The EMT® 140 Plate Reverb, says legendary engineer Alan Parsons, was “virtually the only reverb we used on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.” Universal Audio’s EMT® 140 Classic Plate Reverberator Plug-In is stunningly accurate to the legendary unit’s character and class. This article looks at several ways you can exploit UA’s EMT 140 plug-in, from basic setup and mix ideas to. Pro: UAD EMT 140 Plate Universal Audio is the top name in vintage emulation and their plugins run on a dedicated hardware platform. Their loving reproduction of the classic EMT 140 tube plate reverb is a. EMTs founder Wilhelm Franz made a breakthrough in 1957 with the release of the EMT 140, which utilized a resonating metal plate to create ambience. Our Rev PLATE-140 is a circuit-accurate recreation of the iconic EMT®️ 140 reverb and its vacuum tube preamp. A classic, full bodied studio plate reverb with a lush tail, a dream come true for vocals, and adding that sought-after glue and space to your mix.
It's that time of the year again (already, huh) when Soundtoys releases Little things that go a long way.
In this 5-Minute UAD Tips video, you’ll learn how to apply the unique sound of the EMT® 140 Classic Plate Reverberator Plug-In to your mixes.For more informa. FREE PLATE REVERB EMT 140 BY ARTURIA. Fake name and adress I saved in my PW manager so that's no big deal. I paid 150 Euro for an older UAD version, so honestly for a well programmed plugin, I dont think a signup is that kind of a big deal. For all my musician friends out there here's a Free Piano VST Plugin. UAD’s EMT 140 sounds absolutely gorgeous. I think where it shines is in matching the tone of instruments. Whether you’re mixing biting vocals, airy guitars, or crisp drums, the EMT 140 sounds great on the all. The only downside of the EMT 140 is its price. In order to use it, you need to own an audio interface from UAD.
Available for free until November 22th is Little Plate, a plate reverb plugin based on the hefty EMT 140 plate reverb unit introduced in 1957 by Wilhelm Franz at Germany’s Elektro-Mess-Technik.
Best Plate Reverb ever Made
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Even in 2017, the EMT 140 is still regarded as the best plate reverb ever made.
A few fun facts I came across today while digging for more information about this mythical verb machine:
The real thing still costs thousands (dollars, euros) today, if you manage to find one in reasonable condition.
There was an EMT 140 Plate Reverb for sale on reverb.com a few years ago for around 5000 Euros. I'm not sure whether it was actually sold or not.
The EMT 140 weighs hundreds of pounds, it's about the size of an upright piano without the keys.
It takes at least three people to carry and at least one chiropractor to realign their joints afterwards.
The EMT 140 was virtually the only reverb that was used on Pink Floyd’s 'Dark Side of the Moon.'
Speaking of vibrating plates… In 1957, the year the EMT 140 plate was introduced, San Francisco got all shook up by an earthquake also known as the Daly City earthquake, on March 22nd. That's the same day Elvis’ “All Shook Up” was released as a single. Coincidence? I think not! ;)
Tons of Plates
Double hat tip to Soundtoys for making such a tasteful 32-second teaser for a new product.
You'd almost think wish something bigger is coming up. 'Revenge of the Plate Verbs' on Netflix, anyone?
The sounds are headphone-worthy:
To develop this plugin, Soundtoys obsessively collected five real EMT 140 units from around the United States, put them in the labs in Burlington, a city in northwestern Vermont, USA (best known for ski resorts, IBM employees, maple syrup, and Ben & Jerry's ice cream.)
After potentially breaking the bank, dislocating a few vertebrae, cleaning, tuning, testing, and coding, they ultimately ported the classic EMT 140 sound over to the digital realm.
In other words: tons of plate reverb (a single EMT 140 weighs 600 pounds) are now available in a Soundtoys plugin that weighs and costs nothing.
Little Plate will set you back $99 after November 22nd though.
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Plugin Interface & Features
Meeting the needs of those of us tinkering daily with today's DAW's, Soundtoys too added a few useful features to the plugin that were not available on the original EMT 140 hardware unit:
Compared to the EMT 140's limited reverb decay time of around 6 seconds or so, Little Plate offers a broader range of reverb decay times, from half a second up to infinity - so that you can use it both for short ambience reverb effects and frozen reverbs. Check out the product page for audio examples.
Use the Modulation switch to subtly modulate the reverb's tail for a thicker sound on vocals, keys, guitars, and other instruments. Check out the product page for some examples.
