Still loving your Bricasti M7?

The studio I work out of has one. We got it once we completed the build-out, so it’s been a good 5-years. I use it every session. I normalled the H9000 to the 2 stereo and 4 mono aux sends on the Duality, and then the M7 is always patched into one of the stereo aux sends.

It’s used on absolutely every session; whether just monitoring while tracking or while mixing. It’s always there. I seem to only use 4 presets (that are programmed to the buttons on the front-panel) and mostly just change the decay times.. Honestly though, I’m just kinda ho-hum about it. Not that it’s not great or that I wouldn’t miss if it was no-longer there. To me, it mostly seems to add a natural ambient-space around everything that wouldn’t have it otherwise. I’d definitely miss that. Still, I can’t say I’m all that excited about it. The PSP 2245 plugin you guys turned me onto gets me more excited. Sorry.

&$#^@#$*!^T!!!!!  Shhhhhhh......  

In the interest of actually sharing some music (although it’s somewhat nerve-racking since you are all so talented), here’s a track where I used the M7’s Sunset Chamber (and slightly tweaked it) on the vocal. It’s an example where the reverb is really featured, and may be a bit too much for some people’s tastes, but I really enjoy how her voice plays off it.

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I run Reaper 64 @ 96k

Not sure how long I've had mine, but it's been at least 12 years. Probably closer to 15. One of the Bricasti guys (not Casey - and I've forgotten his name) brought it to the old studio for me to audition. I was in the middle of a mix, and I was using one of the convolution verbs with an IR of the Bricasti in the mix. Might have been one of the stone room IR's. Can't remember. We swapped out the hardware for the IR and after about 30 seconds to a minute of futzing and listening, I asked to be excused. I went and got my checkbook, came back, and wrote a check on the spot for the hardware. The difference in "aliveness" was astounding for me, and worth the $$$$. They were cheaper then.... . I understand if some don't "get it". But for me it was absolutely worth the money.

I still like mine....though I've not owned it for 12 years. Could I live with software reverb? Sure, I did so for years. But the M7 gives me sounds that I enjoy. It is easy to find what I want, and it is HW so I can track with it and print that or at a min give it to the talent in a headphone mix.

Is that worth the money - only the individual can make that decision. I don't see it ever going anywhere in my space. I don't use it to have others rave over my sounds. I use it because I like the sounds. People listening with AirPods won't be able to tell I have all NOS Mullards in my AC30 either. But I sure can tell and it makes me happy. I get the ROI question. That is a hard call. People with better ears and skills can make things sound great that I can't. The M7 makes me think I have a better recording space than I do. I'd like to have a 2nd.

For whatever reason, I personally find IR based reverbs need way more sculpting (mainly filtering the input) than algos. Not sure why, and it could just be me. (And I still shape both in the end).

I've had to replace the fans in mine as they get old and worn out. But that's it.

I really miss mine. I still own it but haven’t used it in 3 years and a few months ago I dropped it off at my e so he could hook it up to his fancy new Neve desk.

I don’t really like the IRs and cannot really articulate why, but our business has gotten that I need full mobile recall so even though there’s front end hardware in our studio for tracking, once we get it down it stays ITB. I use quantum evolution now in its place and it sounds way different but it’s the first itb reverb I’ve found that can give me what I’m trying to accomplish, it just goes about it in a different way. I’m really happy with quantum but I still wish I had 2 real bricastis inside my laptop. Or 4 lol.

Somewhere back in time I was given the Bricasti IR's. I use Liquid Sonics 7th Heaven now. The few times I heard the hardware Bricasti for myself, I was impressed. There was a depth to it no other reverb has.

I don't miss hearing the Lexicon XL480 hardware since I've had the Relab version for many years, but I think I would miss the Bricastic if I had one.

Enjoy!