Anyone here tried the Doepfer A-199 Spring Reverb?

Crazy_Jane · Joined: Nov 26, 2007 Posts: 24 Location: UK

I'm curious about how it sounds?

If it's a good spring sound, and if it's noisey or has hum problems in normal useage?

There's unfortunately no demos of it on doepfer's site, i love the sound of the vermona spring gear but if i can get similar cheaper that'll slot into my modular (or perhaps two of them for stereo) i think that's a better option.

Jari Jokinen

Crazy_Jane · Joined: Nov 26, 2007 Posts: 24 Location: UK

thanks for that Jari! Very Happy

do you have a link to any tracks you've used it on? i'd be interested to hear the results Very Happy

dougcl · Joined: Feb 08, 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Portland OR

A-199 recording here
http://www.analoguehaven.com/doepfer/springreverb/springreverb.mp3
Doug

Crazy_Jane · Joined: Nov 26, 2007 Posts: 24 Location: UK

ooooh thank you for that... doesn't sound bad at all.

is that with the spring in the a100 case? or have you mounted it in an external box?

dougcl · Joined: Feb 08, 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Portland OR

That's not my clip. It's on the Analog Haven site. It's the tank that comes with the A-199. May or may not be inside the A100 case. I have two tanks in my case and I'm fine with it.
Doug

Jyoti · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject:

I've just got an A100 system and I've done a little video of a patch wot I wrote:

Doepfer Drums from Jyoti Mishra on Vimeo.

It's got the A199 on the snare-type sound, should give you a bit of an idea what it sounds like. Cool

dougcl · Joined: Feb 08, 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Portland OR

Well done. That sounds great, Looks like you are using the A-160 and A-161 in there. Still waiting on getting these modules in my setup!

Jyoti · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:30 am Post subject:

Yep, that's right. I'm going to get a step sequencer but in the meantime, those two are plenty of fun! Very Happy

I'm tempted to get another spring reverb so I can have a go at stereoness like Crazy_Jane said. I've got the panner and that's cool too.

Are there any other Eurorack spring modules available? Question

dougcl · Joined: Feb 08, 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Portland OR

I've got a pair of A-199's for this purpose and it's great. Here in the US AH is appears to be sold out of them. I got one used recently.

Ilanode · Joined: Sep 14, 2007 Posts: 80 Location: Berlin/FRG

Jyoti · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:51 am Post subject:

Cheers, Ilanode! Very Happy

Crazy_Jane · Joined: Nov 26, 2007 Posts: 24 Location: UK

oooh thanks for sharing guys.

lol i ended up getting a lexicon MX300 as it does quite a good emulation and is a bit more versatile and better suited to my whole setup for the time being.

will still no doubt grab a a199 to try out at some point... but my GAS budget is depleted for now!

Jyoti · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:46 am Post subject:

I currently have my Doepfer routed through an Alesis Nanoverb. Sounds good! Very Happy

astroschnautzer · Joined: May 22, 2008 Posts: 31 Location: FINLAND

the a-199 is great, I have two tanks, the doepfer one and an acuutroncs tank, I use both and have made a switch that you can choose between eitherone easily, still have on empty place on the switch to add a third tank.

e-grad · Joined: Sep 12, 2008 Posts: 142 Location: Berlin

Per · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject:

Actually, I think it is a better idea to get a real spring reverb than using the Doepfer. Nothing wrong with the electronics, but it is a bad spring.
On the other hand, using it with other spring tanks gives a low output. To my taste, it is too Lo Fi for most purposes.
P

e-grad · Joined: Sep 12, 2008 Posts: 142 Location: Berlin