kPlateC
TL;DW: kPlateC is a plate reverb, not unlike its namesake atop Abbey Road.
Onward with the plate reverbs! kPlateC is an interesting contrast to kPlateB, and an example of how Airwindows k-series reverbs work. Since there’s no GUI you can’t be fooled by different visual depiction of the two plates, so they’re exposed as just sound. These are meant to resemble real things, and the real Plate C is said to be even shorter and brighter than the real Plate B. This is on top of them all having an array of controls (I’ve been asked to flip Damping over so higher numbers equal more damping, but that would apparently be contrary to how the real ones are laid out, not that you’re likely to go to London and see… nor I, for that matter, though it would be fun)
Since kPlateB came out very nicely, how is kPlateC different?
Obviously it’s voiced a bit differently to match the real one, but unlike other plugin approaches, the Airwindows plates each run completely different reverb matrix algorithms. I’m not talking about things like saturations etc (though kPlateD, being a tube reverb, has to have completely different software for that than A, B and C which are hybrid circuitry). What I mean is, all the little delays inside are different (normally so tricky that you come up with one great algo and then adapt that to each flavor of plate).
And so, kPlateC is like kPlateB and yet completely different. The room, the space it makes is shallower, wider, a different shape. There will be things where it works way better than kPlateB, and vice versa, because they’re just plain different flavors. If a note resonates on one plate, its brother is going to act completely different and won’t highlight that note at all.
This will be the case for the whole k-series of reverbs as they expand. Hope you like it. Back to work :)
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After watching this, I take it that the scabbey road emulations may be based on one algorhythm. It makes sense that they would be, as I can’t usually get either to sit well in mixes without eq’ing them. To remove the resonant ringing etc. And of course, maybe I just didn’t need reverb of that type! And then… there’s the processing hit.
From now on I will go to these fine airwindows plates for ‘backgrounding’ instruments, and save the cpu power for something more interesting.
Awesome Chris! This one is my favourite so far, really interesting drum room sound if you dial it in right. How many iterations are you planning on making?
Your Kplates are nice. I like that sense of density which I do not get from the fantastic Galactic. Now a full glossy Kplate without the resonances at certain frequencies (as I have to filter them out anyway on spoken word for example) … KplateC has a annoying one at 600hz or so . Is this even possible :D ? Washed up plate.
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