Reverb pedal with the ‘Abbey Road’ technique

[JPJ]

Those of you mixing live sound will have no doubt heard of or used the Abbey Road technique when applying reverb. If you haven’t, the technique is basically to use both an hpf and and lpf on the signal sent to the reverb to chop off the low and high ends and then blend the reverb back in with the original full range signal. This stops the reverb becoming muddy or shrill and works really well with bass guitar, sounding much more natural.

As I have a penchant for a bit of reverb, especially on fretless bass, is there a pedal out there that allows you to replicate the Abbey Road technique? 

[MichaelDean]

I'd wager there wouldn't be a standalone dedicated reverb pedal that would do this. It's quite a niche application. Could quite easily do it with a multi-fx with parallel processing though. Apply the eq and reverb to one path, then leave the rest un-effected and mix to taste.

[borntohang]

Most digital reverbs have an LPF/HPF feature somewhere in the algorithm, even if it's not accessible. The TC Hall of Fame lets you access those parameters in the toneprint software and any of the HoF family will do it, so the Mini will work if you're pushed for space.

[tauzero]

Zoom MS-70CDR(+) perhaps, the Plate Reverb and HD Hall Reverb have a Lo and Hi which adjust the damping on low and high frequencies.

[tempo]

Boss gt core has both adjustable hpf and lpf on the reverb (and other) algorithms.

[tempo]

Boss gt core has both adjustable hpf and lpf on the reverb (and other) algorithms.

 

Also the Source Audio Ventris has this facility on most of the algorithms. Not tried mine on bass though.

[LukeFRC]

 

as said - most digital reverbs will let you fine tune - this is on a H9max hall which has 3 band -

HX stomp will do similar in different ways.

[Treb]

Keeley's Abbey Chamber Verb may be just what the doctor ordered... Apparently it is discontinued, perhaps you could track down a used one.

 

 

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Abbey Chamber Verb

Soft Vintage Reverb – Keeley’s Recreation of the Famous Studio’s Echo Chamber

An echo room chamber is a space where program material is played and the reverberations are captured on a microphone. You know the classic sounds of a good church or music hall. Studios needed to capture these effects without always going to a church or hall to record. So, they built their own echo chambers. The famous EMI/Abbey studio had 3 echo chambers. They also used electronic filters to carefully refine the sound in order to make it easier to record, which made the end results sound impeccable.

We have incorporated the RS106 filter which had points at 600Hz high pass filter and a 10K low pass filter. In the studio, music (or your guitar) was filtered through at these points before being sent to the speaker in the echo chamber. This made for a tighter, more defined sound to be present in the chamber.

Next there is the Brilliance Control, either the RS127 or RS135. This was what the engineers used to refine the reverb sound that they captured on the microphone. Engineers could select one of 3 frequency points to boost or cut by +/-10 dB. The key frequencies they targeted were 2.7 kHz, 3.5 kHz, or 10 kHz, now offered on the Abbey Chamber Verb.

 

Edited Sunday at 13:57 by Treb