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$320.00 USD TALISMAN
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It is a take on the infamous EMT Plate Reverbs. There were 2 of them. a big one and a smaller one. They needed a medium size room to keep them in as they literally looked like a huge dining table. A signal went in one side and it was in essence captured on the other as if were a set of strings ringing thru a guitar pick up. Digitech a new company cloned the sound in a very early chip to be in a rack mount. Later that sound was put in a pedal.The layout is Tone, Time ..the sustain of the effect, Pre Delay which delays
the sound coming in an Mix of dry and wet sound, and Volume.CONCLUSION ___
It indeed sounds excellent. I had the first version. A great reverb should be like the frame on a painting. If the frame on the Mona Lisa was bright red would it enhance the painting or distract you from the the experience of getting the full effect that the painting evokes.
Beware? The Talisman is a bright red frame around your playing.
The Digitech Polara version is that perfect compliment. Dave Friedman
personally gave me the advise to buy it. He is 110% right. It however
is currently out of production.
What is the difference with the old version?
ReplyDeleteEMT made 2 units, a compact budget model and a full size one. The Talisman has both. The big one is the size of a ping pong table.
ReplyDeleteUniversal Audio does the UAFX Heavenly based off the big EMT on sale for $99.00 USD. The guys with the big guns with high end pro digital clones of analog products are United Artists.
Catalinbread started as and stayed as an analog pedal company for years. Their best sellers were designed by Howard Gee who left last year as part owner for KittycasterFX. He also demoed the Catalinbread pedals and his fans went with him.
Catalinbread seem to have lost direction. Lately everything they brought out is a remake of a discontinued pedal that were discontinued very quickly.
Do you recommend the Talisman or UAFX Heavenly for the EMT emulation?
ReplyDeleteThe Heavenly. With 110% of all digital translations things get lost in that translation. It is like the Mona Lisa painting and a photograph of it. In short why pay more than $99??? Keep in mind UA has been in biz with the goal of producing the very best high tech for studios since 1958.They jumped onto digital recording in the 70's. Their philosophy has been to have the best but also to make complex tools user friendly. The founders son runs the company but not from the office with accounting and not with marketing fabricating bullsh@t, but in the lab with the guys making the software and hardware. They do not farm anything out. The guy spent until his 40's as a full time pro player before he decided to go school and learn digital tech so he could be hands on with the product.
ReplyDeleteThanks ! It sounds impressive in the demos. It's a shame that it is not stereo. I would be perfect.
DeleteA real EMT plate for all its huge size was on mono. It was enough for decades to simply have the band in stereo not an individual player. EVH hated being in stereo. On his first LP the studio put a very short slap back on mix down and they had to talk him into it, lol.
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