For David Bowie’s album, Heroes, Tony Visconti developed a unique room-miking technique to capture the distinctive sound of the room at Hansa Studios, Berlin, where the album was recorded. Now with Eventide’s Tverb plug-in, you can run your tracks through this legendary room with total control over one close mic and movable stereo room mics, with post-reverb processing and presets created by Tony Visconti and other artists.
Features of Tverb include:
- 2 moveable microphones to adjust reverb size and tone
- Adjustable polar patterns for microphone 1 to adjust the amount of ambient room tone
- Custom Eventide reverb algorithm with EQ, diffusion, and decay control
- Compressor module on microphone 1, just as Visconti had in the original session
- 2 linkable post-reverb gate modules with control of when the gates close, the speed at which they close, and the length of time they are forced to stay open
- Console (inspired by the one used in the session and with Visconti’s “grease pencil” labelling) provides post-reverb channel processing for each individual mic and the master
- Room mixer module alters the sound of the room itself with control over decay, diffusion, and frequency attenuation
- Signal-inversion buttons to remove (or create) phase cancellation
- Mix Lock allows for scrolling through presets or settings while keeping the wet/dry mix constant
- Complete automation support
