reviewed it recently, hope it helps a bit:

what's the trick there? Is it a case of patching one output back into the second input?

I seriously love the FX in the Korg trinity, especially verbs and pitch shifting modulated by the joystick! (Modulate feedback for lofi shimmer).

Is there anything in rack/pedal form with the same era of Korg FX?

(I might get the old kaoss pad out the attic ^^)

After many years of searching I finally tracked down a
Zoom 9200 - these things are pretty rare

but guess what, there were 2 of these for sale on US Ebay
I bought one the other one is here for anyone interested

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Zoom-9200-A...81e6%7Ciid%3A1

Rare as hens teeth

iirc the Korg A serie, the A1/A2/A3 were out arround the time of AI2 serie (01W, 01R/W, 03R/W), and first effect units to come out after that were AM8000 reverb and DL8000.

dont know exact years, but generationally they might be closest to Trinity. however, they are much much more advanced and tweakable and higher fidelity than effect units in Trinity, so tone might not be dead identical. probably better tho.


of the above, i only used A1. incredibly warm units with fantastic synth halls. and ton of other effects and chains.

in the meantime i discovered i love the sound of reverbs on Korg 01/W and WS which are running on 32kHz. so probably the model closest to them in fidelity is A2 at 37.1kHz. the A1 was sort of flagship model and runs at 48kHz and sounded different to me. so i am thinking of trying A2 to test this theory.

i‘m looking for those for a long time. read a few good reviews but never found one. how is it? comparable to something lika a pcm70?

Don't know have not received it yet.
should have it next week, will let you know

I was interested in buying some reverbs with character this year and ended up buying them all, and selling one. I kept the SPX90, SPX900 and Quadraverb. The SPX990 I sold, it was too thin and lacked character in my book.

I made a comparison video for anyone who wants to check out a few diff patches on each one, 5 patches x 3 reverbs. Sound isn't recorded through a phone mic unlike every one I saw until I made mine with a soundcard from the mixer....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py39bK-rA74

I just got the Spx 990 and i agree its a more ' modern ' sound ....i find it is great for certain things but not if i want the colour of the older Spx so now i need an spx90 again as well .

I've covered the Yamaha SPX90ii, SPX900 and A3000 here, using all presets with the same drum pattern via a soundcard. You can now pick and choose by listening to all 3!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfbRL5kKTDA

I found one, 3 years later!
I thought you’d find it funny, thanks for the recommendation

I think I will grab a Midiverb II thanks to this thread.

I got a SE-70 that love.

Any knows if Yamaha has any fx machine based on the fx of the FS1R?

I got one for 22 years and never found those fx in any other place.

It’s likely that the A4000/5000 have similar effects to the FS1r, perhaps the EX5R too.

I've never used the EX series, so I can't speak for those models, but the A series samplers and FS1R definitely have different-sounding reverbs and also might have different-sounding effects, despite sharing many of the same reverb and effect preset names.

The difference in the reverbs is night and day - the FS1R's are smoother, denser, and less metallic, while the A-series reverbs were never useful, at least for me.

I don't remember there being much difference in the modulation effects, but it's been a while since I had an A-series sampler.

If I recall correctly, the FS1R effect algorithms were ported from one (or more ) of Yamaha's O series digital mixers.

No idea where else those reverbs and effects might be found. Maybe the REV500 or ProR3 racks?

The EX series should be pretty similar to the A series samplers, other than the FDSP effects. It's basically the same hardware.

Most of Yamaha's onboard effects were never available in standalone effect processors. But a few models have external inputs that can go through the effects (like the MU-80, not that its effects are likely similar to the FS1r).

The FS1r hardware isn't like anything else. The effect IC is the YSS236-F VOP3 (a second one is used for the filters). This was also used in the AN1x (for synthesis, not for effects), and as an auxiliary effect processor in some higher end digital pianos and arranger keyboards (at least the CVP-700, CVP-209, PSR-740, PSR-2000, PSR-2100 and PSR-9000; some of these should have external inputs), but that's it. So there aren't really a lot of obvious connections to other models.

The effects in the O series mixers are probably closer to the REV500.

I think the REV500 and Pro R3 are basically updated versions of the REV5. My REV5 sounds nice enough, but it's not particularly exciting. You can compare the user manuals to see if the parameters and effect names are similar. And maybe also look at the PSR-740 user manual or something to see if that seems promising.

Had to sell all my rack gear when I moved for grad school and now I'm in a little studio apartment. Really miss the two ADA rack delays I had. They were mono, but sounded better than any other delay I've ever had. The older reverbs and delays can get more "dreamy" without sounding sparkly or twinkly. You can get a real haunting sound out of em that I haven't had any luck getting out of my TC Electronic Hall of Fame or any plugins.

Hoping to pick up a Boss RRV10 off of craigslist soon and stoked to run my Ensoniq ESQ-1 and Behringer Pro-1 through it.