I came here thinking I was going to learn how to create an amazing spring reverb from old parts

@recordeer8282

2 жыл бұрын

Boy were you wrong!

@biggrime

2 жыл бұрын

I second that

@acevedodamian

Жыл бұрын

you can buy that old part

@SB-qj3cn

6 ай бұрын

agreed

@scientificshiv

3 ай бұрын

+1

I use my kids as Delay units. They repeat EVERYTHING!

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Dad joke x10.

@meowanderson2189

4 жыл бұрын

dope, ill send you some guitar tracks

AND HE LEFT US FREE IR’S 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Always wanted to do this. Now I must do it in stereo! Plus, that track sounds seriously good.

Very cool. You have a great show. Been watching your program on and off for years.

@creativesoundlab

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

I was just thinking of doing this as we have a bunch of these tanks from old broken amps. Thanks for the video!

Holy shit! I went back and looked through your videos and I think I've been following you for 6 of those 7 years! 🤯 Wait... What day is it?🤔

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Ha cool! Which video do you first remember?

@els1f

4 жыл бұрын

@@creativesoundlab I remember back to back watching the "Glynn John's technique" and the "micing vintage amps" videos. We were trying to get more sophisticated than hanging the guitar mic over the cab and turning clockwise until you see red😄

Nice! Unfortunately, my stash of unused studio gear is tiny. It's good to see you back.

Tab Benoit called ---- he wants his alligator-head back! ( For those who are unfamiliar, Tab is a red-hot blues-rock guitar player, singer and songwriter from the bayous of Louisiana; he always has an open-mouth alligator head on his amp, it's where he keeps spare picks and a slide).

I recently bought a Peavey Backstage Plus and that’s the exact same reverb tank it comes with. Amazing little SS amp that takes pedals wells and punches above its size. the reverb is indeed quirky & very spacey but it’s functional even for being in a piece of inexpensive gear.

Your home studio is really cozy Ryan! So bummed out by this pandemic. Was looking forward to see you in Nashville this summer. Hopefully next year 🤞

Lighting is looking great on this video.

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. A labor of love.

Great video! i also like the alligator head. Every studio needs one.

i thought you were going to tell how to make the actual spring reverb unit

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Hmmm, yeah ok. Fair enough.

@whatyoumakeofit6635

3 жыл бұрын

@@creativesoundlab i thought the same thing

@EchoReverb6

3 жыл бұрын

this is actual spring reverb

Wow that was a great video ! Pure and natural reverb . Loved your video !

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Vince!

@ElMoShApPiNeSs

4 жыл бұрын

Natural is such a weird word to use. A spring reverb is just as designed as an algorithmic reverb. Like a human being made it. I think you just think it sounds good. Which is fine.

Very glad you came back...

all your vids are masterclasses on recording. Great

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Albert!

great to see you back. great vid

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Dude, I really dig your approach!

Stuff like this makes me happy to have subscribed to Your channel....

You are crazy, man! I love your approach to getting cool sounds! Looking forward to season 7 😁

Great video as usual - I love these lo-fi things!

I'll be following you more again if this is the direction your going to! Love it!

Welcome back bro. You're a true engineer. Keep inspiring us m8. God bless

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sorav!

sound really good! inspiring stuff

Welcome back! I'm surprised you didn't try/show your springs on some drums, I think the twanginess of spring 'verbs can make for a cool fake "room" sound on percussion, especially once you start playing with dampening it like you did with the string.

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it sounded kinda boing-ey.

Hi Ryan, I stumbled across this amazing video right at the time, as I took an old reverb tank out of my marshall dsl 401, cause I didn't like the sound of it in the amp. I gave it a try to process vocals, guitars and a rhodes piano. Amazing results, I also experimented with effect pedals in front of it. For the guitar sound I took an overdrive pedal to form the sound of the reverb even further. That was so much fun! I even had to smile like you, because the sound was so nice.

Good one! I’d love to put a spring reverb into a 19 inch rack. Future project. Thanks for another great video.

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

I found a kit on Reverb someone makes for about $350. Tube diy. This was easier and faster.

@vaughanband

4 жыл бұрын

@@creativesoundlab Cool, I'll check it out. Keep up the great videos!!

This is freaking awesome. Good work 👍👍

I'm excited for the new season. Great intro. This sounds like an interesting ambition!

@RooftopRecording

4 жыл бұрын

So, now I have to make a stereo spring unit to go along with my stereo plate I made using similar found parts. Cost of my 5'x7' plate, $35. Love this video!

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

I’d love to know more about your plate Reverb. Where did you get the plate for it?

Great video, thank you.. Love your outlook

Very cool man! Now I need to get some spring tanks again, I left the old ones in Australia.

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dr James!

And there was me thinking whack that plate for some awesome thunder sounds!

you should try making your own spring tanks too, it's a lot of fun. if you wanna go big, grab a couple of those 3$ plastic "echo-mic" toys from the dollar store and steal the springs out of em

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Nice. Yeah I should. How do you do the electronics though of the ins and outs?

