DIY Plate Reverb Unit

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when you started that there was no diy forum so no harm no foul...

i 've been around long enough to have lusted over such things... so props for follow through... and sounds good too...
 
Very cool!

It sounds like you'd want to run it through an eq to dial it in. On the girl it sounded pretty good. On the drums I heard some stuff that I'd want to notch out, a ring on the snare, but that's probably to be expected. I'd try to squeeze as much high, high end as I could out of it. An engineer once told me that the reverb he liked sounded like when water splashes when someone dives in a pool. Or like "AAAaaaahhhh", almost with a hiss. A lot of times I like to zap (roll off) the bottom end and just use the treble on the reverb. The boomy part of reverb isn't very musical.

The plate is 3' x 5'... how thick is it and what does it weigh?

Can you adjust the reverb length on it or is it determined by the plate mass?

When I was in my early 20's I used an EMT but was just getting into recording and didn't really study the unit.
 
Without a doubt you want to EQ the plate return signal.

I've never run drums through it before and what you heard is exactly what came off out of the plate with no EQ whatsoever.

The plate is approx. 1mm thick. The only way I have to adjust it is to move 2 foam dampeners that make contact with the plate. There is no way to change the mass of the plate. The whole unit is very heavy, in the order of 50lbs or so. The plate really isn't near that heavy but the frame and the cover are pretty heavy by themselves. The unit could be built much lighter but weight was of no concern to me. I knew I was going to permanent mount it on the wall.
 
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