Premier 90 spring reverb driver

Source audio true spring reverb and tremolo pedal new jrr shop. The spring reverb, in particular, sounds convincing enough to justify a permanent place for the mxr reverb even if you use the other voices sparingly. The tank has a medium decay time for players who do not need to have a heavy surf style reverb. Premier 90 reverb hummmm question telecaster guitar forum. Would recommend this to anyone looking for an authentic sounding spring reverb that wont break the bank. The topoftheline models, the bx20 and bx25, are large, heavy, extremely complex and delicate units with a smooth response unlike any spring reverb.

Or you could try our premier reverberation 90 unit. Adding a spring reverb to that amp would require a reverb driver tube and recovery tube or the solid state equivalents and related componentse. Twin reverb, deluxe reverb, princeton reverb, super reverb, vibroverb, vibrolux reverb, pro reverb. Im used to spring reverb being more of a bandpassed reverb but this sounds more like a lowpassed reverb. The classa power amp found in the blues king 10 provides all.

Apr 24, 2010 in fender amps the reverb drive level is preset at a fixed amount. This premier 90 reverberation unit was made in the usa in the early 1960s. I found working with my old premier 90 reverb that the braided exterior on one end of one of the cables had been cut off, so the shield was only connected at the amp side. Proper reverb tanks are a bit hard to get, but when i found that schneiders laden sells the small accutronics amc2bf3 reverb tank for the very reasonable price of 12. The dark tweed covering is peeling off, the leather handle is busted, one of the original red. Tube amp spring reverb modifications discussion in effects, pedals, strings. Also with the solemate, it uses a short spring reverb tank so its not as surfy as the classic long spring fender reverb sound. These tanks are designed to replicate the sound of vintage reverbs and are great. Spring reverb is the broadband resonance generated by vibrating one or more metal coils held under tension. Premier 90 reverberation mods, schematics and impulse. Also, another benefit of the oxford reverb is that you can control the reverb mix in the output section blending between tail and er early reflection. A transducer vibrates the spring or springs, and a transducer pickup captures the reflections as they bounce back and forth along the spring.

The solidstate reverb drivers play tricks with the shield connections. For sale champaign urbana, il this is a vintage tubedriven outboard spring reverb unit. Hi i am in the midst of making a spring reverb unit, it is my first electronics project and i could use some help from some people who are more knowledgeable on the subject than i am. Details about vintage 1963 premier model 90 reverb unit old school verb. You dont need to use tubes, a simple circuit like link i posted above is sufficient, as is the method described in the ty is pretty article. Spring reverb a flexible, easytobuild voltage controlled. Overall, the condition of this premier reverb can best be described using terms such as funky, distressed, or badly in need of love. Made by multivox, this tube driven spring reverb immediately adds not only space but serious character to your tone. Travis wammack giving a short demo of the premier 90 reverb unit.

Multivox vm44 premier express four, 4 ch mixer power amp, spring reverb, vintage. The reverb control adjusts how much reverb output signal gets injected into an otherwise fixed resistive mixing network. The input transducer of a reverb tank is a coil of wire wound around an iron core. I had one just like it that my dad gave me when i was 12 along with a fender 410 concert wish id kept them. Vintage 1965 premier premier 90 reverberation effect pedalmade in. Ive noticed vermona is making a spring reverb but im not sure how it sounds as there are not many demos of it out there.

My mid60s premier 90 tube reverb unit came to me completely unusable due to the extreme amount of hum and noise it produced. Port jefferson, ny march 9, 2020 building on the success of the 12 and 8 blues king tube amps, supro rolls out a new, 5watt, 10 model, with onboard spring reverb, switchable fet boost and fat drive circuits. I took a used premier 90 and its schematic and built a new one gomez style and it just didnt have the sound that the fender verbs did. Ill be back in a few months with a preamp reverb design based on the premier 90 but with a better parts list. I dont have one, but am still planning to build a premier 90 clone one day. It also has a 68 ohm kathode resistor on the 6aq5 driver tube and no cathode cap. The mod reverb tanks are high quality upgrade units. I was stupid enough to sell it when i bought my yamaha spx 90. Filmed on an ipad air so not the best audio quality, but this gives an idea at least. After extensive reworking of the circuit and complete replacement of all components, im excited to say that this unit is quiet enough for studio use and it sounds great, especially when paired with a vintage amp. Try shifting it through 90 degrees on whichever axis is practical. Buy a high quality custom amp cover for your premier premier 90 reverb unit.

