Jade Starr Music

SploshBox

by Rob Jackson

Vintage digital reverb with a freeze for infinite tails

Apr 17, 202548 minWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 35:17Freeze holding the tail after the guitar stops playing
  2. 35:51The frozen drone fed into Skulptur and turned into something else
  3. 38:57Low-pass filter taking the tail from airy to dark
  4. 39:37Spread moving the reverb from mono to wide stereo, then decay
  5. 40:37The pre-delay control
  6. 41:45Presets, including one that sits under a piano like an organ

What it does

A reverb modelled on early digital hardware, where limited CPU and RAM left the tails slightly grainy. Controls cover decay, pre-delay, a low-pass filter, a spread that runs from mono to wide stereo, and mix. The freeze button holds whatever is in the tail indefinitely, so a chord can be turned into a sustained drone that keeps going after the source stops.

In the demo

Jade sets it on a guitar chord part, freezes a tail and stops transport so only the drone is left, then feeds that drone into Skulptur to reshape it into something unrelated. She then returns to the default patch and takes the filter, spread, decay and pre-delay one at a time before running the presets on piano.

Worth knowing

The panel is plain knobs with no visual display, and the grain is part of the sound rather than something to dial out. Anyone after a clean modern hall will not find one here.

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