Plates of Legend vol. 1X

Product Description

This release of mine has recently been updated, and 7 taped plate reverbs which were ‘resampled’ onto and off of reel to reel tapes were added! I used 3 different decks at different speeds, to provide a nice range of variety in the tone. These do sound different from the main plate programs and in many cases you’ll probably prefer them!

Plate reverbs- legendary for their sound, originally conceived as an alternative to real echo-chambers, but still used well after the advent of digital reverb by many, for the magic that only they can impart. That’s what this series of Nebula reverbs is all about.

There have been at least a few makes and models of plates over the years, but there is one that has been hailed by some as the king of all reverbs, and that is the one we will kick this series off with. Two of these plates have been sampled and realized through the power of Nebula, and are now destined to be key tools in your sonic arsenal.

No two plates are going to sound exactly the same, especially when they may be over half a century old. The manual goes into more detail about why plates even of the same model may sound different. Because these plates are mechanical/electronic hybrid devices, there is probably more variation between your average two examples of this classic reverb than there is between any two examples of a well known ‘vintage’ compressor or EQ. For us this is a great thing, because it means more flavors for us to use!

The first plate used solid state amplification and provides a big wide stereo reverberation (I’m naming it Olympus). The second was one of the earlier plates that used a tube amp and one pickup for a mono output (I named it Styx because of how murky it is). These two variations of this plate are known to provide very different results. Both were sampled to include a fully functional dampening control. It sounds and works great. You won’t find too many other Nebula reverbs with sampled adjustable controls in them, besides some of the other ones I’ve done.

I’ve also included lots of additional variations including a stereo swapped, and several mono versions of the Olympus plate, as well as seven different reel to reel versions that were resampled tot tape using various decks at different speeds. For the normally dark Styx plate, I made an EQ’d version that gives it a flatter response, as well as six variations where I utilized an Orban ‘stereo synthesizer’ which uses comb filtering to produce stereo from a mono source.

I’ve also made lite versions of the programs that you can use while mixing, to set up the controls how you want them, before switching to the full versions to render.

There’s a custom EQ program I’ve made using a custom built rack mounted stereo set of ‘Stooder’ 900 Series console channel strip preamps/equalizers. I have created a program that combines a fully variable high pass filter with a high shelf with adjustable gain. This EQ program is intended to be placed before the reverb so you can shape the results you get out of it. The use of the EQ is optional, but I definitely recommend using either it or any EQ you prefer before the plate programs, to get the most out of them.

Last but not least, these plates have an excellent custom skin by Max Ponomaryov, aka azzimov! It works with both N3 and N4, and allows you to switch between all of the plates quickly.

Here’s an audio demo:

Another demo vid:

You get access to four sample rates upon purchasing- 44.1khz, 48khz, 88.2khz, and 96khz.