fx
Effect processors are the taste and realm makers for music.
In the early days before digital you had a few options. Electronic effects and real effects.
Real effects were (and still are) created in a real life situation. A real room or hall with on one side a microphone(s) and on the other side a speaker. Problem only is that you need space and not everyone has space !
Electronic devices were introduced and they are small (not the big plate reverbs from EMT and the AKG spring reverbs) but you can create an artificial reverb with it's own character.
Little boxes are also more common in that era and you got the bucket brigade echo's. Flangers, phasers etc.
All built with discrete components and IC's, not digital at all.
In the early 80's the digital revolution began and you got all sort of digtal effect processors where you also can store your settings. They could sound harsh and gritty with a low bitrate. No dithering involved but that is the sound we love today and is very hard to emulate.
Digital got better and better and nowadays effect processors can do a lot and can sound very natural and smooth. Plugins has also come a long way but they can make any algorithm, I think it is still not the sound of the real hardware.
Let's keep the hardware alive !
See which FX processors I have for sale on the STORE page !
In the early days before digital you had a few options. Electronic effects and real effects.
Real effects were (and still are) created in a real life situation. A real room or hall with on one side a microphone(s) and on the other side a speaker. Problem only is that you need space and not everyone has space !
Electronic devices were introduced and they are small (not the big plate reverbs from EMT and the AKG spring reverbs) but you can create an artificial reverb with it's own character.
Little boxes are also more common in that era and you got the bucket brigade echo's. Flangers, phasers etc.
All built with discrete components and IC's, not digital at all.
In the early 80's the digital revolution began and you got all sort of digtal effect processors where you also can store your settings. They could sound harsh and gritty with a low bitrate. No dithering involved but that is the sound we love today and is very hard to emulate.
Digital got better and better and nowadays effect processors can do a lot and can sound very natural and smooth. Plugins has also come a long way but they can make any algorithm, I think it is still not the sound of the real hardware.
Let's keep the hardware alive !
See which FX processors I have for sale on the STORE page !
