Waves Abbey Road Reverb Plates Plug-in (Download)
Model: ABRRPLT
About: Waves Abbey Road Reverb Plates Plug-in (Download)
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.
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.
These historic Abbey Road 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.
- 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
System Requirements
Mac
CPU
- Intel Core i5 / i7 / Xeon
Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- 8 GB free disk space on the system drive
Operating System
- 10.11.6 - 10.14.5
Screen Resolution
- Minimum: 1024x768
- Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
- USB displays are not supported as the primary display.
Support for Visually Impaired Users
- Mac OS Sierra 10.12.4
- VoiceOver Utility enabled
- Pro Tools 12.7
- Logic 10.3.1
- Please note: Waves Central and preset management via the WaveSystem Toolbar are currently not supported.
Windows
CPU
- Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 / Xeon / AMD Quad-Core
Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- 8 GB free disk space on the system drive
Operating System
- Windows 7 with SP1 64 bit
- Windows 8.1 64 bit
- Windows 10 64 bit
Screen Resolution
- Minimum: 1024x768
- Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
Supported Hosts
Mac
- Pro Tools 12, 2018, 2019 (AAX Native 64-bit, Audiosuite)
- Logic Pro X (Audio Units)
- Digital Performer 9, 10 (Audio Units)
- Ableton Live 10 (VST 64-bit)
- Nuendo 8 (VST3)
- Cubase 9, 10 (VST3)
- WaveLab 9 (VST3)
- Main Stage 3 (Audio Units)
- Garage Band 10 (Audio Units)
- Audition 11 (VST3)
- Premiere Pro 12 (VST3)
- Final Cut Pro X (Audio Units)
- Studio One 3, 4 (VST3)
- Media Composer 8, 2018 (AAX Native)
- FL Studio 12, 20 (VST3)
- REAPER 5 (VST3)
- Reason 10 (VST)
- Maschine 2 (VST)
- Komplete Kontrol 2 (VST)
- Bitwig Studio 2.5 (VST3)
Windows
- Pro Tools 12, 2018, 2019 (AAX Native 64-bit, Audiosuite)
- Ableton Live 10 (VST)
- Nuendo 8 (VST3)
- Cubase 9, 10 (VST3)
- WaveLab 9 (VST3)
- Cakewalk by BandLab 2018.07 (VST3)
- Audition 11 (VST3)
- Premiere Pro 12 (VST3)
- Samplitude Pro X3, Pro X4 (VST3)
- Sequoia 14 (VST3)
- Pyramix 11 (VST)
- Studio One 3, 4 (VST3)
- Media Composer 8, 2018 (AAX Native)
- FL Studio 12, 20 (VST3)
- REAPER 5 (VST3)
- Reason 10 (VST)
- Maschine 2 (VST)
- Komplete Kontrol 2 (VST)
- Bitwig Studio 2.5 (VST3)
