Surf guitar players needs a spring reverb with more drip! Please, please, please can we have a Dick Dale approved reverb tank emulation added to the QC.
I use the spring with the āboingā all the way up and the tone around 65%. Put it in front of the amp (I use a twin) and you get a good amount of drip. Itās not perfect and I would still love to see a super drippy verb akin to the old fender head units.
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I have a full size surfybear metal in front of my QC ā¦would love for the QC to be able to surf!
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I came here solely to see if anyone had come up with a solution or requested something like this yet. I definitely did try messing with the āboingā on the current spring reverbā¦itās one of those situations where itās SO close yet so far.
A drippy spring reverb would be sooooo nice!
Never thought Iād be getting in line to request features but this is the one. Doesnāt seem like itās come up much if at all. Hopefully itās something on their radar!
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Can you post a video sample from YouTube?
I have understod what do you mean, but with a specific video (for qty of FX that you mean) i want to try to replicate
Thanks mate. Dick Daleās original recording of Misirlou gives a good example. Iām looking for that clattering kind of āPingā sound you can hear in the reverb. Itās a bit like a fast delay but it has a different character. Hereās a link: Dick Dale - Miserlou - #HIGH QUALITY SOUND 1962 - YouTube
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How do you find It?
Video on the fly First attempt.
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Iām liking that sound, well done! Itās closer than Iāve been able to get. Which delay are you using in the effects chain?
the playing and that Jag are awesome! Very nice work
I took a shot at a preset to accentuate what the Spring block lacks-
I tried to focus on the āboing/splash/dripā that seems to be missing from the QC Spring rev. Thereās plenty of fast delay, but I just donāt hear the splashy boing around the attack of the note from that block.
I used a filter on a parallel line to squish the attack of the note to see if that could get it close.
Itās not an attempt to duplicate the DD tone so much as it is to augment the Spring rev to get a little more flavor out of it. Any recommended tweaks will be implemented!
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No delay
Itās the Boing and tone of spring at 66%
You have to put a Comp post spring rev tuned only to make up the Boing effect
Nik
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I am completely with you. But its not only the Drip. It is the Spring reverb over all. Now it is just like a reverb with a fast Tremolo. Or fast Echos. Like cheap Spring reverb Pedals.
It is much to static. A real spring reverb has 2 -6 Springs in it that all behave differently. There is much more Chaos in the sound :). I hope so much NDSP will implement a good one 
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We need to have someone combine all of these spring reverb requests. It looks like there are not many votes but there are a number of requests in different threads. Like I said in another, I canāt believe they even released the current spring reverbs. They are truly terrible. The reverbs in general are week. A few are nice (like Mindhall and the plates).
For what itās worth - I find I can improve the current spring reverb sound by adding a plate reverb in front of it and adding a bit of the plate to smooth out the harshness of the current spring reverb block. Certainty not ideal as it takes up two bocks, lots of dsp, and makes the mix adjustments a hassle because you have two mix controls, but the results are pretty good.
Can you share that as a preset and let us know the name?
Sorry for the delay! (no pun intendedā¦) Iāve been swamped teaching and doing clinics and finally had a chance to sit down and figure out how to upload and share presets. Itās called āSimple deluxe reverb.ā I actually put ther reverb effect chain on a split, you can adjust the overall reverb send level with the balance control. You can turn off the delay for a less āsurfyā reverb sound. Itās as close as I can manage using internal reverbs. Hopefully NDSP will get us an perfect spring reverb that only uses one block, but this is better than nothing. I hope it helps you!
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Hey I got the Simple Deluxe Reverb. Thatās about the cleanest DR Iāve found, sounds great. Thanks.
Agreed. For my backup rig, I use an Electro Harm Oceans 3. It gets 80% of the way to my SurfyBear. The QC gets 50% there ā¦
Would love the QC team to work on their spring reverb algorithm.
Boing - these really needs to be worked at!
Has anyone come up with a new idea or preset?
I find this idea very interesting, but could not realise it so far? Would you mind sharing a preset?
Hey Neural, may I dare and suggest a collaboration with Source Audio? They have a great sounding reverb and trem in the true spring pedal. It could be a win win for both companiesā¦ And if NDSP is already working on a reverb upgrade, that pedal is a pretty good bench mark in the digital world. Just sayingā¦.