Do Solid State Reverb Units still use Springs?

[highwaycruiser]

I just ordered a Gibson Reverb III from the 60s and found out it is solid state and not tube. Will it still use Springs or is it different in some way? Thanks.

[photoweborama]

It should use springs. Only time they don't is when it's digital.

[chrisgblues]

It's almost certainly a spring reverb unit if it's from the 60's. Either that or digital, but I am pretty sure they didn't have digital reverb units in the 60's at all...much less built into a guitar amp.

Spring units can have the signal driven by solid state or driven by tubes, but the actual units still use springs to get the reverb effect. That's my understanding.

JMHO.

[bigp7099]

were there "digital" effects in the 60's? when i first read the op the original thought was that a "digital" reverb from that era would be as big as a fridge and run on punch cards, but then i thought about it some more and i'm not sure that would be true. so were there what we think of digital effects back then or were they all analog?

[1300 E Valencia]

Digital delays and reverbs were first developed in the 1980s. So, if it's from the Sixties, it's not digital, and it has springs.

[jefrs]

First electronic delay I came across (analogue) was in the 70s.

Prior to that you could have springs, tape loop, room or plate delay/reverb.

[bigp7099]

how about all that stuff that keyboard players used to use in the 60's and 70's, especially the crazy atmospheric free form guys, was that digital, was it considered "effects"? if you walked into a high end studio in 1975 would they have had some hugely expensive closet sized thing that we would consider a "digital" effect?

[BigDaddyLH]

Now this is a reverb!

[Daddy Hojo]

I've even heard of studios having long coiled pipes under the floor to create reverb/echo effects. Like talking through a garden hose.

[vjf1968]

Originally Posted by JohnnyMcCracken

I just ordered a Gibson Reverb III from the 60s and found out it is solid state and not tube. Will it still use Springs or is it different in some way? Thanks.

Another type of reverb is created by a rotating drum filled with fluid. Fender had a reverb/echo unit that used this tech in the 60's

[Daddy Hojo]

Originally Posted by vjf1968

Another type of reverb is created by a rotating drum filled with fluid. Fender had a reverb/echo unit that used this tech in the 60's

For that "wet" reverb...

[jefrs]

Originally Posted by bigp7099

how about all that stuff that keyboard players used to use in the 60's and 70's, especially the crazy atmospheric free form guys, was that digital, was it considered "effects"? if you walked into a high end studio in 1975 would they have had some hugely expensive closet sized thing that we would consider a "digital" effect?

Abbey Road had a long room the length of the studios, speakers at one end and mics at various places along it :- room reverb.

We didn't get digital until we got computer microprocessors. When was that - late 70s/early 80s ?