To me, Bricastis are “just another flavour” of reverb, not a better one nor a worse one, and a very mild, sedate, and rather “produced” sound to boot, especially given the price tag. To me, the best thing one can say about the Bricasti is that you don’t notice it until it’s gone, but that’s not really a particularly excellent quality of a reverb, and as you say the 2016 (and I would argue many of the Eventide algorithms, when used carefully - we differ on this point, admittedly) and vintage Lexicons do this as well. It’s trying very hard to be a very clean, quiet, real-world reverb much like an actual acoustic space, which I suppose is quite nice for some people, but to me that’s just not the point of reverb in a mix - which is to effectively spatialize a part so that it “fits” in the mental imagery of the space appropriately - nor the point of reverb in sound design, which is to accommodate the sound for creative purposes, usually involving being quite malleable and often a very audible component of the sound. I’m not saying the BAM isn’t a good reverb, just being honest in personal evaluation when people say it sounds like a Lexicon era reverb.įrankly I don’t “get” the Bricasti love.
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Sends 1, 2 and 3 go to the ‘Choir’ track below, which has a delay chorus effect from the Antares Choir plugin and room ambience from the Valhalla Room. I also think Make Noise have the best approach, in terms of design philosophy. That track also has the Avid Reel Tape Saturation for a little bit of a lofi effect, and a SoundToys Microshift to give it a little bit of a stereo spread. I expect the new Bricasti cheaper fx box will deliver exactly that on the algorithm front, if it ever comes out. To sum up, I’d like someone to make a reverb that is both retro and innovative, purely in the algorithms before any control, which is only a plus. On your last paragraph, I can only approve of that method. But that’s a low bar.ģ), yes, but then again Lexicon PCMs are not all that expensive, yet, and seem less prone to failure than their older stuff. And it’s not innovative really in any way from an algorithm point of view, other than sounding better than recent garbage pedals, to put it bluntly. The tails cut off on the BAM switching is the only weak part.īut nonetheless, the BAM despite its very appealing tone doesn’t meld as well as the real Lexicon, even a PCM96. Yes, 1) is the strongest point in it’s favor for sure. Also u-he’s Protoverb, which is the closest thing to a Quantec resonance model, but which usually requires bus filtering and is not a finished product. In terms of melding with source, my favorite reverbs ITB are Relab’s LX480 and VSR S24 (both of which have certain innovations over the 480L and TC 6000 reverb models), Exponential Audio/Izotope Nimbus (much a new sound but in lineage of designer Carnes’ PCM96), and the UAD 480L. Eventide’s H910 sounds great too, and that is also more recent modeling. I think SP2016 sounds better than any of the standard algorithms in the H9 - excepting the crazier Space stuff which is too different and not my thing - which makes sense, because the modeling is more advanced and the original 2016 hardware unit is just a better reverb for rooms especially than their later stuff. Of the plugins you named that I know well, I like SP2016 a lot (not the old version which is okay), and Valhalla Delay (I much prefer Sean’s approach with more recent plugins, when he started with Color control on Vintageverb). Like I said, BAM still sounds better than a lot of options in that regard. Of course that can help, but I mean that the reverb algorithm all by itself melds with the sound source, which you hear very much so on the PCM81 example. What you say about every reverb being blended and processed with filters and so on is not what I mean.
Valhalla shimmer gearslutz Patch#
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