Re: reverb "rooms"

[van Sinn <vansinn@post.cybercity.dk>]

bill bigrig wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
>  Growing up on a dairy farm, we had 1, then 2 silos
> for storing cattle forage for winter. When they were
> empty, the reverb in them was TREMENDOUS. I never
> timed it but it is long. They are 18 feet in diameter
> and 50 feet high...

Can't find the link, but I saw a German studio or something having huge 
tubular reverb chamber, like your mentioned silo, made in metal, looked 
like polished cobber.

 > ...I will build a round
 > plate, hoisted from the top to allow it to be adjusted
 > to any height within the silo thereby altering reverb
 > lenght. Different suface textures on the 18 foot plate
 > will regulate damping. Also on the floor. It ought to
 > be interesting...

Some large studios have reverb rooms in weird shapes with motorized 
panels to adjust reveb time/decay, different speakers and mics in 
various placements..

You'll surely have a ball setting up the silos. I guess it can have it's 
merits being a country boy ;)

-- 
rgds,
van Sinn