Waves Abbey Road Plates Review

Just thinking about them makes me want to write some more music to use them on.

Waves abbey road plates review.

The waves abbey road plate reverbs are the best sounding reverbs i have ever heard coming thru my monitors. Used most prominently in the 60s and 70s by pioneering bands including the beatles and pink floyd abbey road studios original reverb plates were first installed in 1957 to complement the fixed reverberation times of the studios echo chambers. But is there still a role for a mixer that was declared obsolete 40 years ago. The waves abbey road reverb plates plugin abbey road original reverb plates are four emt 140 units installed in 1957 to complement the fixed reverberation times of the studios echo chambers.

They fit easily in to any mix and mastering session you use them on. In this review showcase we will be checking out the uad emt 140 based on the emt 140 plate reverb from 1957 and the waves abbey road plates seven different plates in all. The plates have a variable reverb time of up to six seconds. When active vibrations can be seen emanating from the driver and moving over the plate but clicking it converts these to a waveform display.

I can t praise them enough. We put it to the test. Both of these are recreations of faithful old school plate units that became a fundamental sound on so many classic records. Waves latest analogue emulation has unrivalled pedigree.

Abbey road reverb plates applications the bright and fast onset and relatively quick decay into a bassier sound makes the abbey road plates a good choice for acoustic guitar hand percussion piano and percussive synthesizer sounds anything where you want to accentuate the note attack. Waves abbey road reverb plates review waves latest offering abbey road reverb plates focuses on a true classic of vintage reverb. The waves abbey road reverb plates plug in gui provides a pictorial representation of a plate with some very retro looking controls arrayed below it.