The yamaha Rev7, baby sister of the massive Rev1, and sibling to the later Rev5, this was released around 1986 and is a good 'verb for the user wanting better s/h than they might get spending the same new.. wouldn't call it a 'budget' reverb at all tho even tho they can come down quite cheap s/h...
Spec's ?... well I ain't used one, and mainly the reason why I added so many old fx to DT is cos there is simply so little data, even an image is hard to find... anyways all I can find is this..
Yamaha raved about their custom designed and manufactured LSI chips and how this gave them wicked 'verb at cost concious prices, and what you get is a editable reverb & other time/delay effects unit with midi control... hmm...
The Rev7 has 30 factory presets of different sized halls, choruses, delays, repeats, flanging, phasing, flanged 'verbs, gated 'verbs, etc etc...
You can edit the paremeters of a programme and store the results in any of the 60 user locations.
Parameters include: 1-100ms first reflection, 0-100% first-reflection level, 1-100ms reverb offset delay/attack, reverb time 0-10 seconds, and this is adjustable over 3 frequency bands!!... Diffision can also be adjusted with 0-10 measurements which in effect adjusts the apparent 'shape' of the room by adjusting the directional quality of the reverb independent of room-size.. quite how they set this to tweak tho i dunno...
The Rev7 and the larger Rev1 both use 16 bit engines and the Rev7 here has a sampling rate of 31.25 giving a 12khz bandwidth for playback... plenty respectable enuff for sparkly top end, as any reflective frequencies above this die away as they creep up to 10-15k, so 'sparkley' this will do.... respectable bandwidth then and the usual 16 bit dynamic range of around 78 - 84dB depending on effect choosen...
The Eq section features 3 band sweep Eq for further tuning and messing around with sounds... all in all.. a good 'verb eh?! :-)
umm... well that's about it, and remember it also does pretty much every other time/delay effect too, stereo, and has the nifty remote too !!.. user comments please!... quality kit... as used by Prince in his Paisley Park studio !...
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