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No plugin developer expected a youtube comparison involving a real plate. Respect.

I like SoundToys Little Plate, has 3 knobs. Decay time, high pass, dry/wet. Works great for me

Surely the main reason you can’t find the “best” one is because it’s completely subjective.

Arturia has a drop down window for further eq and modular it can get clean or funky I love it. And that gave it out on Christmas 🔥

Always expect so little from YTs audio algo it never ceases to amaze me the clear differences in these types of comparisons. Good work.

I love this. I just saw your tape emulation comparison video earlier today before this popped in my notification. So please keep making these videos. I am really trying to understand the plate sound and this helps.

The Arturia Rev-140 has been my go-to recently. I got it for free a year or so ago and it really sounds great on snares, vox and guitars.

I have the Black Rooster Audio plate and I honestly like it quite a lot. Several types of "metal" to pick from and some tweakable knobs but all its basic settings. I can usually get the tone I want in just a few clicks.

Wow, love the format you took for shootout (comparing to hardware; and you didn’t pick a favorite) Appreciate that you are trying new things on your channel. I loved this video!!

I personally really like the valhalla plate the most. It's the most versatile plate reverb on the market, and for 50usd it is also pretty affordable. I love using it on guitar and vocals, it has a really nice spacious sound! It might not be the most realistic one, but it definately has an amazing sound!

I love this. Helps me discern the differences in plug-ins (and developers) without having to spend a day trying it myself. Thanks, man!

Arturia Rev plate 140 is great (my favourite sounding out of the ones I own) but my default is Valhallas

I think you missed the "Advanced" settings on the Arturia plug-in. If you click it, you can also set pre-delay, HP-filter, modulation and post EQ.

I tried almost all of the plugins in your test myself for a project recently. My conclusion was that it completely depends on the context and individual track which of them I liked most. They all sounded best at something, but none sounded best at everything.

The amount of hours/days it (probably) took to produce This video deserves an award in of it self. You’re doing gods work my friend.

Great video. My favorite is the FabFilter Pro R Reverb. It has a very nice plate as well.

Thank you so much for this video. It was very interesting to hear the differences. I adore th PlugIns from ValhallaDSP and this one was no exception. Honestl I would love to see a video from you showing some reverb PlugIns. Not so much maybe for comparison but for artistic reasons. For example: Which reverb do you use for which effect the most.

This is pretty interesting! What about a comparison of compressors that emulates a specific analog unit? For example the Altec 436 RS 124, it has lots of emulations out there, Waves, Acustica Audio Cream 2, United plugins Royal Compresor, The 1st mode on the Zener Limiter emulation by softube… tons of this thing heheh

Cool format - nice to hear the differences and characteristics between the plugins.

Transatlantic from rare signals seems to be a solid plate plugin.... if I see It on sale I will catch it! but my go to is the EMT-140 from UAD!

Arturia's and Abbey Road by Waves are by far, the best sounding plates! I know no ones asked for my opinion, I'm just voicing it out because things are quiet at work and I don't have much to do right now

My go to is Slate Digital - VerbSuite Classics - Drums - Wide Snare Plate. I just dial the gain and Dry / Wet way down and adjust Decay and EQ and its all good.

great video. Thanks for the comparisons!

I recently got the Arturia free with my Landr subscription, it's really impressive. The Rev X that I get with Steinberg is also fantastic. I've used OrilRiver on a few tracks aswell, it's hard to believe that it's completely free. Sad that it is no longer being updated, it was a genuinely good reverb, regardless of the price.

Hi, you are conducting a quite interesting comparison here. Thanks. What I would like to find out is, which plugin has the best CPU Performance vs which has best Sound, so in my experience most of the reverbation plugins can be really taking a lot of CPU away or introduce a lot of latency due to convolution FIRs with long Impulse Responses.

Nice test! I personally love the Lexicon collection, including the Plate of course-)

I’d vote for more comparisons like this. Dang, they all sound so different. Hard to choose. I personally liked the Hofa and the Denise the best in their sound. The question is, which one would be the best for an over the top 80’s drum track?

I like this video! I think it would be great to do a follow-up video with a mix...maybe the top 3 plate reverb plugins that you liked in two different genres of music. =)

I think UVI PLATE should have been here I think it sounds pretty good.

The Slate Lustrous Plates rules! That thing continually surprises me.

I think this format is extremely important. I've never seen posts like this on KZfaq, comparing multiple plug-ins with real hardware.

Lustrous, Sunset Sound, Arturia and EMT sound best to me. Seems like you'd need to roll some of the high end off the others for a better comparison.

When you talk about reverb I always remember this! Once a time a guy said "This doesn't sounds like My Plate!"

