Origin 5, anyone added a reverb tank, please?

[Sollophonic]

I've got an Origin 5 that I have shoehorned a 10" speaker into and also use it through a 12" speaker cabinet.



I have got hold of an old Park amp which has a spring reverb tank and I was going to see if I could fit it into the Origin 5 to give it a bit of reverb.

It's an old passive one, and while the Park amp sounds like a cheapish SS amp, the spring reverbs in this sounds pretty lush. It has two small co-ax plugs on each of the wires.



Has anyone put a spring reverb into an Origin 5? Could I simply run it into the FX loop? If not does anyone have a wiring diagram or a suggestion for where I could wire this reverb in, please? Or is it something that wouldn't be worth doing?

I still have this phenomenon that the FX Loop even when nothing plugged in, brightens the sound when the footswitch is engaged, wondering if this small boost would be good or bad for a reverb. I'd still need to work out a way of controlling the reverb level.

Cheers

 

[blue]

The levels would need to be boosted both into and out of the reverb tank, and then you would have a 100% wet reverb in your loop, with no control to blend in dry signal.

If you want a real spring reverb, there are a few on the market, notably Anasounds Element which connects to reverb tanks like yours and provides EQ and mix controls. Of course this isn't the easy and affordable fix you were hoping for! maybe someone else will know a way to use the tank you have without spending a small fortune

 

[PelliX]

In essence, you could indeed use it in the loop, though you would need to add a couple of op-amps to get the signal to the applicable levels. Then add a pot blend between the reverb and dry signals (presumably just adding or subtracting signal through the reverb - like most amps do with the reverb knob. This is what @blue outlined, more or less.

 

[Sollophonic]

Thanks. Probably not worth the hassle. I'll likely get a small reverb/delay pedal and put it into the loop and run a power supply into it too. Cheers.

 

[scozz]

Get a reverb pedal if you want reverb, that would be my suggestion ,…

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

Get a reverb pedal if you want reverb, that would be my suggestion ,…

+1.

Not worth the hassle and you'd be breaking into a PCB, invalidate any warranty you've got left, risk the thing going kaboom, etc. etc.

 

[Sollophonic]

Delay/Reverb pedal on its way with a decent set of short patch cables. Cheers all.

 

[Georgiatec]

More can go wrong than right, so just use a pedal in the loop.