A spring reverb is simpler than a plate reverb, but similar in concept. The chassis and spring tank are not always at the same voltage. Tombolas diy spring reverb driver circuit 8th july 2012 ive been fiddling with spring reverb for a while, probably because of reading gabriel roths famous shitty is pretty article in the late lamented big daddy magazine, where he talked about his way of using spring reverb on his throwback funk. The pan makes all the difference in reverb quality and character. And the controls do alot more then the reverb control on most amps, it can produce a extreme amount of reverb. May 19, 2012 adding a few jacks, pots, and a preamp, peter had a very nice and extremely large spring reverb. These budget japanese units were made for the domestic markethifi, home recording, or, most likely, karaokeand use a bucketbrigadedevice bbd chip to make up for the poor quality of the spring tanks, adding a little predelay to separate the trashy wet signal from the input to give the impression of betterquality reverb. This is the standard tank used in fender amps which as also use reverb driver transformer with an 8 ohm secondary. More information on reverb tanks is also available at rod elliots site. May 08, 2015 travis wammack giving a short demo of the premier 90 reverb unit. Im looking for a good real spring reverb mainly for vocals. Spring reverb tanks explained and compared antique electronic. This article considers only the driver stage, and not the reverb recovery stage which is usually a.

I dont see the need to switch to a 12ax7 driver, but the other reverb. Dec 10, 2012 these standalone reverb units are based on the reverb circuit of the old premier 90 tube reverb. The premier was made by the multivox corporation sometime in the 1960s, i believe. Premier 90 tube reverb mid1960s, made by multivox, new york. The 6740 hot springs reverb project kit is just a building block approach for a linelevel spring reverb unit to be patched into a mixer in a studio situation.

One or more springs are held under tension in a tank. Use an input highpass filter to compensate for the input coils inductive reactance. The surfy bear, being a fet circuit, will accept any pans impedance so you can experiment with different types of pans 2 or 3 spring, long or short. Replacement reverb tank for princeton reissue the gear page. Download our impulse response irs for this premier 90 spring reverb unit here. Premier 90 reverberation vintage tube spring reverb tank. Btw, dont run the amp without the reverb connected, since the send side is a small output stage and this may blow the reverb transformer. Ive only ever seen one blown reverb transformer, but this was in an amp where the owner thought that the reverb was somehow interfering with his tone even when the knob was at zero, so he ran it with the. Cloning, series tube effects loop, and longtank spring reverb black. Vintage multivox premier 90 tube reverb parts, repair. A modern reverb tank consists of drivers, transmission springs, pickups, and a shock mounting system. But the design of the power supply certainly is and the layout is too weird chassis which is no more than a stepped sheet of metal and not so carefully planned parts layout. Builtin spring reverb first came to the fender amplifier with the vibroverb in 1963 and. Not all amplifier models of the same name use the same transformer model.

Build your own spring reverb tape op magazine longform. The new at5047 premier studio microphone purity transformed. Used in fender blackface and silverface amps that had reverb. The main functional component is a large metal plate within a soundproof box see header photo, which is vibrated by an output driver much like that in a loudspeaker above centre. Replacement 12at7 lowgain preamplifier tube, used as reverb driver andor.

