rack gear

anybody here still use rack effects? someone mentioned the Alesis Quadraverb on the reverb thread a while back. any other old rack workhorses that can be snapped up on the cheap?

i'm addicted to rack gear at the moment

people seem to be getting hip to the alesis stuff again, the prices have been creeping up. i haven't been able to find a midiverb 2 for love nor money lately either

some of the mid end lexicon reverbs can be had for near fuck all though

i make very heavy use of the roland digital space echo because it is unhip and sounds wonderful, that's usually pretty cheap.

pretty much any reverb/delay that has roland on it for under a couple hundo is worth grabbing imo

i had a handful of rack things that i stupidly sold when i was a guitar player that i really wish i still had for synths, a quadraverb among them

i like all the sony/yamaha units from the 80s/90s, this thing gets a lot of use:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwW7dm63Vmw

good tip is to look for 'broken' units that still power up, it usually just means replacing a battery

I sold my quadraverb. US/UK PSU issues rendered it near worthless.
I have one of these, minus a couple of units and had it working for like a day. Need to find time to hardwire it into a patchbay and get some use out of it.

http://www.retrosynth.com/gear/rebis/rebis.jpg

got me a midiverb 2. bloom <3

rack synths are also a massive bargain atm and probably historically too

speaking of rack synths, we ended up with a yamaha TX81Z and an emu proteus 2000 that came out of a soundtrack designers house, i am assuming no one gives a shit abt either of those right?

TX81Zs are ace if you can be bothered making your own sounds, there's a nice windows editor out there for it

^^^ somebody will buy the Yamaha. The Proteus is harder to sell, really depends on what expansion cards are installed.

(the 'Pure Phat' expansion was so popular with hip-hop producers that Emu made a separate module just based around that sample set, also a couple of the piano expansions were big because for the time they had huge samples, and IIRC there was some world music expansion that people liked)

tx81z = lately bass

i recently got a tx802, still getting my head around it