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6:18 I'm listening on headphones and I can hear a bit of spring reverb on your voice!!!!! I think you were talking directly at a tank and it might have picked up your voice. LOL Amazing!
Thank you for that Raymond Scott mention - I didn't know about him, nor about his use of spring reverb. His music is amazing! Nor did I know the ARP 2600 had one.
This is so interesting because it's not trying to emulate a certain type of sound, imitating some instrument or the like. It's sounds that are truly unique.
lol, I think it's funny how kids would be playing with a box figure with some medal twirling bridges that have beads on them. lol, but this is when the children grow up, and the toy does too. lol
after this top vid I added one to my noob setup of only 7 modules and had loads of interference so I swapped the nasty bell wire rca cable from doepfer for a thick gold plated one with magnetic blocks on and it's now as clear as day
BTW. I just got excited about the idea of doing DIY reverbs, both plate and spiring ones. Instead of multitracking I planned to build that stereo in as feature. By adding two mics to the box. I have to try different size of chambers and propably do many models. Can't wait to see and hear which kind of impact location of mics, measures of chamber and springs, tightness and number of springs, materials used etc. have to the output. :)
Ofc! Thanks for that obvious tip. I can do two similar chambers with one mic in each. Works propably much better than one chamber with two mics. Or maybe I should add two mics in both chambers where mic a. is closer to resonator than b. That should give two different versions of the signals. All for then routed to mixer with different balance, EQ and level settings. Feedback could be easily done with AUX send. Yeah. I'm gonna start looking those parts. :D
I was experimenting with this module in conjunction with the Döpfer WASP-filter, today for about an hour. You definitely have to use this filter _after_ the VCA with the ADSR. And: Afterwards my sister had asking me, if I was experimenting with Tibetan Singing Bowls. :D This filter tends to self-oscillation like hell. ^^°
We are building a spring reverb right now :) i can post here again when i'm finished if wanted :) I'll do it anyway. its working already. just needs a nice case
You could make your spring tank totally shielded from any of the sources of the hum you described, but you wouldn't be able to wang on them with screwdrivers any more, so it may not be worth it. Assuming the metal case of the spring box is grounded, it's probably meant to be screwed to something made of metal with those tabs, which would be an RF shield in the same way as a grounded metal chassis is. With the springs exposed to act as an antenna, you will pick up a huge amount of electrical noise from your environment, especially in a studio. If you have an oscilloscope it is very easy to get an idea of how much by clipping the ground lead to the probe tip and setting the 'scope to around 10 mV/Div. The ground lead will be acting like a far less efficient antenna than the springs in your open spring box but the noise will be plain enough to see on the 'scope. Even just adding an easy-to-remove metal plate would solve the problem but still allow you access for when you want to sacrifice hum for effects?
Just letting resonate one spring is a neat little trick. Never tried that one. I guess you could get nice tones by sticking coins or something similar in there.
doesn't the spring chamber pick up the vibrations of your speakers that are sitting right next to it? That's yet another feedback patch hehe. But really, doesnt having the springs exposed add feedback tho? And what about low rumbling street noise exciting the springs? Just curious
Thanks peeps! If you _are_ interested in trying another tank out with the A-199, apparently the Accutronics 4BB3C1B is a good choice - it's got a longer reverb tail. Actually just bought one here and am going to give it a whirl: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360818603092
+mylarmelodies Always love watching your presentations. I've been wanting to get my hands on a Doepfer spring reverb (or two!) for a while. After watching you mess with the feedback, and hearing that cello-like sound, I'm wondering what kinds of things could be done with Karplus-Strong techniques using bursts of spring noise instead of white noise.
Would it be a bad idea to buy the doepfer spring to use in a live setting? As in: would it pick up on the vibrations of monitoring and things like that?
I've got an A 199 but was wondering about adding a Springray. Do you think it'd be worth it? Only dilemma is I think Intellijel have shot themselves in the foot by removing v c feedback on Springray 2. Do you agree?
Does the module (not the tank) fit inside a Rackbrute (which isn't a very deep case) with the RCA Phono cables plugged in the back of the module? If not, would it work with L-shaped RCA phono heads?
Brilliant video! Can't wait to play around with this little bugger when it's in my rig! The only thing with my tank the springs aren't as taut as yours, is that going to be a problem? Is there a way of tightening them?
just grabbed the Morgasmatron and spring reverb Doepfer 199 vntage. Would you Suggest the P.Eg. i see there? also with the Tank where would you put it? is it ok to put out of the box?
14:10 From what I’ve read, the laser sounds/blaster sounds in Star Wars was made by Ben Burtt hitting a rock on a radio tower’s support cables. I’m sure you just being funny. :-)
Absolutely brilliant tutorial, but I just gotta ask, what on earth was that module to the left where the graphics looked like they were just written by hand.
Again a nice vid combining some knowledge and musical inspiration. Spring and strings (DIY) is what I like to use and in an extension pack for the Koma Fieldkit FX there is a tank :-) Years ago in East Germany I bought a tape "teaching people" the different alarm signals... I counted up string, springs, the tape (recorder out of sight), 2 DIY noise sound sources, a patchblock and the a ARP... resulting in Warnung (using Mackie desk with additional FX = 2 x ZDSP "reverb" and "delay" / 1 send goes out to the Fieldkit FX / main out Fieldkit into Mackie, aux out into Fieldkit FX); maybe you like the set up, sound, vid... Anyway thanks for your modular vids. Cheers, Jurgen aka SONICrider --> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--Xp8bxE0OVM.html
+mickey thompson Thats right! any simplon mastrubating to pure saw/square tones will not find anything interesting on my store! His brain will choke trying to process all those complex textures! I dont blame them - monkeys like to scrach their asses whole day and modular nuts like to explore the "new" fronties of universes based on sine/square and saw waveform (with pulse modulation!) - everybody has their own borders to cross in life. Its cool with me. BTW i dont have shit in ears i've done a frequency recognition test - 0.125 HZ error range result. Cheers, My Apish friend.
mickey thompson No i did not show anything regarding my banks. But if this is how you perceive reality / meaning of simple sentences - i don't have anything else to add. Go throw shit at people somewere else you prehistoric caveman.
