Comments on: The Limits of Control https://www.preservationsound.com/the-limits-of-control/ information and ideas about audio history Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:34:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: chris https://www.preservationsound.com/the-limits-of-control/#comment-447175 Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:34:10 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=286#comment-447175 In reply to Perrish D’Andrea.

Hi Perrish. Lord no its long gone. FYI any good guitar-amp repair man should be able to make you a system for around $1000 or even less. it just involves retrofitting a small power amp, any cheap mic pre, and a spring reverb tank, with the appropriate jacks and plugs. Good luck. CR

]]> By: Perrish D'Andrea https://www.preservationsound.com/the-limits-of-control/#comment-447147 Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:22:30 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=286#comment-447147 Hey- I just came across this. I know it’s been almost 8 years since you wrote this post- but I have the stereo that this “reverb” option hooks up to. It’s an RCA PVCRH-409. The drawing in fig. 1 looks like the back of my RCA. It is a beautiful, incredible sounding console with 2-way seperable speakers, and a 15-inch subwoofer in the main cabinet. This thing is a real beast, and I have known this stereo since it was new (probably ’60 or ’61), when my dad bought it and had it delivered to our home in Toccoa, GA. It is now with me in San Francisco, 57 years later.

I know the reverb conversion unit’s a silly thing, but it will fit my stereo. When we were kids, we used to turn the “reverb” knob inside and hope for something, but my dad explained that it was an option that he did not get. I am getting this incredible stereo back into shape, and I would love to buy this reverb unit from you if you still have it. Thanks!
You can contact me at perrish@perrish.com

]]> By: bafflegab https://www.preservationsound.com/the-limits-of-control/#comment-218895 Sun, 24 Nov 2013 01:55:04 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=286#comment-218895 Reverb was actually more common for car stereos than for the home because the idea was to make the confined space of the car sound more open. I can remember seeing reverb kits for factory car radios at some dealer or other in the early seventies in fact.

]]> By: Greg Ericsson https://www.preservationsound.com/the-limits-of-control/#comment-218705 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 18:06:34 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=286#comment-218705 Growing up in southeastern Idaho in a small town I was about as removed from sound studios as I could be. But my parents had a Motorola Console stereo which I would use when they were away to listen to the Doors, Steppenwolf, and the Who. It had a stereo 18″ spring reverb unit. I could make the music appear richer with low levels of reverb, and when you cranked it it could take several seconds for the sound to fade. And I could imitate some of the Outer Limits sound effects. I would estimate this was back in ’69 to about ’73

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