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This featured a large flexible metal plate (8’ x 4’), suspended in a soundproof enclosure. Enter EMT, with the mechanical plate reverb design. But besides the problem of availability, the downside (of any live chamber) was that, once the room was built and tuned, that was the one sound you got-most critically, you couldn’t effectively adjust reverb time, often a key setting when using reverb in a mix. Abbey Road had three of these, which were in constant use, thanks to heavy booking. The earliest method for generating reverb in the studio was the live chamber-a dedicated room with a speaker and mics, fed via tie-lines from the control room, which could generate real, rich acoustic reverberation. For those who haven’t quite been around long enough (ahem) to have come across one of these electro-mechanical beauties in person, a little background might be in order. Plate reverbs were, at one time, the state of the art when it came to generating reverb in the studio, and though they’ve since been eclipsed by the flexibility of digital reverbs, their unique sound is still sought after for all kinds of music.

Fig 1 The Waves Abbey Road Reverb Plates plug-in

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