NICK'S WORLD OF SYNTHESIZERS

PLATE REVERB

THE BEAST THE HARMONICON THE SPRINGOTRON 3000 THE STRING RESONATOR THE INTUITIVE SEQUENCER VALVE FILTER PLATE REVERB THE MACHINE MY FIRST SYNTHESIZER

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THE BEAST THE HARMONICON

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This was the easiest of all my machines to make, it took about a week to make. It is basically a sheet of 0.5mm x 1m x 2m stainless steel stretched as tightly as possible, with 1 drive coil and 2 pickups.

The hardest part about making a plate reverb is finding a sheet of steel that is thin enough and big enough. I found mine in a scrap yard. I would have preferred it to be thinner than 0.5mm, but no one in sheffeld (so called steel city) was selling it.

The metal is stretched on a wooden frame using hooked bolts though holes in the corners of the plate. The sound is really nice especially on backing vocals. It is lo-fi and metallic compared to a real EMT plate, but it still has that sparkly quality that you get from a plate. It sounds totally different from a digital simulation plate reverb - they don't have any imperfections and tend to sound nondescript.

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Name: Mark
E-mail: marktmw@gmail.com
Date Posted: 11:04, 06 08 2008
Message: Hey Nick - your plate is ugly and awesome! How did you hook up drivers/transducers, and what did you use?

Cheers for your time

Name: cheater00
E-mail: at gmail /dot/ com
Date Posted: 19:17, 24 04 2008
Message: Sorry - my last comment was about the Valve Filter, but it seems to have been redirected to the plate reverb page somehow? :)
Please, demos, and even better yet, schematics and tube specs! And better yet, both demos and schematics/specs!

Keep it up!

Name: cheater00
E-mail: at gmail /dot/ com
Date Posted: 19:14, 24 04 2008
Message: PLEASE, demos, PLEASE!!

Name: Rod Mitchell
E-mail: lancer63@gmail.com
Date Posted: 22:05, 07 02 2008
Message: I have often wondered what a plate reverb would sound like if made from a sheet of bronze. They make cymbals and gongs from bronze. I think it might me more "musical".

Name: Gavin
E-mail: gavin_paddock@student.uml.edu
Date Posted: 04:23, 07 02 2008
Message: Saw your website, plate reverb looks cool...I'm contemplating making one myself. Do you have any Sound files of the one you made? Thanks!
Gavin