Vermona Retroverb Lancet - spring reverb - Manual (Page 9)

The Spring Reverb
The spring reverberation system creates an artificial reverb sound using
electro-mechanical techniques. Its sound is metallic and differs significantly
from today's modern, digital solutions. It may sound artificial but owns a lot
of character. Spring reverb is a preferred choice of guitarists and organ
keyboarders until today but is also often found in electronic and dub
productions.
TONE
TONE controls the sound character of the reverberation
effect. The control is designed in a way that the bass and
treble content is adjusted thru a single potentiometer.
Turning TONE counterclockwise from center will enhance
the low frequencies with higher frequencies being atten-
uated. Turning clockwise from center will work vice
versa.
TONE is efficient when using low frequency intense
source signals. The high energetic bass content can sti-
mulate the spring heavily leading to smeared results of
the effect. Here, attenuation of the low frequency content
thru TONE will lead to a more focused sound image.
Picture 4: Spring Section
SPRING
Using the SPRING switch, the spring can be placed at two different posi-
tions of the signal path.
With the switch set to POST, the spring is placed after the filter and the
VCA. Here, the signal is processed by the filter and the VCA before it
reaches the reverberation stage. This signal will then reach the output
stage in parallel to the filter/VCA section. The MIX control allows bal-
ancing the signal between the filter/VCA signal and the reverb output.
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