You may be right about Frank, And many of the other early Abbey road Brit bands. Other singers like Adele have recorded there in recent years and way back in the days of Sinatra plate reverb was a large studio standard everywhere. Abbey Road is famous for other things like reel ADT for doubling etc. My initial observation of the Abbey road reverb collection is that it could be nice on " real singers" Streisand, Aguilera, Sinantra, Humperdink, Rawls, Celion Deion, Houston, Martina McBride, Carrie Underwood on some songs etc. You get my drift, People who sound good singing the phone book. They are great singers and cut great virgin tracks, need little to no pitch correction, and usually are looking more for presence than effect. As I also said I'm sure if a person plays with it enough they can get it to work for a lot of applications. It just has a sound of it's own, it is supposed to. I'm sure I will use it on some recordings but if I could only keep one reverb bundle for the type of recordings I do, I don't think this one would be it. Nice to have in the tool kit but probably not one you will use everyday. This is all my initial impression. We all know how that can change after we have spent some serious time with anything. I will report more including CPU usage when I have had more time to play with it.