Eventide Space

Fri Feb 10 16:07:40 CET 2012

I had a similar experience with the Eclipse I had in my studio for a
while.  It sounded great when it was alone, but it seemed to really
depend on what I was feeding into it to get any kind of result I
liked.  It was very picky.  It was also a fantastic nightmare to
program.

Reverb, in general, is something I don't like.  My lack of hearing on
one side means I don't perceive reverb the same way normal people do,
and the algorithms are all targeted to tricking normal people. To me,
no reverb sounds 'natural'.  Hence why I tend to use it more as an
effect, and get someone with two functioning audio nerves to check
over my mixes.

It is a shame about the space.  I was really thinking of picking one
up, but now I am not so sure.  There is not shortage of them second
hand, so maybe thats the way to try one out.

Tony

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Michael Zacherl. <mubar04 at blauwurf.at> wrote:
> James, it makes sense what you say, and I can see your point!
> It's some sort of "disconnection" ... as you say, it doesn't seem to integrate into my setup.
> And there were moments where I found this unit just boring ...
> Michael.
>
> On 10.2.2012, at 15:22 , James Coplin wrote:
>
>> I have a Space and I don't care for it all.  The reverbs just don't sit
>> well with my sound sources.  It always sounds like there is another track
>> running alongside my sound - it never sits as a nice sheen or even layer.
>> I'm not sure that makes sense but I can't think of any way else to
>> describe it.  In my case, I think I just don't care for Eventide reverb
>> algorithms.  I've had a similar response to every Harmonizer of theirs
>> I've had in my studio.  To my ears, I've always preferred the Lexicon
>> reverbs.  I recently sold my TC Electronic outboard reverbs.  They sounded
>> great but were to "real" for my purposes.  I had mainly purchased the
>> Space as a dedicated reverb for my modular but I think I'll just add a
>> second Kurzweil KSP8 to my setup instead.
>>
>> James R. Coplin
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org
>> [mailto:music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org] On Behalf Of Michael
>> Zacherl.
>> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 7:43 AM
>> To: Music-bar
>> Subject: Re: Eventide Space
>>
>>
>> ok, I had this box for a couple of days for a test:
>> very nice sounding reverbs, some nice special fx, but most of them just
>> can't keep up with the harmonic structure of my sounds. They just diminish
>> ...
>> it's happiest with something simple like a sine wave.
>> well, a guitar delivers something like that, eventually.
>>
>> however, I found some issues which are strange to find in this league
>> (with the current software v3.2):
>> - some algorithms are pretty easy to overdrive internally, but without
>> the red clip led going on!
>> - the three momentary (!) foot switches are certainly sturdy but awfully
>> loud.
>> - the `shimmer` algorithm has some very bad tuning input. in fact it
>> should be possible to set the two delay lines
>>   to max. +/- 2400 cents but the related x and y pots jump in 4ths and
>> 5ths and such.
>>   If you're fast enough you could use the encoder but then again you find
>> yourself turning in more than 200 cents
>>   for eg a minor 6th intervall.  apparently that's adressed in v4 which
>> is in public beta right now.
>> - when editing your hand is obscuring the display
>>
>> the good thing of this test is, I didn't find the Roomverb M1 in my
>> Chameleon that bad, compared to the Eventide.
>> I managed to program some presets which sound quite similar on both units
>> (just reverbs of course)
>>
>> when working with Space I could see it's origin and the experience
>> Eventide have in this field.
>> I wouldn't say it's overpriced but for that money a small computer w/
>> audio interface and some SC or Pd patch would do much more for me.
>>
>>  ;-)  Michael.
>>
>> On 18.3.2011, at 01:52 , Michael Zacherl. wrote:
>>
>>> Did you listen to this?
>>> http://soundcloud.com/sourcedist/moog-voyager-thru-eventide-space-reve
>>> rb-pedal
>>> m.
>>>
>>> On 12.3.2011, at 11:11 , Jonny Stutters wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Anyone got any thoughts on the Eventide Space (played with it at NAMM
>> maybe)?  I'm sorely lacking a good reverb and this looks like a nice way
>> of getting one that wouldn't interfere with the open-source stuff (ie.
>> doesn't need a DAW to host it).
>>>>
>>>> Video demo:
>>>> http://vimeo.com/groups/8729/videos/18703423
>>>>
>>>> Jonny
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