@famitory

4 жыл бұрын

@@creativesoundlab the easy way is to get a pair of cheap computer speakers and some contact mics and glue them to the spring's ends. this creates a longitudinal driver rather than the more traditional torsional driver, which results in more random resonances and "splashy" sounds, so it's not ideal for creating generic reverb sounds. the more involved way would be getting spring reverb replacement parts and using those

@famitory

4 жыл бұрын

if you're going the more DIY route you can also experiment with using guitar pickups as "taps" at different points along the spring, much like a tape echo with multiple heads

I was waiting for the croc to bite you the whole time. 😆

8:31 Haha that sticker on the tank that says "Manufactured by beautiful girls in Milton, WI under controlled atmosphere conditions" is classic. I have three or four reverb tanks and they all have that sticker. Also, Milton Wisconsin is about 15 miles from where I live. I wonder if any of the "beautiful girls" that made these tanks back in the day are still living around here?

@goodun2974

3 жыл бұрын

Some of those lovely ladies might still be bouncing around, yes....🤣

Hello, why does the signal from computer need to go to a headphone amp first? Why can’t the line out of computer go straight to the rca ins of spring reverb? Thanks

Cool idea. I'm a brand new subscriber. My guitar amp uses a 12AX7 for the reverb. One stage drives the springs, the second stage is the return. Makes me think that a stand-alone tube version would be an interesting project. Hmmm, I have a couple of tiny tanks in my parts bins--never have found a use for them. Thanks for the idea ;-)

Man that's sooo good!

It looks more like a "what my cool studio" video

Oh man, look up the 80’s Furman Spring Reverb. It has an analog limiter and a 3-band EQ (sweepable mids). All in one RU. I’m fishing for a second unit for a stereo send. The inclusion of the limiter, makes the reverb SO much more pronounced…even at low levels. SO much MOJO!

"Manufactured by beautiful girls in Wisconsin under controlled atmosphere conditions " ......wow !!!! Could you imagine that label being put on a product today ? Its almost hard to believe it was put on something way back when. Amazing stuff!

@jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot4171

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah WTF!? Mine had that written on it, too! And to think it was underneath the circuit boards until I tore open my old Sunn reinforcement PA. It’s dainty wires weren’t left with quite enough slack, so as the reverb tank shook around in there, it’s sharp edge of sheet metal sheared clean through the wire. This had to be the smallest thinnest wire I’ve ever encountered. Those transducers are something of an interest to me too. They twist instead of pushing and pulling, from how they are oriented. Spring reverb tanks are very amazing and awe inspiring works of art, with their isolating little coatings of wax or rubber and all those grommets. Completely intriguing works of art.

@goodun2974

3 жыл бұрын

"Controlled atmosphere conditions".... In other words it was a rare factory job where you didn't freeze in winter and you didn't sweltering in the summer. This probably made it much easier to hire and keep skilled workers.

Hi there love the sound. In theory because the rca are mono signals . Is that the reason you’re using 2 tanks to achieve a balanced or stereo effect?

Cool ideas for season 7. I wonder if cotton from a pill bottle would be easier to keep in place while "tuning" that reverb tank. Nice bass track on that song BTW.

Is it possible to use a tone beast 12 pre amp for this? So out of sound interface into pre amp into reverb tank back in to sound interface. Great video btw 👍

singer sounds like Lenny Kravitz

When you run a balanced connection through a transformer to get single ended, you get single ended at double the amplitude due to balanced being regular and inverted.

Yay! You're back!

Reppin the Folded Line reverbs! Those things are awesome

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!

Hello. Nice video really! I have a Reverb tank damaged. Do you know how to repair it?

Really cool dude.

Do you think this will work with any headphone amp? Im going to buy a cheap behringer one to use with this and just wondering if it will have enough juice to power it...!

OOOOHHHH?! You didn’t even have the driver circuit from the amp to drive the reverb tank’s transducers? You’re overdriving those transducers then, no? This is a really great application. Using that headphone amp on the bare reverb tank. I have burned my fingers back to stubs trying to solder up all types of schematics, in my efforts towards finding the ultimate spring reverb circuit. This is the end of a whole chapter of my life, really. Hmm!? Gets me to thinking about a new ambition, and all thanks to you. I’ve never seen a spring reverb tank that didn’t have unbalanced RCA plugs of any sort. So my new goal is to build a balanced spring reverb setup! I think I have seen double sets of springs before, for stereo treatment. I guess this could double and adapt the XLR, so I wonder how much that could help or harm a signal? Well, sending a balanced signal through two separate tanks is going to be anything but balanced at the output. This is gonna lead me into some experimentation. I’ll be a little smarter for it at the end of the day, so I’m gonna keep this in my thoughts. THANKS FOR SHARING!

Brooooo,,,,,, i have this amazing sounding plexi, hand wired, i do not want to mess with the sound with pedals. I have been wanting to hack a spring reverb in there, with solid connections and a simple knob at the back. Been too afraid to do it. It does'nt sound that scary.

