Sony mu r201 manual

Contribute Write a user review Post a classified ad Write a tutorial or a tip Suggest a news item Create a topic in the forum Add a picture Add an audio extract Add a video Add a file manual, brochure Ask for a user review Overview - quick selection. See all 21 photos of Sony MU R Average Score:. Write a user review. The Sony MU R is a vintage stereo digital reverb and multi-effects unit and is one of the first of it's kind. It is rack mountable and will only take up a single space.

I'm glad that the person who brought this into the studio that I work at actually knew how to use it, as I wouldn't be able to use it on first sight for sure. You can toggle between different sounds pretty easily, but beyond that I don't really know how to use it well.

Perhaps given a Perhaps given a situation where I had to use it on my own, I could rise to the occasion, but I've yet to have that chance. The manual might be helpful for someone new to it. The Sony MU-R Digital Reverb released back in is clearly becoming more well known, with prices on the rise of late. Talk about a late bloomer! Most do not know that the Sony MU-R was just one piece of a very large range of Sony Professional Audio products all wearing the same design language. While the Sony MU-R was not well known in the west, the rest of the range is virtually unheard of outside of Japan.

It seems that every week we find another member of the Sony MU Series of products, but to date we have the following:. Oddly, there is no digital delay. Some models appear with both options. Over the coming months we will be adding information for the entire range here. I found my sample at least to be a little noisy, certainly noisier than the Sony MU-R You would think the later model with better converters and specifications for noise floor etc, would put the older model to shame, but it was the other way around for me, at least when it came to reverb on snares.

So preset 31 is actually Bank 3 and preset 1 within that bank etc. A very simple process and if you liked the resulting change, you could then save your preset in the user bank. I occasionally used it for vocal duties too, but I tended to fall back on the Roland SRV for vocal duties on the album.

Over time I have owned a few of the Sony MU-R reverbs, and almost always they arrive with a problem. The problem on everyone that I received was the same…it would work fine and then start glitching, like digital glitch that sounds awful. The immediate thought is that the reverb is dead and throw it away, but I ma here to tell you it is an easy fix!

The Sony MU-R is actually very well made and out of the four I have owned they never failed, at least not after I fixed them first! I am lucky enough to have a very savvy tech that I use who is more capable than any other tech I have used and thanks to him, we discovered what the problem was.

On the main circuit board that covers the entire base of the unit, there are a few copper bars that sit between each section of the board to provide electrical isolation between the digital, analogue and power supply sections. Typically these copper bars serve no part of the circuit itself, and are usually soldered into the ground circuit of the board, and on the Sony MU-R they each have several solder points on the board. What my tech discovered however is that on the Sony MU-R these copper bars form part of the circuit and they suffer from dry joints which when shipped around the world causes these joints to fail, thus breaking the circuit.

To repair these dry joints is very easy and if you look at each and every solder joint for these bars, typically you will see several dry joints throughout. Simply hit these dry joints with your soldering iron and all is well again, it really is that easy.

From what I have experienced and I have repaired three of these reverbs now the unit will play up with a single dry joint so you have to make sure you get them all and a Lupe or magnifying glass is essential to check each and every solder joint. With repairs out of the way, one other thing to know is that there is a remote control available for this reverb, but it is rare as hens teeth. After years of searching, I managed to secure a Sony MU-R with the remote control, both of which were in excellent condition.

The coolest feature of the MU-R is that it is a true stereo reverb. This unit and the Ibanez clone version was meant to take on the Lexicon PCM70 in the marketplace, when being true stereo was quite unique. Some presets are dual mono, where each input feeds a different algorithm.