The Waves Abbey Road Reverb Plates Plug-In offers precise modeling of four legendary Abbey Road reverb plates, each with its unique character. This state-of-the-art modeling housed at Abbey Road Studios is used on recordings by the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Radiohead.
The Waves Abbey Road Reverb Plates have been used on countless seminal pop, rock, classical and film recordings over the years, and continue to be used in all kinds of audio production to this day. Waves has now created meticulous models of these stunning and unique-sounding units, individually modeling the harmonic distortion of both the drive and output amps as well as the individual plate/damper behaviors.
Introduced in the 1950s, plate reverbs have been a fixture of recorded music ever since. Used most prominently in the ‘60s and ‘70s by pioneering bands, including the Beatles and Pink Floyd, Abbey Road Studios’ original reverb plates were first installed in 1957 to complement the fixed reverberation times of the studios’ echo chambers. These beautiful-sounding plates, with a variable reverb time of up to six seconds, were then tweaked to perfection by Abbey Road's technical engineers. To keep noise to a minimum, EMI’s Central Research Laboratories designed unique hybrid solid-state drive amps for Plates A, B and C. Plate D was fully valve-powered on both drive and output stages, allowing a versatile array of sonic characteristics, from warm and dark to lush and smooth.
In each of these original plates, the stereo reverb effect is created by suspending a large sheet of metal with tensioned springs attached to each corner. A transducer injects the metal sheet with audio energy, which is picked up by two contact mics fixed to the surface of the plate. The reverb time can then be adjusted by using an internal damper, and all of this is contained within a large wooden unit.
The Waves Abbey Road Reverb Plates Plug-In offers the state-of-the-art modeling of the four legendary reverb plates housed at Abbey Road Studios and used on recordings by the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Radiohead.
Waves Abbey Road Reverb Plates Features
- Precise modeling of four legendary Abbey Road reverb plates, each with its unique character
- A drive control to set the THD characteristics of the in/out amplifiers and the plate sheet itself
- Ability to control the amount of analog noise and hum
- Four original bass cut positions
- Crosstalk between the stereo inputs to get a stereo leak effect
- Included in Abbey Road Collection plugin bundle
Waves Abbey Road Reverb Plates Supported Hosts
- Mac
- Pro Tools 2022.4 (AAX Native, Audiosuite)
- Logic Pro X, 10.7.4 (Audio Units)
- Digital Performer 11 (Audio Units)
- Ableton Live 11 (VST3)
- Nuendo 12 (VST3)
- Cubase 12 (VST3)
- Main Stage 3 (Audio Units)
- Garage Band 10.4.6 (Audio Units)
- Audition 22 (VST3)
- Premiere Pro 22 (VST3)
- Studio One Professional 5 (VST3)
- FL Studio 20 (VST3)
- REAPER 6 (VST3)
- Reason 12 (VST)
- Maschine 2 (VST)
- Komplete Kontrol 2 (VST)
- Bitwig Studio 4 (VST3)
- Luna 1.1.11 (Audio Units)
- Windows
- Pro Tools 2022.4 (AAX Native, Audiosuite)
- Ableton Live 11 (VST3)
- Nuendo 12 (VST3)
- Cubase 12 (VST3)
- Cakewalk by BandLab 2021 (VST3)
- Audition 22 (VST3)
- Premiere Pro 22 (VST3)
- Samplitude Pro X6 (VST3)
- Sequoia 15 (VST3)
- Pyramix 14 (VST3)
- Studio One Professional 5 (VST3)
- FL Studio 20 (VST3)
- REAPER 6 (VST3)
- Reason 12 (VST)
- Maschine 2 (VST)
- Komplete Kontrol 2 (VST)
- Bitwig Studio 4 (VST3)
Waves Abbey Road Reverb Plates Specifications
- System Requirements:
- Mac:
- CPU: Intel Core i7 / i9 / Xeon-W / Apple Silicon
- Memory: Minimum 8 GB RAM (16 GB Recommended)
- Disk Space: 16 GB Free Disk Space On the System Drive
- Operating System: 10.15.7, 11.6.5, 12.4, 13.0
- Screen Resolution:
- Minimum: 1024 x 768
- Recommended: 1280 x 1024 / 1600 x 1024
- USB Displays: Not Supported As the Primary Display
- Windows:
- CPU: Intel Core i5, i7, i9, Xeon (All Gen 5 and Above), AMD Quad Core
- Memory: Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB Recommended)
- Disk Space: 16 GB Free Disk Space On the System Drive
- Operating System: Windows 10 (64 bit (21H2)), Windows 11 (21H2)
- Screen Resolution:
- Minimum: 1024 x 768
- Recommended: 1280 x 1024 / 1600 x 1024
- Mac:
Waves Abbey Road Reverb Plates Includes
- License Key