Woooooo! This is awesome!

I can recommend this too I have a tank screwed to a blank rack panel and use it all the time super fun and wrong in the right way I have to get a second one now to do stereo 🤟😎

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Nice! I should screw mine like that too. I have a few blank panels

Can you tell us how to build a plate reverb? This truly does sound amazing. I will definitly build one or two at some point!

@saoirsepup

3 жыл бұрын

Same general idea, but you need to use a thin sheet of metal (usually stainless steel) hung from a frame, usually with minimal contact. Attach a piezo mic to the plate, and point a speaker directly at the plate, nearly touching it. Amplify and record the output from the piezo. The plate needs to be taught in the frame so it doesn’t swing around, allowing it to reverberate.

@OdinOfficialEmcee

3 жыл бұрын

@@saoirsepup Thank you! I appreciate the help. This confirms my suspicions of the general principle involved, would still love to see a build at some point just to help iron out any kinks but I will have to give it a shot sometime, seems simple enough. Any advice on how to allow it to have variable reverb lengths?

@saoirsepup

3 жыл бұрын

@@OdinOfficialEmcee It’s completely up to the mass of the sheet itself. Think inertia.

Ryan, thanks so much for all that you do. What is the line level converter you are using?

good idea , ive tried running my recorded vocals through a guitar amp with spring reverb out of the 'redbox' output and back in , but it gets too much gain and sounds tinny

Hey Ryan glad to see you back! Loving the look of the studio. Great video, could you not just use a reamp box to get it out of the box and convert the signal?

into the WHAT!?? at 7.02 eetek or somet?? please explain .thanks

@creativesoundlab

3 жыл бұрын

Ebtech

Whats the namn of the demo song? It is great!

Are those Trax available?...

I liked it much better with the string , but maybe just the level was a bit high for my taste. Do you like it that level or were you just making it so it could be heard? Anyway I must try this! I have an old combo where the reverb is a bit noisy, hopefully it's just the driver circuit not the tank. You've got me thinking about real diy springs from scratch somehow. .. slinky? bed spring? Not sure what floppy springs would work. Chain 20 retractable pen springs? Glue ends to a piezo? No idea really. I do find these (near) zero cost ideas exciting though, so hope they'll be more of those, these days I have no money!

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it was loud in the mix. In real life it would be 4 or 5 dB less in a mix. Not sure but this was def louder than usual so people could hear it.

Really nice!!! A question: Do you think that it would work instead having the headphone amp to send the line signal into a preamp box then to the spring then to a di box then mic preamp and then to the line in?

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Hmmm well the preamp can only get so hot on its output stage. I would try a speaker amp instead.

Yay!

Ghetto style: I've been building mine based on a 1978 scheme, with shower heater springs driven by a 4" radio speaker... Driven via either mixer aux or interface phone outs. The scheme used phono needle pickups to capture the reverb, I began with reversed earbuds. Now on the process of installing an electret + DIY IC pre... but i wonder whether using an electric guitar bridge piezo would sound nicer, since with the earbuds it sounded really cavernous.

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Wow very cool.

@shoegazing_pineapple_6956

4 жыл бұрын

a normal circular piezo sounds cool too, i attached the spring to the center of the piezo by soldering a hook to it.

What an interesting video. Not so much for me, as I'm mostly interested in creating amazing spring reverbs from old parts, so I found this video, which may I remind you, it's called "How to Create an Amazing Spring Reverb from Old Parts". Unfortunately for me, I watched it though and am none the wiser on how to how to create amazing spring reverbs from old parts, but I learnt about Jordan Orkened and his horrible music, Pipeline XT and a few other things I don't give a fuck about. Happy :)

Now i know what werent this spring inside that guitar amplifier that I got for free many year's ago. P.S. I never played guitar

hey, how did you plug it in stereo? thanks

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

I just did the process twice. Then one goes left and one goes right.

@imslicc

4 жыл бұрын

@@creativesoundlab oh, that's what i thought was possible, otherwise i wasn't sure how it's possible. btw, using a small amp with a spring reverb and a headphone jack is very effective. my fender frontman 25r sounds amazing. it's a lo-fi drip machine.

9:00 I guess this is called damping 🤣

Run it into a phono amp

10:46 convulsion reverb sounds rather unhealthy. I hope you mean convolution. Stay healthy or get well soon!

Put some water into the reverb tank.

@creativesoundlab

4 жыл бұрын

Mind blown. Great idea. Or maybe oil so it doesn’t rust...

@jackcrook4435

3 жыл бұрын

This isnt ... dangerous?

@goodun2974

3 жыл бұрын

@@creativesoundlab , I've actually seen an organ "tone cabinet" (powered speaker with built-in tube amp) that used vertical reverb springs inside cylindrical metal tubes that had to be filled with oil. Another tone cabinet style had springs that hung loosely in an arc, like necklaces.

Maybe you should rethink your channel......this episodes title is more than misleading...also cut on the mailings please!

Totally misleading title

all talk no learn