Use the Low-Cut Filter to remove the build-up of low frequencies in the reverb to keep your mix clean and modern. The filter goes all the way to 20 kHz. That should be useful if you're into using plate verb on percussion.
Plate Reverb Tips & Tricks
In all fairness, you can't say 'EMT 140 plugin' without mentioning other third-party plugin developers, two of them being Universal Audio and Waves.
UA published an excellent page covering how and when to use plate reverb back in the summer of 2011.
The tips are still valid today.
To get you going, this quote:
Another cool option would be to use DAW automation to gradually increase the reverb level on the strings — often called a “reverb build” — in order to create a heightened sense of drama as the piece develops. This would be impossible to do with the hardware because of the mechanical noise, but with the plug-in version, continuous automation of decay time works perfectly.
More tips to be found in the full article, here:
The Abbey Road Reverb Technique
You can't say 'EMT 140' without mentioning the Abbey Road Reverb Technique either.
As plate reverbs are still widely used today, mostly on vocals I presume, you may want to learn more about this mix engineering trick if you haven't already.
Put simply, the Abbey Road Reverb trick involves rolling off everything below 600Hz and above 10kHz by using high- and low-pass filters placed before the reverb.
As demonstrated by mix engineer Dave Pensado in this video (there's a big bonus tip about 9 minutes in: watch Dave use a little tube saturation for extra plate lushness, it's subtle but brilliant):
Download & Plugin Formats
Download Little Plate here.
Be patient, Soundtoys' servers have been awfully busy as of this morning.
To use Little Plate, you'll need a free iLok account, which you can get here.
If you're already an owner of the Soundtoys 5 bundle like me, note that a license for Little Plate has already been deposited in your iLok account.
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If the new version 4 of the iLok License Manager software is giving you major BS, don't panic, take a few minutes to read this:
Little Plate comes in the AAX Native, AAX AudioSuite, VST, and Audio Units plugin formats, both 32 and 64-bit.
Have fun with your new soundtoy!
One thing’s for sure: Not all EMT 140 reverb-plate plug-in emulations are created equal. The engineers and ears at Universal Audio modeled, measured and tuned their new EMT 140 Classic Plate Reverberator plug-in ($199) from three different 140s at The Plant Studios in Sausalito, CA. And it has received the EMT Studiotechnik GmbH blessing.
For those who may not know, the “plate” in hardware-plate reverbs was a large sheet of stainless steel suspended by springs in a wooden box. Combining a driver (speaker coil) to move the plate with two contact microphone/pickup elements (if stereo), the plate would be vibrated by the incoming signal and simulate reverb through the vibrations created within the plate. A physical damper, that was adjustable, would allow the plate to resonate for longer (undamped) or shorter times. External delays or EQ was frequently added to the signal for effect.
Designed for UA’s UAD-1 or UAD-2 cards, it will run VST, AU and RTAS. While the GUI is based on the original hardware, it has a few useful enhancements. Its Input filter — usually found on the plate amplifier itself — has two types of low-cut filters: original EMT electronics, which offered three variations on a fixed 80 Hz filter, and common plate retrofit Martech electronics, offering six shelving frequencies between 90 and 360 Hz.
UA’s EMT 140 also features three plate models (brighter, darker, full bandwidth) and damper controls, which range from 0.5 to 5.5 seconds in 0.1 second intervals. Also available is width adjustment from mono to full stereo (zero to 100 percent), L/R/C balance, Predelay, Modulation Controls and an EQ section independent of the Input Filter.
It’s easy to get a great sound with this reverb. I tried it on snares, stereo loops, vocals and keys. The three plates each have a unique tonal quality, but I kept coming back to B (the dark one). Adding Pre Delay (up to 250ms) to a snare was killer, and the ability to filter low end in two different ways on the drum loop was a nice touch.
Universal Audio’s Eastern regional sales manager Bruce MacPherson also had a few good EMT 140 tips to share with me. “It’s great in multi mono mode with different decays, getting a slightly different sound on the left and right side in a stereo mix,” he noted. “It’s also nice to use it like a real amp reverb by placing it after an amp simulator with the speaker bypassed and then before the speaker in a second one with the amp bypassed — beautifully haunting!”
Overall, there’s no question the Universal Audio 140 is the most flexible software version of the classic EMT on the market. And, most importantly, its sound is classic: warm and wide like the original. It’s just a lot easier to use (and a lot smaller and lighter)!
Contact: Universal Audio | 866-UAD-1176 | uaudio.com
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