The pickups share a common core (similar to a transformer) so their outputs are summed. Each spring has a damper disk, which does as its name implies, damping the spring to shorten the decay time and control the modulation. The opposite end of each spring is attached to a pickup, which converts the vibration of the spring into a small current/voltage (depending on how you look at it in the circuit).
A signal is driven into the drivers (attached to one end of each spring, labeled “input”), which acts like a speaker but instead of moving air, it modulates the springs.
For this article, I took the basics of the SR4 and reduced it down to the simplest design I could come up with to share with the DIY audio community.Ī modern reverb tank consists of drivers, transmission springs, pickups, and a shock mounting system. Recently my custom shop has been offering the result of this research: the SR4, a four-tank unit with a plethora of features.
There are many amazing vintage units in existence, but I wanted to design one around current, commercially available reverb tanks, as not to be at the mercy of sourcing old parts. I have been a big fan of spring and plate reverbs for decades, and over the past three years I have spent a significant amount of time diving into the wormhole of designing and building them, initially for my own use and now for others.
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