jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) (03/26/86)
> ...and [a spring-reverb] can occasionally make a horrendous racket when you > don't want it to. (Ever bumped your amp when the reverb was on 9?) I always thought that was a "feature" rather than a problem! You can make "thunder" with it. (I'm thinking more in terms of a spring-reverb module in a synthesizer, where you can put a low-pass filter after it, than one that's built into an amp.) Another feature/problem with the spring-reverb units, though, is that they have these resonant peaks and valleys. The advantage is that this to some extent sounds more like reverberation in a real building. The disadvantage, of course, is that it sounds terrible if you hit one of the sharper peaks with a sustained note. (Probably this is less of a problem with a spring-reverb on an amplifier where you have more than one instrument being played through it at the same time.) And now for a different subject... >I think Laurie Anderson is suffering ... I don't read net.music, because there is too much junk in there to wade through, but have seen a lot of comments on Laurie Anderson in here (net.music.synth), and so bought one of her albums. I must admit that I can't see what is so appealing about her. For most of the album she just chants fairly empty phrases in a detached and disinterested tone. Am I missing something, or what? -- E. Roskos "It's Halley's comet!"