Abbey Road Reverb Plates

Four legendary EMT 140 Reverb Plates housed at Abbey Road Studios

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 – four EMT 140 units – were first installed in 1957 to complement the fixed reverberation times of the studios’ echo chambers.

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.

Features:

• Precise modeling of four legendary Abbey Road reverb plates (EMT 140), 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