I made a Stereo Impulse Response reverb by combing two hard panned Mono recordings of me gently dropping the spring reverb onto my desk from only a couple of centimeters height. I bought this spring reverb a while back in Berlin. I had through some research found a used musical instrument shop there. I was in there looking around trying a bunch of old stuff. Then all of a sudden I found this nifty little spring reverb in a wooden box. The box was nicely done. I asked the owner about it and, as luck would have it, the man who had built the reverb was stood leaning on the counter drinking beer right at that very moment. I spoke with the maker for a while before buying it. He was happy that I liked the sound of his spring reverb. He wanted me to know that the box was not level, because his workbench was not level. He had only realized this after having finished making the enclosure. I don’t mind at all. I feel I got a great price for such a nicely handmade piece of kit. He was a modest man who seemed somewhat suprised and somehow, strangely, a little ashamed to receive payment.

From left to right the keys are as follows:

C+e, C+a, C+x, v, h, j, k, l

From left to right the potentiometers are as follows:

cc0, cc1, cc2, cc3

I became annoyed with some things about how Reaper looked when the whole number version seven rolled around. It finally motivated me to put this up. I don’t foresse editing this all that much in the future. I just want things to be nice and easy. A classic look with no clutter and a few handy timesavers. Nothing big just a few small things that make the work smoother.

I wanted to mess around with the Scala Scale Archive and the files were in CR-LF format so I figured this was something I could take care of. I converted the format and zipped em back up for ya.

I made four impulse responses of Mimer, which is an old defunct iron ore mine in Sweden, which now serves as Norbergfestival’s largest stage. These should be thought of as an attempt to capture my own sense of being in that room, rather than an accurate depiction mathematically.

I made two impulse responses of the AKG spring reverb at EMS. I figured I could share them here. They came out pretty decent I think. The real thing is it’s own thing for sure but files win on portability hands down so, go ahead, download ’em.

This is my current Planck EZ layout. I have the version with leds. I have a couple of other keyboards but this is the one I’ve been using most. I held out for a really long time hoping that I would be able to get used to the stock placement of the arrow keys. That was not happening at all a couple years in so I finally caved and changed that.

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