A plate reverb is a reverb effect. It’s not going to give you a realistic room sound or a sense of placement within a space like Eventide’s Tverb. Nor is it going to be able to do the mind-bending effects of Eventide’s Blackhole.mholloway wrote: Tue May 17, 2022 6:43 pm Also, I said this, which you left out of your quote:
"I think even a simple plate can do far more than we might initially think; we're just too damn spoiled with this superabundance of options."
A plate does one thing, and you use it when you want that one thing. But given that the 140 isn’t even always the plate that I need when I need a plate, I’d say it is quite limited indeed. I was using the Arturia 140 on pretty much every snare before I got the PSP digital EMT. It wasn’t working for some songs, particularly ‘80s styles, and that became clear when I swapped it with the PSP. It’s just too thick and dark and overbearing for some material. And it’s wholly inappropriate for washy synths or a hall reverb for a string quartet.
But if you never leave the garage rock of early Pink Floyd, it can be all you need.
