TENS

TENS has been physically modeled after the range of high end studio spring reverberation units introduced by a famous Austrian company from the early 1970s to early 1980s. As opposed to classic spring reverbs found in guitar amps, these units were based on the company's own patented proprietary design principle, which allowed various connected spring elements with different properties to vibrate inside a small isolated space. These reverbs offered a highly diffused, and very dense reverberation, that didn't expose the boing/chirping artifacts associated with spring reverbs and brought it much closer to the sound of plate reverbs. They are praised for their incredibly deep, organic, complex, rich, smooth and floating character. It can been seen as the missing link between classic spring and plate reverbs. Very unique beasts indeed.

To extend the sonic possibilities of the originals, TENS offers:

• a wide range of decay times (from 0.2 seconds up to 40 seconds).
• as opposed to the the original every tank of TENS' models outputs is stereo.
• various options to deeply change the character of the models via the TENSION, WHOOSH and METALLIC controls.
• optional (pre-)amp saturation, that can be placed freely in the signal chain.
• three modulation slots to add some movement or create out-of-this-world sounds.
• every continuous TENS parameter can be a modulation target.
• each modulation target can be modulated by either an LFO or envelope follower.
• the envelope follower can be triggered by either the reverb input, ouput or even an external side-chain signal.
• using the envelope follower for ducking effects is also possible.
• the envelope follower can be used to shape the dynamics of the input, the optional amp saturation and the reverb signal.

with the modulation section various modulation effects can be achieved, such as tremolo, chorus, vibrato, phaser-like sounds and more rather unusual stuff plus combinations of the aforementioned effects.