In my 20's I made my own design plate reverb using a wooden frame and a tinned steel plate. It worked but sounded dreadful. Terrible harsh resonances. Then a few years later a friend lent me his Yamaha digital reverb box. There was no comparison. I thankfully turned my plate reverb into scrap wood and metal...
Around that time I saw at a government auction a couple of large AKG reverb units in their own wooden boxes but I think they used a high grade spring reverb system rather than a plate. Our national broadcaster had probably replaced them with the new digital reverbs.
Abbey Road Plate Reverbs
Re: Abbey Road Plate Reverbs
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Re: Abbey Road Plate Reverbs
Martin Walker wrote:I searched high and low on the site to find that gem, but failed - I suspect you're biased Hugh
Biased? How very dare you?! Best integrity money can buy here, I assure you...
It was on the Specifications page, second paragraph:
Plutoplate wrote:The Pluto Plate™ is designed with a larger plate than older models, which we found to attain a greater warmth. The plate is passive, allowing the engineer to choose their favorite driver-amp and pre-amp for the return. Output is mic level via class A transformers.
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(But generally posting my own personal views and not necessarily those of SOS, the company or the magazine!)
In my world, things get less strange when I read the manual...