Spring reverb (that classic drip sound)

#1

Hi!
I recently had a lot of fun patching reverbs, specially using the dispersion matrices by @SmashedTransistors and @TheSlowGrowth allpasses.
I was now trying to make a spring sounding reverb, with very little success indeed. I read (tried to...) this


And the only bit that made sense to me was in this one http://recherche.ircam.fr/pub/dafx11/Papers/39_e.pdf
and the general concept that a moving spring behaviour is a very difficult one to emulate.
Has anyone ever come close to patch a spring sounding reverb? Any general idea?

#2

After extensively trying all the professional commercial spring reverb emulations available over the last decade, my recommended approach would be buying a 20$ accutronics spring tank.

#3

Yeah, I'm with you in the endless discussion real thing vs emulation... BUT this is something I'm doing mostly for fun and enjoyng the process of understanding.
So far I was able to tune a "normal" reverb patch to sound a little springy, and that's not so far from the indecent "emulation" on my zoom multifx from the early 2000s. Basically it sound like s##t... :grin:
From what I understood the main thing I'm missing is how to tune a whole lot of allpass filters so that the high frequencies will lag behind in a audible way. And that's by now beyond my comprehension... Help guys!