Plate and spring reverbs

Plate and spring reverbs, the best kind of reverb.

What plate and spring reverbs are people out there using? (hardware or software)

i don't own any hardware reverbs like that but i love the software plugins Audioease Speakerphone and the Reaktor patch 'spring tank' they mostly do the job for me for getting a gritty old spring or other type of reverb sound.

edit: here is a track i made a while back using mostly Reaktor reverbs and tape delay emulations

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=189085 ( click on track 4 preview, you will be able to listen to the whole thing)

Couldn't do without them. I also have an extensive collection of impulse responses from all kinds of units, I hold convolution reverberation close to my heart.

A good tip for you lot is testing this: signal->fx such as phaser/flanger with lots of feedback->spring reverb. The feedback makes for a very shifting/clangy reverb sound.

Lots of Altiverb users here then? I was considering buying a real spring reverb (eg one of the Vermona ones) but never really checked out any convolution stuff yet.

I use real ones quite a bit, we have a 'great british spring' and a pair of emt 162 plates. The spring is cool but only on some things, the plates are amazing, best reverb I have ever heard by far.

Those little spring reverb units are not that expensive, you see them for a couple of hundred quid, and to be honest the plates arn't that expensive for how good they are, you just need a big room to put them in, a lorry and crane to get them in it and a tecnician to give them a once over after the move! Not to mention that you have to find one in working order. So impractical rather than expensive.

You can make both quite easily as well, all they are is a plate/spring with a transducer at each end. some method of dampening maybe if you are getting tech. I keep meaning to give it a try but time and all that!

anyone done this before?

heres a vid

I use Voxengo Pristine Space.

I've also made my own single-spring unit, but the pickup isn't that good so it doesn't get too much use.

my guitar amp (fender blues jr) has a spring reverb, it's freakin' excellent. great for surf music!

one of the guys in my band has a 60s spring reverb unit, sounds really great when you shake it around or kick it, hehe.

  welcome to the machine said:

I use real ones quite a bit, we have a 'great british spring' and a pair of emt 162 plates. The spring is cool but only on some things, the plates are amazing, best reverb I have ever heard by far.

 

Those little spring reverb units are not that expensive, you see them for a couple of hundred quid, and to be honest the plates arn't that expensive for how good they are, you just need a big room to put them in, a lorry and crane to get them in it and a tecnician to give them a once over after the move! Not to mention that you have to find one in working order. So impractical rather than expensive.

 

You can make both quite easily as well, all they are is a plate/spring with a transducer at each end. some method of dampening maybe if you are getting tech. I keep meaning to give it a try but time and all that!

 

anyone done this before?

 

heres a vid

yeah one of these days i'm gonna build a spring reverb, the one on my amp is great but i can't use it for anything other than guitar.

Ah right, there's a spring reverb on my "bass" amp as well.

another ridiculous thread...

which is the best voice? male or female? alto or tenor?

  blicero said:

another ridiculous thread...

which is the best voice? male or female? alto or tenor?

Everybody except you has given a good contribution to the plate/spring reverb discussion so far.

  Rbrmyofr said:

  blicero said:

another ridiculous thread...

which is the best voice? male or female? alto or tenor?

Everybody except you has given a good contribution to the plate/spring reverb discussion so far.

oops, my bad...

i thought the thread was asking which reverb was better, plate or spring. that is why i thought it was a stupid thread. my apologies. carry on.

have you guys tried using a piano like a spring reverb?

i've recorded some stuff right next to an upright piano. took off the panel that's between the keyboard and the pedals and recorded some voices and claps. sounds like a timestretch effect kind of

  Adjective said:

have you guys tried using a piano like a spring reverb?

i've recorded some stuff right next to an upright piano. took off the panel that's between the keyboard and the pedals and recorded some voices and claps. sounds like a timestretch effect kind of

nice idea, the only home made reverbs i've really experienced with are my own chamber verbs basically taking a loudspeaker out to different locations like tiled bathrooms or crazy huge open spaces and recording the sound played off the speaker with a mic.

I recently found this one for $60. I like that it has two channels, to put different amounts of reverb and EQ on L and R in a stereo signal.

There's another Fostex spring reverb at the pawn shop I've been eyeing for a year and a half, but it's $200 and doesn't have the features of the Tapco one.

  scones to die for said:

 

I recently found this one for $60. I like that it has two channels, to put different amounts of reverb and EQ on L and R in a stereo signal.

 

There's another Fostex spring reverb at the pawn shop I've been eyeing for a year and a half, but it's $200 and doesn't have the features of the Tapco one.

I was going to mention those! they are meant to be great for the money, good find!

as for piano verb I was thinking about doing that to. PSP used to make a plugin called 'pianoverb' I think it was free, I used to use it on everything in my old tracks, it was odd but awesome, I'll see if I can find it....

  ieafs said:

but it's even better with a piano to put something to hold down the sustain pedal and you get that nice wooden reverb but also the sympathetic resonance from the piano strings. it's quite weird to play a loud chord on an electric guitar or something near by and then stop suddenly and you get this exact ghostly resonance/reverb from the sustained keys - ie only the ones in the chord you've just played ring out in sympathy.

that sounds like a really nice effect!

  ieafs said:

there's a guy from my city who plays a custom-built guitar that has tunable sympathetic strings inside the body of the guitar itself so he can have that effect at will... open tune them all to the key he's playing in or whatever and there's this automatic coloured reverb-smoke around whatever he plays.

i had a similar idea today, i'm going to try putting a speaker inside a 12-string guitar body, and tune the 12 strings chromatically, with an electric pickup on it.. wonder if that'll work.

  welcome to the machine said:

as for piano verb I was thinking about doing that to. PSP used to make a plugin called 'pianoverb' I think it was free, I used to use it on everything in my old tracks, it was odd but awesome, I'll see if I can find it....

Yeah it's a great little plugin ( http://www.pspaudioware.com/plugins/piano.html ), and I was gonna suggest exactly the same thing ! Obviously it works well with a good Piano VSTi too (like the oh so lovely Pianoteq).

are there any impulse responses of the inside of pianos available online somewhere?

like the "body" of the piano, not the string sounds

anybody else here making their own chamber reverbs? just simply using a natural reverbed environment (indoor or outdoor) to process something through. I like spring reverbs, and plates but i think the original poster missed a vital analogue reverb when making this thread! also in terms of expense a chamber reverb is almost always cheaper

Have you tried this beast of a natural reverb: http://www.tank-fx.com/

I like sending random drones in there in the middle of the night to freak out some students.

  mcbpete said:

Have you tried this beast of a natural reverb: http://www.tank-fx.com/

 

I like sending random drones in there in the middle of the night to freak out some students.

fucking awesome! never heard of it but yeah if webcams and stuff have been around for a while it makes sense that someone would do an acoustic audio processor

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