DISC ROOM

REVERB

The reverb that came in the disc drive

What it does

The reverb that came in the disc drive: the six rooms the console shipped with (room, studio, hall, space, echo, half echo), a TIME, a DAMP and a MIX. Not a plate; a chip's idea of a room, which is its own flavour.

ECHO and HALF ECHO are rhythmic rooms, not washes
SPACE at TIME 0.75 is the pad room of that era

Where it goes

CHANNELSBUSESMASTER

Four to a socket, in order: sound runs through the slots top to bottom. Open the box and every knob is in real units; BYPASS takes it out of the path without losing its settings; the presets are along the top; any knob learns a controller and gets an automation lane.

The knobs

4 KNOBS · REAL UNITS

Knob	Range	Starts at	Scale
ROOM	ROOM · STUDIO · HALL · SPACE · ECHO · HALF ECHO	HALL	steps
TIME	0 to 1	0.6	linear
DAMP	0 to 1	0.45	linear
MIX	0 to 1	0.3	linear

The presets

6 IN THE BANK

Every box ships with a bank. AS SET is the knobs as you left them; the rest are starting points, each a sound someone wanted often enough to name. Star one and it sits at the front of the bank.

Preset	ROOM	TIME	DAMP	MIX
ROOM	ROOM	0.45	0.5	0.3
STUDIO	STUDIO	0.55	0.45	0.3
HALL	HALL	0.6	0.45	0.3
SPACE	SPACE	0.75	0.35	0.35
ECHO	ECHO	0.6	0.4	0.3
HALF ECHO	HALF ECHO	0.5	0.4	0.25

The console line

Every box is also a line of the console's language, so a pad or a patch can carry its effects in text. The words are the knobs:

fx disc room=2 time=0.6 damp=0.45 mix=0.3