Premier 90 reverb hummmm question discussion in the stomp box started by frank4001, aug 4, 2007. Sep 30, 2016 the spring reverb, in particular, sounds convincing enough to justify a permanent place for the mxr reverbeven if you use the other voices sparingly. From what i found using an old 60s fender reverb unit into a romany plus, you can get valve overkill using a valve reverb into a valve amp. What are the differences between plate and spring reverbs. A quick look at your circuit shows that the use of v1a as the reverb preamp means that when reverb is switched in, the dry signal only has two rather than the three gain stages required for the lamington. Please make sure the amplifier transformer which you are replacing has a fender number matching. You are covered by the ebay money back guarantee if you receive an item that is not as described in the. One of the major differences between the mods and other reverb tanks is that the transducers are wired directly to their respective rca jacks as opposed to other currentproduction tanks where transducers are connected by a detachable plug to their respective rca jacks. Premier 90 tube reverb mid1960 s, made by multivox, new york. Reverberation, in psychoacoustics and acoustics, is a persistence of sound after the sound is produced. Is there anyone making anything like that these days.

They have tube drivers and pres, and are all balanced. Vintage premier 90 spring reverb unit all tube vintage premier tube powered reverb unit if youve ever heard one of these in person, you know how amazing these sound. In 2011 i published a schematic for a little spring reverb driver based on roy. The 3 spring offers more of a hall sound and not the boingy sound from 2 spring. How spring reverb works a spring reverb unit is comprised of three main components. For all the power of modern processor chips, theres one thing reverb pedalsand even highend digital rack unitshave trouble nailing, and thats authentic spring reverb sounds. These are some notes about what the module does, how it was designed.

Although best known for its microphones, german outfit akg also made a range of superb spring reverbs, of which this is the baby. Jun 24, 2014 standard spring reverbs have traditionally been particularly popular with guitarists, due to the ease with which they could be built into guitar amps, and prior to the advent of digital reverb, springs were pretty much the only game in town for the budgetlimited studio. Vintage 1960 shure m68rm 4ch reverberation microphone mixer spring reverb read. And though an op amp rather than a tube drives the circuit, it sounds. This article considers only the driver stage, and not the reverb recovery stage which is usually a simple triode gain stage, unfortunately.

There are others from the same era that were designed to do the same thing, but the premier 90 sets itself apart with a solidstate rectifier, which helps drive the circuit into the players choice of gentle overdrive or heavy grit. I want to get a good spring reverb for my homeproject studio. Tube amp spring reverb modifications the gear page. A reverberation, or reverb, is created when a sound or signal is reflected causing numerous reflections to build up and then decay as the sound is absorbed by the surfaces of objects in the space which could include furniture, people, and air. Ill admit that abing the catalinbread topanga with a 63 fender reverb revealed detectable differences in soundparticularly if youre looking for the same. So in both cases amp and standalone reverb one can adjust the amount of reverb return that is mixed with the dry signal in the overall output. Really impressed with it, and for the price compared to other tube spring reverb unitskits, its unreal. We have made many improvements to the original circuit. I was recently given a chassis only of a premier 90. Many come close enough to satisfy players who simply want a dash of the springy mojo thats defined so much electricguitar work since the 1960s, but the warmth and complexity of a cranked vintage fender.

Mesaboogie thiele compact 90watt 1x12 extension cabinet black. Vintage premier 90 spring reverb w secret overdrive mode duration. Features include dualtube preamp, mic and instrument inputs, volume and intensity controls. Reverberation made its debut at fender using a spring unit bought from hammond in 1961. A signal is driven into the drivers attached to one end of each spring, labeled input, which acts like a speaker. It betrays its digital origins very rarely usually at high tone and mix settings and sounds good on the receiving end of gnarly fuzz tones that can make a lot of digital reverbs sound like crap. The very first spring reverbs were introduced by hammond for their organs in the 1950s. Vintage premier 90 spring reverb w secret overdrive mode. Putting my lead through this does indeed give it a very pleasant retro sound, perfect for surf or other music from the late 50s early 60s.

