I’ve always wondered what a violin would sound like if it were subjected to a similar treatment. This produces the characteristic reverb effect we’ve all come to know and love. Because the internal coil is long and twisty, the sound waves don’t travel directly from one end of the reverb tank to another, but instead take their time and bounce around. Spring reverb in electric guitar amps works by taking the signal from a guitar’s pickups, amplifying it, passing it into one end of a long coil, picking it up at the other end, and then amplifying that signal some more.

Throughout the years, I’ve owned several guitar amps with built-in spring reverb, and I’ve always loved that twangy, metallic sound.

The Decent Sampler version works with the free Decent Samples player plugin.

SFZ version tested with Plogue Sforzando.

Kontakt version is compatible with the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.8.1 (or later).

With the modwheel all the way up, you get both layers at full volume. With the modwheel all the way down, you get just one violin. The dynamics in this patch are controlled by the modwheel (MIDI CC1).

Slinky Violin Duet (modwheel): Orchestral composers will want to start with this one.

Slinky Violin Duet: This version consists of both the soft and loud layers from the above sample being played at the same time.

Slinky Violin (piano layers only): The version just consists of the soft layers.

Slinky Violin (forte layers only): The version just consists of the loud layers.

Slinky Violin: This is the basic version of the patch.

The library contains five versions of the patch: The resulting sound was both dusty, metallic, & hauntingly beautiful. In November 2020, Dave Hilowitz attached a slinky to his violin, effectively turning his studio into a giant reverb tank.

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