Hummmm... funny... I can get the effects you speak of when I power up my Fender Super Reverb... tube type of course... I bought the thing second hand back in the 60's ... I use it as a driver for my homemade triode 5514 pair in class B... would you believe and easy 375 watts RMS... true power not those phony wattage levels specs they give today... <heh> vince On Wednesday 07 February 2007 22:06, Folderol wrote: > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 22:48:31 +0100 > > Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 22:24, Folderol wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:53:42 -0800 > > > > > > Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > I am working on a tune that needs surf guitar. The CAPS AMP IV does a > > > > great Fender Twin, and the #4 cabinet in CAPS Cabinet II seems to do > > > > pretty well as a 2x12 open-back Fender cab. But the classic surf > > > > guitar sound of course includes the high-pitched plinking of a Fender > > > > Twin reverb spring slapping against its metal case. If you haven't > > > > heard it, it's kind of like entering the V'Ger central core, but > > > > really high-pitched and fast, and in 16th notes while double-picking. > > > > > > > > Picking out a muted barre chord into a spring reverb turned up way > > > > too high, you can definitely *hear* the springs. > > > > > > > > This post hints tantalizingly about someone having created a Csound > > > > orc that emulates a spring reverb: > > > > > > > > http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/2002/07/0252.html > > > > > > > > Anyone know if this is true, and where I could find it? > > > > > > Mmmm spring reverb. Brings back memories :) (incidentally they are > > > usually quite easy to repair). > > > > > > Now anyone who can *truly* emulate that is some form of god! > > > > > > The all time classic for me was the instrumental Pipline by The > > > Chantays circ. 1963 I think. > > > > And what about the Watkins "Copycat" endless loop tape echo machine. That > > was the cutting edge for echo effects in the 60's. > > > > Nigel. > > Pah! > > You had to change the tape loops about every couple of hours (cheaper > to make your own from 1/4in triple play tape) and the heads gunked up > damn fast. > > In only weeks you had tramlines across all the heads and the tape > lifted and caught on these, giving some really strange effects! > > If you were *rich* you got hold of a ferrograph series 5 and ran a > 10in (I think) tape at 15ips on it with the O/P fed back into the line > I/P.
