Dang that real plate reverb sounds incredible!!!

The analog plate really give a smooth and nature reverb compare to digital. For the room reverb, 3 of them have very diffrence type of room reverb sounds.

The physical echo-plate just sounds right.

The actual physical delays like the Fender Spring Reverb, the Surfy Bear and the Plate Reverb have that body and physicality to their tone. The reverb is more spatial and seems more integrated with the original sound. They ARE part of the sound. The digital reverbs all sound killer too, and are very very accurate, but not 100%. They feel more tacked on to the sound, not as integrated to the original signal. Difficult to explain, since the difference is really subtle, but it IS there.

There's a much-ignored elephant in the room with us guitar players: reverb impulse responses. Without a doubt they can produce the best quality digital reverb. But there are almost no units available that can host them for live playing. While reverb IRs are essentially a series of presets - without the tweakability of algorithmic 'verbs, most guitar players and singers don't need to endlessly fiddle with their reverb. They need a great sound for their context and reverb IRs are the king for that. I've just bought the Source Audio True Spring and it's a beautiful sounding pedal. But if I could have got a reverb IR pedal that could handle 5 sec 'verb IRs, I'd have gone with it - and I'll use those in my DAW over the pedal or algorithmic plugins.

That echo plate is magical! Another awesome video Andy, must have been a fun one to make :)

The best reverb pedal I've used is the MXR reverb. It's got lots of good options, a warbly mod setting, an "epic" setting, really nice plate, and GOOD SPRING. It's rare to find good spring in a multi-reverb pedal, but MXR pulled it off. Love that thing.

There's video floating on KZfaq of the guitarist from the Beach Boys using the Source Audio Spring reverb. If it's good enough for the Beach Boys, it's good enough me. Great video and playing, Mr. Andy.

I still regret selling my Source Audio Collider… man I loved that Room reverb. Likewise, the Keeley Hydra had a ton of great verbs and it worked so well with the tremolo. Two pedals I should have kept but the chase for tone always has me selling and looking for the next great pedal! Thanks foe the fun comparison vid! My fav of them all was the Fender spring and the plate plugin!

This was a lovely comparison. I was pleasantly surprised by the Source Audio TSR, although I think the Deluxe wins! i liked both the real plate and the EMT emulation though I found them super different - the real plate was very bright and snappy and the EMT was more rich and lush. I have and love the UAD capitol chambers, and you showed it off very well here - kinda think it had the most character out of all the room options. As always, Andy’s playing is phenomenal.

The analog plate sounds incredible, what a wonderful surprise

Great review

No analog, no digital, no software reverb, the phisycal reverb rules all! Thanks for the video! Cheers!

Including universal audio’s Golden to this and you now have the ultimate standard of measurement.

I was really impressed with how well the pedal and software versions of plate and room held up against the real things. The Source Audio pedal sounded good but doesn't beat a genuine spring reverb to my ears. Digital never quite gets the 'drip' right. I bought a SurfyBear Classic earlier this year and it's blown me away! It feels so alive!

Interested to know the amps, pedals, that Waylon Jennings used to obtain his great phaser/reverb classic style.

Good stuff Andy, both sides have their purposes. I dig analog though.

Have to say some of the virtual emulations are pretty damn good, got to hold my hands up here

Neunaber + Fender spring reverb fan for life ;)

Im breaking out the board 🩳 great tones here

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The Echo Plate is one of the best reverbs ever! Miles better than the EMT (I mean the real one), I used to rent one for mixes!! One thing you failed to mention is that you may get cooler or even more natural sounds by changing parameters in the digital units. I know the TSR can sound better than that.

Mr. Sandman lick was cool

Damn, Andy

Analog..with a band ..prefer the richer sound texture..digital of you doing a home recording studio setup, been in both situation... so depends😌.........by the way..nice setup😁

I thought all the plates sounded good, although the physical analog plate did sound different. Not necessarily better, just different flavors. Spring on the other hand… the digital I thought sounded the same as the analog pedal, but didn’t much care for either. The only spring that sounded good to my ears was the amplifier built-in reverb.

Woah! Nothing beats the real EMT!!! 😶

I try not to buy amplifiers without built in reverb and especially combos with reverb tanks! Having said that my Digitech Polara is my favorite for playing live in a big room

Everyone loves reverb.:)

A reverb vidéo about reverb 🤯

There’s the Reverb (the channel) video of Rob Scallon checking out the history of reverb (the effect) in a studio that had the big plate, and the spring tank that looked like a boxing heavy bag in the basement. At one point they ran both together in the control room and it gave a HUGE sound that I wish someone put in a pedal!

So if I've got this right, you sent digital files of your dry guitar, digitally, to Albini's studio and they Re-amped/micd them into his plate verb and then they sent you back the digital file for the wet signal, which you then mixed with your OG dry guitar? If that is the case, I have to call BUNK on all these comments saying the 'real' reverb has _something_ the digital sims lack because, after all - your guitar signal wasn't analog and was digitized...

go with the real one every time

Fender amp reverb sounded the best

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When i get rich and famous im gonna take that plate reverb on tour. :)

Analog all the way, all the chain, for personal use. Nothing sounds like the real thing, nor preserve the dry signal presence. For the other application scenarios, digital has its place.

The Surfybear sounds way worse than I was expecting. Those compact springs just don't cut it. The digital emulation actually sounded better, imo.

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Nothing beats tape delay.

Analog FTW, nothing can beat the real thing.

To me analog gears give better sound for the bass frequencies...

Real plate... no contest unfortunately

I will never understand how people convince themselves that spring reverb is anything but a hokey artifact of cheap, crude old technology. People drench guitars in that crap and I just have to tune it out. Yech

Reverb is racist, don’t support wickedness.