Please, do more plugin comparisons! Very good. It's very boring to have to always compare my own plugins so if you can do this job would be incredible!! Thanks

You are really passionate about these things we really need ppl like you on yt😂❤️

This is fantastic - was really surprised with the differences. You should try UVI Plate and Black Rooster Audio RO-140

this was a lot of work, great job. as for feedback, i like this format but it's probably worthwhile to sometimes do it with a smaller selection in a little more detail, possibly with part 1 part 2 etc videos to shootout another group. and then there would be the option to ultimately shoot out the favorites from all of those previous groups. i understand the efficiency of using a snare, but a brief selection of other material (including human voice i hope) would probably be worthwhile.

I just played this game. I stopped at 15 🙄 There were a couple of surprises in there for me. When choosing while mixing, I'll usually chuck some on and stop when I hear one I like for that job. I'd usually start with the Arturia plate or Soundtoys Little Plate. Honourable mentions for today:- Dragonfly Plate Phoenixverb Xenoverb Melda Convolution Presonus' OpenAir (inside Studio One) TAL II & III Waves H-Verb Waves R-Verb I could make any of the above work for me I reckon.

Thanks and please do more. One suggestion: match the volumes; the difference in output levels was making a listening comparison difficult.

Very cool. They all sound good, and different!

Again an awesome video… I have a few of them… trying to down size because I have too many plugins…. Lol

i think transatlantic plate and gold plate by kush audio are a couple really good options to check out.

Thanks for the video. I think Black Rooster Audio's RO-140 would have been interesting to include as well.

They are all good. The main question is best for what? It depends of your situation, mix, genre etc. I would use anyone of those and sculp it further to my needs. In the end, audience would recognize the diference only if you slap bitcrusher at the end. :)

great work. level matching in some cases seemed to be the biggest difference

I personally like this kind of videos ! It makes me loose less hair trying to find a good plugin ! BTW : Arturia plate has an eq section that you can open by clicking the top right expand button.

I use mainly slate vintage verb but they are more digital style plates (I usually use the bm7 plates which I find beautiful in vocals) , I do occasionally use lustrous plates though it sometimes completely makes my session fall apart but cubase is a pain like that. I have tried Abbey road plates but doesn't work so well for the more lush mixes I go for. Your EMT definitely has a certain sound to it, quite dark with this interesting knock in the attack and modulation in the decay. Personally I preferred alot of the plugins, but they sound more similar, your EMT reminds me of some 60s recordings and reggae/dub tracks.

Very great demo - the best I'd found was the Valhalla Vintage Verb set to Sanctuary - EMT-250 - Big Snare, that is until... I just got the Arturia Rev-Plate 140 and I have to say it does sound pretty realistic ;-)

Yours is fairly dark compared to all of them. It's taken many years for me to enjoy digital plate verbs. The only one I have out of these is the Arturia. I've played with the Abby Road on a friend's system. The Arturia sounds very nice and usable in any context.... and it's simple(my preference 😏 ). It's my main go to voc verb. The Abby Road also sounds very nice in context of a track. Valhalla is a great sounding verb period, but not my choice for pure plate duty. Could you do a saturation shoot out, please 😊🙏

I think the Transatlantic Plate Reverb from Rare Signals is a must for this kind of video. Most amazing plate I've heard itb

Soundtoys Little Plate reverb is allready mentioned a lot, but I love that one too. I don't own a lot of them, but I use the Strymonn Bluesky (pedal) and the Satanverb (not sure if it's really plate reverb, but I guess it sounds like one. And offcourse the Reaverb.

I wonder what kind of reverb is on Sandstorm by Darude? :) Great video! Keep doing more content like this!

Can't believe I just listened to a grown man bang a garbage can lid in an office building stairway a hundred times and talk about it! Yes please tdo more of the same, though, and I did listen all the way through! I'm surprised how off Valhalla was! I think in this case everything was so varied -- which matches real plates too you said -- make this more interesting than useful in making a choice. I think it would be good in future comparisons to take maybe the three most interesting and hear them en la sandstorm. Thank you!

the Arturia has more settings if you press the "advanced" button (eq, modulation etc)

The UAD plate reverbs are my personal favourites!

Great video! my faves are 1.Arturia RevPlate 140 2.Waves Abbey Road Plate 3.LiquidSonics Lustrous Plates 4.IK Multimedia Sunset Plate 5.Hofa IQ reverb V2 6.Acon Digital Verberate The others were ok.

Did you see the advanced button on the arturia plate? they often hide foldout menus there and the plate has one.

Little plate, rare signal & UVI should be included IMO. Those are my go-to plate reverbs.

Could I have spotted a small bottle of Snakeoil in the Ridge Wallet advertisement ? On top of the Sony Box in the background ?

When auditioning the default settings, keep in mind that some developers set the mix knob to 100%, assuming that most people will use the reverb on a bus as opposed to inserting an instance into each channel's effects box, In which case, a 50% setting would be more appropriate..

Great comparison video

UVI plate is also very good and possibly the most flexible.

I ask myself that question at least once a year!

