Chords for TVS3 EMULATING THE VOX LONG TOM ECHO UNIT

_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ Hello, I'm Gary Taylor.
And I'm Paul Rossiter.
And we're from TVS Specialty Products.
And in this short video we thought we'd try and demonstrate how the TVS3 Echo unit
can emulate the lovely singing quality of the Vox Long Tom Tape Echo unit.
To do so we'll briefly show how we set up the echo patterns
using the programmable capability of the TVS
and then demonstrate that with a sound file
hopefully [F] reproducing that same singing quality.
Excellent.
In order to do this comparison I'll use some measurements I made on a Vox Long Tom
owned by Robbie Janowasa some time ago.
And to compare the sounds of the TVS3 with the Vox Long Tom
I'll also use a great track recorded by Robbie fairly recently called Raining In My Heart. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Here's the results of a long tom measurement I took a while ago
showing the plucked note and two delayed echoes from heads 5 and 6.
The delay to head 5 and head 6 can be measured from this
and are evidently about 390 and 465 milliseconds
and the amplitudes of the two echoes are roughly the same.
This data together with the measured frequency response for the long tom heads
allows us to set up the appropriate TVS3 patch parameters.
Here's a screenshot of the TVS3 patcher program used to set up the patches in the TVS3
indicating that we can use just four of the delay lines
to achieve the 390 and 465 millisecond delays
appropriate to the long tom heads 5 and 6.
We've set up the amplitudes so that head 6 is just a little bit below head 5
as per the measured data and feedback taken from head 5.
_ While I didn't do a plucked string comparison using these settings
when I had access to Robbie's long tom
I did do a comparison with [G] the TVS3 using four repeats
and here they are first on the Vox Long Tom and then the TVS3. _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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While there's some obvious differences in plucking strength and string damping
I think they do indicate that the general settings are probably fairly close. _
However, these plucked string comparisons only tell a small part of the story
and they don't reveal [C] that lovely singing airy quality
of the Vox Long Toms and Meazzi tape and drum echo units.
To do this we have to actually listen to and compare sequences of music. _
As mentioned earlier on, the track we're going to take for this comparison
is the very lovely Raining in My Heart
recorded by Robbie Janoasa using his Vox Long Tom
and available on his YouTube channel.
Here's Robbie's version. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And here's that same section played by me
using the TVS3 in the settings I mentioned earlier on.
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] While I can't hope to match Robbie's superb playing style
I think that these two sections do show that there's quite a good comparison
between the TVS3 emulating the Long Tom and the real thing.
Just to reinforce the point, here's a short section
where I'll switch between the two performances.
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_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ Well, that all looked and sounded rather convincing.
Yes.
It's very hard to tell the difference.
Yes, it's as close as I expected
given that they're different performers and different equipment being used.
But at least I think it shows that the TVS3
brings that singing quality out from the performance quite well.
It certainly did.
It certainly did.
As I said, it's really, really difficult to tell the difference.
Very impressive.
Of course, there will always be subtle differences.
It's impossible to reproduce a performance frozen in time.
[B] Well, it's difficult to reproduce somebody else's performance as well, of course.
Yes, that's right.
Because everyone's got a different playing [Eb] style.
[F] And no matter how [C] hard you try to copy [Eb] somebody,
it's always going to come out slightly differently.
Even [D] if the same person tries to do the same thing again.
Indeed.
Yes, indeed.
So a better way of doing it would be to have the same performer
_ providing the sound file, providing that file into each of the echo units
so you [E] had an identical performance to do the comparison.
Unfortunately, Robbie lives in Sydney on the other side of Australia,
so we don't have access to [A] his unit.
But in the next [F] video, where we'll be demonstrating the TVS3 emulating a Meazza unit,
we do have access to both, and so we'll do this direct A-B comparison.
Great.
So watch this space.
Watch this space.
[G] _
Cheers.
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