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hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:28 am

So the buzz is over now?

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:40 am

hibidy wrote:So the buzz is over now?

The reverb caravan moves on, but wait, there is the next one coming over the horizon...

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:48 am

I dunno, I'm plenty pissed this couldn't have waited until next year, and elated all at the same time.

Clearly I'll never stop being a gear ho (but what I have is mostly some top-notch stuff!)

trance_lucent · Post by **trance_lucent** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:00 am

mabian wrote:There's never been a better time for a VDSP all plugins bundle offer, no?
- Mario

Well, there is already the ValhallaVerb bundle in the market: you can buy 3 decent reverb units with premium sound at the price $150! It is equal or cheaper than the price of one decent reverb unit from many other developers.

valhallasound · Post by **valhallasound** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:08 am

hibidy wrote:So the buzz is over now?

That's it. It's done. Time to close up shop. IT'S THE END OF REVERB.

valhallasound · Post by **valhallasound** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:14 am

Sampleconstruct wrote:
hibidy wrote:So the buzz is over now?
The reverb caravan moves on, but wait, there is the next one coming over the horizon...

Well, since it hasn't been talked about here yet, ValhallaRoom is mentioned in the January 2013 Sound On Sound:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan13/a ... t-0113.htm (eSub required).

The article is an interview with Alan Moulder, and his engineering of the Led Zeppelin CD/DVD/movie, "Celebration Day."

Alan Moulder, talking about the drums:

"I used the Reverb One and Valhalla Room on the kick and snare and also the tom sub. The Valhalla Room is a great plug-in, and it seemed strangely correct to use a plug-in with that name on a Led Zeppelin album!"

So, just to sum up: Alan Moulder. Using ValhallaRoom. To mix Led Zeppelin.

Good night, everybody!

Sean Costello

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:17 am

No surprise here. Do you remember that crazy guy hibidy? He had this crazy dream back in Sept, he installed sonar X2 and hoped that he could work in the box entirely.

Point? I remember installing VHR and it was like OMFG, WHY was I trying to get that sound with (edited in case someone likes it)

VHR blew it out of the water.

Anyways, I don't want to give Sean anymore reason to be disappointed in me or think I'm ruining his thread, so allow me in the short period of time I've demoed and used (and I've been using it almost the whole time I've been typing) my purchase........

20 out of 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:27 am

Great sounding verb, but still don't know if I need on top of Room and Shimmer.

Arglebargle wrote:well I bought it, ya bastard. I hope you're happy. That was the money for my medication.

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:41 am

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hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:02 am

V'ger wrote:Great sounding verb, but still don't know if I need on top of Room and Shimmer.
Arglebargle wrote:well I bought it, ya bastard. I hope you're happy. That was the money for my medication.

Did you A/B it? There are things it does that the other don't imho. Try the plates or the rooms on snares and the richness of the "big" presets on anything you want to go wild with. I tried to hate it. I mean, 50 bucks isn't going to set me back really (sorry to those with cash probs

) but I just kept thinking wow.

ymmv.

valhallasound · Post by **valhallasound** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:20 am

TheoM wrote:so my question was missed, is this emulating 224 and 480 lex? or other verbs?

Yes.

It's more "Lexy" than any specific Lex. The algorithms were inspired by a bunch of different Lexicons, and I mixed and matched from different eras of Lexicon as I saw fit. In the studio, the following hardware was used as reference:

- PCM70
- PCM60
- M300
- LXP15 (although this was a reference in the sense that it was turned on a few times, and then left off for the duration of the project)

Some time was spent with a rented 480L, as well as an AMS RMX16, although none of the latter made it into the current release. Same with my H3000 - great pitch effects, but the reverbs aren't all that good.

None of the algorithms are exactly what you would find in any Lexicon. In most of the cases, I started with a general idea of how things work, tested and revised my theories with a bunch of horribly annoying test signals and impulse responses, and then extended on what I found.

The goal wasn't to exactly recreate a given piece of hardware. Instead, I wanted a plugin that evoked the aspects that I liked of various hardware reverbs, with a simplified user interface, and the ability to add or remove grungy artifacts (downsampling, noisy modulation) as needed. I like to think of it as existing in an alternate reverb history timeline.

It isn't a reproduction of a specific Lexicon reverb, so much as a Valhalla meditation on the classic Lexicon sound.

Sean Costello

antithesist · Post by **antithesist** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:31 am

I think you need to look at all four (or five) as a suite. Just in terms of reverb, that gets you over twenty algorithms, or a price of less than $10 an algo. But wait, there's more. It's the Ginsu knife set of reverbs. Make that ceramic-bladed Ginsu knives.

Kaboom75 · Post by **Kaboom75** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:40 am

Compared the Valhalla Vintage to the reverb in Ableton Live 8 and the one in live is no where near as good. Think I prefair it over the ValhallaRoom.

Thanks for this Sean

antithesist · Post by **antithesist** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:42 am

And the Ron Popeil of modulated time-variant audio effects.

el-bo (formerly ebow) · Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:49 am

valhallasound wrote:Alan Moulder. Using ValhallaRoom. To mix Led Zeppelin.

in the library. with the rope

nice plugin dude

ValhallaVintageVerb 1.7.1. Two new reverb modes (Chaotic Hall, Chaotic Chamber)