EMT 140 acoustic impulses and any convolution reverb (mostly S.I.R 2) is what i use.. thanks for this ..new sub :)

Maybe try the plate presets in Fabfilter Pro-R. (For one, it wouldn't be such a pain to set up.) Pro-R is very tweak-able.

I’ve been diggin the Black Rooster RO-140 lately. ...and if you hurry you might still be able to catch the deal for $29! Great deal on a great verb.

The current Arturia Rev Plate 140 has many hidden advanced controls you missed- click on upper right. Also now works in Win. 7 for us die hards.

Maybe you did check while testing, but during the presentation after tweaking, you changed presets on Valhalla, overwriting your tweaks, so we never got to hear it with the model with right attack and right settings

Any plate reverb plugin list without the UAD EMT 140 is kidding itself tbh

Heeeey! :) I hoped for the u-he Twangström to appear in your list. It's even allow to shake the springs!

They sounded great. You should get them all and put a dartboard in the control room. Let the dart you throw decide which reverb plug to use 😅

Okay now I'd love to watch a video about some all around reverbs including "valhalla vintageverb" or if it is considered a decent all around reverb please let me know your thoughts!!!

I am a huge fan of Plate Reverbs. I tried many different plugins , Arturia, Trans Atlantic, Soundtoys, UVI etc. The best you can get ITB is of the 3rd party developer Cupwise FX (Acustica Audio Nebula commercial is required for those). It has depth and attitude!

I'd really like to see you mention CPU usage and plugin latency when doing these, it's a huge factor for me and I assume a lot of producers, for example I love how the denise audio plugins sound but they have SO MUCH latency it's really hard to use them anywhere

Soundtoys Little Plate is also a great plugin. I'm so happy with it that I don't really feel the need to get another plate for a long time.

People think you don't have to oversample on reverb, But there's actually enough modulation that they do create some aliasing. Especially ones that add saturation.

Put White Noise into an Impulse Response Plugin. That’s as “PERFECT” as it gets. No Joke!

Not that it matters now but you completely missed the additional settings in Sunset sound by clicking OPTIONS to change decay times. These sound different than using the decay knob. I do like these types of vids though. Thanks

You should have done It through blind test and put why and how Manu stars you rate each one. Thanks anyways. I did the blind test with many channel API 2500 AND eq emulations and I prefered the lindell 50 channel. I throught that waves was better but It was increasing 1 db.

You really need to try the Black Rooster Audio RO-140. It’s kind of different and very cool sounding. Would go great with the indie version of Sandstorm.

One brilliant one you might have missed. Golden Plates by Kush developed with Relab. It's genius imo. Kush knows compression, Relab is top-tier reverb. Give it a shot.

Waves sounding so good and like the Real Thing I think.☀️ The Real EMI sounds also amazing, but with the plugins you have more possibilities. In this Video i was very surprised and I would go with the Waves Abbey Road Plate🍀 Vallhalla in default sounds like nothing… not like a real plate.

“Liquid Lustrious” hahahahah. That really hit me for some reason.

I know this was years ago but maybe it's time for an update? I use plate on lead guitar and tried all the free demos I could find. Listening to your test, I find that none of them have the deep density of your EMT, and that was exactly why I turned down most of those I demoed. To my own surprise SoundToys Little Plate was really superior to everything else. It truly sounds like a plate - and even has the cool infinity setting. I since upgraded to the new Super Plate with more features but sound quality-wise they are equal.

Would have loved it if you volume matched them all a little more closely together.

what would be the best plate reverb plugins for vocals, 3rd party plugin. (my DAW is FL studio)

Oril River was surprising. Quite good. Reverberate was predictably good. Not surprising, the real EMT was the smoothest. My personal trick for getting very smooth plate reverb sounds from a plugin - use two different ones layered over each other. Takes some tweaking to get the finished result where you want it, but it’s worth it.

VSS3 Golden plate is lovely. I also own abbey road which is different but characterful.

I think another interesting reverb is the VSS3, it is really complete

All plugins are bright. Like you loosing much HF of hardware... Would be interesting if you highshelf hardware sample, and compare again. Great work!

Was that the 'Sandstorm by Darude' snare? Fabfilter Pro-R in there somewhere?

How come there are hardly any spring reverb plugins?? The spring reverb in Amplitube is pretty good but I want to be able to run it 100% wet on a bus and without the CPU of the entire Amplitube plugin.

you know I can't believe I've never asked that question working almost exclusively with vocals.

Do you ever review Kush plugins? Would like to hear your thoughts om that operation.

Why didn't you include the hardware Yamaha SPX90? As I recall you particularly liked the plate patch on those for snare.

Gotta press the „advanced“ button on the Arturia for more tweaking.

AA Ebony plate? Edit: I think most of them were pretty good. Lustrous Plates sounded very spacey, Valhalla was very nice too, I think that has a good balanced sound.

Love this kind of comparisons but would like a more conclusive conclusion ;)

What you think of the McDsp 6050 and or 6060?