A GREAT UNIT FOR THE TIME
By SRH
Underrated and forgotten late 80’s budget reverb, but still great for small rooms and adding ambience. Settings for plates and large halls sound best with a bit of HF damping and the (not too bright) delays fit nicely in a mix. The gated reverbs are adjustable for gates I used one in the 1980s in a small studio. The range of effects and quality were, on the whole, excellent. Long reverb times would expose the processor’s limitations, displaying a terrible fluttering which, at it the longest settings, made it little more than delay with high feedback.
The MIDI functionality made it superb for live vocal use with a sequencer: I programmed it to select a suitable effect for each song, then reduce the effect to zero at the end so that the mic was dry to talk to the audience. It was also simple to use MIDI CC live to automate FX level during a song, so that, for example, it would bring in a delay under specific vocal lines, which sounded spectacular back then. It was a lot of fun to use.ize and gate shape, which is endless fun for programming unusual effects and for fattening drums up! Grainy and lovely character, controllable via MIDI CC, with a bunch of algorithms you won´t find elsewhere. A very useful unit for me – and cheaper than a plug in!