We see a simple array of controls, the biggest of which is Decay. On the other hand, compared to many reverbs, the interface is refreshingly spare and non-intimidating. Let’s take a close-up look at the UI, which like all ValhallaDSP offerings makes no effort to imbue charm with nostalgic recreations of analog gear faceplates. So, the question we must ask ourselves is: does a reverb that specializes in plate algorithms sound that much different from a general-purpose effect? Frankly, I was quite surprised to find out just how much it can, at least in the case of Valhalla Plate. How accurate a reproduction of the real thing is this? Personally, I have no idea since, probably like most of you, I’ve never had my hands on the real thing. Well, that (among other things of course) is just what most algorithmic reverbs do in providing their plate presets. So, given this kind of obvious obsession, we soon get the sense that we’re in the hands of an individual who clearly knows his subject with deep expertise.īut back to reality – so what? Why not just take a garden variety algorithmic reverb, nix the early reflections and call it a plate.
Your voice will excite all the strings that are close to the pitch of your voice. Hold down the sustain pedal, and sing into it. In a recent post on KVR he wrote: As a kid, I used to play around with our old upright piano as a reverb. Costello himself – well this fellow is as much of an audio geek as you’re ever likely to find. Interestingly, the reverb times got longer as chambers aged since the plaster on the walls got drier and less absorbent (thus more “bouncy”).Īs to Mr. The bounciness of the walls allowed for suitably long reverb tails. While this being a natural reverb, there were early reflections, the small size of the chamber minimized the arrival times and the result was mostly reverb tail. They were literally that: an isolated chamber with very reflective walls that had a speaker at one and a microphone at the other. Chamber reverbs were a reverb solution used by major studios in the olden days before computers. One thing I found fascinating, and this is chiefly from reading some very informative material on the ValhallaDSP website written by Sean Costello, the man behind ValhallaDSP, is that chamber reverbs have many common characteristics with plate reverbs. For those wishing to do so, I’ll provide a link to information provided on the Valhalla web site at the end of this review. But there’s much more to it than that, and I’m not going to attempt to plumb those depths here or even pretend that I halfway understand them. Sound travels way faster in metal than it does through air, so the reverb tail begins almost instantaneously. One chief difference is that there are no early reflections in plate reverbs. Plate reverbs do something quite different from the natural reverberation caused by enclosed reflective spaces – the mechanisms by which reverberations are produced by plates are physically very different. But the excitement of this new plate reverb most definitely roused my curiosity. So, for all the widespread enthusiasm the home-studio community has for Valhalla gear, I just never thought it would be of interest to me.
I have another excellent convolution reverb made by Waves and lastly, I have the oh-so-elegant Aether from 2CAudio. I have two superb reverbs (an algorithmic and a convolution) that came with Cubase. Fair question, and if you’re asking it, then it also admirably shows that you have your GAS under control.Īfter all, how important is having extensive reverb options really? My fellow SoundBytes writer Dave Townsend once made the sage observation in a forum post that went something like this: why do people tend to obsess over the qualities of this or that reverb to produce audio that usually ends up down 18 dB in the mix anyway?Īlthough ValhallaDSP reverbs are quite popular, in my own case I had never jumped on the Valhalla bandwagon. Now, the first thing a lot of you are going to ask yourself is “why would I ever consider getting another reverb when I’ve already got a bunch of them that I never use along with a couple of go-to plug-ins that always just get the job done?”. So, with just enough time to look into it, we present here a review of ValhallaDSP’s new reverb, the Valhalla Plate. issue of SoundBytes, a new plug-in hit the market and it’s causing a great deal of excitement. Just as we were about to go live with our Nov. Think you have all the reverbs you need? Well, we have some bad news for you because evidently you haven’t yet encountered Valhalla Plate, the just released creation from ValhallaDSP.
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