Mellotronists

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:47:14AM -0000, Bernie Kornowicz wrote:
> Is anyone using a spring reverb on their Mellotron? I've been using
> an Alesis Microverb or the Kjaerhaus VST reverb plugin. The Microverb
> has a lot of presets, but none of them sound like real reverb to me.
> I just bought a Premier Reverb unit from eBay (no lectures please).
> Does anyone have experience using a Premier or similar spring reverb 
> on a Mellotron?
> 

I have and have played around with both the AKG BX-5 and BX-20
spring reverbs with the Mellotron.  They both do a good job of adding
a bit of mellowness and boing! to the sound.  :-)  Other units
I have and like are the Masterroom XL-121 (mono spring), XL-305
(chamber in a rackmount form factor), Roland RV-800, and the higher
end digital units (Lex 480, Quantec, AMS, etc).

The spring reverbs with EQ do a lot to help shape the sound since you
can EQ the reverb and mix it back in w. the original and get a very
full sound w/o being an obvious 'Mellotron played in a cavern' sound.

Tom