Iconic Instruments has announced the release of GF240 Gold Foil Plate Reverb, an AU/VST recreation of five units of "a deep and haunting gold foil plate reverb", first introduced in 1971.
Similar to the company's SP140 Plate Reverb, the GF240 boasts five models of gold-foil plate reverb, a Density control to tame the reverb signal without losing fullness, an analog-modeled Drive control with filtering and a flexible position in the signal path, a reverb time from six seconds down to 20ms (much shorter than a real plate is capable of), plus Reverb Width and Pan controls.
GF240 Gold Foil Plate Reverb – Feature By Feature:
- Five Plate Models: The GF240 is five different plates in one plugin, based on famous examples.
- Density Control: The Density control allows you actually change the density of the reverb to range from a full, lush plate sounds to a light, transparent wash without reducing the fullness of the reverb.
- Analog Drive: The Drive knob allows you to not only add 70's-era distortion either pre- or post-reverb, but the high- and low-pass set screws give you the ability to place the distortion exactly where you want in the frequency spectrum.
- Send Unit – filtering and EQ: As in a classic studio workflow, the GF240 has a Send Unit that features a filter section with high- and low-pass filters and a shapeable node to control the color of the reverb.
- Reverb Time: The slideable meter gives you control over the tail length, from a full six seconds down to 20 milliseconds (much shorter than available in an analog plate unit), or you can use the plus and minus buttons to conveniently jump in length by half-second intervals.
- Pre-Delay, Send Width: The Send Unit features a classic Pre-Delay control to delay (and slightly separate) the reverb from the original signal. The Send Width control allows you to narrow the input signal on the way into the reverb to help focus your track.
- Reverb Width and Reverb Pan: The Reverb Unit gives you a Reverb Width control that ranges from a full stereo reverb to a fully collapsed mono reverb. These impulses were specifically designed to sum to mono in a way that actually matches a true classic mono plate, rather than just summing left and right channels, which can give you an overly thick, muddy result. And the Reverb Pan control allows you to place the reverb in the center, or pan the entire plate signal off to one side or the other (think Eddie Van Halen's guitar sound on the first 5 records).
- Mix and Solo: The Mix knob allows you set the wet/dry level, but there's also a convenient Solo switch that allows you to preview just the reverberation.
- Presets: The GF240 includes 20 carefully crafted presets that range from classic to abstract.
Intro Price: $/£/€39 (Reg. $/£/€59) at the Iconic Instruments website.
