Review
By David Holiday
Sound Quality
100%
Build Quality
100%
Usefullness
80%
Mojo/Funk
100%
Reliability
90%
By David Holiday
By Denis Novello
Used on keys, drums and guitars. It sounds exceptionally natural. When engaged it set your instrument in a natural space which sound very smooth and warm. The EQ is very effective and helps you change the character of the reverb if you are in search of different flavours, but also flat it is extremely pleasant. I would have prefer to have the engage of bypass Led on the front panel and the direct level active only when the unit is engaged, but it does not make the unit less amazing.
By Rene Kirchner
It´s the same unit as the Sony MU-R201. Which I owned!
By Hollowman9
Can be noisy if gain staging isn’t properly setup. The pots get scratchy and are not robust. The dual concentric level controls got frozen together somehow and are not on the same settings. I have to balance my sends to compensate. The jacks are cheaply made and the buttons don’t have good feedback.
But for the money this is a very nice sounding reverb. Can be ice cold and spooky sounding but smooth and works great in mixes. I use it for electro-industrial and it’s an excellent fit on synths, samplers and drum machines. Honestly over the years it’s become a favorite go to unit. It’s an interesting contrast to my Lexicon, Kurzweil and Eventide reverbs. Has some similarities with the Alesis Midiverb II which I also enjoy.
It’s old! Replace those capacitors. Doing so reduced the noise floor on mine noticeably.
By Andrea Zanini
I have two of these units. Bought them mainly for mixing drums and they are stellar. You get everything from subtle ambiance to that classic 80’s gated extravaganza. For the prices they go for today, make sure you grab one! Or two!
By Anonymous
Picked this up as part of a package deal. Had heard some good things about it but had my doubts. After a couple years I find that it is quite the sleeper and I am using it more and more. This is a huge box, both physically and sonically. It has a few sweet spots that are really very sweet. The sound of its reverb is very liquid and flowing with some of the best gated verbs I have ever heard. The dual delay is very handy and can create some decent chorus and flanger effects. At longer delay and decay times the tails get very synthetic sounding which I find is very nice on synths but not so much for drums. Editing is dead easy and dual channel operation is very useful. A surprisingly decent little box if a tiny bit noisy. The buttons and controls could be better quality.
By Marcus
If you want compression and you want the listener to know compression is on then this is the machine for you.
By Stevo
If you are looking for a compressor that is not clean and pristine, and one that imparts a warm tone to the compressed signal, look no further. It deserves a place in your rack purely because it sounds warm and different to most modern compressors.
By Anonymous
I have an old DRS78, it offers a lot of possibilities and I really love its sound.
By Anoymous
Very open to creative use, and a nice characteristic tone to it.
By Alexandros
Got it from a friend’s studio and use it in every mix, mainly as my main snare reverb. Have used it as a (vocal) hall reverb as well. Overall a very very affordable effect unit with great sound! Can’t recommend it enough.
By Guilherme Canaes
This unity was my “secret” of a spectacular strings recording during many years and made me a engineer to go when a strings or a entire orchestra should be nice recorded. In that time (90s 2000s) I worked in a excellent big studio in São Paulo, Brasil, but the room was quite poor for a big ensemble. So I fed the signal from the ambient microphones to the unity using the first program you find when turn It on, the “reference” reverb.
This program come in 4.1s of release, so I always corrected it to 3.1 then I blended the return to the channels from mic ambience, just enough to create a rich room I had not in reality and recorded all the thing together, this way no one realized my secret to achieve that fantastic sound. Was stunning, that fucking unity fix better with strings than unitys far more expensive as L480 or TC3000/6000! I still with my own here but the strings recording was drop down to less than one in a year…
Also If someone need a rotor speaker there is in my opinion no one unity better than Dynacord DRP 15!
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