Premier 90 spring reverb impulse responses my mid60s premier 90 tube reverb unit came to me completely unusable due to the extreme amount of hum and noise it produced. The reverb plate was the first really serious artificial reverberation technology, and was adopted by numerous studios before the advent of affordable digital reverb. Premier 90 tube reverb head vinyl amp cover prem001. Amplifiers and pedals for sale in bedford roland, fender, marshall, vox, peavey, gibson amps, effects pedals. If you want to add spring reverb to a track during mixing, then a good unit to consider is the demeter rv1 real spring reverb, which is a professional spring reverb designed for studio work. Both are demoed on the same premier model 50 for comparison. This is just the best sounding reverb units i have ever heard. The lamington reverb was designed as a stand alone reverb unit and that application requires quite different design to a built in reverb. The blues king 10 delivers the authentic 6v6powered tubeamp tone of the chicagomade supro combos from the 1950s. I got a mod pan first but then found some vintage gibbs pans that nailed the vintage drip much more closely.

Those will help with the basic function of the tank. Effects kit mod kits, the wave, spring reverb amplified. Supro announces the blues king 10 20200309 premier. Replacement 12at7 lowgain preamplifier tube, used as reverb driver andor phase.

My first encounter with a peavey classic tweed style combo was in the 90s. Fuchs says that hes treated the reverb unit as if it were an offboard effect. Like the tweed fender reverb unit but with more character. These standalone reverb units are based on the reverb circuit of the old premier 90 tube reverb. I originally was planning on building the premier 90 as the g spring but backed out because the reverb was sooooo dense with little drip. Also, by using more er, you can make the spring a bit shallower, meaning it has more front end sound than depth. This is a quick and duuuuurty video of my old premier reverb tank as requested by the folks on instagram. It is only a small circuit board, a handful of components and wire, and a couple of reverb spring tanks provided as a companion to a d. Especially this particular one with the tan middle section most of them are a solid ugly brown. Thats more of a pain though, as you need a tech to replace that p. This is an excellent choice for your vintage non reverb amps like bandmasters, princetons, deluxes, etc. The plate reverb translation is also a staple of pro recording studios around the globe.

Everything i know about spring reverb music thing modular notes. You can dial in anything from mild to huge amount of reverb. The 4ab2c1b 2 spring reverb tank is used a wide variety of amplifiers. Spring reverb i had been considering before to make a diy spring reverb, but to construct springs and transducers seemed too much hassle.

The most militant springreverb adherents may never be satisfied with any spring reverb that isnt, in fact, a spring reverband good on them for sticking to their guns. The lamington reverb a better valve reverb unit valve. The wave is a standalone, tubedriven analog spring reverb that can be used in front of your guitar amp or as a linelevel analog reverb effect for the recording studio. For sale rare vintage multivox premier 90 reverberation. Will the mod 4ab3c1c work in a 90s fender reissue reverb unit. Much more like hall reverb, as it used a recirculating reverb. Premier 90 reverb amplmixer multivox corporation of america. Vintage premier 1965 premier 90 reverberation effect pedal. An mk2 version of music thing modulars spring reverb module went on sale. The old fender units are iconic for sure but these are so unique. Im not sure if it will definitely work but the first tank i would try is the 4ab3c1b. Erbeverb grayscale black panel alternate matte black pcb panel for make noise erbeverb. Spring reverb drivers information on driving spring reverb using valves tubes seems to be rather sparse, so the following is presented as a guide to valve amp designers. This is the standard tank used in fender amps which as also use reverb driver transformer with an.

Mesaboogie mark five 1x12 90watt tube combo amp cream with black grille. Everything i know about spring reverb an mk2 version of music thing modulars spring reverb module went on sale this weekend. For many applications, the short spring sounds a lot better. These are some notes about what the module does, how it. I dont think the design of the signal paths wet and dry is really huminducing. Hmm, we dont have any listings for this product right now. On this track, i used a bit more of the er and blended in just a bit of tail. From the schematic floating around online, this amp has a reverb driver transformer with an 8 ohm secondary.