But first, a little history: What is Reverb?
In this article, I’m going to take a look at why that is plus some of my favorite ways to use it.
I never got to hear that reverb in action, but plate reverb is an absolutely essential part of my tool kit as a mix engineer and producer. I’m pretty sure I added avocado to mine - and if you ever have to move a plate reverb as a favor, you should request avocado… at a minimum. We spent an evening lugging a heavy, clunky box into a moving truck, and I believe he bought me a burrito as thanks. My first introduction to plate reverb happened some years ago, when my friend (and Pro Audio Files colleague) Max Foreman asked me if I’d help him move a plate reverb unit out of the basement of a studio where he’d been working.