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Why not got to the max! In this instance the maximum pre-delay available is 1.5 seconds, which is far more than is ever likely to be useful, but who knows what a creative person might find to do with it?
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Let's hear the same preset with a long pre-delay. Although this isn't an effect that you would ever come across in natural reverberation, or at least it is very difficult to think of a scenario, it sounds great! Hence virtually all digital reverb units and plug-ins feature it too. The gap between the record and playback head created a delay that separated the reverb signal from the dry signal by a time period dependent on the spacing of the heads and the speed of the tape. The sound of a real plate reverb unit can be wonderful, so it is well worth emulating in software.īut creative engineers of the period (the plate was the king of reverb from the 1950s through to the late 1970s) experimented with running the signal through a tape recorder before it hit the plate.
#Lexicon reverb plugin emulation driver
In essence, the audio signal is fed to a driver that makes the plate vibrate, two sensors (in a stereo unit) pick up the vibrations which reflect around the plate. The classic electromechanical reverb unit is the plate reverb. To answer this properly it is necessary to go back to an even earlier era of reverb when everything was done electromechanically (and there's an earlier era still when it was all acoustic, and that is still a useful technique that we cover in Audio Masterclass). The level of the reverb is chosen so that the effect of pre-delay is clearly audible, while not being so high that it couldn't find use in a real-life project.
#Lexicon reverb plugin emulation full
The actual unit is a massive rack-mount chock full of digital integrated circuits that represent the technology of the period.) (By the way, in the real physical Lexicon 480L this is just the remote control. The pre-delay control is the one labeled 'PDL' on the far right of the unit.
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Here I have chosen the 'Fat Plate' preset, which demonstrates the use of pre-delay well. It is simple to use to, which makes it ideal for the purpose of a tutorial. While modern convolution reverb algorithms might excel in creating realistic ambiences, the 480L has an interesting texture that is well worth getting to know. The Lexicon 480L is a classic reverb unit dating back to 1986. The reverb plug-in chosen for this tutorial is the Lexicon 480L emulation by Relab. Leakage at this level would not normally be a problem in the mix, unless the producer decided that there should be an acapella section in the song. Giving the singer anything else in addition to the performance to worry about is often not a good idea. In any recording session it is vital to remember that the performance comes first above everything and small technical details should not be allowed to get in the way.