Tube studio compressor and reverb

[Gil]

I want to built a tube compressor for my analog studio (not especially for guitars) as well as tube reverb for the same purpose.

Can you recommend anything ? Any classic that sounds awesome ?

[Mike Burgundy]

LA2A is *the* definitive vocal comp.
Altec Lansing stuff can be very nice as mic inputs (limiting amps).
For a spring-loaded reverb, I'd make sure I had a very good tank and build a clone of an old Fender.
hih

[Peter Snowberg]

The classic Fender circuit is a great place to start. I would use a long tank 3-spring (sometimes called a 6 spring) tank with either medium or long delay time. Try both if you can afford it.

The drive side of the Fender circuit is a little weak so you might want to consider changing the input capacitor at the least. Fender reverb is very treble intense. Let your ears guide you there. Another mod that helps enormously is to use a different driver. The Fender circuit uses both halves of a 12AT7 in parallel, along with a dinkey transformer. If you use a real power tube like a 6V6 or EL84 to drive a decent (even cheap) transformer, the quality of the reverb sound goes way up.

One word on placement: If you are using a preamp to get some distortion, the best place for the reverb is in an effects loop. If you don't have a loop, consider installing one or building an outboard preamp. To me at least, reverbed distortion sounds much better than distorted reverb.

Good luck!

-Peter

[peterc]

Have a look over here for DIY tube compressor stuff

http://www.recording.org/cgi-local/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=6
http://recording.org/users/kev/

Peter

[peterc]

Have a look over here for DIY tube compressor stuff

http://www.recording.org/cgi-local/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=6
http://recording.org/users/kev/

Peter