MOTM

In a message dated 3/29/2000 8:42:45 AM, dbivins@... writes:

>What I was trying to communicate is that I think
>using a reverb that is intended to sound like an acoustic space with purely
>synthetic sounds is very strange and amusing.

Of course all sound is experienced in some sort of acoustic space and it's 
great to live in a time where we can manipulate that space. I often (usually) 
vastly different reverb types on different "instruments" in the same mix in 
order to distort the preconceptions one might have of any particular acoustic 
space (e.g., a quiet distant object in a large reverberant room accompanied 
by an equal volume loud close object in a small dead room). I know it's not 
terribly novel, but still it's fun.

I also wanted to add that, while the Hot Springs kits are not that cheap 
(aren't they over $50 for one channel?) there is a simple alternative. Buy a 
couple of reverb cans (maybe $20 each) and drive them with a headphone amp 
(maybe you've got an unused one on a mixer somewhere), take the output from 
the cans to the "spare" mic inputs that we all have (yeah, that's the 
"expensive" part unless you have unused mic inputs at the moment).

JB