Reverse Reverbs Revisited | ZAPS | Versio x 2, Maths | Erbe-Verb, Mimeophon

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"I am still dreaming of a Reversio, a module that can take an audio source, reverse it, add reverb and reverse it again. But no. It's 2024 and we still don't have a module that can do it, EXCEPT Lubadh, but it can only do it in mono. Anyway, I've been thinking about it a lot, and I wondered why I never used Desmodus BEFORE the Melotus. These are the true questions in life. Melotus offers reverse grains, so in theory I should be able snippets of reversed reverb. And it works, but there's so much going on you can barely hear it.

I've been using Winter/Plankton ZAPS for this experiment, which was lying around for about two years because it's so deep, and you can't figure it out without a manual. Sure there's one, but it's a reference manual so it's hard to figure out how it works as a whole. Regardless, it's one of the coolest modules I have. Using it with the Versio's has been an adventure, but my experiment failed.

Then I remembered that Mimeophon can reverse the long repeat. So I used Erbe-Verb fully wet in a send/return, only reversing the reverb tail and pre-delay. Yeah! This was very close. You can always rely on Tom Erbe. People often regret the Erbe-Verb has a mono in, which makes sense because it was designed for the mono Shared System. But reverb works fine with a mono send/stereo return, in fact it works better. I tried to explain how you can work in and out of a camera frame when you're close, but when you're in the back of a hall, that same distance looks very small. I had an amazing session and I hope you like it too."