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Very good device.

I had this but not for long, nothing particularly wrong with it as it offered good clean delays, but like all 7 series Sonys the interface is a bit of a dog to use and so I went back to using a plugin.

I owned one and miss it! I really love the way Sony built and designed the UI with the alpha dial and the hundreds of parameters to emulate chambers, rooms and artificial what evers….During my ownership: 2008 – 2017, I had to replace the buffer battery (CR2032) three times. And I didn’t purchase cheap or old batteries. That really drove me mad.
You need to ask the previous owner when the battery was replaced the last time. the unit requires 3 Rows in your 19″ rack to be cooled form both sides. Otherwise the display will get issue.

This is clean and can be uncoloured. It is the reverb I go to when I want to match or augment a natural reverb already recorded. It can be basically nu-identifiable even on a simply miked acoustic recording. (I have over a dozen hardware reverbs and no others can do this function as well.)

I have AMS RMX 16, AKG BX20, A Plate, still this is on every mix since I got it one year ago. Fantastic “real” reverb sound that beats all plugins.

Obviously better than using a plug in reverb. Perhaps a little noisy but nothing important because you can fix it with a good input/output balance. Clean reverb and good early reflections, good presets and a lot of parameters to configure your own user banks.

I can remember back in the day when the Sony DPS-R7 was first released dreaming of owning one but they were too far out of reach back then, now prices on these things are falling daily to stupidly low levels, and after trying one in my rack all I can say is get yourself one. Way better than any plugin I have used and build quality is great. Forget about editing as the interface is bloody confusing so just go with the presets as they are excellent.

I really liked the R7, it offered really nice reverbs with smooth tails, a very useful reverb for anyone looking for a good hardware reverb that still stands up today. My only complaints are the user interface once again, plus it was somewhat noisy. Regardless of the specs I found it to be noisier than the older Sony MU-R201, so I kept the later.

I really liked its sound – but I only had technical issues with that unit. Once it was up and running I really loved the 1980s alike Reverbs.

I like this reverb but I’m a little confused by Mr Nichols statement. He says he used this unit on all the Steely Dan mixes, yet this unit didn’t come out until 1986 and most of the Steely Dan stuff was much earlier.

We have sourced the original EQ Magazine article where Roger Nichols talks about the Sony MU-R201, please click here to read it.

I have watched these things on eBay for about a year now and read reviews here and given their low price I took the plunge. I noticed the preset on the image here of 31 so tried that on snare and wow! This preset is worth the price of entry on its own, it adds a great live sound to snare drums and works pretty well on most things actually. I have not yet had the chance to play around editing or anything but seems easy enough and at around $200 I can not understand why everyone does not have one as it seems like a bargain to me.