A PLATE REVERB YOU CAN PLAYNOW SHOWING — THE EXPERIMENTNot a room. Not an impulse response. A sheet
of steel the size of a door — 25,000 ways to ring, all worked
out at once, under everything you play.
SWELL!
Hold the left foot and every note piles more
energy onto the steel. Bigger, then bigger, then out of hand. There is
no reason to stop — so don't.Stamp DAMP and a felt pad drops onto
the steel, choking it almost instantly. Not a decay control — the
plate stops because something stopped it.A working specimen. Play into it, hold a
foot down, and listen to the whole sheet wake up.
PICKUPS: twin, on opposite sides of
the steel, for the wide moving image — or the single, the way the
originals left the factory. Same plate, different perspective.A real plate is a terrible thing to own:
enormous, heavy, hungry for maintenance. SLAB is a few megabytes.
It's a lot of metal for 99¢.
