ValhallaPlate

Tips and tricks

ValhallaPlate was analyzed and dialed in against an EMT 140 at Avast! Recording, used on Fleet Foxes records.¹

Modes

• Chrome
  • Good starting point
  • Fairly neutral sounding plate
• Steel
  • Like Chrome, but darker
• Cobalt
  • More “distant” attack than Chrome and Steel
  • Fairly dark; resonance in the very low midrange, dialed in from a specific EMT140 we tested at Avast Recording here in Seattle
• Brass
  • Much sharper attack than the first 3 modes
  • If you listen to the signal 100% wet, it almost sounds like there is some dry signal in there
  • Fairly bright.
• Aluminum
  • Higher modal density than the first 4 modes
  • With the SIZE parameter set >100%, Aluminum can sound much more like a chamber than a plate
  • Aluminum (and Copper & Unobtanium) have less metallic sound, and can sound much clearer
  • Fairly bright
• Copper
  • High modal density, but deeper and darker than Aluminum
  • Set the SIZE up to 200%, and add a touch of modulation, and you have an open sounding reverb that works on almost any source material
• Unobtanium
  • High modal density, bright, with a longer high frequency decay than the other plates
  • Ecoplate sound, but without the metallic ringing artifacts
  • Turn up the modulation, and you have a perfect reverb for synths
• Adamantium 
  • Mono-in, stereo-out mode, with the dense upper midrange and lower modal density found in older plates
  • Lots of air
• Titanium
  • Mono-in, stereo-out mode
  • Darker tone color than Adamantium
• Osmium
  • Mono-in, stereo-out mode
  • Dark tone color, with a booming low end that is befitting of the densest metal found in nature
• Radium
  • A chamber/plate hybrid that uses the equivalent of 2 parallel mono plates to preserve the stereo image of your input signal
• Lithium
  • A lush chamber/plate hybrid, with a unique approach to the stereo image that is inspired by the “stereo” chambers found in some recording studios
  • Helps to preserve the input panning of signals, while still having a realistic fill of the stereo image over time²

Presets

Copy and paste into the plugin.

Abbey Road 1

<ValhallaPlate pluginVersion="1.5.0dot25" presetName="Abbey Rd 1" Mix="1" PreDelay="0" Decay="0.34000000357627868652" Size="0" Width="0.5" ModRate="0.25990557670593261719" ModDepth="0" LowEQFreq="0.29816749691963195801" LowEQGain="0" HighEQFreq="0.5" HighEQGain="0" Type="0.083333335816860198975"/>³

CPU

Oversampling IR

Sine sweep test at -18, spectrograph readings at -130dB, OS on

Hammerstein test