Why Huge Metal Plates Are on SO Many Songs (reverb machines)

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*corrections:
- It’s Accutronics not Accusonics

What the plate picked up while we were getting the thumbnail photo

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[Reverb]

Rob, let us sing you the song of our people.

[walterblack]

Wow, it’s amazing that Jim is not only a reverb expert, but a reverb expert as well. Fair play

[jeffparker]

Rob.. I think it's cool how your channel has evolved from just making music to showing us a much more in-depth and very cool side of musical history. You got a LOT of original content here man.. it's it's fn quality.

[fngoodmusic]

Someone needs to reupload this, but every time someone says “reverb” the reverb gets more intense

[ivyssauro]

1:59 I can attest to that as a violin student, a violin on a dry room sounds like a depressing whisper, on a reverby room (Not just the exagerated ones like a church but a good sized room) it's loud and imposing.

[privatevoidnoname]

46:15
"sees a pluckable object"
Rob: D J E N T

[Fleetwd]

12:29 - The smirk on this guy's face when he realizes what he needs to do lol, no hesitation either

[iamgerg]

Fun fact... The blaster sound in Star Wars was basically spring reverb... They used a hammer on a guy wire.

[KungFuMouse]

When I studied Audio Engineering we used the fire escape to create a staircase reverb, by dropping a speaker at the bottom and recording on the top floor.

[juptonstone]

Rob, I'm an old guy, I've seen a lot, and what I love about you is that you remind me in some ways of Frank Zappa. Not the crazy part, but the musician part. Zappa could play almost any instrument and you have that same kind of love of and fascination with music! You love every aspect of it, you don't just want to play guitar... you want to learn everything about everything. You don't want to just play an electric guitar you want to know everything about every type of guitar and you want to help other people understand that too. Without a doubt you run the absolute best guitar channel on YouTube. I watch others and some of them are great for specific things like how to repair a guitar, or the best comparisons, but for overall knowledge I love to watch your channel. It's never boring. It's always fascinating, and I've sat through really long videos which seem to go so quickly that I was amazed. So whatever you do please don't stop!

[dhill]

This reminds me of those toy microphones you could buy at a toy store. I used to be so fascinated by them as a kid. But it's just a spring inside of a plastic casing. Which is still kind of fascinating.

[YingwuUsagiri]

12:26 has to be one of my favourite deadpan deliveries EVER xD

[cseguin]

I remember when my first band went into a friends basement studio to record for the first time on a reel to reel (in the mid-80s). . . he didn't have any extra decks or affects so we did all the vocals standing in the bathtub to get the natural reverb - it actually worked out good enough to get our stuff on the local university radio station . . .

[hexane]

I'm generally pretty skeptical about the difference between "authentic" physical effects and their digital companions, but I have to admit that there's something incredible about the simple sound of that plate reverb. As a materials scientist, it makes me quite interested in the properties of the steel, the transducer, etc. that makes such a unique impulse response.

[SirPrizeMF]

2 and a half minutes in my mind is already blown. I love how you go into these things kinda blank and let the knowledge wash over you. You're also incredibly apt at both finding the right people to explain these concepts and asking the exact correct questions to nudge it out of them.

Also on topic: I once accidentally drank an entire bottle of vanilla flavoured rum and ended up playing my guitar on the toilet and it sounded amazing. Always thought it was the rum, but now I'm gonna retcon that into attributing it to the reverb.

[michaelkartman]

I love how as soon as he said “you can play the springs!” Rob went straight for some Djent

[nicbrownable]

I have worked in a studio with a 12 foot long spring reverb unit. It had 4 springs inside of different lengths/properties, and you could mix between them. The studio also had a corridor down the back of the main room with sliding doors along it so you could customise the room reverb. It was a former TV studio, so they would have been used to add atmosphere to scenes.

[DooMedSean]

I'm a sheet metal worker, mostly making and hanging ductwork, but whenever I get my hands on a flat piece of sheet metal I always ripple it to make the noise. It's crazy how many different noises or reverbs you can get from different sizes of metal and the amount of ripple you put into it. This all of course without instruments, they add a whole nother level.

[JetBob]

This is an INCREDIBLE piece of work, man...you ask the right questions, do the right "experiments". THANK YOU!! I'm an Aerospace Engineer/Physicist that is amateurishly dangerous with music and hardware...and you have exposed the heart of the reverb subject: physics of waves, and using electrical signal processing to fu$k with it in such cool, expressive ways. You weave the thread of history perfectly with this line of thought. Wow. I'm jealous of the fun you had!!😁🤓😁🤓

[djduane]

I’ve known about “plate” reverbs all my life but never SAW one or really understood how they worked. Thanks! In the mid 70s the singing group I travelled with carried a 4 foot tall “spring” reverb. Touch it, and it sounded like a bomb had gone off!