Clangy spring reverb abuse on Freesound

I just bought a very cheap, old, dutch-made D&R stereo spring reverb from the 'bay. It's a bit noisy, but sounds cool. This evening I took the top off, started twanging the springs and made this small, clangy sample pack for the Freesound Project, who are now getting close to 10,000 sounds and 1 million downloads.

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

Comments:

Pyoooooooing! Dubtastic! :-D

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:26 am

That last one sounds just like the beginning of "In The Time of Our Lives" by Iron Butterfly (from the Ball LP)

I never though about what made that sound at the beginning of the track, but I sure know now!

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:38 am

Is it possible to see more snaps from your D&R spring reverb ??
Thxs.

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:33 am

Well, Fred, there are a few more pics in this slightly embarrasing post at Sound on Sound.

# posted by

Tom Whitwell : 9:48 am

ooooh, neato :)

I REALLY need to get that "images with samples" feature finished!! :-S

- bram

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:38 am

Makes me wanna order those tank kits from Paia while I wait for the tube amp kit.

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:17 pm

Perhaps the reverbs would be smoother if you passed them through a convolution reverb :? :) hehe

Everything always sounds better with a convolution reverb.

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:36 am

Try spring reverb in a feedback loop (use mixer aux send back into a channel with EQ then send it back on itself..) -- when its howling start using your fingers to deaden the springs -> you can then kind of move your fingers to different harmonics points and it sounds damn fine and is mighty fun to play with.
BUGS

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:50 am

Can of compressed air + Spring reverb = FUN!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:40 am

http://www.d-r.nl/dnrsite/Service%20Parts/Reverb-Spring-Service.PDF

has the schematics

# posted by

Anonymous : 12:27 pm

Spring reverbs are the best! That timeless old-school-vibe!

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:09 pm

any chance a guy could get a 20-20k log sweep through that sucker added to your freesound page?

# posted by

Babby Daddy : 10:25 pm

Sorry, Mr, I sold it to Steve Dub some time ago...

# posted by

Tom Whitwell : 11:23 pm