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Shoegaze board update, added a fourth reverb

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@dani.kowalski
6 weeks agoAsked in Rig Diaries
I know how this sounds. Hear me out. The three reverbs on the board were: a Holy Grail Plus for room, a Big Sky for hall and shimmer, and a Catalinbread Topanga for spring. They each had a job. Then I started writing a piece that needed a reverb that didn't sound like a reverb, more like the air after a reverb stopped. A reverb that you can't tell is on until you turn it off. Fourth reverb is a Meris Mercury 7 set at 100% wet, low decay, low diffusion, fed only from the send of the Big Sky's output. It's a reverb on a reverb. When the song is loud you can't hear it. When the song stops you hear the room continuing for two seconds beyond the actual reverb tail. Is it ridiculous? Yes. Does it sound like anything else? No. If you can hear the guitar, the reverb isn't on yet. Mustang into AC10, board is now: fuzz, fuzz, Holy Grail, Big Sky, Topanga, Mercury 7. Anyone else stacking reverbs and finding the stack is the instrument?
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  • JR
    @jules.rourke6 weeks ago
    Stereo into two amps and three reverbs total here, I get it. The Mercury 7 in series after a Big Sky is doubling up on the diffusion but that's the point, you're not trying to add reverb, you're trying to add diffusion. That's legitimate. If the room can't tell, you haven't gone far enough.
  • KT
    @kobu.tinker6 weeks ago
    A reverb at 100% wet with no decay is functionally a delay with frequency-dependent feedback. Have you A/B'd this against a Memory Lane on a very short setting with the modulation up? Suspect you'd get most of the same effect and free a slot.
  • TW
    @thelma.weller5 weeks ago
    I don't get it but I respect it. Three-piece, no room for reverb stacks. If I can't hear the note I haven't done my job. Different goal, different rig.
  • NH
    @noor.haddad5 weeks ago
    Adding a reverb to a reverb makes sense to me. On the oud I'm doing something similar with a very long delay set to no repeats, just one quiet ghost of the note that fades into the Twin's natural reverb. The point is the air, not the effect. You're listening for the same thing.

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